Jesus redeemed the faithful in Him from sin and commands “sin no more” – why do we continue to sin subsequent to redemption? (John 8:11)

God the Father has “justified” you and cast your sins into the sea of forgetfulness because you have trusted-believed in Jesus as Lord and entered into covenant relationship with the Father having received the Holy Spirit as Guarantor of that relationship (Ephesians 1:13-14); therefore, though you remain in a sinful body of flesh and you do, as a Christian, fall short of God’s perfection and will continue to do so from time to time in word, thought or deed (Romans 7:14-25), God has chosen by covenant promise to NOT see your sin as God only sees the righteousness of His dear Son imputed into your life (2 Corinthians 5:21) and God has declared you “not guilty.”

Though you have entered into covenant relationship with God the Father by faith in Jesus as Lord, you remain encumbered by a body of decay, a body of death possessing a sin-nature inherited from your father, Adam (Romans 5:12), and you’ll struggle with this sin-nature until you exhale your last breath but if you are faithful and walk by the indwelling Holy Spirit given you for sanctification, you will not repeatedly compromise with the flesh, with the World, with the Devil, but you will incrementally grow stronger in the Lord through obedience to the Spirit (Galatians 5:16) as you walk in intimate fellowship with Jesus, daily. You are forgiven by grace through faith; therefore, walk in peace and love and fellowship in the Holy Spirit (Romans 5:1) in the knowledge that no one, nothing, will snatch you out of the hand of our God (John 10:28-30).

In closing…a brief caveat…grace is NOT a license to sin and the one who professes Jesus as Lord and continues to live in wilful sin void conscience has every reason to question the validity of their faith and relationship with God (Matthew 7:15-20).

Why the Millennial Kingdom of Jesus Christ?

The Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ is a critical juncture in God’s eschatological plan relevant to dealing with the war, the rebellion, of His anointed cherub angel and the host of rebellious angels that followed Satan in that rebellion. Our entire creation in Time is the resultant of God’s eschatological plan through the Gospel “to destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b) through self-less love as opposed to arbitrary power and authority; had God simply destroyed Satan for his rebellion, God ran the risk of alienating the remaining two-thirds of the faithful angels remaining in the Kingdom of God; therefore, God extricated the destructive rebellion initiated by Satan, commissioned the Son (John 3:35; John 1; Colossians 1; Hebrews 1) to create the Heavens and the Earth with rapidity (Genesis 1; Hebrews 11:3) at which time Satan and the rebellious angels were placed upon the Earth (Luke 10:18) to be dealt with apart from the Kingdom and partially constrained by Time and physics within this temporary Universe and Earth that will eventually be consumed and purified by fire, the abode for the New Jerusalem (2 Peter 3:7-10; Revelation 21).

The previous 6000-years have been provided as experiential relevance concerning the faithful angelic creation who are witnessing the horrors of rebellion and sin and defilement by those who follow Satan and his desire to usurp God’s authority. As a point of differentiation and comparison/contrast, the Millennial Kingdom will provide undeniable evidence that Satan is indeed the culprit of all suffering and decay/atrophy as during the Millennial Kingdom Satan will be imprisoned for 1000-years and virtual peace will prevail upon the Earth and the life-span of human kind will be extended providing irrefutable evidence of Satan’s defilement and to accentuate the evilness of Satan, God will release this Evil cherub angel upon the Earth once again at the close of the 1000-year Millennial Kingdom and Satan will, once again, deceive the Nations and conspire with them to rebel against God at which time God will destroy all who come against Jerusalem, Israel culminating with the Great White Throne Judgment of the condemned (Revelation 20:11-15); that is, those who have rejected God’s redemption through faith in Jesus as Lord.

Finally, Satan and the fallen angels will be relinquished to Hell, the Lake of Fire (Matthew 25:41; Revelation 20) and suffer eternally without recourse…and…the faithful angelic creation will fully concur with God that their former “boss,” Satan, and their former brethren, the fallen angels, do deserve eternal punishment; in this, God will have successfully maintained volitional love with the angelic creation He loves beyond human comprehension and God will have accomplished this via self-less love demonstrated by Jesus Christ at Golgotha.

It is the previous 6000-years of horror upon the Earth, the 1000-years of peace during the Millennial Kingdom of Jesus Christ, that will act as a bulwark against future rebellion in the Kingdom of God where free will remains extant out of necessity. Jesus will rule and reign as the Lion from the Tribe of Judah during the Millennial Kingdom, a Kingdom denied Him at His first-advent.

Is Jesus the God-Man?

God is Spirit (John 4:24) and has commanded that innocent blood be shed upon the altar for the remission of sin (Leviticus 17:11; Hebrews 9:22) and there is no one innocent or good but God Himself (Romans 3:23; Isaiah 53:6; Mark 10:18); therefore, God ordained the Gospel as the battle strategy He would use “to destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b) and this strategy was ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:9-10).

God, with selfless love, demonstrated His intent to enter Time in a body of flesh as early as Genesis 3:15 and 3:21 and 4000-years later God entered Time in flesh through the virgin womb (Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:18-23) to circumvent the sin-nature corrupting the human genome subsequent to Adam’s rejection of God’s sovereignty in Eden (Romans 5:12).

Jesus walked without sin before God and man; Jesus obeyed the Law of God in perfection making Himself the only acceptable blood atonement for your sin (Matthew 26:28; John 14:6; John 3:16-18) then Jesus walked to the horrors of a Roman Crucifixion, shed His innocent blood upon the sands of Golgotha and with the words “It is finished” (John 19:30) Jesus Christ successfully reconciled sinful man with God the Father for anyone willing to believe with a sincere heart that Jesus is Lord who died to pay their sin-debt and receive Jesus as Lord and Savior over their life, forever (John 3:16). God the Father then, by Covenant promise, implants the Holy Spirit within the faithful who believe in Jesus (John 14:16) and the Holy Spirit guarantees this Covenant relationship, forever (Ephesians 1:13-14). Yes, Jesus is the ONLY God-Man.

22 Jews demand signs and Greeks search for wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.… 1 Corinthians 1:22-24 (Berean Study Bible)

What is true Faith and how is it expressed? Responding to the self-righteousness of legalism and Judaism…

Faith is simply believing that God is true and will do as He has promised. Works-obedience are the resultant of faith expressed by man and received by God. Works validate faith, works do not supplant the necessity for faith which first establishes relationship with God and makes works viable and honorable to God. Until such time you have established covenant relationship with God by faith in Jesus as Lord, your works, on your best day, are filthy rags in God’s nose. If you truly loved God and were in covenant relationship with Him through the Son, you would know this and understand this but you choose arrogance and self-righteousness thinking that you’re somehow worthy of God’s love when you have fallen for the lie of the Devil and will perish with Him lest you repent.

Port Charlotte is replete with some the most obnoxiously LOUD, narcissistic bikers, in the Nation who abuse our children, the elderly in our hospital district, the handicapped, with illegal noise levels that are many multiples (logarithmic) the legal, total, EPA compliant, 80dB(A) as mandated by the US EPA as per the J331a full-throttle testing procedure. In the evenings, Hwy 41/Harbor/Midway/Veterans sounds like a raceway. Along with the rudest and most obnoxious LOUD bikers, auto’s, trucks, Port Charlotte’s enforcement arm, the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Department, is as useless as the tits on a boar hog through compromise with loud vehicular thuggery and their impotence in enforcing the muffler laws enacted by our Legislators for the protection of our families, our most innocent, our children…I’ve made multiple attempts to invest here through real estate but if the Law Enforcement Community is too lazy, compromising and impotent, to provide protection from LOUD vehicle thugs, if the Charlotte County Commissioners are too impotent, cowardly and uncaring to protect my family, I won’t waste my money or my time. Bye.

Maturity in the Lord? How?

One matures in our Lord by surrendering to the indwelling Holy Spirit and opening one’s eyes and heart and ears to the Truth, the word of God (John 17:17), and NO ONE “works” them self to God…this was first demonstrated for you in Genesis 3:21 as Adam attempted to cover his sin and shame with fig leaves yet God denied Adam’s self-righteousness and shed innocent blood Himself and clothed Adam and Eve in an imputed robe of righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:21)…God did the Work Himself…Adam simply received the Work by grace as a Gift by Faith. Jesus Christ did the WORK HIMSELF at Golgotha, you receive the benefits of that WORK by FAITH, alone!

You are saved from death in Hell by believing with a sincere heart that Jesus is Lord who died to pay your sin-debt (John 3:16-18)…this is done by FAITH alone…you have NO PART in this Salvation other than believing what God has done for you and establishing covenant relationship with Him by that FAITH – ALONE!

Once you have established covenant relationship by faith, the Holy Spirit takes-up residence within you (Ephesians 1:13-14) and manifests a change within-you and good works and obedience begin to manifest as a result of sanctification (2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 5:16); that is, an anointed work of the Spirit in your life enabling you to be transformed, incrementally, daily, into the image of Christ concerning your behavior, thoughts, desires, deeds…as this is preparation for service in the New Jerusalem. Walk in obedience to the Holy Spirit and you will NOT compromise with the lust of this defiled and dying World (Galatians 5:16). There is NO OTHER WAY (John 14:6).

The Law of Conscience…

The Moral Law has been extant since the creation of the angels as an arbiter of freewill and this law judged Satan of covetousness and judged the Adamic and Noahic generations of egregious immorality where all but eight were destroyed by water in judgment. The Law of the Covenant, given specifically to Israel’s children, is NOTHING NEW or novel but is simply a reiteration, with some specificity, of the Law of Conscience infused within every human being from Adam forward as the Law of Conscience ….

1) Acts a bulwark restraining narcissism/arbitrating free will by the conscience thereby curtailing human self-destruction which would thwart God’s eschatological plan and give victory to Satan.

2) Defines God’s righteous decrees through the conscience thereby allowing for justice with due process in Holy Judgment.

An overwhelming majority of the Greek Scriptures reference “Law” which is relevant to the “Law of the Covenant” pertaining to Jacob’s children but the vast majority of Human Kind has been governed by the Law of Conscience for the previous 6000-years and it is the Law of Conscience (Romans 2:14-15; Romans 1:18-32) that will be the primary adjudicatory standard at the Great White Throne Judgment manifesting subsequent to Messiah Jesus’ Millennial Reign (Revelation 20:11-15).

Those who die under the Law Covenant will be judged accordingly; those who die apart from the Law Covenant (the vast majority of human kind) will be judged by the Law of Conscience. Those who die in Jesus as their Messiah will not stand in the judgment of sinners as Messiah’s imputed righteousness has atoned for the sins of the redeemed and they are therefore declared “not guilty” (2 Corinthians 5:21).

If you belong to Jesus by faith, the Law of the Covenant does NOT pertain to you! Walk in that freedom with JOY!

The Law of the Covenant is divided into moral and civil-ceremonial-dietary laws…the ceremonial-civil laws are NOT moral laws but edicts given specifically to Israel’s children as they were set-apart as a people group for God’s eschatological purposes and they were to be holy as God is Holy and shun the pagan traditions (diet-worship protocol) of the Nations that surrounded them.

The ceremonial laws are NOT moral laws and have NO bearing on mankind’s eternal relationship with God or his fellowman. The 4th-Commandment is also a ceremonial law given specifically to Israel beginning in Exodus 16 and its purpose and intent was fulfilled in Messiah Jesus (Colossians 2:16; Hebrews 4; Romans 14); therefore, no Gentile or Messianic Jew belonging to Jesus by faith is under the Law of the Covenant pertaining to ceremonial laws while the moral law, extant from the creation of the angels as an arbiter of free will (Romans 2:14-15), was incorporated into the New Covenant through Messiah’s Commandments articulated within His ministry while Jesus walked this Earth proclaiming the Truth of the Gospel.

Do not allow a cult, a sect, a Jew, an Israelite, a Jewish Roots deceiver, to take your joy and freedom earned for you by Jesus Christ at Golgotha. Walk in obedience to the Holy Spirit within you and live in peace with God, forever (Romans 5:1; Galatians 5:16).

Non-believer or skeptic suggests that Christians are fearful of works of righteousness for salvation. Is this true?

If you were a Christian you would know that your eternity is secure in the covenant promise of the Father for anyone who believes and trusts and places their faith in Jesus Christ as our Lord for the mediation of sin (John 3:16-18) and once you’ve trusted in Jesus and established covenant relationship with the Father, that relationship is SEALED and Guaranteed by the Gift of the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14) who takes-up residence within you and becomes your Tutor-your Guide-your Lord-your Wisdom (Galatians 5:16; John 14:16) and the Spirit leads you into good works of obedience that glorify the Father as the Spirit prepares you for service in the New Jerusalem.

The Christian is not fearful of good works but the Christian understands that any work done prior to having established covenant relationship with the Father is futile, nihilistic, as the Father is NOT glorified by your works of self-righteousness as those works are equated to a filthy, bloody, menstrual cloth in His nose (Isaiah 64:6; Ephesians 2:8-9). It is the works done SUBSEQUENT to covenant relationship by the Spirit through faith in Jesus that are accounted as works of righteousness to be judged at the BEMA Judgment of Christ as those works of righteousness validate and authenticate the faith that initially established covenant relationship.

Does God predestine some to LIFE and many to death in Hell?

Predestination is completely antithetical to the nature and attributes of our Biblical God. God is defined as “love” in its perfection – AGAPE. Throughout the Scriptures, we see God’s greatest desire is relationship-fellowship-intimacy with His created beings, both human and angelic. It is illogical and beyond reason that our God of Love possesses the capacity to predestine those He loves to death in Hell or life in the Kingdom, why? Because perfect love and perfect justice cannot exist absent free will, why? Because in order for one to love with authenticity and purity, they must possess the volition – freedom to “choose” to engage in that relationship with a sincere heart and desire; otherwise, the love, the relationship, is robotic or coerced and thus the relationship is impotent and empty and unfulfilling.

All of human kind possesses the free will to “choose” their eternal destiny and those Scriptures that you believe suggest that God predestines many to Hell and some to Life is simply a misunderstanding on your part as God desires that all men and women be saved and come to a knowledge of the Truth…Calvin got it wrong! If predestination were true, why the suffering and death of Jesus our God and Messiah?