John 14: "Let not your hearts be troubled, trust in God, trust also in Me. In My Father's house, there are many rooms." This is figurative language. God doesn't live in a house, as we know them, nor will the apostles be living in rooms, as we know them. The King James Version uses "mansions," but this is irresponsible. My interlinear translates the word, "abodes." The last thing Christians should be desiring for their place in Heaven is the very thing we should not be striving for here, a mansion. If mansions, as we know them, are dandy in Heaven, then Christians could get the impression that chasing worldly wealth is dandy. If our reward in Heaven is a mansion, why not be a Benny Hinn now? But Jesus is not recommending we put on desires as do thieving prosperity gospelites.In the next verse, Jesus uses "a place," instead of the "abode" in the previous verse. And there we learn that the emphasis is on Jesus returning to get them, after He goes away. The emphasis is not on the type of luxurious living there will be, but on winning the prize of partaking in eternal life. And in verse six, He tells them the way to go there: "I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father but through me."
We are reading here the most-important conversation for mankind, told in a room far from Roman headquarters, where nobody but the apostles hear of it. And John has recorded the words for us to read. How fortunate are we to have them? Nobody can count how any times men have repeated the words in verse six above. They have got to be amongst the most-quoted words. They are revolutionary words, yet most of the world doesn't want them. Jesus started a revolution without weapons of war, a new way to think, with new hopes and dreams that go far beyond having a castle in this world for the mere comforts of the ego.
Is the best you want from God for conquering this world the prize of baking bread, or reclining in a lazy boy, in a big house? But your new body won't need a roof, or walls to keep you warm and protected from wild animals. Is all you want is a big bedroom? Are you nuts? Were the translators of the KJV nuts? And do you really want flapping wings when God can make your soul soar without them?
Most of the world just thinks we're into a false hope, but, at times, there are men and their societies that become brutal against His message, and seek to stop it from circulating with brutality. I suppose that one of the by-products of the Crucifixion is that Jesus became the first example of dying for God from that brutality. It was precisely due to His spreading the Promise of Eternal Life in Himself that even the "religious leaders" murdered Him. And so there have been many men who risked their lives to continue spreading the Word in places where societies were brutal against them. That sort of society is festering in globalism right now, and the globalist message is spreading to anti-Christs, that all people should hate Jesus...which fulfills the words of Jesus told to his disciples, that all nations will hate us in the end times even though we do no evil against them.
We do "evil" against Globalism by warning people not to adhere to it. We preach that the nations belong to Jesus, and that they should all follow Him. By "follow" is meant "obedience." We can't understand the failure to recognize the high values and potentials of His moral system for creating a healthy society. Being appointed by God as king of the planet, He will uproot the disobedient, because He follows God. Only the All-Powerful can maintain a healthy society, and the reason for all the ills and terrors of this world is that God needs to expose to the peoples and angels alike, that humans can't create healthy societies without Him.
We can all see that leading globalists all want more than one mansion each for themselves while they make life miserable for the regular people and the poor. In their eyes, I am speaking evil against them, yet in God's eyes I speak righteousness. What I'm saying is right, correct, meaningful, helpful. It is not harmful but to the rats who seek to usurp their own Creator. They now know that, in the elementary parts of a human, at conception, there exists all the PROGRAMS not only to form all the body parts, but to maintain them as a "healthy society," all working together to allow souls to travel, work, enjoy life, and overcome their troubles. But they are SO STUPID that they don't credit a GENIUS GOD who created the programs. Try to imagine how super-intelligent God is. You can't. It's beyond you. Who are these little nothings who shake their fist against Him? The arrogance.
Globalists now have the Shroud of Jesus, which has the image of a crucified man upon it that is not formed by paint nor any other material thing. Instead, scientists have shown that the image is made by something like radiation. Nobody in ancient times had access to a radiation machine. Nobody can form a similar image on cloth by sunlight or by heat. Sunlight strikes the entire cloth, and heat invades the entire cloth. How can it form an image on the cloth, therefore, to form the outer shape of a human body, and in the meantime show interior details such as eye sockets, beard and nose? Besides, the image on the Shroud is not charred by heat. It's merely discolored cloth.
Doesn't it behoove globalists to consider this thing? Shouldn't they be the first to spread this message, since it can show that the evolutionists have been wrong to oppose the existence of God? People who care about others want to spread this message: the Shroud looks authentic. It's got evidence of the Resurrection of Jesus, and the whole world should hearken. Instead, Globalists desire the ownership of the world for themselves, thieves who, with infinitely-less intelligence, would rob God of the most-precious thing in His kingdom: the position and role of His appointed King of the World. Is this just a small robbery? Is it just a small sin?
In a quiet place that nobody knew of, a secret was told: "Philip says to the Lord: 'show us the Father, and it will suffice for us." We are still in John 14. After Jesus tells them that he's COMING BACK from th place where they know not, he answers Philip: "I've been with you so long yet you've not known Me, Philip. The one seeing Me has seen the Father." Talk about revolutionary. Nobody is going to thwart Jesus. He will succeed in what God has planned for Him.
In what way did the apostles see the Father when they saw Jesus? Not from his physical eyes or other bodily features, but in His attitudes and words. Jesus was the funnel through which God could communicate to the people. Yet Jesus has life of His own, a separate person. It's of course miraculous, we can't grasp how it was done, but this is the crux of all Creation. Everything stands or falls in Jesus. Some Christian cults won't rise to grasp this Trinity. They argue that, if God is in Jesus, then Jesus is not God. Yet if the Spirit of God "controls" the whole Man, then Jesus is effectively God acting through a human body.
By "control," I don't mean that God operates Jesus by a remote-control instrument. He's not a robot. He's somehow a Living God with the whole personality of God. Personality has no bigness. You don't need a universe to fit the personality of God into. A human body is more than big enough. When we look at Jesus, we look into the mirror, and, not liking what we see, we may either wish that Jesus were not so superior to us, or we shrink before Him in open confession of our sins. Perhaps the cults have chosen to reduce Jesus more to their level because they don't want to confess their full sinfulness. Perhaps that's what makes the cults. Unless we admit our full illness, we won't start treating it.
A Christians, we don't rush out the door in the morning with all sorts of evil agendas. We have, in a sense, become the righteousness of God. Yet, deep inside, we feel the old man lingering or brewing. We are unable to match the attitude of Jesus for very long, and we do only when the Spirit acts in us. When He's not operating, we become naked and dirty again. Therefore, we understand that the Holy Spirit is tasked with making us more like Jesus, from the internal works. God's not operating us from the outside, but has put on his detox suit, and is working right in the dirty places, spraying us with detox spray where needed, whenever some mold begins to grow again. I'm just using figurative language, of course.
Jesus recognized that He is the "second" God, not the original. This is what He meant when He said that the Father is greater than He (verse 28). Jesus is the second God, the reproduction of God, a literal Son, not adopted as we are, but, as the Bible puts it, the "ONLY BEGOTTEN son."
Prior to becoming a Christian, we may have had a lousy view of God, and so, when we come to believe that Jesus is God, we might entertain that Jesus is like that lousy or fearful God we had envisioned. This is why Jesus portrayed God as a kind and rational Father. In all of his mannerisms, Jesus exposed the Creator to us, one who will be dangerous only to those who reject Him, but kind to those who love Him. Therefore, Jesus should change the way we view God. Let it happen. What do you think is the just reward for people who think they are greater the more they war against God, who anger Him to His face, who lie to the human race with false gods or evolution? DEATH. They are making, with their own hands, their own destiny an irreversible death. The blame is not God's.
The universe is what it is. It has a God, and people must conform or die. It's not torture to be obedient to God, and the rewards are great. What's the problem, globalists? What do you have stuck in your souls that you can't come around to your senses? The "ugly" or terrifying God of the Old Testament was the reaction of a kind God against those who spoil God's kind earth. Do we take God out of context and conclude that God is cruel by nature just because He needed to exterminate the Amalekites and similar pagan groups? If you, Christian, need to change your thinking, because you still have the impression that God is harsh, then work on it with priority, and stop listening to His enemies who never address the kindnesses of God when they rail against Him.
Jesus did not intend to say that He is less than the Father in Spiritual "stuff," as the Jehovah's Witnesses teach. They have enmity with God to downgrade Jesus to a mere creation of God. Jesus is the Holy Spirit in a separate Being. In this way, one can say that Jesus always existed, or that Jesus created the universe. The Bible does make these claims. It treats Jesus as though he were God, yet He is a second God (or second Spirit of God), who appeared in the early stages of the Roman empire, His arch-enemy that gets a new phase of rule and activity in the end-times, in phase two of the showdown with the devil's kingdoms.
Verse 16: "I will request of the Father for another Comforter He will give you, that He may be with you forever." This Comforter was not given yet, in times prior to Jesus, and yet men of God before Jesus did speak with the Spirit in them. The difference is, I think, that the Comforter is now the Crucified Jesus. God can be at peace in souls who have the Comforter because He has paid the price for their sins. God saw that we were hopeless without forgiveness, and, to show His kindness in a marked way, He Himself died for us to show the love He's capable of, that we might rid ourselves of all negative views of Him. This is the greatest story ever told, yet the globalist pigs reject it that they might rule the world. Treason.
Elon Musk is an evolutionist who wants mankind to rule the solar system. God gets in his way. He wants what he wants rather than what God wants. He will not submit himself to God if it means sacrificing his dream$. And now he's teaming up with a Trump who thinks he needs no forgiveness, who teaches his base that he'll pass on the Forgiveness of Jesus. What do you predict will be the fruit of this partnership? Snake eggs come to mind.
Verse 17: "the Spirit of Truth which the world cannot receive, because it neither sees nor knows Him, but you know Him because in you He will be and remain." Verse 24: "Those not loving Me My words keep not." There you see the difference between people who see no evidence of God, and those who do.
Although it discomforts Him, Jesus did not fear being rejected by people who reject God. Jesus was all-in for God, and our obedience includes having this same attitude, not being ashamed of Jesus...because His ways are the best. Landing a rocket on Mars is totally a waste of time, a stroking of the ego, and NASA uses Mars projects to teach that there is no Creator. Musk partners just dandily with NASA. Musk is merely a wooden Pinocchio, he's not going anywhere. He's giving up eternal rewards, for what? Is He that stupid? He prefers praise from men alone, but not nearly as much as Trump. It is men like this whom God declares chaff in the wind. They will be gone, blown away, as the nothings that they are.
From the things that go on in their souls do Christians remain in the Vine of Jesus, not giving up, with evidence of God's very love and faithfulness operating in their secret place that nobody else has. Without this operation, people mock God, say He doesn't exist. And they do so because they have not bowed the knee to God, have not asked forgiveness of their sinful selves, to put on the "new man" in obedience. Obedience is more than keeping rules. It's performing like Jesus. And we can't do it on our own volition. We are indeed cripples who need the Crutch of God, but at least were far beyond those who won't admit it. We are evolving and progressing while they devolve and regress. Be very happy for your choice of Jesus. Carry it like your proud crown. Others spit on you, but you are the one with the treasure, who is always beside you, above you, beneath you, within you.
There are wayward Christians. If they start to feel cold of Spirit, rather than cuddling up with God requesting comfort from His Spirit, they stop caring about it. They wander away. Deep-rooted Christians pray to be one with God, to have His Truth within, and to have a clean mind. We stay in the Vine until the end. You just close your eyes and ask God to be with you like it means everything to you. If it doesn't mean much to us, God will react accordingly, hoping to retrieve / revive us. But there is a line that we can cross where He just gives up as His response. Be very glad if you are too poor in money to stray. Be very concerned if you have opportunity to make money such that you stray while chasing it, or if you just enjoy being free to do as you please without concern for being profitable with Jesus.
I'm not speaking as one who is a magnificent follower of Jesus. I try to speak only what Jesus would, regardless of my failures. I put the target before us, that I myself am to aim for. We should be concerned with bearing fruit for Jesus, and this requires the proper link to Jesus so that he can work through us. Be a Grape-Vine stem. Ask God to bear fruit through you, what else? Be concerned, and ask, then think appropriately. Isn't that the target of our Faith? But if you're stuck waiting for God to give you gifts of the type that prosperity gospelites seek, you have abandoned the field having the target.
We've got to learn to stick our necks out to suffer rejection from others by telling them their need for Jesus, or to inform them of their sins, or dark hearts. Ask me, a timid one, all about that. Fortunately, my anger against God's enemies breaks through my timidity. I can be a hissing turtle, with the whole neck stuck out when confronted with His enemies. They like to make it as difficult as possible for us by the mean things they say as we stick our necks out.
The apostle Paul was amazing because his neck was always sticking out, he never put it into the shell. And he had racing stripes on his shell. "Woe, Paul," God had to say to him, "you're going too hard." Paul responded, "I don't care I'm loving it. Bring me more enemies."
Jesus did say, "Do not give what is holy to dogs, or throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them with their feet and, turning, may tear you to pieces." Does this mean that we should judge beforehand whether people are open to receiving Jesus, before we share our faith with them? That's what it looks like. I don't think it's a commandment, but a warning. That is, if you like sharing the Word with the pigs, and don't mind them chewing you over for it, go ahead and have a time of it. But there could be a price to pay if they are close to you, for example fellow workers, a tenant, a landlord, a next-door neighbor, even a family member.
Timidity caused me not to speak to a hitchhiker I picked up. I wanted to, but failed, worried about how he would react. Years later, remembering me, he came up to me to say he had become a Christian. It was dark out, and dark in the van, I have no idea how he remembered me. I told him that I was thinking of speaking to him about Jesus...but I failed. Therefore, this thing about not tossing the Pearl to the swine could have us choosing the wrong thing at times. But don't worry, because not one name will be missing from the Book of Life whom God has chosen for it.
If you start telling someone that you're a Christian to test the mud, and if they say immediately, "that's okay for some but don't force it down my throat," that's probably a pig. About the only option you have is to warn them about condemnation, but I remember that when someone said that to me, I didn't respond at all. Maybe I should have with something like, "don't you even care about your own soul?" That way, we show concern for their souls. Deep-rooted Christians do have concern for the souls of others, which is why we shouldn't be afraid to speak. We're not just trying to obey the rules for Jesus to chalk up points, but are concerned for others knowing how things will end for people who reject the Kingdom. Jesus has opened the door wide open for it. I suppose we can say that, after many assaults against us by enemies, we tend to keep our heads in the shell, only peeking out.
Most people are not enemies as much as they reflect on the 2,000 years which have passed since Jesus. They consider it very unlikely that Jesus is authentically who He claimed to be. Or, they probably have no idea what Jesus said, having been educated about Him only from the weeds or the wolves. It seems that when I pray for God to open my mouth with people I'm about to meet, He answers if only for my benefit, as reward for asking. I like it. I want more. I'd like to be a firebrand with lightning coming out my fingernails, or, I'd like to be a stork dropping a New Birth into their laps from out of their cloudy skies. But what I'd like to be in my dreams is not the way I perform ordinarily. On our own, we are pathetic. The battle turns out to be much harder than we would have liked, but Jesus implies, take heart, I am your overcomer; I am your trophy in the Day of Rest.
We could say that we should be pig-headed with pigs. Don't do as they wish, but speak up, anyway, knowing it will upset them. Why? Because we are the sons of the King, we are superior, because we have the Authority with us. I think that this is the way Paul was, but God did, at one point, warn him not to go amid the Jewish pigs, yet he went anyway, unafraid, only to get jailed by them, and who knows what happened to him after that. Therefore, I think, when the people who have power over you to jail you are inspecting you, pray/desire that you speak what the Spirit will speak on your behalf.
Verse 21: "The one having My commandments and keeping them is the one who loves me. And the one loving Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him." This is The Calling. This is what it's all about, in a nutshell. Remain in Jesus with proper obedience, and He will remain in us as our first step to an eternal agenda in a New Universe. There are different levels of obedience, some hot, some cold. As we don't know what level is sufficient, and as we shouldn't even be asking what is sufficient, we should keep it on the safe side.
I trust that if the Spirit is in us hotly, He should also keep us in proper obedience. Half or more of obedience is resisting the things that counter the Spirit in us. Keep things clean. If you use cuss words, apologize to God each time the words come out. Don't let it become integral to your personality. Don't drink too much. Don't lust for money. DO NOT WATCH PORN. If youtube feeds you too much provocative material in ads, use an ad-blocker. Protect your mind from evil pictures and worldly desires that nudge you continually off the Path, and that means don't watch much on youtube, and put on your shield when you do. Despise anti-Christian attitudes in those you see on online.
Youtube now blocks computers from watching if they have an ad-blocker. But it gives you something like 20 videos before blocking you. You can restart the process by deleting your cookies. Youtube then gives you another batch of videos before blocking you. When youtube stops being greedy, I'll stop using an ad-blocker. Just think of it. Youtube doesn't need a production studio, or its employees, to make shows day in and day out. Instead, it gets all of its shows for free, uploaded to its system by others even, but then wants to make more money than whole-scale news shows. GREEDY. POWER HUNGRY too. Google and youtube are together a globalist tool that censors / shadow-bans online Christian works. It allows some of it so as not to look too bad, but it will never promote Christian works such that Christianity becomes the world norm because of it.
Instead, youtube is an anti-Christ educator while seeking billion$ upon billion$. NASTY. These are the attackers who teach their followers to attack us when we open our mouths, for when we open our mouths, we attack them rightfully. You may have noted that Jesus, even when having dinner at the home of a religious leader, would say something helpful, yet people took it as an attack on their character. This is the way "liberals" are, always on-guard against Christian speech, always ready to tear it apart.
Nor is it right for video owners to be making millions of dollars by providing a daily youtube show. Some do it from their own homes. GREEDY and RUINOUS. If Christians chase this wealth, that to me looks like straying from God. My belief is that Christian youtubers, sharing Christianity, should make zero money, if possible, otherwise God may frown, and/or the works get compromised. If a person wants to spread Christian messages such that they can't work a second job, maybe they could reduce the youtube load while keeping a job, because safer / better are two shows weekly for zero money made, than five shows or more weekly with money made, in my opinion. When viewers see that you're sharing Christian principles while making money, doesn't it cheapen the work? God may be asking a person who has daily shows: would you do even one show per week for no money, or no money requested?
The one who does regular and free Christian service online looks to be hot-hot-hot. Even if the Internet shadow-bans you, God will see it, and appreciate it. That's all that matters.
Here's the most-important message, and Internetland cares not to spread it: "If anyone loves me, My word he will keep, and My Father will love him, and to Him WE will come, and WE will make our abode with him." Is that not beautiful? Is that not a conquering? Is that not a personal treasury? If you owned a mansion, with green grass and gardeners all working it, pristine throughout, it would be nice for a time, though the niceties would wear off, but how can that compare with the Majesty living with you, with the promise of eternal things to come nobody yet knows of? And why did God not reveal what, exactly, lies ahead?
Don't ask me how God abides within us. I can tell you this, I wouldn't want to be inside your body. Yuck. I don't even know how I'm inside mine. To what is your soul attached? What does the soul look like? How does the soul get unlocked, to slip away upon death? Why does it do so at death? Why can't I fly around right now, having my own key to unlock it? What propels the soul into motion once released from the body? I can imagine a spirit, but I probably have it wrongly imagined. It's got to be made of something. How does it get through the flesh? How impossible is it for us to understand the things God has made?
Will he make something worse than this world for those He loves, those who conquer with charging bulls in their midst? This world's land is predominantly hard-cold rock covered in a skin of dirt with random sticks growing out of it. Could God do better in the next universe? Do you think? How many new universes will there be?
We are not called to conquer the snakes and scorpions, but to conquer amid them. We let God deal with conquering them. To conquer means to protect our faith while buzzards seek to pluck it away. Once they pluck out our eyes, we stray not knowing where. The Light disappears. If not for an emergency called by the Father, if not for the Good Trio doing fast work to save us, the Light would not come back on. But the smallest flicker of faith in us can be made into a flowing flame once again. But not if you are happy in your darkness. Our enemies are happy in this darkness, replacing it with black light which they purchase on the black market. Therefore, blackness will be their reward, of the kind they won't like.
Capture the Kingdom of God. Seize it. You are permitted to latch onto it, to grab it, to feed on it. When Jesus said, "the Kingdom of God is within you," He revealed that the Kingdom is not about mansions or homes or rooms. God is the Kingdom. We are permitted to keep Him within us, how profound is that? What kind of a world dictator becomes our servant in this way? Why does God love serving? He loves it when we appreciate His services to us, just as you like it when someone appreciates something good you've done them. God is not after a bigger kingdom, as world dictators are, to feed themselves with more grandeur; what selfish snakes, feeding on your labors. God is a Gentleman with His Bride, exactly the reason He's lightning bolts to those pigs who would drag her through the mud.
Put God's wrath in context, pigs, and understand that you are the ones who give birth to God's wrath. Instead of learning from past examples of God's wrath, you walk right into it like fools. What's wrong with you? God's been saying forever: get soft hearts. Soften your own heart, because the devil won't do it for you. Speak to God in gentleness and respect. That's the definition of a softened heart.
If God puts us to work building a society, it's for the benefit of the whole. God does not want our labors that He might be the sole benefactor, as tax-heisting dictators are. God does not wish to rule over a society pitted with selfish self-seekers. Ultimately, after this earth has passed away, there will be no divisive connivers in His Kingdom. No conspiracies, no desires to rob God's throne, and therefore no punishments. What will new earth be like without frustrations from His curses? As the Bible says, no more suffering or death. Don't you want to now what that looks like by standing in it? Or do you want to look at it from afar in Hell? What's wrong with you? Do you love your place amongst friends so much as to destroy your own treasure in God's kingdom? How can your friends be worth that much who are worthless before God? Have you no understanding?
If God wants to speak to you, you will hear it. Make sure you don't confuse God's voice with some concoction of God's ongoing voice you create in your spirit. I've always been careful in that regard, because I saw Pentecostals seemingly concocting God's voice, because they fervently desired to be powerful in God, so exciting. But, God makes converts much more slowly than we would like, and it's not usually through us performing some miraculous thing. But, as you may know, if you love God and obey, you will find yourself doing some interesting things by the subtle power of God that you don't see coming until it happens.
I wouldn't want you to think that I'm some super-obedient Christian just because I'm sharing the things of Jesus. To know Jesus' words has nothing to do with my performance in Jesus. If it seems I'm aiming you toward perfection in God, it's because Jesus is my topic. He would never tell us, "don't worry about it if you don't obey very well." He wants us to obey because God wants it. Jesus always gives us perfection as the target. We are forgiven so that we don't stop trying due to feeling defeated. Some people call "trying" by the phrase, "I'm a work in progress." Others use "growing." Don't give up, for the one who presses on is forgiven.
If you can't get God to flow in you, speak with more passion, more sincerity, but speaking what He wants to hear. What does He want me to become? I'll tell Him that I'll try. How happy will He be if I succeed? How can He resist flowing in me to express his pleasure, if I do well? I sense the flow when I say the right things in sincerity. This was the "food" that the apostles knew nothing about, prior to their receiving the Holy Spirit. God flowing in you is your strength, your power to conform.
Don't let lust for being powerful in miracles and works ruin your walk. Don't let pentecostals convince you that, unless you're performing miracles, you're not being obedient enough. If you're crawling, so long as it's toward God, you're good. Pick up the pace at your own pace, and stay the course. God decides whether you will perform a miracle. When God speaks to someone right through you, whether you know it or not, that's classified as a miracle too.
Here's all four Gospels wrapped into one story.
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