May 2001

[Part 143]

“Issues of the heart”

[Part Sixty-one]

Hope For the Fearful Heart! [SS]

“WHO CAN I TURN TO?”

“Behold the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world.” (Jn 1:29)

               There is none else to turn to in all creation! All Life is from Him, and all life IS Him! In the death-life of Adam, the Breath of Life was present! When our Creator donned the dust of humanity, He allowed the cloak of darkness to distort the beautiful sight and sound of His Breath of Life into a Breath of Death! His radiant glow of Glory-Light became the harsh glare of vainglory; His sweet sound-frequency of Faith distorted to a static rasp of fear! His steady Heartbeat of Love backfired into loud cravings of lust! His Beauteous Life degenerated to abhorrent images of death! The purity of His highest heaven- wherein all Godly Truth is openly manifest- corrupted (in our minds) to the lowest hell- wherein all human lies are desperately hid! When the Spirit of Peace was transformed into a spirit of wrath by the shroud of mortality, no semblance of its former estate remained! From thenceforth only one way existed for a vision of Life to be restored and a darkened understanding to be enlightened! Christ, alone, has and imparts this Key to the Kingdom of heaven in Heb 12:14-

“WITHOUT H-O-L-I-N-E-S-S
NO MAN SHALL SEE THE LORD!”

               For our spirits to See the Lord is evidence of the PRESENCE OF HOLINESS! We acquire this holy vision from only one place: God’s Christ- which is His own Spirit of Holiness! Jesus was said to be,“Full of the Spirit of Holiness !” (Lk 4:1) This verse is most often translated, “Jesus (was) full of the Holy Spirit”; but the term “Holy Spirit” has caused much confusion in Scripture interpretation. We must be careful to “Rightly divide the Word of Truth” (2 Ti 2:15) lest any shadow of error fall on our paths and lead us from Father’s Pure Light of Revelation! We who were first taught by Christendom’s apostasy, should expect to need our “hearing ear” cleaned out of old waxy build-up of doctrinal misperceptions! If Truth falls hard on our ear, let us not reject it, but submit it to our Teacher- the Anointing, (1 Jn 2:7) God’s Spirit of Holiness- for verification! Any “bread” we serve Him that is not Truth, He will “Spew out of His Mouth”! (Re 3:16) Here is one such hard Truth.

THE WORD, TRINITY, DOES NOT APPEAR ANYWHERE IN SCRIPTURE!!

               “Trinity” is a manmade term to explain a divine phenomenon he does not understand! We do not fault “natural man who cannot receive the things of the spirit” (1 Co 2:14); nor do we fault a spiritual man to whom God has not yet unveiled all His glories! It is the prerogative of Holiness to reveal Himself incrementally to His people according to His Plan from the world’s foundation! But the Christ Who does possess the full measure of Holiness now clarifies this Truth to His sons:

“THERE IS ONE BODY, AND ONE SPIRIT, even as you are called in ONE HOPE!
THERE IS ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM, AND ONLY ONE GOD
AND FATHER OF ALL,Who is above all, through all, and in you ALL!” (Eph 4:4-5)

“Don’t we ALL have ONE FATHER? Hasn’t ONE GOD created us?!”(Mal 2:10)

“SO HE THAT IS JOINED TO THE LORD IS ONE SPIRIT!” (1 Co 6:17)

“YOU ARE ALL ONE IN CHRIST JESUS!” (Gal 3:28)

               God created all men as SINGULAR BEINGS with SOULS that reason by intellect, feel by emotion and choose by will; and with SPIRITS that perceive by intuition, judge by conscience and seek divine expression by desire to worship; and with FLESH that APART FROM CHRIST “Profits nothing” (Jn 6:63); “Does no good thing” (Ro 7:18); and “Sins and comes short of the glory of God”! (Ro 3:23) But these are all components of ONE BEING not three separate beings! These distinctive functions and purposes do not make us disunited franchises of ourselves! To say that God is THREE PERSONS makes Him THREE BEINGS; and as we are made in His Image, that makes us three persons- or “trinities”- as well! Let us turn to our God Who revealed Himself to Moses as “I AM THAT I AM”! (Ex 3:14) We ask Him, “Who is Jesus?”, He says, “I AM”! We ask Him, “Who is the Holy Spirit?” He says, “I AM”! We ask Him, “Who is Christ?” He says, “I AM”! We ask Him, “Who are: The Savior of the world; Messiah; Lamb of God, and Lion of Judah?” The answer is still, “I AM”!
              Till time ceases to be, God will declare to all men, “THERE IS NO GOD BESIDES ME! LOOK TO ME (Jehovah, the “I AM”) AND BE SAVED all you ends of the earth![We are not to look to a separate being called Jesus (for Jehovah is our Savior), nor are we to look to a separate being called Christ (for Jehovah is our Anointing); nor are we to look to yet another separate being called the Holy Spirit (for Jehovah is the Spirit of Holiness)! For Jehovah says,] “I AM GOD and THERE IS NONE ELSE!” (Isa 45:21-22) Jehovah, the “Father of all spirits” (Heb 12:9) sent us His Salvation (Jesus) and His Anointing (Christ) and His Spirit of Holiness (Holy Spirit) to enlighten all spirits, redeem all souls, and sanctify and glorify all flesh to become ALL IN ALL!

[TO BE CONTINUED]