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He Has Always Been Savior

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The one and only God of the Old Testament is the exact same one and only God of the New Testament. He has always had the power over life and death. He has always been sovereign. Nothing about His saving power changed as we turned the pages of the Bible into New Testament times.

God did not create a second God. After 400 years of silence, God gave mankind what they always craved … an image of God that they could see with their eyes, hear with their ears, and identify with in suffering. He is the exact same one and only Spirit of God whether He was wearing flesh or not. Nothing about His power changed. He always had resurrection power. He always had power to forgive sin. That whole New Testament walk on earth was Him getting down to our level to look us in the eyes and teach us about Himself.

It completely offends me that some think that God sent a second and/or third God to do what only He could do. Are they just not reading the Bible or are they too ignorant to understand? But what is really offensive is that they claim to hear God’s voice in prayer, yet they have no idea who He is. The worst part (for me personally) is that I have sacrificed a life of comfort so that I’m able to teach them to hear God’s voice, yet they refuse. At best, they’re liars and at worst, they’re intentionally bringing false doctrine into God’s houses of worship to misguide innocent believers.

I’m in a relationship with the God of the Old Testament. He is the Old Testament Father who wore New Testament “Son” flesh. He is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I hear His voice just like they did. They didn’t need a mankind image to hear and obey God. They experienced God in the spiritual realm just like I do. Oh, I believe that God did everything He said that He did: coming to earth in mankind flesh, teaching, mentoring, healing, casting out demons, and evicting evil spirits. He proved Himself to those who needed proof. He even let them witness His death on a cross and resurrection power. And for some that still wasn’t enough.

He has always been the only Savior. Some are just too stupid to understand.

ONE GOD: Day 5 of 5

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“You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.” (James 2:19 NIV)

“For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people. This has now been witnessed to at the proper time.” (1 Timothy 2:5-6 NIV)

A local pastor has recently more than once referred to Jesus as interceding on our behalf. Seriously? My question is who is He interceding to? Even in wrong Trinitarian theology, their Son-God is equal in authority to their Father-God. And I’m pretty sure that they would not say that the Father-God is mute: unable to hear prayers or speak. So why would God need a second God to intercede? Obviously He doesn’t.

Did God need an intercessor when He spoke with the Old Testament patriarchs and prophets? Where was an intercessor ever mentioned by Abraham, Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah, or anyone besides in this one Scripture text? Isn’t it more likely that this Scripture was reminding us not to pray to any human representative like Mary or saints?

God walked in human (Son) flesh as the man Christ Jesus. In that role, He was clear that we should only pray to the Father (the Spirit). God is all knowing, always present, and all powerful. He knows a word before it is on our tongue. He doesn’t need an intercessor.

While God walked in human (Son) flesh, He personally experienced our sorrows. God purposely chose to suffer as mankind. He tethered Himself on earth in a Son-of-Man flesh-and-blood frame and allowed Himself to be crucified on a cross. He didn’t send someone else. He personally did it. He didn’t send a Son-God. He made Himself visible as Son of Man. God is Spirit, not flesh.

John 16:25 NIV
“Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father.”

The flesh suit delivered through Mary was not God. It was the vehicle for which God was made seen. Mary was a created being. She could not EVER be the mother of God — because God is the CREATOR. Mary simply birthed a biological flesh suit and God provided Himself as the Spirit. A second God was NEVER created.

When I die, and my body is disposed of, my spirit being will be transported to Heaven with God. There is not a second spirit that stays in the corpse. Same for you. Absent from the body, you are a spirit being. The human reproduction process only provides for the flesh and blood frame. It is God who provides the spirit being within each of us. Our parents are not responsible for creating our eternal spirit. And Mary had zero to do with creating the Spirit of God.

I maintain that this one Scripture text was reminding us that we are not to pray to a human agent, living or dead. But, God knows that it is easier for us to relate to a flesh-and-blood person that we can picture rather than an invisible Spirit that has never been seen. So if you must have an intercessor, make it the “man” Christ Jesus so that you are not praying to a second God. Jesus is God and has always been God. There is only one God, but don’t believe me. Ask Him yourself! If you really have a relationship with Him, then you know who He is. Right?

You can call Him “God”, “Jesus”, or “Holy Spirit”. But Jesus is the only name. God and Holy Spirit are titles, not names. My parents have names but I call them mom and dad (which are titles). I ask you to dig a little deeper into your analytical thinking because figurative language and parables were God’s specialty as He walked on earth as Son of Man. If that’s too much to ask, then I guess you could keep praying to three Gods, but I don’t recommend it. He hears every word and knows that He can’t trust you with His anointing or power until you belong wholeheartedly to Him.

“For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.” (2 Timothy 4:3 NIV)

ONE GOD: Day 4 of 5

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Today, let’s start off with a few more of the “One God” Scriptures to remind us that there are NOT three Gods. Christianity is monotheistic meaning ONE GOD. (There is not a God sitting next to another God in Heaven.)

“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” (Deuteronomy 6:4-5 NIV)

“This is what the LORD says— Israel’s King and Redeemer, the LORD Almighty: I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God. Who then is like me? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare and lay out before me what has happened since I established my ancient people, and what is yet to come— yes, let them foretell what will come. Do not tremble, do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago? You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one.” (Isaiah 44:6-8 NIV)

“’The most important one,’ answered Jesus, ‘is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’” (Mark 12:29-30 NIV)

To be clear: I am a Christian — I am NOT a Trinitarian. Trinitarians believe that there are three individual Gods that they separately worship. Their description seems to express that the three separate Gods form a one-God corporation. Evidently, their Son-God is sitting at the right hand of their Father-God each with separate, but equal, authority and lordship. They pray to their Father-God independent of their Son-God (they talk to their Father-God about their Son-God). And evidently, their Holy Spirit-God doesn’t need a throne in Heaven because He is independently too busy anointing people with Father-God’s power. (Yes, I’m mocking their false religion.)

Meanwhile, in Christianity there is only one sovereign Spirit of God who made Himself known for a limited time in human form as Son of Man. That temporary Son of Man position of God was for a specific purpose and ministry. The Christian God is one Spirit, with three distinct ROLES. The Son ROLE took place 2,000+ years ago. God is not in positioned in human form as Son of Man today.

Jesus (while wearing Son of Man flesh) often referred to Himself as ‘Son of Man’ and rarely as ‘Son of God’. Both ‘Son’ labels spoke to the biology of the earth suit not the deity of the Spirit of Christ. God is Spirit. Christ’s Spirit is the one and only Spirit of God or The Holy Spirit. It’s interesting to note that the Pharisees who crucified Christ, as well as the devil and demons, referred to Jesus as ‘Son of God’ but not as God. I call Jesus “God” because that’s who He is!

ONE GOD: Day 3 of 5

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In yesterday’s post, I wrote about the Son “flesh” and the Father “Spirit” to remind us that God is Spirit and that God is not flesh. Two thousand plus years ago, God who is Spirit wore Son of God or Son of Man flesh so that He could be visibly seen and audibly heard in the physical realm.

Each time that Jesus referred to Himself as Son of Man while referring to God as Father, He was differentiating between the physical realm flesh and the Spirit. He was differentiating between the temporary Christ suit and His eternal Spirit being. “Son” equals flesh and “Father” equals Spirit. Again, there is only ONE Spirit of God, also known as the Holy Spirit. There is not a separate Spirit of God who made Himself known in flesh and then stayed in flesh to sit on the throne next to a God who was never in flesh. There is only one God who was temporarily in flesh as the Christ whose flesh would be crucified at the appointed time.

Let’s again look at some of the ONE GOD Scriptures to emphasize that there is truly only one God.

“I am the LORD, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not acknowledged me, so that from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting people may know there is none besides me. I am the LORD, and there is no other.” (Isaiah 45:2-6 NIV)

“There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all through all and in all.” (Ephesians 4:4-6 NIV)

“Remember this, keep it in mind, take it to heart, you rebels. Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me.” (Isaiah 46:8-9 NIV)

To recap, there is only ONE GOD. He is Spirit. He did not become a second Spirit of God when He robed Himself in temporary flesh and then eventually sit beside Himself on a throne in Heaven. The references to the Son sitting next to the Father are to remind us of when God intentionally took on flesh as an earthly king and a heavenly King. It was not to divide our allegiance between two separate Spirits of God.

Now let’s talk about the picture attached. Next month marks the 40th anniversary of the death of my youngest brother, Robby. The photo was taken just a few months before he died in a tragic car accident just before his 20th birthday. When I picture Robby in Heaven, this is how I picture him because that’s how he is remembered by me. I know analytically that he doesn’t look like that in Heaven because Robby’s flesh and blood body did not go to Heaven. His spirit being went to Heaven to be with God. I was at Robby’s funeral. I saw his temporary/earthly body in the casket. I saw the casket buried in the ground. And I know that all that is remaining of his human form is physical DNA that can be found in his decomposing skeletal bones. But Robby wasn’t ever just flesh and bones, he was a spirit being inside that temporary body.

So why is this important to the discussion of one God? Let’s see if I can make this understandable. We picture Jesus sitting on a throne in Heaven the way that He was present on earth (more than 2,000 years ago). The image we have of him doesn’t ever age or change. It is a fixed image in our mind of what He looked like when He was here in bodily form. But what we miss in that image is that Jesus is Spirit. He is the one and only Holy Spirit of God. He was only temporarily in bodily form for a period of time on our calendar. The essence of who He was then is His Spirit who is the Creator God. Jesus is not sitting next to God. He is God.

One God: Day 2 of 5

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The Son of God or Son of Man labels represented the empty flesh and blood frame that the Spirit of God wore as He walked on earth in the physical realm. We understand that packaged person (flesh and Spirit) to be known as Jesus. Jesus was at that time both flesh and Spirit. The Spirit part of that union is the Spirit of God. The flesh part of that union was temporary and disposable just like our flesh is temporary. The Spirit is eternal. Jesus is that eternal Spirit. That Spirit is the one and only Spirit of God. God is a title. Jesus is His name.

There is not an empty, human born, flesh and blood frame sitting next to the Spirit of God in the spiritual realm (Heaven). Therefore there is not a “Son of God” or “Son of Man” sitting on a throne next to the one and only God in Heaven. So why are there Biblical references to a Son sitting next to the Father in Heaven?

Did you ever notice when reading about God, that He often answered questions with another question? He spoke in parables and seldom gave a simple “Yes” or “No” direct answer. Why is that? Perhaps it was because He wanted us to think more analytically and discern His answer deeper. So let’s do that here.

Why would God need a second God to sit next to Him in Heaven? If God is omniscient (all knowing), omnipresent (always present), and omnipotent (all powerful), why would we conclude that He needs help being God? If He is the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, how could a human-born flesh-and-blood frame be before and after Him? If God is the Creator, then why would He need a created, empty (without Spirit) human to sit on His throne in Heaven?

So again why the references of a human born Son sitting next to the Spirit of God in Heaven? Those two positions represent the spiritual realm and the physical realm. Heaven is the spiritual realm. When the Spirit of God temporarily wore a human-born flesh-and-blood frame, He was visible in the physical realm. The representation of that flesh body sitting next to the Spirit of God in Heaven gives us a memorial representation of Him in flesh. Rather than leave us without closure or grieving our loss of Him in the physical realm, we can visualize His fleshly existence sitting next to His Spirit in Heaven. We know that there are no flesh and blood beings in the spiritual realm of Heaven, but grief can cause us not to analyze the obvious. We know that our human bodies do not go to Heaven when we die. We bury them with the understanding that our spirit goes to Heaven to be with the Spirit of God. God is Spirit. God is not flesh.

So in the physical realm, King David was promised by God (in the spiritual realm) that he (David) would always have an heir on the throne. That again is figurative language or a parable to describe that a human born descendent of King David’s lineage would always be on the throne. Let’s look at a few Scripture verses to prove this out.

The promise:
“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.” (See also Jeremiah 23:5-6 and Acts 2:39-40)

We know that the “child” is the child that was born from Mary’s womb. Mary was in the lineage of King David. (Study: Matthew 1:1, Matthew 22:42.) The child represents the human-born flesh-and-blood frame, NOT the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God is the Creator. The word that became flesh was the Creator’s Spirit Voice that made Himself audible and visible in the physical realm.

God could have made all this much easier to understand. Why didn’t He? Maybe He wants us to get to know Him in the spiritual realm more intimately. A Reminder: God is not a book and God is not flesh. God is Spirit!

“You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life.” (John 5:39-40 NIV)

Valued By Him

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As I sat quietly in church on Sunday during the meditative communion time, I heard God repeat to me over and over that He loves me and will not leave me. Each time that I wanted to silently speak a thought to Him, He interrupted my plans by again saying that He loves me and will not leave me.

I didn’t know how much that I needed to hear Him encourage me that way, because He does it all the time when we’re alone. But this was communion time when I was supposed to remember Him and His sacrifices. Why wouldn’t He let me do that? I guess that He knew that I needed to hear Him at that time when I was surrounded by church goers and church leaders who would likely reject me. Nobody wants God’s prophet around. I know that. But God just kept telling me that I’m His and that I’m loved and appreciated by Him. As the tears welled up in my eyes and escaped down my cheeks, I felt peace and certainty of my value to Him.

Truthfully, I would like to find a church where I could just be quietly content and not required to confront false doctrines. But that isn’t likely until there is one that has no false doctrines. Will any one of the pastors seek the Lord and have sound doctrine so that this prophet can enjoy church as simply a worshipper? I guess some of us are just meant to be warriors! I find my refuge from the storm in His embrace and my encouragement from His heart for me.

One God: Day 1 of 5

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Before I go attacking the false doctrines of the four remaining pastors that God has assigned to me as His prophet, I want to say that I heard some really good things that demonstrate a heart for God from this weekend’s online sermons.

Consistently I have seen the right heart from “my” pastors. They seem to want to please God even bringing a little bit of uncomfortable stuff into the challenges that they speak to the congregations that follow them. But how long is the right heart enough when false doctrines are being taught? It seems that only God knows the answer to that. I’m still shocked from God saying that He hates one pastor who He removed from my assignment. That God doesn’t want me to waste my time on the pastor with the wrong heart speaks volumes.

So for the pastors with the right heart, I really want to help you overcome the wrong doctrines. I’ve invested much already in directing you to seek the Lord, and I want to see you succeed rather than receive God’s wrath. This week, I will daily post about there being only one God (not three 1/3rd gods). I hope that God will put it on your heart to really study this with Him. You seeking Him on this doctrine will go a long way towards pleasing Him.

Let’s look at one very important Scripture first. Remember that every time you teach contrary to this Scripture, it’s the same as calling God a liar.

Isaiah 43:10-11
“You are my witnesses,’ declares the LORD, ‘and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me. I, even I, am the LORD, and apart from me there is no savior.”

Did God lie when He proclaimed that there is no god before Him or after Him? Did God lie when He said that He is the only Savior? That’s what your three-God theology sounds like to me. It sounds very much like you are saying that God is a liar. Why would He put up with that?

So, please ask the Lord “God, is there one God or three Gods?”. If you really have a relationship with Him that includes hearing His voice, it’s not a difficult conversation to have … or it shouldn’t be! But maybe you are lying about hearing God’s voice. That’s more likely in my opinion.

A Church In Infancy

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Early this year, God sent me to an infant church that had not even moved into its own church facility. I know that His timing for sending me there was so that the church could rid itself of false doctrine before getting firmly established. God sent me there with the notion that they would change their false theologies. But they did not change, in fact the pastor has refused to seek God.

God said of that pastor “I hate his ugly heart towards correcting doctrines. He has had ample time to seek me and turn away from the false teachings but instead he has stubbornly preached the primary false doctrine as though it were true.” How can God bless a church or even want to build it when it sits entrenched in wrong teaching? The pastor seems to be trying to draw people to his side of the issue rather than to destroy the false doctrine that caused God to send His prophet with a message. It seems that he won’t be able to change his false doctrine now without admitting openly that he was wrong. His pride won’t allow him to do that easily. Should God refuse to help him until he gets the doctrine right? Should God withdraw His presence and leave the church right where they choose to be?

Today God sent me to another new church for the same exact reason. The church is The Gathering Church led by a male and a female copastors. Already they have more going for them than the previous church because they actually have a female pastor. I LOVE that!!!! (The other church forbids female pastors. No wonder God hates their ugliness.)

I loved much of what was said at the church this morning by both Sonia and Dan. It’s hard to be the one that God will use once again to confront the false doctrine of multiple gods. There is only one God. There is not a second and third God seated next to Him or with His authority. God is Spirit. God is the Holy Spirit. Jesus is God. Jesus is the Holy Spirit. Jesus is no longer in Son of God or Son of Man flesh. He is the only Spirit seated on the one and only sovereign throne as God.

I know that God had me visit the church this morning to see the pastors’ hearts. Their hearts are right. I don’t want to hurt them by telling them that the trinity doctrine is wrong because that immediately takes on an adversarial role if they don’t understand that I’m bringing the message from God. But I also don’t want God to look at them with contempt later because I didn’t want the uncomfortableness of confronting their false doctrine. Again, I believe God has urgency to this because they are just getting established. It would be so much better to start out with sound doctrine than how the earlier mentioned church handled things.

Do they even believe that God sends prophets? Will I be dismissed as unimportant and yelled at publicly like at the other church earlier this year? Or will I be welcomed to help insure that the doctrines are exactly what God wants taught? Will they seek God with all their heart or spend their energy persecuting His prophet? I guess we will find out.

Caution: Uncomfortable Destination

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Do you have the courage that it takes to confront the hard stuff? Will you allow God to expose your wrong thinking? Will you trust Him to force you forward towards your destiny calling?

Listen, anyone can sit back and take the easy way … the road of least resistance. The devil is not afraid of those who choose comfort over obedience to God. The devil will not put stumbling blocks in the road of those who aren’t going anywhere. However, God will purposely move you in His chosen direction.

If God loves you enough to want you in His Kingdom family, then He is going to make things uncomfortable when you are sitting in false doctrine, choosing wrong advice from foolish counselors, or refusing to invest in your Kingdom calling. Yes, it’s loving for God to want you to be all that you can be. To do that, He can’t let you sit comfortably choosing worldly things over Kingdom calling.

I would much rather God make things hard for me, than to ignore me in my unbelief. What about you? Are you comfortable in your unbelief? Are you satisfied with false doctrines as long as you get your comfortable seat of honor at church? Do you like putting money in an offering plate to be seen by the world even though God knows that you are strengthening the hands of the false teachers?

What will God need to do to get your attention? What tactics will He use to unseat your false gods? What are you risking by ignoring God? Is there anything that God won’t take from you to get you to focus your heart with Him? Is there anyone He won’t unseat to help you choose Him on the throne? From where I’m sitting, it’s much more comfortable to choose God, hear His voice, and obey than to risk everything by ignoring Him. Hell is real and many people are sitting comfortably waiting for their final destruction.

“They strengthen the hands of the evildoers.”

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“They strengthen the hands of the evildoers.” I heard those words from the Lord as He talked to me about the titheing congregants of churches where false doctrine is taught. Not only are they complicit with the false teaching but they are strengthening the hands of the evildoers who teach false doctrine by contributing money to their cause.

Of course, God is always examining the hearts of every action to determine motives. That never changes. But He also knows when He has spoken to your heart about the false doctrines. So He knows that you are ignoring spiritual turmoil while you sit in those church pews hearing contrary doctrines to His heart.

Recently God told me that He hates one of the five pastors that He previously assigned to me. I questioned Him over and over if He really meant that He hated the pastor. Every time God answered that He hated the pastor. What? Is that even allowed? I questioned God did He mean that He hated the false doctrines being taught by the pastor. Oh yes, He hates the false doctrines but in the case of the pastor in question, God said He hates his heart towards God and the Kingdom. The pastor has continually refused God.

I reminded God that all of the pastors that He assigned to me still teach falsely on certain subjects. Again, God reiterated that He hates the false doctrines but that the hearts of the other four pastors are aimed to please God. But the one pastor does not have a heart for God, and God chooses to turn against him. Now this may not materialize obviously in the physical realm (and it may) but in the spiritual realm, the pastor will certainly be punished for grieving the heart of God. … And then, there were four!

Isaiah 63:10 NIV
“Yet they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. So he turned and became their enemy and he himself fought against them.”

Proverbs 29:1 NIV
“Whoever remains stiff-necked after many rebukes will suddenly be destroyed—without remedy.”

Proverbs 1: 23-33 NIV
“Repent at my rebuke! Then I will pour out my thoughts to you, I will make known to you my teachings. But since you refuse to listen when I call and no one pays attention when I stretch out my hand, since you disregard all my advice and do not accept my rebuke, I in turn will laugh when disaster strikes you; I will mock when calamity overtakes you—when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you. Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me, since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the LORD. Since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke, they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes. For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them; but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm.”