Welcome ...this is a crucifixion tree in Israel
and this is where the crucifixion of Jesus took place
Site Purpose
Everyone has problems in life. Some are serious, some frivolous. The pattern I have found among serious problems, is that a person latches on to what the Bible says in some way, but they do not know how to respond to their situation in order to get to a solution. The purpose of this site is to attempt to explain how redemption, which is eternal life, affects troubled relationships, depression, anger, substance abuse, money addiction, sexual addiction and substance dependency. Behavior and destructive tendencies can be addressed through redemption and the work of The Holy Spirit if you will let Him do so in and through you. This is not as difficult as so many seem to think, what Jesus wants His redeemed to experience is their life, even during the worst problems. He never leaves His own, because The Holy Spirit of God indwells all redeemed people every hour of the a day, every day of the week, and every day of the year, because that is the definition of redemption. Spiritual death is defined as being under The Law. The present day manifestation of this is called religious and denominational persuasion, which is rooted in the original sin of Adam, human attempt to determine the knowledge of good and evil. The perfect standard of The Law of God could only be fulfilled by Jesus. Anyone who fails to keep The Law, which is every human ever born since Adam and Eve, is addressed by the following scriptures.Galatians 3:10 "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the Law"
Galatians 3:13 "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"
1 Corinthians 15:12-19 "Without the resurrection (eternal life) we are to be pitied of all people"
Friends, redemption (eternal life) is not to stop sinning, it is to trust Jesus"
Jesus is not willing that any should perish, He is longsuffering and does not use "scare tactics" in this age. God gives everyone everywhere an opportunity, which is why the Word is given out on this site. Redemption is what changes people, not this religious novelty and gimmick stuff that is around today. You can not keep God from loving you, but you can put up a shield of indifference and rejection. You can slap God in the face, you can turn your back on Him, you can blaspheme Him and you can treat Him any way, but you can not keep Him from wanting to give you eternal life. Jesus will redeem you and give you that eternal life if you will just ask Him for it.If you call me Life, why do you desire me not? If you call me Gracious, why do you trust me not? If you call me Eternal, why do you seek me not? If you call me Just, why do you fear me not? If you call me The Way, why do you walk with me not? If you call me Light, why do you see me not? If you call me Rich, why do you ask me not? If you call me Wise, why do you follow me not? If you call me Mighty, why do you honor me not? If you call me Fair, why do you love me not? If you call me Noble, why do you serve me not? If you call me Master, why do you obey me not? If I condemn you, then blame Me not. Consider migratory birds, Migratory bird flight has never been explained. The first problem facing migratory birds, is that they have to take sufficient fuel (stored as fat) with them for the flight. For necessary flying capacity, they must be as light as possible and excess weight has to be avoided at all cost, since the use of fuel must be as efficient as possible. They have to fly at a certain cruising speed, because if they fly too slowly, they consume too much fuel to stay airborne, and if they fly too fast, they waste too much energy overcoming air resistance. Depending on aerodynamics, the optimal speed is different for each bird. Since it is a known fact that birds gear themselves to a perfect energy saving speed, how do they know? Scientists say this is only one of the many unsolved questions. Consider a species of small bird that migrates from Alaska to Hawaii for the winter. It completes a non-stop flight over the open sea without any island to rest on, and since the bird can not swim, a stop for rest is impossible. This flight is over four thousand kilometers, which requires it to beat it's wings over a quarter of a million times for eighty-eight continous hours. Typically, these birds start the journey at a weight of about 200 grams (a little under half a pound). including around 70 grams of stored fat to be used as fuel. From what I understand, this bird (the Golden Clover) converts around five percent per hour of it's decreasing body weight. The mathematics in this are staggering. I am not enough of a math scholar to even begin to analyze this. How does this bird know how much fat is necessary? How does it arrange to have just the right amount when the journey starts? How does this bird know the distance from Alaska to Hawaii, the specific rate of fuel consumption, how does it know the way, and how does it navigate? Even a slight diversion off course while crossing the ocean means certain death in the open sea for a migrating land bird. The vast majority of migrating birds would never reach their destination without a navigational method. No species could survive an overwhelming loss rate due to navigation error, so any suggestion that evolution played a part must be totally dismissed. Also to be dismissed, is suggesting that young birds learn the way by flying with their parents, since many species fly solo. It is thought that migratory birds have an instictive sense of direction, like some sort of compass, which makes it possible for them to orientate themselves and keep flying in a certain direction. This is mind staggering. A famous ornithologist once said "the birds ability to find it's way during migration is surely the greatest mystery". Seldom has any other question given so much cause for theorizing and speculation as this one. This navigational achievement is an incomparable miracle, since it is performed without complex insruments such as compass and map, under constantly changing conditions that include sun position, wind direction, cloud cover, and the diurnal cycle. Even a slight diversion off course crossing the ocean would be certain death in the open sea. The vast majority of migrating birds would never reach their destination without navigational methods. There have been trials and experiments to get birds off course. If birds are anesthetized and moved before a journey, or if their cages are made to rotate continously so their orientation is constantly changing, they are just as able to find their way across thousands of miles of open ocean as "control" birds, or those that were left alone. The method of birds determining location, not understood even today, is only the beginning, Then comes the real problem, namely flight navigation. During flight over wide windswept masses of ocean, a tendency to drift off course can not be avoided. I have not even discussed half of the factors involved! I can not, nor can anyone even understand the answers to these questions. The truth is that migratory birds cover thousands of miles by God's direction and creation. Migratory birds are on divine "autopilot", and they do not even know it. God has placed a life support system into His creation of migratory birds. Our creator has equipped these birds with precise autopilots that are apparently constantly measuring a geographical position, and comparing the data with it's individuality and it's programmed destination. Only in this way, can an economical energy saving direct flight be guaranteed. Just where this vital system is to be found in a bird, and how it's operating information is coded, is known by no one today. All of us are on a journey in our human bodies too. Unlike migratory birds, we have a body of flesh, soul and a spirit. Wouldn't it be the better part of wisdom to turn our life journey over to His divine guidance. to live in our human spirit as the Holy Spirit of God? When our body of flesh perishes, our soul and spirit will either spend eternity with Jesus Christ, or be seperated from God forever. Whatever state we happen to be in right now, He can free us and put us into the center of His divine guidance system. If you are less than one hundred percent certain that if they you took your last breath right now, that you would be absent from your body and present with the Lord, ask Jesus Christ for eternal life. Two elements are essential, BOTH forgiveness AND eternal life. You can ONLY be redeemed by the finality of the sacrifice on the tree, AND the reality or the resurrection. Religious systems almost always stop with forgiveness of sin, and then trying to live a "good life" as you continue "falling on your face" and hoping that no one discovers what you are "doing or not doing" All people have the desire for unconditional love and acceptance. The only source is Jesus Christ. The rejection of Jesus Christ means that the need for love and acceptance has not been met, and will cause a person to seek another means to get their need for unconditinal love and acceptance met. This can manifest in all ways of behavior, from having pets, chemical dependencies, sexual requirements, and almost always leads to depression. By deciding to ask Jesus Christ for eternal life, you have already received it. Father God, As I am reading this, by faith, I accept that Jesus was sacrificed on a tree to die for ALL OF MY sins PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE, in order to TAKE THEM AWAY never to be seen by You again. Jesus, You were raised from the dead for me, as if I were the only person on the face of the earth. Jesus, You were raised from the dead, having entered into my death with me, so that I could enter into your life with You. The Word says You are standing at the door of my soul, thoughts and emotions, knocking to come in, I ask You to be my Lord and my Savior, my God and my best friend. Indwell my human spirit, rewriting my DNA with an eternal name by the power of The Holy Spirit. Reveal Your mind, and show me Your wisdom, because I have none of my own. Show me reality and truth so that I may rejeect fear, lies and religion. Renew my mind with Your Truth. Amen. Father God, I confess that I am a sinner, according to Romans 3:23. I accept that Jesus Christ died according to the Gospel, was raised from the dead on the third day, and ascended to the Right Hand of the Father, in a glorified body, where His sacrifice TOOK AWAY ALL OF MY SINS, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. Jesus, come into my life and renew my mind. Jesus, my eternal life is anchored by your resurrection, and I thank you for The Holy Spirit now living inside of me, in order to produce Fruit of the Spirit. In the name of Jesus of John 8:28, Amen. What is spiritual life (redemption)?
There is a world of difference between saying I have been born again and knowing what it means to be born again. You do not put your faith in what the bible says, you put your faith in what it means. Obviously you are not going to know what it means until you know what it says, but you can know what it says and not have a clue what it means. Once you understand that you need life and ask Jesus to give you life, you will see the change in yourself, WHY? Because a natural person can not understand spiritual things which leads off into religion, but spiritual people can understand the things of God. You have to understand the truth that you are never going to become a spiritually alive person by only believing that Jesus died for your sins, because although He died for the sins of the whole world, that is not salvation. I do not know how I can emphasize this any more emphatically. In Romans it tells us that while we were still enemies of God, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, but how much more now shall we be saved by His life. You had to be saved from the consequence of sin first, (finished at the cross) but now you have to come for life by the Gift of God which is eternal life. Mulititudes of people come to the sacrifice on the tree (cross) thinking it saves them, and I am sorry to say that this is not true. This is why Paul said that without the resurrection we are to be pitied of all people,and are still in our sins (spiritually dead). The resurrection is what saves you. It is The Ministry of The Holy Spirit of God that places you into the body of Christ as a result of His resurrected life. There are many people streaming down church aisles and writing all kinds of articles about salvation by merely believing that Jesus died for the sins of the whole world, even suggesting universal salvation. The biggest mistake is a failure to realize that the sacrifice on the tree (cross) is only a component of the resurrected life (redemption). Think of two high plateaus with a deep valley between them. You were born as a human being on plateau one which has nothing on it to sustain you eternally. There is a bridge, or a crossing to the other plateau that you can use. The destination is not the bridge, it is the other side. Religious people are standing on the bridge, but they have never gotten to the other side. The other side is redemption and eternal life. The bridge is not the destination, it is a means to get to the destination. Forgiveness does not bring life to the dead, but redemption can not be eternal without the taking away (not just forgiveness) of sin. If sin was not taken away forever at the tree, the first time a redeemed person sinned, they would lose their redemption, which is impossible. The only issue is whether or not there has come a time in your life where you recognize two things about yourself. The Word of God says you are a sinner, and when you recognize that you are one, then you are ready for the tree, because that is what the tree was for, to TAKE AWAY the sins of the ENTIRE WORLD. It is important to understand that the work of Jesus on the tree removed sin from the sight of God forever. The only sin that is being referred to in the Bible at this time in reference to repentance, is the sin of unbelief in the resurrection of Jesus to provide eternal life. Everybody continues to sin, including all those who have accepted eternal life, and the point is that Jesus has removed this sin from the sight of God for all eternity. If you do not recognize that you are a sinner, then the tree has no meaning to you. The consequence of sin is death, not the physical death that the world considers, but spiritual death. The only solution for spiritual death is spiritual life. The only One who could clear the way for coming to God The Father is Jesus. He is the only way that could take away the alienation between sin and God (which He did at the tree), and the only one who could take away the alienation between a spiritually dead person and a spiritually alive person, (which is what He did through His physical resurrection.) A dead human being is not going to go into the presence of a living God. This is a practical issue, NOT religion. Forgiveness does not give life to the dead, life gives life to the dead, and that is the meaning of the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ. If you walk up to a dead body at an open casket funeral do you think forgiving them will bring them to life? Does a baby come out of the womb reciting "praise Jesus, and ask for eternal life?" This is why Romans says when you were yet enemies, which means you were spritually dead and lost, you were reconciled through the death of Jesus Christ. (every human being is born into this world reconciled to God, this is a past and accomplished fact) how much more will you be saved (redeemed, receive eternal life) by His Life? No one receives eternal life (redeemed) by the death of Christ, they do so by His Life (The physical resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead). What you are saved from, is the consequence of sin, which is spiritual death. You are saved from spiritual death by spiritual life, which is Jesus Christ living inside of you, which is your hope of glory.
Are you a "good" person?This is outside of the entire issue. The issue is "have you come to life?", Buddha can not give you life, the Pope can not give you life, and Moses could not give anyone life, The only one sent to this earth by God to give life was Jesus Christ. That is why He said "I am the way (not a way), I am The Truth (not a truth), and I am The life (not a life)" and no one comes to Father God, except by Me.
Is this a "bunch of nonsense"?Scripture says that you can look at nature and tell that God is real. I don't know how a person can observe a baby being born or any kind of birth for that matter and not believe that there is a God. The seed of a man enters a woman and nine months later this baby comes out with eyes and ears and nose, screaming and yelling and everything else! You tell me how this takes place without God. You can look around the universe and see the mystery. Man spends all his life trying to figure out what God made, but never will, and the evidence of God is all around us. And then on top of all of this evidence, He came here in a "Hebrew earth suit" to say you can know who I am. If you only look His creation (the basis of pagan beliefs), you don't know that He is a loving and merciful God, all you know He is creative. Jesus came to this this earth 2000 years ago, so that we could look into the face of Jesus and know what God is like. You can know ABOUT God by observing the universe, but if you want to get to know God, you have to get to know Jesus. Once you are In Jesus Christ, you can know God, because He is living inside of you. Natural man can never understand spiritual things and they are foolish to them. To talk about spiritual things to a natural person is an exercise in futility, because they can not understand what you are saying. Until a person receives Jesus Christ, (because there is no other name under Heaven given among men whereby you must be saved) you can not see and hear the voice of God by the Word of God.
Are you rebelling against something?If you are angry at what is written here, it is because anger is a secondary response to fear. How many parents are filled with fear when they can not find their child, and then become angry at the child when they find them? Usually what a person is rebelling against needs to be rebelled against, which is almost always religion, If you have been burnt by religion, you may equate this with Jesus, but religion has NO bearing at all upon Jesus. If you are rebelling against churches and the hypocrisy that you see, you need to understand that this is NOT what redemption is. A religion or a church is not eternal life. Is there anything about Jesus that you are rebelling against? I almost never hear a response to this question. All that matters is for you to come to Him for what He came to give you which is forgiveness at the Cross and eternal life through His resurrection. Everyone is born dead, which is why we bounce prayers off the ceiling and can not understand spiritual things, due to our natural dead state. We are not dead to the world, we are dead to God. The only issue is do you want to come alive to God? I am not talking about going to church or not going to church, I am talking about "Do you want to become a child of the living God?" Many people get "burnt" by a church or religion, but never by Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the only way to receive eternal life. If you are a person who resists this, by saying, no, I am going to go with my religion, or I was baptized, or my parents went to church, or I was circumsised, or I am going to do this and that, you are in total error. Jesus Christ has already done it all, and you do not need anything else. He who has the Son has life, he who does not have the Son does not have life.
Why this website?
The world we live in is dark and bleak, full of sin and error. with lies and deception. All of us were born
spiritually dead, and need eternal life, not just forgiveness of sin.
Redemption (being saved) and learning (growing in Grace) are impossible without the presence of
The Holy Spirit. Redeemed people are called to be ministers of reconciliation and ambassadors for
Jesus Christ, not to follow religous systems. When I understood eternal life In Jesus Christ, it led
me to share the knowledge with others. It is a phenomenal experience to see someone go from death
to life (spiritually).
The Christian life
God never told anyone to live a Christian life because it is impossible! Redeemed people continue to sin,
Living a redeemed life is trusting God, who is Jesus , for eternal life, based on His
bodily resurrection from death. The death of Jesus on the tree took away your sin
to clear the way for receiving eternal life. If the consequence of sin, which is death, was not taken away,
you would die the next time you sinned. Confession of sin is not a "spiritual bar of soap", because what if
you miss some? Or what if you were not confessing sin the moment your body passed away? This is why confession booths,
altar calls, 1John 1:9 and everything else like these activities, have no correlation to the New Covenant (Testament).
You are saved by the life of Jesus, not the death of Jesus.
The book of Hebrews tells us about mockery of the finished work on the tree. Activities such as
returning to temples and sacrificing animals, or asking for God to continue to forgive sin, instead of
thanking God for the taking away of sin."Confession" of sin is thanking God for this.
The redeemed life is not trying to stop sinning. If that were the case, no one could be redeemed,
including me!. Faith In Christ will reduce or even eliminate many destructive desires of our
flesh by the power of the Holy Spirit. This DOES NOT MEAN "I don't do this, and I don't do that". A strange tactic
of the wicked one, is to convince us of some ability to stop sinning (self-righteousness). This usually results
in a person becoming an ineffective witness for presenting God's Grace, claiming they are as wonderful as anyone
can be, when they are no better than anyone else. Under Grace, all things are permissible, but not all things
are profitable.
Beware of the wicked one trying to convince you that the denomination you belong to, or how much work you do
makes you "more righteous". In religious circles, this is usually labelled as "in and out of fellowship", which
is false teaching. A born again believer, a child of God, is redeemed and never "out of fellowship". Again, nowhere
in the Word is ANYONE ever asked to live "a Christian life", because it is impossible. Only God can live it through you.
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