NOT TO BE ONE OF THEM

 

ONE OF THE OTHERS

 As I wrote in my last commentary, we are “one of them” referring to the beasts. Jesus referred to the “Beast” as the “Devil”:

You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it” (John 8:44)

The word “father” in that passage is highly significant. He does not suggest physical contact or Satan entering us as he did Judas, but that genetically, the common man from the first “man” Lucifer. Lucifer is the “Devil” and “Satan” is his nature.

We are all born adversaries of God. None of us are born “Adam’s” and neither was Cain. Cain was of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12) and so are we. Our kind is not man but the “beast” Cain whose father was the Devil wrongly portrayed as “The Serpent.” Cain was in the image of his father, the “Devil” and by now after many generations, everyone is born “iniquitous” (Psalm 51:5), or wicked.

David implied that he was born a “beast” and as such David was the “son of Cain” and the “son of the Wicked One” because he had the genetics of the old creature.

David was one of them in that he too was an alien being and contrary to God. The evidence of that is that David lied like the Devil when he fornicated with Bathsheba and framed her husband, Uriah, for what he himself had done. David had Uriah murdered. The genetic father of David was Cain who was a murderer from the beginning, like his father the Devil.

You are born with potential. If left unchecked, you too would lie and murder. You too are one of them! The blood of the “old creature” runs in your veins and your genetic nature is like the Devil.

Whenever you sin, you defy God. Sinning is easy; it is part of your heritage. What can you do to change the genetics of the Wicked One that you inherited? You can do nothing; you are one of them by birth. Even if you never sin, you have still sinned! Sin runs in your genetics and is called “original sin,” thus implying that your nature is to sin. The only way for sin to cease is to become a new creature in Christ.

If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new, and all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation. (2 Cor 5:17-18)

Note that Paul wrote that reconciliation is by Jesus Christ alone. He wrote, “If any man be in Christ,” not If any man be into himself or anybody else. In other words, only Christ can change you because the problem within is that you are one of them; you are a beast unless you are in Christ.

“Reconciliation” is being restored in harmony with some Thing. Adam was in harmony with God, and all mankind if they expect to be part of the new creation, must be in harmony with God.

Adam had dominion over the other beasts (Gen 1:26). “Dominion” therein is literally “crumbled;” from what? The Image of God (Gen 1:27).

We are beasts in the manner of the fish of the sea, the fowl, cattle and creepy crawling things. They had not crumbled from the Image of God. Adam’s kind was the elect before foundation of the world (Ephes 4:1), not the other animals nor even the angelic kingdom; only mankind was of the righteous, glorious genetics of God.

Sin edited the righteous genetics of mankind and made our kind as the beasts. Whereas God breathed life unto Adam, Lucifer breathed the life from Eve, and she mothered the son of the Wicked One. Cain was half man, half beast taking after his sinful mother and wicked father, and as one of those living creature; and we too are one of them.

We cannot correct who we are. Trying to be good to change yourself is blasphemous against God. Until modern times, only father God from above could born you again (John 3:70, but now mankind have become gods as Lucifer reminded Adam’s kind (Gen 3:5).

Science can and will be able to change your flesh, but they can never change your soul (Mat 10:28). They can never make you righteous in the sight of God because their “Unknown God” is limited in power. Science is only limited to the knowledge of mankind, and as far as anyone knows, science does not believe in souls and as such have not ventured into that unknown world. In fact, “science” applies only to objective things.

The angel, Gabriel, told Mary, “That ‘Holy Thing’ which shall be born of you shall be called ‘The Son of God.’” Gabriel meant that Jesus would not be crumbled from God but would be the whole Image of God.

A “genome” is a composite of all the genetics that reside in an individual. It is the whole individual. Jesus was wholly God in Spirit and Truth (John 4:24); truth being objectivity. The “Object,” or House of God, was Jesus and within the House of God was the Spirit of God. So, when anyone looked at the Body of Christ that was objective proof that the Spirit of God was within Jesus in bodily shape (Luke 3:22).

To humble ourselves and let the Lord lift us up (Jas 4:10) is the process of rebirth. We are not gods, and we are not even Adam’s kind; we are beasts. However, unlike creeping beasts, we have potential. We stand upright already, so all that is missing is to be upright. God takes us beasts and stands us morally erect like Himself. That process is rebirth (aka as “born again” or “regeneration”). Before we stand upright, first our souls must be upright. Rebirth is born of the Spirit, and full regeneration is born again of the flesh at the general resurrection of the dead.

James wrote about how to be born again; it begins with humility… admitting, “I am one of them.”

Since you are born a beast, you will always be a beast unless there is some Being that has the Power to change who you are. Your entire identity is encoded within your DNA. Because some of Yahweh sill resides in you, you are worth saving, albeit only a small bit.

Somehow the Power of God takes that small amount of Himself in you and re-engenders all your DNA from that small crumble. How so? God makes the sick “made whole” again (John 5:6). The Word of God does make sense and if we were totally depraved, then God would not have the incentive to restore what does not belong to Him.

God is “above” in the sense that He is not right here. However, God is always with us and called “Emanuel” for that reason. He is not with us in body but in Spirit in the bodily shape of the God Personage, Jesus (Luke 3:22).

The Holy Ghost (Acts 2) came onto people of all nations: “It shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the Name of the Lord shall be saved” (Acts 2:21). Shall be, will be, might be, or have even have been is not in the original Greek. However, based on God’s Truth, we “should be” saved, so the best interpretation in context of the Greek sosos is “safe.” Safe until when? Until the resurrection.

Probably, the most dangerous belief ever is that you are already saved; or made whole again. “Wholeness” is like Jesus in every respect. To be completely like Jesus, we must undergo death and resurrection. One must die to be born again!

The Way should be obvious; it must be by the Name of the Lord. The Lord God in the flesh is called “Jesus” — “Ya Saves” so that is the Name by which anyone can be saved.

Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by Him does this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:1-12)

Josephus spoke of twenty-four men named “Jesus” at that time. Acts spoke of a specific person named “Jesus”: 

·         From Nazareth.

·         The one that was crucified.

·         One that was resurrected.

·         The one to whom they saw standing there.

·         He was the “Rock,” not Peter or anyone else. (Peter was “pebbles” who crumbled from the “Rock” of salvation.) 

Peter ended identifying which man by saying, “Neither is there salvation in any other.”  You are one of them, as was Peter who denied Jesus thrice.

Peter could not safe himself but trusted Jesus to do so. Peter confessed that he was not the “Rock” to which Jesus referred (Mat 16:18) but that Jesus was the Rock, or Cornerstone, on which the Church would be built. So, who to trust? Peter the “Pope” or Jesus the “Rock” from which all Christians are crumbled?

The Name is “Jesus” not “Peter” by which your soul will be saved. When? At the end of your faith (1 Pet 1:9). Us beasts must endure to the end to be saved (Mat 24:13).

Sure, Jesus spoke to the Jews, but there is “One Lord, one faith, one baptism” (Ephes 4:5) wherein one can be saved.

Not even water is saving but the “Living Water” from the belly of Jesus (John 7:38) Water baptism, regardless of what is said, is still not the Spirit from the Holy Thing called “Jesus.” It is the ”no other thing” by which you cannot be saved.

Until born again, you are one of them. Until the resurrection with a new body, you will still look like one of them outwardly but inwardly, you should be like Jesus.

Only you know who you are inside that flesh of skin. Is it the flesh you adore and adorn or is it the Spirit of God within? To be not one of them, you must be truly born again, and that begins with what is in you. You are to be the “other” holy thing that God has made.