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They're Using It In The Wrong Way

In Acts 1:9—11 (NKJV) Luke writes about Jesus’s ascension into heaven, saying, “Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, who also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.” Jesus not only ascended “He was taken up” to His God and Father, He “will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.” He’s coming again. We know these things to be true because the Bible tells us so. If someone were to tell me that the Bible supports the Anthanasian Creed’s “the Son is God,” I’d have them show me where it is in the Bible. They’d know soon enough that it doesn’t support “the Son is God” at all, because they’d have nothing to draw from but the tale of the Anthanasian Creed itself. When lifting up “the Son is God” they mention Jesus’s name, but they’re using it in the wrong way. I can’t say that I’ve heard it all from those lifting up “the Son is God,” because I’ve learned that something new awaits around the next corner. Regardless, I know the Anthanasian Creed shouldn’t have made its way into this century. God bless. In His Care… Jim

Him Who Overcomes

When telling others about Jesus, make Him known to them in truth, that He is the Son of God. In Acts 2:32 (NKJV) Peter said, “This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses.” In Romans 10:9 (NKJV) Paul said, “That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” In 1 Corinthians 3:23 (NKJV) Paul said, “And you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.” In Colossians 3:1—4 (NKJV) Paul said, “If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.” In Revelation 3:21 (NKJV) Jesus said, “To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.” God bless. In His Care… Jim

How?

What does “the Son is God” have to do with Jesus? For that matter, what do the teachings of the doctrine of the trinity have to do with the Bible? In John 20:17 (NKJV) Jesus said, “I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.” How does one take the actual biblical account of Jesus saying “I am ascending to My Father” His Father “and to My God” His God seriously, while at the same time taking “the Son is God” and/or the doctrine of the trinity seriously? How? God bless. In His Care… Jim

You Can't Straddle The Fence

Together with Jesus is so much stronger than any other way. You’re either standing on the firm foundation of the Bible all the time or you’re trusting things that have no biblical foundation. You can’t straddle the fence and have it both ways here folks because they cannot coexist. You’d be better off sticking to Scripture alone than bouncing between them and man’s understanding of them. One’s salvation hinges on believing in Christ Jesus according to the Scriptures. Why then would anyone want to be found not trusting in Scripture alone and straddling the fence? God bless. In His Care… Jim

Accepting As True Messiah Yeshua

If your faith is in God’s plan of salvation as laid out for us in the Scriptures, then you’d know it has everything to do with accepting as true Messiah Yeshua, Jesus. That the God of Abraham Issac and Jacob, the God of Israel, is your God and Father. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.” Ephesians 1:3 (NKJV)

So I Speak

“He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him—the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day. For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak. And I know that His command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I speak.” John 12:48-50 (NKJV) To make Jesus out to be God as He spoke to His disciples, you’re actually missing the mark. Jesus said, “I have not spoken on My own authority” and “whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I speak.” Scripturally speaking, Jesus’s God and Father is the source of these things Jesus spoke. In John 20:17 (NKJV) Jesus said, “I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.” When Jesus speaks of “the Father who sent” Him, He’s referring to His God and Father (John 20:17). God bless. In His Care… Jim