In his letter to the saints at Ephesus the Apostle Paul made several statements that traditionally have been ignored. As stated on several occasions, God has appointed me to draw attention to His rejected Truths so that those who call themselves by His name can come to believe and obey them and thereby receive not only eternal life with the Father and the Son in the coming earthly Kingdom of God, but can rule the entire universe with Them forever. Readers of this website know that those all-important but usually ignored Truths are what I call God’s “fine print.” Let us return to the first chapter of Ephesians for a look at a few more of those “ignored nuggets” that can be found only by honestly and earnestly studying God’s “Gold Mine”–His Holy Bible.
In verse 3 we find Paul identifying God as the “God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Admittedly, I had not realized the significance of that statement prior to my conversion. During those years I had been a super religious evangelist known for having a faith-based healing and deliverance ministry. Following my conversion (not salvation) I one day found myself reading in First Timothy where it is written that “the MAN Jesus Christ” now sits at the right hand of God serving as the mediator between God and man (2:5). The words: “the Man” suddenly seared themselves into my brain as God revealed to me the fact that there is a MAN sitting beside Him in heaven. Jesus, a man like all other men (Heb. 4:15), was sitting with God in heaven not only as a God, BUT ALSO AS A MAN. Having recovered from that shock, I soon found myself reading about Paul’s Damascus Road encounter with Christ. Again the Lord brought home to me the Truth that A MAN HAD BECOME A GOD. When Paul asked Jesus to identify Himself, Jesus replied: “I AM (NOT WAS) JESUS OF NAZARETH ….” (Acts 22:8). Note that He identified Himself by His human name and human residence. Once again God’s Truth swept through me like electricity: I CAN SPEND ETERNITY NOT ONLY WITH CHRIST, BUT LIKE HIM IN EVERY WAY. I CAN BECOME A GOD EXACTLY AS HE IS A GOD. God revealed to me that CHRIST’S SPIRITUAL BRETHREN WILL BECOME GODS AS HE IS A GOD, THAT RECEIVING GOD STATUS IS PART OF THE INHERITANCE PROMISED THEM IN ROMANS 8:17. But as is the case with all of God’s promises, there is a caveat–one must qualify for god status by becoming a spiritual brother to Jesus Christ. Jesus identifies His spiritual brethren in Matthew 12:46-50 as: “… they who do the will of My Father Who is in heaven.”
Over time God has revealed things to me that I had previously read in His Word but did not fully understand. What you read on this website is the product of the Lord’s revelation to me concerning what I had read so many times over the years and had not understood. As He makes clear, revelation comes to a man, including the man Jesus, only through His Holy Spirit which abides within man. The fact that church ministers preach doctrines that contradict God’s Word is proof that they do not have His Spirit living within them. Their not being “led by the Spirit of God” proves that they are not “sons of God” (Rom.8:14).
Another Bible Truth God made clear is that in order to be as Christ is (a god) in our next life we must live as Christ lived during His earthly life. The Apostle John, writing under the power of the Holy Spirit, wrote in 1 John 2:6 that we must “walk even as He (Jesus) walked” and must keep ourselves “pure as He is pure” (1 Jn. 3:3) in order to be His spiritual sibling. Jesus Himself summarized that Truth, saying that we must “… overcome (Satan) even as I (Jesus) overcame” (him) in order to join Him on His throne (Rev. 3:21). Other Scriptures confirm the Truth of those passages. Roman 5:21; 6:22 and Matthew 10:22 proclaim that the END RESULT OF A HUMAN LIFE LIVED IN RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HOLINESS IS ETERNAL GOD LIFE LIVED IN POWER AND DOMINION. Like the man Jesus of Nazareth, we (men) can become gods as He (a man) is now a God–a God Who is also a man. Read Jesus of Nazareth: God, Man or God-man and The True Trinity. Key words–God-man and True respectively. I want to give credit where it is due. Others have received these revelations and have confirmed that the revelations I have received did indeed come from the Lord.
As the references noted above reveal, man’s potential in the next life is beyond human imagination. Paul wrote about that fact in Isaiah 64:4 and 1 Corinthians 2:9: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has entered into the heart of man the THINGS which God has prepared for them that LOVE HIM.” Now notice what Paul says in verse 10: “But God has REVEALED THEM (THE “THINGS” MENTIONED IN VS 9) to US (His true ministers) by His Holy Spirit, for the Spirit knows ALL THINGS, YEA, EVEN THE DEEP THINGS OF GOD.” It is the job of God’s apostles to share the “deep things” He reveals to them with those who seek to not only know His will, but to also obey it (vs 17). Others might read or hear His Truth but will ignore it in obedience to their god–Satan.
As the Lord tells us, the DEEP THINGS God reveals to His apostles in these end times will be embraced and believed only by those who “LOVE HIM.” God, who leaves no Truth stone unturned, defines exactly who it is that loves Him. In John 14:15,23 Jesus said that if we love Him we will “… keep (obey) His “commandments” (vs 15) which He identifies as His “Words” in verse 23. In Matthew 19:17 Jesus said that IF one expects to inherit eternal life, he/she must obey His commandments. He said in John 15:10 that IF we keep His commandments, (then) we will abide in His love, just as He (Jesus) abode in God’s love by keeping His commandments. Please read these passages.
In Ephesians 1:4 Paul states exactly what is commanded of those who would inherit salvation–we must “BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLAME BEFORE HIM IN LOVE” (FOR HIM). Recall that Paul said in Romans 5:21 and 6:22 that eternal life was the REWARD FOR LIVING A LIFE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, HOLINESS AND BLAMELESSNESS. I have been chastised by church people for repeating what God said about such things as having to qualify for salvation by doing works of righteousness and holiness, and about becoming gods as the man Jesus became a god (again) while remaining a man. But I stand by God’s written Truths. “Though every man (who contradicts God) is a liar, God (His Word) is true” (Rom. 3:4/ Jn. 17:17).
In verse 11 of Ephesians 1 we find Paul saying that we have obtained an inheritance (salvation) IF we live our lives according to God’s purpose which He recorded and preserved in “the Word of Truth,” which is “the Gospel of our salvation” (vs 13). Those who obey Him can truly say as did the man Jesus Christ: “He who has seen Me has seen the Father.” But be reminded that, of the multitudes who saw Jesus, were healed, delivered, fed and preached to by Him, 99% of them did not accept Him as their Lord. Upon His death only about 120 people remained true to Him. Nothing has changed. The vast majority who read or hear His Truth reject it. For this reason Jesus prophesied that only a “few” would “find” His “strait gate” (church), enter it and walk His “narrow way” (life style) to salvation (Mat. 7:13,14). And who are these people? These are they who OBEY THE COMMANDMENTS (LAW) OF GOD. L.J.
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