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A NEW CREATION: DEFINING THE NEW BIRTH [Part 1]

Because original Creation was severely damaged by sin and rebellion in both the angelic and human realms, it required God’s subsequent plan for a New Creation.

AND GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD

Creation does not work as intended according to the will of the Creator unless the Creator is recognized and honored by all members of His Creation. Anything less than this will cause problems, allow for faults and malfunctions, and may ultimately cause major failures. Yet the Creator has deemed that all who desire His intention and will can only agree to it voluntarily. It is why He gifted humanity with a free will. People are thus given both the authority and responsibility to choose the Creator’s will and vision or not. The correct choice also should be their top priority since it is the Creator who created everything to begin with, and everything in His original Creation extended forth and branched out from Him, that is, from His plans and creative process—and that it was good.

In this we can see that the Creator is both benevolent and non-coercive in that He never forces one to recognize and honor Him and will not violate His complimentary endowment of free will, which proves His love and His obvious understanding that love can only be freely given. He has also created human beings with the power of perception—the ability to perceive on their own—and the desire to “look around and discover” whatever His Creation has to behold. He knows that in this process, if one remains honorable and honest in one’s ongoing search, one will eventually find Him.

OF SAINTS AND SINNERS

The perfection of His original Creation was marred due to an angelic revolt. One may wonder why such a thing happened or how it could have happened within the bliss and harmony of the heavenly realm. Such bewilderment reigns until one considers the foundational culprit at the heart of it all—the sin of pride. This unfortunate trait is the result of a strange brew. It arises as an alchemical concoction formulated deep within the bowels of worshipful reflection upon self—arising from gifts such as outward beauty, lofty intellect, and/or superior attributes and abilities—that which the self had nothing to do with but takes possession of as if it did.

When one is thinking correctly, the proper response to such personal gifts and attributes is the very opposite of the aforementioned sin. It is one’s focus on the Creator and the recognition that one is a created being with no right to claim creative title nor the right to choose as one sees fit. Thus, rather than personal pride, in which one puts his or her own selfish interests first, one chooses instead to yield to the will of one’s Maker and appropriate the positive character trait of humility, which is a recognition of endowed blessings as gifts given in love. This is an acknowledgment of the Giver and an expression of gratitude to Him. Humility thus originates from the unpretentious heart of a person very aware that he or she is the blessed creation of a loving and beneficent Creator.

As such, rather than focusing laterally on self and generating rebellion, one instead looks upwardly towards one’s Maker and offers praise.

REBELS WITHOUT A CAUSE

And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with the dragon. The dragon and his angels waged war, and they were not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven. And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. [Revelation 12:7-9]

An apparent third of the angels of heaven rebelled against the Creator (Rev 12:4). This was followed by a much greater percentage of humanity throughout history. Such defiant outcomes had to be in order to allow for a dutiful Community willingly dedicated to the Creator composed of those who honored Him, appreciated Him, and loved Him. Those who refused were culled by their own choices. Each of the rebels, whether angelic or human, chose incorrectly, having been made vulnerable by personal pride, which caused their inability to withstand temptation, which further caused their descent into the darkness of deception.

THE TEMPTER’S TRICKS

The temptation tactics of the enemy are exactly the same in pretty much every respect as that which was presented to the Lord during His temptation in the wilderness, though nuanced to varying degrees to fit the person thereof:

(1) It was suggested to the Lord that He act out of character and turn stones into bread to satisfy His natural hunger, that is, prioritize natural desires and natural food over spiritual desires (serving God) and spiritual food—the Word of God.

(2) It was suggested to the Lord that He act out of character upon arrival at the “pinnacle of the temple” (having the highest level of spiritual authority and power) by operating outside the Law of God through engaging in a potentially harmful and injurious personal act, knowingly and purposely, in the sight of all, as if to prove He was bulletproof and above approach no matter what He did, in order to summon God’s unilateral protection and unconditional approval, and thus verify His official outward exalted sanitized religious image. (Sound familiar?)

(3) It was suggested to the Lord that He act out of character and accept the rule over all the kingdoms on earth in exchange for worshipping the devil, that is, trade His spiritual authority over His eternal spiritual kingdom for all the temporary perks of natural authority at the highest level over the entire planet, while serving as the devil’s flunky.

This is pretty much what Adam and Eve did. Of course, their spiritual kingdom was the Garden and the devil lied about the world outside it, which brings to mind the following:

For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside.

I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God

Than dwell in the tents of wickedness. [Psalm 84:10]

Therefore, we must understand that there are basic natural tendencies endemic to every person which can be utilized by the enemy to gain advantage. The serpent in the Garden knew this, of course, since he was a fallen angel who had failed his own temptation battle. He was very aware of personal makeup and knew the newly created humans had a similar nature in that they were free will beings made in the image of God. It is why temptation always starts in one of three overall areas:

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. [John 2:16]

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate… [Genesis 3:6]

IN THE IMAGE OF GOD

God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. [Genesis 1:27]

One might take a step back here when thinking of the devil and demons as somehow being like God but one must also understand that such fallen angels were at one time bright shining sinless creatures who dwelt in heaven and that in his previous personification the devil was apparently the most gifted angel among them. We must also understand that God Himself has a particular distinct and unique nature and that He draws from Himself to create those whom He would be in relationship with, which, again, means that both angels and humans are at least similar to Him if not predominantly like Him (until they rebel against Him). It is why both have such wondrous abilities in both the spiritual and natural spheres.

Human beings, “made, lower than the angels” (Hebrews 2:7), are intelligent, physically gifted, and infused with potentially tremendous spiritual aptitude including the inherent capacity for accomplishing the things we see the Lord doing in the Gospels. The first man was like that, whose attributes also included immortality before his fall into sin, and was “a type of Him who was to come” (Romans 5:14). It is why the apostle Paul related the first created man to the Lord Jesus, calling both Adam:

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. [1Corinthians 15:45] [1]

Adam was made in the image of God. The Lord Jesus IS the Image of God.

This puts things into greater perspective regarding God’s original intentions for humanity and also how very different humanity was originally. What we see in the Lord Jesus is an absolutely perfect Man but also One who is a type of what all people should be. In fact, Christians are instructed by the Lord’s teachings to strive to be just like Him, as impossible as that may appear. What He means by this is one must appropriate the same divine nature that Adam and Eve had before the fall. It is also why the Lord Jesus taught that every one of His followers must undergo a new spiritual birth in that they must be born again, which means “born from above” (John 3:7).

The Lord’s mission is thus the process of transforming humanity back to its original state and condition.

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LIGHT EXPOSING DARKNESS: REVEALING THE FAKERY OF UNREAL CHRISTIANITY

Mar 17

Posted by RJ Dawson

It will all be exposed for what it is. For an increasing number of Christians much has already been revealed. The majority, however, is still in the dark.

A NEW LIGHT IS DAWNING

“The people who were sitting in darkness saw a great Light,

And those who were sitting in the land and shadow of death,

Upon them a Light dawned.” [Matthew 4:16]

“I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.” [John 8:12]

“I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.” [John 12:46]

The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. [John 1:5]

“This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.” [John 3:19-21]

“There is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.” [Luke 12:2]

GOD DID NOT CREATE FAKE CHRISTIANITY

In fact, of course, God did not create fake anything. Everything He made is awesomely wonderfully real. The enemy, however, is a great faker. He is a deceiver. This enemy is composed of all the unseen wispy bad guys the Lord Jesus revealed as real (not mere figments) and also all the human beings who joined in as well (those who sold their souls willingly but also the great bulk of deceived ones). According to Holy Writ a third of the previously holy angels joined up with the chief rebel and rebelled against God in a concerted effort to overthrow Him. It was an ill-conceived asinine plan from the start destined for abject failure and was based on a rise in personal pride in which mere created beings actually believed they could topple and dethrone the One who made them as if the Creator had not already factored in such an occurrence in case it was ever attempted.

That little episode did not work out so well for the bad guys. If it had they would have created a fake world in heaven with a fake king and a fake cast of sycophantic supporters. As it turned out they were all defeated soundly and pretty much immediately cast down to earth from their former heavenly sphere to a place where they could create their chosen deceptive fake world and were allowed to do so. And their fake world has otherwise obviously grown exponentially ever since.

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?” [Genesis 3:1]

Well of course God said that you lying piece of garbage. And Eve knew God said it. But she still succumbed to the serpent’s lying deceptive tactics anyway and you want to know why? Because she was beautiful. In this was the possibility for the advent of personal pride just as it had been the case for the chief angel who was apparently extraordinarily multi-gifted in both talent and appearance. Scripture appears to imply this. Therefore Eve had failed to consistently apply the correct level of humility and place to her life to disallow the wicked rise of pride and her desire for the prestige she felt she deserved which led to her downfall. (Even though she was living in paradise.)

It is the same with humanity ever since. Rather than praising our Creator for who He is and His great love and showing gratitude for the blessings He has bestowed we sometimes focus on what we want or prefer which takes the focus off the Lord and puts it on ourselves as if we could do anything substantial to better His plan for our lives including our eternal fate. Through this we drift astray and attempt our own way which may work for a time but fails utterly in the end. This sad fate of fallen man has become ubiquitous throughout history and has rewritten the story of mankind as one containing little hope or promise and an extreme lowering which has become the norm.

In humanity we are thus left with a mere part of the book: A created mammalian species formed from the elements of the ground with a former star link to God fashioned in such a way to illustrate an eternal appearance and make up but one which yet possesses an inherent humility due to physical realities that should otherwise convey to one the need for humbleness and place while enjoying the benefits of being “wonderfully made:”

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: When I awake, I am still with thee. [Psalm 139:13-18 KJV]

But no. Pride took over. The sin of pride separated everyone from God. Pride says humanity in its fallen state is more than it actually is and we are worth more than we actually are. Pride makes us think we will live forever and be invincible and everybody better respect and honor us or we will get angry and put off because we know we’re great and everyone else should know that too and I’ll show you I’m great by the things I do or just by the way I look so back off and let me exult in my bad self, okay you morons!?

And one wonders why the Lord Jesus COMMANDED that we be born again. In reality humanity has generally become by its own choosing a worthless junkyard of failure and assumed importance destined to rot and rust and roast in hell and the only way out of such a default destiny is to reach way back to the cause of such a terrible tragedy and root out the root which caused it all and make a new start based strictly on the Lord’s protocol which He lovingly exampled for us all in His one single solitary perfect life.

Therefore the possibility certainly exists that people can be good looking and talented and intelligent and gifted but also understand his or her place and one’s scope and limitations and retain the correct level of required self-effacement, unpretentiousness, and modesty and quit thinking one is better than another and certainly never entertain such idiotic notions that one is somehow better than God or equal to Him.

You turn things around! Shall the potter be considered as equal with the clay, that what is made would say to its maker, “He did not make me”; or what is formed say to him who formed it, “He has no understanding”? [Isaiah 29:16]

ONLY THE LORD JESUS MUST BE EXALTED

Only He deserves it. Only He deserves praise. Only He must be the honored One. Only He is the Great Spiritual Warrior who defeated death, hell, the grave, and every other spiritual enemy. Only He has made salvation possible. Only He has made a way for anyone to join Him now and forever. Only He can take one to the next level, a place of eternal joy. Only He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

Whoever then attempts to place himself or herself in a place of honor meant only for Him and take authority where none has been granted is doing the same thing any of these previously mentioned rebels have done. And those who do such a thing in the name of Christianity are the worst offenders. That such offenders are in the majority is otherwise obvious except for those deceived who cannot see the forest for the trees. Such offenders have done what all such people have ever done in this fallen world of sin and depravity in that they have created various fake worlds in the name of the Lord. Can there be any higher form of sinful disrespect, dishonor, and evil than falsely proclaiming the Lord and merely using Him for one’s own enterprise?

The Lord severely rebuked the fake religionists of His day for this very thing who had successfully taken over His entire nation and put forth a thoroughly fake religious world with themselves as high ultra-respected potentates. They did this as the only way they could rule and gain wealth and prestige because God would surely never allow them such a place in His world until and unless they came to Him fully on their face in actual sincere real repentance which, of course, they would never do (except a mere few).

The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. [2Peter 3:9]

So why do we think it any different in our day or any day in any Christian venue? If such a deceptive pile of futile and fruitless religious garbage was possible and actually happened in the Lord’s own nation that He had created then why does one think the same is not possible in “Christianity?” In reality it has not only been possible but ultra-doable since it has been done repeatedly and is still being done today. This is what I refer to as Unreal Christianity and have been calling it this consistently for decades. At its very core and essence it is FAKE in that it is not what the Lord Jesus created in the beginning nor does much of it even closely resemble the original.

So here we have a curious case of gross deception in which the great majority of Unreal Christianity cannot see through even the easiest to perceive deceptions and fakery and continue to honor it and also exalt it’s fake leaders just as the majority of ancient Israel did not only in its early days but also and much more prominently in the days of our Lord. And Unreal Christianity has been getting away with it often for many centuries simply because so few would call them out and the very few who did were quickly killed off. This let everyone know they better shut up if they figured it out or suspect something amiss because you get killed for it which would seem to prove the vile sinister nature of such fake Christian organizations.

Did not the same exact thing happen to the Founder of Real Christianity? And did He not say the same thing would/could/did happen and continued happening to His own followers ever since and at present? Was not His death in part the result of exposing fake religious garbage?

Therefore I can unequivocally assure one and all that the Lord has a purpose and desire to expose those faking it in His Name and sometimes does this in a really big way. I personally believe now is such a time and this is based on so much that has already been exposed to date. It matters not that most Christians are not aware of this but more and more are becoming aware. I have personally seen and even experienced a massive amount of Christian fakery in my time and have also seen much of it exposed for what it is as have many of you. This means there is always a level of success in keeping the fakery hidden but it cannot be hidden forever.

“There is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.” [Luke 12:2]

Sadly, the only reason the true reality of Unreal Christianity has stayed hidden historically and at present is because of the deceived Christians who sustain it, support it, and keep the fakery intact by insisting it is real. But many of these are presently falling off into eternity with not enough to take their place. This means the overall charade is destined to be revealed just as the Lord said it would and just as it was in His time.

His Light is still shining on darkness and all the fakery associated with it and His voice still calls to the sleeping. The Good News is more are hearing His voice with each passing day and heeding the call. The Great Awakening continues.

“The people who were sitting in darkness saw a great Light,

And those who were sitting in the land and shadow of death,

Upon them a Light dawned.” [Matthew 4:16] [1]

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HYPOCRISY ON STEROIDS

Oct 8

Posted by RJ Dawson

“Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.” [Luke 6:41-42]

The real Community of the Lord Jesus has been achieving spectacular growth, maturing, and getting better and better since the Lord created it almost two thousand years ago, just as He predicted would happen.

But the world is regressing at an ever-faster clip and is going straight to hell.

IN OR OUT

To make your life and perspective much less confusing and muddled with regard to the world scene at present, let it be known that there are only two kinds of people on the planet: Those who reside in the Lord’s Kingdom and those who do not.

It really is that simple. The Lord Jesus continually proclaimed this exact truth. He made it a day and night issue. There was absolutely no misunderstanding whatsoever on this subject within His curriculum. You were either IN or you were OUT.

He wants everyone to be IN. Everyone is invited by Him to be IN. He does not discriminate in any way regarding membership. All are welcome.

But only very few will make it. The vast majority of all human beings who have ever lived will fail, by their own decision, to make the cut. All those who end up in hell will have decided repeatedly throughout their lifetimes to make that destination their choice for various reasons.

The number one reason?

Pride.

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. [Proverbs 16:18]

BASEBALL

Now, if a man happens to be a star player in Major League baseball, for example, then he has ample reason to feel good about himself. There have been many star players who took the opposite approach, however.

One great star and pure Hall of Famer who refused to give in to personal pride was Stan Musial. He was one of the most humble and likeable players in history. He was the opposite of the preening showboat. He went about his day-to-day work in such an incredibly consistent manner that he ended up with exactly the same amount of hits on the road and at home. Some consider that to be a mere coincidence but I consider it a sign. He is number four on the all time hit list with 3,630. He had 1,815 hits at his home ball park in St. Louis, and 1,815 hits at all other ball parks on the road. He was one of the greatest players to ever play the game but if you met him and knew nothing about baseball you would think he was just another guy.

The point here is that Stan Musial and players like him had all the reason in the world to be preening, showboating, boastful, full-of-themselves, focused-on-number-one, narcissistic nitwits. But they chose the humble path. While some later resorted to pumping themselves full of steroids to put up monster numbers and break long-held records (and the results are obvious), the honest and humble players rarely or never allowed their mature skills on the baseball diamond and resultant recognition to define them as greater or better people than anyone else. They knew there were millions of people just as excellent in their own right in their own fields of endeavor though they may all labor in obscurity.

THE REAL AND THE UNREAL

It is people like this who make up the Community of the Lord. They know what they are. They know their faults and limitations. They know that prior to their Upper Room experience they were hopelessly prone to sin and overcome by it, and that they had no recourse to the heart of the problem or remedy to correct it. They know what they would be and where they would end up without the Lord. Though they may be talented and have achieved many good things, they also know they are gifted by the Lord above. They know they are anointed for service and that their walk with the Lord is just that—a relational partnership between a Father and His son or daughter. They owe everything to Him.

This is why it is so disconcerting to see celebrities, politicians, and media members of whatever stripe act as if they are God’s gift to the world though they reject God at every turn. We currently have such a celebrity-oriented atmosphere in America that pure goodness and a desire for real morality is not only no longer toward the top of the list—it isn’t even on the list.

We have the worst, the most depraved, and the sickest individuals in places of high power and prestige who are en masse the greatest collection of sold-out narcissists who ever lived. And you do not only find them in the entertainment sphere, but in politics and the media. In fact, these three spheres have largely been merged. They work together. Once one gets beyond the bright and shiny fake surface, one finds the people at the top of these professions are not only the greatest narcissists, proving that narcissism was the single greatest factor in their rise to power, one discovers they are also the greatest hypocrites.

In their ridiculous upside-down conception of morality, they often hold little back in attempting to destroy the reputations of others who do not agree with them, and they also transform the most evil sins into virtues. While they say many despicable things about others caught in sin, they refuse to acknowledge their own sins which are often far worse. They are also excellent at deceiving ignorant people and the self-righteous to the tune of tens of millions in order to gain power or remain in power.

They will stop at nothing. They will lie repeatedly (forever and always), cheat, and deceive. And they do it with a smile and much laughter. They are depraved and completely deceived themselves as well, of course, because they fail to recognize that their end is just around the corner and that without redemption they don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell. They have sold out to the devil and the devil’s religion whether they know it or not. While pointing out the splinter in another’s eye, they fail to see the great forest in their own.

“Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.” [Luke 6:41-42] [1]

To witness the incredible hypocrisy forever on display among our elected politicians and selected media these days is to know that this country has not long to live. America is about to go the way of all nations, into the dustbin of history as they say. The change has been transpiring for several decades. This country has truly sowed to the wind and reaped the whirlwind. All parties are guilty. Almost all of the people you see at the forefront on any given day have rejected the Lord, have no place in heaven, reside outside the kingdom, serve the devil, sin regularly with no remorse, have their collective conscious burned out, support evil and reject good, and most of all, they think they are the greatest, best, nicest, most wonderful people who ever lived and should be respected, admired, and bowed down to as such.

It is truly hypocrisy on steroids.

The Lord Jesus and His Community is the only chance this country has left.

WITHOUT A NATIONAL GREAT AWAKENING AMERICA IS DOOMED.

Real Christianity—The Nature of the Church

“You’re Going To Hell!”

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