May 2019 – Past the Surface

Believer Can Be An Unbeliever

Did you know that you and I can be divided in the things we believe? We can pick and choose things we want to believe and other things we refuse to believe. We have inside our minds the knowledge of good and evil voicing their influence of which way we should go. We can face something in life that is whole and complete within itself, but our believing can be divided not changing the whole and complete object we are partially believing in.

The thought is we are not whole in our beliefs towards something that is complete. As an example: I am one whole person. You can be a believer about parts of me and an unbeliever about other parts of me. I as the whole person have not been divided, but you have been divided within yourself about me. This is probably a poor example, but a general idea of something whole and undivided with others divided within themselves. You can be a believer about parts of God and His scriptures and an unbeliever about other parts of God and His scriptures. God as the whole One True Deity has not been divided, but you have been divided within yourself about God and His scriptures, besides you can’t divide His Spirit.

A believer is based on the word “believe”, which means accepting something to be true and/or feels sure it is of the truth. A believer is not a religious thing only. You can be a believer that when your phone rings by touching the green circle with the phone icon it will answer the call. You believe the green circle with the phone icon works. An unbeliever is simply the opposite that things will not work. The question is “can you be a Believer and Unbeliever?”

“Can You be a Believer and Unbeliever?” Believing is accepting something to be true and unbelieving is rejecting something to be true. It is implying a person could be “positive” and “negative” about a whole item. They could be “on” and “off” no matter what it is. You can be believing and not believing in the same person, place, or thing. You can believe in God and unbelieving in God at the same time.

Our minds can occupy in the same place things we believe and things we don’t believe, which can leave us divided and incomplete. We can accept and reject from within our bodies. We can have a mixture of on and off things that we have categorized regardless how whole complete the other might be. It would be us who are missing out on the complete truth and falling short before God because He has not changed, but we have.

We can pick and do pick what we believe is true and not true deceiving ourselves into thinking it is true to our standard. We make ourselves to be believers and unbelievers at the same time and place. It sounds strange, but it is true. We can be lovers and haters from the same heart at the same one object. Why should our thoughts be any different?

OUTSIDE of US – THE TRUTH

The question is outside of us to be the truth whether we believe or don’t believe are we in alignment with the truth? I can choose you are not reading these words, but you could quote the words back to me as a believer of “yes, I am reading these words“. One of us is telling the absolute truth while the other is in denial. Your quoting the words obviously makes you the truth and me in denial or how else would you know the words. Denial is where the unbelief can divide us on the inside.

Our choices to believe or not believe do not affect the truth because it is outside of us and our control. It will stand on its own with us or without us. All of creation does not revolve around us. We know some people that sentence would shock them. You and I are not the totality of all truth. I hope I did not hurt your feelings. I realize the world does not revolve around any of us many years ago. If you don’t want to be deceived you must be willing to change to what is truth.

How would you feel if you believed something and taught it for years finding out your interpretation was off enough to make a huge difference in actually what was the full truth? A true wise person would be willing to change over to more truth and the ways of God more perfectly like accepting that they are not all knowing. A rejection of truth is choosing the knowledge side of evil in unbelief of the real knowledge of the good side of God.

To be honest with you, I hate to be deceived or blind to things within myself that others see and I don’t or things outside of me. There is a battle of knowledge of good and evil with us in the mix trying to make choices. I thoroughly enjoy would God reaches into this battle pulling me up into the wisdom that is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be given, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy (Ja. 3:17).

RELIGIOUS BELIEVERS

Can a Bible person be a believer in the word of God and unbeliever in the word of God? Can a person be a believing Christian and unbelieving Christian at the same time? Can a pastor be a believer and an unbeliever at the same time? Is he/she and everyone else under the sun possess the human error factor living inside them? (Yes!). Wow, this is something to really think about. Can you and I believe in the Bible and not believe in the Bible at the same time?

Is it possible to have a mixture of believing and unbelieving inside ourselves with God and His word? Does it even sound right to say, “I am a believer and unbeliever of God’s word“? God is alive in His from beginning to end. Do we say inside our hearts I will believe this, but I won’t believe that? Does the scripture pop into your head, “If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.” (Mk. 3:25, NIV)? We are in danger. Let us examine ourselves completely.

God and His word are complete outside of us. I don’t think I have to challenge you or myself with the task of going up against God with His abilities of creation and maintaining powers of our present day existence. If I do need to challenge you then it would be safe to say you are more than divided inside yourself than you realize. I am simply establishing before continuing God is All Present, All Knowing, and All Powerful with or without us.

CONSCIOUS

Can you be conscious and unconscious at the same time? This is almost a quick answer of “No!”, but is that really true? I believe we can be conscious and unconscious at the same time. You may be thinking of conscious as in being awake and unconscious as being asleep physically, but I am referring to the eternal spirit of our true selves.

Believing in something to be true comes with a conscious understanding. It is something that has come to our attention with perception to be truth. Some will use the word “revelation“, which is a simple an unknown fact before and now is seen as clearly to be a true fact. Others may call it when “the light bulb comes on” shining the light of understanding and seeing it for the first time though it has been there. You are believing in a conscious fashion aware of its existence, whereas before you did not know it, thus the conscious and unconscious knowledge.

Believers of the Bible must have an exploring spirit to find consciously all the gold nuggets of truth God wants us to have. There is no end to our maturing in God while here on earth. God actually asks us to “Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves…” (2 Cor. 13:5, NIV). It is not a onetime thing with God saving us and then we go on about our business forgetting, a seed of unbelief by the way, about Him.

The born again experience of repenting on our part of our wicked ways, being baptized in Jesus name for the washing away of ALL our sins, and being filled with the Holy Spirit of God by the evidence to us, He has moved inside, by the speaking in a language we have not learned, but He gives it for our hearing and others proof the born again of His Spirit is not about the saving of our soul ONLY. The once saved always saved is a believing and unbelieving doctrine.

This can be a form of believing and not believing just by getting saved and going back to our worldly sinful ways just in a more careful covering ways of sinning leading people around us to think we are a good person now. This is what some people do putting sheep clothing on while sneaking around doing their wolf like deeds. You can sincere and sincerely wrong at the same time.

God’s salvation is more than just saving our soul. It is also about God moving inside our bodies as a roommate. It is about the fellowship of His knowledge of good guiding us on a daily basis while living in a world that is governed and laced by the knowledge of evil. The knowledge of evil (our flesh, people, and the devil) will constantly try to keep us divided from the knowledge of good (God).

UNCONSCIOUS

“Unconscious” is more of the not knowing in this writing. If you don’t know something about God you must resist in replacing the “not knowing” into an “unbelieving” category. The Bible is full of things we have yet to discover about God’s Spirit and His word. This is the journey He wants each of us to take discovering more and more about Him applying a “want to” desire of love. When you work for something it has more meaning deep within you making it more solid.

The unconscious and not knowing is not an excuse any of us can hide behind because the Bible has so many scriptures from God telling us to ask Him, seek Him, and knock upon His door (Matt. 7:7). Actually, there is a scripture of God standing outside your door knocking and calling out to you to open the door to eat and fellowship one with another (Rev. 3:20).

The “unconscious”, “not knowing“, and the “unbelieving” is exactly what God wants to help us all with removing the division within us making us a whole believer and not a divided believer with unbelieving parts in us. If you “don’t know” then God wants you “to know” by seeking Him, feeling after Him, and finding Him because He is not far away at all (Acts 17:27). Believing with whole knowledge of understanding and perception is eternal life to God because you are knowing Him in the light of His One and True Self, and the son, the man Jesus Christ (Jn. 17:3), that provided the re-connection (2 Cor. 5:19) with the knowledge of God’s goodness. What would you be like if you completely believed God’s word and was growing by leaps and bounds?

PICKING and CHOOSING

As children we are taught by those around us what to believe by their voice and their actions. We are being trained in a way we will possibly go (Prov. 22:6). As children getting older they will see the “do as I say” and “not do as I do” situations. The believer and unbeliever starts early in life. We start practicing dividing on our own opinions what should be accepted and rejected.

Jesus, God, wanted us to return to that 100% believing as children or we will never enter into the kingdom of heaven. The lowliness of a child is the greatest attitude in the kingdom of heaven was God’s opinion (Matt. 18:3). It is possible as an adult to change back to the beautiful child like faith and completeness in God. You and I are divided inside more than we are willing to accept. No matter what religion you are involved there is a division inside of you.

“Believing and Unbelieving” and “picking and choosing” mixed is spiritual cancer we all must examine ourselves (2 Cor. 13:5) in the light of God’s word and Spirit, not mans.

As we get older the “picking and choosing” becomes more and more due to the smiling faces that show no traces of the lies within. Our trust factor goes from a child of believing of 100% to a constant subtraction towards 0%. This is why we adults have to be careful not to lose totally our child like faith discerning the knowledge of evil at work below the surface and when the knowledge of good is at work trying to get us to see.

The “picking and choosing” has been around since the dawn of time. It is a hidden element at work in the back of our minds and sometimes out in front of our minds. Eve and Adam made their choice from “picking and choosing” from the knowledge of God’s good to the devil’s choice of the knowledge of evil. The devil (Lucifer), 1/3 of other angels, Eve, and Adam went from being 100% believers to the mixed up divided corruption of unbelievers. This was a decision in the face of knowing and believing that there is One God with trembling respecting fear (Jam. 2:19). Now, their heads were full of almost un-controlling knowledge of evil swirling around in them, which explains a time of only evil thinking in the thoughts of man.

The “picking and choosing” of what to believe and not to believe created the division inside the angels and mankind. The angels and mankind lost their wholeness and completeness because they refused the whole word of God. We must not make the same mistake today with the “picking and choosing” because we now face the option to live forever in heaven through Jesus Christ on the right choice or live in hell with the devils and his angels on the “picking and choosing” based on opinions of selfish flesh, man, and demons.

God DID NOT change from before anything was created, after things were created, and the future of creations because He is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Heb. 13:8). No creation’s “Picking and Choosing” on their part changes God.

We have seen with our own eyes what happens when you only believe parts of God. We have seen all kinds of religions formed over the centuries based on “picking and choosing” parts of God and His word forming their man made religion. They have killed and done other horrible things in the name of God and His word. This is where you can be a believer and unbeliever at the same time by “picking and choosing” what you want from God’s word.

This is the ploy of the knowledge of evil to “separate and conquer” whereas with God it is the opposite to stay as one “containing and controlling” the knowledge of evil with the knowledge of good. The knowledge of evil was never meant to be separated from God’s control, but the “picking and choosing” of angels and man let it out to try to “separate and conquer”.

I WANT TO BE WHOLE

All my life I have seen the “picking and choosing” from others. I have been guilty of “picking and choosing“, but when it came to trusting God. I wanted to trust Him in whole and completeness. I felt with God, if He is Who He is, there would be no need to divide Him by “picking and choosing” and who was I to do the “picking and choosing” with a messed up life from my own choices. It was time to take His choices completely.

We can do the “picking and choosing” with people because everyone we meet will have that good and evil fleshly intentions we are unaware until spending time with them listening and watching carefully. God is not man with deceiving selfish factors.

I have seen and heard the ones going to churches do things that I knew were wrong. They were making decisions with “picking and choosing” their path in the world while soothing their conscience with attending church – hypocrites. Their language in the world did not match the language in the Word of God or the church. Their talk had God’s praise in it during church, but after church on the other days of the week their talk had curses (Jam. 3:10).

I want God to be God and not restricted to any man’s thinking “picking and choosing“, including me. The ‘God doesn’t do it that way anymore‘, ‘it is no longer necessary‘, ‘it cannot be understood‘, ‘it is no longer needed‘, ‘God will forgive me no matter what I do’ and other excuses is unacceptable to me because who is man to make that decision from his own “picking and choosing” of what should live in God’s word and what is dead in God’s word.

I want the wisdom that is from above that is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy (Jam. 3:17). If I locked in and kept to what people told me to believe in God I would have never been baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of my sins (Acts 2:38) and God filling me with His Holy Spirit like He did back then because He has not changed His salvation formula – man did.

DIVIDING and SEPARATING

Some people’s “picking and choosing” has locked onto Matt. 28:19 in such a way they refuse the whole book of Acts. They are believers of Matt. 28:19 with their “picking and choosing” and unbelievers of Acts 2:38 allowing a “dividing and separating” between two scriptures in the Word of God meant to be One with each other.

I was convinced (Not Knowing Believer) that water baptism according to Matt. 28:19 “…in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:” was a public profession of your faith. I met a fellow at the place I was working who said, “Did you know no one ‘(Key Words)’ was baptized in the Bible using the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost“?

After a personal, alone, research of the word of God (ONLY) from Genesis to Revelation study for any and all clues to understand this man’s statement. I found in the book Acts the only records of people literally being baptized was in Jesus name. My first encounter to seeing a man made “picking and choosing” and “dividing and separating” of what to believe (give life) and not to believe (no life).

The apostles in the word of God was baptizing in Jesus name for the removal of sins and not a public confession. A counsel of men came together a few hundred years later after the apostles with their “picking and choosing” changing Acts 2:38 to be Matt. 28:19 baptismal formula. They decide a “dividing and separating” of the scriptures was necessary even though Jesus left the preaching and forming of the church in the apostles hands, especially Peters. Matt. 28:19 is Jesus telling the apostle what to do after he ascends to heaven. Did the apostles disobey Jesus by baptizing in Jesus name? Can it be God’s word perfect if there is division?

Matt. 28:19 and Acts 2:38 are one with God and not with man. ‘The Father‘ was the title designating THE ‘Father of All Creation‘, ‘the Son‘ was the title of the promise of redemption of mankind; ‘the Holy Ghost‘ was the title for the inheritance of a regeneration within us. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are titles not names. Jesus is a name and his name has his blood inside it, not Son. There is no blood in ‘Father‘ or the ‘Holy Ghost‘. Jesus said, “I am come in my Father’s name…” (Jn 5:43), the only name we know from Jesus is Jesus. When Jesus was born they were told by the angel of the Lord “…thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.” (Matt. 1:21). The Holy Ghost is sent to us in Jesus name (Jn. 14:26).

Matt. 28:19 are one in God because Jesus is the name of the title ‘Father‘, the title ‘Son‘, and the title ‘Holy Ghost‘ because there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12). The “picking and choosing” of what part to believe and what not to believe has caused a “dividing and separating” of God’s word in us and not in God.

I don’t care about what man says outside of me. I am looking inside from me to the Lord. Lord, am I “picking and choosing” things out of your word I want to believe overlooking other parts of You with a “dividing and separating” for my own desires? A thousand times ‘No!” Lord, I came to you for the saving of my soul for You to be You purely without any tainting of my own opinions and others.

GOD TO BE JUST GOD

Have you ever come to that point of being tired of what man has to say? Have you ever just wanted God? I mean 100% nothing, but God? All the arguing with people digging deep into “picking and choosing” Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek translations of the word of God trying to push their point. Did God really make His word to be tricky and hard to understand? The surface of God should match the depth of God because He don’t change.

Did God really want His word to be complicated that only the extremely smart could enjoy it? No, God wants everyone from the slowest learner to the fastest learner to understand and perceive His love for us. Sure, I enjoy digging into the deeper meanings of God’s word, but I do not allow the “picking and choosing” to take over my thinking “dividing and separating” the true meaning God intended. A searching mind with a submissive attitude cannot be beat.

Believing and unbelieving leaves you going around in circles in your own thoughts “picking and choosing” while the “dividing and separating” keeps your spirit incomplete and not whole. I have made my thoughts sit in a desk like a student studying the word of God with the Holy Ghost leading me into all truth that is not pieced together, but whole because I want God’s approval (2 Tim. 2:15) giving Him the Master Teacher over my one spirit classroom.

OUTSIDE THE BIBLE – RELATIONSHIPS

A believer can be an unbeliever. You may have a girl/boy friend that you notice they are quick to acknowledge your one talent they personally enjoy, but ignore anything else about you with an attitude “that’s fine“, “that’s cute“, but they don’t care about that part of you.

It is a type of unbelief because they are throwing away that part of you in their mind and only want that one thing from you they want. They believe in that one function you provide, but do not believe that other part of you is important or necessary.

Some people will marry a person on the idea, conscious or unconscious, of what they will get from them. They don’t care about any goals you would like to attain in life. An example: “I married her/him for her/his body” and “that is all I care about.” “I married him/her for the stability they will bring to me.” This is an attitude of “this is my world and you live in it“.

They are a believer of what you can provide for their selfish wants, but an unbeliever in any goals outside of their dream world. They will fight you to keep you inside their believing world while pushing out your desires as unbelief to the necessity of your desires.

Unbelief has blindness and a denial side to it, but it does not change the reality of the truth. Many marriages started out on the blinders of looks and the deafness of the spirit goals a person may have. Many marriages started out on the looks of talent for a career and a blindness of inside traits that what would be normally a marriage breaking deal.

A “Believer Can Be an Unbeliever” divided within themselves with an incompleteness they manage by trying to form the world around them to their beliefs blinded to the changing fact that they are not changing the reality truth outside of them.

I want to be whole in my believing in God. This is why I am not scared to ask Him, seek Him, and knock on His door for understandings driving away any possible festering unbelief’s, denials, or mysteries.

How are you today? Do you have any area(s) in God’s word you have ignored and not given your belief and faith in? Are you a whole believer in God? I am no longer the same person I use to be.

Only One Can Control Evil

Welcome to exploring God and His word. It is an adventure past the surface where the devils and mankind fears to go, but where there is the perfect love of God there is no fear because He will cast it away (1 Jn. 4:18) from us who dare to peer into the invisible things of God. You and I are safe to freely seek God, reach out to Him, and discover the things about Him though He is not far from everyone of us (Acts 17:27).

KEPT SEPARATE and CONTAINED

When I look back at creation and even before our creation by the One and True Almighty God I have come to believe that the knowledge of evil and its activity was meant to be separated and contained. The angels in the beginning were freely roaming the heavens in their perfect and pure state of being while the knowledge of evil was kept in its place by God. When mankind, God’s children made in His likeness and image, was created in their perfect and pure state of being could roam freely while the knowledge of evil was kept in its place by God in one tree.

It is clear to me with all the free thinking magnificent angels and the children of God the knowledge of evil was never meant to be inside either one of them. I believe only God could handle having both the knowledge of good and evil. Only God could keep evil in its place separate and contained.

Angels were not created with the capacity to keep the knowledge of evil inside of them, only good. The knowledge of evil was something the angels did not have the power to keep separate and contained in its proper place. Mankind, Adam and Eve, could not keep the knowledge of evil separate and contained in its proper place. The knowledge of evil was meant to be only separated and contained by the Almighty God.

NO RESTRICTIONS

If a person is going to believe in God, I believe it is important for God to fully fit His title as God that all creation gives Him as a belief from their heart, mind, and soul of being an All Present, All Knowing, and All Powerful God because anything less would not make Him God. *Note: This is a great scale to place the one you believe to be God for yourself examination and belief.

God is present everywhere. All things are within God and there is no getting outside the borders of God because there are not borders in God. If all things are within God that means not only is good within Him, but also evil is within Him. The All Present God being everywhere at once at the same time means in some of those places there is knowledge of evil. The devil is inside the presence of God somewhere. He may be not directly in the place of God’s fullness, but out from His throne elsewhere in God’s presences.

This is a hard thought for those of us who love God’s goodness and redeeming power, but it still remains if there is nothing outside of God then that means the knowledge of evil is within God somewhere along with the knowledge of good. God has chosen between the knowledge of good and evil for Himself. God chose the knowledge of good to be what all creation would be made from to roam free and be active within Himself. For there to be free will choices there will be a “yes or a no”, “a right or a wrong”, or “a good or an evil” to choose from. God made the choice that the knowledge of evil would be separate and contained inactive within Himself. God’s desire is 100% good to be active and 0% evil to be active.

ANGELS with LIMITS

The angel, Lucifer, wanted All Power of God within himself (Is. 14:12-15). His freedom of choice to have the knowledge (thoughts) of evil within himself mixed with his pure goodness dominated his being and overtook him making him completely evil. The angel could not handle the knowledge (thoughts) of evil mixed within himself keeping evil separated and contained. This angel is the one who activated the knowledge (thoughts) of evil, not God. God is the only one who can handle, keep separate, and contained the knowing of the knowledge of good and evil.

MANKIND with LIMITS

Eve and Adam, mankind, the children of God activated the knowledge of evil in their lives corrupting all of the earth and all the children of mankind thereafter (Gen. 3). We all are born in the corruption of the knowledge of evil and sin (Psalm. 51:5, Ro. 3:23). Eve and Adam, all of mankind, were never meant to have the knowledge of evil inside of them only the good knowledge of life and not death.

When mankind sinned, God’s children were made of half and half of eternal substance and earth substance God inserted a plan of salvation for mankind. The angels were made of eternal substance and their choice to mix within themselves the knowledge of evil eternally and automatically condemned them to that separate place God created to contain them (“…eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.” Mtt. 25:41). *Note: God never stopped separating and containing evil. He had a plan to help us separate and contain evil as His children.

SEPARATION FOR HIS CHILDREN

Only God has the power within Himself to keep evil separate and contained. He needed to provide us, His children, a way to separate and contain evil in us. We did not have the power and the ability to do it on our own under the first Adam in creation. All the generations born under the first Adam and Eve were born as living beings/souls (1 Cor.15:45), which was not enough to defeat the knowledge of evil and death. God’s plan was to have a second Adam not born of the earth as the first son of God, but of the heavenly the spirit quickening son of God (1 Cor. 15:46, 47).

The good side of the knowledge of God is life and the evil side of the knowledge of God is death, of which was not God’s choice. *Note: I will repeat “…NOT God’s choice...” until my dying day. God did not choose for the knowledge of evil to be active. Angels did and we did.

This is God’s plan to save us. He, personally, put a spiritual seed of Himself in the blood line of the first Adam to travel down several generations to a specific choosing of His time to be born. His spiritual good seed of knowledge was encapsulated in divine blood inside the knowledge of evil system.

GENESIS 3:15 – Phase I (The Plan)

The two systems, the knowledge of good and evil, will meet with hatred between each other. *Note: told you God hates evil and chooses good. It will be between those in this life that choose to live by the knowledge of good verses those who choose to live this life by the knowledge of evil. This was a prophecy that he, the knowledge of good, will crush/destroy your head of authority in the knowledge of evil while you will inject your poisonous bite of the knowledge of death into his heel.

The only way for us to handle the knowledge of good and evil was for God to make us more like Him using the second spiritual Adam. It would take the death of God to give us power to separate and contain the knowledge of evil. Did I read correctly about the “…death of God…“? There is no way you can kill God. You are right that you cannot kill the Spirit of God – no way.

We had no trouble living, moving, and having our being created in the knowledge of good, but we were defeated when it came to the knowledge of evil. We lived easily in the life side of God’s knowledge of good, but when we crossed over into the side of the knowledge of evil, death took us completely over. It will take God to pull us back out of the knowledge of evil into His chosen of side of the knowledge of good.

GOD’s DEATH – Phase II (God’s Body)

God took His chosen side of the fullness of His Godhead (Col. 2:9) knowledge and inserted His life into the encapsulated divine blood line forming a body inside a virgin girl named Mary creating a body of flesh, Jesus, dwelling among us (Jn 1:14) in the knowledge of evil system, though he did not have the knowledge of sin or evil inside him (2 Cor. 5:21). Jesus the man was God manifested in the flesh here in the world, but not of the world (Jn. 17:16) a mediator who understands the feelings of our weaknesses (Heb. 4:15).

It would take the death of God to help us to have the power to separate and contain the knowledge of evil in its proper place. God came in the flesh and blood for the purpose to share in our humanity, so that his death would break the power of the devil, crush his head, who holds the power of death, freeing us from the fear of death (Heb. 2:14, 15), the knowledge side of evil.

LIFE ETERNAL – Phase III (Plan of Salvation)

Jesus was God manifested in the flesh walking, talking, and doing things as an example to us all of the knowledge of good. He showed us how to confront the knowledge of evil separating ourselves and containing it in its proper place. We can learn to be truly sons of God with the knowledge of good while separating and containing the knowledge of evil just like our Father God.

Jesus the man died on the cross with God’s Spirit placing all the sins of the knowledge of evil on him while his divine heavenly created blood encapsulates sin with a washing away power only God could provide. A death only God could give us the power to handle the knowledge of evil while providing us the knowledge of good. We can choose and do choose everyday our decisions and actions pulling from either the side of the knowledge of good or from the side of the knowledge of evil

To be able to handle inside yourself what only God could handle and not the angels of the knowledge of good and evil it would take God’s knowledge of the life side and God’s knowledge of the death side to control it.

This is why the apostles of Jesus Christ only preached “Repentance, water baptism in Jesus name, and the infilling of the Holy Ghost” (Acts 2:38) because it applies the knowledge of God of the life side and death side (death, burial, and resurrection).

We have, right now, the death sentence of the knowledge of evil because we were never meant to have both good and evil knowledge mixed – only the good. God has a provided a way for us to be real sons of God knowing good and evil, but putting them in their proper place.

LIVING WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL

The first steps to living life during and after this world is to apply the three things that will give you the ability to live with the knowledge of good and evil. Your past, your present and your future knowledge can be and will be sorted out by the help of God after these three simple steps.

Repentance is our personal knowledge of evil/sin we turn our backs on of our own free will choice, just like God chose good over evil.

Water baptism in Jesus name is applying the power of the blood to wash away our sins and sin debt to the corruption of the knowledge of evil.

Infilling of the Holy Ghost is the regeneration of our spirit with God’s Spirit guiding us into all truth pertaining to the knowledge side of good handling the knowledge side of evil in this world.

We can now be like truly God’s children having the knowledge of good and evil maintaining the knowledge of evil separate and contained in its right place living a life pleasing to God through Jesus Christ to return to eternal life with Him in the end avoiding the eternal death in hell with the devil and his angels paying the penalty of the attempt of mixing the knowledge of evil with God’s goodness.

GOD in SPIRIT	GOD in FLESH	US in STATE of SIN	US Born Again

All Knowing	Death of Jesus	Repentance = Knowledge	Guidance

All Powerful	Burial of Jesus	Baptism = Power	Forgiven

All Present	Resurrection of Jesus	Infilling = Presence	Inheritance

ONLY GOD CAN HANDLE GOOD AND EVIL

Did you see the pattern of how knowledge, power, and presence played a huge role in the living, moving, and having our being in God? We are God’s children. We have the freedom of choice. We all will pull our thoughts, words, and deeds from one of the two systems of the knowledge of good or evil whether we like it or not. Some will even play the game of purposely mixing the good and evil.

We have a chance to live and not die through Jesus Christ guiding us through handling the knowledge of good and evil with keeping them in their proper place according to the Almighty God.

May your journey begin purposely looking for the answers, deeds, and future endeavors to have the good side of God’s knowledge guiding you. We cannot do this on our own and if someone is going to be by your side may you choose this day that you and your house will serve the Lord.

Your Word(s) Stops Me

How can a word physically stop you? When the word or words are spoken it has no physical restraining form to physically grab you and stop you. The word can hit your ears and enter your brain, but you can pass right through it like a ghost or like a whispering wind. Yet, there are words that stop me and you. I believe after reading this you will find words that stop you. Can words alone really stop you?

CHILDHOOD

What is the earliest memory you have of a word spoken to you that meant “don’t do it”? There is a word babies hear early in life that is attached with the intention of stopping them. Most of us learned the word “No” along with “dada” or “momma“. The word “No” has the meaning of “stop” inside it, but no solid ability to act out physically stopping something.

You are told the stove is “hot” and it will hurt if you touch it. As the little child is standing in front of the stove reaches towards the red glowing stove eye. Someone speaks out the words “No, No!” They hear your word “No” with the meaning of stop inside it, but it does not physically grab their reaching hand. The word goes into their ears and into the brain with a “yes or no” choice, “agree or disagree” choice, “obey or disobey” choice. Your word is inside their mind not physically upon their arm.

It is not your word that stops them, but their choice to let your word stop them. It is a word spoken without physical power, but a power of choice to be made. Our words do not have a physical form when spoken. Some children will continue on to touch the red hot stove eye finding out the physically hard way of not letting your word stop them from getting burned.

HEAVEN

I want you to stop for a moment and think with me. God did not physically stop Lucifer from mixing his angelic purity with evil, staining his entire being with corruption. The word knowledge inside Lucifer’s head is now tainted with a mixture of good and evil. His choice to ignore and not allow God’s word to stop him like the child was continually reaching for the red hot stove eye of evil.

Lucifer was not physically restrained along with all the angels in heaven, but his power of choice inside his head determined his physical outcome just like the little child standing in front of the stove with the burned hand. It has never been about physically restraining. Why would you create something in the first place to only physically restrain it?

Before we go any further, I personally believe “ONLY!” the one true God can control and keep the knowledge of evil in its place. This to me adds to why He is God. His personal choice between the two existing forces of the knowledge of good and evil was good only. Evil was released by the choices of the free will creations and not by God. Again, like the little boy the word was out there without a physical restraint, the choice was free to ignore or stop him.

In the beginning all creations were created in the knowledge of good without any physical restraint to their choices inside their minds and the knowledge of evil was contained separately from them. The word choice was the only thing not separated and constrained. The word choice was a “free will” inside all good creatures in God.

EARTH

Now, let’s step out of the heavens onto the earth. Again, God created all things from the knowledge of good. God did not physically stop or restrain Eve and Adam. God gave them His Word, “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” (Ge. 2:16, 17).

Eve and Adam already had the word taught to them just like the little child of “don’t touch the red hot stove“, but the word did not have a physical chain on them. One thing we quickly forget is that everything else on earth was absolutely free from any consequences. All was good, except for the one tree. The knowledge of evil was separated and contained, but not constrained just like in heaven with the angels.

It is ALL about the word you choose to be your red “stop” light or the green “go” light inside your head. Words do not physically grab you literally restrain you to the wall or floor. There is absolutely NOTHING to stop you from doing WHATEVER you want, only the limitations of your abilities. I am not looking into the future of the results or consequences right now. It is about the “word” choices you make.

CHOSEN WORDS

Lucifer did not love or believe God’s word above his own desires. He was the little child that was going to touch the stove regardless of how hot it was according to the word. Eve and Adam did not love or believe God’s word above their own desires.

The invisible word knowledge of good and evil you receive into your mind is what determines the love of your heart. Your choice is what stops you or makes you go forward. Nothing will physically stop you within your natural abilities, except yourself. Yes, there are ramifications and consequences, but I am not looking at the after effects. I am locked onto the initial starting point of the choice.

There are words that I have chosen to follow. There are words I have chosen to have the power to stop me. There are words I have chosen to live my life by. There are words I choose above my personal or fleshly desires. You have words in your life you live by every day. Those choices of words can be from the knowledge of the good side, evil side, and even a mixture. * As a foot note, God hates mixture of good and evil, or lukewarmness. God wants purity of choice in either cold or hot (Rev. 3:16).

You may live by what your dad said, mom said, grandparent said, teacher said, coach said, pastor said, and the list goes on. What word do you live by from a person in your life? Which side does their word fit in the good, the evil, or the mixture? You can do anything you want. What holds you in your place?

You want to curse out your boss. What word or words hold you in your place in not doing it? You want to beat someone up. What word knowledge keeps you from doing it? You want to run people off the road. What word or words in your head stops you?

LAWLESS, UNRULY – WITHOUT LAWS OR RULES

In your younger days you developed an attitude of “I am going to try this” and stepping up to the thoughts later of “no matter what anyone says (key word)”. As a young person you become your own god deciding what destiny you will try to have and idolizing whatever you want, cursing with no limits, forsaking anything respectful including parents and holy days, committing sexual relationships because you get addicted, lying and stealing for kicks with it growing into other reasons, wanting what others have to doing forcing it to be yours, and possibly to the level of killing things or someone. The choice of evil will take you farther than you truly want to go and keep you longer than you wanted to stay.

I became a lawless and unruly in my heart because of all the things I encountered as a naive, innocent, and believing soul. The words of others led me to believe “this was fun to try it” only to find out it was very bad. The words of peer pressure pushing me into something I later regretted, but there was no changing what was done. The words that “nobody will know” created a monster of hidden addiction. The words “you’re not a man unless you do it” brought hurt to just not myself, but to others. For me no one forced me physically to do any of these things. It was by the words planted or pushed into my ears that I physically made my body do the things it did.

I was a young man I had created a list of people that I had hurt by my decisions. I was really tired of the constant dramas and roller coaster rides of things you thought could completely satisfy you only to find out you needed more that was bigger and better. A no end in sight for a place of always wanting to be happy.

THE BEGINNING – “YOUR WORD(S) STOPS ME”

Sitting as far away as the last seat would let me sit in the back of the church I heard the words inside my mind “you have tried everything else why not try Me” and I agreed. I knew this was God’s words speaking to me. He was not hand cuffing me, not twisting my arm, or peer pressuring me with His words. He was simply giving me words from the knowledge of good.

I started my walk with God and His word alone. I had been around all kinds of different types of people in my life. The claiming (words) to be religious not matching God’s word and I don’t mean the little things, but huge things in His word – hypocrites if you will. The claiming (words) to be my best friends and in the end were using me to get what they want. The claiming (words) to be my girlfriends while kissing around with other guys openly, players with my emotions watching him cry, and other squashing of the heart deeds. The movies do NOT have the best actors. They are among us. I no longer believed people’s word. I was going to give God’s word a chance, now.

I searched His word for His thoughts on anger, jealousy, hatred, revenge, sexually active, marriage, loneliness, envy, alcohol, drugs, on and on I went. Everyday things I faced in life I looked them up in His word. I slowly was starting to see He was NOT lying to me, using me, back stabbing me, gossiping on me, or any other deceiving angle on me. His Spirit and Word was truly my best friend.

THE CHALLENGE

Physically I can do whatever I want and pay the consequences. I was not longer allowing male or female words to command me. I was in the “don’t trust people mode – only God“. The religious people, the girlfriends, the players, and the liars were still out there roaming around. A man told me “No One in the Bible was baptized ‘in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost‘ (Mtt. 28:19)”. I was nice and I listened, but I did not believe him.

His words were NOT going to change me or come between me and my best friend – God. I went home and for the next several days I searched God’s Word while asking God’s guidance. I was finding all kinds of places where people were baptized in Jesus name and not using the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost over them. I was still against the man’s words, but I was standing before God’s word.

I had the man’s words (opinion), God’s words (opinion), and my words (opinion) inside of me. Physically no one had control of me. I was free to command my body with whatever beliefs I wanted to follow, but I was in a relationship with God giving Him a chance to be my true friend.

I had to make a decision about the new side of God I found directly from His word. I had not seen this side of God before or even given life to believing it. I had unconsciously put God in a box within the limits of my mind, so very sad. I could tell this was Him in the scriptures baptizing people in Jesus name. It became crystal clear you could not kill the Father or the Holy Ghost for our sins on the cross. The Father and the Holy Ghost do not have blood. The blood was in Jesus for the washing away of our sins (Acts 2:38). Jesus is the name of the Father (Jn. 5:43) and the Holy Ghost is sent in Jesus name (Jn. 14:26). Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are titles for the one God visiting us at three different stages in our lives.

ROCK SOLID TRUST

“Your Word(s) Stops Me” was the beginning of changing my personal thinking of doing things my way and everyone else could just hit the highway going bye, bye. I allowed God’s word to stop me and join me in the decisions and choices I was going to make. I wanted to be one with God and His Word. I wanted to be baptized in Jesus name not because of the man’s word or my way of thinking, but because God’s word said it.

I went to the man’s church where his pastor baptized me in freezing cold baptismal water pronouncing over me “In the obedience to the word of God I do now indeed baptize you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” He was following the verse in Acts 2:38, the first day of the birth of the church inside the body of Jesus Christ, our refugee from death, hell, and the grave.

I did not quit my church and go to the man’s church. I still did not believe in man’s words. I had to see it for myself before I would believe it. I, now, had a scale in my mind, heart, and soul that one side of the scale had God and His word with the other side open to whatever input I would get from this world. It was not longer “my way or the highway“. It was becoming God’s way if it matched in His word without piecing it together by man. I did end up going to their church because of only one thing and that was the preaching and teaching was more in line with God’s word than the other church. I wanted to be in line with God and man’s opinions.

NOTHING WRONG

I am many years into walking with the Lord and His word. There is “Nothing Wrong” with putting everyone in the scales with God and His word. If they are of God then there will be no trouble. There should be “No Fear“, if it is truly one with God and His word. I have no fear of you asking me about God. It is not that I know it all. It is because I put myself in the scales with Him examining myself whether I am of God or not (2 Cor. 13:5).

There is “Nothing Wrong” with putting mankind outside the circle from you and God. I do not allow man between me and God. I am physically in control of this body and it is mine to make the choices of what it will do and what will live inside this body. There is “Nothing Wrong” about standing strong as an individual in the scales with God and His word. This makes you a healthy organ in the body of Christ feeding other members (1 Cor. 12:7-28) love, hope and faith (1 Cor. 13:13) to be all they can be in their function in the body of Christ.

WORDS IN CONTROL

You do realize it is man’s words that you take inside yourself allowing or not-allowing them between you and God? Mankind does not control you physically with handcuffs, rope, and other restraining devices. Man’s words are what attempts to control your thoughts. You are the one who decides if those words will control you. You give them power to your body to act them out. Even if man was in control of your body physically He cannot enter into your spirit and control it. If man attempts to control your spirit they will only end up with a brainwashed lost zombie in the process.

ANGELS

The words floating around inside the thoughts of the angel, Lucifer is where the choice was made. He was not forced by other angels, brainwashed, or pushed into rebelling against God. He did not love the good knowledge of God enough to stop himself or above his personal desires. He chose the words for the action of his body to be based on “…I will ascend…”, “…I will exalt/raise…”, “…I will sit…”, “…I will ascend…”, “…I will be…” (Is. 14:12-14). He took his words of choice and put them in other angel’s minds trying to control them with his cause. Have you ever had someone trying to persuade you into their cause with smooth talking and inspiring words? The scales of God will save you.

MANKIND

The words of the devil to Eve did not forcibly grab her hand placing the forbidden fruit into her hands and pushing it up to her mouth. She stood there talking with him at the forbidden tree having words only. Her love for the good knowledge of God was not enough to stop her or above her personal desires. She allowed the devil’s words to get in between her and God inside her mind, heart, and soul.

God did not stop Eve or Adam. There is a reason the All Knowing, All Powerful; All Present God does not stop His creations. He wanted them to choose which knowledge to physically follow. There is no comparison to when a person makes up their own mind. If you can be talked into it there is always someone else who can talk you out of it, but if you decide inside yourself on your own there is no comparison. God wants all to be their own creature totally with the freedom of choice.

YOUR WORDS STOP ME – LORD

I am no longer the lawless and unruly person I use to be. I am still free to choose what my body does no matter what and pay the consequences. When I am driving and road rage wants my hands to take over the steering wheel, my love for “Your Word(s) Stop Me“. If a desire tempts me to steal by putting things in my pocket, my love for “Your Word(s) Stop Me“. When someone makes me angry enough to want to hurt them and the urge tries to take over my body to hit them, my love for “Your Word(s) Stop Me“. When the temptation to lie tries to take over my body and speak through my voice, my love for “Your Word(s) Stop Me“. When I want to divorce my wife, my love for “Your Word(s) Stop Me“. When a temptation of a desire to commit adultery tries to take over, my love for “Your Word(s) Stop Me“.

WHAT WOULD JESUS DO

Jesus lived a life for us of his own free will choice. The fullness of the Godhead was in Jesus bodily (Col. 1:19, 2:9). He had You the Almighty God inside of him, but he was not forced, he was not handcuffed, and his arm was not twisted to obey. He loved Your word above his own will, “…not to do my will…” Jn. 6:38, and everyone else. Everything Jesus faced to do physically he made the choice from the knowledge of good.

Jesus went into a desert fasting 40 days and 40 nights. Notice, Jesus at his weakest point in his body the devil did not try to physically touch him, restrain him, or beat him. God did not try to stop Jesus physically, but left his choices up to his own free will. The devil spoke words for Jesus to choose on his own accord like he did Eve.

The devil said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” Jesus had full authority to turn all the stones physically around him into bread like the people in Moses day found on the ground. My love for “Your Word Stops Me” and I choose “…‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God’.” Jesus did not physically try to fight the devil. He gave God’s word back to the devil (Mtt. 4:3, 4).

The devil did take Jesus to the holy city and to the highest point in the temple. A place where Jesus would possibly feel at home and comfortable, but the devil did not forcibly or physically try make Jesus do anything. The devil quoted God’s words into his ears wanting Jesus to jump to his death because God had angels ordered to catch him. Jesus had the words of God inside his mind and heart to choose from along with his knowledge of this world. Jesus puts God’s words back in the devil’s face to not put the Lord your God to the test (Mtt. 4:5-7). Jesus loved God’s word above the holy city, temple, and pushing God in an unnecessary test.

The devil takes Jesus to a high mountain enough to see all the kingdoms of the world. The devil could not make him do anything physically. It had to done by acted upon words of choice by Jesus. The devil says he will give all that Jesus sees if he will bow down and worship him. The devil wanted Jesus to take this forbidden fruit of lies (words) like Eve for power. Jesus loved God’s word more and he said, “Worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only“, go away Satan and he left (Mtt. 4:8-10).

There was nothing in this world that was enough to get between Jesus the man and the one true God. Jesus love for the one true God and His Word was eternal life to the one who attains the knowledge thereof (Jn. 17:3). Whatever Jesus heard and saw from God he made the choice for his body to physically follow God’s knowledge of good to the very end and beyond.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

What word or words have you chosen to be above your own words in this life? What knowledge do you guide the actions of your body to live by in this life? Have you put those words in the scale with God’s word?

It is not your religion verses other religions, your words against other people’s words. It will be your spirit inside your body with the word choices you made to live this life by standing before the creator of all creation.

Will your choices line up with the knowledge of good on one side or the knowledge of evil on the other side? Your religion does not control your body. People around you do not control your body. You have taken the words of this life into your soul and made your body act upon the choices of those word

My love for “Your Word Stops Me” and I choose you, Lord Jesus.

God Above Everything Else

“God Above Everything Else” is a good question to ask yourself. Is there anything, anything that I have put above God? My mom, my dad, my brother(s), my sister(s), relatives, pastor, teachers, youth leaders, boyfriend, girlfriend, anyone, or anything I have put above God? Is there anything I value as more important than God?

God is a title that must perfectly fit in all areas. Would it be right to use the title God loosely when trying to identify something or someone as the greatest and there is no other greater? The title “God” should be number one in knowledge, power, and in presence. Can anything or anyone be called “God” if they have limits?

If my God or your God does not fit as the all knowing, all powerful, and present everywhere then we might need to examine ourselves once again in our beliefs. If we give something or someone the title God there should be no fear of any limits. Is it right to question God? Would this be setting a limit or a boundary for the one we call, “God”? With an open and yielding mind would be the right way to question God.

If I am the God of baseball no one else should be able to beat or better me. If I am the God blogger of Word Press no one should be able to write more eloquently than me or better in any other aspect of blogging. People’s records have been broken by other people and no man has ever sealed their record forever. Mankind is always cycling through the generations with someone else greater.

To give the title “God” to something or someone they or it should be the “God Above Everything Else“. We as human beings should treat our God as God and not be afraid of any questions. Why would the true God be afraid of questions? You can’t be God if you are afraid of something.

Man’s definition of God in the dictionary could be (1) the creator and ruler of the universe and source of all moral authority; the supreme being, or (2) a superhuman being or spirit worshiped as having power over nature or human fortunes; a deity.

The first thing I needed to realize was everything here on earth about God man has tried to shape it and form it. If the people in your life have remained true to the way God wanted things written about Him then there would be no fear of you asking them any questions. If man has formed the ideas of God then your questions will be offensive, it is just the way things are, we are not suppose to know, I don’t know (why not?), it is a mystery they will tell you.

The true All knowing, All powerful, All present God would not be afraid of your questions, but be the opposite of please ask Me, seek Me, and knock upon My door (Mtt. 7:7-8) with your questions. He would not fear you, but welcome you into His fellowship desiring you to return the favor to Him (Rev. 3:20). God would be a title to someone who would be perfect at casting out all fear (1 Jn. 4:18) with the desire that His children (Acts 17:28) would be happy to seek Him, feel after Him, and find Him (Acts 17:27) because He is near us being the All present God.

WHY? – “GOD ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE”

It is a trap to accept one person’s thinking as the totality of whom or what deserves the title “God”. I would be the first to tell you “don’t accept my words alone”, but joyfully seek Him on your own journey and quest. When you do, you will be joining the strong ranks of the people in the Bible who built their house on a firm foundation having confidence the world would see the true God inside them.

I am NOT anti-pastor or anti-teacher when I say; God is waiting on you, personally, to stand on your own two feet in fellowship with Him and not waiting for the days you gather at church. God is not limited to the house of worship you attend. He is with you in your home, your bedroom, your kitchen, your garage, your yard, and anywhere else you may go.

No one else will stand in front of God on judgment day pleading your case before Him to let you in. You and I will face Him directly alone. He will show you all the times in your life on earth He called out to you through others, the music He played for you through others, the words in songs He sang for you through others (Mtt. 11:16, 17), and how His invisibleness was clearly seen in creation removing all excuses (Ro. 1:20)

Wow, “no excuses” should be the time you hear a bell ringing with understanding I should make “God Above Everything Else“. I could not begin to tell you the personal ground of understandings I have gained from asking, seeking, and knocking on God’s door for fellowship, but be aware He will tell you things many people do not want to hear religious and non-religious the same. You will have to feed them slowly waiting for them to see it for themselves and until then you must be patient.

As a child I was told about God Almighty. God flooded the entire world with Noah, his family, and all animals of sets of two survived on the ark as dry land reappeared later. God was the fire in a bush that was not burning down speaking to Moses. All the plagues Pharaoh refused to believe in “God Above Everything Else” he had seen.

I was taught a certain way about God. You pray to the Holy Spirit that translates to the Son, Jesus, and he intervenes with God the Father on your behalf. Salvation is simple in just speaking words you believe in God and if you want to be “…baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:” (Mtt. 28:19) for a public profession of your faith in God you can.

I, as a child, was hearing about this great, big, all powerful, all knowing, all present God. I was excited about this deity titled “God”. I had all kinds of questions about Him and His power only to hear limited answers from the adults. They were more of “tone down your questions about Him” because He is not that active today only in a tiny bit of here a little and there a little.

Wow, this is how I found out about He was going to speak to us with “…stammering lips and another tongue” because mankind stop putting “God Above Everything Else” creating their own rules using His word as “…Do this, do that, a rule for this, a rule for that; a little here, a little there…falling backwards” (Is. 28:11-13). Is there a bell ringing inside you of another reason to have “God Above Everything Else” in your life?

I will not go into details, but as I grew older I went through a phase “if God is not an active God, but here a little and there a little” I will do my own thing in this world for self happiness, which caused a great deal of suffering on myself and others. I became an evil person until one Sunday morning God said, “Try me, you have tried everything else.” I said, “Okay, I will” forming a pack that I will give Him a try.

2ND TIME – GOD ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE

This time around I made “God Above Everything Else“. This pack with God was I will believe “You and Your Word ONLY“!!! I refused to accept what anyone said about God on face value. In the church I saw too much hypocrisy. In my mind it had to be confirmed by God and His Word, “God Above Everything Else” and not pieced together out of context to back up their belief. I turned into a student of God asking, seeking, and knocking upon His door to show me before I accept it. I had an open mind, heart, and soul yielding to God and His word ONLY!

I was working in an amusement park in Pigeon Forge, TN. Nobody knew that behind my face was a young man who made God his best friend and the rest of the world were all liars (Ro. 3:4). So, I could separate man’s opinion from God’s proving what was true. A co-worker said to me that no one in the Bible was ever baptized using “in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Mtt. 28:19). I listened to him politely and did not argue.

Keeping “God Above Everything Else” and ” Let God be true, and every human being a liar…” (NIV, Ro. 3:4) I went home to study with my best friend, God and His word. I searched the Bible using everything to find Father, Son, and Holy Ghost water baptism. I came back to him later to tell him he was right about what he said and the only written proof of water baptism was spoken in the name of Jesus Christ and the reason was to wash away sins, not a public confession of your faith.

This is where it gets tough for most people. The struggle of what you have always been taught. I was not yielding to the man that told me. I was opening up more of myself directly to my God and His word. I think it is a good thing to have a percentage of not believing man 100% and using that small percentage as an excuse to prove it yourself between you and God.

I still believe in a personal relationship with God because if you put too much faith in a person when they fall short or sin your faith in God may go with them making them closer to you than God. This is another reason for keeping “God Above Everything Else“.

I got re-baptized, born of the water side of salvation (Jn 3:5), in Jesus name (blood is in the name) for the removal of all my sins (Acts 2:38) starting as a brand new creature in Christ. Now, I began to see God is still doing great things instead of here a little and there a little because His word said He would poor out His Spirit with the “…stammering lips and another tongue” to show the born again of the Spirit side (Jn3:5) of the new birth.

GOD ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE

You and I as individuals cannot afford to let anything be above God. What power does anything else have over God? Can man add a single hour to his life by his thoughts or worrying over it (Mtt. 6:27)? It is your life and no one else will stand in your place. Having “God Above Everything Else” does not make things worse for you. It is the opposite in making things perfect for you. God should be above all the opinions of your family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, and all others. Most of all God should be above your own personal thinking with an open and yielding mind to His thoughts that are above our thoughts and His ways above our ways (Is. 55:8-11).

If you have not, search for yourself, God wants you to ask, seek, and knock finding Him though He is not far from you to guide into the body of salvation He created for you.

BORN AGAIN OF WATER – TRUE PLAN OF SALVATION

Acts 2:38 “Peter replied, ‘Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins.”

BORN AGAIN OF SPIRIT

Acts 2:38 “And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” = “…stammering lips and another tongue”

SALVATION HAS NEVER STOPPED

Acts 2:39 “The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.”

ARE YOU GOING TO KEEP “God Above Everything Else“?