Salvation-- and transgressing God's person and ways

PART 1

April 15th, 2023– The Gathering

Zoom Meetings

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First zoom meeting for ALL— and God wants to nail away SALVATION, and what it is truly, from scripture— NOT ‘religion.’

And we can all benefit from this— as it speaks VOLUMES about ‘discipline’ and OBEDIENCE [discipleship]— which is the topic God is on, and will be on— for quite some time.

As he keeps reminding me…

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“That is what the Son exemplified, bodily, when he walked this earth in his own ‘earth suit’ of flesh; we will continue to DISCIPLINE and DISCIPLE my little ones.

That is literally the ‘walk of’ the Son with the Father.

And if the Son, being ‘a son’ of God— came to serve the Father, as he tabernacled INSIDE, and IN HIS DEEDS— with the Father, and by the lead of the Father— then, sweet children…

This is what you are all to be doing as well.

As the SON CAME— to ‘show you the way.’

And he means to SHOW YOU THE WAY TO LIVE LIFE WITH THE FATHER, still yet.

As the Son came to show, ‘the other sons and daughters,’ as son means proverbially— ‘child of God’ —HOW TO ‘be’ A CHILD OF GOD.

He is the FIRST OF MY FRUITS— but there were to be MANY MORE [the next to follow in his ways], as my children FOLLOW HIM, and HIS EXAMPLE, WALK, and WAYS— straight to me; this is reconciliation to the God of heaven, this is salvation— being saved from DEATH— which is estrangement from me and my person.

And THIS— is required.

For it is required that if one REALLY

wants to be reconciled to me,

and come home to me forever—

one will REALLY—

‘walk as my Son walked with me,’

for he quite literally—

SHOWED THE WAY.

He showed the ‘path’ to you all, the way to conduct yourselves WITH GOD THE FATHER AT THE LEAD OF YOU, in what you see ME DO, and in what you HEAR ME SAY— ‘that—’ you FOLLOW.

So, the paths of the Lord— lead to the Father— fathering you all and leading you all in your ways and conduct; without this— you are ‘on your own path,’ and that— dear children— is disregarding salvation altogether.

For salvation, truly— is SAVING YOU FROM YOURSELVES— and self leadership— that is satan’s way.

Salvation is

COMING BACK UNDER A GOD—

ME, and my leadership of you

—NOT—

‘you,’ or satan.

Salvation— is RECONCILING to ME, the Father— and reconciliation means— ‘we make up, and come back into union,’ that’s RELATING ONE TO ANOTHER AGAIN— not estranged from one another.

Which— estranged means— ALIENATED; and the root definition, dear children, is— ‘not belonging to the family,’ STRANGERS TO ONE ANOTHER.

Which is why I will say, to most— “Depart from me, I never knew you;” because FAMILY, KNOWS FAMILY.

Family is ‘like,’ and I have only one way, and my children have only one way about them— as well— for they are SEEDED BY ME.

And I LOVE YOU, and desire for you to REPENT, which is TURN AROUND COMPLETELY AND SEE ME AGAIN— return to caring about me, my heart, and living with me → MY WAY, with MY SPIRIT LEADING YOU— for I DESIRE ‘you!’

But I need you to SEE THIS ESTRANGEMENT, and RETURN TO THE FAMILY— and my kingdom, and my family— are a PECULIAR PEOPLE, they don’t look like the world, or how it operates— they are QUITE— set apart; which means— entirely DIFFERENT, and STRANGE— compared to the common culture, norms, esthetics, ethics and conduct of.

Do you understand

ESTRANGEMENT NOW?

It is to be ‘strangers with;’ so, I am requiring you become strangers with, or unto the WORLD— and become INTIMATE with me again— this is becoming UNIFIED and MARRIED to God again, becoming my seedling child.

1 Peter 2:9-10

“A chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness— into his marvelous light; 10 Which in times past— you were not a people— but are now the people of God: who had not obtained mercy— but now have obtained mercy.”

My children will LOOK and OPERATE ‘differently’ from the world, and they will not seek after ‘their own;’ which means, their own desires in this lifetime, their own ways, their own intelligence, or leading of their own decisions.

They will KNOW— they have been ‘bought’ and are ‘owned,’ and with a HIGH PRICE that was paid → FOR— their Salvation; which, again— is the PRIVILEGE to RETURN TO FATHER GOD and YOKE UP WITH ME.

I do NOT ‘yoke with’ satan, or satanic ways— and I will seek to SEVER YOU FROM ‘him,’ AND FROM— ‘his ways;’ for that is ‘another path,’ that I do not traverse.

I love you children— hear what the Spirit is saying, and has SAID— time and time again— in The Words of God, in scripture.”

—Father, your God

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Salvation verses:

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James 2:14-26

“What does it profit— my brethren— though a man say he has faith— and has not works [deeds/actions]?

Can faith save him??

15 If a brother or sister is naked, and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them— Depart in peace, be warmed and filled; notwithstanding you give them not those things which are needful to the body; [you give them nothing, but say— Go, and be well] → what does it profit them?

[how does that person leave— any better off??]

17 Even so [or, like that story]

→ faith— if it has not works

→ is dead— being alone.

18 Yes, a man may say—

You have faith, and I have works:

show me your faith without your works

→ and I will show you my faith → BY my works.

[this is faith in God, being one’s God—

proved— by one’s life actions]

19 You believe that there is one God

→ you do well [to believe this]:

but

→ the devils also believe, and tremble.

[His point being— they believe in him too— but they DO NOT REVERENCE HIM, or HONOR HIM— yet, they TREMBLE AT HIS HIGH RULE, as God over ALL THINGS; we ought to see him and TREMBLE TOO, by the ways in which WE LIVE.]

20 But— will you know— Oh vain man,

That → faith without works is dead?

21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

22 Do you see how faith—

wrought with his works, and by works [actions]—

was faith made perfect?

23 And the scripture was fulfilled which said— Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

[He just said— Abraham trusted God, and believed he was leading him rightly— so he FOLLOWED THROUGH— and brought Isaac to sacrifice his life; and THAT FAITH— was walking in righteousness with God.

THAT FAITH— earned him the title: Friend of God.

Do we walk as God’s friend,

trusting in his lead with

SUCH GRAVITY of LIFE-SACRIFICE, too??

OUR VERY OWN LIVES—

offered up to serve and follow him,

his orders, his statutes, precedents and rule in our lives—

becoming living epistles, ourselves??

Which means—

We have become living bibles,

walking life out with God, PROPERLY—

in relationship with him— as scripture said to.]

24 You see then— how that,

by works— a man is justified,

and not by faith only.

[We CANNOT cherry pick bible verses— and make our own scripture, or salvation; FOLLOW THROUGH— is required.]

25 Likewise also— was not Rahab the harlot → justified by her works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

26 For as the body without the spirit is dead

→ so faith, without works → is dead also.”

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Philippians 2:12

“Wherefore, my beloved— as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only → but now much more in my absence

→ work out your own salvation → with fear and trembling.”

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Romans 6

“What shall we say then?

Shall we continue in sin–

so that grace may abound?

[definition abound– exist in large numbers or amount;

root definition— OVERFLOW.]

2 God forbid.

How shall we,

who are dead to sin,

live any longer therein it?

3 Do you not know— that so many of us, as were baptized into Jesus Christ → were baptized into his death?

4 Therefore —we are buried with him, by baptism into death: that like/as Christ was raised up from the dead— by the glory of the Father— even so we also should walk in the newness of life.

5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death— we shall be also → in the likeness of his resurrection:

6 Knowing this [or, meaning → THIS] → that our old man is crucified with him [our old ways → DIED], that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth → we should not serve sin.

[For, to serve sin means— to DO SIN.]

7 For he that is dead → is freed from sin.

[He just gave a prerequisite to being FREE FROM SIN → one must be DEAD to the old man with, and in Christ → FIRST.]

8 Now if we be dead with Christ—

we believe that we shall also live with him:

9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead—

dies no more; death has no more dominion over him.

[Okay, if we are dead to the old man, and have altogether, THROUGH CHRIST, been recreated— living AS A NEW PERSON who resembles Christ— then, we are NOT DEAD ANYMORE, for Christ is ALIVE—

and we are to ‘live within him.’

Scripture just said you MUST LIVE WITH HIM;

and he only lives ONE WAY, and that is not the common man way.

THEN— if we live ‘with him–’ HIS WAY, by HIS LEAD—

THEN, death has no more dominion over us.

And DEATH— is SIN, and SIN IS DEATH; meaning— sin is transgressing God and his person, and ways— and that brings DEATH; and DEATH— is being a ‘stranger to God holy,’ and being ESTRANGED FROM GOD HOLY— takes one to final separation: hell, and the Lake of Fire.]

10 For in that he died— he died unto sin, once: but in that he lives— he lives unto God.

[Okay, he just said— Y’all, Yahshua DIED TO SIN ONCE,

and WAS DONE with SIN!

WE— are supposed to have learned and walked this too; not that you will NEVER transgress God— but you were supposed to TURN FROM ‘desiring’ TO FOLLOW ANOTHER’S WAYS, and transgress God →

with SERIOUS EFFORTS.

We were supposed to DIE TO SIN, ONCE, and FOR ALL— like Christ;

because if we are living ‘out of him,’ from HIS PERSON—

he died to sin, once, and for all.

And with that— HE NOW LIVES ‘unto’ God.

Which means— he lives to serve God, his way, and his person.

HAVE WE???]

11 Likewise— reckon yourselves also → to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

[When one says— “reckon yourselves” —that means,

take care of this, yourselves— too, DO YOU??]

12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body,

that you should obey it —in the lusts thereof.

13 Neither yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

[Yield yourselves, means— give yourselves over to God,

and be instruments of RIGHTEOUSNESS.]

14 For sin shall not have dominion over you →

for you are not under the law— but under grace.

[I hope we understand this is saying—

“You are not under the penalty of trying to live, doing EXACTLY as the old law covenant; you were given a NEW COVENANT— which is a new marriage agreement— and with that, you are to OBEY THE LORD NOW.

And with that— HE DOES NOT SIN, or LIVE THAT WAY—

and when you LIVE WITH HIM, OUT OF HIS PERSON—

you will have ‘instruments,’ or be members of

RIGHTEOUSNESS TOO— and you will be UNDER HIS GRACE.”

His Grace— is a person, like the high and holy King;

and as we approach him, we honor the king— “HIS, Your GRACE.”

Salvation— is a person— and he has a way.]

15 What then?

Shall we sin—

because we are not under the law,

but under grace?

God forbid.

16 Do you not know— that to whom [devil or God] you yield yourselves servants to obey → his servants you are —to whom you obey; whether of sin —unto death, or of obedience— unto righteousness [or life]?

[Can we see that OBEDIENCE TO HIM,

and his ways and rule— is REQUIRED, in salvation?

Or— we are instruments of UNRIGHTEOUSNESS,

who walks in covenant with DEATH—

and one in league with DEATH—

does not live in, or from

→ the TREE OF LIFE, which is God.

We cannot mince scripture, or the truth up— and expect God to bend to our twisted interpretations of: there is ONE GOD, ONE SPIRIT, and ONE WAY— and few find that path— because few are actually looking to find HIM.]

17 But God be thanked— that you WERE → the servants of sin, but now

→ you HAVE OBEYED → from the heart —that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

[He just said— you WERE transgressors, but then

You were given the doctrine that explained all this to you, and you started to OBEY, FROM THE HEART— and so, NOW, you DO NOT SERVE (or practice) → SIN, anymore.]

18 Being then made free from sin

→ you became the servants of righteousness.

19 I speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as you have yielded your members servants to uncleanness, and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now → yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

[He’s saying— I have to tell you all this, in DETAIL, because of your sinning and iniquitous ways (that’s CONTINUED IN SINNING) —but NOW, give yourselves to God holy— and live RIGHTEOUSLY WITH HIM LEADING YOU, and REFORMING YOU INTO HIS IMAGE AGAIN— in ‘all’ your ways.]

20 For when you were the servants of sin—

you were free from righteousness.

[To be ‘free from righteousness,’ is to be a current sinner; but to be RECONCILED TO RIGHTEOUSNESS (and he’s a person, and his ways) —is to be RECONNECT TO LIVING WITH GOD HOLY, and LIKE HIM.

Are we bound to SIN, or RIGHTEOUSNESS; for a ‘bond,’ is for ETERNITY— when concerning sin and righteousness.]

21 What fruit did you then have—

in those things— whereof you are now ashamed?

For the end of those things is death.

22 But now— being made free from sin, and having become servants to God → you have your fruit (product of your living) unto holiness, and the end (or result)—everlasting life.

23 For the wages of sin is death

→ but the gift (given to us) of God → is eternal life

→ (and that comes) through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

[In order to receive ‘the gift,’ and he’s a person, the person of the Holy Spirit to live with, and become one with— forever— one must STEP INTO LIFE, and come out of DEATH (which is sinful living) —and THEN, ONE HAS ENTERED ‘life,’ for it is found— IN CHRIST JESUS.]

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What is Salvation then?

What have we been ‘saved from?’

What and Whose PATH are we following now?

Who’s leading us in our ways— which is our path?

Has God been made Most High in our lives?

That means— ordering our steps.

Are we making decisions all day long, without regarding his lead, opinion or what his person conducts himself in?

Because, we are bought with a price— we are OWNED, if we are ‘in’ him.

And owned vessels, have an owner— and that owner is to be having the say in what that vessel does— or where it goes, or what it looks like, etc.

Are we shoving things down the throat of God,

in his vessel that is his now??

Literally, or spiritually speaking.

Are we doing whatever we please, eating, partaking in, walking life out however we please, whilst stating—

“this is your vessel, your life to use however you so see fit, sir;” are we taking in things into our vessel that he owns— that he does NOT want to partake in— or does NOT conduct his person doing??

Because if so, we need to REEVALUATE; we are supposed to RETURN TO HIS LEAD, HIS IMAGE, HIS WAYS, HIS CONDUCT— and we are not supposed to force him (he’s in here too, with us) to partake in DRUNKENNESS, DRUG ABUSE, LYING, CHEAT’N, STEAL’N, ADULTERY, FORNICATIONS, IDOLATRY (anything more important than him, taking up our time, focus and heart), etcetera and so on.

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1 Corinthians 6:9-20

“Do you not know— that the unrighteous [Strong’s— unjust, wicked and treacherous]— shall not inherit the KINGDOM of God??

Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners—

shall inherit the kingdom of God.”

[Strong’s definitions for above verse]

fornicators— debauched prostitutes who sell (committing) sex before marriage

idolaters— worshipers of an image & servant to it— so, not God

adulterers— apostates— so, cheaters & hypocrites

effeminate— soft catamite, which means— homosexual

abusers of self with humans—

one’s who defile themselves, like Sodomites

thieves— those who steal and defraud

covetous— people desirous and eager for gains

drunkards— tipsy sots, which means— habitual drunkard

revilers— mischievous, railer, abusive

extortioners— ravening rapacious,

which means— aggressively greedy

11”And such WERE some of you: BUT— you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified —in the name of [that’s the reputation of] the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.”

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Let’s define these words now— WERE, is self explanatory, but for sake of continuity— it defines a FORMER STATE OF BEING, one that is NO LONGER WALKED IN or LIVED OUT— the sinning has ceased, and one is walking uprightly with God now.

Let’s see what Strong’s says about WASHED— it means REMITTED, which means— CANCEL, REFRAIN FROM, CONSIGN AGAIN TO A PREVIOUS STATE; root definition— RESTORE BACK.

So, here, God is saying— you will come out of a state of sinning, turning completely around and not walking that path or ways any longer, having ceased from those activities— and— you will have remitted, remain refrained from —those sins and activities now— and be RESTORED BACK TO YOUR PREVIOUS STATE OF GODLINESS → like you were created in, as/like God holy— before man fell.

And we will accomplish all this— by living out of, with and by— the Spirit of the Living God, becoming ONE WITH HIM: this is salvation— THIS IS WHAT HE SAVED US FROM—

being ESTRANGED.

Sanctified means— MAKE HOLY, PURIFY, CONSECRATE, HALLOW, VENERATE, which means— REGARD WITH RESPECT and REVERE (God and yourself in proper conduct of persons).

And Justified means— TO RENDER once again, INNOCENCE, RIGHTEOUS.

So, folks— can we see Salvation has many parts to it, and obedience and discipline UNDER GOD, WITH GOD, and IN GOD— is part of it all; for otherwise, WHAT WERE YOU SAVED FROM?

WHO WERE YOU SAVED FROM?

And better yet—

WHO DID YOU RETURN TO IN IMAGE,

TO LEAD YOU IN ALL YOUR WAYS,

and BECOME ONE WITH??

Because if we cannot answer those questions easily, BY THE SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD— ‘testifying inside’ THAT HE IS IN YOU, OWNS YOU, and you are OPERATING ‘like him’ again AS PROOF OF (we will hit on this at the end), BY HIS LEAD— and have become the NEW MAN, CREATED AFRESH, A TOTALLY DIFFERENT PERSON THAN WHO YOU WERE BEFORE….

Then, true salvation for you, may be an issue— as you may have remained the ‘same,’ changed not— and were led to believe in ‘religion,’ not a reconciled relationship to/with the Holy God: because becoming ONE WITH HIM— is the walk with God.

[One with him— is in a verse below this]

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12 “All things are lawful unto me— but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me— but I will not be brought under the power of any.

13 Meats for the belly— and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them.

Now the body is not for fornication—

but for the Lord; and the Lord—

for the body.

14 And God has both raised up the Lord— and will also raise up us by his own power.

[This states, we have ZERO EXCUSE, for if God raised up Christ, making him holy, sanctified and consecrated unto him, in right standing with the Father— AND HE’S ACTUALLY IN US ALL WHO CLAIM HE’S OUR SAVIOR AND GOD— then WE TOO can be raised up from a dead man state, with dead workings and deeds— and be RIGHTEOUS WITH GOD TOO, as the Son is our example, and the Spirit of God is with us too.]

15 Do you not know—

that your bodies are the members of Christ?

Shall I then take the members of Christ (body parts of Christ) and make them the members of a harlot?

God forbid.

[Our bodies, are NOT OURS— and we MAKE CHRIST A HARLOT, DRUNKARD, or FORNICATOR— when we do those things with the body he BOUGHT, with his BLOOD; the body he RESIDES IN ‘with us’ now.]

16 What?!

Do you not know— that he who is joined to a harlot—

is one body? For two— says he— shall be one flesh.”

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Okay— right here he just stated— You make Christ, who is JOINED TO YOU SPIRITUALLY, an adulterer, drunkard, drug addict, liar, etcetera— when YOU CONTINUE TO WALK IN SIN, which is INIQUITY, and REFUSE TO STOP; he is quite literally tied to us, having become ONE, JOINED IN UNION— and yet we are force feeding the holy God— abominations daily— if we do not STOP THIS, and CEASE THE SINNING.

That’s what that above verse means— ‘two have become one,’ and when one is an ‘adulterer,’ which means, STRAYS FROM THE MARRIAGE LOYALTY TO THEIR PARTNER (as we are yoked to Christ) —then we have made Christ, an adulterer.

God help us.

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17 “But he who is joined unto the Lord

→ is one spirit.”

18 “Flee fornication → Every sin that a man does is without the body; but he who commits fornication → sins against his own body.

[When we practice adulterous activities, spiritual, or literally using our flesh— we STRAY FROM GOD, and WE SIN AGAINST OUR OWN FLESH; that leads to diseases and penalties.]

19 What?!

Do you not know—

that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost—

who is in you, which you have of God

→ and YOU ARE NOT YOUR ‘own?’

20 For you are bought with a price:

therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit

→ which are God's.”

Okay, this just said—

“YOU, DON’T OWN YOURSELF ANY LONGER, you were BOUGHT, and you are OWNED now; so, honor God by ACTING LIKE IT, WALKING LIKE IT,

CEASING FROM ADULTEROUS FORNICATING BEHAVIORS,

whether spiritual or literal in the flesh.

Because— your BODY, and your SPIRIT— are ‘owned’ and ‘bought by’ → GOD.”

So, I hope we are seeing that we have ZERO RIGHT to ‘do with it as we please,’ FLIPPANTLY, and with ZERO REGARD FOR GOD— who not only OWNS US, quite literally— but is IN HERE ‘partaking in’ ALL, WITH US.

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What we LIVE LIKE— matters; hyper ‘grace’ is killing people, literally and spiritually: leading us down the broadpath and unto perdition, with literal results in our BODIES— for some sins— wreck the flesh bodies.

What ‘deeds,’ or WORKS WE DO— has a bearing on us, and a bearing on our relationship with God: it’s a partnership— and partners WORK TOGETHER, and are YOKED TOGETHER in this life.

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Ephesians 2

“And you— he has quickened— who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2 wherein in time past— you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience:

3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

4 But God— who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us— 5 even when we were dead in sins— has quickened us together with Christ [Quickened together with Christ means— reanimated and CONJOINED TO CHRIST], (by grace— you are saved;)”

[In the Strong’s, GRACE means— by his act of graciousness, upon his heart, and the reflection of life, with an acceptable benefit and favor, his gift, with joyous pleasure— HE CONJOINED HIMSELF and REANIMATED US.

Folks— THAT’S WHAT GRACE MEANS.

Are we fulfilling our part??]

6 “And has —raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places → in Christ Jesus: 7 that in the ages to come— he might show the exceeding riches of his grace, in his kindness toward us— through Christ Jesus.

8 For by grace you are saved— through faith; and that— not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:”

[the gift is HIM, and being JOINED TO HIM AGAIN]

9 “Not of works— lest any man should boast.”

[We couldn’t do it ourselves, alone, walking upright like him— so HE JOINED HIMSELF TO US, TO DO IT; like the Father did with him, and in whose Spirit is in us NOW— to do it again.]

10 “For we are his workmanship [his project] — created in Christ Jesus → unto good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.”

[Again, here he is saying— we are his project to finish, the good work he is doing in us, to REFORM US INTO HIMSELF AGAIN, because he’s IN HERE, and OWNS US; and we are RECREATED AGAIN, ‘in Christ,’ and UNTO GOOD WORKS, or DEEDS— and God ordained us to WALK IN THEM, good workings and deeds that Christ is laboring away at, as we are his project— since LONG BEFORE.

Are we doing this with him??]

11 “Wherefore remember— that you, being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

12 That at that time —you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

13 But now —in Christ Jesus— you who sometimes were far off —are made nigh, by the blood of Christ.”

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Okay, I want to break that all down, because what he said is POWERFUL.

He just said—

“Do recall, when you were NOT walking with God holy, added into the family, reformed from your former path— you too were WITHOUT CHRIST (Gentile) —ESTRANGED (that’s death covenant, folks), STRANGERS— not having THE PROMISES TO YOU, for you were not part of THE FAMILY OF ISRAEL; but now, ‘in Christ,’ YOU— who were far from him before in your ways, not circumcised— making the cut into the family, not clean IN HIM— are now MADE CLOSE TO HIM, JOINED— by the blood of him, who made that all possible now.”

Do we understand we have to TAKE HIM UP ON HIS OFFER OF SALVATION— which is reconciliation, which is yoking to him, which is reunion, or being JOINED AS ONE TO HIM, once again??

Because— THAT’S THE ONLY WAY WE ARE CLEAN, because he is clean— and our clean, comes from his clean— as we are his PROJECT, HIS WORKMANSHIP, to RECREATE US AGAIN, into his image— because, once again— HE’S IN HERE, AND JOINED TO US NOW: if we are ‘in’ Christ.

WE— don’t have a body, a life, or choices of our own any more— WE— ARE HIS: he has a life, a body and choices to live out WITH US IN HERE.

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14 “For HE— is our peace, who has MADE BOTH ONE, and has BROKEN DOWN THE MIDDLE WALL (separation) BETWEEN US; 15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself— OF TWO, ONE— so making peace; 16 and that he might RECONCILE BOTH— unto God— in one body, by the cross— having slain the enmity thereby:

17 And came, and preached peace to you —who were afar off, and to them that were nigh.”

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Okay, again, let’s break this down— He is our PEACE; he tells me that is GODLY ORDER RESTORED, WHERE ONCE CHAOS REIGNED— but let’s see what Strong’s has to add.

Peace, according to Strong’s definition— Prosperity [which means to DO WELL], TO JOIN, QUIETNESS, SET AT-ONE AGAIN.

Well, we can see BOTH of those definitions are accurate, and his GOAL in Salvation.

These verses also state, not only did he MAKE US ONE AGAIN, restoring GODLY ORDER, BRINGING ABOUT ‘peace’ between us again— because we were his ENEMIES, but— he TORE DOWN EVERY OBSTACLE that stood between us, when the VEILS were torn; we have NO EXCUSES, we have FULL ACCESS TO HIM NOW.

And now, in that— he has ‘made peace,’ or REUNION WITH US, if we are accepting it— and he no longer requires us to walk flawlessly in the old covenant ways— where we were penalized by infractions, but we are now subject to HIM, as we are LIVING IN HIM.

[If we are ‘inside’ someone—

what HE DOES and SAYS— goes.]

And he has made us ONE TOGETHER, and in THAT— he slayed the enemy, o4r estrangement; we are not strangers any longer— but living AS ONE, TOGETHER, INTERTWINED.

And THIS— is ‘peace’ with God; he literally paved the way for us to accept reconciliations with him, become one with him again, take his hand forever more in holy spiritual matrimony— and in that— we are no longer ESTRANGED, or strangers— but FAMILY.

That’s HUGE, folks.

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18 “For through him— WE HAVE ACCESS TO BOTH— by one Spirit— unto the Father.

19 Now therefore— you are no more strangers and foreigners— but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; 20 and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself— being the chief cornerstone; 21 In whom → all the building, fitly framed together—grows into a holy temple in the Lord: 22 In whom YOU ALSO— are builded together for a habitation of God (a home life with God)— through the Spirit.”

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He just said, now you no longer have to live as STRANGERS, or ESTRANGED FROM GOD [that is death, life is to live joined to him], and if you choose that, if you choose proper salvation— you are now CITIZENS OF HEAVEN, and HIS FAMILY MEMBERS.

You are also— FIT TOGETHER WITH THE OTHER SAINTS, so we have to alike, folks, to fit jointly together— his family only works one kind of way, one conduct, IN ONE GOD; and that family— HAS A HOLY TEMPLE— that they present to the Lord.

IN HIM— we too, are built together,

in a HABITATION

[that’s living arrangements and vessel]

OF GOD HOLY, through— HIS SPIRIT.

God’s Spirit has a WORK TO DO IN US— are we permitting him, joining him, and working out our salvation, WITH HIM— in fear and trembling; not opposing him, but CO-LABORING WITH HIM, to FINISH THE GOOD WORK HE HAS STARTED IN US— not kicking against his pricks, prods, nudges and corrections— as he leads us and reforms our man into THE NEW CREATION IN CHRIST??

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He wants to drill home ‘what is salvation;’ and folks— he wants to drill home— “and what were you saved from?”

Because if we cannot get THAT straightened out within us— we are likely still in transgressions, walking contrary to the Lord, estranged from him still— and IN NEED OF TRUE SALVATION.

He wishes, he desires, he aims— to RECONCILE SINNERS TO HIMSELF.

2 Corinthians 5:19

“To wit, that God was in Christ— reconciling the world unto himself— not imputing their trespasses unto them; and has committed unto us → the word of reconciliation.”

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