There are an untold number of Christians who have been taught to believe what man-dominated harlot systems have taught them about God. They are taught that in the beginning God made everything "good" then one of the shining angels "decided to make himself into god." That devil wrecked the works of God and so degraded God's perfect creation that the Almighty Himself was hard put to the test to discover some means to restore creation from the clutches of this wicked one making evil.
Yet, we have God's inspired prophet's word on the matter- His statement is that GOD CREATES EVIL:
"That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil. I the Lord do all these things." Isaiah 45:7
The word here for "evil" is the Hebrew word ‘ra’ which is used throughout the Old Testament to denote wickedness, sin, and wrongdoing. In some five hundred passages it is so used. Here the scripture clearly teaches God creates evil. Yet, fundamental Christians say, "Surely it cannot mean that God creates the evil of killings, of debauchery hardened sinners given to wrongdoing of devils. It must mean that He creates physical evil like famines, pestilences, hurricanes, tornadoes, forest fires, floods, calamities, judgments, etc..”
But the word of God is clear;
"I form the light, and create darkness." Isaiah 45:7
The initial state of God is light. He was before all things, age lasting, omnipresent Light. When he withdrew His light, there is a form of darkness known to all men. All men but One have lacked the Light of God's GLORY. God’s light came first, before the darkness, and therefore God is always able to swallow up the darkness with the light.
"The light still shines in the darkness and the darkness has never put it out." John 1:5 Phillips
When God brought the creation forth OUT OF HIMSELF, He made everything according to His plans, nothing was a mistake. God made the serpent spirit a tool to accomplish His will. The devil was perfect at creating a lack, for he was created with a deficiency in godliness, made in a condition of fragmentation and separation from certain essential divine elements. God certainly withheld the truth from the serpent of old. He withheld loving characteristics of His divine spirit from man when Adam fell into death.
In the same way a hormonal imbalance in a human being can cause excruciating pain, sickness, stunted growth, vicious temper, mental illness, or other psychopathic conditions, so too a lack of SPIRITUAL balance can cause deranged conditions. Wrong behaviors and dull thinking that lack proper actions are the result, just as deficient food causes imbalance that produces deranged conditions of physical health.
One of the great key principles of the creation's universe is the principle of balance. If the earth were a few miles closer to the sun, it would be an inferno. If it were a few miles farther away it would be a desolate, frigid desert. But in its present location, balanced at an ideal distance from the sun, our planet is in a perfect condition to sustain an exciting proliferation of life forms. None of the other planets in our solar system can accommodate this life because they are not so balanced to the sun.
The atoms that are another basic building blocks of all matter on earth are another example of perfect balance. The nucleus of the atom is made up of neutrons and protons in an incredibly harmonious organization. Yet, through knowledge of splitting these atoms. cataclysmic eruptions of nuclear power take place. The disruption of splitting the small atom for weapons of war brings vast devastation, lasting sickness, and death to people exposed to its blast.
Spiritual balance by truth is essential to function properly in every part of our life. The thinking in our soul and health of our body should be divinely balanced to truth no matter how minuscule. We must be in a state of balanced equilibrium to reflect health and well being. When He created our bodies originally in Adam they were in perfect balance. We have been constructed in such a way that we need just so much exercise, no more and no less. We need just so much food of certain types, no more and no less. And we need just the right amount of sleep and relief from the tensions and stresses of daily life.
If a person goes too far in any direction - too little or too much food, exercise, or rest - consistently, then his or her entire physical and psychological life becomes to be out of balance. Where there is a lack of balance it creates a lack of personal well-being. On the positive side, where there is correct balance, there is a sense of personal well-being. Physical “dis-ease” mostly is the product of being continually imbalanced with the physical laws of created life.
The most dangerous and most dreaded disease of cancer is caused by imbalance in cells of the body that become so disorganized, growing too fast, that growth chokes off the life in the rest of the cell. The growth of unhealthy cells even stops organs of the body from working, thus the person's body dies. Our very life depends on each organ working in a balanced and proper order. \When God's Spirit testifies to our spirit, it brings awareness to our spirit. It changes our mind's thinking, restoring correct knowledge and understanding of God’s truth. If His Spirit dwells in us it quickens the cells of our mortal body.
Our body seeks properly balanced health, a state of well-being given from the food source found in plants and fruits. The best source of all nutritional elements for man is food which is created by God, eaten in its natural condition. The best food can be ingested in its raw and natural state, exactly as it came from the hand of the Creator, unprocessed and otherwise untampered with. Processed food does not naturally belong in the human diet.
God provides humans with the whole grain of wheat, and what man's technology and science has done to wheat after it is harvested is criminal. First, the wheat grain is stripped of its most important nutritional elements by the removal of the bran. Then the germ of the wheat (the living part of the seed, which is full of enzymes and even more vitamins) is destroyed or discarded. What is left is the wheat center, which is mostly starch with very few distinctive vitamins. This lifeless form is then processed into flour; chemicals are added, and this is sold to the public as white, high quality, enriched flour.
How can a food be "enriched" when all of the wholesome, natural nutrition is taken out of it and chemicals are substituted for the living substance of vitamins, minerals and proteins? This snow-white powder is best suited for making wallpaper paste, but it is formed into products called macaroni, spaghetti, noodles, bread, and pastries. Humans then consume large amounts of this fiberless paste (pasta). When it passes from the stomach into the intestines it clings to and corrodes the walls of the intestinal tract, fermenting and putrefying over long periods of time into disease.
The civilized world wonders why so many are unhealthy, overweight, and dying from preventable disease. We Americans live in the day of refined foods, and refined means simply that the nutritional elements have been FRAGMENTED AND ALTERED. Nutritive sufficiency depends on eating whole foods compounded by nature according to God's design:
"And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat." Genesis 1:29 KJV
Even vitamins extracted from food lose much of their value in the process of extraction. And when separated from their biochemical partners, the heat, chemicals and preservatives employed to bring them to the consumer can make them liabilities, not assets. No fragmented or unnatural concoction can possibly substitute for natural, whole foods. All fragmented, processed foods are imbalanced and deficient in nutrient value. Every fragmented processed food lacks healthy wholeness.
To glorify God with our bodies we should fast from consuming fragmented foods that are unbalanced and unhealthy. We should relieve the continual stress on our inner body parts of digesting man’s tasty concoctions. Our health springs from what we consume for our daily fare, but one man may lack in different elements than another. Yet,
"All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23
The power of death is to be discovered as a universal DEFICIENCY of the lack of God’s glory, the lack of the light of God. The lack of understanding keeps us coming short of God's glory in fragmentations of man's imagination. Sin in man has created evil states of bondage to death in men and women. God has made plain that sin and death are the result of a lack of His glory, an imbalance of which He intends for us to be cured.
Now mature Christians need sufficient supply of His New Creation Life in their spirit. In Christ Jesus all the attributes of God are conciliated, in balance, and He is fully furnished for every phase of God’s present and future purposes. He is in perfect condition to reconcile the entire creation to Himself. Christ Jesus is both the Saviour of the world and the Judge of the world.
"This is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world." John 4:42
"Indeed, then, condoning the times of ignorance, God is now charging mankind that all everywhere are to repent, forasmuch as He assigns a day in which He is about to be judging the inhabited earth in righteousness by the Man Whom He specifies, tendering faith to all, raising Him from among the dead-"" Acts 17:30-31 concordant
We have no choice between the savior and judgment. Jesus Christ is not either the world's Saviour or the world's Judge, as some preach, "If you do not know Him today as your Saviour, tomorrow you will meet Him as your Judge.” Customary church teaching says, “If He does not eternally save you today, He will eternally damn you tomorrow." Yet the glorious testimony of inspired scripture is that the Lord is both SAVIOUR OF ALL and JUDGE OF ALL, He is the SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD and He is the JUDGE OF THE WORLD. HE SAVES THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD BECAUSE HE JUDGES THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD! His judgment brings us unto the salvation of all men and women.
"When Thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness." Isaiah 26:9
"For the Father judges no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: that all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father.” John 5:22-23
"Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me." John 12:31-32
In these verses, Jesus Christ's judgment is linked to the salvation of ALL MEN. He judges ALL to save ALL— the very same ALL He judges! Christians in nominal churches have not been restored unto a oneness of His spirit. This has not yet been completely wrought out in church goers. There are further steps for His people to take:
“Now our knowledge is fragmentary (incomplete and imperfect), and our prophecy is fragmentary (incomplete and imperfect). But when the complete and perfect (total) comes, the incomplete and imperfect will vanish away" I Corinthians 13:9-10, Amplified
As one has written, "Herein lies much of our training and discipline, yes, and travail, because we do receive 'IN PART', and it is from GOD, but it is fragmentary.” If we try to claim perfection from what is imperfect, we shall be found again put to shame. But if we exercise what we have received, and it works in us according to His purpose, then we shall be prepared to receive more and more until we come to that COMPLETE AND TOTAL PORTION where the 'in part' is swallowed up into Christ’s balanced wholeness by a ONENESS of Spirit.
Thus we see that there is EXERCISE and STEWARDSHIP involved in receiving greater portions which He has to give. Greater godliness is given according to how we handle and use each "in part"portion.
Consider this:
"To you has it been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of the heavens, yet to those it has not been given. For anyone who has, to him shall be given, and he shall have a superfluity." Matthew 13:12 concordant
"Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Romans 5:1
"For through Him we both (Jew and Gentile) have access by one Spirit unto the Father." Ephesians 2:18
"God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him." I John 4:9
"Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ." Galatians 4:7
These are but a meager sampling of the vast array of scriptures that tell us what is available to us THROUGH our Lord Jesus Christ. Through Him we can have redemption now, even the forgiveness of sins. Through Him we can truly be reconciled with the peace with God. Through Him we have deliverance from the dominion of sin and death. Through Him we have God’s life, God’s glorious light. Through Him we have access to the Father. Through Him we are made sons and daughters, heirs of God.
What does this mean, THROUGH HIM? It means through FAITH in what God has done in Jesus, being a son, given to us in the way of Jesus, the agency, whereby God’s richest blessings and benefits are realized. They are being bestowed upon those who FOLLOW THE LAMB of God. Jesus is the means whereby we can see to receive all the redemptive provisions of God. It is through Jesus Christ, and only through Him that this is possible. Provisions are made through the agency of His redemptive activities that process an INWORKING of spiritual union with Him.
“But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.” I Corinthians 6:17
THROUGH us being made one spirit with Him speaks of having a greater, more complete, more perfect action working in our spirit because Christ is sent to achieve the purposes God has revealed to us. Our faltering English versions of scripture allows us to believe “on Christ” or “in Christ”. But the more truthful tongue of inspiration prefers to “BELIEVE INTO”. The word in the original is the same preposition “EIS” meaning “INTO”.
"...that everyone believing into Him might not perish..." John 3:15
Faith is a moving force with God. When we believe INTO, we are transferred from “without” to within. No longer "outside." We are transported out of the kingdoms of this world and INTO the Kingdom of God's dear Son. Not only is He the foundation beneath our feet (understanding), but He is above us (in rank) and within us (in our spirit) too. Faith in what God dispatches in the Spirit of His Son moves us from being outside of Him into oneness with Him.
How much richer is our life and experience when we are sealed in the love of God, imitating Jesus as beloved sons, even in being baptized into His death! Seldom in John's gospel do we read of believing on the Christ. Yet nearly forty times, and in nearly every chapter, we read of believing INTO. In the third chapter alone INTO occurs four times. INTO suggests progression and carries with it a sense of knowing the spiritual motion that grows in each unfolding of pressing issues. Christ IN us is opening entrance into new spiritual realities that are beyond man’s limited carnal mind.
Saving faith is not of ourselves, it is “the gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast”. God-given faith has the omnipotent power that brings us back to balance, INTO ONENESS WITH GOD. God enjoys and enables us to be fully lifted INTO a rank in God that is being made one with Him. If I took a bottle down to the ocean and filled it with ocean water, I could truthfully say, “The ocean is in the bottle; but the bottle is not in the ocean. It would be in my hand, but if I got into a boat and went out into the ocean and dropped the bottle over the side and watched it as it disappeared beneath the waves, then I could say truly, the bottle is in the ocean, and ocean is in the bottle.”
So we see, there is a world of difference between the ocean being IN the bottle and the bottle being IN the ocean. So too, there is difference between Christ being IN our spirit to teach, and our spirit learning to DWELL in God, having been made one with His spirit by making our soulish mind to be ruled over by the mind of CHRIST.
When Christ quickens our spirit, our soul must repent of former thoughts and former ways to know the newness He brings, yes, to be AWARE of the leading of the Lord. Paul speaks of Christ being in us, the hope of glory; and it is wonderful to know that HE will come to dwell within our spirit. Our spiritual development comes to maturity as we are walking out the precepts of that union to oneness of victory over every yoke and bondage of death. By the sacrifice of Jesus, a faith is given and expressed in us that enables us to lay down our soulish thoughts and ways, thereby gaining the glory of God in spirit.
Those who “follow on to know the Lord” are found by God and man to be IN ONENESS with the Lord’s spirit: in love, peace, and causing joy that is the right judgment set for us. God intends for our death to be completely swallowed up into His LIFE, drawn into it as the bottle is swallowed by the ocean. The simple truth we believe is this: God promises RESTITUTION for believers, a reconstituting of all things back into a balanced unity of harmonious wholeness with the life of God.
Every man has a natural body and a spiritual body, and when man’s natural body dies:
"Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it." Ecclesiastes 12:7
“… it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.” 1 Corinthians 15:44
God is restoring union to each man’s spirit individually. Some men are written on by the Spirit of God, and the fullness of God's Word is revealed in them. The mind of Christ determines the will of the Father in their every purpose until there is now not any imbalance or lack of godliness within them. Every attribute of God so perfectly synchronized and balanced that it makes of them perfect living creatures wherein are no excesses, no extremes, no diseases, disorders, disability, dis-tress, dis-aster, dis-obedience, dis-cord, dis-couragement, dis-harmony, dis-orientation, dis-union or dis-integration whatsoever!
God, our Father, is continually providing a brushing away of every tear, a continual lifting us to a gladness that replaces our mourning, He stops our clamor and ends our misery. Christ is bringing us to glory and He will end all our negative mental attitudes, crazy unbalanced emotions. He will forgive and forget fleshly sins that fragment us into death, bringing us to a state of being one with Him that swallows up all man’s sin by HIS COMPLETE FULLNESS.
The more we follow on to know the Lord, the more we now grow in the restoration into oneness with the Spirit of the Lord. Now is an acceptable time for oneness in every aspect:
"Yet I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deludes Eve by its craftiness, your apprehensions should be corrupted from the singleness and pureness which is in Christ…" II Corinthians 11:3 concordant
“…from the SINGLENESS in the Christ." Paul saw a slipping back "out of spiritual union”, out of oneness of spirit happening to the Corinthian brethren:
"For I am reckoning that the sufferings of the current era do not deserve the glory about to be revealed for us." Romans 8:18 concordant
"For to vanity was the creation subjected, not voluntarily, but because of Him Who subjects it, in expectation that the creation itself, also, shall be freed from the slavery of corruption into the glorious freedom of the children of God." Romans 8:20 concordant
God has restoration plans that will put all things back together in UNION IN HIMSELF at the proper time. God will keep working by the spirit in individuals until BROTHERLY LOVE is truly healing all the separation and division in His people. Every deficiency needs replenished. All imbalances that divide His people, condemn sinners to hell forever, or that hide in graves, need correction. God's perfect glory will shine into every dark extreme to enlighten individuals to believe now, to be alive in spirit, free from sin and death, free of all corrupting self-hoods, free of religious duality, free of any unbalanced sin.
God is making us FREE by revealing the truth of Jesus Christ. We feel the sufficiency of Christ in us leading to a union of oneness with the Spirit of Jesus Christ. His sevenfold complete portion of spirit is being sent into our earthly life, into our spirit, to change our mind, and quicken our body to a restored oneness with the order in which God becomes our ALL-IN-ALL. Think of the power He will release in us in order to accomplish His determined will of saving us to the uttermost! This is a judgment He will never give up on, to save us with His power and glory to the uttermost. Faith in divine revelation now encourages us onward in such matters.