BLESSED WITH THE TREASURE INSIDE OF YOU

My Dear Precious Child, Paul, the apostle, wrote to the believers at Corinth, and to you also, that the treasure of the Holy Spirit, the Light of the Gospel that you have in earthen bodies is so that the excellence of My works will be of Me and not of humans. Then he wrote that with My power inside of you that when you are troubled and oppressed in every way that you are not crushed; that when you are perplexed and thinking that there is not a way out of a situation, that you are not driven to despair; that when you are persecuted that you never stand alone, and when you feel like you are struck down to the ground that you are never struck out and destroyed; that your physical body is always exposed to the same death for Jesus sake so that the life of Christ might be evidenced through your flesh. In other words, the Law of sin and death is always at work in your flesh so that My Spirit of Life may also be actively at work in you spiritually. That profession of faith that Jesus spoke is also spoken by you, that you believe in His power and so you speak overcoming faith just like He spoke it. (II Corinthians 4:9-14) That word of faith that He spoke and that you speak is that I, who raised Jesus from the dead, will also raise Him up inside of you and bring you into His Presence. The apostle Paul wrote to the believers in Corinth that the more that you are tempted by the devil to retaliate when harassed, the more grace is extended to you and extended to more and more people from Me. The result is that there is more and more thanksgiving that is spoken which increases My glory in your world. Therefore, he wrote, My children do not get weary, exhausted or discouraged because your inner Power is being renewed day by day. (II Corinthians 4:15-16) His comparison was that the afflictions in the flesh are light and they are preparing you for the everlasting weight of My glory which is the vast and transcendent glory and blessedness that never ceases. Now you look Me and to things that not seen instead of things that are seen by your human eyes. It is the things that you cannot see visually that are glorious, powerful and victorious. We are working for you constantly. (II Corinthians 4:18) What more do you need? You have all of My power of the universe working in your behalf even though your flesh is being harassed by evil. In the midst of a battle you must continue to profess that you have My power working in your behalf and that there is a huge army of angels fighting for your victory. When your faith is being tried by the devil, that is the time to speak your faith loudly into the atmosphere. It is that faith which overcomes all evil. Your Father of Battle Insights

BLESSED BY CONSIDERING EVERY PERSON'S CONSCIENCE

My Dear Precious Child, The apostle Paul acknowledged that every person's conscience is unique to himself or herself. He spoke about the Jews who had the Law given to them by Moses in which Moses had to put a veil over his face so that the Israelites would not gaze upon the greatness of the glow on his face after being given the Law by Me. (Exodus 34:29-33) In fact, the Jews from Israel had grown so hard hearted, callous and lacking in understanding that their minds are still so dense in spiritual insight that a veil is still over their minds, the veils not being lifted to reveal that it is only in Christ that the veil can be lifted and done away with in My new covenant of the Holy Spirit with humanity. Because the veil is still over their minds, the Law that is stored in their consciences condemns them. (II Corinthians 3:13-16) Paul, having a burden for the Jews, his writing in his two letters contrasts those Jews with the veil over their minds with the Jews who had turned to belief in Christ in which the veil has been stripped from their minds and hearts. He wrote in his second letter to the Corinthians that to the spiritually enlightened Jews, such as himself, that My Holy Spirit is Lord of their lives instead of the old covenant Law of sin and death still being lord. He assured the readers of the second letter that where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty and freedom from the works of the devil and the condemnation of the Law. Paul also confirmed to the believers in Corinth that after the spiritual veil is removed from their minds, those Jews become like him, always beholding the image of Christ as in a mirror, and they were constantly being transfigured into Christ's image by the Lord who is the Spirit. (II Corinthians 3:13-17-18) The Gentiles were enjoying the same degree of liberty as the enlightened Jews, having heard the Gospel as taught by Paul and his fellow ministers. Paul wrote that he and the other ministers, having this truth about the veil being over the minds and hearts of people, they did not get weak with discouragement. Instead, knowing that every person's conscience is unique, he wrote that the ministers had turned from disgraceful ways, from secret thoughts, feelings, desires, underhandedness, and evil methods that men hide in their thoughts through shame. He wrote that they refused to use tricks to deal with people or to handle dishonestly My Words which they stated clearly, knowing the diversity of every person's CONSCIENCE. He confessed that even if their Gospel of Christ was hidden, it was only hidden to the people who were perishing and lost because the devil, who is the god of the world, has blinded the minds of the unbelievers so that they would be prevented from seeing the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is My likeness in every way. Paul professed that it is not themselves of which the ministers teach, but that it is the Lord Jesus Christ. He wrote that it is Christ of whom I spoke that said this, "The Light that shines out of darkness has shown in their hearts illuminating My knowledge, majesty and glory that is in Jesus Christ, the real Messiah." (II Corinthians 4:2-4) Then Paul wrote a powerful profession of faith; that being this, "Believers possess in their human bodies My Holy Spirit, a precious Treasure, so that the magnificent and exceeding greatness of My Power that is resident in them may be shown to be of Me and not of themselves." To those people who have been liberated from the Law of sin and death, the voice of My Holy Spirit in their conscience is the voice of freedom from sin, which is the works of the devil. However, to the people who are still under old covenant Law, the voice in their conscience is the devil who uses the law to condemn and shame them using the law as the judge. (II Corinthians 4:5-7) Paul knew the diversity of the varying conditions of the conscience of every person, so he endeavored to refrain from judging anyone, knowing that My forgiveness is always available through the ministry of Christ Jesus and My Holy Spirit, who is Lord in the earth. (II Corinthians 3:17-18) Your Father of a Pure Conscience

BLESSED BY THE TESTIMONY OF YOUR CONSCIENCE

My Dear Precious Child, The thoughts of your heart are the testimonies of your conscience. Often they are condemning thoughts that you are on the wrong track spiritually and doing the devil's will, and often they are confirming thoughts that you are on the right track spiritually according to My will. When your thoughts are judgmental, you are on the wrong track or path and you are being motivated by the devil by his using either judgmental religious laws or fleshly passions to confirm his will in your life. When your thoughts are forgiving and merciful, you are on the right track or path, being motivated by Me by My using the words of Jesus Christ to confirm My will in your life. Your speech and your actions are the result of your thoughts from your conscience. The apostle Paul was very concerned about the consciences of the believers in Jesus Christ, knowing that they can either condemn a person's thoughts or they can affirm a person's thoughts, speech and actions as being righteous or being sinful. The consciences of believers have power over a person to either justify or to condemn the person, depending on whose thoughts are ruling their minds at the time. When Paul was writing his second letter to the believers in Corinth, he was concerned about their own consciences being consistent in believing that My promises are always firm. First he wrote that as far as he and Timothy were concerned, it was with pride and exultation that their own consciences had testified that they, the ministers, had conducted themselves in the world and also toward the believers in Christ in Corinth with pure motives and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but with favor and merciful kindness which had caused them to be more fully secure towards Christ which had increased Christian virtues in them. He wrote that his teachings to them had furthered their acquaintance with spiritual matters so that they would understand virtues more accurately. He wrote that just like the believers had been proud of Paul and Timothy, the ministers would also be proud of the virtues of the believers on the day of the Lord. Paul wrote to the believers that it was with that assurance that he had wanted to visit them in person so that the believers would have a double portion of My grace and favor. He wanted to stop by to see them on the way to and from his ministry trips. (II Corinthians 1:16-17) Paul explained the disruption in his plans to visit them by saying that it was not because of fleshly planning that the told them that yes, he was coming to see them, when he meant no, that he really wasn't coming to see them. He wrote that just like Christ Jesus, the Messiah, had been preached among the Corinthians by Paul and his companions, in their message to the believers Christ's words were not yes when He meant no. He wrote that what Christ preached among them was never yes and no, but was always Yes. Then Paul wrote his confidence in My words, writing that all of My promises find their YES in Christ. He wrote that was the reason that they had uttered Amen, So Be It, to My promises through Him to My glory. His faith was based upon the fact that I make steadfast the establishing in the believers their joint fellowship with Christ, and that I had consecrated and anointed all believers with My Holy Spirit, putting His seal on believers by giving to them My Holy Spirit in their hearts as the guarantee of His promises. Paul's reason for not visiting them was because he didn't want to hurt them. He stressed that he and the other ministers did not have dominion over the believers in the church at Corinth, because they were all equal laborers in order to promote faith and love in the strong conviction or belief that Jesus Christ was the Messiah through whom they all gained entry into their eternal salvation in My kingdom of heaven in which the believers stood firm. (II Corinthians 1:17-23) The reason for Paul's explanation for his plans being changed was that he didn't want the believers to think that just because Paul's plans had changed that My promises would also change. He wanted the believer to be firm in the conviction in their consciences that My promises are always Yes, Amen, So be it. (II Corinthians 1:24) Paul wanted believers to know that just because he had changed his plans, I am trustworthy, that My YES means YES. (II Corinthians 1:18-19) My promises are always Yes, Amen, So be it! Your Father of True Promises

BLESSINGS FROM A HOLY SPIRIT LED CONSCIENCE

My Dear Precious Child, When the apostle Paul began to teach about a person's conscience, he described CONSCIENCE as being the works of laws which are written in your heart and mind which apear to be truth to you, either being words which come from religious laws which curse and accuse you or being words which come from My Holy Spirit which forgive and excuse you for sins. Since old covenant laws are punitive, requiring punishment, and My new covenant of the Holy Spirit is rehabilitative, offering forgiveness, My children will either inherit curses from the devil who uses the laws of sin and death or My children will inherit blessings from Me who uses the words of the Holy Spirit to brings Life and soul peace to you, depending upon which covenant the people have placed themselves under. (Romans 2:15) When your conscience is filled with punitive laws, you will judge other people, which causes them to judge you in return and you will inherit curses in your life on earth. (Matthew 7:1-6) However, if your conscience is filled with My words of the Holy Spirit of Love, you will forgive a person for sinning against you, your sins will be excused immediately, and you will have invited My kingdom of heaven to flood you with My blessings and rewards for operating in the tenets or words of My kingdom of God. Paul wrote to the Romans who were being tempted by false prophets to return to old covenant laws which Jesus said was impossible to combine with My new covenant of the Holy Spirit of Love. (Matthew 24:24) The church members in Rome had adopted My new covenant of Love when they became born of My Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit. The false prophets among the Jews from Jerusalem had gone to Rome to endeavor to place the newly converted believers in Christ Jesus under Jewish religious laws because the Jews hated the newly found freedom from bondage to religious laws which the believers were experiencing. (Galatians 2:4) To the Roman believers Paul wrote that people can be Jews by observing many laws and they begin to teach other people about the laws, for instance concerning stealing, adultery and eating forbidden food. Yet, the Jews continue to steal, commit adultery and even eat forbidden food. He said that they bragged about the laws, but they broke them themselves, dishonoring Me. He wrote that through their actions My name was blasphemed among the Gentiles by their hypocrisy. (Romans 2:23-24) The very believing people whom the false prophets taught and tried to influence to be circumcised, many of them had been circumcised in their hearts by being born of My Holy Spirit and Baptized in My Holy Spirit. They had already entered into My kingdom of God. There was no need for any old covenant rules, regulations or traditions to try to enhance their life changes made possible through the works of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 2:24-26)They were walking in the blessings of My new covenant of the Holy Spirit. They did not need anything more. They just needed to continue seeking Me and My Holy Spirit, depending upon Him to teach them everything that they were hungry and thirsty to know. Adding bondage to their freedom was the devil's way to rob them of My liberty that they had found in Christ Jesus and My Holy Spirit. The people who were walking in My kingdom of God and listening to My Holy Spirit were blessed with a clear conscience. Influencing them to adopt punitive old covenant laws would create a judgmental conscience within them which would curse their lives. (Romans 2:20-22) Paul's warnings were justified. He had been a good Jew and he was currently at the time of his letter to the Romans a new creature in Christ Jesus, walking in the Holy Spirit of Love. He was grieved that some of the believers in Rome would be deceived and fall under the laws of sin and death after experiencing the words of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. Your Father of Liberty

BLESSED WITH KNOWLEDGE OF FREEDOM AND LIBERTY

My Dear Precious Child, When My children possess spiritual knowledge from the Holy Spirit related to spiritual traditions and rituals, they are free from bondage to the old covenant laws of sin and death. However, in the presence of someone who has no knowledge from the Holy Spirit related to being free from those traditions and rituals, believers must not flaunt their freedom in front of the nonspiritual people because if your freedom causes the nonspiritual people to do something against their conscience, then the victorious believers have caused the nonspiritual people to sin, thus sinning themselves. (I Corinthians chapter 8) In the apostle Paul's letter to the believers at Corinth he wrote that Godly love encourages you to only do things that build up and cause someone weak in faith to grow to his full spiritual stature. So your freedom and liberty in considering everything legal for you to do might influence someone to do something against his or her own conscience. You might have the faith to believe that when you bless food, as Christ taught you to do, that it becomes pure and unadulterated by your blessing having chased demons away, but someone else might be weak in faith, thinking that the food is demonic because it was sacrificed to demons. So that person's faith might condemn him if he sees you eating food on the altar which was sacrificed to demons and he is encourged to also eat the food. As long as his conscience condemns him, then it is sin to him and eating the food will cause the person to inherit judgment from the devil because of his beliefs, even though your freedom says that for you it's permissible to eat the food sacrificed to idols because you have been enlightened. Paul went even further by writing that if a believer thinks that he or she has come to know spiritual things but does not have love, then that person does not perceive, understand or recognize spiritual things clearly, nor has that person become intimately acquainted with real Truth. If a person truly loves Me and says that he or she has become acquainted with Me, then he or she is known by Me and I intimately know that person. However, not every believer has that intimate relationship with Me through My Spirit having revealed My love to him or her. (I Corinthians 8:1-4; Ephesians 3: 14-21) He wrote that whether or not you eat food sacrificed to idols does not make you acceptable or unacceptable to Me, but you must be careful not to influence another person to do something against his or her own conscience because doing so will allow the devil to condemn him or her with the heavy weight of guilt which can lead to death if he or she does not know about My forgiveness in wiping the slate clean of offenses. But if someone with weak faith observes you in your freedom and liberty doing something that influences him or her to also do something that is not sinful to you but is still sinful to him or her according to his or her conscience, then your enlightenment about spiritual matters has caused another person's faith to be ruined. So when you sin against a fellow believer in this way, wounding and damaging his or her weak conscience which will condemn the person, then you have sinned against Christ by your freedom and liberty. You have become a stumbling block, a hindrance to his or her weak faith by giving the person an impulse to sin. (I Corinthians 8:7-12) Paul said that he would rather never eat meat again if his eating caused another person to become hindered in his or her own spiritual advancement. Loving other people does not cause anyone to distance himself from Me. Love encourages other people to seek Me so that they will find Me. Don't do anything which will cause another person to distance himself or herself from Me because of what you have done in your freedom and liberty. ( I Corinthians 8:12) Your Father of Mercy and Forgiveness

BLESSED BY THE CONSCIOUS POWER OF YOUR THOUGHTS

My Dear Precious Child, When the apostle Paul was teaching about your having a clear conscience toward Me and your fellow inhabitants of the earth, in his teaching related to your having the freedom from Me to eat food sacrificed to idols he used as an example that if someone who is under religious Law does not feel free when hungry to eat food sacrificed to idols, then if you influence that person to eat the food reserved for idols you have sinned because you have influenced him or her to do something for which the person's conscience condemns him by having assured the person of his sinning against Me because of his religious beliefs. He or she feels condemned because of the religious/Jewish Law which influences his or her conscience instead of the person having the revelation from Me that you can bless the food and it's blessed. Paul wrote in his letter to the Roman believer concerning the subject this,"If any person sees you, who has spiritual knowledge, sit and eat meat that is in the idol's temple, then the conscience of the person who is weak in spiritual faith will become influenced to eat those things which are offered to idols. Then if the person's conscience condemns him or her and the person perishes because of the influence of your freedom, then you have caused the person to die by wounding the person's weak spirit. You have sinned against Christ because of your flaunting your freedom which caused the person's death." (I Corinthians 8:9-12) Paul wrote that he would not become a stumbling block to another believer, so he would eat no meat sacrificed to idols to insure that he would not make a brother offend his own conscience and die. That example shows to you the power of a person's thoughts. A person's thoughts can either condemn the person or a person's thoughts can bless the person, depending upon from where the thoughts come. Because of the religious Law of sin and death influencing the life of a person and leading to death, you must not influence anyone to do something that is against the person's weak faith or the person's conscience will be influenced by the devil to sin and then the person will be condemned by the devil and he or she might possibly die. The person's blood will be on your hands because you have influenced the person to do something contrary to the person's conscience, which allows the devil to condemn him or her and cause the person to eventually die from the devil's guilt and condemnation. (Matthew 23:35) Paul's revelation pertaining to this sin, which was not meant to cause death, is still considered sin because it gives the devil an occasion to condemn another person from your action of eating the food sacrificed to idols, whether you realize it or not, after you have read Paul's revelation in his writings to the church at Corinth. He had not meant to heap judgment upon anyone. He just felt a need to reveal an element of the devil's work in the earth through a believer's flaunting his freedom which causes a weak person in faith to sin. I am neither the tempter nor the condemner. The devil is. Therefore, My children must not in some way cause another person of weak faith to do anything that defies his or her conscience or it gives the devil an occasion to condemn the person and bring curses and then death to him or her. If you have done that, you have an opportunity to correct your careless flaunting of your freedom by your making it right with the person, confessing your sin of influencing the person to defy his or her conscience. Your Father of a Clear Conscience

BLESSED WHEN CONSCIENCE DOESN'T CONDEMN

My Precious Child, The apostle Paul wrote frequently about your conscience not condemning you and if your conscience doesn't condemn you, then you are victorious. Your conscience is able to condemn you when you are ruled by old covenant religious laws which require punishment instead of forgiveness; forgiveness being My way of handling lawbreakers. I am able to immediately forgive lawbreakers because I know that the source of all lawbreaking is the devil who tempts you to sin and then condemns you for following his temptation. It's the condemnation which eventually brings death. My forgiveness always brings Life. In Paul's confession to his Jewish captors, he professed that he always had a conscience void of offenses against Me and men. (Acts 24:15) Under the same scenario he also professed that he had lived in all good conscience before Me. (Acts 23:1) Paul wrote to the believers at Rome that I write the work of My laws (words) on the hearts of believers and that their conscience also identifies those words as Truth. When they have thoughts, speak words or do actions, then their thoughts either accuse them or excuse them depending on if My words are written on their hearts or if the devil uses old covenant law what is written in books that they can recall which condemns them. If old covenant Law is relied upon as a basis for their conscience to either excuse or accuse them, then their thoughts will always be accusatory. If My new covenant words of love are written in their minds and hearts, then their sins will be excused and forgotten. (Romans 2:15) Paul used eating food sacrificed to idols as an example. He wrote that when you are rooted in grace and have no laws in your mind that accuse you of the offense of eating food dedicated to idols, then if you do eat the food you are neither accused or excused because it's not a sin to you. However, He also wrote that if you eat food sacrificed to idols and someone near by sees your liberty, if that person eats the food sacrificed to idols when his conscience is filled with old covenant laws which condemn him for eating that particular food, then he is condemned by his conscience for eating what was free for you to eat. You must be careful of your choices under those circumstances because if your liberty is the reason for somebody whose conscience will accuse him for eating food sacrificed to idols is encouraged by you to eat the food, then you are a stumbling block to that person, causing him to sin because his conscience will accuse him which will result in the devil's condemnation which can bring death. So you have sinned against the person by damaging his conscience that is so weak as to believe what the Jewish religious Law says about eating food sacrificed to idols. Therefore, if your eating food sacrificed to idols causes another person to fail to follow his conscience, then it's better to never eat the food again in case you cause another person to defy his conscience. ( I Corinthians 8:12) Paul wrote to Timothy that he must, as a minister of Mine, hold onto the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. If your freedom to do something causes another person to do something that he considers sin, then you have contributed to his sinning. It's not worth it for you to flaunt your freedom before a person who is weak in conscience, because you have influenced him or her to sin and caused his conscience to condemn him. Love does not cause another person to sin by bypassing his own conscience. Love encourages another person to follow his or her own conscience. Your Father of Love and Consideration

BLESSED BY NEW COVENANT WISDOM WHICH CREATE A CLEAR CONSCIENCE

My Dear Precious Child, "For the law (words) of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has made Me free from the law (words) of sin and death. " (Romans 8:2) The apostle Paul, who had a close one-on-one relationship with Me through the Holy Spirit, had originally been a dedicated student of Jewish law, to which he referred as the law of sin and death. When he met Christ on the road to Damascus and spend almost three years becoming a dedicated student of My new covenant which I had instituted through My Holy Spirit with humanity, Paul was enthralled with the benefits and rewards that I promised to the believers who embrace My Holy Spirit and His Words of Life. While Paul had been a dedicated student of Jewish Law, his mind was blinded to the prophesies in the old covenant of sin and death that concerned the eventual coming into the earth of My new covenant of the Holy Spirit where I came to live inside of humans and made their bodies My temple of the Spirit in the earth. However, when Paul spent those three years in the dessert with only Me, he allowed Me to open his mind to the truths that were contained in the prophesies spoken by the old covenant prophets. After his conversion of being born of My Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit, after Paul experienced 100% of the benefits of My new covenant of the Holy Spirit, he realized the bondage that the old covenant had held on him. So Paul's warnings to the believers about avoiding false prophets were very often very emphatic because of his having experienced exchanging My freedom in the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus for the bondage of the old covenant of sin and death. He had experienced the results which followed from obeying both covenants, and he knew the advantages of knowing Christ Jesus and His covenant of Life. When Paul wrote, "There is, therefore, now no condemnation" -- no having been adjudged guilty of wrong -- "for those who are in Christ Jesus who live not after the dictates of the flesh, but instead live after the dictates of the Holy Spirit," he was speaking from experience, not merely from theories derived from the teachings of somebody else. (Romans 8:1; John 3:16-18) For over 30 years previously he had trusted in the law of sin and death for his salvation from evil but found that it was not possible. When He met Christ on the road to Damascus and spent three years only with Him and My Holy Spirit, consulting no other human being, Paul experienced real freedom, love and joy and therefore has been able to project the truths of the new covenant to My children. His warnings were strong and bold to Roman believers concerning false prophets and their reliance on the law of sin and death which they were teaching to the new Christian believers because he remembered the condemning bondage that had controlled his own thoughts when he was previously committed to the law of sin and death when his CONSCIENCE had condemned him for not being able to obey all of the religious laws. He wrote to the Romans believers that as a good teacher he spoke Truth in Christ, not lying, because his good conscience was confirmed by the Holy Spirit. In other words, his conscience spoke thoughts to him that brought freedom to him from Me instead of his thoughts condemning him for not being able to keep all of the laws of sin and death, as had happened when he was loyal to the old covenant of sin and death. (Romans 9:1) Paul wrote that they must be subject to the civil laws of their country because obeying civil laws keep them out of prison. However, religious instructions must come from Me through the Holy Spirit so that My children are not condemned by laws that were supposed to be civil laws but instead had become religious laws, which is what the Jewish laws had become and therefore they were fleshly instead of spiritual. (Romans 13:5) So the civil laws were supposed to have the authority to keep peace among people, but they were punitive, always insisting on punishment instead of forgiveness. But Paul said that civil laws also have the power to condemn instead of having the power to rehabilitate through forgiveness like My words from the Holy Spirit which come from spiritual truths. He wrote that there is no condemnation for My children who follow My guidance from the Holy Spirit who lives inside of them. He is the One Who speaks Truth and Forgiveness instead of speaking condemnation and guilt in your thoughts. Guilt and condemnation from the devil kill people but My words from My Holy Spirit bring Life. Paul vehemently objected to false prophets placing new believers in his churches under the laws of sin and death from which he knew they would experience bondage when the laws condemned them instead of freeing them. Paul did not want the believers to whom he ministered to become cursed in their lives from having a guilty conscience which brings death. He wanted the believers to hear from My Holy Spirit who speaks Life and peace to their mind. (I Thessalonians 5:23) Your Father of Truth and Guidance

BLESSED WHEN YOUR CONSCIENCE ABSOLVES YOU

My Dear Precious Child, The apostle Paul was taken before the religious council in order for them to declare whether he had preached against the Jewish religion and the temple since he had become enlightened by the Holy Spirit and Jesus on the road to Damascus. Of course he had on occasion, but his defense was that he had always been an observer of religious Law, obeying it to his utmost best. However he was a Roman citizen. During his inquisition before the religious council of the Sanhedrin, who were the religious elders of the temple, he told them that he had lived before Me, doing his duty with a perfectly good CONSCIENCE all the time and even up to that day as a citizen, a true and loyal Jew. Ananias, the head of the council, didn't like Paul's answer and he ordered the people close to Paul to strike Paul on the mouth. Paul said to Ananias that I, as God, was going to strike him, and Paul called Ananias a whitewashed wall. Then Paul said that Ananias had judged Paul in accordance with the religious Law, and yet Ananias had ordered Paul stricken which he knew was in defiance to the Law. In that reply of Paul to Ananias, is the truth behind having your conscience condemn you. Paul insinuated that when the human mind is filled with unenlightened religious Law, those tenets of the Law will not only condemn you but will also cause you to condemn other people who do not observe the Law. So Paul told the council and Ananias that his conscience had been right toward Me all the time because his CONSCIENCE had not convicted him. (Acts 23:1) Paul had laid aside all of his loyalty to the Jewish Law which would have condemned him if he had remained bound to it. Instead, Paul learned to allow My Holy Spirit to be his Guide and his Lord.(I Corinthians 3:16; II Corinthians 3:17-18) Later when Ananias came to the region where Felix was the judge, Paul had been arrested and he brought Paul's case up to that judicial authority, surmising that Felix had more authority over Paul than he did. Felix called upon Paul to defend himself and Paul spoke with respect to Felix, telling him how loyal that he had always been to religious Law and that he always had a CONSCIENCE void of offense toward Me and toward other people. (Acts 24:14-16) Paul also professed his belief that there was to come a resurrection of the righteous and the unrighteous. Felix judged Paul by putting off his trial and ruling that Paul was to be under the authority of a centurion, having some liberties, and he told the centurion to allow Paul to continue in his ministering to the needs of the people and serving Felix. Later in Paul's writings while he was under arrest he explained fully in his letter to the Roman believers about the commandment of Jesus Christ that they were not to judge or condemn another person or they would be themselves judged by the same standard. (Matthew 7:1-5) In Paul's letter to the Roman believers he amplified that commandment of Jesus Christ. He wrote that in passing judgment on other people that they condemn themselves because they have done the same things that they are condemning other people for doing. (Romans 2:1-3) In explaining the difference between the Jews and the Gentiles, he wrote that even though the Gentiles did not have a moral compass like the religious Law was to the Jews, he explained that they often do what the Law requires because the inclination to do good is written on their hearts. In that instance, Paul wrote that they are a Law unto themselves since they don't have any written religious Law, but there are laws which are written on their hearts and in their minds. Their CONSCIENCE tells them the difference between right and wrong so their thoughts will either be approving or condemning, which means that their actions will either be accusatory or forgiven. (Romans 2:14-15) The Holy Spirit is the One who writes My laws on their heart. He explained about the CONSCIENCE of the Jews by reminding them that if they are a Jew and depend upon the religious Law to save them by their knowing and understanding the Law, their being a guide to the spiritually blind people, their correcting the foolish people, and their being a teacher of childish men, he asked the Jews if they have taught themselves also not to steal, not to commit adultery, not to worship idols and not to rob temples for things of their own use. He said they brag about their religious Law yet they break the Law. (Romans 2:17-23) The difference between the Gentile believers and the Jews is that the Jewish Law is used by the devil to condemn people, condemning themselves as well as others. Since the Gentiles do not have written laws, only having My words written on their minds and hearts, their consciences can more effectively excuse and defend them because My words are written on their hearts and they know they are forgiven. There is no condemnation, only rehabilitation. It was for that very reason that the false prophets were determined to bring the Gentile believers under their Jewish religious Law, because then the people would have religious laws in their minds, and the devil would have written Laws with which to tempt the people and then to judge the people instead of the Gentiles continuing in the new covenant of the Holy Spirit and becoming forgiving and rehabilitated instead of their judging other people and themselves according to Jewish Law which brings them under condemnation from hell. When the devil can tempt you and condemn you using Jewish Law, then your own CONSCIENCE will often judge you guilty and condemned if you are under Jewish Law instead of your being under the Law of Liberty in Christ Jesus in which you are forgiven and deemed a child of Mine by the Holy Spirit living inside of you. Like Paul wrote to the Romans, the religious Law of the Jews was given to be the rules and regulations for the flesh of Jewish people and their civic nation, but My children of promise of the new covenant are the ones who have My Seed of the Holy Spirit living inside of them to be their guide and their salvation. (Romans 9:8) It is the power of My Holy Spirit which enables My children of promise to heed My words and follow My guidance. "There is no condemnation for My children of promise who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk after the dictates of the flesh but who follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit." (Romans 8:1) Your Father of A Better Covenant of the Holy Spirit

BLESSED WITH A RIGHTEOUS CONSCIENCE

My Dear Precious Child, The apostle Paul wrote that you must not let your conscience condemn you or you will not reign in life as an overcomer over evil. As a Gentile believer in Jesus Christ, if you have allowed a false prophet to poison your mind with old covenant Laws, then you will not allow other people the freedom that you have in being free from the curses that come from your trying to be righteous because of obeying Jewish Law. If you add old covenant Law to your being a child of Mine, instead of forgiving people for breaking old covenant religious laws, you will hold them accountable and place them back under the laws of sin and death if you believe false prophets. In doing that, you also place yourself under the old covenant laws of sin and death instead of your continuing in Christ's words of the covenant of the Holy Spirit which place you under the words of Life that Christ Jesus taught to you. In the same way, your being placed under the laws of sin and death by the false prophets will condemn you with the religious laws of the Pharisees and your conscience will condemn you with the thought of death, which is the result of being under old covenant Law of sin and death. Paul amplified this truth when he wrote to the Galatians that they must do this: "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherein Christ has made you free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage."(Galatians 5:1) Paul wrote those wise words to the Gentile Christians in Galacia who had fallen under the Jewish laws of sin and death by being convinced by Judeo-Christian believers who had come into their church teaching that they just be circumcised in order to be whole in My eyes. Nothing could be further from the truth. The circumcision of which I often spoke, and which Jesus Christ amplified, related to the circumcision of your heart when you are born of My Holy Spirit. The circumcision that I taught the Jews to observe was only a prophesy of the coming of Jesus Christ who would circumcise My children spiritually and place My Holy Spirit into their own hearts. It was never meant to justify My children to Me. Yet, some of My new covenant Galatian believers became poisoned by false prophets to believe that they had to become physically circumcised in order to complete their new birth. Nothing could be further from the truth. Circumcision is only good for physical cleanliness, not for spiritual cleanliness. The apostle Paul had been a loyal Jew, a man who was loyal to Jewish law even to the place of persecuting and even murdering My newly born again children. After he met Christ Jesus on the road to Damascus, he became a new creature in Christ, born of the Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit. Then He set Himself apart from humanity and communicated only with My Holy Spirit for almost three years. It took that long for My Holy Spirit to deprogram Paul from dependency upon the laws of sin and death which had been his moral compass from birth. He eventually understood the words of Christ Jesus who said that you cannot put the new wine of the Holy Spirit into old wine skins of the old covenant laws of sin and death because the wine skins will split and the wine will be ruined, which was My way of speaking about trying to combine the old covenant laws of sin and death with My new covenant words of forgiveness and New Life in Christ Jesus through their inheriting My blessings and rewards in their lives on earth. In Paul's revelation to the Galatian believers, he wisely wrote that if they willingly or ignorantly became circumcised after being born again of the Holy Spirit, it would not profit them anything positively; and, in fact, it brought curses upon their lives because by becoming circumcised they placed themselves under all of the Jewish law and its requirements. If they broke even one law, then they opened themselves up to the devil to condemn them to curses and death. If those Galatian believers, who were Gentiles, went under old covenant laws, then the benefits that come from knowing Me through Christ Jesus would not continue into their lives. (Galatians 5:2) Why would anyone choose to return to bondage to religious laws when there is liberty and freedom in believing in Christ Jesus and His crucifixion and death on the cross for the forgiveness of their sins? Some of the Galatian Christians has been deceived and influenced by Jewish Christians who could not lay aside their Laws in exchange for receiving liberty and freedom from bondage to their written Law which is the law of sin and death. To those people who try to slide back into old covenant law in order to more efficiently know Me, My Holy Spirit wrote through Paul that they have fallen from My grace by trying to be justified by the Law again. He wrote that Christ and His sacrifice for the sins of the world has no freeing effect on the backsliders who slide back into religious Law. (Galatians 5:4-5) My Spirit wrote through Paul that the Galatians had been running the race well. He asked who had hindered them that they should not obey the Truth? He professed that the persuasion that caused them to return to old Laws did not come from Me who had called them to freedom from old covenant bondage. (Galatians 5:8-9) He even wrote that just a little leaven will poison the whole lump, speaking about each individual person's spirit, soul and body, as well as the entire church. Jesus Christ had warned His disciples not to add to or detract from His words. He revealed to Paul that when the Jewish Christians encouraged the bondage free Galatians to be circumcised or in other ways to depend upon salvation to come from obeying old covenant rituals, laws and traditions, he wished that the knife might slip and cut them off from the congregations. He reminded the Galatians that if they continued to walk in the guidance of the Holy Spirit that they would not fulfill the lust of the flesh in seeking what the false prophets said was a more perfect way of salvation by incorporating Jewish religious Laws into their being justified by faith. My Holy Spirit accomplishes complete justification in Christ in the new covenant of the Holy Spirit which provides salvation by faith in Jesus Christ with no additions from the old covenant of sin and death. The people who had added portions of the law of sin and death to their New Birth and their being baptized in the Holy Spirit, they found that their consciences condemned them by the dictates of Jewish Law instead of their being forgiven and rehabilitated by the words of Jesus Christ in the new covenant of Life in Christ Jesus. Jesus had exemplified that grace while on the cross when He asked Me to forgive His murderers because they didn't know what they were doing. That is true Love, to forgive your human killers. If Jesus had been under Jewish Law, He would have demanded that His killers be punished, as the Law requires. But under the Law of Spirit and Life, Jesus acted out of love and forgiveness for his killers. Paul listed the personality traits of people who are led by the Holy Spirit as being love, joy, peace, goodness, kindness, mercy, longsuffering, patience. faith, meekness and temperance. Jesus exemplified those character traits in everything that He did. When you are united with Christ through the Holy Spirit, then those are your character traits. My Holy Spirit wrote through Paul that if you are led by the Holy Spirit, then you are not under the Law of sin and death. Instead, you are under the Law of Life in Christ Jesus. There is nothing under the Law of sin and death that improves the words of Life that came out of the mouth of Jesus Christ. All the Law of sin and death does for My born again believer is condemn you in your conscience which brings curses and death to you. Heed Paul's warnings to the Galatian Christians and do not succumb to any false prophet who endeavors to bring you into bondage to sin by providing condemnation in your conscience by using old covenant Law as an adjunct way to salvation. There is no adjunct way. There is only New Life in Jesus Christ and My Holy Spirit. Your Father of the Perfect Salvation

BLESSED BY THE INNER LIGHT

My Dear Precious Child, When Jesus walked in the earth and was thought by many people to be the Messiah, there were controversies related to that belief because of His actions toward obvious sinners according to religious Law. His dealing with the woman who was caught in adultery is a prime example. According to religious Law she was supposed to be stoned to death in the city streets by the priestly hierarchy of the temple. In fact, that is why the Pharisees and scribes had brought her to Jesus, to test Him to see if He would obey their religious Laws. They reminded Jesus Christ about the law, hoping to accuse Him of refusing to follow the Laws in order to prove Him of being a phony instead of the Messiah. Instead of accusing the woman of adultery, as the hypocritical Pharisees expected, Jesus knelt on the ground and wrote with his finger in the sand the sins of the Pharisees and scribes. Upon rising from the ground Jesus said that if there was a person in their midst who was not a sinner also, let him be the person to throw the first stone in the woman's stoning. Each Pharisee and scribe, upon seeing what Jesus wrote in the sand with his finger, became stricken with a guilty CONSCIENCE himself and they began leaving the expected "stoning" one by one, the oldest to the youngest. In His conversation with the woman, Jesus revealed His opinion about sinning by asking the woman where all of her accusers had gone, seeing that there were no men left there to condemn her. Jesus called attention to that fact, that all of her accusers had left the scene of what was considered to become a possible stoning of the woman who was accused. What happened next was amazing to the observers according to Jewish Law. Jesus Christ, Himself, said to the woman who was obviously caught in adultery that He also did not accuse her either. He also told her to go and not to sin anymore. Then Jesus turned and addressed the crowd of people saying, "I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me will not walk in darkness but will have the Light of Life in him or her." In that statement He disclosed that there was no darkness in Him, that there was only the Light of Life. The hypocritical Pharisees who remained told Jesus that He was giving His own opinion, not the opinion of the Jewish Law. Jesus answered that even if He did speak from His own authority, His testimony was true and reliable. He told them that He knew where He came from and where He was going but they didn't know Him or where He was going. Then Jesus Christ revealed to the hypocritical Pharisees and scribes that they judged according to their flesh but that He judged no person. He said that even if He did judge, He said that His judgment was sound because the Father sent Him and that the Father was in Him. He reminded those Pharisees that the Law says that the testimony of two witnesses made a testimony valid. Jesus said that it might be apparaent that He testified on His own, but that it was really the testimony of the Father who sent Him who was a witness, too; to which a Pharisee asked Jesus where was His Father? Jesus answered that they didn't know Him so they couldn't know Me. He assured them that if they truly knew Him that they would have known Me, His Father, as well. This entire scenario took place in the Treasury in the temple, but nobody arrested Him because the time had not come for him to be crucified. He told them again that He was going away and they would be looking for Him. He told them that they would die in their sins and where He was going it was not possible for them to come, to which they asked among themselves if He was going to kill himself? Jesus told them that they were from below and He was from above; that they were of the world and He was not; to which they asked who he was, anyway, Jesus said that He was wasting His breath to try to explain because He was whom He said He was from the beginning. His gracious, merciful treatment of the woman who was caught red handed in the act of adultery was diametrically opposite to the way the Pharisees, scribes, chief priests, priests and elders of the temple treated women who were adulterers. Forgiveness was not even considered because mercy was not in their religious Law. To be good Jewish citizens and a good religious official, they must follow the Law and its punishment. The Jewish law was for the flesh. Jesus Christ showed that My attitude toward all sin was to forgive the people who committed the sins. Jesus knew that sin was committed by people in answer to the temptations of the devil, so the guilty entity was the devil and his demons. In speaking to the woman to go and sin no more, there was so much power in His words that she began to believe and follow Him. The religious laws punish people but Jesus Christ and I forgive people and give My children the power to be rehabilitated. In a small capsule, that's the difference between the religious old covenant and the new covenant of the Holy Spirit. It's all identified in Jesus' treatment of the woman caught in adultery. Your Father of Love and Forgiveness

BLESSED BY HAVING A CLEAR CONSCIENCE

My Dear Precious Child, Your conscience can either condemn you or it can free you. Paul wrote to the Corinthians that he was not lying when he said that his conscience bore witness in the Holy Spirit that his concern was for the Jews and their refusal to believe that Jesus was the Christ. His heaviness of heart was for the Jews in their unbelief, not for his having grief in relation to his own relationship with Me. Paul, himself, was a Jew of the flesh and had become a child of promise when he met Jesus face to face on the road to Damascus. So he said that his conscience did not convict him of lying because he had truly become My child by believing in Christ where before he had even persecuted the people who were My children. Because of his new birth by the Holy Spirit he had become a child of the new covenant of the Holy Spirit. But still, he desperately wanted the unbelieving Jews to become born of My Holy Spirit in order to become new creations. He even said that he would even give up his being a new creation if the Jews would come to know Me intimately through My Holy spirit. (Romans 9:1-3) Out of love for his Jewish brothers of the flesh, he was burdened that they were still anticipating the coming of the Messiah. His conscience was clear about his own relationship with Me, but his heart was burdened in relation to the Jews who remained in their unbelief. In his letter to Timothy Paul stressed the importance of discerning of spirits when people came to their church. He cautioned Timothy about false teachers coming into the church teaching about legends, myths and endless genealogies which cause questions to emerge. Instead, Paul said that the believer must remain in faith, which is their leaning their entire human beings on Me. He wrote that the purpose of his commandment to people in his churches was to love, to have faith and to have a clear conscience. In other words, he was concerned that the teachers of the Law were leading people astray when the only thing that established their relationship with Me is faith. (I Timothy 1:4-5) Their fleshly relationship with their relatives from the past had nothing to do with their relationship with me. Only the faith of My children in their new birth mixed with My love gives them a clear conscience. Instead of their relying upon the religious Law which was espoused to be necessary for salvation by the religious/political Pharisees, Paul reminded the people in the church to whom he wrote letters that under My new covenant of the Holy Spirit it's My own words which I have written on their hearts that either gently accuses them or My words excuse them of sin. He wanted to make sure that his believers to whom he had ministered remained free from the Law of sin and death and embrace the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus which I had written on their hearts and minds. The old covenant Law convicted them of sin for which they had to offer sacrifices but My new covenant of the Holy Spirit in which I wrote My words on their hearts and minds convinced them that Jesus Christ had died for their sins and if they ask forgiveness there are no guilty consciences in their congregation. (I Timothy 1:4-5) Paul wanted them to understand that their fleshly kinship to prophets or kings of the past had nothing to do with their salvation so they should shun teachings about their human genealogical connections. The spiritual law of My Love covers over any accusations of sins under My new covenant of the Holy Spirit for the believer. In order to teach clearly his doctrine about the conscience of people, Paul cleared it up by saying that if a person believes that eating food sacrificed to idols is a sin, as taught by old covenant religious Law, then if that person also eats the food sacrificed to idols because he sees you, who are free from that condemnation in lieu of your being born again into a new covenant; and so, because of necessity you have eaten that food sacrificed to idols, then if that pesron also eats that food sacrificed to idols because you have influenced the person to eat the food while that person believes it's sinful to do so, then their own consciences will condemn them and they will experience the curses that come from disobeying religious Law. But to My born again, baptized in the Holy Spirit children there is no law against them eating food sacrificed to idols.(I Corinthians 8:6-13) If you, who is free from religious Law influences a person to eat the food sacrificed to idols, then you have caused that person to sin and his conscience will condemn him, while you experience no condemnation because you are free from old covenant religious Law. However, your conscience might condemn you for causing the person to sin by eating the food. It's better for you not to eat the food sacrificed to idols if there is someone present who is under religious law and your eating the food might influence him to eat and his conscience condemn him. Jesus said you sin against Christ if your eating causes another person to eat when his religious programming is that it is a sin to eat food sacrificed to idols. When you are led by My Holy Spirit, I will not lead you to do something that your conscience will cause you to do something that will condemn you. Don't let your freedom be an occasion for another person to sin. Your Father of Divine GUIDANCE

BLESSED BY SPIRIT LED PRAYERS

My Dear Precious Child, The letter from Jude to everybody in My body of Christ includes stern warnings about false prophets. He wrote that the believers must contend for the faith that is the Christian faith because of the devil's evil spirits of antiChrist that creeps into churches through teachers which Jude called the side door. He identified them as having inherited the doom that was prepared for them long ago by Me. (Jude 4-6) They had perverted My grace and favor and embraced lawlessness, immorality and wantonness which is also called extreme selfishness. As a result they deny their Master and Lord, Jesus Christ the Messiah, the Anointed One. He identified them as dreamers who corrupt the body, scorn authority and government and scoff at heavenly glories, meaning My angelic hosts. (Jude 7) The demons who influence people to operate in conflict, hatred and division are destined for the lake of fire that I created for them as their judgment. Regarding angels, Jude wrote that when the archangel Michael contended with the devil for the body of Moses, he did not condemn him but instead said, "The Lord rebuke you." (Jude 8-9) Jude wrote further about the men who scoff at things they do not understand; and by those things that are Truth they condemn themselves and are eventually destroyed by their own unbelief.(Jude 10) He wrote that they brought woes into their lives on earth by behaving like Cain in killing people, like committing Balaam's errors, and like embracing Korah's rebellion. He wrote that they are like wild waves of the sea, flinging up foam of their own shame and disgrace; they are wandering stars for whom the gloom of eternal darkness has been reserved forever. (Jude 11) In more dramatic language Jude said that the prophet Enoch wrote that the Lord would convict those demons who influence the false prophets of their sins of murmuring and complaining, ones who seek their own desires, those who talk boastfully and arrogantly and even those who admire men's passions and pay compliments to people to gain their advantage. (Jude 14-15; Enoch 1:9; Genesis 5:18-25) He wrote that Jesus Christ, Himself, prophesied the same things.(Matthew 13:36-43) Jude wrote that they both told you that in the days of My last covenant with people that there would be people who scoff at Truth and follow their own demonic passions. He wrote that agitators who set up divisions and being mere sensual, carnal people would be devoid of My Holy Spirit and destitute of a higher spiritual life. BUT YOU, HE WROTE, BELOVED, MUST BUILD YOURSELF HIGHER AND HIGHER UP ON YOUR MOST HOLY FAITH BY PRAYING IN THE HOLY SPIRIT; guarding yourself with My love, waiting for the mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ which brings more and more elements of eternal life to you. (Jude 20) He wrote that you are to convict some people who dispute with you and to have mercy on others who waver and doubt; and for you to strive for others by snatching them out of the fire, having pity for others, hating even a garment that is polluted with sensuality. (Jude 22:23) In closing, Jude wrote that there is One who is able to keep you from stumbling, slipping, and falling, so as to present yourself unblemished before the presence of His glory in joy and exultation. Jude signed the letter dedicating it to Me and to the Savior Jesus Christ, giving all glory, honor, majesty, might, dominion, power, and authority before all time and into all ages of eternity; ending his letter with Amen; So be it. (Jude 24-25) Your Father of Wisdom and Knowledge

BLESSINGS THAT PROSPER YOU

My Dear Precious Child, In the apostle John the Beloved's first letter, he wrote it to the believers in the churches. In his second letter he wrote it to a special lady and his third letter he wrote to a person named Gaius whom he referred to as the ESTEEMED BELOVED whom he truly loved. We have talked several times about John and how he had written about the love that Jesus Christ felt for him, so he passed that divine love on to other people, even referring to them as Beloved. In the beginning of John's letter to Gaius, he addressed him as BELOVED, and then John blessed him by praying that Gaius might prosper in every way, that his body would be kept well even as his soul prospered and was kept well. That was spiritual Truth whether John realized it or not. When a person's mind is filled with positive thoughts, loving thoughts and kind thoughts, then his mind sends out beneficial hormones into his or her body which results in its being healthy. (III John 1:1-2) John wrote to Gaius that he, himself, rejoiced when he heard that other believers had arrived in his town and spoke very highly of Gaius's sincerity and love toward his fellow believers and that he also had been living and walking in the Truth of the Good News. John assured Gaius that the greatest joy in his life occurred when he heard that his spiritual children were living their lives in the Truth. Then John addressed Gaius again as BELOVED and then commented that it was faithful work that he was doing when he served his Christian brethren as well as strangers. He wrote that he had heard that Gaius had even testified in front of the church about his love and friendship and that he would do well to continue to forward them on their journeys in the same way that he had served other people in My name. John also wrote that the traveling ministers had gone out in the name of Christ and were accepting nothing from the Gentiles to whom they preached. He wrote that he and other ministers should support and provide for the traveling ones in order that they might become fellow workers in the Truth and cooperate with the teachers.(III John:3-4) However, in the third letter that John wrote, this one to Gaius, he reminded him that he had written briefly in the past about one of the elders who liked to take a lead among other men and put himself first, not recognizing John's authority in which he was refusing to accept any suggestions from John. The prophet John went on in his warning about the man Diotrephes. He wrote that when John came into the town where Gaius lived that he would call attention to the man's insulting language and his malicious reflections. He wrote that the man was not satisfied with doing only those fleshly works, but also that he refused to welcome outsiders and tried to even expel them from the church. John was definite in using his own authority to call attention to brotherly abuse. (III John 1:9-10) Again John addressed Gaius as BELOVED, encouraging him not to imitate evil, but instead to always imitate good. He wrote that a person who does good is of Me but the person who does evil has neither seen Me nor has the person experienced Me in reality. John passed on the news that Demetrius had warm commendations from everyone and from the Truth and wrote that he added his testimony also, confessing that his testimony was true. Like John wrote to the lady, he also wrote to Gaius that he has much more to say but not in words to put down in pen and ink, that He hoped to see Gaius soon and said that they would talk mouth to mouth, just like he told the Christian lady to whom he had written his second letter. (III John 1:11-14) John sent a wish for peace for Gaius, telling him that their friends with him sent their greetings, also, and then asked to be remembered by his name to his friends who lived in the same area as Gaius. (III John 1:15) In John's letter to Gaius, he encouraged love, kindness and discernment become evident in him. Instead of writing about false prophets, he named a false prophet who was leading the believers away from the Truth instead of bringing them into the church. Because John felt loved by Me and Christ, he referred to other people as Beloved. Your Father of the Beloved

BLESSED FROM OBEYING SPIRITUAL COMMANDS

My Dear Precious Child, In John the Beloved's second letter that he wrote, it was addressed to particular people, an "elect lady and her children," whom he wrote were progressively learning to know the Truth, along with all believers. Regarding Truth, he wrote that Truth stays in the hearts of My children forever. (II John 1:1-2) The old covenant prophet Jeremiah had written that My words would be written on the hearts and minds of people, not merely on papyrus and other papers. (Jeremiah 31:31-34) When it's written on minds and hearts, it lasts forever. John commented to the lady that he was pleased to hear that some of her family was walking in Truth just like I had commanded through Jesus. Then he challenged the lady dramatically, by even begging her, not as if he was issuing a new command but again charging My children that they must love one another, just like they were commanded from the beginning. (II John 1:5) He repeated another additional commandment that he had written in his first letter to the churches, that being that in addition to loving each other was the commandment that they live and walk in the admonitions that Jesus Christ gave to them, that they should walk in all of the commands that He gave to them when He walked and talked and ministered with them, as well as the commands that He gave to them after He rose from the dead. In every word that proceeded out of the mouth of My Son there was a capsule of Truth that needed to be followed if they were to escape from the traps set by the devil who wanted to seduce them into being tempted by his evil ways. (II John 1:6) In the second letter that John wrote, the one addressed to the lady and her children, He also included a Truth that he had written in his first letter, the Truth that there were many false prophets who were imposters, deceivers who had gone out into the world who did not acknowledge that Jesus Christ was the Messiah in bodily form. He wrote that anyone who did not acknowledge that Truth was a deceiver and a false teacher. John even called them seducers, people who were motivated by the antichrist spirit. John instructed the lady to take care that she and her children did not throw away all that they had labored for by allowing themselves to be deceived and led astray by those false prophets. Instead, John advised the lady for her and her family to persevere until they won the high prize of perfection, which was their becoming conformed to Christ Jesus in full. (II John 1:8; Romans 12:2) John was precise in his warning, writing to the lady that anyone who runs ahead of Me and rejects the doctrine of Christ does not have Me or know Me at all. He assured the lady that anyone who continues in the teachings of Christ does have Me and knows Me, having both the Father and the Son. John knew that the target of many false prophets was widows who were easy prey for deceit because of being easily spiritually seduced by Pharisees and false prophets. (II John 1:9: Matthew 23:14) His warning became even more serious when he wrote to the lady warning her that if anyone came to her and did not bring the Truth of loyalty to Jesus Christ and what He taught, that she was not to receive him or her, accept him or her, welcome him or her, or admit him or her into her house and that she was not to wish him Godspeed or encourage him in any way because anyone who wishes false prophets success by encouraging them is a partaker in the evil doings of the false prophets. John stressed several things in his letter to the lady, things that he had written in his first letter but they were also things that Paul and Peter had also written in their letters to the churches, that they were to love one another and that they were to be on the watch for false prophets. He wrote that there were additional things that he wished to discuss with her, but he would not use pen and ink to tell her, instead he would wait until he came to her and talk with her face to face, so that her joy would be full. He wrote that the children of the lady's oldest sister wanted to be remembered to her. As was his habit, John signed off on the letter by writing, "Amen. So be it." I warned My children many times through the apostles that you must determine to love one another and that you would be on the lookout for teachers who do not teach that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh and that He was My Son. Your Father of Beneficial, Loving Warnings

BLESSED BY BEING CONFIDENT IN GOD'S WILL

My Dear Precious Child, John, the Beloved, wrote to the believers in the churches that only by the power of My Holy Spirit can you have the confidence that whatever you ask, it will be done for you, and since you positively know that I listen to you in whatever you ask, you also know that you have the request that you ask of Me. That is confidence. However, there are things that form a barrier between us, as written by the prophet Isaiah. He wrote that My arm is not so short that I cannot help you and My ear is not so deaf that I can't hear you, but your iniquities have formed a barrier between us so that I cannot hear you, nor can I answer your prayers. (I John 5:14-15; Isaiah 59:1-8) It is in John's assessment and teaching that as long as what you ask is in My will and you are in My will, I will answer your prayers. Relating to Eternal Life in a person, however, John wrote that if you see a person who is caught in a sin that does not lead to death, if that person will pray to Me I will give to him Eternal Life as long as the sin that he is committing is not to a sin unto death. He said that there is a sin that leads to death, so he did not encourage you to pray for someone who is engaged in that sin to receive My Eternal Life. He wrote that all wrongdoing is sin. He did also write that if you or someone that you know has the desire to to pray for My Eternal Life, in other words to be born of My Spirit, if you observe him or her committing a sin that does not involve death then the sin may be repented of and forgiven and he or she will receive My Eternal Life by being born of My Spirirt. . (I John 15:16-17; John 3:3-21) He went on to write that if there is anyone who is born of God who deliberately commits sin that there is One who carefully watches over you and urges you not to sin by protecting you against evil, speaking about My Holy Spirit. John proclaimed that you are of Me but the whole world is under the power of the evil one. (I John 5:18-19) His confession was that you must know beyond a doubt that My Son came into the world and has given wise understanding and insight in order for people to intimately know Jesus Christ, who is True; that you are in Me, who is also True, and you are in My Son Jesus Christ , the Messiah. John proclaimed that Jesus Christ is Truly Me and also Truly Life Eternal. (I John 5:20) In closing out his letter, John, the Beloved, emphasized that My followers must keep themselves from false gods and everything that would occupy the place in their heart that is receptive to Me; refraining from any substitute for Christ that would take first place in your life. He closed his first letter with Amen, So be it. Your Father of Life Changing Words

BLESSED BY BELIEVING THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST

My Dear Precious Child, Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a born-again child of Mine and everyone who loves Me loves all of My offspring. The litmus test that proves that a person loves My children is that the person loves Me and obeys My command to love one another. My true children are the ones who keep My ordinances and are mindful of His precepts and teachings. My commands are never oppressive because I have given to My children the Holy Spirit, who gives to My children My Power to obey My beneficialcommands. (I John 5:2-4) Now, one of the biggest advantages of being My children in the world is that whoever is born of My Holy Spirit is victorious over the evil that is in the world. The power of the Holy Spirit in them is their faith in their having My authority over all evil in the earth as declared by Jesus Christ before He ascended into My heaven to sit down with Me. (I John 5:5; Matthew 18:16-20) The only people in the world who are victorious over the devil's evil that is in the world are the people who believe that Jesus is My Son and they rely and trust in His power. Jesus Christ is He who came by water in the human womb of woman into the earth, but also by His blood, not only by His water baptism but also by being God and man, being born by the water of baptism in the womb, bu also by the blood of the Holy Spirit, for it is the Holy Spirit who confirms witness to Him as being Son of man and Son of God, because the Spirit is Truth. (I John 5:6-7) There are always three witnesses in heaven, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and they are three in One. In the earth there are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water and the blood, and all three agree and are in unison. (I John 5:8) If you believe the testimony of people as human authority, as all of us do, then you must know that My testimony is greater and of stronger authority because Jesus Christ is the witness which I have borne in relation to My Son. And so a person who believes in the Son of God has the testimony inside of himself. He who does not believe in the Son of God has made Me out to be a liar because he or she has not believed in My Son Jesus, who is the testimony that I gave to the world about My Son. This is the testimony that I gave to you about Eternal Life, that Eternal Life is in His Son, so the person who has the Son has Life; and he who does not have the Son does not have Eternal Life. (I John 5:9-12) John wrote that he was writing the first letter to the churches so that the believers would know with absolute certainty that they have Life; yes, Eternal Life. (I John 5:13-14) What a joy it is to know that you have My Life inside of you, that Life being Eternal Life. Your Father of Supernatural Life

BLESSED BY FEELING LOVED

My Dear Precious Child, The disciple John, known as the Beloved, also referred to his fellow believers as the "Beloved" because he felt so loved by Me as evidenced through Jesus Christ. He wrote in his first letter to the believers in churches, "BELOVED, now you are the Sons of God. When He appears to us, we don't know what we shall be like; but we have this promise, that we shall be like Him, so everyone who has this hope in Him will cleanse himself just like Christ is pure." John knew that cleansing the temples of God, their bodies, was paramount to their being made into His image; and he assured them that that revelation was the assurance of their receiving whatever they asked from Me. (I John 3:2-3 and I John 3:21) After teaching them about their conscience not condemning them in that first letter, John also wrote this edict from Me: "BELOVED, don't put faith in every spirit which ministers to you, but instead you must test every spirit to see if it comes from Me." He knew that there were false prophets who were trying to spy on the freedom that My born again believers had in My new covenant of the Holy Spirit. (I John 4:1) John wanted the believers to be firmly established in My Love as instituted by My Holy Spirit so that they would not be deceived. John also in his first letter wrote this admonition from Me, "BELOVED, let us love one another, for love comes from God and a person who loves others is born of God and knows God." (I John 4:7-9) "A person who does not love others has not known God; for GOD IS LOVE. God's love was shown in the world concerning us in that He sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is Love, not that you love Him but that He sent His Son to be the payment for your sins." John observed the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and he knew that only with complete and perfect Love could He agree to die for John's sins and the sins of the whole world. The apostle John continued on in his first letter writing, "BELOVED, so if God loved you so much, you ought to also love one another. If you love one another, God lives in you and His Love is brought to perfection in you. The evidence that proves that you live in Him and He lives in you is that He sent His Holy Spirit to live in you. " (I John 4:11-13) It is only by My Holy Spirit convincing My children that they are deeply loved, dearly prized and treasured by Me that they can have the same stability of feeling that they are BELOVED by Me. Because John had the capacity within himself to feel My deep love for him as shown through Jesus Christ when they walked together in the earth and by My Holy Spirit revealing to him the depth, width, length and height of My love for him, it was only then that he was able to so convincingly call other believers the "BELOVED". He was able to love other people with that same degree of love that I showed to him, enough that he was able to call his brothers Beloved because he, Himself, felt so loved by Me. Paul wrote that when you are established in the revelation of the depth, width, length and height of My love for you that by the power of My Holy Spirit inside of you I am able to do exceedingly, abundantly and supernaturally far above and over all that you ask, think, dream, hope and pray; so that to Him will be My glory in Christ forever and ever. Amen, so be it. (Ephesians 3:20-21) May you know by revelation My Love and My Power to the highest degree so that you will know, like John and Paul, that you are My BELOVED, and that through that revelation you will be able to refer to other people as Beloved. Your Father of Love and Power

BLESSED BY ETERNAL LOVE

My Dear Precious Child, John, the Beloved, as he is called, was so filled with the love shown to him by Jesus Christ that all of his writings are filled with teachings about My love. He emphasized in his first letter to the churches that if a believer has fear of punishment from Me in his mind, then he is not perfected in the revelation of My love because My love teaches him or her that his or her sins are forgiven by Me by the death of Jesus Christ, so there is no occasion or need for punishment. But, more important, when you are complete or perfect in your revelation of My character, you know intimately that I am Love and that I am not the one who punishes, anyway, but that the devil is the one who punishes. He tempts My children and then punishes them for doing his will if they succumb to the temptation. My judgment for the demons who tempt My children which causes them to inherit the devil's punishment is that those demons must be sent into the lake of fire in the abyss which I created in case My first children allowed the devil and his demons into the earth that I had created as a paradise and the judgment that I pronounced on those demons was eternal fire and gnashing of teeth. (Matthew 13:36-43)That judgment was never intended to be for any of My children that I created in My image. So if a person has the erroneous belief that I will punish a person at the judgment of the demons, then that person is definitely not rooted in the truth of My love for humanity. If you will remember, Jesus Christ said that I loved the world so much that I sent My son into the world to save the world, not to condemn or destroy it. (John 3:16-17) If your belief is that I am waiting to punish you for sins, then My love is not perfected in you. (I John 4:19) John, the Beloved, wrote in his first letter that if you fear punishment from Me, then My love is not fully developed and perfected in you. (I John 4:16-18) He wrote that the only way that you can love Him and everyone is because God loved you first. So if you love Me, then you must also love your brother. (I John 4:20-21) Because you love Me, then you must also love My Son, Jesus Christ the Messiah, and you must love everyone born of Me. (I John 5:1) In his first letter John the Beloved wrote that the visible evidence that you love Me and My children is when you obey the commands of Jesus Christ under My new covenant of the Holy Spirit, keeping His ordinances, His precepts and His teachings. If you truly love Me, then you will not only obey My advice but you will never regard them as being burdensome or oppressive because whatever is born of Me overcomes the evil in the world; and your faith is what has victory over the demons in the world. My children who believe that Jesus is My Son is he who came to Me by His death through water and the baptism of the Holy Spirit; by the death of Jesus Christ; not by water alone, but by water and the Spirit. John wrote that it is the Holy Spirit who confirms your being My Child because He is the Truth. (I John 5:6-7) He wrote that there are three witnesses in heaven, Jesus, My Holy Spirit and Me and we are all One. We agree and there is unity in Us. Because there is unity in Us, there must also be unity between My children who are established in My love. (I John 5:8) Your Father of Eternal Love

BLESSED BY LOVE REVELATIONS

My Dear Precious Child, Besides the fact that John the Beloved had been given My Holy Spirit, and possessing My Holy Spirit is the sign of being loved by Me, John also professed that he and some of Jesus' other disciples had born witness by their earthly eyes of My Love through Jesus Christ and they possessed the truth that He was My Son. (I John 4:14) He wrote in his first letter to the churches that anyone who confesses that Jesus is My Son has Him living inside of the person's own body and not only does Jesus live in the person, but the person lives in Me. (I John 4:15) As a result of your being bound in unity with Me by having My Holy Spirit living inside of you, then you believe and are conscious of the Love with which I cherish you because, as he wrote, I am Love and anyone who lives and continues to live in My Love enjoys My fellowship with him or her. (I John 4:16) He acknowledged that it is in that union and communion with Me that My Love is brought to perfection in you so that you will have confidence on the day of My judgment of evil spirits that because as Christ is, which is the embodiment of Love, you are also Love in the world. There is no fear of judgment in Love, no dread, because mature, perfected Love turns fear away and expels every thought of terror! (I John 4:17-18) John explained in his first letter that there was and is no fear of punishment by Me in Jesus and in My children because anyone who is afraid of punishment from Me has not reached the full and mature revelation of My love for him or her. (I John 4:18) He encapsulated that Truth by writing that you can only love Me because I loved you first and gave to you the power of My Love with which to Love others. (I John 4:19) The warning in that Truth is that if you say that you love Me but hate your brother, then you are a liar because anyone who does not love his brother, whom he or she can see, cannot love Me Whom he or she has not seen. John wrote that Jesus and I gave the charge that if you love Me that you will love your brother also. (I John 4:19-20) It is only by the power of My Holy Spirit that you and My other children can love your brother or sister who has been unkind or abusive toward you. I gave to you My Holy Spirit so that He would change the hatred in you into My Love because of the adverse human reaction which always wants to reject an abuser. In order to love someone who shows hated toward you, My Holy Spirit is the only Power who is able to make that change in you from hate into Love. Your Father of Merciful and Loving Changes

BLESSED THROUGH DISCERNING OF SPIRITS

My Dear Precious Child, The prophet John was very concerned about the believers in the churches and so he wrote to them warnings about false prophets, saying not to put faith in every spirit who speaks from the mouths of teachers and prophets, but instead that they must test the spirits of the people who came to minister to them. He joined with Paul's warnings that many false prophets were being sent by the devil to deceive them. He identified the false prophets as saying that if a person does not confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh that that spirit is from the antichrist which they had been warned was coming and was already active in the world and was trying to invade the churches. The wisdom of Christ had already confirmed to them that the spirit of antichrist was already confessing errors in denying that Jesus was the Christ. John wrote that the believers had already defeated the spirit of antichrist in their lives because My Holy Spirit in them is greater than the demon of antichrist who exists in the world. (I John 4:1-4) He wrote that the false prophets speak from the demons in the world and the world listens to them but that you who are My children listen only to Me, whoever is learning to know Me and understand Me, that that person only listens to Me. He wrote that people who do not listen to Me or listen to My ministers don't know Me and don't know the difference between My Truth and the demonic spirit of error. John's magnificent discourse on love was written in his first letter to believers in the churches. He wrote that as beloved children of Mine that they should love one another because Love comes from Me and the people who love their fellow man are spiritually birthed by Me and they love Me, but the people who do not love their fellow men don't know Me and they have never been acquainted with Me, for I am Love. (I John 4:7-8) John wrote the explanation that the way that I displayed My Love for people was that I sent My Son into the world so that you might live through Him. He clarified it to say that it's not that you love Me but that I love you and that I sent My Son to be the payment for your sins. That is the epitome of Love. He added to that Truth by saying that since I loved you so much to send My Son to die for your sins, then you ought to love other people like I love you. (I John 4:9-11) Also, to amplify that Truth, he wrote that no person has ever seen Me with their earthly eyes, but if you love other people then that is the full maturity of My Love in you. It is the sign that My Love has been perfected in you. John then wrote that the way that you know that Christ lives in you and that you live in Him is by the fact that Jesus Christ and I have given to you the Holy Spirit who was evident in Jesus Christ. (I John 4:12-13) John was known as John the Divine and John the Beloved because of his revelation of the height, depth, width and breadth of My Love and his perception of the Love that was shown to Him personally by My Son Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 6:20) John spent a short time on earth by his seeing visions of the activities on the streets of heaven which are recorded in His book of Revelations, which are truly his revelations as revealed about My long journey with men in the earth. They are similar to the books of Ezekiel which revealed the ministry of My Holy Spirit with My angels and also in the book of Enoch, a man who never died but just walked straight from earth into heaven to be with Me. The book of Enoch describes the hierarchy of heaven, the order of the divine authority as referred to by the centurion whom Jesus said possessed the greatest faith in all of the world. (Matthew 8:5-13) Faith works by Love, Paul proclaimed. (Galatians 5:6) Your Father of Forever Encompassing Love

BLESSED BY LETTING LOVE LIVE INSIDE OF YOU

My Dear Precious Child, In his gospel writings the disciple and apostle John wrote more extensively about Love than any of the other three gospel writers. Then when I encouraged him to write letters to the churches, he amplified his revelations concerning My Love for humanity in all of those letters. He also had a clear revelation concerning all of the evil in the world, writing that it all comes from the devil tempting people to do his evil in the world and people following the guidance of the devil instead of their following My guidance. John wrote that anyone who hates his brother is a murderer because he or she is yielding to the temptation of the devil to hate which is followed by the temptation to kill, just like Cain killed his brother Abel. (I John 3:15) In his first letter to the churches, John also wrote that humans must come to understand the Love that Jesus Christ had for humanity, that it was demonstrated by the fact that He laid His life down for humans; and so we ought to also lay our lives down for our brothers and sisters. John wrote that the way to fulfill that order to fulfill the Love that Jesus Christ had for humanity is that if you have worldly goods and you see a person in need and you close your heart of compassion from that person in need, how can My Love be found in you if you deny practicing Love in reality, not merely in theory. It is by that assurance that you are walking in Love if you meet the needs of the less fortunate people in the world. John also wrote that if your conscience does not condemn you, then you are in My will because My power is above all of the devil's temptations in your conscience. So, John wrote that if you do not allow the devil to use your conscience against you to accuse you, then you will receive all that you ask for from Me because you are following My commands on how to avoid bonding with evil and there will be nothing to block the delivery of My answers to your prayers. When there are no barriers of hate between us, whatever you ask, it will be done for you. (I John 3:21-22) John went even further in this truth when he wrote in his first letter that if you put your faith and trust in the name of Jesus Christ that you will love one another, just like He commanded you. In other words, if you take His advice, follow His suggestions, His commands and His words, then you live and abide in Him and He lives and abides in you. (I John 3:23) John emphasized that Truth when he repeated it again, writing that everyone who follows His orders, takes His suggestions and obeys His commands to love one another, then you have allowed Christ to have a home inside of you and you have a home inside of Him. The way that you know that you have allowed Him to have a home inside of you is by the Holy Spirit whom He has given to live inside of you, welcoming His Spirit to make His home inside of you. (I John 3:24) The apostle Paul mirrored this Truth when He wrote that you are the temple of My Holy Spirit when Christ has settled down and lives inside of you, and that the Holy Spirit is Lord in the earth. (I Corinthians 3:16; II Corinthians 3:17-18) Your Father of Love and Compassion

BLESSED BY DOING RIGHTEOUS WORKS

MY DEAR PRECIOUS CHILD, The disciple and apostle of Jesus Christ who is known as John the Beloved or Jon the Divine was named so because he was so solidly established in My love for humanity. He wrote to the people in churches in his first letter that if you know by divine revelation that Jesus Christ is absolutely righteous, that being that He conforms to My will in every way, then you will also be sure in your belief that everyone who does righteously, that is being conformed to doing His divine will in the earth, then you are born of Me, having been born of My divine sperm of the Holy Spirit. (I John 3: 9) John amplified that truth by launching into the revelation that he had learned that it was by the incredible quality of My Love that I would allow you to be called My child, and that's why the people of the world do not know My Son Jesus Christ the way that My children know Him. He wrote that when you meet Me face to face that you will still have unimagined favor with Me, though John did not at that time know what would completely transpire. He just knew that it was imperative that My children allow My Holy Spirit to cleanse them until they are pure, just like Christ is pure. (I John 3:1-3) It was John's revelation from My Holy Spirit that anyone who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness, and that's what sin really is, is either willingly violating My commandments or by reason of neglect you transgress My commands. John identified in his writing who is responsible for causing the sins, and he idenfied him as the devil because the devil sinned from the very beginning. It was Truth when John wrote that the reason that Jesus Christ came into the world was to destroy the works of the devil. (I John 3:8) He wrote that when Jesus Christ appeared in visible form in the earth that He came to take away the sins of the world because in Him there was no sin. He also wrote that you and everyone who lives in Him and remains in communion and obedience to Him will not sin willingly because My divine sperm of the Holy Spirit lives inside of you and you will not purposely defy Him. (I John 3: 9-10) John clarified certain Truths for the people who read his letters to the churches. He wrote that it is abundantly clear who takes his or her nature from Me and are My children and who takes his or her nature from the devil and are his children. He clearly wrote that nobody is of Me who does not practice righteousness and who does not love his brother because the message heard from the beginning is that My children should love each other. (I John 3:11) In John's letters he clearly identified the devil as the one who tempts and tries My children, his not merely identifiying disobedience as being a sin of mankind. John put an identity on the cause behind all sin, that being the devil, instead of identifying the actions of the devil as merely being the sins of mankind. Through John identifying the culprit behind all sin as being the devil, he was revealing that the battle for the souls of My children that has been going on in the earth since the beginning of time, that being the battle between evil and good, is actually the battle between the devil and Me. So by identifying sin as being the actions of people in response to the temptations of the devil instead of their actions as being from their own sinful conscience, John correctly identified the battle going on for the earth as being between the devil and Me instead of the battle in the earth being between Me and the disobedient people whom I created in My image. John correctly wrote that My message from the beginning of the world is that you love one another and that you do not become like Cain who chose to take his nature and command from the devil and so he killed his own brother, killing him in response to the devil's command. It was written by Moses' writing in the book of Genesis that I had even cautioned Cain that the devil was crouching at the door of his mind, tempting him so that when Cain yielded to the devil that he would control Cain and cause Cain to do the devil's will in the earth instead of continuing to love his brother, which was My will in his life. (Genesis 3:6-8) Before Cain killed his brother, he had already yielded to the devil's will by offering sacrifices to Me that were from the grains of the earth instead of his giving sacrifices that had My life within them. (I John 3:11-12) In John's first letter to the churches, he told the believers that they should not be surprised that the people of the world hates them, that being because the believers have passed from death and have taken on My Life which was identified by the fact that they loved one another instead of being like dogs competing competitively and ferociously for a pan of food in the devil's competitive and hateful nature. John wrote that anyone who does not love but instead hates other people, that person actually remains in spiritual death. (I John 3:13-14) John's assessment of the hearts and souls of people was enlightened by his ability to receive the Love of Jesus Christ and pass that Love on to other people. John loved to a higher degree than the rest of the disciples because of his nature and his ability to love other people as He loved Me. John adopted the Love of My Son Jesus Christ as his motivation in life on earth. Go and have the same motivation. Your Heavenly Father of Love

BLESSED BY INTIMATELY KNOWING GOD

My Dear Precious Child, The apostle and disciple of Jesus Christ called John, the Divine, had such a complete and endearing knowledge of My love, so he professed two truths in the beginning of his letter to the churches. One was that the followers of Jesus Christ must fellowship with Him and with Me; and two was that I am Light and in Me there is no darkness. He then proceeded to write about the ministry of Jesus Christ for the payment of sins for all people, their sins and the sins of the whole world. (I John 1:3-5) He then wrote that it's best if people don't sin, but if they do sin he wanted them to know that they have an Advocate in Jesus Christ, the righteous, who was the complete payment for the sins of the whole world. He wrote that the way that they could discern whether they knew Him or not was if they kept His commandments. He even wrote that a person was a liar who professed to know Jesus Christ and does not keep His commandments. (I John 2:4-5) He wrote that a person who keeps all of His commandments, that in that person My love has been perfected. He repeated that truth by saying that the way to know that someone is truly living in Christ is if the person observes His commandments. In fact, he wrote that anyone who lives in Christ will walk and conduct himself or herself in the identical way that Jesus Christ conducted Himself.(I John 2:6) Then John made it clear that he was not writing a new commandment but that he was emphasizing an old commandment that they had heard from the beginning, the doctrine of salvation through Christ. (I John 2:7) Yet, he wrote that he really was writing to them a new commandment because darkness in their minds was clearing away and the true Light of God in Christ was already shining in them. (chapter 2; verse 8) Because John was so perfectly acquainted with My Love through Jesus Christ, he could discern good from evil. He wrote in his first letter to the churches that whoever says that he or she is in the Light and hates his brother, that person is still in darkness; but the person who loves his brother, in him or her there is no occasion for stumbling or sinning. John wrote that whoever hates his brother is walking in darkness and he or she is straying because darkness has blinded his or her eyes. John explained in his first letter that he was writing the letter to the people who had experientially come to know My Love and so their sins had been forgiven and they had received their full pardon by having their sins forgiven. (I John 2:11-12) John wanted the people to know that he was also writing to the elderly Christian followers who had come to completely know Christ from the beginning, but he was also writing to the young men who were strong and vigorous in whom My words lived inside of them and it was shown by how they had been victorious against the devil. (chapter 2: verses 13-14) He narrowed down the numbers of people whom He said loved Me. He said that if someone loves and cherishes things in the world that My love is not in that person. John identified the things that come between Me and My children, naming them as, one, the lust of the flesh by craving sensual gratification; and two, the lust of the eyes which are greedy longings of the mind; and three, the pride of one's own resources or his finding stability in earthly things because those lusts do not come from Me but instead are from the world itself as given by the devil. (I John 2: 16; Genesis 3:1-7 ) John reminded the church people to whom he wrote his first letter that things of the world pass away and with it are the cravings and desires of the world, but the person who does My will in the earth will carry out my purposes in life and those things will endure forever. Concerning the lusts of the flesh, John emphasized to the young believers that the antichrist spirit was already in the world which emphasized that the old covenant was over and the new covenant of the Holy Spirit was in operation. He identified the antichrist spirits by saying that the people with that spirit were not with the believers in Jesus Christ or they would have remained with them instead of scattering.(chapter 2, verses 17-19) John also identifed the true believers by saying that they had a divine unction, that they had been anointed by the Holy Spirit and that they all knew the Truth. John also identified that anyone who denies that Jesus is the Christ is of the antichrist spirit. He is an antagonist of Christ by denying that Jesus is the Christ. (chapter 2; verse 21-22) In John's letter he wrote Truth when he wrote that anyone who disowns My Son also disowns Me, even if they call themselves by My name. He wrote that believers must keep in their hearts what they heard from the beginning and that those doctrines are Truths that prove that they will live with the Son and Me always because My Son has promised life eternal. He emphasized this Truth in order to protect people from the false prophets. (I John 2:23-26) John was intent upon making sure that the believers were secure in their foundation of faith so that they would not be deceived. He identified the antichrist spirit and the love of things of the world as belonging to the deceiver and his deceiving spirits. Your Father of Truth and Knowledge