Spiritual Growth

  When Paul explained salvation by grace, he was clear that the Law of Moses was the law of death and condemnation. The Law is holy, but it was not fit for us, and he clearly cast it down so that the shadow could leave space for the real thing — the truth, grace, and faith. The Law was not the truth, so the Law had to be cast away, for its judgment has been paid off, so truth and grace could take over. Paul was not kind to the Law — the holy Law — but he did so to save lost souls.   Did Paul say the Roman gods were important because they gave ethics, morality, and civilized life to the empire? Did he honor the idols of Athens? He declared them for what they are — worthless idols of demons. Did Paul hide the truth from them? No, he declared it outright.   Was Paul insulting them? Did Jesus insult the Pharisees? No, he told them the truth and clearly showed them who they were, because that is what saves — to know the truth. They insulted him, because what they sai...

When Angel Gabriel observed Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, doubting the word of God delivered through him, he immediately exercised his authority and made Zacharias mute. Jesus also told us that if we do not doubt and command the mountain to sink into the sea, it will obey us, and nothing will be impossible for those who have faith. As the faithful, we do have authority to do what is impossible to the naked eye. How? Because it is written, and if it is written, it is true.   We are the government and priests of God who worship Him in His temple — our body — and also in the unity of temples, the assembly of the faithful. We are His ambassadors and representatives on this earth. We have authority. What we close on earth will be closed in heaven, and what we open will be opened in heaven. Just as our superiors like Angel Gabriel have authority, we also have authority. We should never forget that we are government in addition to our priestly service to God.   ...

    Personally, I do think faith has to be reconstructed — not to affirm me or any human culture, but to affirm Jesus by the book, the Bible. But why should our faith be reconstructed? Because all theology of this earth is self-affirmation. What is worst in this time is that some theologies do not merely affirm denominations, ways of life, culture, and civilization, but also personal delusion in the form of so-called “progressive Christianity.” That is why theology must be redefined in a way that affirms the only perfect man to ever walk this earth, the Lord Jesus Christ.   Real faith begins with self-denial and affirmation of Jesus. We must hang our ideas, theories, theologies, sciences, cultures, traditions, and ambitions on the cross to be reborn in the image of Jesus — the only perfect human being there is. Perfection is the essence of God and belongs to no one else. That is why God became human: so we could see, touch, talk to, and experience perfection. In Jesus, we...

  Human beings are spirit, flesh, and soul. The flesh comes from the dust of our genetics, while the spirit comes from heaven. So when we say “I,” we are also a kind of trinity. There is the invisible spirit, which defines who we are in spirit; there is our flesh, the clay – the visible part of us – in which the spirit is given; and then there is the soul, formed by the consciousness of the flesh through the spirit, which becomes the self-conscious part of our existence.   Jesus, however, could not have been created as spirit, because before he was born he already existed as the living Spirit, as God, and as the Lord of the host of angels. The spirit of Jesus was manifested in a human body by being conceived in his mother’s womb, and he gained consciousness over time like any human being. There was a time when he did not eat milk and honey, and a time when he did not yet know good from bad, though holiness was his nature. He grew up as a child, yet in spirit he was alway...

    When you prepare your land for sowing wheat, it is expected that the weeds’ seed in the soil or the weeds blown by the wind will grow along with the wheat. The weeds of the devil are all those in the wide path of the world — the devil and all religions of the devil — except those who live by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and who are led by the Holy Spirit of God to imitate the only Christ, whose name is the Lord Jesus Christ. The path to the Heavenly Father is narrow, not wide, and that path is the Lord JESUS Christ. Only the devil thinks all paths lead to salvation. But the devil and all his disciples are liars, speaking from their own hearts about things they know nothing of, and they are born killers of the innocent who listen to them. The children of the devil are made in the image of their father. Being slaves of the devil and of sin, they imagine they can free those who listen to them, but what they rob them of is any relationship they might have had with the only t...

    Our goal is to make sure the true gospel in its purity is preached, so the world has a chance to know the real Jesus Christ from the Bible. All those who live in darkness because they did not accept Jesus as Lord, all those who accept Jesus as Lord and are born again but are not obedient to the law of the Spirit to grow into the image of Jesus, and all those who tag themselves with the name “Christian” — and what is funny, even “the Church of God” — but who are idol worshipers (Orthodox, Catholic, Mormons, and so on) and who have nothing to do with Jesus, are called to the truthful gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is our purpose, and this is our goal.   Now, who has the true gospel? I am sure nobody. Even among the born-again faithful, nobody has the true gospel, because the way of the flesh and the way of the devil are mixed with the pure gospel of the Lord. I can pick my favorite preachers that I think teach the Word of God, but you can see failures everywhere....

    It is a well-known fact that the Lord has a plan from the Horn of Africa to the world. But what is special about the faithful in the Horn of Africa? The faithful here grew their faith with minimal interaction with the external world, flourishing under the oppression of a monarchy that promoted the national religion of Orthodox “Christianity,” and later under a socialist regime that classified most Protestant faiths as Western idealism and weapons of imperialism.   Their foundation was never the depth of theology or the complexity of thought, but the purity and biblical nature of their faith. They read the Bible as children of God, understanding it without bias and without the complex theologies of a lost world. Their faith was justified by the work of the Holy Spirit, which not only justified them and grew them into millions, but also united them beyond denominational differences.   They were faithful rescuers, drawing people out of dead religions like Catholicis...

    The real and core theology of the true faithful of the Lord Jesus Christ — of those who are born again in spirit and grow into the image of the Lord Jesus Christ both in person and as the assembly of the faithful — is not complicated. In essence, it is very simple. There are peripheral issues that we may fail to understand or agree upon, but the core is simple.   The reason we cannot see this simple truth is because we are confused beings who want to see our own delusion in the Bible — and often, we find it. Self-affirmation is our theological sin. The Bible, which affirms Jesus, is twisted to affirm our delusions, and we turn those delusions into theology. If you read the Bible with the eyes of a child, you will see Jesus. But we want to see ourselves, so we distort the truth, creating a god of our own desire and delusion. Our theology does not make us faithful according to God’s standard — it creates a god shaped by our confusion, sin, and self-interest.   Our ...