Received on March 5th, 2006 - 1:15PM Last Updated: March 31st, 2007 - 2:08AM
Just as Yahweh has used current ideas and events to explain His truth to people, so He continues to do so.
This word came to me during my assembly's time of worship to confirm another word about needing the HolySpirit:
"It is as though the two lives are as the movie, The Matrix.
For the life of the flesh is a fantasy world, the life within the Matrix, where nothing is accomplished. This life without the Spirit is futile and produces nothing although it seems real. Those living there refuse to believe there is anything else beyond what they can sense. Even many of those who know they are living in a fantasy world often choose to still remain there, rather than wake up and be unplugged from the unreality.
But those who are in the Spirit have been awakened, they have been disconnected from that fantasy world. What they do produces real results, and their actions truly affect the world. Life in the Spirit is real, and it is a waking up from the fantasy world of the flesh.
So wake up, and be unplugged from this Matrix of the world, and receive the HolySpirit. Don't allow your actions to be futile any longer, having no effect upon reality; but live in the power of the Spirit and see the world changed!"
11Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed. 12The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light. 13Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy. 14But put on the Lord JesusChrist, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts. (Romans 13:11-14)
Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame. (1 Corinthians 15:34)
14Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one. 16"For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?"{Isaiah 40:13} But we have Christ's mind. (1 Corinthians 2:14-16)
As you read this site, you will hopefully come to know Yahweh more fully.
But all of this continuing knowledge is useless unless and until you come into union with Him. I use the word union because it is truly a marriage. It is that deep connection we all seek, for which we most often look in other people. However, the truth is that our hearts will only be fulfilled when we enter that union in fullness with the One Who made us.
This is the grace of God, that He has not stayed distant for us only to worship as Creator. But He has come unto us, even become one of us—in His Son, ChristJesus—in order to share an intimate union with us. He desires such closeness that it truly will envelope our entire life, transforming us into something new and wonderful.
You may have already entered this union with Him and only seek to know Him better through reading here. But if you have not, as you do read, let this Gospel sink into your heart as you read it now.
God loves you, and has cast your sins into the sea. He has sent His only Son as the Savior of the world—that includes you.
That Son, JesusChrist, was born as a man through a virgin who had given her life to Yahweh; He lived without sin, reflected the glory of His Father, God, in all His words and deeds, and was persecuted even unto death because of it.
His death upon a cross was the powerful explosion that separated you from your life of death. It remains for you, now, to enter into that death with Him. As you die to the one you are now, a person separated from God from your many sins, you will be born anew, with a nature predisposed to live rightly. This gift is free to you, with nothing you can do to earn it. It is the mercy of God to offer it to you, as He loves you so much! All you must do is receive it by trusting Him to have delivered you. Simply place your life in His hands and embrace the freedom that came through that death on the cross.
The Gospel is that Jesus did not remain dead, but rose again on the third day after His crucifixion! Death could not hold Him, as He was without sin. And so death will not be able to hold you, as you identify with Him fully through your trust in Him. Let go of yourself and confess Him as Lord of your life. The power of His death and resurrection will work in you all that your Creator has destined for you. You will truly enter a new life and experience that intimate union you have been seeking all of your life.
So ponder these words as you read here of this great God—Yahweh—and all that He has revealed to His creation. Let His Spirit testify to your heart that these words are true, that God is Love, and that He sent His Son so that you might receive the life that is unbound by time and space. As you feel that witness in your heart, simply believe and receive what He is offering to you, even now, and begin your new life as a child of God.
Please write to me and let me know when you take this step, as I will be your brother in Christ—we will be one in Him!
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