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THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA /REVELATION 2 - 3

Copyright November 20, 2007

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CHAPTER 4 (3 of 5)

CHRISTIAN LIBERTY

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Light and darkness cannot have fellowship. As we live out our life in Christ with our physical body there is a constant war concerning this with God's intention that we win the battle for the manifestation of righteousness and obedience, instead of sin and rebellion, to flow out of our life. People should see the likeness of Jesus when they see us (Romans 8:29).  As long as we are in this physical body the tendency to yield to the sinful nature that continues to dwell in our "flesh" will compel us to disobey God. God has provided the Power through the Holy Spirit to resist and have victory over this "tendency," but this improvement is a lifelong process for the sanctification and justification (rendering righteous) of our physical body; we are perfect in our spirit and soul when we are born again by God’s Spirit but not in our physical body (Romans 7:22-25). 

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Although our spirit and soul cannot sin (1 John 3:9), with our flesh we can. One of the thrills, romance, and adventure of serving God through Jesus as Lord and Savior of our life is learning how to crucify and mortify (resist) the tendency of the flesh to sin, to let the righteousness of God that is in our "inner man" (spirit and soul) be seen in and through our flesh. God has made it a law of the kingdom (predestined, established) that sanctification and justification of the physical body will happen as our "walk" with Him improves (Romans 8:29), because our physical body is included in God’s Plan of Salvation (1 Corinthians 15:53), and explains Paul’s prayer in 1 Thessalonians 5:23.

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Jesus is our example (1 Peter 2:21) of how it is possible for His Saints not to sin, not to disobey God; being blameless.  Having suffered with temptations to disobey God, Jesus never yielded to the temptations, which is why He lived a fully obedient life (John 8:28), thus completing the work for why He took on flesh to walk among us, which validated Him being the Lord and Savior of those who make the necessary Effort to walk in His example of full obedience; to obey God as He did (Hebrews 5:9). God’s power through the Holy Spirit is what made it possible for Jesus to live a sinless life and what makes it possible for us, His Saints, to do the same through the Baptism with the Holy Spirit like the 120 in the Upper Room on the Day of Pentecost did. 

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I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.  For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. (Romans 7:21-23)

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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. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. (Romans 8:29-30) 

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For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. (Hebrews 2:10)

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Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;  And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him. (Hebrew 5:8-9)

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For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. (Hebrews 4:15) 

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Jesus’ physical body was born through Mary with the righteous nature of God already in His personal spirit and soul. We are not born with God's righteous nature (Psalms 51:5-7), a curse passed on to the rest of humanity through a biological father, because of Adam's sin. We receive the "righteous nature" of God when we repent of our sins out of a true and sincere heart of faith to receive Jesus as Lord and Savior of our life.  It is because of faith, and receiving the righteous nature of God in our "inner man" (spirit and soul) that we become joint-heirs with Jesus and are grafted into His family tree, which Apostle Paul called “adoption.” 

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And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. (Romans 8:17)

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For if the first fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be  holy, so are the branches.  And if some of the branches be broken   off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them,   and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.  Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but  fear:  For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. (Romans 11:16-21)

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My Facebook Timeline - www.facebook.com/samuelsiders1 - contains responses I have posted in answer to those who God has had me to share with for fifteen years on Facebook Forums created to share the Scriptures. My activity about sharing the Word of God with Muslims, other false Cults, and with those who profess to be Christian continues; this open door that the Lord has made available to me as an Apologist/Teacher is one where worldwide opportunities are made available to all English speaking people around the world from many different countries, races, and religious beliefs.

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It is WRITTEN in 1 Peter 3:15 … “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:" God wants us to know AND understand His Word (2 Timothy 2:15), “Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” Jude 3, “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend [Gr. agonize with fervent zeal] for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.”
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This past week a Muslim name Zainazir posted a picture of what he - assumed - were Christians praying with their head on the flood and their butt in the air like Islam Muslims do. Muslims always accuse Jesus prayed the same way misusing what Matthew 26:39 says about “fell on His face;” the Greek word for this translation is Pipto which means Prostrate (laying flat) – not – with His butt in the air. Nonetheless, to know how to response to Zainazir I researched what his posted picture is about, and found those that did this do – not – call themselves “Christians” but “Celestians. What follows are two responses I posted to defend against Zainazir’s error and how the False Cult got started:

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Zainazir M ... where did you get the idea those are "Christians?" Nonetheless, based on the Research I have done related to your picture it is that of a False Cult "Celestial Church of Christ" calling themselves Celestians - not - Christians. Aside from this there is a Full Moon Celebration that is done with the head bowed down to the ground, which is - Not - for prayer but as a Full Moon Ritual observance; No Christian would do this.

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Zainazir M ... the word CULT is used for ALL religions even Islam. As shared more than once the True God Yehweh has given those like me - TWO God Given physiologic Proofs - that happen - in our spirit and soul - which Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Jesus of Judaism taught we would receive, which No Islam Muslims have, which Prove what the BIBLE teaches about the True Almighty God and the Jesus of Judaism is - Total Fact - and anything contrary to this True is a Deception of Satan.

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The origin of the CCC [Celestial Church of Christ] was that of a man who proclaimed himself a Prophet, you can read about their beliefs and practices. Joseph Smith proclaimed himself a Prophet and that TWO angels gave him what is called the Book of Mormons which is as much a rape of the Scriptures as Muhammad's Quran is that he said an angel (ONE) recited to him. Jesus said people like these would rise up Using JESUS as their foundation for lies and deceptions and that we are Not to follow them; therefore, no one who Truly have the Two Proofs will ever embrace what we know is the Devil inspired Islam just like Mormonism is.

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Zainazir wanted to go deeper into the topic of Cult vs. False Cult, by mentioning the SDA (Seven Day Adventist) of which I informed him the SDA is as much a False Cult as the JW (Jehovah Witnesses) are because Both teach Jesus is the Archangel Michael which thereby denies the deity of Jesus and He being as eternally existent as His Father Almighty God. What follows is the response I posted for Zainazir how the two False Cults fell preys to their Deception against the Truth of who Jesus is, and to defend against their Deception:

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Zainazir M ... SDA is a "false cult" like the JW (Jehovah's Witnesses) because - both - teach Jesus is Michael the Archangel incarnate, which thereby is a denial of Jesus being deity and as eternally existent as His Father Almighty God. I blame the - False - teachings of Christophany and Theophany for their Deception. Islam denies this: “deity and as eternally existent as His Father Almighty God;” therefore, the religion is a “False Cult” also.

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One of many BIBLICAL Facts that Jesus is - not - an angel incarnate is Hebrews 1:13-14 "But to which of the angels said He (God) at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make Your enemies Your footstool? Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?" Jesus' spirit and soul is as eternally existent as His FATHER Almighty God is, angels are Not. Like us angels are created, Jesus' spirit and soul is Not, only His Physical BODY was created, the embryo in Mary's womb (Luke 1:35).

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To read more responses I posted this past week my FB timeline can be visited. https://www.facebook.com/samuelsiders1   
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