PART 2
THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST
CHAPTER 7. Introduction
In the previous chapters there is teaching on What exactly is Gods love…
where love came from…
and how exactly love works…
We looked at the two versions of love operating in the world today being Gods love or mammon and the similarities and differences of each version
We also looked at what exactly it means to be In Christ and how without understanding and flowing in Christ your life is in grave danger…
In this chapter we will be looking at the 6 principles outlined in
Hebrews 6:1&2 The Doctrine of Christ
They are mentioned in Paul’s epistle and we’re the foundational teaching the early church was built on…
Paul only gives the headings as he knew the readers of his letter would know what he was talking about…
Sadly the church has forgotten these teachings and as a result the church has failed in its duty.
In 40 years of attending church and bible collage I have never once heard them taught…
They are a great summary of a Christian’s journey from repentance to eternity…
They are a time line of where you are in your walk in Christ….
As a carpenter I fully understand the importance of getting the a foundation right and so for many years I have been aware of this teaching and it has kept me on a solid footing…
Learn these principles by heart as they are the cornerstones of Gods Kingdom…
HEBREWS 6;1&2
Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of…
repentance from dead works,
and of faith toward God,
Of the doctrine of baptisms,
and of laying on of hands,
and of resurrection of the dead,
and of eternal judgment.”…
CHAPTER 8. Repentance from Dead Works
Simply put… Repentance is a change of heart.
Ultimately it is the heart that decides our direction in life
Repentance is changing your heart from flowing in your version of love… mammon to flowing in Gods version of love…
This happens when you know exactly what that Gods version of love is and WHY it benefits you to make that change
Repentance is turning away from what is bad to what is good.
The problem with Repentance is that what traditionally happens is there is more focus on the bad than the good…
So because we tend to stay in what we focus on we don’t make the switch to the GOOD. This is where you have to know what Gods love actually is.
The bad is WHAT was and is being done but what is more important is, what is the WHY behind what motivated the bad in the first place
This is the WHY behind the WHAT and it is the WHY that has to be first identified in order to change the WHAT.
Prov 21:2: “All of a person’s ways seem right in his own opinion, but the LORD evaluates the motives.”
There are only two choices in this life that will determine your eternal future existence and they are…
Gods love or Mammon (personal gain)
Jesus taught…
Mat 6:24: “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one (Gods love) and love the other (mammon) or else he will hold to the one (Gods love) and despise the other. (Mammon)
Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
Gods love based on what is good for God and his family of humanity
Mammon based on what’s good for you.
Mammon is your feeling of love happiness peace and joy coming from people objects and events you value when they are in the right context…
Gods love is Gods feeling of of love happiness peace and joy coming from…people (His family)
objects (Creation and creative acts of His family)
and events (God’s values for His family)
when they are in the right context…(time and place)
Without understanding exactly what God values and understanding coming from scripture then your repentance is only based on an uneducated guess that won’t bring bring lasting change.
This is why there is so much church hopping and backsliding.
The World has given up on finding true love and has settled for just having Fun…
They hope that in this way they might stumble on true love along the way…
Everything Jesus taught and demonstrated was to show us exactly what God Love and Gods values are …so we too can flow in Gods happiness peace and joy
Gods values are evident throughout the Bible but one scripture is a definite stand out.
Exodus 34:6 is where God himself declares his 7 values to Moses right after giving Moses the Ten Commandments
This was also the benchmark scripture the early church used for testing all doctrine…
Repentance involves understanding and adopting these values as your guiding light in everything you do on a daily basis…. just as it will be In heaven.
God spoke them because they are of supreme Importance to Him…
They are to be of supreme importance to humanity as well because they are what our lives will be judged by… and what will be the foundation for humanity moving forward.
Learn them… memories them…
Understand them… Live them… repent to them.
They are life eternal !
Before I tell you again what they are, stop for a few minutes and write down what your 7 life guiding values are to see whether your values line up exactly with Gods value… I’m sure you already share a few of Gods values.
How focused are you on those values and Why are they important to you…?
Is it because they just benefit you or because they flow from Christ and benefit you AND all humanity…?
I have taught Gods 7 value’s already in previous chapters so I teach them again to bring them back into focus and to reinforce their importance in the CONTEXT of Repentance…
This is the scripture Jesus taught to the disciples to be their guiding light…
Exo 34:6-7: “And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God,
- merciful
- and compassionate,
- long-suffering,
- and abundant in loving kindness
- and truth,
- Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin,
- and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.”
The values of Gods can be summed up as…
Merciful
Compassionate
Patience unto Repentance
Loving kindness
Truth / Dependable
Forgiveness
Justice / Accountability
You will find as I did that when you memorise, understand and flow in the first 3 values the remaining 4 values will naturally fall into place…
1/ MERCY… choosing to show kindness rather than condemnation from a position of authority or right standing
2/ COMPASSION… a heartfelt desire to help someone
3/ PATIENCE… allowing time for the offender to repent and the offended to cool down
Bringing these 3 values into your heart-thought, heart-felt and heart-applied understanding……While knowing full well they are the same values your Heavenly Father has… leads to…life changing repentance.
The Father hasn’t lost his love for humanity but He still flows in love because of these first 3 values…
As it is for The Father so it can be for us… our lives will no longer be dictated by circumstances but by Mercy, Compassion and Patience…
It is these values that underpin Gods Kingdom into Eternity…
Lives full of…
4/ LOVING KINDNESS regardless of the surrounding context…
A mind that is now stable in the…
5/ TRUTH and dependability of Gods love
A life that takes no offence and holds no grudges but rather flows in…
6/ FORGIVENESS in the context of unconditional mercy, compassion and patience
And finally a life lived in the understanding of…
7/ ACCOUNTABILITY, that every action has a consequence that can be good or bad.
Jesus taught the greatest commandment was in…
Deu 6:4-9: “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
And you shalt love the LORD thy God (according to His values )
with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. “
Jesus knew as did those who were listening to him that the scripture didn’t finish there it goes onto say…
“AND… these words, which I command you this day, shall be (kept) in your heart
AND you shalt TEACH them diligently unto your children,
AND shalt talk of them when you sit in your house,
AND when you walk by the way, AND when you lie down,
AND when you rise up.
AND you shalt bind them for a sign upon your hand,
AND they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
AND you shalt write them upon the posts of your house,
AND on your gates.”
The reason humanity is in the mess it is today is because Gods values are not being taught and followed.
The enemy will try everything to distract you from Gods values because without these values humanity is lost.
THE ONLY WEAPON THE ENEMY HAS
IS DISTRACTION FROM GODS LOVE!
Even religion without relationship in Gods love is a distraction…remember who it was that had Jesus crucified.
Mat 7:21-23: “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will (what God values exod 34:6 )…of my Father which is in heaven.
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name and in your name have cast out devils? and in your name done many wonderful works? (our religious values)
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you (there was no relationship with me)…
depart from me, you that work iniquity.”(unrighteousness lawless wickedness)
Mammon or Gods love…
Repentance starts when you change your heart from your personal gain to choosing Gods love.
Mat 9:13: “But go and learn what [this is],
“I will have mercy and not sacrifice”For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Simply put… Repentance is a change in the direction of heart 💕
So how to we change the direction of the heart…?
You first have to recognise the choices that motivates the heart…
The heart changes its direction when it either…
Hurts enough it has to…or
It knows enough that it wants to…
Each of us is made up of three parts.
Body Soul Spirit
Each part has a Heart that decides what is Good and what is not.
The physical Body has a physical heart that pumps blood full of all the stuff that the body needs to survive.
Body Repentance might be deciding to live a healthier lifestyle…after a heart attack!
The Soul has the heart of a 7 year old child.
The soul’s heart is all about having fun without due consideration of the consequences.
To the Soul life is black and white, right and wrong, comfortable or uncomfortable…
Repentance for the Soul would be… think more first, before you jump into something…
The Spirit also has a heart that was birthed by God’s Spirit.
The spirit heart flows from God the Father’s 7 values. Exodus 34:6
Mercy, Compassion, Patience, Loving Kindness, Truth, Forgiveness
Justice / Accountability
From these 7 values, all our values flow in differing levels.
Each level is determined by the strength ❤️ of the spirit.
Spirit Repentance deals with recognising each current level of spirit value and bringing them into alignment with the heart of God our Father.
Your level of Mercy… going from 2/10 to 10/10
Your level of Compassion… going from 1/10 to 10/10
Your level of Patience… going from 0/10 to 10/10….
True Change comes only when the heart hurts enough or knows enough and it wants to change to take place.
By separating each of the 7 values and consciously working on them we grow into the fullness of a lifestyle flowing in God’s Love.
Mercy… /10 🤔
Compassion… /10🤔
Patience… /10🤔
…….🤔
Rom 12:2-5: “Don’t become like the people of this world. Instead, change the way you think.
Then you will always be able to determine what God really wants — what is good, pleasing, and perfect.
Because of the kindness that God has shown me, I ask you not to think of yourselves more highly than you should.
Instead, your thoughts should lead you to use good judgment based on what God has given each of you as believers.
Our bodies have many parts, but these parts don’t all do the same thing.
In the same way, even though we are many individuals, Christ makes us one body and individuals who are connected to each other.”
The Heart is where a person’s Will comes from…
The ultimate will of the heart is to live the Good Life…
Gods Love is so simple it takes the heart of a child to understand it…
Jesus said…
Mar 10:15: “Truly I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God (Gods Love) as a little child, he shall not enter into it.”
Summary Questions…
- Where in scripture can you find The Doctrine of Christ…?
- What is the simple definition of Repentance…?
- What is more important the WHAT or the WHY…?
- There are only two masters in life, what are they…?
- What are the two primary motivators in life…?
- Where in scripture does God state his Core Values…?
CHAPTER 9. Faith towards God
In the previous chapter we looked at Repentance from dead works
Repentance is about moving towards something better and that being the good life lived in Christ, living life in the flow of God’s love like Jesus taught and demonstrated…We now move onto Faith…
Heb 11:6: “But without faith [it is] impossible to please [Him], for he who comes to God must believe that He is and [that] He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”
Faith is another word that has a lot of confusion surrounding it…and yet we subconsciously flow in versions of faith every day… that is until a greater reality resets that faith…
There is only one version of faith that never changes and that is faith can be found in God’s love….
Simply put…
Faith is a Confident Expectation in the Loving Kindness of God our Father…
Faith is different to Hope…
Hope is… The anticipation of a future pleasure.
Faith is based on what we perceive to be real according to our past experiences…
We then carry these beliefs into our present and future making educated guesses.
Faith towards God however cannot be understood until you first believe God is and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently diligently diligently seek Him.
As you step out in this new experience of Faith in God you will grow in your Faith towards God but you first must know what you believe in is the Will of God and is this confirmed by Exod 34:6
God’s Love has not “evolved” in 6000 years of Bible History…
It is the same as it was when God said “Let there be Light” and then God’s love recognised the Light as GOOD
God and Humanity have been flowing in the GOOD ever since… only the individual levels of the values in humanity have changed…
Paul taught
Rom 10:17: “… faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
Without establishing the benchmark of God’s love first, it is very easy to get distracted, thinking you are doing God’s Good when in reality you are not!
Jesus said…
Mat 7:22-23: “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”(unrighteous wicked lawlessness)
So what went wrong…?
They were operating in a faith believing that God wanted them to prophesy and cast out devils… but Jesus rejected their faith because they weren’t doing it from a relationship in God’s love but rather in a repetitive self-serving religion.
You should NEVER pray for someone without asking God FIRST what to pray for…
Religion teaches that….” If you do what they did you can have what they had…”
This doesn’t work because religion takes the context of God’s love out of the equation.
THE ONLY WAY TO HELP PEOPLE LONG TERM IS TO TEACH THEM GOD’S LOVE BECAUSE THAT WAS WHAT JESUS DID.
Notice how in their defence they didn’t say… “we were loving as you loved us and flowing and teaching Gods love…”
Paul goes on to say in verse 12…
Heb 12:1-2: “Since we are surrounded by so many examples of faith, we must get rid of everything that slows us down, especially sin that distracts us.
We must run the race that lies ahead of us and never give up.
We must focus on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.
He saw the joy ahead of him, so he endured death on the cross and ignored the disgrace it brought him. Then he received the highest position in heaven, the one next to the throne of God.”
Did you catch that…? For the Joy set before Jesus, he endured the cross…
That’s Jesus faith right there…
God honours Faith because Faith honours God.
Those who diligently seek God will ultimately find God’s love and find a life filled with loving kindness and Truth.
There is a false teaching that says Jesus became sin for us and God the Father had to abandon him.
The teaching comes from…
Mt 27:46: “About three o’clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?””
Know this as fact….
Jesus and his followers were or never will be abandoned by God the Father.
Jesus was actually quoting a prophetic Psalm 22 because Jesus knew the listeners would know the whole psalm.
It was a psalm the Jews knew well because it portrays a suffering Messiah… Jesus said it because he wanted to comfort and build FAITH in his followers.
Ps 22:1: ” My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I groan in prayer, but help seems far away.”
“They say, “Commit yourself to the LORD! Let the LORD rescue him! Let the LORD deliver him, for he delights in him.”
“My strength drains away like water; all my bones are dislocated; my heart is like wax; it melts away inside me.
The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums.
You set me in the dust of death. Yes, wild dogs surround me — a gang of evil men crowd around me; like a lion they pin my hands and feet.
I can count all my bones; my enemies are gloating over me in triumph.
They are dividing up my clothes among themselves; they are rolling dice for my garments.
But you, O LORD, do not remain far away! You are my source of strength! Hurry and help me!
Deliver me from the sword! Save my life from the claws of the wild dogs! Rescue me from the mouth of the lion, and the horns of the wild oxen!
You have answered me! I will declare your name to my countrymen! In the middle of the assembly I will praise you!”
Jesus was building faith in his loved ones who thought it was all over…just like Jesus wants to build faith in us…
On the cross Jesus declared his faith in God the Father… not just when he was having a good day.
Jesus didn’t become sin for us but he did take the punishment for sin because he had FAITH in us and the love of his Heavenly Father.
So what are you placing your faith in…? The government, your church, money… or the one absolute truth that all truth flows from that is, God’s love.
So far your life has been all about you.
Your faith has come from your experiences shaping your expectations…
Your faith is what you have learned to depend on…
This has probably resulted in your faith being that you no longer depend on anyone or anything…
One of the 7 Love values of God stated in Exod 34;6 is “Truth”
This truth is interpreted as… Dependable and Reliable
God’s love IS the one absolute truth that all truth flows from and the only way to experience this truth is to live it with understanding.
Ps 34:8: “O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed (enviable) is the man that trusts (has Faith, a confident expectation in God’s Love) in him.”
So in Summary…
- What is the simple definition of “Faith towards God”…?
- Without Faith can you still please God…?
- Why does God honour Faith…?
- Why did Jesus endure the Cross…?
- Did Jesus become sin for me…?
- What is the first thing you should do before praying for someone…?
First we looked at Repentance from dead works…
Then we have looked at FAITH towards God…
Now we are going to look at putting Repentance and Faith into action by looking at BAPTISMS…
This to me is the most underrated and falsely taught step in the Christian walk…
It’s important to flowing in God’s love even eclipse the act of finding a spouse and getting married and yet how much consideration do we put into that…
The journey continues…
CHAPTER 10. Baptisms
In the previous two chapters, we looked at Repentance from dead works and Faith towards God.
Repentance is about moving towards something better with that being a life in Christ, living in the flow of God’s love like Jesus taught and demonstrated…
Faith is a confident expectation in the loving-kindness of God’s love…
This brings us to Baptisms
Baptism is more important than getting married!
There is a great deal of care effort and attention put into today’s modern-day wedding that is NOT being put into teaching Baptism…
In marriage, there is firstly the carefully considered courtship, the proposal and engagement…
Then there’s the ceremony with the venues, vows and receptions to be considered…
Afterwards, there is the honeymoon where the couple bond in intimacy…
A marriage is described by the apostle Paul as…
Eph 5:31: “For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.”
Baptism and marriage have the same underlying principles however the same amount of care effort and attention hasn’t gone into baptism so the true meaning of Baptism has been lost.
Simply put…
Baptism is a full emersion public commitment, into God’s love.
There is firstly the carefully considered courtship, the proposal and engagement…
Then there’s the ceremony with the public demonstration of your belief.
Afterwards, there is the honeymoon where as a new convert you bond with God’s love and His word…
Followed by “Flowing In Christ” as Jesus does… and the two become one…
There is more than one baptism but all of them have a common theme…
We associate John the Baptist’s water baptism as being the standard but Jesus crucifixion was also a baptism
Mat 20:22: “But Jesus answered and said, You know not what you ask.
Are you able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptised with the baptism that I am baptised with? …
The baptism Jesus was talking about was his… full emersion, public commitment, into God’s love on the Cross.
Paul also taught about Baptism…
Acts 19:1-5: “…Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, He said unto them,
Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?
And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
And he said unto them, Unto what then were you baptised? And they said, Unto John’s baptism.
Then said Paul, John baptised with the baptism of repentance,
(from mammon into Gods love Exod 35:6)
saying unto the people, that they should (also) believe in him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
When they heard this, they were baptised in the name (Life) of the Lord Jesus.”
John the Baptist taught
Mat 3:11: “I indeed baptise you with water unto repentance: but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptise you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:”
John’s water baptism is still valid today as it symbolises you publicly declaring your faith by the public symbolic full emersion death of your old life and resurrection into your NEW full emersion life…
The problem is if you don’t know exactly what that new life is… you soon slip back into your old ways.
Your new life is a full immersion (Baptism) life flowing in Christ, in the anointed presence of God’s Love like Jesus did and still does…
Jesus’s baptism is a full immersion into The Holy Spirit and Fire…
So what exactly does this mean…?
The church teaches that The Holy Spirit is a person like God the Father and Jesus… but is this teaching correct…?
Are we to be baptised into the Person of the Holy Spirit or is this interpretation incorrect…?
The original Greek text uses the word pronounced “Hageeos” for the word we know as Holy.
The Greek word means… and AWE full thing, sacred, Divine (physically pure, morally blameless or religious, ceremonially consecrated
The English word Wholly means Completely…
The English word Holy means Completely unto SOMETHING…
The Greek for Spirit is pronounced “pnyoo’-mah”
And it means literally “Breath” or figuratively “The soul life”
So putting it together Holy Spirit means the Divine Breath.
Jesus added to this by teaching that this Divine Breath of God is…
“The Spirit of Truth”
Jn 14:26: “However, the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything.
He will remind you of everything that I have ever told you.”
This scripture gets confusing when the English word “He” is used…
The original word in the Greek is pronounced “ho, hay, to”
And it means…” this” or ”that” or “these”
Let’s look at John 14:26 again…
Jn 14:26: “However, the helper, the Holy Spirit, (The Divine Breath of God’s Truth) whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything.
(That Spirit) will remind you of everything that I have ever told you.”
This also ties in with God declaring in Exod 34:6 the 7 attributes of himself with one being.. TRUTH…
Also in Revelation…
Rev 1:4: “John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the SEVEN SPIRITS which are before his throne;”
Jesus baptism is… The full public immersion in the Divine Breath of the Spirit of God’s Truth…
This is also what it means to be…”In Christ”
As for the meaning of “Fire”… in scripture, fire generally refers to purification…
Jesus said…
Luk 12:49-51: “I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it already be kindled? But I have a baptism to be baptised with; and how am I focused until it is accomplished! Do you think that I have come to give peace to earth?
I tell you, NO but rather division: ”
Jesus was fully Immersed into the minute-by-minute flow of Gods love… similar to a newly married couple…(and the two become one)
As new Christian’s we usually start by giving up each Sunday to go to church…
We then advance to a mid-week meeting for a more intimate connection…
We then might add a prayer night…to finish off…
Full immersion is serving God 24/7… not because we have to but because we love to…. A full immersion lifestyle flowing in God’s Love.
God Faith comes by hearing so unless you are aware of God’s love gently guiding your day-to-day life … your religious act of water baptism will be worthless…
Jesus said
Mat 7:22-23: “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” (Unrighteous wicked lawlessness)
WHAT they were doing was ok but WHY they were doing it was wrong…
Paul wrote
1 Cor 13:1-3: “I may speak in the languages of humans and of angels. But if I don’t have love, I am a loud gong or a clashing cymbal.
I may have the gift to speak what God has revealed, and I may understand all mysteries and have all knowledge. I may even have enough faith to move mountains. But if I don’t have love, I am nothing. I may even give away all that I have and give up my body to be burned. But if I don’t have love, none of these things will help me.”
You will never experience the fullness of God’s baptism of love until you are 100% committed to flowing in it.
So how often should we be Baptised…?
Answer: Every morning of every day…
And here’s how you can do it
You can go to the river of God in your mind…
Rev 22:1-2: “Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life — water as clear as crystal — pouring out from the throne of God and of the Lamb, flowing down the middle of the city’s main street.
On each side of the river is the tree of life producing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month of the year. Its leaves are for the healing of the nations.”
Find a quiet place where you won’t be disturbed…
Make yourself comfortable… (on your bed is a good place)
Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths…
This is a time to stop and become aware of the Father.
Now imagine yourself walking into the river of Heaven until the water comes up to your waist…
Now see yourself laying back into the water until you are fully immersed…
You don’t have to worry about breathing as this is the river of life, the river of God our Father’s love…
Allow the water to gently wash over you, cooling you, refreshing you, cleansing you of all negative thoughts and emotions…
See your body beginning to softly glow with the radiance of God’s love.
Stay for as long as you like… stay until you feel completely clean and refreshed…
The river is God’s good…
God’s happiness peace and the joy of discovery and accomplishment…
Flowing with people objects and events God values…
Family creation acts of love…
In the river flows the love of God…
Mercy, Compassion, Patience, Lovingkindness, Truth, Forgiveness and Justice…
There is healing in the river…
There is life in the river…
There is Faith and hope in the river
There is Purpose and Destiny in the river…
Let it soak into you, into your very bones, every cell saturated, Body, Soul, and Spirit refreshed in the life-giving waters…
When you are ready you can stand again and walk to the river bank…
Trees are lining the bank that are full of ripe fruit.
The leaves of the trees are full of veins of light with Gods word in them…
The words are the promises of God our Father to his family…
Promises like…
“I will never leave you or forsake you… and “I have plans to prosper you…”
Reach up and take a piece of fruit…
You can see Jesus’s face reflected in the segment’s
Eat and taste the life, the flavours and textures, and appreciate the joy of discovery and accomplishment filling you with each bite.
Peace fills you from head to toe with safety, security and rest.
This is the Kingdom of God our Father….
The Kingdom that is GOOD
Start your day here… every day.
Baptised in the river of our Father’s Love and from your belly will flow rivers of The Father’s life-giving Love.
The river is always with you
The river never leaves you
The river never runs dry
Because you are a valued part of The Fathers River
Now as you go through your day take the river with you…
The happiness, peace and joy you feel never has to leave you…
Gods river is REAL and you are a part of it so recognise it
and flow in it…
Summary questions…
1. What is Baptism…?
2. Can baptism be done in private…?
3. Is John’s water Baptism still valid…?
4. What is more important, Getting Married or getting Baptised…?
5. What did John say about Jesus’s Baptism…? He will baptise you with the….?
Only now are we ready to move into the “laying on of hands”…the work of ministry….
CHAPTER 11. Laying on of hands
In the previous three teachings we looked at Repentance from dead works and Faith towards God and Baptism’s
Repentance is about moving towards something better with that being a life in Christ, living in the flow of Gods love like Jesus taught and demonstrated…
Faith is a confident expectation in the loving kindness of Gods love…
Baptism is a full emersion public commitment into Gods love.
You are literally marrying into Gods family of love.
This brings us to Laying on of hands…
The practice of Laying of Hands was for the purpose of personal impartation of Gods love.
Acts 8:14-17: “When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that the Samaritans had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.
Peter and John went to Samaria and prayed that the Samaritans would receive the Holy Spirit. (The Divine Breath of Gods Spirt of Truth/Love)
(Before this the Holy Spirit had not come to any of the Samaritans. They had only been baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and the Samaritans received the Holy Spirit.
We see again in
Acts 13:2-3: “As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.”
Acts 19:1-6: “And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, He said unto them,
Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?
And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Spirit.
And he said unto them, Unto what then were you baptised?
And they said, Unto John’s baptism.
Then said Paul, John did baptise with the baptism of repentance, (further) saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, (believe) on Christ Jesus.
When they heard this, they were baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus.
And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.”
Timothy also warned to be discerning on who you laid hands on…
1Tim 5:22: “Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure.”
The early church had one main scripture they used as their guiding light…it was Exod 34:6
So it stands to reason that the laying on of hands would also have been in the light of Exod 34:6
Mercy
Compassion
Patience
Lovingly kindness
Truth
Forgiveness
Accountability
These values are at the heart of Gods love and we are expected to know, understand and flow in these values…
Impartation through laying on of hands would be to impart these values through a infilling of Gods Spirit of love.
There is nothing greater than imparting the revelation of Gods love… the one absolute truth that all truth flows from.
Another part of impartation is in the public recognising of the gifts given to each of us for the service in the Body of Christ…
Paul wrote it this way…
Rom 12:5-10: “So we, being many, are one body in Christ,
and every one members one of another.
Having then GIFTS differing according to the grace (Divine influence) that is GIVEN to us,
whether PROPHESY, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith (our expectation of Gods love)
Or MINISTRY, let us wait (serve) on our ministering:
or he that TEACHES, (serve) on teaching;
Or he that EXHORTS, (serve) on exhortation:
he that GIVES, let him do it with simplicity
he that LEADS, (lead) with diligence;
he that shows MERCY, (show kindness) with cheerfulness.
Let love be (sincere) without dissimulation (hypocrisy)
Abhor (detest utterly) that which is evil (physical, spiritual and moral)
Cleave (glue yourself) to that which is good. (Gods Good)
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;”
These are not just trait’s to gain you entry to Heaven but these are the Eternal traits of those in Heaven…who flow in Gods Love
When Adam decided to go it alone he had to learn new skills to survive without God… It became survival of the fittest and the Love of self gain became the only law…
To fully understand how Gods love works you need Gods GIFTS to achieve the fullness of Gods Good.
These skills are gifts of natural talent that by themselves are special but when brought into community with the impartation of Gods Holy Spirit of Truth… they are significantly amplified…
As a musician and song leader I was often praised for my worship leading…
At first this was uncomfortable as we are told to be humble and yet it felt good to be appreciated…
I was then shown by the Spirit of Gods love that the skill I had was a gift from my Heavenly Father that was not given to everyone and this gift is what people were actually praising…
I was also told that I could feel some pride as I had been faithful with this gift and my Heavenly Father was pleased with me…
We all have skills that come easy to us… There are other skills we would love to learn…
Personally I would love to draw…but somehow the pictures I have in my head don’t look like the ones I commit to paper…
I often hear that we shouldn’t try and box someone into a ministry and that all ministries should be open to learn….
This is true but do you want to spend the rest of this life ignoring the gift God has given you, to do something that another can do more easily…?
In Heaven there are no celebrities because everyone is equally respected and appreciated…no one is more important than another…
That’s how Gods Family works.
Also when we get to The new Heavens and Earth there is a thousand lifetimes to learn every gift and then some…
Paul taught…
1Cor 14:1: “Pursue love and be eager for the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.”
So let look again at the summary of Paul’s gifts…
Prophesy
Serving in Ministry
Teaching
Exhortation, encouraging others
Giving… sharing, imparting
Leadership
Mercy… helping the suffering
Does something in this list relate to you…?
Is there something that you could lay your hands on…?
I will be covering the Gifts in greater detail in Part 3…
Remember… it’s not about just works but the Divine influence on your heart… (Gods Grace)
Mat 16:24: “Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.”
Jesus cross was his greatest gift to humanity…what’s yours…?
Next we will look at Resurrection from the dead as we walk through the timeline of your walk in Gods love…
Summary of Laying on of Hands
- What was the purpose of Laying on of Hands…?
- Can anyone have hands laid on them…?
- Should you lay hands on everyone…?
- Laying on of Hands should be in the context of what scripture…?
- What happened to the disciples at Ephesus when Paul laid hands on them…?
- What are two of the Gifts of the Spirit you can receive when hands are laid on you…?
The Journey so far…
The Doctrine of Christ.
Repentance from Dead works… A change in direction of the heart
Faith towards God… A confident expectation in Gods love
Baptisms… A full public immersion into Gods Love
Laying on of Hands…for the purpose of personal impartation of Gods love.
CHAPTER 12. Resurrection from the Dead
There are many scriptures that speak of the resurrection…
In Jesus day there was even a major division between the two ruling priesthood’s regarding Resurrection…
Literally resurrection means
“To stand up again”
Figuratively resurrection means
“A moral recovery”
It’s interesting to note that Adam was told by God that if he ate the fruit from the tree of good and evil…that he would surely die.
Gen 2:17: “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that you eat thereof you will surely die.”
We know that it was not a literal death because Adam didn’t die physically immediately after eating the fruit…
Also Adam was driven from the garden so that he could not eat from the tree of life and live forever…
Gen 3:22,24: “And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever: … So God drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to bar the way to the tree of life.”
The death Adam DID experience was a MORAL DEATH
Immediately after eating the fruit Adam felt for the first time in his life exposed in condemnation and shame.
So much so he hid from God the Father….
Gen 3:7-10: “And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
And Adam said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”
The Moral resurrection must happen first before there can be a physical resurrection…
When Adam ate the fruit, a new version of love entered humanity and Jesus called that version of love Mammon
Mammon means “Personal gain”
Luk 16:13: “No servant can serve two masters:
for either he will hate the one (Gods love) and love the other (Personal Gain) or else he will hold to the one (Gods love) and despise the other. (Personal gain) Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
Resurrection from the dead is resurrection from Mammon back to Gods love.
We learned in previous teaching that “Without support there is no happiness peace and joy “
When condemnation entered humanity we began compensating for it…
In Adams case he sewed fig leaves together to feel less exposed.
As time progressed we developed clothing designed not just to cover but to be an expression of our identity to the world…
But on the inside we still feel naked…
To fill the void we invented shoes… hairstyles… cosmetics… Botox…even cars…houses… and more… all to support ourselves feeling better and somehow fill the feeling of emptiness…
Desperately trying to find our love in People who are as messed up as we are…
in Objects that soon fade in our appreciation…
and in attending Events that for a short time distract us from the loss we feel within.
Jesus taught…
Lk 9:24-25: “For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake (my Love) will save it.
For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?”
Jesus also taught…
Jn 3:3-5: … “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb and be born a second time, can he?”
Jesus answered, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of Gods love”
The “Born again” experience is the resurrection from the dead…
Jesus comforted the disciples with these words…
Jn 14:1-7: ““Don’t be troubled. Believe in God (Gods love), and believe in me (Gods love).
My Father’s house has many rooms. If that were not true, would I have told you that I’m going to prepare a place for you?
If I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again.
Then I will bring you into my presence so that you will be where I am.
You know the way (Gods love)
to the place where I am going.
” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you’re going. So how can we know the way?”
Jesus answered him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life (The demonstration of Gods love). No one goes to the Father except through me.
If you have known me, you will also know my Father. From now on you know him through me and have seen him in me.””
If you haven’t yet experienced the life changing revelation of Gods love then your time is now…
This life is the preparation for the next stage of humanity’s evolution…
Resurrection comes in the application of all you have learned…
These are just words on a page until you breath your life into them…
These are just words on a page until God your Heavenly Father can enter your heart and begin renovating…
Jesus stated…
Rev 3:20-21: “Look, I’m standing at the door and knocking.
If anyone listens to my voice and opens the door, I’ll come in and we’ll eat together.
I will allow everyone who wins the victory to sit with me on my throne, as I have won the victory and have sat down with my Father on his throne. ”
Ps 34:8: “Taste and see that Gods Love is good.
Blessed is the person who takes refuge in him.”
Or as my mum says… the proof is in the eating…
Eternal Judgment is coming but more than that is God our Father wants us to experience the fullness of living in His Love right now and to share that experience with others…
Leave your life of dead end thinking for a life of unlimited potential in the Family of God that flows and grows in…GODS VALUES…
If you haven’t by now you need to decide between your version of love… or
Gods Family version of love… and then commit yourself to that path and don’t look back…
It’s your choice… Resurrection from the Dead starts within you and in Gods love it just gets better and better…
It’s not religion but relationship with The Creator… your Father in heaven.
Here is a version of the prayer Jesus taught that will literally raise you from the dead…
Don’t just say it but own it, saying the words from your heart…
take your time and let the words sink into your soul…
Matthew 6:9
Our Father, the source and supply of ALL that is GOOD…
Who is closer to me than the air that I breath…
I STOP. And become aware of you.
Your Kingdom of Happiness, Peace and Joy come…
Your will of Mercy, Compassion, Patience, Loving Kindness,
Truth, Forgiveness and Justice, be on Earth and in my life every day
just as it is in Heaven.
Give us each day the Divine bread of your words…
And forgive us for our iniquities, unrighteous wicked lawlessness as we
forgive those around us for their iniquities against us…
Lead us away each day from the distractions of mammon and the lusts of
the carnal flesh…
And deliver us from physical sickness, mental sickness and spiritual sickness…
For only you Father has the Kingdom, the power and the might that is Your Love and I now warmly invite you to come in to me and fill me with your Divine Breath of Truth,
The one absolute truth that all Truth flows from… YOUR LOVE
AMEN
Summary…
So far we have covered Repentance… a change in the direction of the heart towards God and His Love as demonstrated by Jesus…
We then looked at Faith… a confident expectation in Gods Love manifesting in our lives…
Then in Baptism we made a full immersion commitment into a lifestyle flowing in Gods Love and creativity…
In Laying on of Hands we put our Faith into practical practice through impartation to bless the lives of others
Resurrection from the dead raised us up from a self-centred life in Mammon to a life full of unlimited potential flowing in Christ, the same anointed presence of Gods Love that Jesus flows in…
These Five steps of faith are what you do to find eternal life but not only that they will underpin your life as you move through Eternity…
Remember these steps and teach them to others who will listen because they represent the Way, Truth and Life that Jesus said was available to all who would just BELIEVE…
The final step in our Journey into the Doctrine of Christ is Eternal Judgments…
This is where all the good seed you have sown so far gets to take root and results in a harvest for all. You are now planted in Gods GOOD field and life is about to get AMAZING…
CHAPTER 13. Eternal Judgments
We see in Exodus 34:6 that God stated that “By no means will the guilty go unpunished “
Gods love contains accountability for everything we do including the good and the bad.
The word judgment means…
A decision and the resulting consequence
We are encouraged to judge ourselves first before we judge others in order to bring ourselves into repentance and change our ways BEFORE we are judged by others…
The benchmark for the judgment… for either reward or condemnation,
is Gods love.
This is why it is so important that you know exactly what Gods love is.
The ultimate judgment is the separation from the fullness of Gods Love.
If you look closely at all the teaching’s of Jesus you will see they all point towards explaining what Gods love is and what Gods love is not.
Gods love is Gods GOOD…
Supported by…
People… Gods Family.
Objects…Gods creation and the creations of his Family.
Events/Actions, Exod 34:6
We will be all held accountable to
our understanding and implementation of…Exod 34:6
Mercy
Compassion
Patience unto repentance
Loving kindness
Truth and dependably
Forgiveness
Being accountable to God’s Justice
This is not just a minimum tick list of actions to get us into heaven but a lifestyle of connecting relationships with the heart of God the Father at the centre.
This is the absolute foundation for the continuing eternal existence of humanity….
The opposite to Gods love is a world where there is NO mercy
No compassion, No patience, No Loving kindness, No truth, No Forgiveness, No Justice,….. Sound familiar…
Gods judgment is coming…
Heb 9:27: “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Eternal Judgment One
The first eternal judgment came when Adam chose to reject Gods love to put himself on the throne of his life and the punishment was separation from from the fullness of Gods love.
The heart in Adam had changed. The WHY of Adams life had become Adam-centred.
We can see that when God spoke to Adam about what had happened there was no repentance instead he tried to shift the blame for his decisions onto Eve without any feelings of mercy, compassion, repentance, loving kindness, truth or forgiveness…
Adam has yet to face the final judgment and consequence for his actions and Adam’s “Works” will decide where he will spend eternity…
His judgment will be based on his “Works” in accordance to Exodus 34:6…
Eternal Judgment Two
The next Judgment will occur at the Rapture….
1Ths 4:16-17: “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God:
and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
To be “In Christ” means “To be flowing in the anointed presence of God the Father like Jesus does.”
The consequence of this judgment is you don’t have to go through the tribulation and you shall forever be with God the Father…
A further consequence of this judgment is Father God will remove his protection from humanity and the world….
Up to the Rapture God has protected humanity however as we saw in Noah’s time there is a limit to Gods patience unto repentance.
Slow to anger is the third value of Gods as stated in Exod 34:6
“keeping loyal love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. But he by no means leaves the guilty unpunished, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children and children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.”
As humanity rejects Gods love choosing instead Mammon, God must honour that free choice.
There is no longer any excuse that those who will be left behind weren’t warned of the consequences…
Eternal Judgment Three
The next Judgment is on those who repent to faith in God during the tribulation…
Rev 20:4-5: “And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them:
and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands;
and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.” (After the Rapture)
Eternal Judgment FOUR
The final Judgment is called The Great White Throne Judgment
Rev 20:11-15: “And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.
This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”
Judgment 4 centres around the Heavenly Books…
We all have a individual book in heaven that is recording everything we do.
It’s purpose is not to condemn us but to be a record of our creative acts of love…
Those who miss the Rapture will be judged according to their WORKS in their lifestyle of love…as recorded in their book AND the books of others whose lives were effected.
The Great White Throne Judgment centres around Works…
You may be thinking we are not saved by works but by Grace, according to Paul’s teaching…
Eph 2:8-9: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.”
The Greek word for Grace used here does NOT mean you get a “get out of jail free card”
Grace actually means… “The divine influence on the heart and the reflection in the life “
All are given access to the Divine Influence…not all will accept it.
We see from Revelation 20 that many during the tribulation will turn to Jesus teaching and repent from their self centred lives.
Their story will be written in Jesus book just as have all the stories of those who have excepted Jesus teaching and applied them into their lives…
This is literally how you get your name in “The Lambs book of Life.”
It is a common thought that the Lambs book of life is like a phone book containing thousands of names in alphabetical order…
This is partly true as there is an index at the front where you can look up the names of people you know… including hopefully your own.
The majority of the book records the stories of Jesus life and the lives that Jesus affected…
When you do something that directly flows from out of your relationship in Jesus then that action is recorded in Jesus Book…
But before you run out and start doing works for Jesus consider this scripture…
Jesus said…
Mat 7:22-23: “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” (Unrighteousness wicked lawlessness)
It wasn’t WHAT they did that condemned them it was WHY they did them… their works were based in Mammon (Personal Gain)
All works that don’t originate in Gods love are worthless.
1Cor 13:2: “I may have the gift to speak what God has revealed, and I may understand all mysteries and have all knowledge. I may even have enough faith to move mountains. But if I don’t have love, I am nothing.”
Jesus also taught the disciples…
John 5:30: “I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father (exod34:6) which hath sent me.”
The Great White Throne Judgment centres around the books of life which records individual peoples acts of love that flow from mercy, compassion, patience, loving kindness, truth, forgiveness and justice.
The part worth noting in Rev 20:11-15 is “the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their “WORKS.”
This is because not everyone has heard the teaching of Gods love and about flowing in Christ so they won’t be held accountable to something they didn’t know.
The Israelites and the church haven’t done a good job in this area.
This final judgment is only on those who weren’t In Christ during the rapture and those who didn’t come to Jesus during the tribulation…
Not all of these who are judged in the Great White Throne Judgment will go into the lake of fire because scripture tells us there are a large group of people who still qualify according to their works who live outside the walls of the New Jerusalem and are living on the New Earth
Rev 21:9-10: “Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb!”
So he took me away in the Spirit to a huge, majestic mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.”….
Rev 21:24-27: “The nations will walk by its light and the kings of the earth will bring their grandeur into it. Its gates will never be closed during the day (and there will be no night there).
THEY (those whose names are not written in the Lambs Book of Life)
will bring the grandeur and the wealth of the nations into it, but nothing ritually unclean will ever enter into it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or practices falsehood, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.”
Did you get that…? Only those whose names are written in the Lambs Book of Life can enter the Holy City Jerusalem…
Just as we now work and grow in a system of evolution of thought so to will this system operate on the New Earth.
We will still need Apostles and Prophets and Teachers for those that haven’t heard the Gospel of God’s Love.
As mentioned previously the word Judgement means…
A decision and the resulting consequence
Next we will look at the consequence’s that come after the Eternal Judgements.
There are 4 areas you can spend eternity in…
1/ The lake of Fire as a consequence of your Works
2/ The New heavens and earth as a consequence of your Works
3/ The New City of Jerusalem as a consequence of having your name written in the Lambs book of life
4/ The Throne room of God as a consequence of your understanding of exactly what Gods love is and your willingness to serve humanity and serve the greater will of God the Father in loving Obedience.
1/ THE LAKE OF FIRE
Jesus taught…
Mat 25:31-33: “When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats:
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.”…
Mat 25:41: “Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: ”
“For I was hungry, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.”
The judgment and consequence here are based on the level of the understanding and implementation mercy, compassion, patience, loving kindness, truth, forgiveness or judgment. Exod 34:6
The condemned were completely self-centred with no consideration for others well-being
Jesus commanded us to “Love your neighbour as your self”… or expanded…
Be just as concerned about your neighbours happiness peace and joy as you are about your own happiness peace and joy.
Also worth noting the Lake of Fire was prepared for “ the devil and his angels: ” not for humanity but when we flow from a mean self-centred spirit we also qualify for the Lake of Fire. (Thank God for the blood of Jesus)
The enemy only has one weapon against us and that is DISTRACTION from Gods love… this IS literally the Antichrist agenda…
When we flow in an Antichrist agenda we are flowing in a distraction/separation from Gods love.
God the Father taught
Rev 21:7-8: “He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son….
But the fearful (the timid and faithless)
and the unbelieving, (actively disbelieving, that is, without Christian faith)
and abominable, (to be abhorred, to turn oneself away from the stench of, to feel disgust, detest, polluted with crimes, to make sick to the stomach eg homosexuality, paedophillia and sex with animals) Lev 18 22-23
and murderers (a murderer (always of criminal [or at least intentional] homicide)
and whoremongers (one who prostituted himself for personal gain)
and sorcerers (to administer a drug. An enchanter with drugs, a sorcerer)
and idolaters (a servant or worshiper of idols, a covetous person)
and all liars (those who contrive idolatrous worship and false miracles to deceive men and make them fall into idolatry.)
All these shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”
Another way of looking at it is…
There DNA will be forever removed from the human gene pool.
These are not people who make the occasional mistake but rather people who have made these traits their lifestyle for their own personal gain.
Would you want them living next door to you…?
Rev 20:15: “If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, (The book of GOOD Works) that person was thrown into the lake of fire.”
2/ THE NEW HEAVENS AND EARTH
Rev 21:1-4: “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
And God shall wipe away all tears (grief) from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”
The inhabitants of the new heavens and new earth will be those who through their WORKS proved themselves worthy to be preserved.
The new heavens and earth will be similar to what we have today only without the corruption of Mammon.
The earth God originally created was Gods was considered “Good” by God so it stands to reason this flavour hasn’t changed.
Also amongst these people will also be those “In Christ” who have been sent by God the Father from the Throne Room to bring the outsiders into the flow of “Christ” allowing them to gain access to the new City.
Gods kingdom is not an exclusive club but a system of serving each other in love.
As your understanding of the revelations in Gods love evolves, so to does your desire to serve the greater good.
Access to the city is granted only when there is first the desire to enter… along with repentance from dead works… sound familiar…?
The new earth has “Districts “ where humanity can freely be creative within the guidelines of Gods Love.
There is The Arts… Engineering… Farming… Physics… to name a few…
There is no sitting on clouds all day playing harps unless that is what you really want to do…
The New Earth is Eternal and so are you so there is time to peruse all manner of interests…
No pursuit is considered better then another as all areas are respected and given due consideration…
Growing a carrot is considered just as important as an amazing piece of music because even the humble carrot has a story…
3/ THE NEW CITY OF JERUSALEM
Rev 21:9-27: “Then one of the seven angels…said “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb!”
So he took me away in the Spirit to a huge, majestic mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.
The city possesses the glory of God; its brilliance is like a precious jewel, like a stone of crystal-clear jasper.
It has a massive, high wall with twelve gates, with twelve angels at the gates, and the names of the twelve tribes of the nation of Israel are written on the gates.
There are three gates on the east side, three gates on the north side, three gates on the south side and three gates on the west side.
The wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them are the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb…
Now the city is laid out as a square, its length and width the same.
He measured the city with a measuring rod at fourteen hundred miles (its length and width and height are equal).
( Imagine a mountain with a square walled base and a rough pyramid shaped top. )
He also measured its wall, one hundred forty-four cubits according to human measurement, which is also the angel’s.
The city’s wall is made of jasper and the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.
The foundations of the city’s wall are decorated with every kind of precious stone.…
And the twelve gates are twelve pearls — each one of the gates is made from just one pearl!
The main street of the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.
Now I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God — the All-Powerful — and the Lamb are its temple.
The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God lights it up, and its lamp is the Lamb.
The nations will walk by its light and the kings of the earth will bring their grandeur into it.
Its gates will never be closed during the day (and there will be no night there).
They will bring the grandeur and the wealth of the nations into it, but nothing ritually unclean will ever enter into it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or practices falsehood, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.”
Jesus taught…
John 14:2-3: “In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”
The word “mansions “ means
“A place to call home”
The new city looks like a mountain 1400km wide, 1400km deep, 1400km high…
It is crystalline clear and golden in colour.
Those who have seen it in visions and dreams say it looks like a mountain covered with golden houses similar to like what you see on the side of the hills in the Greek islands…
The entire mountain is hollow and at its centre is where the throne room of God is…
The houses have balconies that on one end look out over the new earth and on the other end balconies that look onto the throne room.
At the centre of the throne room is an undulating column of lights stretching from the floor to the ceiling (1400km high) and it occupies approximately 10% of the centre of the room.
The light from the Column shines out through the city and pulsates with gentle warmth and love.
The closer you get to the column the more intense the Love.
4/ The Throne room of God
Rev 7:14-17: “These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.”
There is one word the sums up the life of Jesus and that word is….
“Obedience”
An obedience to the greater good that is the love of God The Father
We are taught from an early age that there is a Hierarchy of society…
It looks like a pyramid with the elite and privileged at the top and the majority doing all the work on the bottom.
Gods system is the reverse. Like an upside down pyramid with the singularity of Gods Love at the base tip supporting all of Creation
God is the greatest servant of all not because He has to but because He LOVES to.
The Throne Room is the support room where those who understand the joy in serving go out into the new creation… sent by God to teach Gods love…
Apostles, Prophets, Teachers, Miracle workers, Healers, Helpers , Administrators and Intercessors will all be active in the new creation flowing from a genuine humility and love.
Eternity is not about sitting on clouds playing harps… for eternity…
The new creation is alive with possibilities…
We were created by God to be creative in our individual lives and as a corporate collective.
As earthly parents there is a great feeling of Joy when we see our children being creative in their own right.
As they begin to write their story of love as part of our story of love…
This concept may be foreign to some but in the new creation it is the energy that powers everything.
There is no individual vain pride because we are all family in God the Father….
Nothing to prove just the freedom to grow and share in all creation.
Limited time or failing health is no longer the clock we live by…
The new heavens await us for our discovery and participation…
We are only limited by our imagination. Anything is possible within the guidelines of Gods love (Exod 34:6)
It all starts right now with repentance from dead works to Faith in God, full commitment baptism to Gods love, getting involved in obedience to Christ and impartation to others…
As we do we are resurrected from dead mindsets into Eternal purpose, passion and praises…
Jn 14:6-7: “Jesus answered him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one goes to the Father except through me. If you have known me, you will also know my Father. From now on you know him through me and have seen him in me.””
Jn 14:12-21: ““I can guarantee this truth: Those who believe in me will do the things that I am doing.
They will do even greater things because I am going to the Father.
I will do anything you ask the Father in my name so that the Father will be given glory because of the Son. If you ask me to do something, I will do it.
“If you love me, you will obey my commandments. I will ask the Father, and he will give you another helper who will be with you forever. That helper is the Spirit of Truth.
The world cannot accept that one, because it doesn’t see or know him. You know him, because he lives with you and will be in you.
“I will not leave you all alone. I will come back to you.
In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. You will live because I live.
On that day you will know that I am in my Father and that you are in me and that I am in you.
Whoever knows and obeys my commandments is the person who loves me.
Those who love me will have my Father’s love, and I, too, will love them and show myself to them.”
Wow! What a great promise from Jesus.
2Pet 3:8-13: “Dear friends, don’t ignore this fact: One day with the Lord is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day. The Lord isn’t slow to do what he promised, as some people think. Rather, he is patient for your sake. He doesn’t want to destroy anyone but wants all people to have an opportunity to turn to him and change the way they think and act.
The day of the Lord will come like a thief.
On that day heaven will pass away with a roaring sound.
Everything that makes up the universe will burn and be destroyed.
The earth and everything that people have done on it will be exposed.
All these things will be destroyed in this way.
So think of the kind of holy and godly lives you must live as you look forward to the day of God and eagerly wait for it to come.
When that day comes, heaven will be on fire and will be destroyed.
Everything that makes up the universe will burn and melt. But we look forward to what God has promised — a new heaven and a new earth — a place where everything that has God’s approval lives.”
To walk In Christ like Jesus you must first Repent from dead works to…
Faith in God… then be…
Baptised, full emersion into Gods love…
Laying hands on and imparting Gods love wherever you are welcomed according to Gods leading…
Living a Resurrected life of Gods love…
Keeping your eyes on the coming Eternal judgments that await all of humanity…
This is The Doctrine of Christ.
In the next Chapter we will be looking at “The Gift’s of the Spirit”
These are the tools given by God but only to those who are worthy to use them…