I used to think that believing in Jesus made one a member of the Bride of Christ. But there is no such thing as the Bride of Christ. Israel is the Bride of the Lambkin; the nations are members of the Body of Christ. Here's the straight scoop.
In the past, salvation came BECAUSE of Israel. Today, it comes IN SPITE OF Israel. What a difference. It one of the many differences between the two gospels—Peter's and Paul's.
The apostle Paul calls his message "my evangel" three times in Scripture. Either this man is the biggest egotist in the world, or his message was and is distinct from the one that Jesus gave to Peter for Israel.
We in the body of Christ shall be up over every sovereignty and authority and power and lordship, including that of the Earth. Thus are we said to head up the Earth. Here are the glorious details.
Will Jesus be upset if you switch over from the words in red to the letters of Paul? No. He wants you to. Because every word of Paul's letters are the words of the glorified—rather than the terrestrial and the earthbound—Christ.
Are you able to live like Jesus? No? Great news! There's a gospel in the Bible just for you. It's a kinder, gentler gospel that saves you in spite of yourself.
The Superiority of "New Creation" Over "Born Again"
Why struggle with flesh when you can come to the realization of being a new creation in Christ? The physical picture of this spiritual reality is the New Earth.
Being anxious may very well be a natural reaction to a stress in your life. Don't compound it by being anxious about it; THAT is the trick of Satan, to embroil you in a never-ending cycle of worrying over your worries.
God is love, but religion mistakes soulish, emotional love for the genuine article and then makes a god out of it so that they can worship their feelings instead of confronting truth and lies.
If God did not resurrect ANYONE until the Great White Throne judgment, and then sent every single human being to the second death before resurrecting them to a bliss of eternity at the Consummation, no one would have any right to complain.
At what age are people, smart enough, wise enough, righteousness enough and intelligent enough to believe in Jesus? The answer will surprise you. Or maybe it won't.
Stop being your own worst critic; God will examine you at the right time and any hidden darkness will be exposed and eliminated. It will feel good. You don't even know how to examine yourself correctly; you will screw it up. God will do it perfectly. Leave it to Him.
Watch How Satan Destroys the Righteousness of Christ
On the cross, the righteousness of Christ and the completeness of salvation is demonstrated. Not so fast. Satan cleverly and subtly injects human contribution into the mix and spoils Christ's completed work for millions.
Women are beautiful and eternal torment is ugly. Normal people, therefore, would insist that eternal torment is evil and beautiful women are good. But guess what? Christians think that beautiful women are evil and eternal torment is good. How is this possible? Christians aren't normal!
The Intimate Wink of God: Everything is Going to Be Alright
Just when you think that all is lost, you get a wink from your Father, Who is in charge of everything. Haha! Now you can relax. Everything is going to be alright.
The Lesson of Lazarus: Jesus is Waiting to Make Us Alive
Jesus was out of town when his friend Lazarus got sick, and then He delayed two days on the road on purpose so that Lazarus would die. Why? Because He has resurrection—not death—in mind. Do you wonder why He hasn't been here for 2,000 years? Same reason. 2,000 years is as two days to Him (2 Peter 3:8). He's waiting to give us life. Stand by.
If we are following Christ, we will experience some degree of suffering. Thus, we don't have to look for it, hope for it, or pray for it. In fact, it is normal to ask God to get us the heck out of it.
We are the future administrators of a plan that God designed eons ago, before we were born. It is know as "the secret of His will." Hardly anyone knows about it, including Christians. But here it is, laid out in plain language from the bottom part of Florida on the Fourth of July by a guy named Martin Zender.
Are you discouraged
today? Becoming impatient in your walk with God? Joseph had the same problem.
But watch what happens with him in Egypt, because it's a BIG HINT about what's
about to happen with you.
The sign of September 23, 2017 was real. People may forget, but God doesn't. The luminaries in the heavens are for times and seasons, so that we might know the timing of the plans of God. Let us not ignore them.
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John is not the New Testament. These are part of the Greek Scriptures. As for the New Testament/Covenant, it hasn't started yet. Here is what will happen when it does start, and what Jews are supposed to do in the meantime.
The law is a fresh, beating heart, but Old-Covenant Israel is a corpse. This is why there is no righteousness on the Earth. God will transfer the "heart" of law into New-Covenant Israel, but until then Israel is dead and cannot even hope to obey the Ten Commandments. All the remnant can do is wait.
Anyone who still has Romans chapter 11 in his or her Bible has no excuse for thinking that God is finished with Israel, or that non-Israelite believers today are "spiritual Israel"—as though God's plans for His natural people are not spiritual enough. Has God replaced Israel with the body of Christ? Never!
We do not die because we are
sinners, we sin because we are diers. Those with death running through their
veins, who insist at the same time that that they have a free will (have they
tried willing themselves not to die?), would be funny if their case weren't so
sad. Mortality screws up everything—except for providing the necessary contrast
for eventual immortality.
How does one enact the just requirement of the law? By ignoring the law! Romans 8:4—"That the just requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who are not walking in accord with flesh, but in accord with spirit."
The only thing better than walking with Christ is to have Christ and the spirit of God within us. Gorgeous truths here suggested by the first chapter of John's Account.
Here is internal proof—from the Scriptures themselves—that mistranslating "olam" and "aion" leads to blatant contradictions in the so-called "Word of God."
Christianity is an Illicit, Unnecessary Priesthood
The Christian religion has re-built the wall that God tore down between Himself and humanity. Now that Christianity has resurrected sin and death and enmity (think about that!) they have appointed themselves as an indispensable "priesthood nation" that you can't live without. Thus, Christianity is one of the biggest scams in history.
How to Not Be a Hypocrite When Saying, "Jesus Christ Saved Me"
How would you like to be able to say, "Jesus Christ saved me" and then not have to backtrack (contradict yourself) by saying later that you weren't saved until you believed in Jesus Christ. Here's how.
Jesus Christ Never Offered "Eternal Life" To Anyone
The death of Christ on the cross assures everyone of eternal life. Thus, Jesus Christ never offered "eternal life" to anyone. Why would He, when it's already guaranteed? What Jesus (and Paul) set before people was "eonian life." Belief in Jesus brings people into eonian life, not eternal life. What is eonian life? It's a life that is mentioned approximately 70 times in the Greek Scriptures. Why haven't you ever heard of it? Find out in this video.
The KJV and the NIV have taken three distinct Greek words (gehenna, hades, tartarus) and translated them with the same English word "hell." This is worse than carelessness, it's thievery. These mistranslations rob the casual English of what God has actually said. Does it matter? Big time!
God chose Peter and Paul because of their childlike insistence on believing Him. Jesus said, "become as a child." Why? Children are able to believe God without worrying about what others think of them. This, combined with mastery of one's craft, is genius.
Jesus Christ was
so humbled at His birth that He did not even realize that He'd been born. When
did He learn that He was the Messiah of Israel and, more importantly, when did
it dawn on Him that crucifixion would carry the meaning of His death beyond the
confines of Judaism?
No one needs to "wait for a revelation from God." I know it's fashionable (and pseudo-spiritual) to do so, but the revelation from God is already here—and Paul has announced it.
Was Jesus Christ a Jew? Yes. Was He also NOT a Jew? Yes. Both the Circumcision and the Uncircumcision gospels claim Jesus Christ as their Savior. But since these two messages are so different; how can Jesus be the representative Savior of both? He does so in the same way that Abraham is the father of both faith and of works. Here's the explanation in a 25-minuted nutshell (and bombshell) that anyone who is the least bit interested in God needs to see.
God has sprinkled His gorgeous world with wicked and abnormal people to whom He has not given faith. Is there a remedy for this situation? Yes. Pray to be delivered from the people, and be thankful to God that you're not one of them.
What was so great about the Garden of Eden that Paul's gospel hearkens back to it? Why do Paul's references to Adam prove that the gospel of the Uncircumcision is superior to the gospel given to Israel?
Just when you think that sex is the greatest gift given to humanity by God, you realize that, in the perfected state to come, the sexes are immediately abolished. This ought to tell us something—especially about Paul's gospel.
When God makes these decrepit bodies of ours immortal, travel is going to be a snap. Until then, travel can be a monumental headache. This is never so true as on United Airlines. At present, God is setting up a mind-numbing contrast that is going to make travel feel good for eternity. Thanks, United Airlines.
It's a Big Damn Deal Whenever We Open Our Mouths For God
Whenever you present the evangel to someone, it is as though God Himself is presenting it. This is their "time of visitation," and what they do now is critical to their future life.
As long as God's message to humanity is kept pure, it doesn't matter who proclaims it. Many people, however, trip at the messenger. This happened with Jesus, with the Twelve, and with Paul. Little wonder, then, that it would happen with us as well.
We Are The Highest Ranking Ambassadors on the Planet
God has ambassadors walking the planet today, and they are those who understand that He is at peace with the world, conciliated to it through Christ, and not reckoning its offenses against them. Only members of the body of Christ herald this great truth.
Christians say they want good news—just as long as it’s not too good. Religious people who CLAIM to champion grace are actually very upset by the mere possibility that grace will one day win every human soul to Christ, via the cross.
Religion told us that where sin increases, condemnation superexceeds. Paul tells us that where sin increases, GRACE superexceeds. I choose to believe Paul.
For Christians to keep fighting sin (as they do), they need to dig up the corpse of the old humanity, for Paul says that the old humanity was crucified with Christ (Romans 6:6). This is a grotesque enterprise (engaged in by the Christians), and it always happens in revival tents. And it never works. Here is what does work.
God created the human race, primarily, to give Jesus Christ an attackable vessel so that He could defeat the powers of evil by spirit and not by might and power. It is a privilege (it will be seen) to have come into the same race and taken the same form as He.
Civil Vs Religious Authorities: Guess Who's Closer To God?
When it comes to civil vs. religious authorities, the civil authorities are carrying out the mandate of God (Romans 13:1) while the religious authorities (self-proclaimed) are rogue, apostate entities. This is why we are to be subject to civil authorities, not religious ones.
These days, light can look like darkness and darkness like light. It takes real spiritual discernment to sort it out. Dean Wilkinson can do it, but his twin brother Dum-Dum can't. Watch what happens when Dum-Dum has an unexpected run-in with the World's Most Outspoken Bible Scholar, Martin Zender.
How do we fight the enemies of God? With weapons of earthly warfare? No. We do not war according to flesh, but according to spirit. It is with words generated by the spirit of God that we seek to bring every apprehension into an understanding of Christ.
It is difficult for those who suffer defeat much of the time to think about winning. (I'm talking about us.) But God has a great victory in store for the body of Christ. First, however, God will crush Satan under our feet. Are we prepared to be this successful against our enemies–or successful at all?
If Jesus Christ did not pre-exist His arrival in Bethlehem, then when exactly did He empty Himself to take the form of humanity? Some otherwise reliable teachers are telling us that Jesus Christ was never alive until He came from His mommy's uterus in Bethlehem. WUUT??
ZWTF Archives: The preexistence
of Christ, Defending the second-greatest glory
of God’s Son: Part 1,
Part 2,
Part 3
Not By Might, Nor By Power, But By My Spirit
God is actually strengthening His enemies and making His friends weaker. This is so that, when the weak eventually conquer the strong (and they will), God will get the credit. God conquers opposition, not by muscle, but by supernatural means. We're being set up for an astounding display of this principle—by means of an astounding victory over the powers of darkness and deception.
Why is the institutional church getting richer and more successful, while those speaking truth are made to appear weak and ineffectual? Here is the surprising but satisfying answer.
The Day That Butterflies Flitted in a Halo Around My Head
I want to tell you about the day in the woods twenty-five years ago that birds alighted upon my shoulders and butterflies flitted in a halo around my head. But first, God is about to close the door in the "ark" of Paul's gospel. But not to worry, because we are protected within the ark. Those outside will die, but God will send us back for them. The endgame? Salvation for all.
When you hear about, read about, or watch a re-enactment of Jesus Christ's crucifixion, you are transfixed by the drama of a singular act. You can barely speak or move. Bravo. This is pretty much how you're supposed to stay.
Paul wanted us to know that bringing us the nuts and bolts of our salvation and expectation was not easy. Paul's words, being inspired by God, are the opposite of human philosophy. Swimming against the grain of popular human thinking will always be difficult, but the outcome will be more than worth it.
The Romans, Jews, Satan and God All Crucified Christ
What if I told you that the Romans, the Jews, Satan and God all crucified Christ? But then what if I told you that only one of these parties was absolutely responsible?
Paul Believes in the Absolute But Lives in the Relative
On board a ship bound for Rome, Paul and the other mariners encounter a hurricane. An angel appears to Paul, saying, "Don't worry, Paul. No lives will be lost." A couple verses later, however, Paul is seen yelling at some mariners ready to lower a skiff to the water, saying, "Unless you morons stay on this ship, you're going to be lost." What's the deal?
Only God lives in the absolute. We live in the relative and CANNOT live in the absolute. God cannot communicate with us AT ALL unless He condescends to speak in human terms about multiple human possibilities, all of which is relative.
The reason there is only one God is because, if there were another capital “G” God Who could get you to the same ending place (“God all in all”) without difficult things like the crucifixion, WW II and your divorce—you would probably vote for Him.
Jesus said some hard sayings when He was on Earth, and many people left Him. He asked His disciples, "Will you leave too?" And they said, "Where else are we supposed to go?" The Lord alone had words of eonian life—and so does Paul. As for us, we're sticking with Paul.
While building his ark, Noah was surrounded by clueless worldlings who probably thought that he was nuts. Is our situation much different? Like Noah, we are convinced of a FACT that is not yet being observed.
The pope has donned his holy silk underwear and said that there's no hell. He has no Scriptural reason for this declaration, of course—he's only trying to be politically correct and make the Catholic church more popular. The pope is lucky that there's no such thing as a place of eternal torment because, as the leader of the most apostate religious body in existence, he'd be its first resident—silk undies and all.
Before you leave the house, better bone up on these essential evangelism tips to be sure that you lose friends and influence people in the right way and, more importantly, put the best face on the truth.
God gives us enough emotional and spiritual resources to make it through today. If we try to "make it" through tomorrow before tomorrow happens, then we are going into emotional debt and will suffer beyond measure.
The truth of being designated beforehand destroys the philosophy of salvation via human free will. But wait until you hear about the time game people play in order to deny this.
How alone was Jesus Christ? How freaked out was He to find Himself on this planet? What happened when He realized Who He was? What did He hear when He prayed to His Father? The answer to these questions will have you bowing down anew to the epic faith of Jesus Christ.
Our faith is the caboose that hooks up to the engine of Jesus Christ's faith. Jesus Christ's faith has accomplished everything, including salvation. But do you know what Christianity says? You have to watch this video to believe it.
The common mistranslation of Genesis 3:16, which says, "Your husband is your restoration and he will rule over you," has made husbands exercise undue control over their wives, and made wives feel like second-class saints. This verse, correctly translated, will encourage women and give men a heightened respect for the better sex.
A Woman's Hair is Humanity's First Glimpse of God's Glory
God is invisible, but He has given humanity a primary, readily-seen indication that He, Himself, is beautiful: a woman's hair. You cannot make this up. Watch this video to understand the Scriptural reasons behind this glorious truth.
Paul was the first and last person to get this evangel directly from God. Ever since then, it has come through other human beings--and it isn't always pretty.
When a person comes to be in Christ, that person will see the Old Covenant as a faded glory. Therefore, anyone enamored of the Old Covenant—such as those who post upon the wall and and encourage people to obey the Ten Commandments—are not in Christ.
Some politicians want to limit what free people can accomplish. Likewise, nearly every theologian wants to limit the bigness of God. Politicians tax achievers, while theologians guilt people to death in order to keep their God from becoming "too big."
In order to stay in power, big government needs you to need them. It's the same with big church. The worst-case scenario for either big government or big church is for you to become self-sufficient. It's not at all about loving you or taking care of you, but rather sustaining their own power over you. Their presentation of actually caring for you is false.
It’s easy to want to stand for something and to say that you stand for something without having to realize or explain just what, exactly, you stand for. This phenomenon exists not only in politics, but in religion.
If
you're wondering why there are just some bad habits that you can't get over, or
some good things that you want to do that you keep putting off, here is the
answer.
The spirit keeps you from doing all the evil things that you want to do in your life. But have you ever wondered what the job of the flesh is? Or that it even HAD a job?
Did you know that people can worship "another Jesus"? This is a Scriptural phrase. Who is this "other Jesus," and how far removed is he from the true? And how many people believe in him?
To be saved, is it enough to recognize that Jesus is the Messiah, or even that He is the Savior or the world? Satan believes these things, so you tell me.
Most people think that, because of his fame and popularity, Billy Graham was the greatest man of God on Earth. Do I need to mention that fame and popularity are indicators of sell-out rather than sainthood?
The law of Moses came with a certain amount of glory, but the glory of OUR message makes the glory of Moses look miniscule. Paul calls our glory TRANSCENDENT. (This is, like, a really superior glory.)
Gentiles always want to be like Israelites. They fetishize over rules chiseled in stone. Like Israel, they are obsessed with hardness and rules. Paul must teach them softness and grace.
The New Covenant is not a covenant at all (a covenant is a two-sided agreement), because God does both parts: His and Israel's. Then why is it still called a covenant?
Not much is said in Scripture about what we will do in heaven, so we have to look at the word "heaven" itself to see if God is telling us something. He is! And not ambiguously.
Christians are not Christians because they love truth. They're Christians because it's the most popular, prevailing religion. Had they been born in Japan, they'd be Muslims. Truth doesn't matter; only fitting in.
Getting baptized into Christianity makes you a Christian; being baptized into the baptism of Christ's death—a done deal—makes you "in Christ." Christians prove that they are stuck in the Stone Age when they try to recreate events of 2,000 years ago.
We don't need to make the unity of the spirit, but only keep it. All of the hard
work was done by Christ and Paul. All we need to do is be patient with one
another and stay cool.
All of our joys and pains go directly to Christ. In turn, He supplies the body with vital information concerning some of our more disturbing surroundings.
When people hear the real gospel, they want to know how they can sign up for it. They CAN'T sign up for it. It already exists. There's nothing to join here. Enjoy, yes. Join, no.
The Psychology Behind "Whether You Believe Or Not"
It's hard for people to believe that something truly is free. They're intrigued as can be when you drop the evangel on their heads, tell them what's true, and then walk away.
Imagine sharing a gospel with people that details mind-blowing blessings for them ("Your sins don't stand against you; God thinks highly of you") whether they believe them or not. I guarantee you that no one has EVER heard this from orthodoxy.
Because of the cross of Christ, God is at peace with the entire world. You wouldn't know that from listening to standard-issue Christian teaching, which says that you are a sinner bound for hell unless you can work up the faith to love God. Did anything happen at Calvary?
The most offensive thing about the cross of Jesus Christ to Christians is that it makes no allowance for human behavior. Christians can only understand the cross in the terms of a deal between them and God. They are obsessed with human behavior. Thus, the completeness of the cross scandalizes them.
If we let people into our country indiscriminately, we could lose everything that is important to us as Americans. Likewise, if we let elements into the evangel of grace that we haven't researched or that just don't belong in it, then we lose an apprehension of the freedom that Christ died for.
Who Knew That The White Horse Rider Would Get Out of the Way?
We picture conquerors as power-mad people who want to work their will on other people. What about a new kind of conqueror who wants to get out of peoples' way? What do you think THAT will produce?