One Way, the Good News

About this post. I celebrate that I am able to write this and that it’s plain.  Mixture and confusion plagued me for most of my life as to just what the gospel of the Kingdom was. Hours and years of teaching that held only the truth slowly unraveled all the half truths that had been built from many directions of cultures I had been exposed to in my thinking.

I pray the simplicity of the Good News shines through and helps you see things I didn’t see for years  

Dec 6, 2022 

Unless the Lord builds the house, it’s built in vain. This should be understood as, “Unless our Father establishes each member of His family, error, through lack of knowing Him, will persist.” 

This is why He establishes His mature Sons in His Kingdom government. Only those Sons that He has given His authority to have learned to rule themselves or restrain themselves. They hold themselves accountable to hear Him and only say what He is saying and do what He is doing.  These beloved brethren of the same womb of our Father are gifts from the Father meant to equip the Body of Christ to live as One Holy People in the earth. Ephesians 4 becomes plain and clear as we experience life in the Kingdom of our Father versus the institutional church life that most of us were brought into confusion and mixture through. 

Jesus explained to the man, Nicodemus, His Father’s order. Each one begins life in God’s family experiencing the Kingdom of God by being born of the Spirit and Water. God is Spirit. We have to be born of His Spirit. The divine life-giving water of the Word was made flesh and dwelt among mankind as Jesus.  When the Spirit hovered over the Waters, in Genesis, together, they established all of creation.

Then came the fall from life in and with our Father.  To be reestablished in life with the Father and in His order we must be born again. Otherwise, we are unable to even see the Kingdom, let alone live in it. 

When we are reborn He becomes the Word (Jesus) implanted in us by way of the Spirit that continually washes us and is able to restore and save our souls with truth and His way.

The Bible is full of what was inspired by the Holy Spirit. The Word or authority of God was sent through messengers (angels and certain men) into the earth to continue to reveal God to mankind.   Their testimonies concerning the Word or the authority He gave to bring it, somehow, became misconstrued and many call the Bible the Word of God. It certainly contains much said by Him through others experiences but only Jesus can be called the Word that has proceeded from the mouth of God. God said, “let there be light.” Jesus is the Light of the World. He shows the way out of obscurity or the veiled truth.  Only as we become one with Him can we be any representation of what God says or representations of His light.   Jesus is the Word and the scriptures came as a result of Him. They are meant to reveal Him. 

Otherwise, these 66 books just become what man says. Consider that the number of man is six and when scriptures are taught to say what man says and stop revealing Jesus you see the number 666. This is something that should sober us. It certainly sobered me when I saw it.

When we are born again of Our Father’s Spirit and Jesus becomes the cleansing Word that washes us with truth and frees us from error we can be redeemed to His original intentions for each of us. We can be restored to look, feel and act like Him for He originally made man in His likeness and His image.

The fall separated mankind from their Father. Mankind became orphans. Everyone did what was right in their own eyes. This is the Biblical definition of “lawlessness.” Surrendering to Jesus is the only way back to knowing and living in our Father’s original plans for any of mankind. That way is made through Jesus, the Son.

God, our Father’s likeness and image is Spirit and Love. He is our standard of living and being. He is righteous. Righteousness is defined as right thinking, feeling and behaving according to Him.  Jesus came to the earth to show mankind the Father in His  likeness and image; yet, no one recognized Him or received Him except those God chose to reveal Himself to. Jesus was lifted up on the cross to draw all men back to the Father. We will only come to Jesus if the Father draws us.

We are to return to live in our Father’s likeness that can only happen by communing with our Father’s Spirit. He is the only way our souls can be redeemed or saved; thus, becoming who He created us to be. Our spirit is that life force in us where the Holy Spirit of our Father abides. We know Him and we know His voice. He is not just God. He is Abba or Father.

We submit to burying (symbolic in water baptism) any way of thinking, feeling and acting that isn’t within the plans of our Father that became established in us by our soul before we were born again. Our soul, under the direction of God’s Spirit begins with a clean slate to learn to live in a new and divine or transcendent way of life. We surrender to having our minds renewed until we understand and live fully in the mind of Christ.

Five aspects of God’s grace work in us as we are established in Him. These are the graces of salvation, reconciliation, conformation (sanctification), maturation and exact representation of our Father.

This is the good news of the gospel. Through the blood of Jesus our past sins are forgiven so we can start over with a brand new life directed by the Spirit of our Father living according to His likeness and image. This is a life of restraint empowered by the Holy Spirit. His Spirit rests on us as He did in Jesus. He teaches and encourages us, imparting the ability to rule ourselves according to the way of our Father. We rule with wisdom, understanding, knowledge, counsel and power by the authority given by His Spirit. We purpose to live in the fear of the Lord which is to bow in all things to His sovereign leadership. We learn to only do what He says and say what He says.

While we don’t have a new body to contain our new and transcendent life, we are promised new, eternal bodies when our Father determines that our resurrected Savior will return to the earth. 

This is how Jesus builds the church. He brings in one family member or one son, personally teaching them, Himself, by His Spirit.  Each of us, as we are all sons (spirit is neither male nor female. It’s our soul that’s saved, not our bodies) of God is sovereignly established in Christ by the Father’s Spirit through great love and nurturing.

While He begins establishing His Kingdom order (builds His Church) in those who are His family while they are still on the earth, He will return to be here with us in the earth for 1000 years. We will all receive new, imperishable bodies. During that time He will continue establishing His peace and good order or His Kingdom in the whole earth. Choice will be removed as to whether one follows Him. His family will rule with Him. His family is an order of priests and kings. He is the King of kings. He is the High Priest in the order of Melchizedek. This is an order of peace and good will toward men.

As the epoch of the 1000 years comes to an end, mankind will be given freedom to choose to follow or not to live as God’s family again with understanding that judgement is coming for all. 

The Great White Throne Judgement will

follow after a short while. Those who died apart from being born again will be judged. Those angels that misled mankind from living in Christ, along with those who followed their lies, will come to an end. God is not willing that anyone should perish. Anyone who perished has been given every opportunity over and over to receive and follow the way of their Father.  

A new heaven and a new earth will be created for His family where all of mankind  has chosen to live as Sons dedicated to loving their Father. We are secure in righteousness, peace and joy. Love reigns. There shall no longer be sorrow or pain and death no longer exists. Selah