THE BAD NEWS VS.

THE GOOD NEWS (It's all a matter of which report you believe) By Jeffrey D. Dean Sr. January 11, 2012
HOW CHRIST IS NULLIFIED
It's an old story. You can see the examples in literature (especially,of all places, Greek and other mythologies, science fiction and science fantasy genres). A man comes along, prophesied to be a deliverer, he's a Messiah. He accomplishes his mission and hundreds of years later he's become a mythical character, touted as a "God." Worshipped, venerated. How is it that so many authors down through the ages could so easily put their finger on the heart things? Because, a child could see the simplicity of it! When you look around in the world today at all of varied teachings and "faiths" (as they are called, and I use the term loosely) surrounding the appearance of Y'Shua Messiah (called Jesus Christ by some) the stark reality will strike you and drive your very soul into despair (if you let it). A man, born to a woman and a man, in a lowly manger in Bethlehem. He apprenticed under his father as a carpenter, made himself of little reputation, (even though his coming glory had been fortold and confirmed by the very voice of Yahweh, by His angels and by His very Spirit). Y'shua, the man grew up and, seemingly out of the blue emerged as the most contraversial character in the history of mankind! His words largely misunderstood (or twisted), his ministry buried beneath mountains of dogma and traditions of men, until his very purpose was seemingly thwarted completely. By 325 ad (a few short 300 years after his life, death and resurrection) he was officially deified (I'm surprised it took that long) and his name was hijacked by evil men becoming a tool to be used to subjugate peoples and make chattle of men. While the children of error will say that he was "both all man and all God" they don't really believe this. Not for a second. This contradiction can easily be seen in the doctrines created to bolster their position (Christ as God among men)! It can also be seen with the fervency in which they call "heretics" all who refer to Christ as a "man". Common sense dictates that if you call Christ "all God and all man" you cannot fault someone for saying he's a man! Common sense also should dictate that if a man is really an eternal God, he's not really a man, he cannot be. Others who might not claim this "trinity" still make a similar mistake in a "compromise" of sorts saying he "pre-existed" prior to his birth as a man. A minority of those who preach pre-existence actually believe he was "another God" prior to his birth, yet the majority of those who deny trinity but preach preexistence say he was an angel first, others, a "spirit being" (a celestial entity) but the end result is still the same: namely, complete nullification of his ministry and his work for which he died!

Proving the above claim will be easy to do using the scriptures. That is the ultimate testimony to the depravity of the children of error who have secretly made war against the Messiah (the Christ) while at the same time expressing their "adoration" for him. I don't need to utilize great swelling words of eloquence to bear out the undeniable truth of my claim! I shant seek to use them (for I'm not out to impress people with my mastery of the English language). I will put this forth simply and directly to the point! If Christ is God (come down to earth in fleshly form) he is most definitely NOT human! He cannot be subject to the same frailties and temptations that are common to the human experience. (Yet scriptures say he most assuredly was and those who teach the incarnate God as man are hard pressed to explain this contradiction). Yet, if he truly was God come down to earth in fleshly form he was not subject to the flesh, this should be self evident (yet the children of error have buried this logic in webs of lies, half truths, and rationalizations). Yet, as I have said, even a small child can understand that a God in human form is still a GOD! Some might take exception to this and say that an all powerful God most certainly can become a man and walk among us! I agree! Yet, if an omnipotent God decides to become a mere mortal man, he ceases to be ominopent (for men are not omnipotent and this God could not retain his omnipotence if he truly wants to be a man). If this God does not cease to be omnipotent then he is NOT A MERE MAN! (The children of error who tout him AS God will be the first to agree that Christ was no mere man, while at the same time saying he's "all God and all man.") The final question lingers: if God ceases to be God and becomes fleshly man and then he dies for the sins of mankind, who is there to raise him up from the dead seeing that the God of the universe has left his omnipotence, abandoned it, became only a man and allowed his enemies to kill him? If Christ was all man, who raised him from the dead (being that he WAS God, left it behind and became all man)? If he raised himself after death does this not prove that he never left behind his omnipotence at all and was never truly a mortal, weak, frail man, for, what man raises himself from the dead? Men have asked these these questions for centuries and have been told that they are "doubters." I submit that this is completely the opposite of the truth! The beginning of true faith lies in asking the above questions, in beginning to question the teachings of those who make Christ a God (and at the same time say he was a man). One can never truly rise to the stature of Christ, nor understand who he is, his position in the heavenlies, his mission here on earth, until one questions the very foundations of the errors surrounding him that have swept the world. Another looming question. If the children of error believe that Christ was BOTH all God and all man, why do they call them heretics who say that Christ was a

man? Why do they seek to villify the one who dares to believe he can rise to Christ's stature? Why do they call them mad? If Christ, indeed, was "all man" they have no choice but to accept that if Christ (being all man) could achieve perfect obedience and perfect holiness with the Father in his lifetime, then Christ is the ultimate PROOF that man can achieve these things! So, why do those who preach trinity deny it? Why, when you confront them with the scriptural proof of the possibility of being truly "like Christ" in every way they say things like: "you can't be like Christ because Christ was God?" When they are told that "you can be perfect and holy, without sin," why are they the first to ask "well have you ever known anyone to achieve this?" Don't they know their own Christ? They've said he's "all man" and that he was "tempted in all ways yet without sin?" Yet they ask why there is no example among the human population of a man living his life without sin! These very things alone are all the proof one should need to expose the error of their ways when they claim to believe that Christ was "all man!" To them Christ does not count, for he is God, and therein lies the crux, the error is lain bare for all to behold. If Christ was "all man" as they claim to believe, they should have no problem with treating Christ as a man, and therefore using him as the example of the potential of man to be "like God." Yet, they say, "hold the phone, Christ could be like God because he WAS God!" They are hopelessly lost for their contradictions condemn their faith showing that is is impotent! They do not perceive, neither do they believe, neither do they teach the right Gospel (the good news). They teach that Christ came to save them from the "penalty" of their sin only and did not provide a way for them to have true victory OVER that sin in this life! (Oh they acknowledge the latter in theory only but deny it in practice). Some will look you square in the eye and say "you can't be holy and perfect in this life, brother for you are in the flesh." They forget (or outright deny by omission) that Christ too was in the flesh! He puts their disbelief to shame, proclaiming to all by his example that yes a man, living in a fleshly body, can overcome the lusts of the flesh, the desires of the eye, and the pride of life and can walk perfectly obedient to the Father! He proved them all wrong! So they make him a God at this point in order to excuse themselves from following in his footsteps and say that he doesn't "count" as an example of man's potential to be perfect. They create grandiose doctrines. Pages upon pages, lines upon lines, explaining how this could all be, and showing (at least in their own deluded minds) how that Christ's obedience, his perfection, his complete lack of sinful behavior is the "ultimate proof of their argument that he is God." When they do this they FOREVER BAR themselves or their children from repeating Christ's victory for they are not "God incarnate" and, according to them, only God incarnate can achieve to sinless perfection! Do you see? I repeat! Do you see the horrible trap they have lain for themselves (and for their children)? They can never be free of the sins of the flesh (like their Christ was free). They seek only absolution through the sacrifice that their Christ made by shedding of

his own blood. They seek a righteousness that is by PROXY only, wherein Christ's righteousness is accounted to them as their own even while they maintain their double minded lives of sin! They are ignorant to the fact that the sacrifice Messiah made was not just to deliver them from PUNISHMENT for their evil deeds, but to make them WHOLE and literally "deliver them from sin's power!" It has happened to them for a purpose! You see, they obviously LOVE their deeds of sin and their acts of contrition to the flesh! That is the real motivation behind their denials and lack of faith in the power of God to rid them of sin! They WANT to keep sinning and they have NO DESIRE to stop! How do I know this? Can I see into their hearts? Of course I cannot, yet their own words reveal the deepest recesses of their darkened hearts! The Gospel is called "the good news" and I tell you now, the notion that you can NEVER stop sinning in this life is ONLY good news to someone who does not WANT to stop sinning. To someone who desires to be "like Christ" (tempted in all ways yet without sin) the news that they will NEVER succeed (or "attain" as the Apostles called it) is not good, it is very distressing news indeed. Their Gospel is not GOOD news it is therefore "BAD NEWS." Perhaps they are content to simply live their lives never measuring up to their Father's expectations and then happily enter heaven (their sins merely being forgiven, not cured), but those who have the heart of the Messiah could NEVER be satisfied in such a miserable state of existence! He who seeks the righteousness of God will not think it a good thing that it is forever denied them (denied because only a God incarnate could achieve such a thing)! Those who desire to please their Father in Heaven in every way, and those who seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness are not going to think it good news at all when they are told they shall never find what they seek! They have forgotten (or ignored) the true ministry of Y'shua Messiah! They don't understand the true purposes of the crucifixion! They comprehend not what it means to be "a new creature in Messiah Y'shua." We will now examine, starting from the beginning, the scriptural testimony of these matters. The end result shall most certainly be that the true Gospel of the kingdom will be preached. It will then be up to the hearers of the word to take the message to heart and take action to bring it about in them! THE TRUE PURPOSE OF THE CRUCIFIXION Y'shua Messiah (some have called him Jesus Christ) made the purpose of his crucifixion plain and clear to his disciples on the eve of his crucifixion! He left no doubt in our minds to what end he now gave himself into the hands of the Roman executioners!

"Nevertheless, I tell you the truth, It is expedient for you that I go away, for if I go not away the comforter will not come unto you, but if I

depart, I shall send him unto you." (St. John 16:7)

In the Gospel of St. John we find the only place in the New Testament where the Holy Spirit is called "the Comforter." This being the case, it behooves us to stop and contemplate its meaning because it is rare indeed to find a unique scripture which stands out by itself in either testament of scripture! The greek form of this word "comforter" is "parakletos" which means "intercessor, consoler, advocate or comforter." The only way we are going to understand why Messiah chose, at this particular moment to speak of the Holy Spirit in this way is to consider what was going on at the time he spoke it! What is the "context" in which the title "Comforter" is given to the Holy Spirit for the first and only time in scripture? Messiah was about to be crucified! His disciples were about to lose their teacher in a bloody sacrifice of his own body! The last supper was finished, Judas Iscariot had slipped out to betray the Master to the Romans (and to the corrupted priests). Messiah was preparing them for the trials ahead and assuring them that they would not be alone. It is also important to note that surely by now Messiah had made it known to the disciples that they would not have him with them physically forever. Messiah had hinted at this several times. In light of this, it's understandable that Messiah would remind the disciples that even if he is not with them in the flesh he would remain with them in Spirit. In St. John 16:7 Messiah begins to tell them HOW this will occur, exactly. Yet, I'm jumping ahead here a bit. The seventh verse of chapter 16 is not the first place Messiah mentions the "Comforter."

St. John 14: 15- 17 "15 If you love me, keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees him not, neither knows him; but you know him; for he dwells with you and shall be in you."
When explaining why he must be crucified. Messiah says nothing about "propitiation" of sins, nor does he say anything about his blood "paying the penalty for our sins!" You should find this startling in the extreme considering the emphasis the children of error put on these aspects of the sacrifice of our Lord! What does our Lord say? That it is expedient (or absolutely necessary) for him to be crucified and he gives us the REAL purpose, so that he could send the comforter "the Holy Spirit of truth" to us and not just to be with us, but to be IN us! Many questions arise as a result of Messiah's revelation to us concerning the purpose of his crucifixion. Why did he have to be crucified to send the "comforter?" What exactly is this comforter? What is it's purpose? What is the difference between this comforter and the Holy Spirit which had already been with man since ancient times? (As Christ said, "he dwells with you and shall be

in you") If you recall, the prophets themselves wrote and preached by the power of the Holy Spirit and the entire body of the Tanakh (old testament as some call it) came to us by the unction of the Holy Spirit!

"For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of men, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit." (2 Peter 1:21)
This is why Messiah says "another" Comforter. Men who were faithful to the holy one of Israel have always had the Holy Spirit with them! (And Christ reveals here that the Holy Spirit has always served as a "comforter" to us). In one place in the tanakh (Old Testament as it is called) we are told that Moses was "filled with the Holy Spirit." Yet, Messiah reveals here something new, something that will come to pass as a direct result of his crucifixion and blatantly tells us that in fact, this "other Comforter" is the very reason for his crucifixion. His shed blood provided a way for a new "relationship" with the Spirit of Truth, one in which the Spirit is not simply "with" us but is "in" us! The apostles spoke of this as "the Mystery" but we will get to that, but for now it's important to note that, to those who have the words of Christ, this relationship is really no mystery at all! Messiah explains that, not only does this Comforter come because of the crucifixion, but also explains HOW men shall receive him (the Comforter), and then explains the MINISTRY of the Comforter:

St. John 14: 23- 26 "23 Jesus answered and said to him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our abode with him. 24 He that loves me not keeps not my sayings: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me. 25 These things have I spoken to you, being yet present with you. 26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said to you."
Remember in Chapter 14 verse 15 Messiah says "If you love me, keep my commandments?" Messiah repeats this in verse 23 (by saying "keep my words") and then shows exactly how it will be possible to KEEP his commandments. The "Comforter" or the Holy Spirit will come and dwell IN us (as a direct result of the crucifixion and Christ sending the Comforter because he "goes to the Father.") This "Spirit of Truth" will mean that Christ and the Father BOTH have made their "abode" in us! (Again verse 23). the children of error allegorizes this (or some say "spiritualize" it, which is a misnomer for indeed it is

spiritual yet it is also literal). The children of error do not admit the literality of the words of Messiah that Christ and the Father literally "abide" in us through the Holy Spirit. I know this because I have had literally hundreds of discussions with people (priests, pastors and laymen alike). They always want to question the voracity of my taking this "abiding" of the Holy Spirit in me at face value and daring to believe that Messiah and the Father literally live IN ME! Why do you suppose this is? The main reason is because the children of error unanimously teach that the Father living in a man, and being "one" with a man is RESERVED for the SON OF GOD. All of the scriptures where Christ identifies that the Father is "in him" and that he is "one with the Father" they use to prove his DEITY! This leaves NO ROOM for the common man, such as myself to believe or teach that the Father lives "in me" literally and bodily through the gift of the Holy Spirit. Yet, the scriptures supporting the idea are OVERWHELMING! The children of error pay "lip service" to the indwelling of the Holy Spirit but they can NEVER accept it's literal implications, not without destroying their arguments for the DEITY of CHRIST, for, if the Father is in me and I am ONE with the Father, then Christ's claims that the Father was "in him" and that he is "one with the "Father" are no proof at all that he is DIVINE! It really is as simple as that! Yet, their denial has far reaching implications, unto the damnation of their own souls and I will demonstrate this thoroughly in scripture, for you see, if Messiah indeed died so that the Holy Spirit could literally DWELL IN US (so that HE and the FATHER would make their abode in us) when they deny it they are quite literally denying and thus NULLIFYING the very purpose of the crucifixion! In verse 26 above Messiah outlines the WAY in which the Comforter empowers us to "keep his commandments." ... he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said to you." The Comforter, the Holy Spirit of truth is literally THE WORD OF GOD, and we have the power of this word INDWELLING! It's like having the written word, the scriptures, alive and well INSIDE of us! It's actually not "like" that it "IS" that exactly! Every word Messiah ever uttered during his ministry came, not of Messiah, but came of the Father, by way of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and now, that same gift is being offered to the FOLLOWERS of Messiah! This is another way we know that the children of error are paying only lip service to the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, for they teach we must have an earthly minister, priest, teacher, pastor! They DENY that the believer has the Holy Spirit to teach them of all things! They created an heirarchy of Cardinals, Bishops, Priests, Sunday School Teachers, Pastors and if anyone dare say to them "I don't need you, I have Messiah in me I have the Holy Spirit to teach me of all things" they will be pronounced an heretic, a madman, and a "rebellious unteachable spirit." I believe that many now reading this will decide that I have taken it over the limit here! They will call me an "extremist." Yet, I can PROVE beyond any doubt that in fact the honoring of the teachings of men and priests, DOGMAS and

DOCTRINES is the greatest TESTIMONY against them that they have NULLIFIED the CRUCIFIXION!

1 Corinthians 1: 17 "For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel; not with wisdom of words lest the crucifixion of Christ be made of none effect."
The Apostles all understood the purpose of the crucifixion was to send the Holy Spirit into the believer's heart so that each of us could be "taught of God" directly! Here, Paul states that if he were to preach the gospel with "wisdom of words" he would nullify the crucifixion. Yet he had MORE to say on this matter to the Corinthian church.

1 Corinthians 1: 23- 24 "23 But we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumblingblock, and to the Greeks foolishness. 24 But to them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God."
Again, Paul clearly understood that "Christ crucified" means the sending of the Comforter to "teach all things." Yet, he says even more to drive it home:

1 Corinthians 2: 1-10 "And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God. 2 For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. 5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that comes to nought: 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world to our glory: 8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they

known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10 But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yes the deep things of God."
How far have the the children of error strayed from the Gospel of the crucifixion. They preach "atonement" and forgiveness of sins ONLY, they do not teach the POWER, which is the Holy Spirit, dwelling in the heart of the believer, teaching and leading and guiding us to perfectly emulate Messiah and to LOVE him and to "keep" his commandments in that love! They deny it outright in all of their traditions, teachings, and their entire heirarchal system, their every deed is a walking contradiction of this one simple truth of the "mystery" which the Apostles identified clearly as "Christ in you, the hope of glory." Colossians 1: 26-29 "26 Even the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations but now is made manifest to his saints: 27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. 29 Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily." How have they missed this for so long? How do they read scripture after scripture which tells them that indeed the Holy Spirit lives IN US (and therefore Messiah and the Father are in us). How do the children of error say things like "God being one with man is occultism?" The answer is as simple as the question. One must BELIEVE in this Gospel and in the abiding of Messiah IN you or you cannot see it! (And if you do receive it you have no excuse for your sin). Paul had a bit more to say on this subject to the Corinthians and he did so in his second letter to them: 2 Corinthians 3: 2- 6 "2 You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: 3 Forasmuch as you are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart. 4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; 6 Who also has made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life."

We are living "epistles" (letters) of Christ himself according to the above verses. If you believe that Christ is "the word of God" and you believe Christ dwells in you and is manifested by your deeds of the flesh (by the power of that self same spirit) you then have to accept that you have become "the word made flesh" to a dying world! The written word of God is made up of "epistles" and we become "living epistles." We therefore become "the word made flesh." This is considered "heresy" by the children of error! That is how far they have strayed from the truth! They draw near the indwelling of the Holy Spirit with their lips and mouths but their hearts are far from it! They read the above verses and do not see their true implications! You can point it out clearly to them and they will argue with you tooth and nail concering the "interpretation" of the verses. Yet, no interpretation is necessary. There is a common theme in scripture when the Holy Spirit and our relationship to the living God BY His Spirit are discussed! When we teach, preach and hear the word of the Lord it is not by "letter" it is by the Spirit, for the letter kills, it nullifies! In other words, according to the Apostles we all have Christ in us, by the Spirit, leading and guiding us into all truth and even if the world were to wrench our Bibles from our hands they cannot take the word from us! He is alive in us. The children of error have never accepted the reality of this, the literality of it all, nor can they for, if they do, they would have to admit that the followers of Messiah become "the word made flesh" even as Christ was the word made flesh and that destroys their teachings of TRINITY or of the Deity of Christ! If mere man can be made "the word made flesh" than Christ being the word made flesh is NO PROOF OF HIS DEITY AT ALL!

NULLIFYING THE NEW COVENANT IN MESSIAH'S BLOOD

By denying that, through the crucifixion, we have the same "oneness" connection with the Father made available to us by the Father's own Spirit dwelling in us (even as he dwelled in Christ) they have destroyed, not only the purpose of the crucifixion, but the very ministry of Christ (to die in order to make it so). They are breakers (and deniars) of the New Covenant. Hebrews 8: 10-11 "10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest." Again, this "Comforter" who comes to abide IN US as a result of the crucifixion comes to "teach us of all things," and there is no need for us, having received

this, to be taught of men! (How far away are the children of error from this with their weekly sermons, priests, pastors, Bible seminarians, scholars, and popular authors?) I've had many a discussions concerning this very thing with them and the end result is always the same, they DENY the truth of it outright and make me into some sort of madman, radical, oddball, or worse! Yet, the scriptures are full of continuity on this subject and they cannot be broken! It is the everlasting Gospel. Furthermore, John wrote in his first letter and stated emphatically that any "spirit" that denies Christ in you is that spirit of ANTICHRIST!

1 John 4:1-4 "1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 Hereby do you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3 And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and is that spirit of antichrist, whereof you have heard that it should come, and even now is it already in the world. 4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world."
There can be no doubt that WE are the "flesh" in which Christ "is come" in the above passages. It's why he says "greater is he that is in you." Messiah died that he could send the "Comforter" who already dwelled WITH us, and that Comforter would be IN us. (He made that clear). The children of error can not teach this LITERALLY for if they did their entire TRINITY teaching unravels. If we, as mere mortal men, can live with the fulness of the Holy Spirit of the living God IN US, and we become ONE with God the Father through this (and one with Messiah) then all of the scriptures that say Christ is "one with the Father" are NO PROOF AT ALL of his Deity! Rest assured, brothers and sisters reading this, that is indeed the crux of the matter! Many might say "nothing here says that God is IN us!" Well, you didn't read far enough, then. 1 John 4: 12- 13 "12 No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us. 13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit." I submit to you now, the scriptural proof of the truth of what I am teaching here is entirely contained in the above two verses! Our LOVE (through the Spirit) is the

ultimate proof that God DWELLS IN US. Furthermore, that love is "perfected." If we live in perfect love we cannot sin (anymore than Messiah could sin being that he lived in the Father's perfect love). Finally, we know that not only God dwells in us, but we in him. These are the same things Messiah said of himself, and those statements are used by the children of error to prove Christ's deity, yet those same things are true of US, thus destroying the Trinity arguments completely!

MORE ABOUT THE COMFORTER

Let's look once again at Messiah's own testimony concerning the purpose of his crucifixion and the sending of the Holy Spirit of truth to live in us and make us ONE with the Father (and with him).

St. John 15: 26 26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me:"
The Comforter is a "witness." He testifies of Messiah! He's not just an "advocate," not just an "intercessor" he's a witness! We will look at the import of that later.

St John 16: 8-16 "8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment: 9 Of sin, because they believe not on me; 10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and you see me no more; 11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. 12 I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 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. 14 He shall glorify me; for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it to you. 15 All things that the Father has are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine and shall show it to you. 16 A little while, and you shall not see me: and again, a little while and you shall see me, because I go to the Father."

The Comforter comes to convince the world of sin and of righteousness and judgment. He also comes to "guide" us into "all truth." In verse 13 Messiah says something of the Comforter in US that he said of himself, namely that the words he spoke were NOT his own, but whatever he heard of the Father those were the words he spoke to us! Now, he states emphatically that we will have the SAME relationship with the Father as he did! He goes even further in verses 14 and 15 saying that the Holy Spirit offers to us EVERYTHING that the Father has! Messiah says that "all the Father has is mine" then says that he shall receive of "all that the Father has" and give it to us! Trinitarians in particular have for centuries used Christ's claims that everything the Father has is HIS as PROOF that Christ is DIVINE. Yet, here is Messiah promising that WE TOO will have the same relationship with the Father as he did! The children of error therefore cannot take this literally without destroying the proofs of their Trinity doctrine! Still think I'm making mountains out of molehills when I show how far children of error have strayed from the purpose of the crucifixion by teaching that Christ is God? They can't even acknowledge the true purpose of Messiah crucified without destroying their divinity of Christ doctrines completely! They are in an hopeless state of affairs!

MAN BECOMES ONE WITH GOD

So, we now know through Messiah's own words that we have available to us a new relationship with the Father in Heaven, by his own Spirit dwelling IN us (rather than just being with us). This is the exact same relationship that Messiah had with the Father, that through the inward dwelling of the Father's own Spirit (the comforter) we are ONE with the Father and ONE with Christ (even as Messiah was ONE with the Father).

St. John 17: 6-11 (Messiah prays to the Father concerning his followers) 6 I have manifested your name to the men which you gave me out of the world; yours they were and you gave them to me; and they have kept your word 7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever you have given me are of you 8 For I have given to them the words which you gave to 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. 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which you have given me; for they are yours. 10 And all mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I am glorified in them. 11 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!"
Here were have Messiah clearly praying that we shall be ONE with the Father, even as he is one with the Father. The children of error can never accept this, for Christ's statement "I and the Father are one" has been used by them for centuries as proof that Christ is God, Divine! Now, we see that mere men can also be "one" as well! Not convinced?

St John 17: 21-23 "21That they all may be one; as thou, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 And the glory which you gave me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and you in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them as you have loved me." WE ARE SENT IN THE SAME WAY CHRIST WAS SENT
The trinitarians and those who preach "pre-existence" of Christ like to point to Christ's testimony that he "came out from the Father" and was "sent from Heaven" as their ultimate proof. Yet, Messiah states that just as the Father "sent" him into the world so he now sends us! It starts with them not having a right understanding about the role of the Holy Spirit to "lead us and guide us." The children of error take exception to the fact that we have no need for an earthly teacher! Inevitably, they point out Romans 10: 14, which says they must have a "preacher" in order to believe upon the name of the Lord to "contradict" what I am saying!

Romans: 10: 13-14 "13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?"
In typical fashion they quote the verse without reading what comes before and after in order to glean it's true intent. I've been saying that under the new covenant in Messiah's blood (via the crucifixion) we have no need for a "preacher," no need for a man to teach us saying "know the Lord," and indeed if

you do not understand the ministry of the Holy Spirit we receive as the result of our faith then their argument from the above scripture appears to be a strong argument. However, read the very next verse.

Romans 10: 15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!"
In final analysis, the problem becomes a lack of understanding as to what it means to be "sent." This is the greek word "apostello," it's where we get the word "apostle" in English! The Holy Spirit was "sent" from Heaven. (1 Peter 1: 12). Messiah was "sent" from the Father. (St. John 5:24, 5:30, 5:36, 5:38, 6:57, 7:29, 7:42, 8:42, 9:7, 10:36, 11:42, 17:3-25). All of the above references tell us that Messiah was "sent" by the Father directly (using the same word apostello). Trinitarians and those who desire to prove a "pre-existence" of Messiah before he was born use the scriptures that state that Messiah was "sent" from Heaven as their proof, but they have a problem. John the baptist was also "sent" (apostello). St. John 3:28 and 3:34 Furthermore, and more importantly, Messiah made it clear that in the same way HE was sent into the world by the Father he now sends US into the world!

St. John 17: 16- 18 (Messiah prays to the Father concerning his followers) 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is truth. 18 As you have sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world."
The children of error focus on the purpose of the cross as simply Messiah paying the "penalty" for our sin, so that he could be the "propitiation" of sin. They teach that the crucifixion was for "sanctification" and they do have many scriptures that say this to pick from. However, as we see from verse 17 above it is the WORD that sanctifies! Messiah died so that he could send us the Holy Spirit, the WORD, to dwell IN us. In these verses here in John 17 we see the exact moment when Messiah requests that the Father send us the Holy Spirit to dwell in us! We also see that in so doing we are "sent" even as Messiah was sent. Many Trinitarians and pre-existence teachers like to point to Messiah's statements that he was "not of this world," yet here in verse 16 we see that his followers are "not of this world" even as he is not of the world! Being "sent" of God, and not being of this world in no way means that we pre-existed with the Father in heaven before our birth, nor does it mean that we are God incarnate. Being the word made flesh doesn't mean this either, for indeed, if we have the Holy Spirit dwelling IN us and we are SENT into the world to "preach" as it is written in Romans, that makes us fleshly examples of the Word to men!

Remember I said that the Holy Spirit is a "witness?" That's how it happens. The Holy Spirit becomes the FIRST witness of Messiah and when the Holy Spirit is in us and speaks through us we become the SECOND! The witness of TWO is true and that is why the Holy Spirit is "the Spirit of truth." Not convinced that we are sent of the Father?

St. John 20: 21 "Then Jesus said unto them, Peace be with you; as my Father has sent me, even so send I you."
Now I ask all of you Trinitarians and those who preach that Christ "pre-existed" and literally "came down to earth from Heaven," how is it possible for us to be "sent" of Christ into the world in the SAME WAY Messiah was sent? If Messiah was IN heaven, literally, then was "sent" down to earth (which is the classic way the verses have always been interpreted) HOW in the WORLD are we going to be sent "even as the Father has sent" Messiah? It's impossible! Messiah lays their teachings into the dust here completely, by saying that he was a man and was "sent" of God by the Holy Spirit in him and the same thing is now happening to the Apostles! There's no way around it! You cannot "preach" the Gospel unless you are "sent" in this way according to the scriptures in Romans quoted earlier. They simply don't know what it means to be sent " (apostellos). They think it simply means that you are sent on an errand (and indeed it does mean that, however, you MUST have the Holy Spirit dwelling IN you bodily in order to be sent in the same way the Messiah was sent)! The children of error dare not teach this (and it is the very GOSPEL), for, if they do they admit that Messiah being "sent of the Father" is no proof at all that he was "God incarnate" nor is it proof that he "pre-existed" with the Father. If it were then NONE of us could be "sent" even as the Father "sent" Messiah! Their dogmas have forever barred them from preaching the Gospel of our Lord for if you don't believe a man can be "sent" in the same way Messiah was sent (and certainly they cannot believe this for they believe Messiah existed in Heaven first then was sent to the earth), then you cannot believe in the "sending." If you don't even have a right understanding of what it means to be "sent" you cannot be "sent" to preach the Gospel. How indeed shall they call upon the name of the Lord and be saved by the children of error seeing that none of their preachers even believe in being "sent" (in the same way Messiah was sent) and cannot have been "sent" of God because of their lack of belief? Thankfully, we still have the scriptures and the Apostles themselves can be the second witness to us! (It was not always so for in the dark ages the Catholic church did not translate the scriptures into the common tongue and only their priests could read scripture). Now we see the true work of the Devil to try and rob us of the gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit and thus his futile attempts to NULLIFY the crucifixion of the Messiah! Today we still have scripture, but the

children of error everywhere are trapped in a system upon which they rely. A system which teaches them they must "be fed" of men, priests and pastors from behind pulpits! The literal indwelling of the Holy Spirit is paid lip service to but is denied by doctrine and tradition! It's nothing new, for Isaiah wrote of this very thing and Messiah quoted him directly!

Isaiah 29:11-18 "11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is learned saying "read this please," and he says "I cannot for it is sealed." (It's a "mystery) 12 And the book is delivered to one who is not learned saying, 'read this please,' and he says 'I am not learned." 13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouths and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their hearts far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by precept of men: 14 Therefore, behold I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder, for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden." 15 Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord and their works are in the dark and they say 'who sees us, who knows us?' 16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made him, 'he made me not?' and shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, 'he had no understanding?' 17 Is it no yet a little while and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest? 18 And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness."
When the children of error deny the indwelling of the Holy Spirit (and thus deny that we are "sent" even as Messiah was sent) they turn the Gospel upside down. It becomes BAD news instead of GOOD news. They preach that God no longer SEES our sin! That even though we live our lifetimes caught up in the ways of the flesh the blood of Christ "covers" our sin so that God is no longer even aware of it! (They say "who sees us and who knows us"). Their precepts and dogmas do not come directly from the Holy Spirit in them (for they teach that the Holy Spirit was IN Christ alone and that proves he was God incarnate). Do you see

the insidiousness their error? How they have attempted to ROB the believer of the POWER of God? Do not think that it is a small matter and do not be mistaken into believing that they will not give account for this! Shall the thing framed (preachers of doctrine) say of him that framed it 'he had no understanding?" (or this doctrine is from ME not the Holy Spirit). Their own testimony concerning them who came before (their teachers) is that they did not have the Holy Spirit literally dwelling inside of them (for they teach only Christ had that, and it was the proof of his Deity)! Why should you believe ANYTHING that came out of their system seeing that they testify of their forefather's that those men framed doctrines without being "sent" of the Holy Spirit in the same way Messiah was sent? You'd be crazy to give heed to ANYTHING they say in their seminaries! They admit openly that they are false prophets! Some even say that the "revelatory knowledge it took to write the Holy Bible" has "vanished away" now that the Bible is finished! Yet it was the HOLY SPIRIT which was that revelatory knowledge. They don't even acknowledge that this Word is even at work IN man anymore! Why would you follow them in light of the testimony of the true Gospel? Messiah quoted these verses against the Scribes and Pharisees! (The hypocrites of his day).

Matthew 15: 7-9 "7 You hypocrites, well did Isaiah the prophet write of you saying, 8 This people draw near me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me 9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."
It has been the way of the hypocrite for eons! Ignore the Holy Spirit completely, venerate the prophets and teachers of old who dared to believe they could hear directly from God, make them the "exception" not the rule so that you are excused from following in their footsteps. The Pharisees did this with their prophets who gave them the scriptures and the modern children of error have done this with their Christ as well. Preaching wisdom of men and precept, doctrines, men's commandments adding line upon line and tittle upon tittle and in so doing they attempt to NULLIFY the purposes of Messiah! They shall not prevail, however. It is all in vain! They shall continue on even though they have literally denied the Lord who bought them with their precepts yet we now enter the days of the final end, when the mystery of Christ in you shall not only be known but shall be finished! The Devil will lose and all of his children he has created to thwart the purposes of Messiah shall lose with him! Yes, the children of error do teach the Spirit dwells in them but do they believe it? How can they? For they teach that the Holy Spirit indwelling in Christ was "proof

of his Deity!" We are not "God incarnate" and therefore, according to the error, the Holy Spirit can NEVER dwell in us to the extent he dwelled in Christ, yet the Gospel says that indeed the Holy Spirit can and WILL dwell in us in the same fulness as he dwelled in Christ and in fact that was the very purpose of the crucifixion to begin with! They are denying the Gospel while paying lip service to it! You see, the children of error mouth the truth of the Holy Spirit but their hearts are far from it! How do I know what is in their hearts?

Luke 6: 45 "A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks."
What can be more evil than to thwart the MINISTRY of Christ? To nullify his purposes? To deny the POWER of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in all the saints? To say that you can "never stop sinning?" To say that you can never truly "be like Christ" for Christ is God incarnate? To say that the works Christ performed on this earth (works of righteousness and obedience to the Father) were proof that he was DIVINE and in so preaching forever bar the followers of Christ from repeating those works? I can think of nothing more evil on the face of this earth! We do know what is in their hearts by their flapping gums! Their own words (doctrines) bear testimony concerning how far they are from the truth of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. All one has to do is examine their teachings, their traditions, their "conclusions," to see how far they have departed from the truth of the gospel! The children of error focus on the "sacrifice" of the crucifixion, and more specifically the "propitiation" of sin by Messiah and the "escape" from the penalty of those sins (grace through faith). This could be forgiven if they did not take the next step, which is to DENY the power worked in us through this propitiation and this "sanctification" or "atonement" of Messiah's blood. (Remember sanctification comes by the WORD according to Christ himself and without that word "the Comforter" dwelling in you to the extent he dwelled in Christ you have neither the Word, nor the sanctification). They teach openly that once you receive this sacrifice you are "saved" or "shall be saved" and end it there. If they simply ignored what is the end result of receiving the sacrifice of Messiah I could excuse them of this error, but no, they go so far as to DENY there is any other result other than "forgiveness of sins!" Not only do they make no mention of the final result (which is ultimately victory OVER the sin in our flesh even as Christ had victory) they call "heretics" those

who teach the truth, that one can walk even as Christ walked in this lifetime "tempted in all ways yet without sin." The children of error sell all of mankind under a "fleshly curse" of going from sin to sin for the rest of their lives and even go so far as to say that is why Messiah died, so that they could be forgiven of this lifestyle of sin while they continue in it! They teach that NO SACRIFICE can take away the sin completely (which is completely contrary to the word). They teach that Messiah's sacrifice of himself once and for all was a better sacrifice than the shedding of blood of rams and bullocks (and so it was) but the reason they give for why this sacrifice is better is shocking. They state that one who sacrifices an animal on an altar for the forgiveness of sin is STILL IN THE FLESH SIN CURSE, (and indeed they also agree that one who receives the blood sacrifice of Messiah is still in the sin curse as well). Furthermore, according to them, whether you receive an animal sacrifice or the glorious sacrifice of the Son of God, you still go forth cleaned by the sacrifice only to become stained once again by NEW SINS. They teach that Messiah's sacrifice is BETTER because it only needed to be performed ONCE, thus relieving those who receive the sacrifice of the "guilt" of "all of their sins" once and for all (even if that person is still trapped in the flesh afterward going from sin to sin). They teach that once you receive the "atonement" of Christ's blood "on the cross" you then have "no condemnation for sin" (even if you continue for the rest of your life IN that sin). Yet, they don't really even believe their OWN doctrines on this matter, for they say Christ's sacrifice paid the penalty once and for all for ALL of your sins (past, present, and future) and has forever relieved you of the guilt of that sin, your conscience is clean, your "washed by the blood," your sins are "covered by the blood" and God no longer SEES your sins but only sees Christ's righteousness because his righteousness is "imputed" to you as your own. They teach all these things then erect monumental ways for you to "confess your sins" constantly, encourage you to confess them and have myriad of traditions on how to "ask forgiveness" for your continual sins! The obvious question is, if they truly believe their present and future sins are "covered by the blood" and God no longer sees them WHY CONFESS THEM? Why ask for forgiveness for sins that God doesn't even know exist? It's ridiculous, isn't it? They do not understand that we are sanctified by the WORD (which dwells IN us)! Without this Spirit of truth IN US (in the same way he was in Christ) we have no sanctification! Without believing in the testimony of the Son of God that he shall SEND the Comforter to dwell in us (even as the Comforter dwelled in Christ) the crucifixion is of NO EFFECT to them! They do not know that the sacrifice of Messiah was better than the blood atonement of animals not just because it needed to be given only ONCE, but because it has the POWER to release those who receive the sacrifice from sinning, to make them "perfect."

THE HOLY SPIRIT SACRIFICE

The children of error do not realize that although forgiveness of sins (atonement)

is "good" it simply is not good enough! Israel under the OLD law had forgiveness of sins (atonement). It's not enough to have your sins "atoned" for. Atonement cannot bring you the kind of salvation that Messiah promised! If it could, Messiah's crucifixion was completely unnecessary! Why? God the Father had already given us the means by which our sins could be atoned! The sacrifice of rams and bullocks on the altar was perfectly effective to atonement! If just believing in the atonement of the sacrifice and receiving it brings salvation then the entire work of Messiah was in vain, for the scriptures (even the New Testament) bear witness that the sacrifices of Israel on the altar indeed could "wash away" your sins and provide an avoidance from the penalty of those sins through atonement!

Hebrews 9: 13-14 "13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh: 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?"
The children of error teach that the law of purging through the animal sacrifice and shedding of blood of the innocent could not bring forgiveness of sins and sanctification! This is a lie and the writer of Hebrews bears out the deception of this by stating flatly that the blood of bulls, goats, and sprinking of the ashes of an heifer indeed DOES sanctify to the purifying of the flesh! I repeat, the children of error are just flat out lying on this point! They teach that Christ died because the animal sacrifice couldn't really bring forgiveness. Lies, all lies! The children of error teach that because the animal sacrifice was without power to purge your conscience (guilt) we need Messiah to die, and he once and for all purged them of their conscience (even though they continue in sin long after Messiah died for them in the same fashion those who sacrificed animals on the altar also continued in sin afterward). They have replaced the shedding of animal blood with the shedding of human blood and claim that the shedding of human blood (of the Son of God) is better to remove your guilt (even though you continue in your sin with no hope of ever stopping the dead works of the flesh)! What an insidious evil is this doctrine! They use the blood sacrifice of the Messiah as a way to "sear their consciences," saying that Christ paid the penalty for ALL of their sins, once and for all, so they could CONTINUE IN THEM and still be saved! It's not what the writer of Hebrews had in mind!

Hebrews 7: 19 "18 For there is truthfully a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. 19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a

better hope did; by the which we draw near unto God."

Under the old law of atonement (through animal sacrifice) the people had no HOPE of ever ceasing their sins. They had to repeat this atonement year after year because they would be washed clean but then the sin remained (and with the sin the conscience of that sin). The Holy Spirit sacrifice of Messiah once and for all, however, brings us a "new hope" of being empowered by the indwelling of that self same spirit to walk WITHOUT sin! To be made "perfect" even as the Father in Heaven (and as Christ) is perfect! This is why the sacrifice of Messiah was "better!" That truth is born out over and over again in Hebrews!

Hebrews 9:1-9 "1 Then truly the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service and a worldly sanctuary. 2 for there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary. 3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; 4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; 5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercy seat; of which we cannot now speak particularly. 6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always in to the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. 7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the errors of the people; 8 The Holy spirit thus signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: 9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience:"
The only "problem" with the old law of atonement according to the writer of the Hebrews letter (aside from the fact that the people of Israel didn't really KEEP the old covenant) was that the sacrifice and service could "not make them perfect." The service and sacrifice of Messiah, however, is far more powerful for it brings

the "hope of perfection."

Hebrews 9: 11 "But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say not of this building, 12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption."
The children of error teach that our sins are not literally taken away by the blood of Christ, only the conscience or guilt of them is! Whereby, one who sacrificed animals on the altar in the old law still had a conscience when they sinned, the children of error do not! I know, that is incredible in the extreme but I assure you it is how they interpret the verses in Hebrews. They are made "perfect" by proxy. Christ kept the law FOR THEM and died to pay the penalty for their sins so that they could be relieved of the GUILT of those sins while they continue on sinning until the day they die! There is no "hope of perfection" in the teachings of the children of error, they deny it openly and if you teach such a thing you are called a liar and an heretic because they teach plainly that ONLY CHRIST was or could be perfect and without sin and teach that his perfection and sinlessness are the PROOF THAT HE IS DIVINE! They have removed the very purpose of Messiah's sacrifice to begin with, which was to make those who come unto the sacrifice "perfect," by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Messiah himself bearing this out by saying "it is expedient for you that I go away for if I go not away the Comforter shall not come to you." The children of error twist the ministry of the Holy Spirit, by siezing on this word "Comforter" and making it to mean that even though you live your life going from sin to sin you always have the Holy Spirit there to comfort you that you are still going to Heaven, you are still saved despite your sinful behavior! Nothing could be farther from the truth! Messiah did not die so that we could continue on in our sin free of the guilt of it! What a twisted version of the Gospel! Messiah died so that he could send the Holy Spirit to live IN us and he, that same Holy Spirit would "reprove" us of our sin and bring us the hope of VICTORY over the sin (not just victory over the penalty of the sin)! We now have the hope of Christ in us, the hope of glory, the hope of becoming "like Christ" (tempted in all ways, yet without sin). Thus, Messiah destroyed the works of the Devil by his sacrifice!

Hebrews 10: 1 "1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers

thereunto perfect. 2For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins."
The shedding of Messiah's blood has within it the promise of the "taking away of sins." Not just the taking away of the "guilt" of them! The children of error teach outright that the only difference between the old law sacrifice and the sacrifice and blood of Messiah is that the shedding of animal blood could not sear the people's consciences (when they continued in their sin) but that Messiah's blood DOES sear your conscience so that even though you do exactly what Israel did under the old law (continue in sin) you have no conscience of guilt for your sins! This is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit for the Holy Spirit lives IN us by that same shedding of Messiah's blood and he (the Spirit) is sent to reprove us of our sin! In him, in the Holy Spirit is no sin and anyone who lives in sin and has no conscience of that sin certainly cannot be living BY the Spirit! This is self evident!

Hebrews 11:40 "God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect."
The above verse clearly implies that those who are "with us" SHALL be made perfect! That is why the sacrifice of Messiah is BETTER! Not just because it was made "once and for all to save us from the PENALTY of sin" but because through that sacrifice we are delivered the power to have our sins "taken away" completely! We have the hope of perfection and holiness through his blood and we press forward to the mark, full of faith that we shall attain! The children of error teach this is IMPOSSIBLE, teaching the grave error that as long as you are "in this flesh" you shall NOT be free of sin, that ONLY MESSIAH could be free of sin and this is the proof that he is DIVINE!

Hebrews 13: 20-21 "20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, 21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen."

The perfection of the saints via the blessing of the Holy Spirit in them (which was the purpose of the shedding of the blood to begin with). That is the common theme all throughout Hebrews! The children of error focus on the "atonement" and the "forgiveness of sins" (which indeed is vital to receive the inward Holy Spirit) but they stop there! They don't see that if forgiveness is all we receive from the death of Messiah his death was unnecessary because we already had forgiveness under the old law. The children of error would answer, "yes, but they continued sinning and living with the guilt of that sin and the sacrifice had to be repeated year after year." The same can be said of the modern Christian (except the part about repeating the sacrifice). They teach that they NEVER stop sinning. There is no difference, therefore, in their minds, between the shedding of animal blood under the old law and the shedding of human blood under the new covenant except that the shedding of animal blood was done over and over again and the shedding of Messiah's blood was done once and for all to relieve them of their conscience! They still have their sin (even as the Israelite still had his sinful flesh after the animal sacrifice was finished) the only difference, therefore according to the Christian, between the Israelite under the old law of atonement and the Christian under their twisted version of atonement is that the Israelite still had a conscience and still felt guilty for his sins but the Christian does not! That is a very scary prospect indeed! Serial murderers are said to have no conscience! It is scary!

Jeremiah 7: 1-10 "1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 2 Stand in the gate of the Lord's house and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the world of the Lord all you of Judah, that enter in at these gtates to worship the Lord. 3 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel. Amend your ways and your doings and I will cause you to dwell in this place. 4 Trust not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, are these, 5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor; 6 If you opress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt: 7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. 8 Behold you trust in lying words that cannot profit. 9 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you

don't know; 10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say We are delivered to do all these abominations?"
If they who were under the old covenant could not continue in sin day after day and then come into the house of the Lord and declare "we are saved to do all these things" how in the world do the children of error think they are going to get away with it seeing that we have been given the gift of the Holy Spirit dwelling in us to the SAME extent that Messiah had that same gift of the Spirit? It amazes me!

FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE... BUT LOVE IS THE KEY

I said that we need "no man to teach us" now that we have the Holy Spirit indwelling. This includes the Apostles! We don't need them to teach us! Since the New Testament is made up of the teachings of the Apostles we therefore don't need the New Testament to teach us either! I know, the the child of error what I just said is utter blasphemy but it is true nontheless and it's easily proved by those same scriptures I say we don't really need!

1 Thessalonians 4: 9 "But as touching brotherly love you have no need that I write to you; for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another."
All scriptures are "good" for reproof and instruction in righteousness and I rely on them heavily all the time but I have no delusions that they are God! (As once I saw a televangelist strutting across the stage waving his Bible saying "in the beginning was the word and the word was God, this is God people"). The written word came of the Holy Spirit and HE LIVES IN ME! That's the bottom line. All the Bible reading in the world is not going to teach me to love as Christ loved. Anyone who thinks it will is seriously deluded! Remember that Messiah taught us that by his sending the "Comforter" we would be able to "keep" his commandments. He made many such promises regarding this, saying things like "if you love me keep my commandments." John wrote in his first letter (quoted earlier) that "in him is the love of God perfected." Faith brings forth hope (hope of christlike perfection) and that hope perfects the love of God IN YOU, which causes your faith and your hope to come to pass! This is the way of the walk of Christ. Yet, not so among the children of error. To them faith is simply believing that you are going to go to Heaven despite your sinful behavior (that your sins are forgiven and even though you walk in unrighteousness Christ kept the law for you and his righteousness is counted as yours). Their hope is that they will see the Kingdom without doing anything at

all! Their Love is a humanistic sort of love that belongs to the world. They do not see that God's love keeps you from sinning completely. They don't understand that if you LOVE someone you will NOT sin against them. If you LOVE God you won't sin against Him either! You cannot, for if you walk in that LOVE it's impossible to sin for the Spirit of love does NOT sin! If you have the Holy Spirit IN you, you will keep Messiah's commandments and they are summed up as follows:

Matthew 22: 36-40 "36 Master which is the greatest commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said to him: You shall love God with all of your heart and with all your soul, and with all your strength 38 This is the first and greatest commandment 39 And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments hang the entire law and the prophets." John 13: 34 "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another as I have loved you, that you also love one another."
The children of error do not understand that Christ was able to live "tempted in all ways yet without sin" because of his great LOVE for us! Here, he COMMANDS us to love each other with THAT SAME LOVE. How is that even possible if they are correct and Christ's ability to live without sin came because he was GOD INCARNATE? The answer is, it's NOT possible, otherwise their entire premise is gone! The minute we loved each other the way he loved us we would be proving (by their reasoning) that we too are God incarnate (for they have most assuredly said that only God come down to earth can do this)! When they teach these things they are flat out DENYING that we can EVER obey Christ's command to love one another just as he has loved us! I had an interesting and much heated argument with the leader of a Bible study years ago! The subject of loving each other came up and in the study he told the group that we are only commanded to love our "brethren" (fellow Christians). I was quite simply apalled by this. I took him aside into another room to teach him and before too long he was red in the face angry at me, thoroughly convinced that we are only commanded to love fellow Christians with the love of Christ! Yet, look at these verses closely.

Matthew 5: 43-48 "43 You have heard that it is said, You shall love your neighbor

and hate your enemy 44 But I say to you love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you. 45 That you may be children of your Father which is in Heaven: for he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust. 46 For if you love them which love you what reward do you have? Don't the publicans even do that? 47 And if you salute your brothers only what have you done more than others do? Don't the publicans even do the same? 48 Be therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect."
It is imperative we scrutinize verse 48! The children of error say such a thing is impossible. They teach that only Christ was "perfect" in his love (and that is the proof he is divine)! They nullify the command of our Lord to do likewise even as he has done! They have gone through the new translations of the Bible and replaced everywhere the word "perfect" appears in reference to OUR behavior with the word "whole" except this one verse 48, and that only because it makes no sense to have Christ say "be therefore whole even as the Father in heaven is whole," or "be therefore whole even as the Father is perfect." Yet, there's no getting around the truth that even if the word were "whole" in verse 48, how is it possible for us, mere mortals, who are not God incarnate, to be just as WHOLE as the Father is whole? Simply, the children of error ignore the commandments of Christ pertaining to just how much LOVE we must have one toward another and even say it's IMPOSSIBLE because we are still "in the flesh." Yet, truth be told if we love even as the Father and Messiah loved, we are NOT going to sin against each other! Plus, they ultimately forget that Christ was in the flesh too and he was able to do it!

Romans 13: 8 "8 Owe no man nothing but to love one another, for he that loves another has fulfilled the law. 9 For this, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness, you shall not covet; and if any other commandment it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. 10 Love works no ill to his neighbor, therefore love is the fulfilling of the law."

The children of error state "you can't be perfect in this life" and go much further saying that ONLY Christ was perfect because he was God incarnate (and that his perfection was the proof of his divinity). They have forever barred US from loving which means they state openly that we cannot obey CHRIST at all (who commanded us to love one another AS HE LOVED). He who loves does indeed "fulfill the law" because if you love you will not do anything sinful to your neighbor! Someone is lying here, either the Apostle who wrote Romans (and Christ himself) or the children of error. Love brings about the righteousness of Christ IN us (that is in our flesh)! That is why there's no such thing as an "unknown" or "unwilfull" sin! If you are walking in Christ's love it's simply not possible to sin for love does not sin! If you do have a sin you are unaware of you are not walking in the command of Christ to "love one another" and obviously those who teach that unwillful sin is not sin do not understand what a grave sin it is to disobey the Lord of Glory! To them ignorance is bliss! You're better off not knowing the law or not knowing the Lord for that matter because, they teach, you are only judged for KNOWN sins! Ridiculous! All sin is a lack of LOVE for another human being (or for God) and that alone is a grave sin indeed for them who have been given the Comforter to abide IN them and claim to believe in the testimony of the Son of God who commanded us to love one another BY HIS EXAMPLE! We are commanded to love one another! It's not an "option." It's not a suggestion! It's a HOLY command from the Holy One of Israel! If any man says he loves God but does not love his brother, he is a liar!

2 Corinthians 6: 1-6 "1 We then, as workers together with him, beg you also that you don't receive the grace of God in vain. 2 (for he said I have heard you in times accepted and in the day of salvation I have secured you behold now is the accepted time, behold now is the day of salvation) 3 Giving no offence in anything that our ministry isn't blamed 4 but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses 5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings: 6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by love unfeigned."
The children of error teach that we will NEVER be perfect in this life (because we are in the flesh) and they are waiting for a day when they are "changed" or "transformed" before they walk in "love unfeigned" which leads to sinless perfection! They state openly that it's not going to happen while they live in this

fleshly body but Paul said "NOW is the accepted time, NOW is the day of salvation." They say that they are "saved" but they don't really know what that means. They think it means that they are going to heaven despite the fact that they are not walking in the Holy Spirit of love (which leads us to sinlessness)! They are in a very dangerous position and many think I'm coming down on them when actually it is out of LOVE I am preaching this truth! I don't want anyone to miss this! I don't want the GRACE of God to be wasted on them (for surely it is wasted) if that Grace does not bring about the righteousness that comes by faith in the Son of God and what he did for us when he was crucified to send us the Holy Spirit of LOVE to dwell in us in all fulness! If you say you can never live without sin, you are saying you can never live in love! They even then go so far as to say that ONLY their Christ ever walked in this sort of love and in so doing he proved he was DIVINE! I will not even endeavor to go through all of the scriptures concerning love and it's power and how it transforms us into Christ like perfection! There are just too many of them and I would literally break my back sitting at the keyboard and tapping them out. Get yourself a Strong's Exhaustive Concordance and look up the word "love" and read every place it appears in the New Testament! You will be left with no doubt of the truth of what I am saying. We can walk in Christ like perfection and indeed are commanded to by Christ himself when he said "love one another as I have loved you!" If you dare deny it, God have mercy on your soul! Love is the reason that the Apostle said "if you walk in the Spirit you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh."

Galatians 5: 16 "This I say then. Walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh."
Love is the reason the Apostle told us that we can "mortify the deeds of the body" by the Spirit.

Romans 8: 13-14 "13 For if you live after the flesh you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."
Love is the reason that the Apostle told us that as the Sons of God we can live without sin:

1 John 3: 1- 11

"1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not. 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God and what we shall be like hasn't appeared yet but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself even as HE is pure. 4 Whoever commits sin transgresses also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 5 And you know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. 6 Whoever abides in him does not sin: whoever sins has not seen him, neither known him. 7 Little chldren, let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as HE is righteous. 8 He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his seed remains in him, and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 in this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: Whoever does not righteousness is not fo God, neither he that loves not his brother. 11 For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another."
How far have the children of error strayed from the path? They teach openly that you can NEVER stop sinning in contrary to the sound doctrines of the Apostles who stated that if you love as God commands you CANNOT sin! The Holy Spirit abides IN us (and by virtue Christ in us) NOW all that is left is for us to abide IN HIM! He who abides in the Son of God by the Holy Spirit purifies himself, becomes LIKE HIM, and cannot sin for such a person is "born of God." The children of error cannot receive this for they have taught for centuries that only Christ is "born of God" and that is the proof that he is DIVINE (trinity)! The children of error will ignore entire chapters in 1 John which say that you can (and will) stop sinning and quote one single verse (twited and misinterpreted) to make all who teach the righteousness of Christ liars!

1 John 1:6 "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the

truth is not in us."

This is usually the only verse on the subject of sin from the first letter of John that the children of error want to read for it seems to say that no man can EVER say they are living without sin! It does NOT say that. John states that no man (except Christ) can say "I haven't sinned," for indeed all have sinned. Yet, the grand irony is that the children of error teach that God does not "see" their sins, that when God looks at them he sees only the righteousness of Christ, and their sins are "covered by the blood." This is saying "I have no sin" for if something is non existent to God (their sins) then I promise you it does NOT EXIST. If no man can EVER stop sinning then why did John write later:

1 John 2: 1 "My little children, these things I write to you so that you do not sin, and if any man does sin we have and advocate (Comforter) with the Father, even Jesus Christ the righteous:"
Notice that in the next verse we find that the "propitiation" of sins that comes from the crucified Christ is not just for the believer but for the whole world!

1 John 2: 2 "And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world."
If all we get out of the crucifixion is "propitiation" or atonement for sins and that is "salvation" then by the above verse the WHOLE WORLD is saved already! Yet, notice what John says next, it's in direct contradiction to what the children of error teach (that we can never stop sinning in this life)!

1 John 2: 3-10 "3 And here's how we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoever keeps his word, in him truly is the love of God perfected: which is how we know that we are in him. 6 He that says that he abides in him should himself also walk like him, even as he walked 7 Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment, which you have heard from the beginning, the old commandment is the word which you have heard from the beginning.

8 Again a new commandment I write to you, which is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shines. 9 He that says he is in the light and hates his brother is in darkness even now. 10 He that loves his brother abides in the light and there is no occasion of stumbling in him."
I'm amazed that the children of error can quote 1 John 1:8 and never read any further to see that there is a way to "abide" in Christ's LOVE and in so doing live like him, in PERFECTION and HOLINESS! Anyone who says they are "abiding" in Christ and are sinning, that person is a liar! The children of error can never admit this truth, for they teach openly that ONLY CHRIST can abide in the Father's love to perfection (and indeed state that is the proof that he was divine)!

THE FLESH TRAP- THE SIN CURSE LIE

The children of error do not see that we now have the power by the Holy Spirit dwelling in us to overcome the sins of the flesh by "abiding" or "living" in his LOVE (which causes us to do no harm to others). They can't for they teach only CHRIST could do this and that because he was God! They say that Christ was perfect because he wasn't born with the "original sin" curse or "adamic curse" being immaculately conceived! They are forever trapped in the flesh and ignore completely the scriptures that say we are no longer in the flesh through the work of Christ! They like to quote Romans 7:14-23

"14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that I don't do; but what I hate I end up doing. 16 If then I do that which I would not do, I consent to the law that it is good. 17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18 For I know that in me (that is in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I don't find. 19 For the good that I would do I don't do: but the evil which I would not, that I end up doing. 20 Now If I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me. 21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present

with me. 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 23 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."
The children of error quote these verses at almost EVERY Bible study. They commit them to memory because they do not realize that Paul here is describing to the Romans a man who is trapped in the FLESH under the OLD LAW! It does not occur to them that these verses do NOT apply to him who walks in the Spirit, given as a result of the deliverance offered to us by the crucifying of Messiah! How do I assert this? I don't have to, Paul says so plainly before and after these verses and one must take them completely out of context to apply them to a person who is WALKING the WALK of Christ. (For, indeed, none of the above statements were EVER true of Christ and they are no more true concerning Christ's followers). Let us read before and after these verses!

Romans 7: 5-6 "5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth the fruit unto death. 6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter."
Paul is clearly describing the state we are in before we have the POWER of the Holy Spirit indwelling! Need more proof? Read on:

Romans 7: 9 "For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died."
I ask you, was Paul ALIVE when the commandment came? Was he around when Moses delivered the ten commandments? No he was not. The verses he writes concerning the state of fleshly man cannot be applied DIRECTLY to Paul anymore than verse 9 can be applied to him literally. He speaks hypothetically concerning the state of fallen man, before the Holy Spirit gift was given by the crucifixion of Christ.

Romans 7: 24-25 "24 Oh wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord, So then with the

mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin."
He's speaking of someone living "In the flesh." If you live in the flesh, indeed you serve the law of sin. In chapter 7 he is speaking of someone who is "carnally minded" then in Romans 8 he describes the follower of Christ who is no longer carnally minded and no longer "in the flesh."

Romans 8: 6-13 "6 For to be carnally minded is death;' but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be. 8 But you are NOT IN THE FLESH, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if any man has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." 9 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you. 12 Therefore brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh to live after the flesh. 13 For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body you shall live."
Paul lays it out nice and clearly here. If you walk in the Spirit (of LOVE) you "mortify" (or kill) the sinful deeds of the body. Though your body is dead because of your sins you know that the same Spirit that now lives in you will "quicken" (or give life) to that body and you shall live, not according to the flesh, but according to the SPIRIT, killing the sin within the body. He re-iterates that if you continue to live "in the flesh" as he described in Romans 7 YOU WILL DIE! The children of error have washed over this part of the Gospel. They want us to believe that all we can hope for is forgiveness and grace as a result of the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ (in this life anyway) and that we are "forever sold under sin" in our mortal bodies. Nothing is farther from the truth, for the Holy Spirit of LOVE will bring you "living works" of righteousness (if indeed you live and abide in that Spirit) instead of "dead works of the flesh."

BELIEVING IS SEEING!
The first thing I'm confronted with by the children of error is the questions:

1. Do you know anyone who is living without sin? 2. If you believe this why do you say you still sin? Shouldn't you be perfect already? I have already answered their first question with another question earlier. Do they not know their own Christ? The scriptures say "he was tempted in all ways yet without sin." But, of course, they say he doesn't count because he was DIVINE! Once they go there, there's no turning back for them, they forever bar themselves from repeating Messiah's works, much less surpassing them (something he specifically promised they would do). While claiming to believe their Christ was "all God AND all man" they refuse to allow us to use him as the example of a perfect man, to hold him up and emulate him thusly so that we might follow him and what's worse call us heretics for doing so! They are in a sad state of affairs, truly! Their second question is far more simple to answer. Yes, indeed I SHOULD already be perfect! I say this to my shame! I make no excuses for my sin (as they have tried to do by blaming it on their flesh). I have no excuse other than I am not totally abiding in Messiah yet and not totally abiding in his love! I admit it, which is more than they will do. They will go to church and profess their undying devotion to their Christ and claim that he is "in charge of their lives" while their lives are still a mess full of sin! It is they that lie against the truth, not I. For I do not claim to have attained yet, and neither did the Apostles!

Phillipians 3: 12-21 "12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Messiah Y'Shua 13 Brothers, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth to those things which are before. 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Messiah Y'shua 15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing you are otherise minded, God shall reveal even this to you. 16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. 17 Brothers be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as you have us for an example. 18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the crucifixion of

Christ: 19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 20 For our conversations is in heaven: from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Y'shua Messiah: 21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like to his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things to himself."
We have a "hope" of perfection through Christ in us (the Holy Spirit of LOVE dwelling inward) and we do not shirk that hope by lying down. The children of error not only lie down but call those of us who move forward "heretics." It is they of whom the apostle wrote (even weeping) for they have nullified the crucifixion of Christ (and become the enemies of it) by their works which they believe are in the dark and of which they state openly that no one can see (not even God)! We press forward, knowing that at the end of our race we will snatch the prize, even a glorified sinless body, even as Christ was sinless and glorified! This is the good news (at least to those who hunger for this). The children of error want us to believe the BAD NEWS, that we can never attain and have no real hope of this glory (for only Christ could achieve it, being God incarnate)! There is set before you then two doors, good news or bad, which will you believe? I leave you now with this final thought. In Phillipians 4: 3 he says "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." He does not say "I can do all things except cease from sin." He says "all things." Either you believe the word or you don't! Shalom Jeffrey D. Dean, Sr.