Tuesday, February 21, 2012
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Back Track
I have had a few emails regarding my last blog entry titled Perfect Love. I feel it important to clear up some concerns. I am glad I am getting the feedback! I urge those of you sending me emails to use the comments for the blog entry itself however, I would like to promote open dialog!
First I want to address sin. I am by no means saying it is ok to sin! What I believe is if we are living in Holy Spirit, you will not sin. We have created this mentality . Jesus made a way to free of from sin, not free us to sin.
I have also had people voice concerns that this was somehow related to the topic of same sex marriage. I by no means wrote that with same sex marriage on my mind. I am in no position to declare a personal war with God regarding that issue!
Thats all. I will be adding more in the next few days. Please check back!.
First I want to address sin. I am by no means saying it is ok to sin! What I believe is if we are living in Holy Spirit, you will not sin. We have created this mentality . Jesus made a way to free of from sin, not free us to sin.
I have also had people voice concerns that this was somehow related to the topic of same sex marriage. I by no means wrote that with same sex marriage on my mind. I am in no position to declare a personal war with God regarding that issue!
Thats all. I will be adding more in the next few days. Please check back!.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
Perfect Love
I have come to a realization that those who call themselves Christians, are the biggest obstruction to pathway to Christ. The very meaning of Christ nature has been contaminated by rules and doctrines set forth by man. Religious spirits have become the mainstay of the Christian culture. Man has turned Jesus into a man to be feared rather than a Spirit which exist only for love and compassion. If God is dead, Christians are the killer.
The early Church fathers did not speak or teach of hell. The first gatherings of Christianity, were in a sense the first Universalist. They believed in a direct and personal experience with God. They did not believe that Christ came and died to free us of some religion. He came to break down ALL religion. Jesus did not come and break down Jewish Law just to create a Christian Law that was just as controlling.
For centuries God had been used as a tool for anger. Man found itself bound by senseless rules about what to eat, drink, read, talk about, who to marry, and what people were ok to show respect and love to.
His two commandments were pretty simply in this answer. The first part is easy to follow, we all create in heads what loving God means. The second part is not so easy however, because of the opposite reason , we have no idea how to love our neighbor unconditionally.
Did Jesus say “Control your neighbors”?
Did he say “Judge your neighbors”?
Did he say “Convert your neighbors”?
All Jesus instructed us to do was love and respect each other. He wanted us to stop looking at people through judging eyes. We are not capable of doing work of the spirit. All we are able to do is share that spirit with our actions and interactions with other people. If God feels someone needs to investigate something in their own heart, he is able to bring that to their attention. However he can not do his work when we become a blockage in the flow of Spirit by deciding for Him what people need to be doing. He is God, we are not and we need to stop pretending to be his police force. We can’t even figure out how to live by Jesus’s simple instruction of love, how can we claim to understand the rest of Gods desires?
This has become a widely used scripture against teachings such as this. A key Scripture that helped birth the Evangelistic movement in the United States over the last 60 to 70 years. When read in context without investigation these words seem like a simple instruction. If you are not preaching Jesus, then you are of the Antichrist. However, is there an instruction in that comment? People love to use the beginning of that passage without reading on.
Here is the actual instruction. Love one another. It did not say Judge, Convert, or condemn. The instruction was pretty simple, just love each other.
God dwells in us, so we can dwell with God. His love is something to be shared. I see nothing in here about forcing the word of Jesus. He is saying, if you truly believe in Jesus, and believe you have Jesus in you, walk in that belief. Use the love of Jesus inside you to love on other people. He is telling us here, there can be no fear in love. God himself will use fear to change ones heart, however nowhere does it instruct us to help him in the process. Nowhere does it say that we are to be the ones to use fear. If you are using fear as a tactic to spread the word of God, it can’t be God. God is perfect love, and love cast out fear. If your love is one that utilizes fear it can’t be love because fear is based on torment. There is no torment in love.
Christians have become so fixated on the belief that Jesus is all loving but set strict religious rules for us to live by. Christians judge people based on how often they pray, how good they pray, how much they tithe, whom they associate with, what they look like, where they are from and who knows what else was embedded in each of us through our easily influenced adolescent years.
This is another Scripture God is showing me that has been twisted. When read out of context it appears to be one of Judgement. Live Good or you do not get salvation. You will rot in this concept of Hell that man has established. I tend to believe everyone skips over Matthew 7:1 however.
I’ve never seen a scripture so taken out of context and twisted as I have with this one. Who are we to judge one another? Who are we to declare one a sinner? Who are we to condemn someone to hell?
I have already built a case that out soul purpose on earth is to love each other. That is the one instruction Jesus has given us. He gave us the gift of the Holy Spirit to transform within us and our bodies have become the new temples of Gods presence. With that Spirit within us we can share his UNCONDITIONAL love towards ALL people.
Yet, most of us will never figure this out. For us to fully grasp the meaning of love is very unlikey. Most people will never learn how to love like that. Few will find that understanding. He is not saying few will learn how to live their live in a way that is pleasing enough to God. He is saying we will never fully understand the true meaning of love.
My plea to Christians is to walk in lov. Stop using hate and fear as a way to introduce people to God. The only way Spirit can flow is through love because that is the very essence of God. Out job is not to force our views on life on other people, our job is not to lobby to law makers to force our will on other people, or job is not to teach people the correct way to live their life. Our job is simple, love purely. Love without fear. Love without judgement.
Only when you figure out how to walk in love every second of your life. When you learn to stop any selfish thinking. When you learn to stop any action that has something for you as a motive. When you learn to be a agent of love with your every thought, action and desire, only then can you cast the stone of Judgement. Jesus himself gave us this only instruction because he is all wisdom and he knew our capabilities. He knew the world would twist our thoughts and love would become a complicated task.
Jesus knew it would take us a lifetime just to figure out what selfless love really is.
The early Church fathers did not speak or teach of hell. The first gatherings of Christianity, were in a sense the first Universalist. They believed in a direct and personal experience with God. They did not believe that Christ came and died to free us of some religion. He came to break down ALL religion. Jesus did not come and break down Jewish Law just to create a Christian Law that was just as controlling.
For centuries God had been used as a tool for anger. Man found itself bound by senseless rules about what to eat, drink, read, talk about, who to marry, and what people were ok to show respect and love to.
Matthew 22
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
His two commandments were pretty simply in this answer. The first part is easy to follow, we all create in heads what loving God means. The second part is not so easy however, because of the opposite reason , we have no idea how to love our neighbor unconditionally.
Did Jesus say “Control your neighbors”?
Did he say “Judge your neighbors”?
Did he say “Convert your neighbors”?
All Jesus instructed us to do was love and respect each other. He wanted us to stop looking at people through judging eyes. We are not capable of doing work of the spirit. All we are able to do is share that spirit with our actions and interactions with other people. If God feels someone needs to investigate something in their own heart, he is able to bring that to their attention. However he can not do his work when we become a blockage in the flow of Spirit by deciding for Him what people need to be doing. He is God, we are not and we need to stop pretending to be his police force. We can’t even figure out how to live by Jesus’s simple instruction of love, how can we claim to understand the rest of Gods desires?
1 John 4
1Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
This has become a widely used scripture against teachings such as this. A key Scripture that helped birth the Evangelistic movement in the United States over the last 60 to 70 years. When read in context without investigation these words seem like a simple instruction. If you are not preaching Jesus, then you are of the Antichrist. However, is there an instruction in that comment? People love to use the beginning of that passage without reading on.
4Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
5They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
6We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
Here is the actual instruction. Love one another. It did not say Judge, Convert, or condemn. The instruction was pretty simple, just love each other.
8He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Do you claim to know God? DO you treat ALL your neighbors with love? What is it that you strive for? Do you strive for acceptance of the churched or to have the heart of God?
9In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
13Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit
14And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
15Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
16And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
17Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
19We love him, because he first loved us.
20If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
21And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
God dwells in us, so we can dwell with God. His love is something to be shared. I see nothing in here about forcing the word of Jesus. He is saying, if you truly believe in Jesus, and believe you have Jesus in you, walk in that belief. Use the love of Jesus inside you to love on other people. He is telling us here, there can be no fear in love. God himself will use fear to change ones heart, however nowhere does it instruct us to help him in the process. Nowhere does it say that we are to be the ones to use fear. If you are using fear as a tactic to spread the word of God, it can’t be God. God is perfect love, and love cast out fear. If your love is one that utilizes fear it can’t be love because fear is based on torment. There is no torment in love.
Christians have become so fixated on the belief that Jesus is all loving but set strict religious rules for us to live by. Christians judge people based on how often they pray, how good they pray, how much they tithe, whom they associate with, what they look like, where they are from and who knows what else was embedded in each of us through our easily influenced adolescent years.
Matthew 7
13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it
This is another Scripture God is showing me that has been twisted. When read out of context it appears to be one of Judgement. Live Good or you do not get salvation. You will rot in this concept of Hell that man has established. I tend to believe everyone skips over Matthew 7:1 however.
Matthew 7
1 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.
2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?
5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
6 “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
Ask, Seek, Knock
7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
9 “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
I’ve never seen a scripture so taken out of context and twisted as I have with this one. Who are we to judge one another? Who are we to declare one a sinner? Who are we to condemn someone to hell?
I have already built a case that out soul purpose on earth is to love each other. That is the one instruction Jesus has given us. He gave us the gift of the Holy Spirit to transform within us and our bodies have become the new temples of Gods presence. With that Spirit within us we can share his UNCONDITIONAL love towards ALL people.
Yet, most of us will never figure this out. For us to fully grasp the meaning of love is very unlikey. Most people will never learn how to love like that. Few will find that understanding. He is not saying few will learn how to live their live in a way that is pleasing enough to God. He is saying we will never fully understand the true meaning of love.
My plea to Christians is to walk in lov. Stop using hate and fear as a way to introduce people to God. The only way Spirit can flow is through love because that is the very essence of God. Out job is not to force our views on life on other people, our job is not to lobby to law makers to force our will on other people, or job is not to teach people the correct way to live their life. Our job is simple, love purely. Love without fear. Love without judgement.
Only when you figure out how to walk in love every second of your life. When you learn to stop any selfish thinking. When you learn to stop any action that has something for you as a motive. When you learn to be a agent of love with your every thought, action and desire, only then can you cast the stone of Judgement. Jesus himself gave us this only instruction because he is all wisdom and he knew our capabilities. He knew the world would twist our thoughts and love would become a complicated task.
Jesus knew it would take us a lifetime just to figure out what selfless love really is.
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