THE HOPE!
When man confesses Jesus as Lord and believes in his heart that God raised him from the dead he is born again, he receives the gift of holy spirit and from that moment he has hope.
Our hope is the return of the Lord Jesus Christ. We cannot believe for Jesus Christ to come back immediately because it is not available to believe for him to come back immediately. He will return when God is good and ready to send him. It is a future event to which we look forward with patience and great expectation. It is our hope.

1 Thessalonians 4:13
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
Those who are not born again have no hope because they have no spirit. They are men of body and soul, without God and without hope.
We were all in that dire situation at one time.

Ephesians 2:11,12
Wherefore remember, that ye 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;

That at that time ye 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:


When man confesses Jesus as Lord and believes in his heart that God raised him from the dead he is born again, he receives the gift of holy spirit and from that moment he has hope.


1 Thessalonians 4:14-18
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent [precede] them which are asleep.

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

1 Corinthians 15:51
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep [die], but we shall all be changed,

At the return we shall not all be dead. Some of us are going to be alive when he comes back. If he came back right now, I would still be alive and so would you. After the dead are raised, then we which are alive and remain will be changed and meet him in the air.

1 Corinthians 15:52
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.


At the time of this change we will receive a new body, an eternal spiritual body like Jesus Christ's resurrected body, and it will be ours for eternity.


Philippians 3:20,21
For our conversation [politeuma - citizenship] is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working [energeia - energising] whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

1 John 3:1-3
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
When Jesus Christ was raised from the dead, he received a new spiritual body, and we will be getting one like his at the return.

Romans 5:9
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

1 Thessalonians 1:10
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

We have been delivered from the wrath to come. It's part of our hope. When Jesus Christ returns for us, we get a new body, we meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with him. Our hope is part of the Mystery.


Colossians 1:27
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

The hope of glory is part of the Mystery. It is something we look forward to with great expectation, patience and desire. One day Jesus Christ will come back for us and we will meet him face to face and be with him forever.
Romans 8:24,25
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Titus 1:1,2
Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;

In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
1 Peter 1:3,4
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

1 Corinthians 15:43
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.


When Jesus Christ comes back to gather us and we meet him in the air we will be in our new spiritual bodies. We will not be taking these earthly bodies with us. These natural bodies will be raised a spiritual body.

1 Corinthians 15:50-54
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.


One day Jesus Christ is coming back to get us and we will leave earth to meet him in the air. Those who have died will be raised from death in their new spiritual body, and then those of us who are still alive will be changed and put on immortality.
Those of us who have the gift of holy spirit, that Christ in us which is our eternal life, those of us who are of the family of God, born again of his seed will be gathered when Jesus Christ returns in the clouds. Those who have died will remain dead until that time. At the return, which could be at any moment, those who have died with holy spirit will be raised from death, and then those of us who are still alive will be changed and put on immortality. We will all get a new spiritual body similar to the body Jesus Christ was raised with. When we leave to meet our Lord in the air, the Age of Grace, the Administration of the Mystery will end and the Revelation Administration will begin.

THE HOPE!
When man confesses Jesus as Lord and believes in his heart that God raised him from the dead he is born again, he receives the gift of holy spirit and from that moment he has hope.
Our hope is the return of the Lord Jesus Christ. We cannot believe for Jesus Christ to come back immediately because it is not available to believe for him to come back immediately. He will return when God is good and ready to send him. It is a future event to which we look forward with patience and great expectation. It is our hope.

1 Thessalonians 4:13
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
Those who are not born again have no hope because they have no spirit. They are men of body and soul, without God and without hope.
We were all in that dire situation at one time.

Ephesians 2:11,12
Wherefore remember, that ye 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;

That at that time ye 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:


When man confesses Jesus as Lord and believes in his heart that God raised him from the dead he is born again, he receives the gift of holy spirit and from that moment he has hope.


1 Thessalonians 4:14-18
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent [precede] them which are asleep.

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

1 Corinthians 15:51
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep [die], but we shall all be changed,

At the return we shall not all be dead. Some of us are going to be alive when he comes back. If he came back right now, I would still be alive and so would you. After the dead are raised, then we which are alive and remain will be changed and meet him in the air.

1 Corinthians 15:52
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.


At the time of this change we will receive a new body, an eternal spiritual body like Jesus Christ's resurrected body, and it will be ours for eternity.


Philippians 3:20,21
For our conversation [politeuma - citizenship] is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working [energeia - energising] whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

1 John 3:1-3
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
When Jesus Christ was raised from the dead, he received a new spiritual body, and we will be getting one like his at the return.

Romans 5:9
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

1 Thessalonians 1:10
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

We have been delivered from the wrath to come. It's part of our hope. When Jesus Christ returns for us, we get a new body, we meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with him. Our hope is part of the Mystery.


Colossians 1:27
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

The hope of glory is part of the Mystery. It is something we look forward to with great expectation, patience and desire. One day Jesus Christ will come back for us and we will meet him face to face and be with him forever.
Romans 8:24,25
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Titus 1:1,2
Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;

In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
1 Peter 1:3,4
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

1 Corinthians 15:43
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.


When Jesus Christ comes back to gather us and we meet him in the air we will be in our new spiritual bodies. We will not be taking these earthly bodies with us. These natural bodies will be raised a spiritual body.

1 Corinthians 15:50-54
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.


One day Jesus Christ is coming back to get us and we will leave earth to meet him in the air. Those who have died will be raised from death in their new spiritual body, and then those of us who are still alive will be changed and put on immortality.
Those of us who have the gift of holy spirit, that Christ in us which is our eternal life, those of us who are of the family of God, born again of his seed will be gathered when Jesus Christ returns in the clouds. Those who have died will remain dead until that time. At the return, which could be at any moment, those who have died with holy spirit will be raised from death, and then those of us who are still alive will be changed and put on immortality. We will all get a new spiritual body similar to the body Jesus Christ was raised with. When we leave to meet our Lord in the air, the Age of Grace, the Administration of the Mystery will end and the Revelation Administration will begin.

Eternal LIfe

The FREE gift of salvation: It is by incorruptible seed - 1 Peter1:23 and Galatians 3:16. 1 John 3:9 the seed remains. It is a gift - Romans 6:23 and 1 John 2;25.
Ephesians 2:5,8. Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us [made us alive] together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) For by grace are ye saved [sōzō - made whole] through faith [believing]; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Romans 5:15
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
The free gift refers to the gift of holy spirit, the Christ in you, the incorruptible seed that was born within us at the time of the new birth. Just as we suffer death because of one man, Adam, we now enjoy life because of one man, Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:18.
Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

Justification is the legal side to righteousness. The Christ in us is incorruptible, it cannot sin, it cannot miss the mark. There is nothing anyone can do to make their spirit sin. It is impossible to corrupt it with sin. That is why it is eternal life  When we are born again, God takes his gavel, slams it down and declares us not guilty, not because of our body and souls, not because of our old man, but because of the gift of holy spirit that is born within us. It is the spirit that makes us righteous. Righteousness and justification come wrapped up with the new birth. They are supernatural rights that come with the Christ in us.
If one could lose salvation, then it is not eternal life. It is not incorruptible seed if it can be lost.
God gives us eternal incorruptible seed,  which remains. Our fellowship may fluctuate, but the sonship remains.
 ​If you are saved you have seed born within, holy spirit seed, this is eternal, and this is life, speaking in tongues is your operation of that spirit, hence, proof that you have it within.

Jesus Christ The Son of God

 

John 20:30,31
And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:

But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.

Mark 1:1
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;

Mark 1:11
And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Mark 9:7
And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.

Even devil spirits called Jesus Christ the Son of God.


Matthew 8:28,29
And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.

And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?


These verses are extremely clear - Jesus Christ is the son of God. In this context, it is quite astonishing to learn that there is not one single verse anywhere in the entire bible that says that Jesus is God the Son. The phrase God the son does not exist in scripture. Fifty times Jesus Christ is called the son of God and not once is he called God the son. Take that to any court of law in any country in the world and I think you would find it declared as conclusive evidence as to who Jesus Christ was. However, let's explore further. Can God be tempted with evil? This is rhetoric, of course.


James 1:13
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:


Pretty clear? God cannot be tempted with evil. It is just not possible, end of story. Now compare that with these verses:


Luke 4:1,2
And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

Hebrews 4:15
For we have not an high priest [referring to Jesus Christ] which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

Hebrews 2:18
For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.


Jesus Christ endured temptation. In fact, he was tempted in all things just as we are. If it is impossible for God to be tempted with evil, and Jesus Christ was tempted with evil, then how could Jesus Christ be God? Another difference between God and Jesus Christ is their distinct and separate wills.


Matthew 26:39,42
And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.

He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.


If Jesus Christ is God, then to whom was he praying? Himself? Jesus Christ clearly had his own will, which was distinctly his own and completely separate from God. Two distinct and separate wills clearly indicates two distinct and separate beings.


John 4:34
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

John 5:19
Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

John 5:30
I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

John 6:38
For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.


Jesus Christ could not even nominate who sat on his right hand and on his left hand in his Father's kingdom. No disrespect, but he was hardly all-powerful then, was he?


Matthew 20:23
And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.


Jesus Christ was obedient and did his Father's will, not his own will. If Jesus Christ was God, these scriptures are absurd. Yet another problem arises when we consider the following two verses.


John 1:18
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

1 John 4:12
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.


No man means no man. The scripture is clear. No man, no one, no human being has ever seen God. Did anyone ever see Jesus Christ? Yes, quite a few million during his lifetime I would guess. If Jesus Christ is God, then words have no meaning.
Romans 5:15
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

The Apostles knew him as a man:
 Acts2:22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
Acts17:31Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
1 Timothy 2:4-7 4Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. 5For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 6Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. 7Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
The Angels of God, speaking for God declared:
Acts1:9-11 9And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. 10And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; 11Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
THIS SAME JESUS!
It's time to move on, but suffice to say that we have shed a little light into what is perhaps the darkest regions of religion possible. Why do I say that? Because to worship anything or anyone other than the true God is idolatry, and worshipping Jesus as God is exactly that - idolatry. Jesus Christ was not God, he was a man, a human being.