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Changing Lives:
Part Two
In Our image, after Our likeness:
Friend, like unto like.
There is no I in God.
The disciples came upon the Lord Jesus one day.
Lord, teach us how to pray, like John taught his disciples.
And the Lord Jesus taught them.
Luke 11.
Lu 11: 1 And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he
ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also
taught his disciples. 2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father
With notes from World Last Chance, Shepherd Staff, the Bible KJV, The Urantia Book, Pastor
Oyahkilome, Bishop David Oyedepo, Paul Billheimer (Destined for the Throne), Pastor Randall Worley.
which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be
done, as in heaven, so in earth. 3 Give us day by day our daily bread.
4 And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us.
And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.
Whereas until we know him fully we cannot aspire to be rooted, let alone firmly
rooted in him, most people are constantly confronted with the mystery of God.
The widespread ignorance about who the Lord God actually is the root cause of
religions (organized and disorganized) as well as religiosity.
Consequently, great confusion reigns (aided and abetted by Lucifer and his
human children) respecting the meaning of such terms as God, divinity, and
deity. The folktale of the Nine Blind Men and the Elephant does not even
approach our dilemma when it comes to constructing this awesome MAN called
God.
Understandably so.
When a concept is beyond the comprehension of puny man gives it his own
definition, his own mystification and his own image as best he can. The very lazy
among men and woman now resort to their own foolish supposition. God does
not exist they say and then sit back with that silly grin so common to the
inhabitants of a place called Morontia.
Pooh, how far from reality are these satanic imaginations. I will show you why
shortly.
who live and rule the universes. Such concepts are a relic of the times when men
supposed that the universe was under the guidance and domination of the whims
of such imaginary gods. But mortal man is beginning to realize that he lives in a
realm of comparative law and order far higher than anything man has contrive
this far in our puerile and futile attempt at self-government.
The barbarous idea of appeasing an angry God, of propitiating an offended Lord,
of winning the favor of Deity through sacrifices and penance and even by the
shedding of blood, represents a religion wholly puerile and primitive, a
philosophy unworthy of an enlightened age of science and truth. Such beliefs are
utterly repulsive to the celestial beings and the divine rulers who serve and reign
in the universes. It is an affront to God to believe, hold, or teach that innocent
blood must be shed in order to win his favor or to divert the fictitious divine
wrath.
These misconceptions have root in ancient primitivism and paganism that
unfortunately found their way in the heathen-pagan practice in some religious
organizations and organized religions today. "As God is without beginning and
without cause, as his being is infinite and underived, the Hebrew language
consults strict propriety in giving no root whence his name can be deduced." Mr.
Parkhurst, to whose pious and learned labours in Hebrew literature most Biblical
students are indebted, thinks he has found the root in hla alah, i.e. he swore, he
bound himself by oath; and hence
Elohim, as being bound by a conditional oath to redeem man. Most pious minds
will revolt from this definition, and will be glad with me to find both the noun
and the root preserved in Arabic. ALLAH [Arabic] is the common name for GOD
in the Arabic tongue, and often the emphatic [Arabic] is used. But while our God
is triune and Trinitarian Islam invents its own paganism by a bewildering
ignorance of God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. My God is not a third of the
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eternally just, right, and kind. Reader, such is the God of the Bible; but how
widely different from the God of most human creeds and apprehensions!
God is Deity, the supreme God, the tremendous being. This is not a new idea;
God was considered in the same light among the ancient Hebrews; and hence
Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.
Ge 31:53. 53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their
father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.
To complete the definition, Golius renders alaha, juvit, liberavit, et tutatus fuit,
"he succoured, liberated, kept in safety, or defended." Thus from the ideal
meaning of this most expressive root, we acquire the most correct notion of the
Divine nature; for we learn that God is the sole object of adoration; that the
perfections of his nature are such as must astonish all those who piously
contemplate them, and fill with horror all who would dare to give his glory to
another, or break his commandments; that consequently he should be
worshipped with reverence and religious fear; and that every sincere worshipper
may expect from him help in all his weaknesses, trials, difficulties, temptations,
&c,; freedom from the power, guilt, nature, and consequences of sin; and to be
supported, defended, and saved to the uttermost, and to the end.
Here then is one proof, among multitudes which shall be adduced in the course
of this work, of the importance, utility, and necessity of tracing up these sacred
words to their sources; and a proof also, that subjects which are supposed to be
out of the reach of the common people may, with a little difficulty, be brought on
a level with the most ordinary capacity.
Friend, the Lord God inhabits ETERNITY, the highest of speeds, the highest of
realms, a realm where time and space do not exist. In the beginning i.e. before
the creative acts all was ETERNITY.
Time signifies duration measured by the revolutions of the heavenly bodies: but
prior to the creation of these bodies there could be no measurement of duration,
and consequently no time.
The El Elyon or the Most High operates from eternity, from the source of all life
and reality. A place where a day is like unto a thousand years and a thousand
years is like unto a day.
2Pe 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the
Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. PS 90:4 For a
thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch
in the night
God, being a Deity; divine, supreme, eternal, absonite, universal, ultimate,
absolute, and infinite, does not grow in knowledge nor increase in wisdom.
Deity is the source of all that which is divine. Deity is characteristically and
invariably divine, but all that which is divine is not necessarily Deity.
Supreme because the MAN is self-experiential, self-existent and the Creator with
everything else being his creation or creatures.
Eternal, Infinite and absonite because he has no beginning and no ending
Ultimate because the MAN is self-projecting and time-space-transcending.
The absolute level is beginning less, endless, timeless, and space less.
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The El Elyon or the Most High stretches from ETERNITY to now and fills all in
all.
1Co 12:6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which
worketh all in all. 1Co 15:28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him,
then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him,
that God may be all in all. Eph 1:23 Which is his body, the fullness of him that
filleth all in all.
I have told you, there is a huge difference between the creation of man and the
making of man.
We were created by a loving God.
Fearfully and wonderfully created.
The Spirit of the Lord God led David into the prophetic past to behold our
creation in the prophetic past and them man uttered:
Ps 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:
marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
The creation of man was also the handiwork of the Triune or Tripartite or
Trinitarian God.
Like unto like.
The man that the Trinitarian God created, and is making, is like unto the image of
its Trinitarian Creator.
Reason why the man has a very distinct spirit, soul and body
1Th 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your
whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
Man is a Spirit, he lives in a body and he has a soul.
God is a Spirit: Man is a Spirit.
Job 27:3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils
The Son gave us a Body: Reason why he is the Son of Man and he calls us his
brothers.
Mt 28:10 Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that
they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.
The Holy Spirit gave us a SOUL.
Your soul is like a hard drive. It contains things that you may not even know
about. Issues that came from your bloodline. But this is another teaching. We
shall explore the mind of man shortly.
God creates in his spirit and the things that are created in the spirit are made in
reality and with time. But our God functions in RELATIVITY and from
ETERNITY unto time and back to ETERNITY. He declares the end of the matter
from the beginning and then he goes back to the beginning.
In a continuum.
Are you confused?
Dont be.
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Ps 119:50 This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
Ps 119:93 I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened
me. Eph 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Eph 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with
Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) {by...: or, by whose grace} Col 2:13 And you,
being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened
together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 1Pe 3:18 For Christ also
hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God,
being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
Friend, although Divinity may be plural in manifestation, in human experience
Deity is singular, always one. Neither is spiritual ministry plural in human
experience. Regardless of plurality of origin, all spirit influences are one in
function. Indeed they are one, being the spirit ministry of God the Father, God
the Son and God the Holy Spirit in and to the creatures of the grand universe;
and as creatures grow in appreciation of, and receptivity for, this unifying
ministry of the spirit, it becomes in their experience the ministry, and the desire,
of our Heavenly Father.
That we may be one with Him.
This is in answer to a very lethal prayer, made unto the Lord God by the Lord
Jesus on the eve of his death and resurrection.
Come with me to John 17.
The Lords Prayer.
Not the Babys Prayer that the Our Father Is.
Hear the Lord Jesus.
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The How and Why, in Christ, the Christ-ian is given ETERNAL Life or the same
kind of life that makes God, God.
The How and the Why the Christian not only has ETERNAL life but is now one
with the Father.
John 17: 1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said,
Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: 2
As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as
many as thou hast given him. 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know
thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 4 I have glorified
thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. 5 And
now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had
with thee before the world was. 6 I have manifested thy name unto the men
which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them
me; and they have kept thy word. 7 Now they have known that all things
whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. 8 For I have given unto them the
words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known
surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send
me. 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast
given me; for they are thine. 10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and
I am glorified in them. 11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in
the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those
whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 12 While I was with
them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have
kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might
be fulfilled. 13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world,
that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them thy
word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even
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as I am not of the world. 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the
world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16 They are not of the
world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy
word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent
them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also
might be sanctified through the truth. 20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for
them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be
one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us:
that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou
gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in
them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world
may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I
am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst
me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, the world hath
not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast
sent me. 26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that
the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
More than 2000 years ago, the Lord Jesus saw you coming and he prayed the
Father to make you one with him, with God the Holy Spirit and God the father.
Verse 20. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on
me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me,
and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that
thou hast sent me.
And the Father answered him.
Speedily.
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Friend, this means we can actually eventuate and accelerate into the plenitude of
divinity, right here and right now.
Because the Lord God himself is WORKING IN US, for us, with us, as us, as US.
The Bible admonishes us to work our SALVATION with fear and trembling for it
God is working it out for us, in us, with us and us.
Php 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my
presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation
with fear and trembling. 13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and
to do of his good pleasure.
Have you seen it?
Verse 13. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good
pleasure.
Do you know the meaning of the salvation that Word of God is talking about
here?
Salvation from poverty, disease, and the collective works of the flesh.
Ga 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery,
fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred,
variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders,
drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have
also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the
kingdom of God.
The end game of the salvation process is to be the image and the nature of God.
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The end game of the salvation process is to be filled with all the fullness of God.
Apostle Paul knew it.
That is why I now echo the prayer that he made for us all.
Ephesians 3: 14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, 15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 That he
would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with
might by his Spirit in the inner man;
17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and
grounded in love, 18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the
breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19 And to know the love of Christ,
which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. 20
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or
think, according to the power that worketh in us, 21 Unto him be glory in the
church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
In fact, the believer is now quickened to have his or her DOMINION over all
things restored.
And, O Glory, we are not alone as we march manfully or womanfully forward
towards our God.
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