God alone is Holy, yet we are both called and commanded to be Holy. “But just as He who called you is Holy, so be Holy in all you do; for it is written: Be Holy, because I am Holy.” (1 Peter 1:15-16). How shall we solve this Spiritual paradox?
A person, place, thing, or event becomes Holy when God is conspicuous in it. Thus the holiness a pious observer sensed at the Jerusalem temple or the holiness of the ground where Moses was commanded to remove his shoes was not that of a building or the soil; it was the presence of God that imparted holiness to them.
The holiness of the church or an individual believer is due to the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. “Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16). “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?” (1 Corinthians 6:19). And the way an observer sees the holiness of the divine Spirit in Christians is through His continual fruit-bearing in our lives. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, and self control are markers of radical holiness in the people of God in any generation (Galatians 5:22-23).
The spirit of our times has Christians aiming too low. We are unkind and lay it to stress. We are joyless and explain how bleak and difficult things are in politics, economics, or church. We are unloving and out of control and dare anyone else to cast the first stone. We sense that something is wrong with the scenario, but we have no clear idea of how things could be different.
In THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU, Leo Tolstoy wrote that “all men of the modern world exist in a continual and flagrant antagonism between their consciences and their way of life.” If this sounds familiar, it should also feel uncomfortable. Christians should not live in “flagrant antagonism” between our beliefs and our behaviors. What a burdensome, heavy existence that would be. It is the path of resisting and quenching God’s Spirit. 7For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. 8Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit (1 Thessalonians 4:7-8).
Too many church leaders have fallen to affairs. Too many hate-filled and venom-tongued preachers have been permitted to intimidate godly people and drive them into other fellowships. The lifestyle of the “average church member” seems to be little different from that of a the “average person.” These things happen when people see God’s way as a confining and difficult one.
I know a man who models holiness. The presence of God is evident in his life to all of us who are his friends, who see him in public places, and who spend private time with him. His mind and body were once Satan’s playground, but he was decisively and dramatically saved.
It isn’t simply that he no longer gets drunk and parties. It isn’t that his mouth is no longer foul. It is his tender love for his wife, his generosity to good works, and his powerful leadership of a local church. There is no strident legalism in his manner. He laughs a lot. He has friends galore. Everyone who has any contact with him respects him. He is holy-radically holy. In his life, there is no tension between his conscience and his way of life. The commandments of God are not ‘burdensome,” and righteousness is not a series of painful concessions by a grudging, resentful will.
His lifestyle reflects the confident manner of his Savior. No one would ever get the idea of a holier-than-thou spirit in him. Self-righteous is not a description anyone would use of him. His life reflects the radiance of the God he knows through intimate, transforming friendship. Yes, he knows Scripture; he also knows the author of Scripture. His life says that Christ’s yoke is easy and His burden is light.
My impression is that my friend is living as someone would who has received a gift he knew he had not earned or who has been treated with a kindness he knew he did not remotely deserve. Because he lives with this in his consciousness at all times, he never has to figure out how to live as Christ would when he is on the spot. He lives as Christ did constantly, and his on the spot reaction to crisis situations is no different at all from his routine manner of dealing with all of his life.
Following Jesus is not a matter of turning the other cheek, staying out of trouble, and not getting a divorce-while living the routine aspects of your life as the world does. That approach to holiness is destined to fail, for it commits to obeying key commandments in the context of an otherwise this-worldly life. To be a Christian is to follow the way of Christ in all things, seeking the Kingdom of God and His righteousness first in the most routine as well as the most spectacular of settings.
Until God’s presence is real with us in every situation, the desire to honor Him in the crisis times will remain an elusive frustration. His yoke will never get easier nor His burden lighter.
God alone is Holy, yet we are both called and commanded to be Holy. “But just as He who called you is Holy, so be Holy in all you do; for it is written: Be Holy, because I am Holy.” (1 Peter 1:15-16). How shall we solve this Spiritual paradox?
A person, place, thing, or event becomes Holy when God is conspicuous in it. Thus the holiness a pious observer sensed at the Jerusalem temple or the holiness of the ground where Moses was commanded to remove his shoes was not that of a building or the soil; it was the presence of God that imparted holiness to them.
The holiness of the church or an individual believer is due to the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. “Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16). “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?” (1 Corinthians 6:19). And the way an observer sees the holiness of the divine Spirit in Christians is through His continual fruit-bearing in our lives. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, and self control are markers of radical holiness in the people of God in any generation (Galatians 5:22-23).
The spirit of our times has Christians aiming too low. We are unkind and lay it to stress. We are joyless and explain how bleak and difficult things are in politics, economics, or church. We are unloving and out of control and dare anyone else to cast the first stone. We sense that something is wrong with the scenario, but we have no clear idea of how things could be different.
In THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU, Leo Tolstoy wrote that “all men of the modern world exist in a continual and flagrant antagonism between their consciences and their way of life.” If this sounds familiar, it should also feel uncomfortable. Christians should not live in “flagrant antagonism” between our beliefs and our behaviors. What a burdensome, heavy existence that would be. It is the path of resisting and quenching God’s Spirit. 7For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. 8Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit (1 Thessalonians 4:7-8).
Too many church leaders have fallen to affairs. Too many hate-filled and venom-tongued preachers have been permitted to intimidate godly people and drive them into other fellowships. The lifestyle of the “average church member” seems to be little different from that of a the “average person.” These things happen when people see God’s way as a confining and difficult one.
I know a man who models holiness. The presence of God is evident in his life to all of us who are his friends, who see him in public places, and who spend private time with him. His mind and body were once Satan’s playground, but he was decisively and dramatically saved.
It isn’t simply that he no longer gets drunk and parties. It isn’t that his mouth is no longer foul. It is his tender love for his wife, his generosity to good works, and his powerful leadership of a local church. There is no strident legalism in his manner. He laughs a lot. He has friends galore. Everyone who has any contact with him respects him. He is holy-radically holy. In his life, there is no tension between his conscience and his way of life. The commandments of God are not ‘burdensome,” and righteousness is not a series of painful concessions by a grudging, resentful will.
His lifestyle reflects the confident manner of his Savior. No one would ever get the idea of a holier-than-thou spirit in him. Self-righteous is not a description anyone would use of him. His life reflects the radiance of the God he knows through intimate, transforming friendship. Yes, he knows Scripture; he also knows the author of Scripture. His life says that Christ’s yoke is easy and His burden is light.
My impression is that my friend is living as someone would who has received a gift he knew he had not earned or who has been treated with a kindness he knew he did not remotely deserve. Because he lives with this in his consciousness at all times, he never has to figure out how to live as Christ would when he is on the spot. He lives as Christ did constantly, and his on the spot reaction to crisis situations is no different at all from his routine manner of dealing with all of his life.
Following Jesus is not a matter of turning the other cheek, staying out of trouble, and not getting a divorce-while living the routine aspects of your life as the world does. That approach to holiness is destined to fail, for it commits to obeying key commandments in the context of an otherwise this-worldly life. To be a Christian is to follow the way of Christ in all things, seeking the Kingdom of God and His righteousness first in the most routine as well as the most spectacular of settings.
Until God’s presence is real with us in every situation, the desire to honor Him in the crisis times will remain an elusive frustration. His yoke will never get easier nor His burden lighter.
In Him,
Tom Marcum, II
Those coming to God must believe that the Father is the”only true GOD”, and that Christ is His Son. Jn 17:3, before the world was.>> JN 17:3,23,24 NASB
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Who is this GOD?>>>> Heb 7:17,25 8:1 9:11,14, 24 10:12 12:9 13:15,16 Thus, the Lamb, the only begotten God, is not the Almighty God, when both are in Heaven. Rev 21:22 Eph 4:6 Jn 4:34
Christ is the only “begotten God,”Jn 1:18 NASB “the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.” He will be an intercessor between God Almighty & his children forever. How can the Son be the same God as his Father? We are to be happy that we will have such one as Christ to be our intercessor, when we are in Heaven. Heb 7:25 Thus, he cannot be the same God Almighty. When Christ was going back to be with his God and Father he said, ” you should rejoice for He is greater than I.” Jn 10:29 14:28 Christ also said His Father is the “only true God.” Jn 17:3 It was God who said to His Son sit by my side when He went back to heaven. Heb 1:13.Thus he was a Son of God when both are in heaven. I Jn 4:9 Phil 2:9 Christ was once a part of His Father until he was born of the Father. This explains how he was God, and now he is with God, being His Son. Jn 1:1 We were once a part of our Father, but now we are separated, and we are mankind. Christ became Godkind, the only “begotten God.” He is the “firstborn of all creation.” & Christ said “The Father is the only true GOD” Jn 1:18 <NASB <17:3,21,22,23. This is why we pray to the Father, for Christ said, "in that day you will say nothing to me."JN 16:23 We are to speak and sing to the Father in the name of His Son. We can sing about Christ our Lord being a wonderful saviour, but to the Father; for He is the only true God, & this is why Christ tells us to say nothing to Me, but speak to the Father.
Many Bibles put the title Lord in the place of God's name. I put it back. Note the margin of the NASB. PS 68:4 & many more have YAH. Like Ex15:2 17:16 PS 68:5,19 & others. His full name is written in Hebrew as Yahveh, or YAHWEH. Hallelu-YAH, 25 times His name YAH is in the book of praise, PSALMS. Thus we should give praise to God in this name. We can all agree on this name in "Hallelu-YAH," thus I used it; even in place of the full name of God. I do this because we don't know if it's pronounced with a V or W in His full name. There is salvation in no other name. Thus God's name is important. The Jews say Yahweh.
Christ said, I will speak plainly of the Father. Jn 16:25-30 The Jews understood,he knows all things because he is from God. v 30 Christ then follows with Jn 17:3, compare;< <God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son Jn 3:16 I show below how we know Christ was a Son before coming to earth.
Christ went far above the heavens to be with the "one God and Father of us all. " Eph 4:5-10 Thus the Son is not the Father, the God from whom he learned,before coming to earth..Compare. Jn 8:38,40-42.54,55
Christ is the Son of this God when both are in heaven. I Thess 1:9,10 Rev 3:12 I Cor 15:24,28 "Christ will be a priest to the Father forever." "A intercessor between God, and His children forever." This would be impossible if they were the same God.
Mk 12:36<<<"Yah said to my Lord, sit at my right hand." & "Yah our God is one Lord." Deut 6:4 Mk 12:29,32 ,36<>>>>>>>? Rom 8:29,31,34
Even the FATHER Jn 8:6 10:37
Christ also said, “I speak the things that I have seen with my Father… I told you the truth which I heard from God….If God were your Father, you would love me: for I came forth from God; for neither did I come of myself, but He sent me.” Jn 8:28,38-42 6:57
Christ teaches us that he was God’s Son before coming to earth, and that truth comes from the God who sent him, the God of Jews. Look up the word “sent” as used in John, like Jn 7:16,17.<<Showing he is not the GOD who sent him. & He is also showing This is the "only true God," who sent him.<< Jn 17:3 I Thess 1:9,10 Jn3:33 7:16-18, 28 8:40-42 8:26-28<> Jn 12:43,44 13:3 14:10 16:27-30 20:17 I Pet 1:17,21 4:11 Eph 4:6 Jn 17:3,7,8,24 I Cor 8:2-6
Christ teaches us that his God & Father, and our God & Father, is the one who sent him; showing he is not the same “one God” who sent him; or the “one God” he is speaking for. Jn 14:10,24,28 20:17 “You who believe in me, do not believe in me, but Him who sent me.” <<Jn 12:44<How can he be a God in the same sense as this God who sent him? How can he be the same God who sent him. Jn 3:16 Christ is showing where his teachings, and his divine nature comes from Jn12:49 Eph 4:5,6 < When both are in heaven. <"I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God" Rev 3:12 v 54 Thus both Christ and the Jews are sons of the same one God, the Father. This is the one that Christ told the Jews, The Father is the only true God, who sent him to this world. Jn 17:3 “This is eternal life to know the Father, the only true God; and the one sent by Him.” This is the reason I’m sending this to you, so you can have eternal life.
Jn5:30,36,37,44 6:29,38,39,57 12:44,48 >>>17:3,24 Before the world was, The “only true God” v 3, “loved His Son before the world was.” v 24, The one through whom he created the world. Col 1:15 Heb 1:1-5 I Cor 8:2-6. He was a Son before coming to earth; who is now sitting beside the God who created the world through His Son. Heb 1:1:3 This is Yah the Father. Heb 1:5 Ps 2:7 << "again he will be my Son," As a Son he is now sitting beside Yah, his Father. Ps 110:1 2:7 Act 13:33
Then, he came from this "one God" the Father, to this world. Who is the God of our fathers????Act 3:13 He did not come from a trinity or from himself. It's the "Father,"the God of our fathers who sent him."
This is the God who created the world through His Son; the one God he is now sitting beside, who is Yah, the Father. Heb 1:1-5 "Again he will be my Son," v5 & Ps 2:7, <<said by . "Yah our God is one Lord" Deut 6:4 Mk 12:29<<Both Christ and the scribe agreed that "He is one and there is none other but He." Mk 12:32,34<< For Christ then quotes Ps 110:1, showing he is not Yah the Father, the one God that he is now sitting beside. Mk 12:36 How many person is this Yah the Father, who made his Son to be a priest to Himself forever. Heb 7:21-25 Ps 110:4<Does this sound like they are the same God, during creation, and now that the Son is sitting beside Yah his Father? Yah is His short Hebrew name in the O. T.. Who made the world through His "Son".??? Heb 1:1-3 "Christ is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation, for all things were created through him" Col 1:15 Christ is the only "begotten God" who came to earth to make know the "invisible God," showing Him to be Yah, his Father, the "only true God" Jn 17:3 1:18 <<Greek & NASB: Christ is the "Son of the true God," when both are in heaven. I Thess 1:9,10 The one God and Father of us all; the one Christ went far above the heaven to be with, is the one God, the Father. Eph 4:5,10 Thus, God is not every where in person. He knows our thoughts from "afar" through the spirit that is with us. Ps 139:1,2 Rom 8:26,27 Thus the spirit cannot be God.
Thus, the "only true God" the Father is the source of truth. Jn 8:28,38-42 12:44,49 Christ clearly shows that his teachings did not come from himself, and that he would be seek his own glory if he was speaking for himself. Thus, he said "I do not seek my own glory".Jn 8:50,54 Only the Father has a right to seek His own glory of being the "one God" who is the source of truth. I seek the glory of the "one" you Jews say is your God and Father. Jn 8:50,54 4:21,23 7:16-18,28 12:44,48,49 Again, showing the God of the Jews is someone other than himself, and that he is not the "only true God" from whom comes truth. Truth come through him, not from him. There must be 30 to 40 passages in the N T that teach this.
Christ taught the Samaritian woman that he and the Jews worship the Father as being their God, and someday the Gentiles will. Jn 4:21-25 What the Jews believed about God, has nothing to do with Christ speaking as a man. They already believed this before he came to earth. I say this because many use this argument to explain away many passages like the above.
Jn 14:28
"You should rejoice because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I." He is now sitting beside his God and Father, and our God and Father. Jn 13:3 20:17 Who is Yah, the Father. Ps 110:1 ACT 2:30-36 How can he be the same God he is sitting beside? It was Yah, the Father who said, "sit by my side," who is also the God of the whole context of Act. two. Thus, it was the "God of our fathers who raised his servant." Act 3:13 Which agrees with Ps 110:1, and also Ps. verse four, which shows Yah the Father, making his Son to be a priest forever to himself. Heb 7:21-25 Are you rejoicing with Christ because he is with the Father who is greater than himself????
This is why a sacrifice for sins is made to the Father only, and that Christ is sitting beside this God to whom he offered himself. Heb 1:3 2:11,12 9:14, 24,27 10:12 12 This God is Yah, the Father, the only one to whom a sin offering was made. Heb 12:3-5 Prov 3:11 Ps 2:7,12 This proves He alone is the "only true God." Just like His Son said: Jn 17:3 <<<Or, do you know more than God's Son???
Thou shall worship the "Lord" thy God, and Him only shall you serve. This word "serve" as used in offering up sacrifices. This word is used this way in Heb 9:14,24 Thus, through our high-priest, let us offer up sacrifices of praise and good works to this God, the Father. Heb 13:15-16 How can a person do this, if you don't think of Him as being the only true God? Jn 17:3 This word serve is also used in serving the living God, the Father; is again used in 2 Thess 1:9<<<How many persons is this God? <<<"Him only shall ye serve"!! Those coming to God must believe He is, or they are? Heb 11:6 What do you teach in your plan of salvation???
This is Yah who made His Son to be a Priest to Himself forever. We should be happy that we will have a Priest , an intercessor between us and the Almighty God forever. How can Christ be the same Almighty God to whom he is an intercessor forever ? Heb 7:21-25 Ps 110:4<<"Yah hath sworn….thou art a priest for ever." How can we be happy for such an intercessor, if we believe the Son is the same Almighty God??? " "For there is one God, one mediator between God and man." I Tim 2:5 How many persons is this "Most High God"????
Lk 8:28 Mark 5:7
If you are now thinking, "I wish these passages were not in the Bible;"
It should be a wake-up call?
2 Tim 4:1-5 <<Now that Christ is in heaven. <>>I Cor 8:2-6 Col 1:15 Heb 1:1-5 Ps 2:7<<>Christ is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation, for by him were all thing created. He is not the invisible God who created the world through him. I Cor 8:4-6 Heb 1:1-3 Col 1:15 The only begotten God came to make known the invisible God.
Jn 1:18<<<>> Jn 17:3
Both Paul and Christ agree that there is “one God the Father who is over all.” Eph 4:6 Lk 8:28
Who planned our salvation in Christ before the world was, to the praises of Himself, to His own glory. Eph 1:6,12,14 He then raised Christ to his right side. v:20 Thus, how can Christ be the same Almighty God as the Father, who is the God of His Son before the world was. “You say of him whom the Father sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest because I say I am the Son of God. If I do not the work of my Father, believe me not.” Christ is here showing that he is not blasphemeing, for he is not claiming to be the God of the Jews, like the Jews said that he was; for he was His Son before the world was. Jn 10:36,37 I speak the things I have seen with my Father Jn 8:38 It was the Father who sent me, and every thing that I have came from Him. He will still be my Father when I go back to heaven to be with Him Jn 13:3 Jn 20:17
Of the 2500 times that the title God is used in the Bible, not once does the spirit use it in reference to himself. The word worship, & deity, is never used of the spirit. No examples of the N T church ever worshipping the spirit. Never said to have a throne in heaven. We will sit down on the throne with the Father, and His Son. Rev 3:9,12,21 <<Why is the spirit not sitting on the throne with us if he is God? Why did Christ teach the Jews that he and the Jews have the same God, the Father; and never speaks of the spirit as being their God??? Jn 4:20-27 8:38-42
Christ taught the Jews that he came from his God and their God when coming to earth; and that he was leaving the earth and going back to be with his God & Father, and their God & Father. Jn 13:3 16:26,27,30 20:17 compare Act 2:33,36 7:55 Christ taught us that when he goes back to his God and Father, he would then send the spirit. Jn 16:13 13:3 Thus, God is in heaven, and you don't send God the Father to do anything!!! Or tell Him what to say. Plus Christ went far above the heavens going back to be with his God, while the spirit that he sent, is on earth.
Eph 4:10
Lying to the spirit is the same as lying to God, because It's the spirit who is revealing our thoughts to God who is in heaven. Rom 8:26,27,34 This proves the spirit is not God!!! Yah is in heaven, and He knows our thoughts from afar through the spirit that's with us. Psa 139:1,2,7 << Yah's name is in verse one. Yah is in heaven, while the spirit who is revealing our thought to Him is on earth. Thus, how can the spirit be God who is in heaven? If you are led by the spirit you will cry out to the Father as being your God, and you will be a Joint heir with Christ to the Father, the only true God. Rom 8:13-17 Jn 17:3 This God who is in heaven v 34, is the same God who foreordained us to conform to the image of His Son. v 29 This is the God who is greater than all, who spared not His own Son. v 32 Thus, God the Father is the only true God like His Son said. Jn 17:3
If the spirit is with man, and God is where no man can go; how can the spirit be God? Christ taught the Jew he was going fare above the heaven going back to be with his God. He said, they could not go where he was going. Eph 4:10
Jn 3:13 16:13 14:26-28
Thus, lying to the spirit is the same as lying to God, because it's the spirit that reveals our thoughts to God who is in heaven. Rom 8:26,27
I say this because most people quote Act 5:3,4 as the one passage that they say calls the spirit God. If the spirit was God, there would be more than one passage showing he is God, and that we should worship him. It's like the song; "It's nothing more than feelings," that was handed down by the Catholic church. People use their "trump card" called feelings, in order to trump any passage that does not agree with ones feelings; even if there is many passages that they must trump. Who is the "only true God," is a good example in Jn 17:3 and many,
many, passages that prove the Father is the only true God. (At least 50, to 100 passages in the N T alone.) Christ is the "only begotten God," who came to earth to make known the "invisible God." (NASB & the Greek text Jn 1:18.) Men coming out of the Catholic Church tried to hide this passage, and many others; and did until most men fell in love with the trinity. Men like the Campbells, brought it into the churches of Christ. Once people fell in love with it, they are now stuck with it, or some form of it; for the "trump card" called feelings, is stronger than truth. To prove this is true, just look at all of the different Churches in your town following the teachings of their church. Thus, the Bible agree, "for many are called, but only a few are chosen." "Few will find the way to heaven." As many who are appointed unto eternal life, believed the truth when they heard it. Act 13:48 We now live in the age in which Satan has be loosed to deceive the whole world. The age Christ was referring to when he ask the question; "will there be any true believer when I come?" Lk 10:21 14:26 18:8 There is not many who can receive the truth.
In the future heavenly City:<<The Glory of God is the light & the lamp is the Lamb. Why is the spirit not in the following passages, if he is God?
Rev 21:23 12:10 11:15
Where is the spirit in the future heavenly city? What does he do in the future city ???? Thus, he cannot be God in the heavenly city, or he would be sitting on the throne with us, Christ, and the Father. Rev 3:21 Also note how Christ refers to this place as the temple of my God. Rev 3:12-13 Christ is not the Lord God Almighty when both are in the heavenly city. Rev 21:22
The Son prayed to the Father as being the "only true God" who gave him something glorious before the world was; something they could see. Is he not talking about the spirit body that he gave up when coming to earth? Jn 17:3,5,24 You cannot first give God anything. He must first give to you. Thus, the Son cannot be the "only true God" who gave him something glorious before the world was. Plus, If he is a Son now, and in the heavenly city to come, he was a Son before the world was; for he is the "same yesterday, today, and forever." And
if he is a Son in future time, he was a Son before the world was, if God answered his prayer in Jn 17:3-5. Thus, the "one true God" who created the world through his Son, is not His Son during creation. Heb 1:1-5 I Cor 8:4,6 I Thess 1:9,10 He is the firstborn of all creation, the image of the "invisible God" for God created the world through His Son Col 1:15 Heb 1:1-5 Christ is not the "invisible God," and he is now sitting beside the God who created the world through him. Heb1;3 Christ is the "only begotten God." Jn 1:18 Greek & NASB Thus, "God, thy God, hath anointed thee…above thy fellows." Making him greater than the angels. No one makes Yah greater, for He is God Almighty, who created the world through his Son. Heb 1:1-9 compare verse 5,6 to Ps 2:7 Act 13:33 <<It's Yah, the Father who raised him from the dead. Plus he is now sitting beside Yah, his Father. ACT 2:34 Ps 110:1 The one Christ said, "He is greater than I." Compare Heb 1:9 to 7:7; which shows Yah is greater than God the Son, that He anointed. Like Christ said, "He is greater than I" (Compare Heb 1:5 to Ps 2:7 & Act 3:13 and Heb 5,6 to 2 Sam 7:14 I Thess 1:9,10 I Cor 15:24,28) <<<<<Yah is his God when both are in heaven.
"He ascended far above the heavens," (Eph 4:10) going back to be with his God who dwell in light unapproachable by man. He is now sitting beside Yah his God and Father, and our God and Father. Jn 13:3 20:17 Act 2:20-36 Ps 110:1 Col 3:1,2 Christ said, "call no man your Father, for one is you Father, even He who is in heaven." If He is the only Father of our spirits, is He not the only true God of our spirits??? This is why Christ prayed to Him as be the "only true God." Mat 23:9 Heb 12:9 Jn 17:3 We have the same Father of our spirits, thus Christ is not ashamed to call them brethern, because our spirits came from the same Father in heaven. Heb 2:7-12 12:5-9 <<v5,6 Proves it's Yah. Thus, "In the midst of the congregation will I sing thy praise," to the Almighty God. Rom 6:10,11 Heb 2:11,12 Rev 15:3,4 Why? Because we have the same Father of our spirits!!! Yah is not the Father of our flesh. Heb 12:9 Thus we know he is referring to us as Sons, for all have the same Father of our spirits. It's the Father who is the "unknown God" and all men are His offspring. Act 17:23-31<<<Note v 31 Yah is the Father of Christ when both are in heaven. Heb 1:5, Ps 2:7 <<"Yah said, he again will be to me a Son." Compare 1 Thess 1:9
God is not every where in person, for Yah knows our thought from afar, through the spirit that is with. Ps 139:1,2,7 Rom 8:26,27 Yah the Father, is in His holy temple in heaven. Ps 11:4 When He was on earth, He told Moses to warn the people not to try to look upon Him in the cloud, and that if he went among the people He would kill them. How can He be everywhere in person?
How could God hide in a cloud, if he is everywhere in person? How could His regular habitation be in Heaven, if He is everywhere in person? How can he know our thoughts from afar, if He is everywhere? If He dwells in light, so man cannot look upon Him, how can he be everywhere? How can He be looking down from heaven, or Christ going far above the heavens to be with Him, if He is everywhere in person? Why pray, "our Father who art in heaven?" Why does Christ always speak of his God as being in heaven???
Ps 139:1,2,7, <These passages are the ones most people say shows God is everywhere. They really show, Yah know our thoughts from afar, through the spirit that is with us. There is no place we can go, but what Yah is with us through the spirits that are with us. Yah know everything about His children, "for their angels are always before the face of God, who is in heaven." Matt 18:10 Lk 4:10 It's also the angels who camps round about the children of God on the earth, revealing everything about the children of God, to the angels in heaven, who are before Yah, the Father. When we die, then angels take us to Abraham's bosom. Lk 16:22 compare Ps 34:7 139:8 Heb 13:2 I Cor 11:10 Thus when we go to Hades, the spirit goes with us.
The spirits can go any place man can go. This does not mean that any one spirit is everywhere, but everywhere man can go!!! If The Father is not everywhere in person, then surely an angel, or spirit, is not everywhere??? Why have many spirits, or angels, doing something, if one spirit can do it all???? Like many angels were helping Christ when he was on earth. If one spirit was everywhere, and had all power; there would be no need for many angels. Why should Christ call 12000 angels????? Plus, when Christ goes back to heaven, he will send the spirit. If he does not go, the spirit will not come. Jn 16:7 Does this sound like the spirit is everywhere?? There is no passage that tell us that any "one spirit" is everywhere?
This is the angel of Rev 14:6 1:1 who guided the churches unto all truth. Jn 16:13 Who gave John the little book, the word of God. A holy angel is a spirit, thus a holy spirit. Heb 1:14 Who spoke the truth because he was not speaking for himself. Jn 16:13 How can he be the God he is speaking for???? Plus, this angel who is speaking through John, is speaking to the seven churches. Thus, to each church, it begins; "The spirit said to the church at" which is referring to the angel, who is a spirit. Heb 1:14 This is why an angel, is us interchangeable with spirit in the Bible.
Is the Lord God just one Lord, the Father? Or is the Father only part of a Lord? Mk 12:29-30 Rev 15:3,4 At the end of the world; "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our "Lord, and His Christ." Rev 11:15,16 Mk 12:29,30 This is the "Lord" that we must love more than all other. If it's referring to the Father, then He is the one we must love more than all other!!! Mk 12:28,30 This is quoted from Deut 6:4, which shows it's referring to Yah , the Father. Where is the spirit in Rev 11:15? Why does the kingdom not belong to him, if he is God?
Why is the spirit not sitting on the throne with the Father, Son, and with us, if he is God? Rev 3:12,21
Christ taught the Samaritan women that he and the Jew worship the Father as being their God Jn 4:20-24 If you are following Christ, should you not do the same?
All things belong to you, and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God the Father. This is why Christ will deliver the church or kingdom up to the Father, subjecting himself back to the Father. I Cor 15:24,28 It's called the church of God more time than it's called church of Christ. The head of man is Christ, and the head of Christ is the Father. Christ is the only "begotten God" over the church of Christ. Jn 1:18 Greek & NASB It was the only true God, who made Christ the only begotten God, to be the head over the church. Thus it belongs to both!!! Heb 11:3 Eph 1:20-22
The Father is the source of all life, for all spirits come from
Him. He is the source of truth and authority. Christ clearly shows that all comes from his Father. "You who believe in me, do not believe in me, but Him who sent me;" for his teachings, and his divine nature, comes from the Father. Thus, "when you have seen me, you have seen the Father." It was the Father's will that this fullness dwell in His Son," in whom we are made full." We are now putting on divine nature like the Son of God. And someday we will sit down on the throne with him, and the Father. Rev 3:12,21 Eph 3:19 4:13 II Pet 1:4 Col 1:19 2:10 ASV. We will be join heirs with Christ in the heavenly city. Rom 8:17 Thus Christ will be our brother in heaven. God will be our God, and Father in the heavenly city.
Christ is our brother in our relationship to the Father. Yet he will be like a father and high priest, in our relationship to him, in the heavenly city. When we see Christ, we will be like him, and we will sit down on the throne with him. Abraham is our brother in our relationship to our heavenly Father; yet, he is a father in our relationship to him, just like Christ. Rev 3:12,21 Rom 8: 14-17,29-34 <<Christ is not the God who is in heaven sitting on the throne; the one to whom Christ is making intercession for us, forever. The God who is greater than all. Rom 8:29
"In the temple of my God" Rev 3:12
Yes, He is still the Son's God and Father in the heavenly city.Rev3:12,21 Also note Rev 5:10 1:6 If we will have "divine nature" like God and His Son, then we know this does not make the spirit God, if he has this same nature? We will even be worshiped and sit down on the throne.
None of these things are ever said of the spirit. Why is the spirit not sitting on the throne with us if he is God? Where is the spirit in the heavenly City, if he is not one of the holy angels, who is a holy spirit? Heb 1:14 Rev 3:9,12,21 (ASV v9<<note the margin.) When Christ was on earth, he was always worshiped as being the Son of God. The Father
was worshiped as being the only true God, by Christ himself. Jn 4:21,24 17:3
Why was the spirit left out of so many passages like the above, and never said to have a throne in heaven, if he is God???? It's the spirit that teaches us about God. Don't you think he would tell us that he is God??? If the spirit teaches us about how Christ prayed to the Father as being the "only true God," don't you think that he is showing he is not God? Jn 17:3 When the spirit tells us that Christ is the "only begotten God" who came to make known the "invisible God," the one who Christ shows Him to be the Father only; is the spirit not showing he is not God????
Christ also taught that no man has ever been where God is. Jn 3:13 Eph 4:10 Heb 8:1 And neither has any man seen God at any time. Jn 1:18 When Peter was looking upon the face of Christ, he thought he was looking upon the face of God. Then God said to Peter, "This is my Son." Jn 17:1-5 Thus, man has looked upon the face of God the Son, but not Yahwah the Father's face; for man cannot look upon His face and live.
He even taught the Jews that he was going where "no man" can go. And if he does not go, the spirit will not come; but if he goes, he will send the spirit. Jn 16:8-13 (This shows the spirit is not every where, and neither is God in person. You don't send God to do any thing, or tell Him what to say.) If God and His Son are in heaven where no man can go, and the spirit is "among men" as a gift from God, who is in heaven? How can the spirit who is "with man," be God????? Jam 1:17 I Pet 1:12 Ps 11:4 Isa 63:6 Plus, the spirit shows that he is an intercessor to this God who is in Heaven. Rom 8:26,27,34 And that we are children of God the Father, joint heirs with His Son, to the Father; not a trinity! Rom 8:15-17 << We will cry out to the Father as being our God who foreknew us, that we should conform to the image of His Son. 8:17,29 We cry out to the Father as being God Almighty, who is in heaven. v 14-16,34 Gal 4:6 {Lying to the spirit is the same as Lying to God, because it's the spirit that reveals our thought to God who is inheaven. Rom8:26,27,29,31,34} The fact that we are joint heirs with Christ to the Father, proves the Father is the only true God. Jn 17:3
Those coming to God must believe He is. Heb 11:6 Do you teach people that God is more than one person before you baptize them??? I have never seen this on any plan of salvation. If the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit is the "one God;" why don't you teach this before baptism? Act 5:29-31
For those coming to Him must believe that "He is." Christ is a priest to Yah the Father for ever. Does this sound like Christ is the same God??? Heb 7:21-25
Rom 6:10 He made us priest to "his God." Also, "I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God." Rev 3:12 Thus Christ speaks of the Father as being his God in the future heavenly city.
Christ always shows that authority comes from the only true God, the Father. He said "all authority has been given unto me." Thus, he is showing the chain of authority as coming from the Father for baptizing people. Matt 28:19 This passage is often misused by churches of Christ who teach the trinity. We know this is true for the spirit will speak the truth, for he is not speaking fore himself. Jn 16:13
The "one" God the Father is someone other than the one Lord through whom He created the world.
I Cor 8:2-6 Jude 25 Thus, the "one" God who is over all is the Father. Eph 4:6 Through Christ we are to give glory to this only wise God. Rom 16:2 There is just one True God, and one mediator between God and men, Christ our Lord. Jn 17:3 & I Tim 2:5 Now to the "king" eternal, the only "invisible God." <<I Tim 1:17 Jn 1:18 Col 1:15 Thus, the Father is the invisible God; and Christ is the image of this invisible God, the firstborn of all creation, for God created the world through him. Col 1:15 Heb 1:1,2,3 Thus, it was the Father's good pleasure that the fullness dwells in His Son. Col 1:15,18,19 <<<ASV "In whom we are made full." Col 2:9 We will be like Christ when we see him. Eph 3:19 4:13 We must put on divine nature. I Pet 1:4 And sit down on the throne with Christ. Rev 3:21
The spirit searched the mind of God in order to know what to say, and he does not speak for himself, but what he hears. Thus he cannot be God.!!! Jn 16:13 Only the Father knows the hour of the second coming, and he alone is the "only true God who know everything." Thus, the spirit cannot be God for he is not all knowing. He speaks only what he is told. He speaks the truth for he does not speak for himself, but what he hears. Jn 16:13 Matt 24:36 Mk 13:32
Why is there so many passages that show God as being someone other than his Son when both are in heaven? There must be over fifty in the N T, like Act 7:55 Heb 9:14,24 10:12,13 11:6 compare Rom 5:10
Angels are holy, and they are spirits. Thus an angel is a holy spirit, and the spirit who guided the churches unto all truth is an angel who is also called the "spirit of truth," or "the spirit," or "holy spirit." Jn 16:13 Rev 1:1 22:6,13 14:6 Heb 1:14 An "angel" and "the Spirit" is used interchangeable in the Bible. Three of these are ACT 10:3,19,20,22 8:26,29,39 Isa 63:9,10 It was an angel who gave John the little
book, the word of God. Rev 14:6<Christ said the"spirit of truth" would do this. Jn 16:13 Compare I Jn 4:1-16 also Rev 5:6 7:2 <<Seven angels before the throne are seven spirits, for angels are spirits. Heb 1:14 Any time God, Christ and the angels is doing something, the one spirit, or angel, is not doing it with them; for he is one of the angels. We never see one spirit or angel sitting on the throne with the Father and His Son, or with us. Rev 3:21 <<Thus, how can the spirit be God??? Paul warned us not to worship angels. Do you? John tried to but was told not to. And this was the angel of Rev 14:6 1:1; the spirit who guided the churches unto all truth. This angel is referred to as the "spirit said" to each of the churches. Thus they are used interchangeably. Everyone know this is one of the things that the spirit does, and this is why he never speaks of himself as being God, and why "he is speaking the truth, for he is not speaking for himself." Jn 16:13 Because he is an angel. This is why you will never find the spirit sitting on the throne; because he is one of the angel in heaven. This is why I ask, "What does the spirit do in the heavenly city??? "Strange God!!" If he is not one of the angels, around the throne? Where is the spirit in the future heavenly city, if he is God. Why is he not sitting on the throne with us and Christ, or the Father????? Rev 3:21 ?
This angel spoke the truth which comes from God, through His Son, and he does not speak for himself, but what he hears. How can he be the God he is speaking for, who is in heaven? Yah, the Father, is the one who Christ was going back to be with. The Father is not just part of a God sitting on His throne in heaven, as some say, He is only part of one God. Jn 16:27,28,30 20;17 14:28 13:3<<<MANY PASSAGES LIKE THESE
We should never worship the spirit who was speaking through John, to the churches. Rev 22:8 Thus, no examples of the N T church worshipping the spirit!
Who is the God of our fathers of the O T??? Act 13:30-33 Heb 1:1-6 Ps 2:7 compare Acts 3:13,21,22,26 also 2:20-36 If you read this and don't know that Yah, the Father, is the God of the O T; I cannot help you!! Thus, we know Christ was not just speaking as a man when he prayed to the Father as being the only true God. Jn 17:3 You must know this in order to worship the Father in spirit, and in truth. Jn 4:20-24
Yah is the Father, and He is the one who came down from His home in heaven and spoke to Moses. Isa 63:15,16 & 64:3,4,8 Yah, the Father, knows our thoughts from afar off through the spirit that is with man. Ps 139:1,2,7 Rom 8:26,27<<The spirit is not the God to whom he is a intercession; the One God who is in Heaven.
Christ offered himself as a sacrifice to one God. Eph 5:1,2
Do you worship the Father as being the only true God???
Christ His Son worshiped the Father Jn 17:3 4:20-24
Giving Yahweh the Father the glory
When Paul speaks of the church as belonging to God or His Son, he is always speaking to the church who knows that it belongs to both. When speaking to the world who do not know this, we should show that it belongs to both. The sign in front of your building, or Radio, T V,
or any time you are speaking to the world. Thus, the sign in front of your building should read, a congregation of the church of God and his Son worships here; which shows that the church belongs to both. All things belong to you, and you belong to Christ, and Christ
belongs to God. I Cor 3:22,23 Why is the spirit not in this verse, if he is God?
Never leave the Father out when showing to whom the church belongs in our assemblies, or when speaking to the world; for we are to offer up a sacrifice of praise and good works to God the Father continually. Heb 13:15,16 Christ as our high priest, after his resurrection, has given his life serving his God and Father. We are to follow his example and do the same. Rom 6:10,11 Do you???
Christ is in the midst of the
congregation sing praises to "his God;" the same God to whom he made us to be priest. Rev 1:6 Heb 2:12 Ps 22:22,23 How many persons is the "one" God to whom both we and Christ are singing to, in our assembles. Heb 2:11,12 How many persons is the Almighty God, the one to whom both Moses, and Christ are singing???? Rev 15:3,4 Both we, Moses, and Christ are worshiping the same "one" God, the Father. Heb 2:11 Christ said that he did not seek his own glory, for only "one" has the right to seek His own glory. Again showing the "one" God is referring to the Father, who is seeking our worship. Jn 4:20-24 8:50,54 Thus, we should sing along with Christ in our assembly, to the Father; as given in Heb 2:11,12 Like Christ said, "in that day you will say nothing to me." For he is singing with the congregation.
Thus let us "offer up spiritual
sacrifices acceptable to God, through Christ," our high priest. 1 Pet 2:4,5 4:11 "Whatever you do in word ore deed," through Christ let us give thanks to God, the Father. Col 3:17 "What ever you eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God, the Father."
Then Paul shows that the church belongs to God, in the same context of telling us to give Him glory in all things. 1 Cor 10:31,32 Then he said, "Be ye imitators of me, even as I am of Christ." Both Paul and Christ were giving the Father the glory for all things, and showing to whom the church also belongs.v32 Then Paul shows the head of Christ is God; (1 Cor 11:1-3) giving the Father the glory of being the head of Christ. Thus, when will you leave out the Father, and not show that the church belongs to Him also?
It's God the Father who planned our salvation in Christ, before the world was, to the praises of His own glory. Eph 1:3-14 note verses 6,12,14 Who is this God before the world was.???? Compare Rom 8:29,31,32,34
The title Lord in Eph 5:19 is used in the place of the name of Yah; because of what Paul said above in Col 3:15,16; and because singing praises from Psalms, is talking about praises to Yah, the Father. This is why the next verse Eph 5:20, tell us to give thanks in the "name of Yshua, the Christ; to God the Father." Christ is in the midst of the congregation singing with the church, as our High Priest to God, as shown above. Those congregations singing more songs of praises to the High Priest, than to God the Father; shows they don't understand this. Heb 2:12 Ps 22:22,23<<Christ is singing praise to the name "Yah" the same God who made him a priest forever. Ps 110:4 The same Yah the Father, the one he is now sitting beside. Ps 110:1 ACT 2:32-34 <Note how "Lord" is used in the place of the name Yahweh here and also in Act 2:25 & Ps 16:8; Act 2:34-Ps 110:1<< "Yah said unto my Lord."and Rev 11:15. How can Christ be Yah?
The God of Abraham, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Christ. Act 3:13 They are not the same God.
This is the reason both Christ & the Jews worshiped the Father as being their God. Jn 4:20-24 The only begotten God came to make known the invisible God; which he shows to be the God of himself, and the Jews. Jn 1:18 <Greek, & NASB
Who is the living God? I Thess 1:9,10 Heb 9:14,24
If Christ is the Son of the living God; is he also the same living God that he is the Son of? Matt 16:16
Salvation is based upon knowing the Father as being the only true God, and Christ as being the Son of the "living God." Matt 16:16 Jn 17:3
" Christ is the only begotten God." Jn 1:18 NASB & Greek. Each is a God, and not just a part of one God. Heb 1:9<<<The Son, the lessor God, is anointed by Yah the greater God; making His Son greater than the angels. Heb 1:5,6 7:7 Ps 2:7<<<Thus it's Yah who raised him from the dead, and made him greater than the angels. No one makes Yah greater for He is the Almighty God. Rev 11:15-16 15:3,4 Heb 1:6,13 2:7 Christ is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation, for God created the world through his Son. Col 1:15 Heb 1:1-4 Who is a Son of this God, Yah. Heb 1:5 Ps 2:7 It was Yah, the Father's good pleasure, that the fulness of Deity dwell in His Son; in whom we are made full. Col 1:19 2:9 ASV We are being filled up to all of the fulness of God, and Christ our Lord. Eph 5:19, 4:13 We will put on divine nature,( 2 Pet 1:4) and sit down upon the throne with Christ. Rev 3:21 And we will be worshiped. Rev 3:9 ASV
Jn 3:2 Phil 3:21 2 Pet 1:4
We will be like Christ when we see him. This will not make us Yahweh, and neither did it make Christ Yah., his God and Father!
Who is the living God, from whom comes all life? Matt 16:16 Heb 9:14,24 I Thess 1:9,10 Jn 5:26 6:57 Why is a sin offering made to this God only, from whom both we and Christ are joint heirs in the future heavenly city? Heb 10:13 Ps 110:1,4 Rom 8:17 Why do we and Christ as priests offer up a sacrifice of praises to this God, now and forever? Rom 6:10,11 Heb 7:21-25 I Pet 2:5 4:11 Heb 13:15,16 I Cor 10:31 Eph 5:20 Christ made us clean so that we can "now serve" this "living God." Heb 9:14,24 He offered himself to this God Col 3:17 Why does Christ always give the Father the glory for all things, even his coming to this world, and even his own life. "I live
because of the Father." "I speak the things that I have seen with my Father" Jn 8:38 I seek the glory that comes from the only true God who sent me. Jn 17:3 I speak only that which comes from God, for if I speak for myself, I would be seek my own glory, but I do not seek my own glory. (That is from men.) Jn 7:16-18 8:50, I seek the glory that comes from the one you say is you God. Jn 8:54 13:3 20:17 He told the Samaritan woman that the Father was the God of the Jews and himself. Jn 4:21,23 He told the Jews the same thing. Paul said be ye imitators of me, even as I am of Christ, in the same context of "do all things to the glory of God." I Cor 10:11 through 11:3 Jn 8:38-42 Christ so perfectly represented his Father in his teaching, and all of his ways, and even his divine nature, that he said: You who believe in me, do not believe in me, but Him who sent me, and it's the only true God who sent me. Jn 12:44,49 17:3 For it was the Father who sanctified and sent me into this world. If I do
not the works of my Father believe me not. Jn 10:36,37 It was the living Father who sent me, and I live because of Him. Jn 6:57 The very works that I do prove that the Father sent me. And I do not seek my own will but the "one who sent me." "We beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father." Jn 1:14 "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten God, who in the bosom of the Father, he hath
made him known." Jn 1:18 Greek & NASB Both we and Christ are from the same "ONE" God, the Father. This is the same one God to whom Christ, in the assembly, is singing with the congregation, to Him. Heb 2:11,12 Don't you think we should sing along with Christ to the one God of us all???
Do you give the same glory to the Father as did his Son? The
Father is his God and Father in the heavenly city to come. Rev 3:12,21 Christ will be our joint heir to his God and Father in the heavenly city, and will be a priest to his God forever. Rom 8:17 Heb 7:21-25 Ps 110:1,4 He came from his God, and he is going back to be with his God. Jn 13:3 Christ taught the Jews that his God and Father is their God and Father. Jn 20:17 Now he is sitting beside YAH his Father, and our God and Father who is Yah. Act 2:28-34 Ps 110:1,4 He is the Son of Yahweh his God before coming to earth, Jn 8:38, and while on earth, Matt 16:16, and now that he is in heaven sitting beside Him. I Thess 1:9,10 Jn 1:18 Heb 1:2,3 How
can he be his own God that he is sitting beside? It's Yah who said "sit by my side." Do you think the Jews thought Peter was showing Yah to be sitting beside Himself? Ps 110:1,4 Act 2:34
Thus, we should follow the examples of Christ and give the Father, the only true God, the glory as being the source of all life, power and authority, before all time now and forever. Jude 25 Like Christ we should seek the glory that come from the only true God. Jn 5:30,36,44 17:3 Name one thing that the Son has, that did not come from the Father? The Father is the "one God" from whom are all things, who is over all. I Cor 8:4-6 Eph 4:6 Thus all spirits come from the Father of spirits. In this sense we are to call no one our Father, but our Father in heaven. Heb 12:2-9 Isa 42:1-8 If Yah, the Father, is the only Father of our spirits, is He not the only true God of our spirits? Thus He is the source of life. This is why Christ
is said to be the firstborn of all creation, for the Father then created the world through His "SON." Col `1:15 Heb 1:2,3 2:7 I Cor 8:4-6 Thus he was the Son of God before coming to earth. Jn 8:38 10:36 16:28,30 Col 1:15 Heb 1:2,3 Who will be His God and Father in the heavenly city to come. Rev 3:12,21 He is a Son yesterday, to day and forever, for he is the "same yesterday, to day, and forever."
Heb 13:8 Rev 3:21 I Thess 1:9,10 Heb 1:2-6 2:7 Act 13:32,33 Rom 1:3,9,19-22 3:28,29,30 4:20,24 5:10 6:10,11 8:14-17 8:26-
34<<<<There is about 50 passages like these in the N T that show God is someone other than His Son. He is his God and Father in the heavenly city. Rev 3:12,21 Thus, at the end of the world, the kingdom has become the kingdom of our Lord, and His anointed. Rev 11:15-17 How many persons is this "Lord God the Almighty" at the end of the world? Compare Rev chapters four & five. How many person is this "Lord God Almighty" who is sitting on the throne, the one that the Lamb came and took the book from his right hand?<<These are examples of the many, many passages that show the Son is not the only true God. Jn 17:3
Give God the Father the glory for all things. Heb 13:15 I Cor 10:31 Col 1:17 Eph 5:20 Rom 6:10,11 I Pet 4:11 Jn 14:13<<"What ever you do in word or deed." <<When should we leave out the Father or his Son, since we are to do all thing through Christ, to God the Father?
The Lamb is not the Lord God Almighty in the heavenly city. Rev
21:22 22:1 11:15-17 15:3-4 He is his God, and Father, in the heavenly
city. 3:12,21 The Son will be a priest to his God forever. Heb 7:21-25 Ps
110:4 An intercessor between his God, and the children of God forever. This is why the Son made us to be priest to "his God." Rev 1:6
If Christ is a priest forever to "his God," will we not be priest serving under our high priest forever also?
The J in the old English name of Joshua, had a Y sound during that time; proving the name of Christ should begin with a Y today, just like his Hebrew name.
When the Latin name Iesus, became the Greek name Iesous, it became Jesus because "I" before "e" in the Greek has a "J" sound. This "J" is not in the Hebrew, Latin, or English at that time. Thus, how can the Son's name at that time, begin with the "J" sound of today? Yoshua, sounds more like the Son's real name which is Y'shua, before it was changed to Jesus in our Bibles of today.
Do you know the only true God? Your eternal life is based on knowing the "only true God," and the one sent by Him. Jn 17:3 No one can be reconciled to God unless they believe that He alone is the only true God. Heb 11:6, Rom 5:10, I Tim 2:5 Eph 4:6 I Cor 8:4,6 I Thess 1:8-11 Col 3:1,2 Heb 1:3 8:1 Act 2:32-36 7:55. "If God is for us, who is against us, He who spared not His own Son?" Rom 8:17,29,31,32,34 Thus, the Father is the Almighty God, and knowing this is the foundation of salvation. Rev chs. 4 & 5 Yah said, All of my people will know me and my name. Isa 52:6 How can we be His people if we don't know Him, or His name? Ex 3:14 Heb 2:12 8:11<<It's Yah who said "they shall all know me," in Heb 8:ll Jer 31:31-34. Christ is now sitting beside Yah. Act 2:34 Ps 110:1<<Thus It's Yah the "only true God" who sent His Son. How many persons is this "only true God," who is the source of truth? Jn 14:28 8:38-42 Christ is now sitting beside the God who created the world through His Son. Thus Christ was a Son before coming to earth. Jn 3:17 10:36 16:28
"I will honor Yah at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth….Oh magnify Yah with me, and let us exalt His name together." Psa. 34:1-3 Isa 52:6 33:2 They shall know my name Jer 16:21 Ps 91:14 We are to love the name Yah. Isa 56:6 Ps 69:36 "For Yah is a great God, a great King above all gods." compare Rev 11:15-16 15:3,4 Glory in Yah's name. Ps 105:1,3 7:17 There is many passages like these in Psalms. The last verse in Psalms has His short name Yah. Ps 150:6 God himself tell us that both of these are His names.Ps 42:8 68:4 The New American Standard removes Yah from the text, and puts Jehovah in it's place; putting Yah in the margin.
Men have removed God's name from many Bibles, which is not from God; for God gave his names many time in the Hebrew Bible. Why should He tell us His name so many times, if He did not want us to know it, and love it. Why tell us that we are to know his name, if we cannot know His name? Try every spirit to see if it is of God. Any spirit that tell you that you cannot know the name of God, is not telling you the truth; for God tells us that all of his children will know His name. Do you know God, and His name? If not, you must not be His child!!!
Ps 104:32,33
When Yah just look's down on the earth it trembles. It was Yah, the Father, who came down to speak to Moses. Moses did not see His face, but Yah did show him his back. Yah warned the people not to try to look up Him. Yah was in the cloud, and He was not every where. His regular habitation is in heaven. PS 11:4 Isa 63:16 This is impossible, if God is ever where.
He told Moses if He went among the people He would kill them. This and many other passages shows the person of Yah is not every where. He is every where in that He knows all through His angels. "Their angels are always before the face of God." Matt 18:10 Many times angels speaks in first person as though they are Yah himself. It was two angels who spoke to Moses in the cloud as though they were Yah himself . Compare Act 7:30-38 It's Yah, the Father, who spoke to Moses. Isa 63:15,16 64:3,4,8
Christ went "far above the heavens" going back to be with Yah his God and Father, who is in heaven. Stephen's look into heaven and saw Christ standing on the right hand of God. Act 7:55 Thus we see Christ is someone other than Yah our God, when both are in heaven. Ps 2:2,7 <<ACT 13:30,33 Pa 22:22,23<<<Heb 2:12 Christ is now sitting beside Yah his Father, and our Father. ACT 2:36<<<Ps 110:1 Again, this shows Yah is in heaven, His regular dwelling place.
When you rob the Father of His glory, you do not bring glory to Christ. We bring glory to Christ by obeying him, and following his examples. He gave his Father the glory for everything. Do you??? Like Christ said, I live because of the Father, and he is the Father of all spirits. In this sense, He is my God and Father, and He is your God and Father.Matt 23:9 Heb 2:11-13 12:9 Jn 6:57 7:17,18 8:38 10:36 11:22-27 12:43-49 13:3 This God is Yah, the Father of the spirit of His Son, and our spirits Isa 42:1-8 Matt 23:9 Heb 2:11 12:5-9 Rev 22:6-9
Heb 6:13 He sware by Himself Heb 11:6
Heb 2:12 Ps 22:22 <<<Yah is the God that both we and Christ are worshiping in Heb 2:11-12 Christ is our brother because all spirits come from the Father of spirits. Thus call no man your Father, for one is the Father of your spirits,"He who is in heaven". Matt 23:9 Christ said this when he was on earth. compare Heb 12:5-9 10:12,13 11:6 13:14-16 Rev 21:22
FOR there is one GOD and one mediator between God AND MAN" l TIM 2:5 Christ will be an intercessor between God & His children forever. It's Yah who said, "sit at my right hand." Ps 110:1 Mk 15:34 Jn 10:24-38 Ps 82:6 Jn 3:34 Act 10:37,38 How can Christ be YAH, the one GOD he is sitting beside??? We are to be one with the Father and His Son, just as they are one.17:3,21,22,23
Tom