God loves us so much that He sent Jesus to make the way for us to become His children. And not just His creation. I really hope people that listen to my messages are seeing this. And anyone else that reads the Bible consistently.
God loves to do justice. And main emphasis on Biblical justice is deliverance. So delivering us from death to life by delivering us from the mortal fleshly state in which He made Adam, so that men can have a personal and intimate relationship with Him, which is the abundant life that Jesus said He came to give us, was and is and always has been God’s number one reason for making us the mortal flesh we are when we are born from our mother’s womb.
And because God never wants a forced or manufactured relationship with His creation. God’s desire for relationship with us is that any relationship He has with His creation must be voluntary.
And this is why us understanding the truth about free will is so vitally important. And is also why Satan wants men to believe they have no free will. So he sent men like Augustine of Hippo and the Roman Catholic Church of which he is the doctor of theology, along. With men like John Calvin and Martin Luther, to ensure it would be proclaimed so that its acceptance would be widespread.
This is why any relationship man is to have with God can only be had by way of a free will choice to trust in Him. This is why Jesus had to come. Because only by joining with man in our mortality and death could it be made possible for man to freely choose to join with Him in life and immortality.
A free will choice that is part of the image of God that every man is made in by God. An insurance policy that makes God’s judgment of mankind possible. This is why God hates sin. Because it enslaves men to the works salvation message proclaimed by these imposters.
Because without free will a just judgment by God of man’s choices is not possible. Because without free will man’s choices would not be his own. But, simply the result of his pre programming.
This deliverance then is the justice of God. Defined for us in Judges2:16 where we are told about how and why Israel was delivered over and over again. After having whored after other gods and being taken slaves by those nations who worshipped the same false gods. Israel cried out to God for deliverance.
It was then that God would do what He loves to do by raising up a judge to deliver Israel from the hand of her oppressors. By lifting up the oppressed in this way God gave a shadow of His plan to deliver mankind when Jesus would come.
This justice is our pathway to God now. We can know Him now in this dispensation in a way that was never possible for any other people who lived before us. This dispensation is therefore the culmination of God’s plan for mankind from before He made the wolrd.
Because only now has it been made possible by the death and resurrection of Jesus that whenever a man hears the gospel and turns from his idols to trust in Jesus and His resurrection he is immediately changed.
He becomes the “new creature” of 2Cor.5:17. A man who like Jesus who went before him has a natural body with a spirit created by God when he trusts in Jesus that he never had before.
This spirit created in him makes him God’s child. No longer just a part of God’s creation. But, an actual spiritual child of God who by this creation is made ready to inherit God’s kingdom.
This is the process Satan is fighting so hard to stop. This is the seed war Satan is fighting as he attempts to convince you that what he has to offer is better than what God has for us.
He puts what he is offering in as attractive a container as possible. So that you will be distracted from the poison inside by what looks so good on the outside.
Whether it’s riches or fame or even family or church, Satan will pervert it to hide the poison inside so that you will not recognize it. Jesus called this the “cares of this life, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desire for other things.
When we are convinced that any of these are the greatest good we have been deceived into taking Satan’s poison. And as we live in that choice we suffer its effects a little more each day. Until at the end of our natural life we find ourselves completely consumed by the deception.
But, Jesus came so that men would not be deceived. And that by reason of use of the word of God they would recognize Satan’s lies when they come as Heb.5:14 points out.
The attractive package has no draw for us. Because we have believed Jesus when He said “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father except through me.”
We believe Jesus when He says God is a Spirit. And those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.” And when Jesus says “You must be born again. Because what is born of the flesh is flesh. And what is born of the Spirit is spirit.” And Paul when he says “Flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of God.”
And it’s not because the flesh is evil as the sin nature doctrine proclaims that it can not inherit God’s kingdom. It’s because only spirit can. And flesh is not spirit.
Naughty and nice have nothing to do with what qualifies a man for God’s kingdom either. That idea is one of those things Satan wraps up in what is attractive to the flesh to deceive us into taking that poison.
God’s kingdom is a spiritual kingdom that is only inhabited by those who are spiritual. So anyone who wants to go there must first choose to trust in Jesus and by that be born again. Made a spiritual being by a spirit created in us because we have trusted in Him.
All this has been made possible because Jesus came to set the captives free. To set those who were captive to mortal flesh free from its earthly shackles. Shackles that connect men to the natural world around them through the natural God given senses the flesh has always been limited by from the time God made Adam saying it was “very good”.
And as I said before God did things this way so that free will would determine where man would spend eternity. Free will would decide for man who he would believe in. Free will would be the means by which the spirituality God would create in us would be decided.
And in the end man’s free will choice concerning who he will believe determines the god/God he will spend eternity with. Because of free will we go with the god/God we choose. Whether through natural means. Or by spiritual.
So when Jesus tells us that no man comes to Him except first the Father draws him he means exactly that. He means that because it is not God’s will that any man should perish. And because He came so that all men might have life and that life abundantly. That all men at one point or another in their lifetime are drawn by God to trust in Jesus.
And when he is drawn by the Father to trust in Jesus it is then that his free will comes into play to determine where he will spend eternity. Because being drawn to Jesus by the Father means he hears the gospel. The gospel that alone is able to make men spiritual beings.
He hears from Paulin Rom.1 that in the gospel is the power of God for salvation. He hears from Jesus that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that whosoever will believe in Him should not perish. But will have everlasting life.
And he hears the good news that Jesus did not come into the world to condemn the world. A truth restated by Paul in 2Cor.5:19 as the ministry of reconciliation that every believer has been called into.
Showing us that naughty and nice have nothing to do with why men need Jesus. But, rather that the world would be saved through faith in Him and His resurrection. By being made a spiritual being by the spirit God creates in us that no man has ever had when we were born from our mother’s womb.
This is the deliverance God loves to do. This is the justice of God. Lifting up those who are oppressed of Satan. And putting down the oppressor who is Satan. By making men who will choose of their own free will to trust in Jesus spiritual beings that are by God’s creative power made children of God and heirs to His kingdom.
Do you see now what God really hates about sin? And how He has made it possible for our deliverance from its power to enslave us when we trust in Him?
If you can now see your need for God’s justice. Because His justice is deliverance from natural death to spiritual life. And from mortality to immortality. And if you want to have the eternity that Jesus came to provide for all men. All you need to do is trust in Him and His recurrection now.
Paul said that if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus. And believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead. You shall be saved. Do this and you will be made a child of God and heir to His kingdom. Do this… and I will see you there or in the air!
