THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOW Instead of my attempting to put the title into an interesting narrative I will, as always, hit the nail on the head quickly and the first time around. H it the nail on the head is a 2009 idiom; I wonder what a reader 2000 years from today will wonder what it means. A Jewish idiom 2000 years ago is no less difficult, today, to understand. If you think the world has many unsolvable problems, then the following may help you approach life in 2009, from a different and a winning point of view. There are 25,000 historical manuscripts that document the birth, birthplace, date and the method of death, location and the date of Jesus the Son of God. His life of thirty-three years is the most specialized time in the history of mankind. Reading today s date in a newspaper says, J esus lived. Ones who deny Jesus as the Son of God have substituted Before Current Era or BCE for Before Christ or BC. And Current Era, CE for AD, or the year of our Lord. God sent His Son, Jesus, to earth for His true intentions and for a precise reason. Logically then, the REASON is what we are looking for. This article began to unfold as I was listening to a well-known TV preacher this morning. He was comparing the lives of his congregation to Job as if Job had the same relationship to God as someone in the New Covenant. The pastor s message essentially was, God allowed Satan to inflict punishment to prove that Job would weather the intense suffering and emerge when God said Job had improved himself sufficiently. And then God doubled Job s physical wealth. My first thought, doesn t this pastor know that the Old Testament or Old Covenant wasn t accomplishing what God had intended with Adam. To change this, God sent His Son, as the last Adam, to reverse the first Adam s mistakes. Job lived under the umbrella of the mistakes the first Adam made. And my second thought, doesn t this pastor know the least in the kingdom of God is greater than Job was on his best day or any other human who is not a born again son of God living in the kingdom of God with the entitlements and benefits Jesus made transferable with his birth, death and resurrection. 1
The pastor s message was intended to encourage his church members and the listeners to accept their troubling financial problems being experienced today as God permitted or allowed. And eventually, after expecting to be released from problems, God will say; you have made sufficient spiritual improvements in your life, now I will bless you like I blessed Job. Did God allow the birth and crucifixion of His Son so a Christian can relive the life of Job? Why did Jesus visit our planet for thirty-three years 2000 years ago? The apostle John was considered a good friend of Jesus so let s try to identify what John had to say. God gave a message contained in the book of John sixty years after Jesus had been resurrected. I ll pick a few highlights starting in chapter one. John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. This sounds too good to be true, God is promising, w hosoever (that includes anyone) believes Jesus is the Son of God w ill be imparted pow er to become a son of God. Do you think God had this in mind when He gave the Lord s Prayer, Our Father? It is my thought that the Lord s Prayer is also the will of God but requires cooperation from sons of God to happen. You know that thing about the kingdom of heaven is for now and not after death. Christianity has overlooked God s promise of heaven on earth and substituted a promise of heaven or hell after death. Don t you think Job wished he could have been a son of God if he knew it was a possibility in the year 2500 BC. Jesus made it possible w ith his presence on earth 2500 years after Job. John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming unto him, and said, Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world. The Christian Church or the Catholic Church perverted this verse three years after Jesus said, I t is finished or everything I came to say and do is completed. Christians distorted God s plan and changed a unilateral act by Jesus to a bilateral act that require works to have sin expiated. This wrong interpretation by Christians has made the threat of hell possible. 2
Translating this verse, using the original Greek meaning, God spoke to John, M y Son J esus has c ome t o e arth t o e xpiate (unilaterally remove) a ll sin for all humanity. There is not a hint or remote idea that this verse was a bilateral effort mandated by God. Are perverts the ones who allow perversions of God s Word? Or are ones who allow the perversions of God s word perverts? It is interesting that pervert means to distort or deprave and deprave means to lead astray. The perversion of God s word has led mankind astray from God s desire to have innumerable sons and has led mankind to believe Jesus visited earth to prevent hell as a destination after death. When Jesus was twenty-seven years old he attended a wedding, along with his mother, at Cana of Galilee. And do you know; Jesus turned water into the best alcoholic wine the host had tasted. This is not the usual way a ministry is started, but this is the way the Son of God started his. There are 21 st century Pharisees, just like Jesus had contact with, in the 1 st century. They were and still are legalists who did not accept Jesus because he did not condemn or judge anyone. Jesus repeatedly taught for over three years, Repent or change your perception about moral issues (sin) because the kingdom of heaven is at hand or in you. Twenty first century Pharisees like the 1 st century Pharisees believe Jesus judges and condemns. God spoke to His beloved friend in John 3:17, For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn or judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved (made physically whole). Please don t use Noah Webster s definition of saved or salvation as saved from hell or salvation for entrance into heaven. The original Greek defines these two words as m ade physically and completely w hole. This is another attempt to encourage some hurting persons day with the threat of hell. The evening, following the wedding, the ruler of the Pharisees, Nicodemus, secretly came to Jesus. After Nicodemus acknowledged Jesus was from God, Jesus told him, Y ou must be born again to enter the kingdom of God. This was three plus years before the cross. Y ou must be born again to enter the kingdom of God was Jesus first message and his last message for forty days after his resurrection and returning to his Father. 3
How many times is this message taught or preached in Christian Churches? The answer is seldom and the reason is because it takes a pastor who is born again and experienced being a son of God to teach about it. The world would be a better place if there were millions sons of God influencing the ones in their sphere of life with the real God of love. Oh how badly the world needs love. Instead there are millions of Christians threatening anyone who is not a Christian to burn in hell forever. Another disciple of Jesus, Peter, wrote in his book I Peter 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides for ever. Do you realize this is telling you, Y ou can be born again w ith the same incorruptible seed or w ord of God that birthed Jesus? And lives and abides forever. This verse is a favorite for my I mmortality Club. Now, for an analysis, What w as the reason Jesus visited earth. 1. So anyone can be born again and receive the entitlements and benefits as a son of God. An experience that has nothing to do with the cross or sin. 2. Jesus came to unilaterally expiate the sin of the world for all humanity. 3. Jesus command to Nicodemus is the same today, Be born again. 4. Born again is a Godly imparted supernatural metamorphose that rebirths a natural man into a son of God like Jesus. 5. Sons of God maintain residency in the kingdom of God. 6. God had a desire to have sons in order to have fellowship with ones of His kind. In order to accomplish this He permitted Jesus to visit earth with a transferable modus operandi that would create innumerable sons, like Jesus, to inhabit and take dominion over the world as sons of God and destroy the works of the devil. God gave Paul the message in his book of Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Forgive me, but if this pastor I am speaking about, was born again as a son of God he would know the correct solution for problems, Once you have found 4
the kingdom of God and His righteousness all your physical needs w ill be met. Jesus said I have come to destroy the works of the devil or as I spoke to John, T he devil comes to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I am come that you possess life, and possess it more abundantly. John 10:10 The pastor was feeding his sheep this morning that God is permitting financial difficulties because satanic help is needed to become a better person. Hearing and believing, What he feeds me, I will swallow and where he leads me I will follow may help but it is not the perfect will of God. Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. This is the perfect will of God. This charismatic, articulate and popular TV pastor is leading his sheep back to an Old Covenant character, Job, and is literally un-intelligently and un-knowingly giving them hope in their self efforts to continue to endure and wait for God to intervene and remove the suffering He allowed or permitted Satan to inflict. This is just another example of Christianity perverting the reason Jesus visited earth and has become personal because there are five in this church I love very much. Here is the reason God permitted His Son to be birthed and crucified: J esus came to earth w ith a transferable modus operandi to permit innumerable sons of God to be birthed, live in the kingdom of God and demonstrate belief in him by doing the same and even greater w orks. Christianity, as this pastor made obvious, N o, God you sent Jesus to earth so Christians w ould not go to hell and go to heaven after they die. The message I heard this morning concluded in a plea for money in order to expand the church ministry. This comes across to me, as an outsider, as a spiritual oxy-moron. Why would this pastor ask for money to assist others while ones in his church family are praying for financial help? The pastor in this article has made it obvious that he is not a son of God and is still operating as a natural charismatic preacher without the mind of Christ. Pastor X said Satan can steal your gifts but not your fruits. Satan can t steal anything from a son of God. Christians live in part a of John 10:10, Satan came to steal, kill and destroy. 5
Sons of God live in part b of John 10:10, Jesus has come that we can have life and life more abundantly. Usually pastor X like the one we are discussing have a controlling spirit. God told Saul that a controlling spirit is like witchcraft. And this is another natural characteristic for not being born again and a son of God. The Old Covenant is directed to Old Testament citizens and mistakenly New Testament Christians accept it. This is why pastor X was comparing Job to his Christian audience and my guess is no one will object. I Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. A natural man is a Christian and not born again and entire truth of God cannot be understood. The New Covenant is directed to sons of God because they know the true reason Jesus visited earth. Adam was a son of God spiritually but his flesh was human with human characteristics. Jesus was a Jew, physically, and a Son of God both physically and spiritually. Reborn sons of God are, whatever Nationality physically, and sons of God both physically and spiritually. This sounds heretical to Pharisees and they had Jesus crucified for claiming this. As a son of God you are birthed with the same seed God birthed Jesus as a human born of a human mother. You flesh has the nature of Jesus. Like Jesus, sons of God, are not Christians. It is possible to fake being a Christian. It is impossible to fake being a son of God. I am currently asking God for permission to take the Catholic Church to court for Fraud and Embezzlement. Fraud is a term for lying and not telling the truth and embezzlement for taking money for lying and not telling the truth. 6
I have come to realize that the belief in hell has destroyed more lives beginning in the 1 st century when Christians terrorized and killed anyone for not becoming a Christian. Today, Christians are more tolerant and only threaten non-christians with an eternity in hell for not becoming a Christian. Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shall be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. I will give a New Covenant scrutiny: You have accepted and believed incorrect reasons for God sending His Son to earth; therefore, this inaccurate knowledge will destroy you. Many continue to embrace Christianity and reject the reason Jesus came to earth and this false information can be passed down to their children. You are thinking, What about the cross that Jesus died and shed his blood? Thanks for asking. Here are my thoughts and supporting scriptures. II Timothy 1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who a bolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Jesus abolished sin or death on the cross and his resurrection restored immortality. Sin, as defined by God, is missing the mark and failing to collect the prize. Missing the mark is Death and failing to collect the prize of immortality. God sent Jesus to earth as the last Adam to reverse the first Adam s mistakes. Adam introduced judging that introduced death and immortality was lost. Humanity has rejected immortality because no one has ever lived forever. Sons of God accept the word of God and reject all opposing physical evidence. c.wardman@cox.net February 08, 2009 7