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God's True Salvation # 2 of 2
Why Christ's Sacrifice is Needed
May 12, 2003 Dear Friend, In the previous newsletter I discussed why Christians need salvation, and that salvation is a process, which requires that we grow into "perfect love," by choosing life. Now you are ready to know why Christ's sacrifice is needed for your salvation, and why YOUR SACRIFICE is needed for your and other's salvation. We all must learn, how to learn God's love, by expanding our sacrifice to live now, in God's Kingdom. I hope that you agree that "God's way" of life requires you to sacrifice, as righteous Abel sacrificed when he approached God. I pray that you agree that you must be RE-BAPTIZED by one of God's Elect, that you may have eternal life in you, because you are like the people in Noah's day as Jesus said Mat.24:3. The people were without God's holy spirit, thus no eternal life was in them. Pentecost came 2000 or so years after the flood and Noah. The holy spirit was not available, and it is still not available to the "MANY" in the first sixth thousand years God planed for the dispensation or age of evil. If you disagree, you believe that when you die, you don't die, like all the churches, but pass on to an eternal existence without the "resurrection." You believe the false "immortality of the soul" and the "trinity" doctrines of the Anti-god. You do not know or disregard the Old Testament, the teachings of Jesus, also our resurrected Christ and Apostle Paul's. You "elevated" yourself above God, making yourself God, before its time. This is an irreversible error, because you dispensed the need for Christ's sacrifice. You got rid of the need for "death" and the "resurrection," to gain eternal life God's way! If you not "accept" Christ's sacrifice for your sins, you must DIE an "eternal death" Mat.10:28. This is what God has made known in His mystery revelations Eph.3:3. If you have no eternal life in you in this age, when you die, God will "resurrect" you to a physical life again to be a "carnal,"temporary man that you may have a chance to "accept" Christ's sacrifice, of death for your sins, by being "re-baptized," to accept the holy spirit of Christ, gaining faith to receive eternal life through the resurrection. If you "reject" God's call, to be "re-baptized" to receive God's holy spirit and His mystery, or His plan of salvation to eternal life, Christ will have to "deny," and "reject" you also before the Father Mat.10:33. This is when "it is impossible for those who were once enlightened , and have tasted of the heavenly GIFT, and were made partakers of the holy spirit, Ö the powers of the world to come, if they fall away, to renew (save) them to REPENTANCE", eternal life Heb.6:4-6. Paul tells us why. "If they fall away they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put Him to an open shame"V.6. This is when people choose to die an eternal death Mat.10:28. If you are a Christian now, and you are not "re-baptized" by one of God's Elects, you don't have the holy spirit of God, or eternal life in you Mat.24:37. If you sin you must pay its price of temporary death. To bridge the gap, between temporary life and eternal life, you can't do it alone. You have no power in you to resurrect yourself. This is why God "preordained" your resurrection before creation ITim.2:9. God must pay the price for your sin with His death, for God has only the power of "resurrection," neither you or the angels have it! This is why God our Father must substitute God's, Christ's death for yours, that you may gain eternal life, through the resurrection ICor.15:52. If you reject Christ's sacrifice, you reject God's system, denying yourself eternal life! You must die for your sins eternally, without the hope of the resurrection, and eternal life! This is how you can commit the "un-pardonable sin" Heb.6:4-6. Your Sacrifice is Also a Must You can only "reject" God's sacrifice, when you have God's holy spirit, or only after your baptism, by one of God's Elects. The churches baptism is only like the baptism of John the Baptist was, preparatory and is required, but not enough. Once you are "baptized" by God's holy spirit, you better not "fall away,"or you will lose your eternal salvation. This is why you must make all effort to be "lead by God's holy spirit"to be a "Son of God"Rom.8:24 As long as you are willing to obey and follow God, and not give up, God will work with you, to make you "perfect"in His love. If you give up and not willing to "endure" your trials, God gives up on you too. God's salvation is a difficult and narrow road Mat.7:14. It requires God's sacrifice of His life for yours, and also your sacrifice, to show God, that you have His sacrificial love, by loving others, as He did you Mat.16:25; Jn.15:10,12, 13, 17; Phil.1:29. Your sacrifice is needed, because this is how you "perfect" your flesh and your spirit 2Cor.7:1. God will give you strength, to sacrifice yourself. This is why all the saints were able to give up and die as martyrs. They were able to "endure" being burned at the stake, ripped apart, beaten, tortured, beheaded and so on. This is how God qualified them to rule over their abusers, as priests and kings UNTIL they also are "made perfect" through God's process of salvation ICor.15:25. Your sacrifice is also needed for the salvation or "reconciliation"of the angels. The angels of God, are also "cut off"or "alienated" from God, by God not giving them His holy spirit. As our Father with the voluntary cooperation of Christ, sacrificed Him on the cross, for our salvation and reconciliation to Him, now God is using the same process with you, for the angels' salvation. Now, you are the sacrificial lamb of God, in the angel's salvation, as Jesus was for ours Rev.13:8; Phi.1:29; Col.1:24. You only have a choice how you sacrifice yourself. Either you will offer it voluntarily, or in-voluntarily. If you cooperate with God, you can be a "living sacrifice" like Paul and the saints were Gal.2:20. This allows you to become perfect while you live, and be in the resurrection without dying ICor.15:52. If you do it in-voluntarily, you must die as the saints did Rev.6: 9-11. This martyrdom of the saints will begin at the End of the "sixth seal"or after God's Second Witnesses will be killed by the Beast, the Anti-christ Rev.11:7. This is why we are told that the "tribulation" will be the "First WOE, to the inhabiters of the earth and the sea! For the Devil is come down unto you"Rev.12:12. I wondered why God's salvation was not explained in the churches, until I started to discover the difference between God's "mystery"given to Paul Eph.3:3, and Satan's "mystery of iniquity" given to the churches 2Thes.2:7. Without God's revelations neither mystery can be discovered. This is why Jesus promised that at the End of the World, there will be "nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and HID, that shall not be KNOWN Mat.10:26. God will not reveal this to every one, only to the "few"Mat.7:14, and to the "wise" of God only Dan.12:10. The rest of the world, will be sacrificed as the people were in the days of Noah Mat.24:37. Knowing God's mystery, and some of the Anti-god's mystery makes you the "wise of God" in this age. Others must follow you, as people had to follow Noah to escape the flood, or Lot to escape the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. You are like Joseph, whom God sent to Egypt, to prepare a place for His people Israel to be saved from the famine in the land. You are called by God, to be an Elect of God, not because you are so great, or because God loves you more than those who will die, but to love all of us. The Process to Learn God's Love God Is not the god you know. Your ideas about God are based on "fables,"learned in the churches ITim. 1:4. This is why you need to study the Bible, God's mystery, Paul's gospel to get to know God Rom.2:16. God is a loving God. Apostle John summed up His character by saying that "God is love" IJn.4:8. The problem is that we are human, not God. We are not capable to know God's love, until we are baptized. This is why we need to learn, how to love God, which is a process. Once we know God's plan of salvation, we realize that to LOVE God is to "reverence," worship God, like a wife supposed to her husband, putting him first in her priorities and activities Eph.4:33, including herself and her children. To do this is a "sacrifice." When the sacrifice is given, more "knowledge" is revealed to you about God. This gives you extra "power" to start the process or the cycle again. This is why learning to love God is a process. When you love God more, you receive "blessings" that you may not need to live under the "curses" given to Adam and Cain for sinning. Blessings bring "wisdom" which will manifest itself in "abundance." If you handle your assets with diligence it becomes "wealth," allowing you to love others increasingly more. The cycle repeats that you may grow continually to be "perfect," to be limitless as God is. Your blessings and power is not to enlarge you in this life, but to give you power to sacrifice this life for eternal life. Once you are willing to give up, all what you have Lk.14:26,27,33 and change from the "world's, Satan's way"to "God's way,"God will allow you to have more in this life also. This is true with the Elect, because God is USING them, to "restore" His authority, on the earth, and to prepare these to rule first in His kingdoms. They need to know how to handle God's assets for the benefits of others. Remember, that this life was created, not to enjoy it, but to sacrifice it. "Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God"ICor.15:50. If you aim to live it up, instead to "give up"this life, as required Mat.16:25 you are like the un-converted or the Gentiles Mat.6:30-32. This is how God is showing you, and advancing you from His "lower" carnal administrations, to the "higher"spiritual, and His mystery. Please read my articles on God's three different laws, and kingdoms. God will take care of you, by "supplying all your need, according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus" Phil4:19, "for He knows more what you need,"than you do yourself Mat.6:32. The closer you are to the end of your life, or the resurrection, the more you will want to give up, to free yourself to be ready for the resurrection. You might find, that God's physical blessings are hindering you, to receive God's more valuable eternal blessings. This is how you EXPAND by "sacrificing, and CONTRACTING to be ONE with God and with ALL of His creations ICor.15:28; Eph.1:10. Expand by Sacrificing Do you see why this LIFE was created, and DEATH that we could give it up, and sacrifice it? We "expand" our limited, and temporary life, not by becoming wise, wealthy, powerful in this world, conquering this world, but by willing to give up, this world and all its traps of holding us subject to it, and its limitations. This is why Satan's "this world"is a total opposite of Christ's world, which He will bring at this second coming. This is why Christ will need to completely "destroy" this world Mat.24:37;Jn.10:10 and "recreate" it for His millennial reign. You can't put new vine into old bottles Jesus warned us Mat.9:17. This world will be forgotten as the world was before the flood. This is why you must seek the Kingdom of God now, in anticipation of it coming. You do this by praying, learning and living by God's mystery, separating it from Satan's mystery. You are establishing God's "higher"power and Kingdom now, in your home Ekklesia, or Embassy of God. The system of God in God's millennial kingdom, will be the same. If you want salvation, to be eternal, you will have to "sacrifice"or "give up"your physical life. If you do it now, you will have a greater reward in the Kingdom of God, because to obey God, to give up this life now is much more difficult. God created our physical world, that we would see this pattern. Jesus said that a seed, unless it dies can't multiply itself, but if it DIED, it brings forth and multiply itself thirty, sixty and hundred fold Mat.13:8. This is why Jesus had to DIE, that the "comforter," the "holy spirit"could come Jn.16:7, that Jesus could multiply Himself, by starting Christianity. (If the holy spirit is a person, as the Trinity doctrine tells us, Christ can't multiply himself, preventing you to ever enter God's family, also called the "Godhead"Rom.1:20; Acts. 17:29; Col.2:9.) Jesus by DYING, MULTIPLIED himself. You also multiply yourself by dying. DEATH than is a "curse" a punishment, if you don't obey God. Dying is a "blessing" if you obey God. If you EXPAND your life now by sacrificing it, you do it for your eternal life too. You do it by putting it to death now! There is no substitute for death, and for the resurrection, in God's system of salvation. If you in some way eliminate the need to DIE, or to be resurrected, you prevented God's system to work, and eliminated your chances to gain eternal life, and Christ's function. This is the exact purpose of Satan's false doctrine of the Eternal Soul and the Trinity doctrine. You must eliminate these doctrines from your belief system, or religion. This is why you must "come out" of the churches of Christianity Rev.18:4, or you will be killed for it, with the rest of the world, as the people in Noah's day, by dying. Today, every Christian church believes these false doctrines, limiting life, of every Christian to this age of evil, preventing you to expand your life to the millennium, and to reach eternal life, like the Pharisees did in Jesus day Mat.23:13. Your salvation requires that you notify, WARN your fellow Christians of this very dangerous error, that they might have a chance to be protected by God and to be in the resurrection! This is how you love others. Salvation is through Faith You can't appreciate God's salvation, and the vital function of Christ in it, unless you know that salvation comes through FAITH! Apostle Peter tells us, that we are "kept by the POWER of God through FAITH unto salvation IPet.1:5. You have seen that salvation is a "gift"of God, being preordained before creation ITim.1:9. But God hidden His salvation, by not giving us His holy spirit, which is the source of our faith. Without faith we were not able to comprehend God's salvation, in spite that we were reading God's words. The scriptures were locked or "hidden" until NOW, and only now it is "revealed," at the End of the World Rev.10:7. This is why true salvation was "foolishness" to us as Paul said ICor.2:14, UNTIL now, at the very End of the World, and will be to the "many," until they will receive the holy spirit and faith! Jesus, our Christ had to DIE that the holy spirit could be released, and through it FAITH, that we would have the ability to believe in God's salvation, and change from Satan's. Jesus was the first who was raised from DEATH manifesting the power of God, over DEATH! Jesus resurrected, and "handled" by Apostle Tom Jn.20:28 is the physical reality of His eternal life. Christ is the "substance, of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen"of our resurrection Heb.11:1. Your resurrection, without being DEAD will be the "substance,"the "evidence"to the angels, of the reality of eternal life. When they will receive through us God's holy spirit, they will be assured of their eternal life like we are by Christ's. The angels being spirits, yet not having God's holy spirit, are blind to their salvation, as humanity is at this time. This is why they are afraid of Christ, knowing that their JUDGMENT is coming Mat.8:29. Yes, God can and will destroy some of the angels, unless they accept His sacrifice for them Mat.10:28. The angels also can commit the un-pardonable sin, like humans can. Faith is needed, by humans and by the angels, to overcome their FEAR with the POWER of FAITH, for we are told that the fearful and the unbelieving can't enter salvation, but the ever burning fire Rev.21:8. Summary God's salvation was hidden from us, as a "mystery" until now Rev.12:10, or until the very end of the age Rev.10:7. God planed that Christianity as the world would "fall away,"as Israel did, that we may experience evil, which God created Isa.45:7; Jn.8:44, that humanity and angel kinds may be "reconciliated"from their "alienation" through the "conflict"between "good and evil." Salvation is necessary, because God created humans and angels carnal, temporary. To bridge the gap between carnality and eternity, you can only do it by accepting the blood, the sacrifice of Jesus, our Creator Eph.3:9. Your sacrifice and work also needed, as Christ's is, because it is an essential part of God's overall process of salvation. God's salvation is "inclusive," it includes all humans (good and evil) and all angels (good and evil). The process of our salvation lifts humans and angels from death to life, and it takes place now for a "few," and to the "many" later in in God's future dispensations or ages. You can't come to God, unless He calls you, by giving you the "earnest"of His holy spirit. You must be re-baptized to receive God's holy spirit. The holy spirit gives you faith. If you act on your faith, to sacrifice your life, God will give you the ability, to comprehend God mystery, that you may gain God's sacrificial love. You gain God's love in stages. When you are "perfect" in God's sacrificial love, overcoming all your fears, with your faith, by willing to give up your physical life for eternal life, you are "perfect,"ready to be resurrected! God requires you, to love your fellow man, for you can't love God directly, only indirectly. God's process or operation of God Col.2:12 will go on, until we ALL will be given the opportunity to know God, and want to be ONE with Him. God is asking you, who has access to God's mystery, to choose LIFE, that you may love others. All other people, in all the other religions are waiting on YOU, who has access to God, because He "called" you. Now it is up to you, to want to be in God's kingdom, which is opposite to this world's kingdom, to love others. If you accept the call, God will keep you in His power, that you may gain eternal love, ever expanding to be more and more limitless as God is, gaining all His attributes to love others increasingly. This will allow your life to be more abundant, and valuable to others. You will gain power to attract others, having God's irresistible, sacrificial love in you. You will be lifted from human or angel kinds to the much higher "God kind." You will be a member of the "God head,"the family of God. Knowing God's salvation, and having God's power in you, you will make all effort to warn the world of the End of the World coming, and to "call" others, that they may be saved to be protected from the "curses"and the "plagues" of the Anti-god and God, destroying the earth. I pray that you "hear God's warning"as Noah did, that "you may enter" God's Kingdom religiously, legally and financially! To help you, look up my web site May Christ bless and protect you. In the reality of Christ's abundant eternal love, Tom Demeter *** |