September 2021 – Past the Surface

Finding the Reason

This life can be a beautiful journey of “Finding the Reason” of life and life around you. Discovering reason or reasons is an important characteristic you must develop inwardly about the outwardly things you encounter. Your inward strength is crucial to your spiritual thinking and eternal health. Our bodies will not last forever, but what has been stored in our spirit will. This world has words and deeds that try to persuade your inward person to seeing what it wants you to see and not what is past the surface. “Finding the Reason” is consciously seeing truth behind surface things understanding the “why”.

There is a great need that I cannot stress strong enough for you to develop in your spirit about finding the reason of things in life. The world around us bombards us with man made wisdom that stifles and traps the limits of our spirit from seeing the hidden reasons behind it all. Our spirit is meant to connect to the unlimited knowledge, power, and presence of God. He is a Father who wants to freely give us all we could ever imagine or want.

We are born with a natural/fleshly body of the earth that is busy about “Finding the Reason” through surface senses. Your nose picks up a smell causing a reaction developing a reason why you like it or hate it. Your eyes are taking in videos and pictures causing a storage of categories of like, hate, and don’t care. Your taste buds and the touch of your skin are doing the same. Our natural flesh immediately starts feeding our spirit human and fleshly reasons without showing the spiritual reasons. The flesh is about eating and drinking with all the pleasures of this world it can have while robbing us of the treasures past the surface. The flesh has no interest in knowing spiritual things and counts them foolishness.

You and I are taking a journey together right now. Let us walk together looking at the things on the outside while we find the hidden things on the inside. Learning to see the outside things will help you and I to see the inside things of our own life enhancing our insight past the surface or some would say, “past our own noses”. Now, let us discover “Finding the Reason” by looking at others.

LET US LOOK FOR A REASON

We are in this crowd of people in the street pushing and trying to get to a man who has healed people, defended everyday workers, street people, and spoke words of power seeping deep down into people’s souls. We have made it to the last layer of people away from this miracle working powerful man. We are almost there to see and hear from him directly. We are shoulder to shoulder in this crowd when a woman pushes her way between us reaching with her left hand between the people to touch this miracle working man’s garment.

We both look at her hand touching this man’s garment, but as quickly as she touched it she let it go without hindering his forward motion for the crowd would have knocked her down if she held onto it, but that was not the reason she let go. As we pushed by her passing between us the desperate and sickly look on her face was gone. As you and I were going forward staying up the people looking back at her we suddenly smacked into the people closes to the miracle working man because they had stopped. We turned around to see why everyone stopped and we could see the eyes of the miracle working man looking around on all of us.

Our faces were filled with “what reason did he stop” and “what is he looking for” and we found ourselves looking around also after his eyes met our eyes. As we are looking around in the faces of strangers we see the woman three layers back of people that we saw touch his garment, but she did not tear or harm the garment. She would not be the one he is looking for and as we are looking at her we hear behind our heads the words “Who touched me?” As we turn back to look at him, when then heard one of his inner circle disciples, Peter said, “Master, the people are crowding and pressing upon you.”

Wow, you and I knew there was a powerful reason this entire crowd was stopped and heard the words of “Who touched me?” The master’s words were bouncing around in our heads, but like Peter we were only seeing the surface of a sea of people thinking everyone has touched who could. The hidden reason was the master was not looking at the physical bodies of people. He was seeing a hidden treasure that he wanted to extract from below the surface for everyone to see. You and I knew something big was about to happen. We could feel the goose bumps on our arms.

The miracle working man said a second time, “Someone did touch Me, for I was aware that power had gone out of Me.” Ah, now you and I see a reason for the stopping of the crowd and that he has knowledge of when the power leaves him, but if he knows when it leaves him does he not know where it goes was a question written on both of our faces. Both of our eye brows were pulled down into a questioning look for another curious to know of “Finding the Reason“.

Everyone was still just seeing each other physically and had no clue who he was talking to. He had a reason to stop all movement and all talking focusing his eyes upon the one he wanted to reveal to all of us this day. You and I once again focus on the woman by chance at the same time seeing her as though in slow motion raise her head looking past us to the master’s eyes with a facial hint of “it was me that touched you“. We are both still bewildered as to what the garment that has no fleshly sensors to relay back to the brain of a physical touch had to do with her.

We are all frozen in our places with no more pressing and pushing, yet this woman freely walks between us towards the master with no hinderance at all as was before. As she passed once again between us we could see her trembling. We still did not know the reason. As the thoughts of “why is she trembling” she falls to her knees before the master and the hidden reason comes out of her mouth with her own shaky voice.

She said, I am a woman who has had an issue of blood for twelve years and I have spent all my money with many doctors and none of them could heal me. She was broke and poor with only her faith. She told everyone how she pushed through you and me reaching between the last two people touching his garment feeling immediately the healing and letting go as the crowd pushed on.

Wow, twelve years she has suffered with this pain everyday. All the doctors she tried over all those years trying whatever they suggested and finally going broke financially. As we stood there “Finding the Reason” unfolding before us explaining her actions among this crowd with similar needs became very clear. You and I knew there was something else about all of this. This explains why she did what she did and the belief in her heart of just touching the hem of his garment, but what is the rest of the story.

“Finding the Reason” the master stopped and silenced everyone was yet to be known. You and I knew looking at the master he had another reason for his actions. We both knew if he had the ability to keep up with the power that leaves him that he would know exactly where it went. He just wanted to extract from her the reason in her heart for everyone to hear. Her faith in God was as tiny and little as just a touch of his garment would bring total and complete healing to her life. It was not how huge her faith was in size, but the fullness of what faith she had. You can have tiny faith, but if that tiny faith is full of believing it could move mountains (Mtt. 17:20). It is not the size, but the fullness of faith inside the size that counts.

As we were lost in thoughts and the master had the whole crowd’s attention along with you and I he then spoke, “Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.” Out of all the people pushing and crowding around him there was one among us that had something inside of them to cause the master to stop all things to bring attention to it past the surface of our fleshly bodies.

We are looking over this sea of people crowed in the streets around Jesus and he stops everyone for a reason. “Finding the Reason” is the key to living this life under God’s guidance. There are times we may feel alone in a world pushing, shoving, and living a rat race life, but if we will hold onto the fullness of our faith no matter the size we can push through close enough to get the full answer to our needs like this woman.

I see her reason of suffering and her faith in God that others may have had no clue about. I, also, see God’s reason inside of Jesus making us stop to look for the gold nuggets of truth hidden inside her to presently encourage her and all of us who will read about her in the future. If you feel no one sees you in the crowds of this world there is a loving master who will stop the world to point to the least of His children holding the greatest unseen faith past the surface. You can read about her in Luke 8:43-48. Please read it and place yourself in the shoes of many different people in this scene “Finding the Reason” for a multitude of understandings.

REASON CAN BE FOUND IF WE LOOK

Are you ready to go to another place with me? Let me set up the environment before we go. In all of time here on the earth there has always been people, not God, who come together with their own beliefs of how to live life. These beliefs become their culture as they grow in size. The groups of people are formed based on these beliefs, social mannerisms, and acceptable routines of life. Having different groups of people with different cultures comes to exclusions from each other because of the unacceptance of the different choice of life styles.

The Jewish people from Abraham and throughout the generations have been attempting to form themselves into a group of people who follow God and God with them. All other groups of people were doing their own thing partially or completely outside of God. God found a reason in Abraham to start creating this group of people for generations to come. The time you and I are going to visit is a time when people that were not of pure Jewish blood were considered outsiders and were not to be mixed with tainting the birth rights of the Jewish people.

We just got off the boat with lots of people around us smelling the water of the ocean in the air as the warm sunlight soaks into our skin upon the non-rocking solid ground. You and I are hurrying up to catch the miracle working man of God. As we are drawing closer to him over your right shoulder back towards the coast we hear a woman’s voice speaking loudly saying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.“

We both quickly looked over in the right direction looking for the source talking about a devil. Scanning the faces we find a woman approaching quickly wearing Canaanite clothing. You and I realize immediately she is not a Jewish person, but a Gentile, which simply means all others outside the Jewish people. We both realize this is going to be interesting. For the Jews have nothing to do with the Gentiles. We are both anxious in “Finding the Reason” of this woman and the outcome.

We both quickly turn our heads towards the master looking for his response to this Canaanite woman yelling out loud towards him. He actually does not say anything at all. I wonder what reason does he have in remaining silent? I look at you with that questioning facial look and you look at me with “I don’t know” shrugging of your shoulders. As we both start to speak what we think could be the reasons our words immediately stop inside our mouths when the inner circle disciples of the master said, “Send her away; for she shouting at us“.

Ah, you and I see the disciple’s reason was to send the Canaanite, Gentile, woman away and not associate with her. This is understandable because most people outside of God judge those following God in a bad way and mock them for their way of living and thinking based on God’s word. We nodded at each other with the looks of “I see” when we heard the master speak in the fresh warm air flowing from the coast “I am not sent, but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.“

Now, we both had that look of “wow” at his words, but there is a spiritual feeling inside for a reason behind all of this and we want to wait and see how this will come out. You turned to see her reaction and I followed with the same interest. As we turned to look she had never stopped walking towards him hearing the words of the disciples and the master.

Here we go, what is she going to do? She does not have an angry look to slap him. She does not have a “I am not going to quite” look. We are having trouble discerning her facial language as she gets closer to the master. She has a solid determination to get to him, but for any other reason we have no clue. We could tell the disciples did not like her getting closer to them at all. I wonder if they will grab her like body guards?

She has inside her head as she approaches him that the disciples want to get rid of her and the master said she is not a Jew and that he was sent for the Jews. She has two rejective train of thoughts battling her cry from her heart “Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David…“. She pushed forward until she reached him with no raised fists visible, but just a humble falling down to her knees bowing to him saying, “Lord, help me“.

The looks on our faces are sad for her situation “Finding the Reason” of her crying out up front to all of us around on the coastal shore. It is an awful feeling to know your loved one has a vexing devil tormenting them grievously and you are absolutely powerless. It is easy to put yourself inside her shoes of wanting to do something because doing nothing and watching them suffer is double the torment from the devil – the helplessness.

We find ourselves frozen again waiting for the response from the master. She has two strikes against her and our minds are empty of thoughts as to how the third pitch of response will turn out. The master answered and said, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” Our eyes pop open with a “wow, that probably did her in”. It was almost how could he say such a thing, but there had to be a reason. A worth while reason to wait until the end.

With her head bowed low before him she said, “Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.” Oh, my goodness. There is the reason. The master saw her faith from the beginning and the hearts of the disciples. Regardless, of her physical birth into a Gentile nation she had a faith in God that transcends all reason of the flesh of mankind. She had three things thrown at her to discourage her, but it was the master who extracted from her for all to hear “Finding the Reason” of a life changing faith no matter the culture.

In her bowed position before the master she quickly took what he said with her faith seeing from the position of a dog at the children’s and master’s table envisioning the tiniest of crumbs from the bread of the master is more than enough to meet the needs of the dogs. Wow, she had no intention of a desire to take away the whole bread from the children she just wanted the crumbs.

We both went from sadness to an astonishment of the words and faith that came out of her mouth bringing us to a glow of happiness inside for such wisdom and insight beyond the surface of this world. While in our state of shock the master replied, “O woman, great is your faith; it shall be done for you as you wish.” The master was digging out of her spirit the gold nugget of faith that none of us could see past her looks. He knew exactly what to say to extract her faith before us all. The devil vexing her daughter was driven out immediately upon the master acknowledging the power of her faith in God.

“Finding the Reason” of her words and actions were clear from the beginning, but it was only the tip of the great faith below. Her humbleness, wisdom, and faith overcame the “go away”, “not here for you”, and “don’t take away from the children” went beyond the physical and fleshly birth into the side of acceptance of equalizing faith. Her faith went far beyond all physical things directly from her spirit to God and He would not reject, but accept completely with a resounding acknowledgment of such great faith for all to see.

“Finding the Reason” of God inside of Jesus saying and doing what he did was extracting a beautiful faith that is unshaken by the physical status of this world. God wanted us to see the reason for strength against this world’s words of discouragement and the status of quo of the religious traditions. Faith and wisdom will bring justification (Lukr 7:35) no matter the size as long as it is whole. You read about this woman in Mtt. 15:22-28.

LOOKING FOR THE WHY

“Finding the Reason” is looking for the “why”. Understanding and perception is the desire of God for in them mankind will find the truth. Real truth is not afraid of the “why” questions. Having the physical eyesight and the physical hearing is not enough because they only give the things of this world and you are missing out on the gold nugget(s) God wants to extract from you and those around you. “Finding the Reason” is not always easy and the answer is not always good. We all have things in our life and around us that is not good, but with the determination and solid whole faith no matter the size will bring us healing.

The faith of these women adjusted to the pressures of their environment. One had a crowd of things in her way and the other had a religious wall of tradition. They kept their faith in God and did what had to be done to touch God. No matter what is in your life trying to stop you. There is a way that may be narrow, but still is a way to escape from the road blocks of life to get to Jesus. No matter the religious or cultural traditions there is a way to overcome them.

Jesus, the man side, was like the woman who pushed through the crowd, but his pushing was through the man made religious traditions trying to make God’s word of non effect (Mtt. 15:6) and he took on all the infirmities on the cross. Jesus was pushing through all temptations (Heb. 4:15) for the sake of providing us with his power to overcome these things when we are born again inside of him.

Jesus, the man, was like the Canaanite Gentile woman who overcame the religious stereotype of the religious leaders of the day by remaining faithful to the Almighty God that was within him no matter the false accusations the religious leaders threw at him. He kept right on fulfilling the scriptures as God showed him everyday on what to speak and what to do.

“Finding the Reason” is looking for the “why” and the first place we need to start investigating is “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.“, which is the answer on how to be saved. The inner circle disciples of Jesus Christ was given the commandment and authority by Jesus preaching this message on how to be saved, yet today the majority of people ignore this as the plan of salvation.

We must push through the crowded traditions of man and the stereotype opinions of man to the central core of God’s salvation in Jesus. It was far worth it to these two women to push through and overcome to get their healings. Our eternal soul is worth it to push through traditions and overcome opinions to get to Jesus because in the end it will be Jesus that saves us from our death bed and not man’s opinionated powerless traditions.

Looking for the reasons in God is the desire God has for us to ask Him, seek Him, and knock on His door (Mtt. 7:7) for untainted truth. God’s Spirit and Jesus are in the Word. We just have to get past the things of man that try to get in the way and try to discourage us with their opinions. You can be born again of the water and the Spirit directly from Jesus name water baptism and be filled with the power of the Holy Ghost.

It is up to you to start this wonderful journey of “Finding the Reasons” behind all things you encounter freeing your spirit and connecting with the unlimited one true God.

If I Became Like God

“If I were God” has crossed many people’s minds. Situations in our lives have caused those thoughts from different emotions or curiosities of the imagination. In angry moments “If I were God” I would fry them all. “If I were God” I would not have let this happen. “If I were God” I would do away with and you fill in the blank. “If I Became Like God” does not have the freedom of all things we want to do like we think. The thoughts “If I were God” has more to it than we realize far beyond the power of control.

I know your mind is thinking like mine on the thoughts of “If I were God” I would do this and that. Hollywood made a movie about a person fulfilling the “If I were God” with the conclusion handling All things is best left up to God with all capacity of knowledge He has, all the managing power He has, and the ability to be in all places at once without any overwhelming pressure to operate it all. All things from the tiniest molecule to the largest object God does not struggle handling it along with all prayers being spoken to Him.

“If I Became Like God” is a mind numbing thought when you stretch your understanding to All Things running under His power. I did not realize I was only seeing God from my point of view thinking of “If I Became Like God” with the desire to do away with disease, death, pain, killing, and many other horrible things we see in this life. There is another side to God that the majority of us do not see. God has something in Him that He does not want anyone to have.

God did not want anyone to become like Him. He wanted to keep some things to Himself. It was not that He wanted to protect His position as God. He was not afraid of any creation taking over His place of authority. Why is it God does not want any creation to be one hundred percent like Him? None of the angels in heaven were created one hundred percent like God. He was, is, and always will be the One True God having it all in Him and no other god beside Him. “I am the Lord, and there is no other; Besides Me there is no God. I will (d)gird you, though you have not known Me;” Isaiah 45:5. For the fact of sparing all creation of the horrors of the other side.

ANOTHER SIDE TO GOD

Here is the side we do not think about when it comes to God. Inside of God He had the totality of the knowledge of good and the totality of the knowledge of evil. Inside of God is the All Power of Good and the All Power of Evil. Inside of God is the All Presence of Good and the All Presence of Evil. Inside of God is the All knowledge of Good and the All Knowledge of Evil. We all want to think God is good and that is one hundred percent true, but also God has evil inside Him. “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” Isaiah 45:7 God is God with both sides within Him, but His choice is good and evil has no say so inside of God with God. Evil only had say so when some of the angels and mankind tried to possess it.

“If I Became Like God” has the package deal of not only All Power, but Power of evil along with it. Before there were any creations and it was only God He Alone had both the knowledge of good and evil. God has the side of Him to create light and to create darkness. God can make peace and create evil and He says, “… I the LORD do all these things.” This is a hard thought to swallow that God “…create evil“, but that created evil came by the releasing choice of angels and Adam/Eve. Now, here is where we truly see the intentions of God in His creations.

Remember, God did not want anyone to become one hundred percent like Him protecting us from the horror of evil. He wanted to keep some things to Himself. It was not that He wanted to protect His position as God. He was not afraid of any creation taking over His place of authority. We can see by His actions in creation His choices of His personal desire and we see who chose evil releasing that side to do it’s bidding.

He created heaven and the angels first. There is no record that in their DNA, if you will, of any knowledge of evil in them. God chose the angels and heaven to be absolutely one hundred percent free from evil, all good. When God walked among their good only He alone kept evil separated, contained, and controlled within Himself. The angels did not have to worry with the evil side getting loose because God kept it in place by His choice. There was no creature in heaven meant to have the knowledge of evil for God was sparing them the horrors of the knowledge of evil and its effects like a parent would a child from harms way.

“If I Became Like God” I would have to handle the side of evil and that is truly the only thing God can do. To have the knowledge of good and the knowledge of evil inside a creation would need God Himself there to help them to handle it. Without God the knowledge of evil would create all of it’s disasters upon whomever will allow it. There is no evidence any creation was originally made with the presence of evil.

There was a good angel who started looking at the power of the knowledge of evil inside God. He had the thoughts “if I were God” or “If I Became Like God” I would do this and that. He made the choice and the decision along with convincing other good angels to follow him to take over heaven, create his own throne above the stars of God, sitting in front of everyone in heaven above the heights of the clouds, and making himself “Like God” Isaiah 14:13, 14 was a result of God’s knowledge of evil overpowering the angels.

The angel’s minds and bodies were not capable to contain and control the knowledge of evil. Evil took them over bringing chaos and death. Good does not need law and order. Good has self-control, gentleness, faithfulness, kindness, patience, peace, joy, and a foundation of love with no law necessary (Galatians 5:22, 23). God was protecting the angels from the horrible knowledge and actions of evil. The angels were sadly mistaken on the thought of “If I Became Like God” because of the other side of God that only He can keep separate, contained, and controlled.

To be “Like God” one hundred percent was not feasible for any creation and that is not what God desired in His creations. It takes God to equal Himself. God knew inside the side of the knowledge of evil would bring “…immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these…” and creations that practice such things would not inherit the kingdom of God (Galatians 5:19-21). God wanted only good to exist and the choice of evil would be like Him of keeping separate, contained, and controlled.

God did not want the side of evil to be free and active like we see today. God did not want anyone to experience the knowledge of evil. It is like a police officer does not want to tell his/her family the horrible abuses, stabbings, shootings, and decapitated bodies he/she sees at work on a daily basis to protect them from such knowledge. This would apply to ER workers, surgeons, and funeral home workers. The scripture list in the previous paragraph is just a fraction of the horrors of the knowledge of evil. Evil existed in God along with the Good, but it was the choices of others that activated the knowledge, power, and presence of evil and not God. It was not God’s fault. He wanted creations to be good, but not programmed robots without the freedom of choice, but a price always comes with the freedom of choice.

WE DID BECOME LIKE GOD

It was not a matter of “If I became Like God“, but a matter of being born like God, but one sided. Being like God is only in the category of knowing good and evil in this world, but born into the side of evil with death, the grave, and hell waiting on us because all of us have sinned and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23) – born under evil. We were born not with the equal power, knowledge, and presence like God only the coming to know the good and evil in this world. The police, EMTs, emergency rooms workers, hospitals, funeral homes, high crime areas, and other such like see more of the knowledge of evil in action, but all will face the knowledge of evil in this world in some form or another. People today are still wanting the evil power and control do what they want over mankind and not the equal goodness one towards another.

There was no danger in having the knowledge of good in all creations. The danger came from the knowledge evil having a place inside creation. The tragedy of becoming like God in knowing and having the knowledge of good and the knowledge of evil was evil needed God’s strength to keep it in place. No creation has God’s strength at that level. It would take God equaling God to keep the two knowledges in their place. Good does not need God to keep it in control. Good is free to do whatever it wants. Evil was the only one that needed God to keep it in control. Evil was not free to do whatever it wants because God kept it in place, but we see in history and our present day what evil wants to do.

Adam and Eve were the first creations made in the image and likeness of God, but not one hundred percent like God. God wanted good fellowship only in His children and to spare them of the horrible things the knowledge of evil would bring. All things in the garden were good, except for one tree and eating of this tree would release the knowledge and the effects of evil. God freely told them of the garden and the warning of the tree of the knowledge of good and the knowledge of evil. It was not a hidden trap, but explained and known.

Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s warning bringing disobedient sin into their life and was taken over by evil just like the angels. We did become like God in the sense of now knowing good and evil without His controlling power over evil inside of us. Evil was never meant to be inside of us. It takes God equaling God to keep evil in its place and no creation can do it without Him. Our choices will always have consequences.

IT TAKES GOD EQUALING GOD

Now, that we have become like God in knowing good and evil, but in a fallen state of sin because only God can handle the knowledge of evil, which He keeps separated, contained, and controlled. We, His children, are now subject to being sent to hell, which is the place of separation, containment, and controlled evil. We became like Him, but as a loving Father He would not stand for His children to go to hell. He knew it would take God to equal out this situation with His other side. God would have to become like us to save us. God’s goodness would have to pay God’s evil punishment with God becoming like us and pay it Himself as one of us. If we became like God then God’s answer was Him becoming like us providing His power for a way of escape for His children from hell.

This is one of the most powerful understandings you can come to see with understanding and perception. It takes God to equal God’s other side. For us to pass from the side of evil back into His side of Good we need God’s bridge to cross back over from death to life. Do you see it takes God’s power equaling God’s power through us to make it back? Angels, mankind, and all creation do not have enough power to overcome God’s side of the knowledge of evil only God can.

God equaling God shines the light on our creation made in His image and likeness. We were made completely on the side of good just like the angels. We were given absolute power of freedom of choice like the angels. The angels were made of total eternal substance. We were made partly of the earth and an eternal soul breathed directly from God. God made us in His image and likeness with an avenue to save us if we did something like some of the angels did and try the knowledge of evil by our choice. God made us like Him so He could become like us to save us if the need should arrive.

GOD MUST BECOME LIKE US

Adam and Eve crossed over to the side of evil completely under its power and control. God reacted like a loving Father and said He would put hatred between the seed of evil to the seed of good. The seed of good will one day make a fatal strike to the headship over mankind, but your evil seed will strike his heel bringing death to his flesh (Genesis 3:15). This seed will be God equaling the payment to His knowledge of evil side through the flesh of mankind creating a fleshly bridge or doorway back to the side of Good with God’s power enabling mankind the ability to separate, contain, and control evil through Him that comes from a daily walk with Him.

God must become like us in order to save us. God must become like sin from the good side that knew no sin to pay the price of death for us bridging the return to goodness (2 Cor. 5:21). No one is good, but the Father (Mtt. 19:17, Mark 10:18, Luke 18:19). It takes God to equal God’s requirements. It makes perfect sense that only God can keep evil in its place. No creation was ever made originally to contain the knowledge of evil.

People would love to be like God, but they do not realize the power of the other side of God’s goodness. He never meant for anyone to take on His other side. Now, that the other side has us in its grip God would not stand by and do nothing. God became like us, living in the flesh and blood so that through death of the body He would destroy the power of death over us (Hebrews 2:14). God came in the flesh of mankind (Colossians 2:9) to reunite us to Himself and forgive us of our sins (2 Corinthians 5:19).

Just like Abraham, a father to a son, told Isaac, “…God will provide himself a lamb…” (Genesis 22:8). Jesus was and is the Lamb of God for mankind provided by God Himself. God became like us. The Holy Spirit of God formed a baby boy seed inside a virgin woman (Mtt. 1:18, 20) conceived of the Holy Ghost. This baby boy had the Spirit of God inside of him with unlimited measure (Jn. 3:34), which means God Himself. I know our minds have a difficult time wrapping around God managing all things from within an unborn baby, an infant, a little child, a young adult, and then an adult. What is space to unlimited God? This is where we need to see the body was the only thing that was growing in time and the Spirit of God inside of him never diminished or shrunk in size in All Knowledge, All Power, and All Presence. If God is God He can be God anywhere from the tiniest location to the greatest location.

God became like us to save us, but did not stop being God. Adam and Eve like some of the angels tried the “If I Became Like God” and found out they could not withstand the overpowering knowledge of evil converting them to sin and evil. Just like when we wish today “If I Became Like God” I could fix things the way I want them to be fixed. God’s full Deity was dwelling inside that body (Col. 2:9) without the the temptations of sin overpowering him (Heb. 4:15). This body of Jesus was a form only in Spirit in the beginning (Jn. 1:1,2, 14) because it was the image and likeness of what God would be if His Spirit was physical, which explains God was ready to become like us if we chose the knowledge of evil.

This is how the Spirit of Jesus/God was before all things and in Him all things are held together (Col. 1:17) because it was God Himself on standby for Himself to move from His Spirit image/likeness to come as a man He named Jesus. The Spirit side of Jesus the man was God in Spirit form creating all things by the pattern of Jesus the man both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible…all things were created through him and for him (Col. 1:16). God wished for His children to be like Himself/Jesus with the fellowship of a father and son like relationship, but the knowledge of evil separated it. God became like us moving His Spirit form of Jesus into a fleshly man Jesus to restore that relationship. “To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.” (2 Cor. 5:19).

WE CAN BECOME LIKE GOD

To become like God we have to return from the side of evil and sin. The angels that sinned could not return on their own and we cannot return on our own. It takes God to return us from the side of evil back into the side of good He has chosen from death back to life. The angels are eternal beings and cannot experience the death of a man and resurrection to life through a man. God equals God through the death of the man Jesus returning us back to Him through Jesus Christ only. Jesus said, “…I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (Jn. 14:6).

The original and only plan of salvation the disciples of the Bible preached was Repentance, water baptism in Jesus name for the forgiveness of sins and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost (Acts 2:38). This is how we return and become like God. The children He wanted from the beginning to have a father and son relationship. We do not become like God wheedling His power around like Lucifer wanted, but become saved children of Light as He is the Light (1 Jn. 1:7). Jesus is the man of the pure Light of God wanted in His children with no darkness and we can become like him.

It makes absolute undeniable perfect sense the totality of being born again is completely in Jesus that God provided Himself a sacrifice for all of mankind. The Spirit of God backs the blood in the name of Jesus (…no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:12) to wash away eternal sins in water baptism. The Spirit of God backs the infilling of the Holy Ghost with power to learn and to be able to separate, contain, and control the knowledge of evil. It takes God to forgive sins. It takes God to have the power enough to separate, contain, and control evil in our lives. How many can absolutely and totally control their thoughts? We can be like God in the sense of knowing good and evil, but placing them in the same place God puts them as He shows us like He did through Jesus.

The thoughts “If I Became Like God” are no longer for the wheedling power to change things for yourself, but to become like God in the sense of saving your own soul returning to the state of the child of God He wanted to have fellowship throughout all eternity. He wants us to be like Him freeing ourselves from the control of sin and the knowledge of evil. This is why the second birth has the two parts of water baptism and the infilling of His Holy Spirit for us to discover freedom together each day with Him.

Have you become like God returning yourself to that pure state of His original creation of His image and likeness separating, containing, and controlling evil in your life? Have you been baptized in the name of Jesus with the power of God backing the blood in that name to wash away your sins? Have you prayed seeking the infilling power of God’s Spirit to lead, to guide, and to teach you how to separate, contain, and control sin in your life? It takes God inside of us to defeat the other side God that was never intended for any creation to have just like a father protecting his child from experiencing the horror He knew it would bring. God loves you and I hope that this has blessed you in a way of an overflowing cup of goodness.