THE ENTIRE STORY GOD S LOVE IN ME. God s love flowing into and out of me into others is the expression of Jesus.

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1 THE ENTIRE STORY GOD S LOVE IN ME God s love flowing into and out of me into others is the expression of Jesus. 1. A believer, as a son of God, like Jesus, will follow the teachings of Jesus. 2. God prevented Jesus message from being perverted by the translators. 3. Christianity perverted Jesus message by incorporating Fear into the church. 4. Jesus never asked or suggested to anyone to ask forgiveness of sin in order to avoid hell and go to heaven after death. The above four remarks are intelligently concluded and provable facts. Denying or an unwillingness to investigate the above four remarks is a measure of how Cultural beliefs are allowing Satan s message of stealing, killing and destroying to be taking precedence over Jesus message, I have come to abolish death and give life. God s perfect love creates faith and hope faith or hope does not create, Love. Chapter 17 in John, when believed and allowed to become your conviction, describes the unconditional love of God that can be imparted into anyone of God s creation. This is the accurate message Jesus came to earth to teach. These words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify your Son, that your Son also may glorify (Think like) you. As you have given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as you have given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know you (perceive God s truth), the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have glorified (Thought like) you on the earth. I have finished the work which you gave me to do. And now, O Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world was. I have manifested your name unto the men which you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them me; and they have kept your word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever you have given me are of you. For I have given unto them the words which thou gave me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from you, and they have believed that you did send me. I pray for them. I pray not for the world, but for them which you have given me; for they are yours. And all mine are yours and yours are mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to you. Holy Father, keep through your own name those whom you have given me, that they may be one, as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name: those that thou gave me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. And now come I to you and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that you should take them out of the world, but that thou should keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through your truth: your word is truth. As you sent me into the 1

2 world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word. That they all may be one; as you, Father, are in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that you sent me. And the glory which you gave me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one. I in them, and you in me, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, as you have loved me. Father, I will that they also, whom thou has given me, be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which you have given me: for you loved me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world has not known you but I have known you, and these have known that you sent me. And I have declared unto them your name, and will declare it, that the love wherewith you loved me may be in them, and I in them. 1 And now abides faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 2 For the greater part, of my walk with the Lord, I have attempted to use my faith to get things. Things included healing for someone I prayed over as well as material objects. Financial prosperity was usually near the top of the list. I used to believe that Power needed to physically materialize, calling things that are not as though they were, was some mysterious force of faith that would create my request if I had enough of it. This procedure occasionally produced what I expected; therefore, I accepted my belief as a correct way to serve the Lord by using my faith. This is, Random reinforcement or believing in something that happens occasionally or irregularly. When this procedure did not produce, I believed my faith was not sufficient and as many adjustments as I could consider were applied. And, the results were usually Zilch. This Gap in my Christian belief system and the results I was obtaining began a search that has led me into some miraculous discoveries. This is my experience obtained from changing my beliefs that I am sharing with you. The statements are my opinions that have been effective in my life and enabled God s perfect love to be imparted into my heart. It was necessary for me to realize that the King James Version contains the translators choices of Hebrew and Greek synonyms that reflected their Catholic backgrounds. Catholic doctrine is fear, not love, based in order to control members and collect indulgences for sins. It is an extension of Pagan gods beliefs, where Hades and hell were initiated. Christianity has preserved this fear based doctrine by believing in hell. 1 John 17: I Corinthians 13:13 2

3 The KJV is an English version of the Latin Vulgate Bible that Jerome, a Catholic scholar, translated in the fourth century. I do not believe it is the inerrant word of God and does not represent God s plans or intentions. Go back and read, John 17 again. This chapter describes truth and the plans of God. It is spiritually beneficial to follow Jesus teachings. God prevented Jesus message from being perverted by Jerome in the fourth century. In the first century, the founders of Christianity made Peter the first Pope. This was an incorrect assumption and a false foundation and the perversion of Jesus teaching. Jesus commanded his church to be built on the fact, Jesus is the son of God. The succeeding perversions of Jesus message, were continued because of a false and incorrect foundation. The specific group that God chose and gave to Jesus is not a random selection, but is ones who accept and believe that God is love and never acts apart from love. The following are key lines from John 17 that apply to my life and to anyone who accepts the truth of Jesus visit to earth: 1. I have power over my flesh. 2. My flesh has eternal life or life without Satan s plan of dying to return to God. 3. Life eternal is manifested because I know and perceive God s truth. 4. Jesus made God understandable to me, because He chose me. Chuck, You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you I have kept His word. 6. Jesus prays for me. 7. Jesus has given me God s word and Christians hate (don t approve) me. 8. God keeps me from evil. 9. God sanctifies me through the truth of His word. 10. Just as God sent Jesus into the world, so Jesus sends me into the world to continue his works. 11. Jesus sanctified himself that I may be sanctified through the truth of God s word. 12. God will make me perfect to show the world the reality of Jesus. 13. The same love God imparted into Jesus is imparted into me. God s love flowing into and out of me into others is the expression of Jesus. God sent His Holy Spirit to earth to continue communicating what Jesus began communicating with humanity. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. 4 3 John 15:16 4 John 16:13 3

4 God uses His Holy Spirit to communicate with His children not Catholic translators from 20 centuries back. God s plans and true intentions are His inerrant words that became Jesus. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. 5 In this case, Glory means to Think like. If you are still with me, let s proceed to another wrong perception that prevented me from abiding in the perfect love of God. John 17, first sentence, Power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life. I believed for nearly 54 years that Eternal life began after death. I knew that spirits are automatically eternal and finally I understood, Eternal life was life without ending for my flesh. Now, II Timothy 1:10 was accepted as truth. But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death, and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. 6 The real gospel or good news, Jesus abolished death. Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil. And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 7 Bondage or having a slave s relationship happens, if you believe in, Physical death. Sin results in physical death. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 8 Death is the Greek word for the Pagan god of death, Thanatos. The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 9 Jesus abolished death is so obvious that I have wondered how this truth was hidden. Satan is the source of Physical death Jesus is the source of Life. Moving into heaven by, Translation is God s plan and not by Satan s plan of death. All of the above will not be naturally accepted as truth but can be acceptable by Faith. 5 John 1:14 6 II Timothy 1:10 7 Hebrews 2:14, 15 8 Romans 6:23 9 I Corinthians 15:56 4

5 Remember, Faith is created by the Perfect love of God. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails anything, nor un-circumcision; but faith which works by love. 10 Faith to create: See and love others as God sees and loves me. The belief in God s unconditional love eliminates the belief in death and hell. The Prodigal Son story confirms God s love is unconditional. And Jesus said, A certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee. And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry. Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing. And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant. And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound. And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and entreated him. And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends. But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is yours. It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found. 11 The Father, paid no attention to His son s attempt to confess his sins and said, Let s celebrate My son has changed his perception and has returned home to his father. If you perceive God as one who punishes for sin, when will you change your perception? Christianity has concentrated on two opposing and contradicting beliefs: Punishment for Sin instead of God s unconditional love. 10 Galatians 5:6 11 Luke 15:

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