PROBLEMS THAT REQUIRE A PERSONAL RESPONSE This morning I had a notice on my monitor screen that my security system needed a personal response. I applied the security system required actions and all the problems were fixed. At this juncture some thoughts began racing through my mind and from my past experiences I knew God wanted to reveal something new. So here I am at my computer about to release what I am hearing. I have used this parable before but I believe it has enough significance to repeat: If you fixed your fix then God will have to fix another fix to fix your fixed. If I had applied my personal opinion about what my computer needed fixed this morning it probably would not have corrected the fix. Reading the instruction manual solved the problem. The bottom line of all this rhetoric is, Following instructions that have been provided by God and assuming you have the ability to read and understand is the sensible and correct way. Now comes the personal application and this offers an opportunity to get offended. But it is going to be short and too the point. God sent His Son as a man to earth and after Jesus left God provided an instruction manual for you re living now that God called the New Covenant or, A new contract. Shall we examine a few scriptures and thoughts to confirm the above? Jesus had only one predominant message, Repent, or change your perception about sin, because the kingdom of heaven is at hand, or within you. 1
The first message and command Jesus gave at his ministry s beginning was to a Jew named Nicodemus, the head of the Pharisees in Jerusalem, that he had to be born again in order to live in the kingdom of God. Jesus knew becoming a son of God by being born again and living in His kingdom would fulfill his purpose of coming to earth. The reason, as God s second Adam, was to reverse the first Adam s mistakes and impart the God kind of life and that kind of life more abundantly. John 3:3,5 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Again Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. The word see means you have perception only of what born again means. It is essential to be born again in the Spirit in order to experience and enter into the kingdom of God. This is very blunt, living in the kingdom of God there is no sickness or diseases and there is no belief in hell. If you have scales over your eyes, as do the Jews, your perception of why Jesus came to earth is incorrect. And, if you were obedient to the message your pastor preached and accepted Jesus for forgiveness of sins to escape hell and go to heaven after death you are not a son of God and cannot live in the kingdom of God. Do you think it is peculiar that Jesus never said one time, I have come so you can escape hell and go to heaven after you die? 1. John 3:16 and 17 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. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. a. Not perish, means physical death will not happen. b. Everlasting life speaks of immortality. c. Jesus did not come to earth to condemn or judge but to make mankind physically whole. 2. John 10:10 The thief, Satan, comes to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. a. Might means it is a possibility but requires a personal action. 2
If you have been taught that Jesus came to give you an escape from hell and an eternity in heaven after you die consider starting over with a different perception why Jesus was sent to earth. Jesus delivered his message how to be born again and living in the kingdom of God over three years before the cross. For forty days after Jesus was resurrected and before he went to be with his Father, he spoke only of how to live in the kingdom of God. He did not mention sin, hell or the cross. Does that say something about what Jesus thought was important? The message Jesus gave to his disciples was to go into the entire world and teach how to live in the kingdom of God. Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come or things prophesied shall happen. God never said go into the entire world and make Christians. Jesus was not a Christian or did he come to earth to establish Christianity. 3. II Timothy 1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. This is a clear message but death being destroyed and immortality restored is foolishness and impossible to understand if you are not born again as a son of God and operate with only a carnal mind. The natural man who is not born again receives not the things of God as spoken in 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. Born again is a super natural spiritual metamorphose that translates a natural man into a son of God. Sons of God are like Jesus and possess his mind or the mind of God. When you become a son of God, Jesus abolished death and restored immortality is easily understood and allows focusing on life instead of death. When you become a son of God Hell becomes an obscene word and a myth. The best news is you will escape the reason Satan came to earth, Steal your ability to live in the kingdom of God, Kill you with a sickness or disease and to Destroy you with an accident. 3
Sons of God believe and trust the Instruction Manual that God calls, A new and better contract for living the Zoë life now. Remember, If you fixed your fix then God will fix another fix to fix your fixed. Divine health cannot be attained with prescription drugs or your fixed. The real reason Jesus came to earth was to enable God s fix that can be had by following His Instruction Manual. My purpose to write this short article is for you to abandon your traditional beliefs you have been taught in your church and go to the scriptures detailed in this article and discover what God s New Contract has for you. God s Instruction Manual is a love letter from a loving Father, who does not act apart from love, to His innumerable sons that Jesus was birthed and died to make possible. God has made possible three dimensions or His three wills, Good, acceptable and perfect. He provided these three wills because of spiritual demographics or access to a correct teaching of His word and just traditional stubbornness to avoid changing a perception of God and knowing Him personally. Accepting Jesus for any reason imparts a better life. This is His acceptable will. His good will is receiving the baptism in the Holy Spirit that sets people free from current bondages and imparts the ability to spread the light or true gospel. This was the basis for the Pentecostal movement but the true reason Jesus came to earth was not taught as the light of the gospel. This spiritual experience added horrific legalism and has caused many churches to split over the strife because the true perception of Power to teach or witness was incorrectly received and taught. The Perfect will of God is to be Born again as a son of God and live in the kingdom of God now. In the Perfect will of God you are like Jesus and have the ability to do the works of Jesus. The works of Jesus are: 4
1. Telling everyone their sins are forgiven and the kingdom of God is available 2. To set captives free from past and present earthly bondages. 3. Destroy the works of the devil. If you fail to live in the Perfect will of God you will die from one of Satan s abilities to kill and your spirit will go to where God dwells. Here, as Jesus told the thief on the cross, is Paradise. Paradise is an advanced academy of learning that is operated by Jesus. In Paradise you will be taught just as Jesus taught here on earth. But because you failed on earth to heed what Jesus was teaching, Repent or change your perception of sin and you can live in the kingdom of God now you are given a second opportunity and also confirms God s promise, Every knee shall bow at the name of Jesus. I Peter 4:6 For this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, (the spirits of all flesh return to God who gave them) that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. 1. The light or truth of the gospel is Jesus abolished death and restored immortality. 2. Judge means to determine and correct how they lived on earth. 3. But live, means how to live on earth as it is in heaven. Then we are back to square one, the Garden of Eden or heaven on earth where life is free from sickness and disease because death has been abolished. Death is the work of the devil and like Jesus, born again sons of God, have authority and responsibility to destroy the works of the devil. Now you can be obedient to the Lords Prayer and live on earth as it is in heaven or where God dwells in this lifetime. The three wills of God are described in Romans 12:1-2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. 5
Renewing your mind is changing your traditional perception of God s Instruction Manual to exactly who God is and for what reason did He send Jesus to earth? Jesus said so plainly in Mark 7:13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things you do. This verse refers to a Jewish son who is neglecting his responsibility under Jewish law to care for his aging parents by saying, Corban at the altar in the Synagogue. Like all scripture this verse has an overall meaning that disobeying God for any reason will always nullify what His word says and you will do other ungodly things. This article is about living in the kingdom of God where sons of God dwell. Kingdom of God is attainable with the correct mental perception that God is love and does not apart from love. God s Instruction Manual if for living now and not about a life after death. If you believe in hell as a location that God designed for eternal punishment for disobedience then it is impossible to live in the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is a dimension of living that will transcend the coming years of life in the kingdom of this world that the greed of our nation s leaders has created. This article is a follow up, What is God s Plan for You? This time of world shaking should be an alert for everyone to ask, Am I living in accordance with the word of God and His perfect will? The simple answer and back to the beginning, Who am I trusting to fix the fixes I fixed? c.wardman@cox.net December 27, 2008 6