The Essence of God’s Family

 

Imagine human beings are like angels in heaven, and they are in the new earth and new heaven after the defeat of death, sin, and the devil. The downfall of creation that was instigated by Lucifer and his demons and which is sustained by the fall of Adam and his children is undone as all goats and devils are cast into everlasting hell. Now the peace of God, the life of God, and the happiness of God are given to all children of God, both angels and human beings. This is so because all children of God will be fully immersed in the Holy Spirit, which is the source of real happiness, peace, and life.

 

Now, imagine for some reason some human children of God start to rebel against God, saying they miss the onion and garlic of Egypt, and they are unhappy about the kingdom of God in heaven. What will happen? Many born-again faithful would love to believe that those people are saved forever by the blood of the lord and no sin can make them lose their child of God status forever. But how likely is that? If God cannot tolerate Lucifer and his tails (his devils or demons), what is the likelihood that God will tolerate such rebellion in heaven forever? That is why, let alone on this earth, even in heaven, salvation is not an open check that we can write with sin or holiness. The Kingdom of God is only for holy people. God will give us his holiness, and we have to live a holy life as such.

 

When we have children, we neither kick our children to the street nor do we disown them for their disobedience and rebellion just like that. Yet that does not mean they have open check in our home to be whatever they want to be forever. There is a limit and time for everything. When they are young, we do not expect much from them other than to be children. As they grow up, our expectation grows and our discipline becomes harsher. There is also a point and time, a parent may disown their child. Children do not grow up fearing that their parents will disown or abandon them. They know their parents do love them unconditionally. Yet in the background, it is clear no parent tolerates grave disobedience forever. Even though “I will kick you out” is not a standard phrase in the mouths of parents, it is always in the background. Any child who thinks otherwise is a self-deceiving fool.    

 

When we become children of God, we are given this privilege. God will feed us milk, wash us, comfort us, change our diapers, and expect nothing but our love and growth at the start. As we grow, God gives us more responsibility and expects more. If we are tolerant of our children, you can imagine how tolerant God could be toward his children. That is why God will carry and tolerate us more than any parent can tolerate a disobedient child. That is why, under grace, not only are we given the right to become children of God by grace, but also we have a grace period to grow toward the identity of God, and that is forever.  

 

Like law, grace does not say choose X and heaven will follow, or choose Y and hell will follow. God expects us to choose hell as we are not children of light, and he will work harder to guide us toward heaven. God does not expect much from us other than to be incompetent, and he will be our competence. He will build our competence, and over time, he expects our competence to grow. Over time, however, some sins that can be tolerated as a child will not be tolerated as we grow up. Imagine how easily angry Jesus was with Moses, compared to the tolerance God showed toward the goats of Jacob. God expects more from Moses, as he is not another goat of Jacob but the beloved slave of the lord who is privileged to speak with God face to face. To those more is given, more is expected, as it is written.

 

That is why God will start rebuking us, disciplining us, and even spanking us here and there to keep us on the narrow path. If God loves you, he will discipline you because he loves you. After all, you are his children, not a bastard child. Side by side, God will give us more and more responsibility in his kingdom. Now, imagine you refuse to follow him and finally you want to be independent of him, God will let you go if you are of proper age. Yet he will wait for you to go back to him because he is your father, and he will be looking outside his house for his disobedient children. When you come back, it is party time in heaven because you were dead and now you are alive.

 

But if you keep doing everything that he hates and nothing that he loves, at the proper age, there is a limit to everything. God said even children of man are wiser than angels, as we know how to save ourselves in the 11^th hour. God was expecting the followers of the devil to rebuke themselves at some point, at least initially, as he is always merciful, but they keep pushing deep into the depths of sin and disobedience; so we know their end for sure now. Besides, the downfall did not start with us. It started with the children of Jacob, Adam, and Lucifer. The downfall of the Assemblies of God (churches) did not start with us; it started with the goats of Constantine.

 

There were faithful before us with the power of the Holy Spirit who evangelized the world. Those were the beautiful fruits of God, who won the world not by killing for the lord but by dying for the lord. They were hunted, prosecuted, tortured, and lived like dogs for the lord, but they were pure seeds of the lord. As they were not better than the lord and as students of the lord, they had the fate of the lord. That is why they have the glory of the lord waiting for them in heaven.

 

Those giants of our faith disappeared from the face of this earth, as killers become Christians and sin becomes the “Holy See”. Just see their history. Did God offer the unconditional child of God status to every devil who proclaims to accept Jesus as lord? No, as they seek the wealth, power, and respect of the world that Peter never had, they lost heaven. Now a cripple, a lame, a blind, and demonically possessed have food as charity from those killers but nobody to tell them to walk and see in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. They were kicked out of the kingdom of God because there was time for everything. What makes you think we are special, with special rights? Those fools used to be faithful like us, but God did not write them in His Book of Life as they replaced faith with religion. Did God kick them just like that? No, it took many centuries of regression before the birds of the sky were sent to feed on their corpses. After all, where the dead are, the vultures will be there. So it is self-deception to think that once saved is saved for life.

 

From another viewpoint, there is also another self-deception of the “holy” faithful, and it is called hypocrisy. Nobody is holy except God, which means we all sin. Many faithful do recognize they are saved by grace, and they are not as holy as God is. Not only will they stumble in sin here and there, but their spiritual growth is not perfect either. They do have ups and downs in their spiritual life, though the trend is spiritual growth. Yet it is surprising how judgmental they are of the sins of others. They may have a questionable relationship with the truth, they may love money more than fellow faithful, they may have a fluid understanding of justice, and so on. Yet, when they notice someone stumbling on some lines that they think they are doing well, they will pick the law to stone the prostitute by the law they never practice. Refuting sin is necessary, but that is to save the sinner from the devil, not to condemn the sinner to the devil.

 

Yet this is not my focus today, but on our theological problems. Nobody’s theology is perfect, and this is the real truth about human theology. All of us have theological gaps - very serious gaps for that. That is why our theological knowledge grows over time as we are feeding more and more of the word of God. And God does tolerate us, expecting to move us from lie to truth, from sin to holiness, and from hearsay toward the word of God with a spiritual growth process. If we are reading the bible and learning the bible, our understanding grows from time to time. If we learn new things, it means our former understanding was a lie. As we spiritually grow, however, our lies will blow with the wind, and the truth of God will take over our lives. Unless our theology is ready-made knowledge that is downloaded on our brains and we do not know better than to chant what is on our heads without knowledge, our understanding moves from ignorance to knowledge, and in this process, we do learn a lot of wrong things until we learn to refine them. So our theology grows from lie to truth over time, yet we pick up theological mistakes and human failures in the lives of other faithful, and we rush to delete people from our book of life, like we are Jesus. This is self-deception and simple hypocrisy. 

 

Pick any giant of the faith after the Reformation period, and show me the perfect theology of anyone. All have their share of hearsay and absurd understanding of the bible. If those giants can make mistakes, we can also make mistakes. It is important to focus on the mistake and hearsay to correct it with love and care, rather than in our hypocritical self-delusion. Let us defeat sin, not the sinner, and let us save those who are prepared for slaughter by the devil.

 

Some serious theological mistakes are committed by giants of the faith. Those people are giants, given their contribution to the kingdom of God – their fruit witnesses for them – but they were not perfect, and they do have wrong theologies here and there. We can reject their heresy, but to reject them is to reject yourself because they produce us. As generation over generations refine our knowledge of the gospel, it falls on us and we are witnesses to them. As Paul said, we are their certificate from heaven.

 

As those giants have wrong theologies side by side with the theology that produces us, in this age too, some good people also have evil theology somewhere in their lives. It is wise to reject their sins and their evil theology, but it is shameful to reject them. If you ask me to pick several of Jesus' own people, the top kind, I am sure a significant share of them have demonic theology mixed in their field of pure wheat of heaven. This is because you can smell the Jesus in them within seconds of contact. They are Jesus’s own, and it is not hard to know; they just have evil theology mixed with their heavenly theology. Check their life, history, experience, and personality, and you can see they are Jesus’s own. Yet some devil planted his seed in them when they were in bed. Now the good seed is visible, as you can see Jesus, but you can also see the devil mixed in there.

 

As it is a sin to identify the seed of the devil as Jesus’s own, it is a sin to reject Jesus in them too. When you reject the weed, do not burn the wheat with it. Block their heresy and focus on the Jesus side of their life, and you can see they are more Jesus compared to most of us. There is a large wheat of Jesus in their life, and to reject it is to reject Jesus because you do not know him if you reject him in them. Yet, you also need to weed the weed, so they can have the wheat of Jesus only, unless it is not the right time to weed the weed.

 

Now, some good people say that Jesus cannot say different things at different ages, and if they speak anything that contradicts the lord, they do not belong to Jesus. Yet if I can zoom in on the theology of any child of God, it is not hard to find evil theology after evil theology, which contradicts Jesus himself. Yet I cannot deny those people are Jesus' own, because I can see the wheat farm beyond their weed plants here and there. Love is more important than knowledge, dears. That is why when we help the good people move from heresy to truth, we do not have to do it by destroying them, but by upgrading them. Even John the Baptist doubted Jesus, but do we doubt his status as the prophet of God? Despite the seed of the devil planted in John, the life of John is a witness to his identity. We will rebuke John but we will not classify him with devils either.   

 

That is why, before we judge the faithful, we should not focus only on the weed but also on the wheat. If the wheat has weeds, we have to weed it to make it pure. If the weed has little wheat blown toward it by the wind, however, we have to burn it down. There are evil people with evil theology that we need to reject outright, and there are children of God, the purest kind, with evil theology that we hope to refute with love and understanding. It is not that we need those fools or their respect, as many of those fools think  - If you understand the devil, the devil is a fool and those devils are no better -, but because we are children of God and we should follow our master and leader in heaven. After all, what can a child of God need from sinners of this world, dears? We are not looking up to you; we are looking down on you from the right side of the lord.

 

It is written to those who have more, more will be given, and to those who have less, they will lose whatever they have. Some people have no trace of Jesus, and they say Jesus, Jesus, but you don’t see Jesus in them. Those are weeds, with little wheat. They have to lose whatever Jesus they think they have, as their farm is a farm of weeds, and the wheat blown by the wind to their evil farm cannot justify their evil nature. Yet, there is the wheat of God – the most beautiful kind – with wrong theology on some points. That is why when we reject their error, we should recognize that those people are God’s own.

 

Take one of the great giants of this age, Billy Graham. When you read him and listen to him, it is not hard to smell Jesus in him. The wheat is overflowing as a testament to this great man, but the weed is also mixed there. This giant believed the charismatic moment was questionable, while he units with the goats of Constantine. This is a sin, but this great man is not his sin only. We reject his sin, but we love him because he was one of the greatest witnesses of the lord.    

 

Can you imagine preaching about Jesus like no other in this age, and then after to let people worship idols, pictures, statues, “saints”, “angels”, and so on? On top of this, add rejection of the Holy Spirit as an evil spirit. It is a grave sin, but this man is not his sin only. The blood of Jesus is for this man, and I am sure he is worthy of that. More than his mistakes, God knows how far and how long he worked for Jesus, and I am sure this man is standing on the right side of God. It is not because he was perfect, but because he worked for God on what he knows without reservation, like no other. If this great man can sin against the Holy Spirit and admire idol worshipers, and is saved by love rather than knowledge, many great faithful in this age would also be saved by love rather than their theological accuracy. Yes, they will pay for their sin, but God also knows their real nature and work.

 

The hypocrisy of many “holy” faithful is that they identify the weed in their life, and it is for sure it is planted by the devil, yet they do not see the dominant wheat on the farm. Then after, they judged them as devil's own and all their teaching as heresy, but they were expected to wash them rather than to flash them with bath water. But if you compare the life of those with love without knowledge and those with knowledge but without love, those with heresy are more Jesus' own than those pointing fingers at them. After all, love is more important than knowledge.

 

If we can save them, let us teach them with love. Let us pray for them and do our best to return them to the right path. We can fight their heresy, but not them. I am sure they will decline and disappear very soon, as God will not destroy generations to spoil some spoiled brats. After all, Billy Graham's influence faded as the Charismatic movement took over. Is it not justice that the children of God, who are named “devil’s own,” took over the faith, while the giants who condemned them faded away? God is the God of justice and mercy. Yet, they will fade away as giants of the Lord with theological sin rather than as devils in the assembly of the lord.

The Essence of God’s Family (edited with ChatGPT)

Imagine human beings are like angels in heaven, dwelling in the new earth and new heaven after the defeat of death, sin, and the devil. The downfall of creation—instigated by Lucifer and sustained by the fall of Adam and his children—is undone, as all goats and devils are cast into everlasting hell. Now, the peace, life, and joy of God are granted to all His children, both angels and humans. This is possible because all God’s children are fully immersed in the Holy Spirit—the true source of happiness, peace, and life.

Now, imagine—for some reason—some human children of God begin to rebel in heaven. Perhaps they miss the onions and garlic of Egypt, and they become unhappy with the Kingdom of God. What would happen then? Many born-again faithful like to believe that these people are “saved forever” by the blood of the Lord and that no sin can revoke their child-of-God status. But how likely is that? If God could not tolerate Lucifer and his followers (the demons), what makes us think He would tolerate rebellion in heaven forever?

Let us be clear: salvation is not an open-ended check we can cash regardless of sin or holiness. The Kingdom of God is only for the holy. God will give us His holiness, and we must live holy lives in response.

When we raise our children, we don’t abandon or disown them for every act of disobedience. Yet, that doesn’t mean they have an unlimited license to live however they please under our roof. There are limits and seasons for everything. When they are young, we expect little. But as they grow, our expectations grow, and our discipline may become harsher. There is even a time when a parent may disown their child—not because of a lack of love, but because of intolerable rebellion.

Likewise, when we become children of God, He gives us that same privilege. He nourishes us with milk, cleans us, comforts us, and expects nothing more than our love and spiritual growth in the beginning. As we grow, He assigns us more responsibility. And if we, with all His grace and patience, choose to turn away—if we demand independence from our Father—He will let us go. But He waits, watching from His house for the return of His lost child. And when we return, all of heaven celebrates.

Yet if we persist in doing everything He hates and none of what He loves, eventually there will come a time—at the proper age—when that grace will expire. God expected the children of men to outwit even the angels and repent in the eleventh hour. But some dive deeper into sin with no sign of returning. Their fate is sealed, and their end is known. The downfall of man didn’t begin with us—it began with Adam, with the children of Jacob, with Lucifer himself. The downfall of God’s assemblies (the churches) didn’t start today—it started with the goats of Constantine.

Before us, there were faithful men and women, filled with the Holy Spirit, who evangelized the world. They were hunted, tortured, and treated worse than dogs for the sake of the gospel. But they were pure seeds of the Lord. Because they were not above their Master, they shared in His suffering and are now awaiting His glory.

These giants of faith have vanished from this earth. Now, those who once persecuted the faithful have become “Christians.” Sin wears the robe of “Holy See.” And what has replaced the power of the early church? Charity, instead of deliverance. Institutions, instead of healing. Respectability, instead of the Spirit’s fire. Did God grant unconditional salvation to every devil who simply declared Jesus as Lord? No. They traded true faith for worldly respect. They lost heaven. Now, the cripple, the lame, and the blind receive food—but no one is left to say, “Rise and walk in the name of Jesus Christ.” They were cut off, not hastily, but after centuries of decline. Where the corpse lies, there the vultures will gather.

So no, salvation is not a lifetime guarantee written in sin. That belief is self-deception.

There’s another kind of self-deception—hypocrisy among the “holy.” Many faithful acknowledge they are saved by grace, not because they are holy. They stumble here and there. Their spiritual lives rise and fall. Yet, they judge others harshly for falling where they believe they stand. They may twist truth, chase money, or bend justice. But when someone else stumbles, they run to pick up the stone of the Law. Yes, we must rebuke sin, but to save—not to condemn.

Still, my focus today is not only on sin but on our theological issues.

No one’s theology is perfect. That’s the true reality of human understanding. We all carry serious theological gaps. That’s why theology must grow as we are fed more of God’s Word. As we study Scripture and walk in the Spirit, God refines our understanding—from hearsay to truth. If we’re growing spiritually, our lies get swept away and replaced with God’s truth. Yet we judge others by their theology and delete them from the Book of Life as if we are Jesus. That’s not righteousness—it’s hypocrisy.

Pick any giant of faith after the Reformation. Show me one with perfect theology. You won’t. They had their fair share of flawed understanding. So do we. We must correct each other with love, not judgment. Let’s save people, not slaughter them. Let’s pull them from the devil’s hands, not push them further in.

Many of these giants committed theological errors. We can reject their heresy without rejecting their legacy. We are the fruit of their ministry. As Paul said, we are their letter of recommendation.

In this age too, there are saints—some of the Lord’s purest—who still carry flawed theology. We must reject their error, but not reject them. Some of the Lord’s own have demonic theology tangled in their field of wheat. But it’s clear when they belong to Jesus. You can smell His Spirit on them within moments. The devil planted seed in their sleep, but their wheat outweighs the weeds.

It’s just as wrong to mistake devil’s seed for God’s as it is to ignore the wheat because of the weeds. When you see the devil’s seed, call it out. But don’t uproot the wheat with it. Don’t reject the Jesus in someone just because they also have error. Correct the error, but protect the witness.

Some argue that anyone contradicting Jesus can’t belong to Him. But by that standard, we’d all be disqualified. We all have theology that contradicts Jesus somewhere. Love is greater than knowledge. So let’s correct with love. Let’s refine rather than demolish. Even John the Baptist doubted—but he was still a prophet. We rebuke his moment of weakness, but we don’t call him a devil.

Before judging, look not only for the weeds but also the wheat. If there’s real wheat, help clean it up. If it’s all weed—burn it. Some are truly evil and should be rejected entirely. But others are God’s beloved children, entangled in error. We don’t correct them because we need their approval—we do it because we follow the Lord.

Jesus said: to those who have more, more will be given. But those who have little will lose even that. Some cry “Lord, Lord,” but show no trace of Him in their lives. They’re weeds. But others—full of love, humility, and fruit—may carry flawed theology, but they carry Jesus too. Let’s love them for that.

Look at Billy Graham—one of this age’s great giants. You can smell Jesus in his words, in his work. He was full of wheat—but he also had weeds. He questioned the Charismatic movement. He united with idolaters. That’s sin. But he wasn’t only his sin. His devotion to God was unmatched. He may have sinned against the Holy Spirit, but the Lord knows how far and how faithfully he served. I believe he stands today on the right side of God—not because he was perfect, but because he poured himself out in love.

That’s the truth: love trumps knowledge. Many of today’s faithful, like Graham, will be saved not because they got everything right but because they walked in love. And yes, they will face correction. But their hearts are known to God.

So when we see the weeds—point them out. But don’t forget the wheat. Let’s not throw Jesus out with our theological critiques. Correct with love. Pray. Teach. Restore. Their time may pass, as with Graham. The Spirit moves on. But let them fade as faithful servants with flaws—not as castaways.

God is justice. God is mercy. He sees it all.