# 024  Be Strong in the Lord and His Power 

Article By: Tom Demeter
http://www.repenttolive.com 

Our Fatal Flaw        

Dear Friend,    

This article is for Christians who already know, believe and tested themselves on the issue  that we  “can’t serve two masters” Mat.6:24, the “god of this world” 2Cor.4:4, and his system based on  “iniquity”  Mat.7:23, and our Creator  who’s system is based on His  “laws. “  This missive is to advance you to gain God’s power to help others.  

You will find that the biggest stumbling block to Christians is to believe the Bible.  They don’t believe it.   This is easy to see.  Ask  Christians if they believe that Christianity is “deceived”  Rev.12:9?   Then you can ask them if  THEY  are “deceived,” as the people were in Noah’s day Mat.24:37?   They will dismiss this question.   They are convinced that they are saved, converted, and have the Holy Spirit,  and filled with the Holy Spirit …  you will hear.  They are  not able to see that they are  saved, and  converted, and have a spirit all right, but that  spirit is  NOT  God’s  “holy spirit.”  

Christians are like the Jews, who have a “zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,” they left  “God’s righteousness” for  “their own” Rom.10:2,3.  They don’t see that as our Creator Eph.3:9 allowed Israel to “fall away,” also allowed the Christians to  “fall away,” too Rom.3:11, when He revoked the “holy spirit” from them, as He did from King Saul of Israel  ISam.16:14, and replaced it with the - seven angelic spirits of His seven churches Rev.2 &3, during  Nero’s reign.  This is when the Christians left,  “fell away”  from the Apostles’ teachings 2Jn.7;  3Jn.9,10, 2Tim.4:16 by turning God’s “grace” into “license” to do evil.   Christians joined Simon the magician’s church Acts.8, we now call Gnostics in the first century Acts.8:9, 18-20  a.k.a. the Catholic church.  

The Christians’ angelic spirit can’t distinguish between angelic, and God’s spirit, for they don’t see that the angelic spirits are  “little higher”  than our human spirit Heb.2:7,  but not as “hight” as God’s spirit, or Jesus,’ whose is “much better (higher) than the angels’ ” Heb.1:4.  This is why Christians can’t think like God Isa.55:8, only as the angels, which creates our conditions now as it was in Noah’s day Mat.24:37.  

The Power of God's Salvation     

To gain  God’s power,  His “holy spirit,” we must have God’ salvation, which is given to a  “few” in this age Mat.7:14.   “The way” you gain God’s salvatioin is very different from “the way” you gain salvation in today’s Christianity.  God’s salvation is a process, the “operation of God”  Col.2:12.  You have  qualifications  Mat.3:8.  Just to be a “disciple of Christ”  you must fulfill  Lk.14:26,27,33.  To do this you must take legal steps, to know what is  “good and evil,”  which requires you to know the “laws of flesh”  Rom.7:25 of the Old Testament, and the  “laws of faith”  Rom.3:27 of the New Testament.  Christianity of today is based on  “iniquity,” or lawlessness Mat.7:23,  they call  “grace.”   In God’s salvation’s  “grace”  is based on law Rom.3:24,  either of the “laws of flesh” or the “laws of faith.”   Why,  because “grace”  is forgiveness for  “sin,”  which is the disobedience to law,  “for sin is the transgression of the law”  IJn.3:4.  God’s salvation is based on a  “covenant” or “contract” we make with God, which is based on His laws.    

Salvation is a process, because it is   progressive   as we grow in “grace and knowledge”  2Pet.3:18.   We receive God’s “holy spirit”  progressively also.  First we receive the “earnest” of God’s holy spirit 2Cor.1:22, to “hear” His “call”  Jn.6:44.  Then we must  accept or reject His call, and   proved  to be “faithful,” as shown in the parable of the sower Mat.13:3-9, as  “disciples of Christ,”  “enduring” our conflicts with the world Mat.24:13, by  “obeying”  Christ’s directions as Noah did,  by “coming out” of this world Rev.18:4, that we may be “baptized” into one of God’s seven churches Rev. 2&3. 

We check our spiritual  “status,” and advancement,  and our  “identity”  by which covenant of God we keep.  In the Old Covenant  there is  NO salvation only its promise and physical blessings Deut.28.   In the  New Testament’s  covenant salvation is by  faith,  to  “born again”  through  “death”  at the  resurrection  Jn.3:3; ICor.15:52.  In Christ’s highest and newest  “Mystery  Covenant”  Eph.3:3 we “born again”  in  “this life,”  this is why we must be a  “living sacrifice”  for God Gal.2:20.   Here we experience now God’s  “reality,”  and  “made perfect”  in God’s sacrificial  love  Jn.15:13 in  this life  Mat.5:48; IJn.4:18.   This is why we will be in the resurrection  “without dying”  IThes. 4:17.   These are God’s Elect who will receive their  “rewards”  for their  “works”  at the resurrection Jam.2:22.   Satan’s salvation is   free!   God’s salvation requires your sacrifice of your life Mat.16:25!   We must also   “prove our work”   Gal.6:4,  and we will receive our rewards for our  “work”  at the time of our  resurrection Mat.16:27. 

So you see, by  understanding God’s true salvation, we see that the power and miracles  in the churches  are  “lying wonders”  2Thes.2:9, like those  of the  “Wicked” ones, the Biblical Beast and its False Prophet will do V.8, at the End of the World.  This is why these Christian prophets will say:  “Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name? … cast out devils?  … done many  wonderful  works?”  Jesus will say to them:  “I never knew you: depart from me, you that work   INIQUITY”  Mat.7:22,23,  not seeing the CONFLICT  between God’s laws and the world’s codes, not seeing Jn.6:63!  

This is why it is impossible to convert Christians,  unless  God “calls” them and gives them the “earnest” of His “holy spirit” that their spirit and mind could bridge the gap between our and the angels third and fourth dimension, to God’s fifth dimension.

The above information is new, it is the “restored” gospel of God Mat.17:11, promised for us to receive at the End of the World Mat.10:26; Acts.3:19.   This information was given to God’s   1^st Witness  of His   Two Witnesses  Rev.11:3.  

Satan’s  power is based on our innocent   IGNORANCE,  by God “hiding” from us, and the truth Mat.13:35 His  “Mystery,”  and by not giving us His “holy spirit,” only an angelic spirit of one of His seven churches.  By God  “hiding”  from us, caused our  “alienation” from Him Col.1:21 and death. Our  DEATH  gives us  FEAR  wanting to “save” our life not knowing how to “reconciliate”  to Him  Col.1:20.   In our limitations we are wide open to Satan’s power.    Add to this mix of our  “evil heart,” our human nature Jer.17:9, our evil  “spirit of man” ICor.2:11 makes us willing to kill others to save our physical life.  

God’s power is opposite to Satan’s, it is based on His “knowledge of salvation” Lk.1:77, and His  “laws of faith,” and the “laws of the spirit”  Rom.8:2, and His “holy spirit.”  God’s spirit and knowledge takes away   FEAR,  allowing us to be “strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might”  Eph.6:10, overcoming our  FEAR.   This is why we can be true Christians, who are willing to face the   CONFLICT   between God, and His Anti-god.  We are willing to “lose” our physical life, that we may progressively  “find”  eternal life. 

Our assurance of eternal life makes us to   LOVE   others sacrificially.  We are free to benefit others to help gain eternal life.  We see God’s power manifested not in the powerful physical works of nature, like the “wind, earthquake, and fire” but as it was shown to Elijah in a   “still  small  voice”  IKings.19:11,12.   We all would love to be able to walk on water as Peter Mat.14:29, or be  transported  like Philip Acts.8:40, or  heal all the sick  as Peter did when his shadow fell on the people Acts.5:14, or raise the dead, as Jesus did the made Mat.9:24, or when He raised Lazarus Jn.11:44.   These were all powerful miracles to benefit the   “flesh”  not God’s  “spirit”  in us. 

New Covenant Christians know that it is  “the  SPIRIT  that quickeneth: the ‘flesh’  profits nothing”  Jn.6:63!  We must give up the “flesh” to be spiritual.   The Anti-god’s prophets, and  God’s   2^nd Witness’  two Prophets will perform  “physical”   miracles to impress carnal people.  Christians will receive  “spiritual”   miracles, to help people be spiritual to gain eternal life.  Later, when there will be no water, food or shelter, God will perform physical miracles for us, that we could be in the resurrection without dying. 

As you see God’s  power  is the  spiritual  miracle  of  salvation!  This is why even in the Old Covenant we read: “love covers all sin” Prov.10:12.  This is why God’s character is defined as  LOVE   IJn.4:8!   Love is the fruit of God’s holy spirit  Gal.5:22, and must be applied properly, according to God’s  knowledge of salvation Lk.1:77.   Love  miss-applied  turns into a   “curse,”  which Satan tempts us with, to kill and destroy us.   Our individual and world conditions proves this.  The absence of law is “iniquity,” or the misapplication of law   KILLS  US,   but the spirit gives life 2Cor.3:6.  

We gain God’s power, love progressively, as we are willing to give up, “sacrifice” our life, to obey  God’s  “laws,”   in the  CONFLICT  with  “iniquity,” lawlessness of the Anti-god,  which God created for us Isa.45:7 that we may learn His sacrificial loveJn.15:13.