January 2024 – Past the Surface

I Am a Memory

A very clear and sobering thought came to me “I Am a Memory“. The thought made me stop and think about a memory to me is something in the past, but I am living right now. You are living right now reading these words. How can I be a memory in the present, I asked? A memory is something you cannot change because it is in the past. I can change in the present how could I be a memory if I am living?

My curiosity was at its peak about the thought “I Am a Memory“. I laid my questions to God and started the journey of understanding. As I always like to think it was God in the first place pointing out a truth that will guide into living a better life daily. Come with me for not only “I Am a Memory“, but you are a memory as well.

The dictionary defines the word ‘memory‘ basically as the ability to recall from what has been learned and retained. Memory is the storage of things learned and retained from activity or experience with the ability to recall that event.

Memory is a simple thing to understand. It is something we all start recording the moment our eyes awake from sleep along with the rest of our other senses. Our minds are recording and storing these retained memories daily. We can call upon them from our mind’s library anytime we like or at times we don’t like. Basically, memory is the records captured in the present we are living in.

Memories are also created through association. An old truck can remind us of a memory we had with our grandfather. A tobacco pipe with a sweet cherry tobacco or a cigar smell could pull a memory of our dad. A flower covered oven mitten may trigger a memory of our grandmother. A vase of flowers triggers the smile upon our mother’s face. Objects can be the association for us replay memories stored away in our minds. Memories recorded in the present taking on age as time passes by.

Our mind is a memory storage database for all things we encounter every second of every day while we are conscious. We drink in this massive amount of memories without realizing the volumes of data our eyes and ears along with our other senses have accumulated. You can easily recall right now looking in the mirror brushing your teeth this morning, what you did for breakfast, or the clothes you decided to put on this morning.

When we hear the word ‘memory‘ we immediately think of things in the past (far into the past), which is a true thought. You are right in that thinking. You know how you can be looking down at the end of the road, across the valley to the base of the mountain, or the sun setting on the ocean? I was looking at a memory as though it was in the far distant past. Yet, “I Am a Memory” in the present moment did not register in my mind.

A memory is not only far in the distant past, but a memory is created instantly after one second of time has passed by. Now, the light starts to shine upon “I Am a Memory“. A memory is simply in the present as each and every second ticks by it is created in that moment. Time does not stop even if our clocks, watches, or phones stop. A memory instantly becomes the second goes by making it the past right before our very present eyes.

You and I are living memories. We do not count what happens in every second. It is the same as we do not look underneath our own noses sometimes to see ourselves in how we are speaking or doing unto others. We just do it. Seconds tick by right now as they become fleeting memories.

All of us are a living memory within the seconds that tick by which explains the question God pointed me towards in ^{James 4:14}“…what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.” See how this is a very clear and sobering thought. Every second of life is precious. What we do inside those seconds count not only for ourselves, but others. It is mind blowing how quickly we become memories in the seconds we breathe.

The exact moment you left your house closing the door behind you saying goodbye to your pet that instantly becomes a memory of that day. The moment you said, “I love you, dad“, “I love you, mom” or whomever you are thinking of right now turns quickly into a memory as you walk away. In that very second could be the last memory you have of them. I say, God forbid, but this is a harsh reality of this life.

This has happen to all of us around the world. Those last fleeting seconds of living memories become all that we have left of them. You and I are living memories forming a remaining record in those around us and the life we lived here on earth. There is no guarantee of any of us living the next second. Can you think of someone who died unexpectedly at a very young age or even a healthy older person?

It is clear what God was trying to tell me and His desire for me to share it with you. I am and you are a memory living as a vapor that everyone sees for a little while and with seconds time quickly vanishes away into people’s distant past of memories. Just like the first part of that scripture says we “…know not what shall be on the morrow…” ^{James 4:14}Our seconds of being living memories before all should be focused on ^{verse 15}“…If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that“. You are a gift that God is shaping into a memory those in your world could be blessed until they join you in heaven. What kind of memory do you want to be?

Can you remember in school the students getting out their books beside and around you? Can you recall the memory of in the office hearing your co-worked on the phone saying something that made you laugh, cringe, or think that was bold to say? Have you caught your dad letting out bodily gas and him saying, “it thundered” and you replied, “I think the thundered had some lightning in it that struck an outhouse” smiling and laughing? Those are created memories in those seconds that now have become a distant memory created in that present moment.

Every second that passes by while we are alive becomes a memory, therefore “I Am a Memory“. You are a memory. You, yourself are recording every second of your present existence. Turning off the alarm to wake up, throwing the covers off, hesitating putting your feet on the cold floor because you don’t want to get up is a possible daily memory. Slowly shuffling to the bathroom to start your morning routine is a memory. “All seconds of time turn into memories” was God’s desire to show me and you.

We do things so quickly everyday out of routine and there is no focused consciousness of the memory storage of those events. We see people everyday out of routine and do not realize the routine of seeing and hearing them. We have living memories forming out of each second that passes by only to be realized when that living memory passes away do we stop to cherish them. Time is moving by quicker than we realize. You are at a age you thought you would never reach with more to come if God wills.

Do you know of anyone in your life that you just spoke to them that day or the day before and the news of them passing away came to your hearing? None of us know the exact moment a person we may know will pass away including ourselves. Even if we get a warning, the exact moment is unpredictable. You and I are memories living in the right now that could be that vapor fading away into the air at any time.

We visited relatives in another state and an uncle was having heart issues over the past few years. I had a feeling, which I believe was a hint from the Lord, that this may be the last time we will see him alive. So, I made sure to record the moments of laughter and the times together. He had a very distinctive laughter. We received the news he had passed away in between the times we traveled down to visit the family. He is recorded in our minds and on the video as a precious memory. We never know when a present memory will be sealed with all that is left of that person.

You and I are living memories for those around us. For we do not know the day nor the hour death will be allowed to touch our bodies releasing our spirit from within into all eternity. We have people who go to the hospital and we expect them to come out for we know they are younger and stronger looking in their appearance. The shock of them passing away seems almost impossible, but they did. How are you spending your moments and what are you giving your time to?

“I Am a Memory” is a reality of knowing our interactions with each other in the present will be all we have after they are gone and also it will be the only thing that we take with us into eternity. Sure, you may have objects from them, but it will be the memory of that object that brings them alive in your mind. You may receive objects, money, or land from them, but it will be the memory of them working using those thing that you will cherish.

When the hint from God came true about being the possible last time of seeing that uncle alive, it changed me. The thoughts of ‘we are saying goodbye to each other everyday‘ for the memory of the last time could come to pass causes me to have a humble cherishing present moments with others.

This is years later that the Lord is telling you and I that we are living memories in the present moment as the seconds tick by stopping for no one and passing by like a fleeting vapor. Does this make you think about the thoughts you have each second? Does this make you think about how you treat people every moment? Does this make you think about what kind of things you are storing in your memories to take before God presenting yourself before Him?

In this life we work hard to have a car, a home, clothing, food, and a life filled with other things we would like to have, but in the end we will not take the car, the home, the clothing, the food, and other things of this world with us. Those things will stay behind in this world with no memory of us and the new owners take our place using those things that were once ours. People’s eternal spirit are the ones the memories will be with not with the objects of this world that are temporary.

“Using people and loving things only lead to misery. Loving people and using things is the way it ought to be” were words from a song I heard many years ago. God’s focus was you and I. He did not come to save the world, but you and I. Saving us from the eternal moment we become when death strikes out fleshly body.

The memories will go with us before God and they will stay behind to those who knew us. The office workers, construction workers, school workers, and all other people we were around will be accumulating recorded memories of our existence. They will recall at times like we do the living seconds of the passing of someone as they go about doing physically their daily routines only for the memories to be faded from their present mind.

WHAT TO DO

We are all living split second memories. Death can and will remove us at any time from this life. You and I cannot stop from becoming a permanent memory some day. No more than we can stop time. “I Am a Memory” will happen every second we live. As a child you remember seeing your grandparents, aunts, uncles, mom and dad. You remember being the kid running around looking up to them. You remember being the teenager sitting at the table. You remember getting married, having your first child and now you are the parent. You see yourself becoming all those older family members the aunt, the uncle, the grandparent until you are the last one sitting around the table with children laughing and smiling.

You have the memories and you are the memories. You cannot stop from being a memory. The question is what to do about being a living memory right now before your family, friends, and strangers. What should you and I do in this moment as the seconds tick away from us into the some day distant memory? God lead me into the understanding that “I Am a Memory” and He is the one I will ask, seek, and knock for the answers of being a living memory. He will help us to be the memory that is pleasing to Him and a blessing to the world.

What are our Memories to God? Just like we have memories God is recording our lives in a book (PS. 40:6-8, Heb. 10:7). You are the title to this book and the pages within contain all of your thoughts and all of your actions. Thinking of my own book having all things written down is a scary thought to me. I am glad God will erase those recorded sins in those pages once we are born again receiving His blood washing away forgiveness through Jesus Christ.

ANSWER OF A CLEAN CONSCIENCE

Being born again erases all the sins of your past even though your mind will never let you forget your past. The memories will be there, but your born again present moment passing memories can fill up with His fellowship in prayer/conversation, guidance of understandings, and how to do things that makes God happy with you.

To get your book of sins forgiven you will need the greatest power known to all creation. Memories are inside our eternal spirit that goes back to heaven for God to open that book of memories to judge us by (1 Cor. 3:13). When we die in that instant all our memories and deeds will be eternally locked into place with no possible way of changing them as we the authors we be placed in the eternal location of our deeds and choices we made.

Our memories containing the words we have spoken (Mtt. 12:36) and the deeds we have done in our eternal spirit takes the power of an eternal Spirit to forgive them. All of mankind is born into this world with the nature of sin (Rom. 3:23). Sin came from an eternal source of evil and sin will have to be removed by an eternal source of good. An ordinary eraser cannot anything from your eternal spirit book.

The book cover is like your fleshly body and the pages within are like your eternal spirit with the recorded memories of your life. The recordings on your soul is written in eternal ink. To remove the sin filled records from your soul it would take another more powerful eternal ink remover to create a clean slate in you. God did this for us. Your memories can be forgiven, but not forgotten by you as a reminder of where you came from and to never want to go back. This is a knowing good and evil with the choice of making good the path you want to follow and evil to shun.

GOD’S BOOK

God created His own book to walk among us for the very purpose of saving our souls and rewriting our evil memories with good memories. The fleshly body of God was Jesus the man and the Spirit inside Jesus was God (Col. 2:9, 2 Cor. 5:19). This is why God had John to write “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” ^{Jn. 1:1} The written words inside of Jesus had the pure eternal approved blood ink of God.

The Word inside the fleshly book cover of Jesus the man was God Himself. This did not stop God from being everywhere at once. This was the central focus of His eternal Spirit written Word of Himself that spoke creation in the beginning. You see, we were made in the image and likeness of God. God was recording in the memories of Jesus the man the way, the truth and the life we can all follow back to heaven to eternally stay with our heavenly Father.

Our fleshly body reflects an outward appearance of God and our spirit resembles an inward eternal written spirit of God. This is why we have a living eternal soul. The things that do not have God’s Spirit and eternal substance are temporary. The things outside our bodies are temporary and the spirit within our bodies are eternal.

God gave John the insight that God, the core written and thinking part of Himself, was made flesh, walked among us here on earth, the people of that day saw God’s glory through God’s created fleshly outward book cover of Jesus Christ revealing the fullness of grace and truth (Jn. 1:14).

CLEAN SLATE

Now, we have God among us to pay our sin debt to wash away our eternal ink debt of sin that is written in our spirit. The difference between God’s book of Jesus and our book is what was written on the inside. Our book has a memory of being born into sin and could possibly have the memory of dying in sin going into eternity. God’s fleshly book was created without sin in the man Jesus and has the ending death of resurrecting to never dying again having a pure conscience.

Jesus the man has the eternal written words of life on the inside to pay our sin debt by the pure approved eternal blood ink God created to have the power to erase the eternal ink of sin in ours. For all of us to be saved we have to allow the approved eternal blood ink of Jesus to rewrite forgiveness and our sin with the help of the Spirit of God showing us how to write good memories inside our books.

Our memories are written on the pages inside of our spirit and our bodies are the outward cover titled with our name. Jesus is the outward name on God’s given fleshly book to mankind with God Himself, the Father of all creation, on the inside of Jesus for the saving of our souls.

Jesus went to the cross to be crucified in our place where God trapped our eternal sin’s debt inside the flesh of Jesus the man. When Jesus died he took sin with him. His body was put in tomb to be buried. You can kill the body, but you cannot kill the written Spirit of God. On the third day when all the memories had settled for the death of Jesus, God raised the man Jesus free from the pains of death (Acts 2:24) maintaining a pure eternal conscience of oneness with God.

Now, the fleshly book cover of Jesus the man has a bought and paid for the sins of mankind with God’s Written Spirit in him creating a way for us to walk this life to creating memories of goodness, filling our conscience with the truth, and living every second with the potential of life and life more abundantly (Jn 10:10).

BLESSED MEMORIES

To fill our daily memories with blessings is to become one with God. If we join ourselves in the oneness with Jesus the link to having good memories for ourselves and those around us will be from the guidance of the Holy Spirit of God. Can you imagine having God inside your thoughts telling you and showing you the value of each second you live? Wow! Jesus the man lived daily with God helping him to make blessed memories and showing us how to truly live this life pleasing to God. Adam and Eve failed, whereas as Jesus succeeded.

To start the rewriting power of God to erase the written sins in my life all I have to do is follow Jesus into a parallel death, burial, and resurrection written in the approved eternal blood ink of God. The wonderful releasing seconds of repenting of my sins with a never won’t to be like that ever again is the first step paralleling death on the cross with Jesus.

The next step is to apply the erasing/forgiving power of God to wash away all my sins remitting them. It takes the power of the innocent and pure eternal blood of Jesus to wash those sins away. When I go down in water baptism submerged with the name of Jesus being said over me applies the blood that is inside his name parallels being buried with Jesus invoking the power of forgiveness from God.

The last step is to experience being raised from the dead paralleling the resurrection of Jesus. This takes the mighty power of God to resurrect a dead sin filled spirit, which is us. If you and I come up out of that water praising God and thanking Him He might in that moment or He may choose later on to come upon you and I filling us with the gift of His Holy Spirit with power to speak another language as a sign to you and I along with anyone else that is around hearing us praising God’s wonderful works. This you will know you have resurrecting power inside your body as God as your Spirit roommate.

This is a scripture of an eternal promise written in the blood of Jesus Christ approved by God. God/Jesus gave this plan of salvation to Peter to tell the people of that day, the sin debt did not change nor did the sin debt payment plan of salvation for our day. What to do then is the same as what to do today to be saved and keeping a good conscience with God.

^{Acts 2:38}“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.“

^{1 Peter 3:21}“The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:” Our flesh will never be a Christian because it is of this world, but our conscience with the memories recorded will live forever in a new eternal body.

Change your every second into memories that God, you, and others will be pleased with. We can’t do it alone. You and I are living memories. Why not have God helping us to write those pages in our life? You may fade with man, but you will never fade with God. May your walk with God be glorious and rich with understandings.

Time in the Bible

BIBLE EVENTS

Time is something we all at one point or another begin to think about. When we were children time was not something we slowed down to think about unless we were in a torturous situation. There is a saying, “time flies when you are having fun“, but I have added to it that “time crawls when you are being tortured“.

In the reality time does not stop for anyone, but God. Therefore, time makes us all older by the second regardless of our living complaints. I imagine now as you, the reader, could quickly pull up a memory of when you were younger running free with no care in the world.

Time in us is different than the “Time in the Bible“. One of the hardest things for us not to do is pulling the Bible into our time and boxing it up inside the walls of our thinking; “…one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” (2 Peter 3:8) As we read the Bible we place ourselves into the scene believing all of this happened all at once when some of it happened later. We have to have an open mind to God’s time is not our time.

The “…one day…thousand years…thousand years as one day” came from apostle Peter explaining that in the last days people will try to pull God into their personal timing from a sinful heart making fun of and ridiculing about where is God with all His promises. People will purposely and willingly choose to ignore the “Time in the Bible” for their own lustful times of temporary pleasures of the earth. We have to be careful not to be pulled into it.

“Time in the Bible” will continually unfold before our eyes no matter how much we try to speed it up, slow it down, or constrain it. “For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.” (2 Cor. 13:8) Time is like truth. We can nothing against it, but only for it. We can work with it while we have breathe or we can blindly fight against it to our own demise.

In Luke 21:25, 26 reads, “²⁵And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; ²⁶Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. ”

We read scriptures like these trying to see the time in which it will happen ignoring the present state of our soul. We have some of these things happening in our present day with some people seeing the “Time in the Bible” or ignoring the signs of the times. God’s time is truth made evident in the earth and in people right before our eyes. We cannot squeeze His time into ours. It will happen, but when it is the right time. We just have to be presently ready.

People are having heart attacks more and more today. We haven’t as of yet seen the “…signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars…“. Distress of nations and the perplexity of governments over those nations we see every day. The “…sea and the waves roaring…” have occurred over the years what we would call a tsunami that came from “…earthquakes in divers places” (Mtt. 24:7).

It is crucial for all of mankind to look to God in His Bible for the times of the saving of our souls because the times of the earth will only bring fear, stress, and despair causing the hearts of people to fail. We have become good at reading the sky for the weather that is approaching, but giving up on seeing the “Time in the Bible” has dulled our spiritual senses of God’s words being fulfilled right before our eyes (Mtt. 16:3).

Temptations (Satan/Evil) has us looking and keeping us occupied in our phones, TV, and in the internet burying our senses into the natural fleshly things so much so our spirit never truly sees what is coming. People are going to places offered by technology seeing what they want to see not realizing the dulling of their spirit’s ability to see God’s truth unfolding in the “Time in the Bible“. Our time is being spent by someone else and it is time we can never get back.

You know the part where Jesus said, “…the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.” in Matthew 11:12? The people in the Old Testament could not see the prophets and servants of God for the heavenly sent purpose they were. They killed heaven’s messengers, thus “…heaven suffereth violence…“. The heavenly sent messengers suffered violence for their timely message from God. God would bless the people and they would build cities in the prosperous and blessed times God gave them. These people who were selfish and desirous of power would trick and force their ideas on the good people God in these towns and cities, thus “…violent take it by force“. We see in our time today the trickery and now the forcing on us is being attempted.

They selfishly saw the time for themselves forsaking the warnings of the “Time in the Bible“. The people of God back then like the people of God today are playing music before the Lord trying to put a dance of worship for the lost soul to be set free, but they don’t have time or find it not necessary. The people of God are singing the songs to prick the heart with the reception of a cold shoulder and no tear of conviction flowing down the cheek. The conscience of mankind is being seared by a philosophical hot iron so slowly liken unto the slow boiling of the frog story in a pot unrealizing to the frog it is being cooked over time.

The seasons, the times, and the purpose of the Bible is happening right in front of us and we cannot afford to keep trying to cram the “Time in the Bible” into our mold. We need to accept we are inside the “Time in the Bible” and things will happen no matter what we do. They are trying again with the suffering violence on heaven’s people while trying to take over the places God’s people have built for their families even with force. Power, greed, and lust has taken over the majority of leaders in the world.

Remember, “For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.” (2 Cor. 13:8). All of us are subject to the choice of what we do with our time. People can be in time flowing with truth focused on doing the pleasing things before God or they can be trying to fight upstream against truth with the results of having their conscience seared with a hot iron (1 Tim. 4:2) ever learning, but never able to come to the truth (2 Tim. 3:7) dying in sins. Giving God your time keeps good common sense and wisdom about you. Fighting God with your time brings crazy thinking and wild selfish fleshly actions to satisfy temporary lusts that will want more.

God is outside time patiently waiting with mercy and grace following mankind for the perfect “Time in the Bible” to apply His warnings to mankind and the earth. Don’t be fooled by the ticking time on your clock to be the same as God’s unlimited time of a thousand years is a day and a day is a thousand years with God. The time of the perilous times (2 Tim. 3) the Bible speaks of is here and now.

TIME IN THE BIBLE GOD’S WORD

Mankind has tried to force time to be in their favor trying to make things happen just for them with no success. There is another time mankind has tried to change with God. The first thing mankind wanted to change was how long he lived, which has not really changed to this day. Death strikes at different ages no matter the health of the body. Eternal life, fountain of youth, a tower to heaven, and other attempts to reach a status of eternal life without God. We do not master time, but time is the master of us with God’s mercy falling upon us at periodical times.

The second thing mankind wanted to change was God’s word. Just like trying to make time work for us God’s word was another target people tried to control for their benefit. Eve and Adam wanted to change their earthly status to an equal status with God believing the evil fruit of death in disobedience to God would achieve that goal ignoring the words of warning that the outcome would be death. God’s word is not time with a beginning and an end. To change God’s word is to accept the evil horrors of death, disease, and sin.

Satan and the angels wanted the same thing to change their status to be equal and even higher than God by mixing lies with truth. The angels were not inside time and this left them eternally damned when they sinned, whereas mankind was inside time and sin could be paid off with time by God using His perfect “Time in the Bible” for a child to be born to unfold salvation.

Time and truth cannot be stopped by mankind. Truth is synchronized by God’s time. God came to earth by the designated “Time in the Bible” He wanted to appear before mankind bringing an escape route by which mankind could choose to go through back to eternity with Him. God loves and time is His mercy window for us to change.

As always some of mankind try to fight time and truth along with attempting to convince others like Satan did to the angels to rebel. Mankind has fought the messengers of the Old Testament, the New Testament, and His people today. Mankind has chosen beatings, jail, and death to try to shut up, shut down, and remove the truth of God. Mankind is in denial of the “Time in the Bible” and the “Truth in the Bible“. It is a “I want what I want and it is not God” attitude.

Mankind is telling the people the events in the Bible will not happen just to believe in them and not God. We will take care of you. It is up to us to save ourselves. Mankind is telling the people the way of salvation is open to everyone’s idea of salvation. It doesn’t matter. God is love and no one goes to an eternal hell burning in fire. It doesn’t exist, they say. Denial does not stop time or truth from happening.

It is happening right now before us every day. The Lord is coming back to the earth and who will He find faithful to His truth and His purpose? Who will be for the truth and those against the truth will only make it more the truth because nothing can stop the truth. What is truth?

MATTHEW

God started the plan of salvation in one place, but there has been an attempt to reject it, divide it, and water it down. It is all about change. You can’t change time or the truth. That one place of salvation is not in Matthew 28:19 “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:” This would be the Matthew’s plan of salvation creating followers of Matthew. Be baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost and you are saved. Any religions pop up in your mind?

MARK

That one place of salvation is not in Mark 16:16 “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.” Just believe, be baptized no specific way mentioned, and you will be saved. This would be the Mark’s plan of salvation creating followers of Mark. Any philosophies you’ve heard of like this?

LUKE

That one place of salvation is not in Luke 24:47 “And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.” The preaching of repentance and remission of sins would be the plan of salvation. If you just attend church hearing the preaching of repentance and remission of sins you will be saved. This would be Luke’s plan of salvation creating followers of Luke. Can you think of anyone who just goes to church thinking that is all there is to it to being saved?

JOHN

That one place of salvation is not in the gospel of John because John did not end his biography of the life of Jesus with a plan of salvation. Therefore, those who believe all are saved could say John did not lay out any salvation and we can believe whatever we want for it doesn’t matter. This would be John’s plan of salvation creating followers of John.

MIXED IDEAS OF MAN

Mankind has made themselves saved according the Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The religions of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; religions of believe and be baptized any ole way; religions of attend church listening to preaching; and religions of believe whatever you want it all counts for the same thing. Is that really the truth of God?

Time cannot be changed and truth cannot be changed. People can only create an illusion of things being different. Time and truth can only be twisted with a sales pitch of smooth talking words of mankind, but in true reality not changing one thing. We cannot stop a storm, but Jesus did (Luke 8:24). We cannot move time forward or backwards, but God can (Is. 38:7, 8).

Whether we say it or not people are the same back then as they are today only with a technology difference. I was a Matthew 28:19 follower only being taught that way. What are you? Did you know people were claiming to be other types of followers and this happened in the Bible? People were claiming their salvation as followers of Paul or of Apollos. Paul asked them, “Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?” (Acts 19, 1 Cor. 1:13)

Was Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John trying to divide Jesus Christ up into different branches of religions? Was Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John claiming the crucifixion in their own personal way? What was your steps of salvation? Was your water baptism in the name of Matthew 28:19 and Mark 16:16?

None of these four men divided the plan of salvation of Jesus Christ. They were providing the life and times of Jesus Christ and not the plan of salvation as so many people in mankind has twisted into their ideas of salvation. God does not change and Jesus does not change, which would include the plan of salvation did not change. Time and truth cannot be changed. “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” (Hebrews 13:8)

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John do not have all three elements of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. These three elements are essential and without them it is not a complete following of God’s plan of salvation. These gospel writers were sending off all readers on a generality of what things were to happen later without specific details because this was the life and times of Jesus, not the birth of the church.

The one plan of salvation from God includes the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. God’s plan of salvation parallels what happen to Jesus for us to follow as His plan of salvation. We are to die, be buried, and resurrected in the name of Jesus to perfectly parallel the three essential ingredients of God’s salvation.

TRUTH OF SALVATION

This is the first place in God’s word the plan of salvation was preached and it contains more details to what the gospel writers pointed towards. You will see each one of their writings fulfilled in this scripture as God had intended.

“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.” (Acts 2:38). Do you see all three elements are preached in one location? Repentance, water baptism, remission of sins, and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost parallels the death, the burial, and the resurrection. This book is not the biography of Jesus Christ like the gospels, but about us the church and the unchanging plan of salvation.

“Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you’ (Gospel Mark said this) ‘in the name‘ (Gospel of Matthew said this) ’of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins‘ (Gospel Luke said this) ‘, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” (Jesus said this).

This totally completes the born again of the water and of the Spirit Jesus told Nicodemus that must be done to enter heaven (Jn. 3). Matthew is where people misunderstand the scripture. Jesus is a name and not a title like father, son, and holy ghost. Jesus came in his Father’s name (Jn. 5:43). The angel told them what the son’s name should be (Mtt. 1:20, 21; Luke 1:30, 31). The Holy Ghost is sent to us in Jesus name (Jn. 14:26). Jesus Christ is One with God and in salvation making us one through Jesus to God.

I am of Matthew 28:19. I am of Mark 16:16. I am of Luke 24:47. I am of John. Is Christ divided? Were any of these crucified for you? Jesus was the only one who died for our sins. Jesus was the only one who was buried in a tomb. Jesus was the only one who was resurrected. If you are a follower of Matthew the Father and the Holy Ghost cannot be killed, buried, or resurrected. There is no blood in a spirit, but in the man Jesus there was blood. ^{Col. 2:9}“For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.“

The only plan of salvation God intended for us to follow had the three elements of what Jesus went through providing us the way, the truth, and the life by which we can be with God. We don’t have to physically die, be buried, and pulled out of the ground because Jesus did that. We are to repent, which is a choice of death to sin in our lives. Our repentance is death to sin. We are to be baptized in water like a burial in Jesus name, which has the power of the blood to wash away our sins for the blood is inside Jesus’s name. We are to then receive the gift of the Holy Ghost with the power of resurrection with a sign only given by God that we received it with speaking a praise to God language we did not fleshly learn (Acts 2:4, 6-11).

Jesus Christ is not divided by Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John. Matthew pointed out baptism in the name and Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is not a name, but a title. Jesus is a name. Mark pointed out believing and water baptism was the right direction to go to start the process. Luke pointed out the preaching of Peter with the repentance and remissions of sins was the right direction to go without naming specifics because they were in the book of Acts. John pointed out at the end of book don’t worry about others just follow Jesus is the right direction to go.

Signs of the times the Bible speaks about are here. We cannot change time, but we can do the right thing by God inside time while we have breathe. Signs of the Bible truth is unfolding all around us. We been distracted and preoccupied missing the plan God has for the saving of our soul.

I feel it is like the ark in Noah’s day with the people of the earth doing and saying crazy sinful things. The ark’s door is closer to the moment of being closed. Once closed, no one else can get in when the full wrath falls. Every day we must make God first and live our every moments in Jesus for no one knows the day nor the hour Jesus is returning to the earth except God just like in the days of Noah it will be with Jesus second coming (Mtt. 24:35-37).

Where in the scriptures of the Bible did it stop and change repentance, water baptism in Jesus name for the remission of sins, and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost? The gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John pointed towards Acts 2:38. Christ is not divided and the scriptures are not divided. God is One with His Word.

Remember, “For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.” (2 Cor. 13:8). You and I cannot change what is coming. We cannot change time and we cannot change what God has put in place for us. He loves you. He died for you. He resurrected opening a door for you.

^{Luke 21:27}“And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.” Will Jesus see repentance, his name of baptism on you, and the power of the gift of the Holy Ghost glowing in you? Your time and my time is only secure in God. May God bless you.