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Scripture: Exodus 20:14; 1 Corinthians 6:18; Mark 10:6-9; Hebrews 13:4; Acts 17:30-31 The Ten Words are the equivalent of an Owner's Manual - showing us how to live a life that makes a difference for ourselves and everyone. And so let's wrestle with the question, “Does our Heavenly Father know what's best for each of us,” especially in light of today's Word in Exodus 20:14. “You shall not commit adultery.” From the beginning God was concerned that the family be protected and that marriages be preserved. Marriage - God's First Institution ⁃ One man and one woman ⁃ For a lifetime ⁃ Become one flesh - intimacy ⁃ For family ⁃ It was “very good” ⁃ Especially under attack today God's plan is and was good, but the consequences of losing, breaking, ignoring and destroying what the Father intended are huge. What is the biblical teaching on marriage and what does it tell us today: Biblical Basics for marriage, sex, family and relationship: 1. Flee sexual temptation and sin. 1 Corinthians 6:18 “Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.” 2. Honor and protect marriage. Mark 10:6-9 “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.' So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” 3. Reserve sex for marriage alone. Hebrews 13:4 “Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.” Back to our original question: “Does our Heavenly Father know best?” Yes… He does….. And so, when we find WE'VE WANDERED from the Creator's will - HOW DO WE DEAL WITH THAT? 1. Listen - to our Father Creator 2. Repent - have a change of mind 3. Repent - change your direction. Acts 17:30-31 “In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.” Jesus Christ, cares in spite of what we've done. He paid for our rebellion and sins and offers us life, forgiveness and hope through repentance. 4. Trust - Jesus Christ - The Risen One. We can trust the One who stretched out His arms to die for us, who is risen from the grave and who is returning. 5. Follow God's Word and God's Spirit. Our God gave us the Owner's Manual. He also gave us the Deliverer, Jesus. And in Him we find, hope, forgiveness and power to live a new life freed of bondage to the past. Now What? Learn about God at https://www.awakeusnow.com EVERYTHING we offer is FREE. Check out the video from our website: https://www.awakeusnow.com/ten-words Check out the video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@AwakeUsNow/streams Watch via our app. Text HELLO to 888-364-4483 to download our app.
Preacher: Pete Greenwood SCRIPTURE: Genesis 1
How would you summarise the beliefs Christians hold? Since the second century, the best summary has been found in the Apostles' Creed – a punchy statement of faith containing the foundational beliefs Christians across the world agree on. We're spending this term looking through the Creed, line by line, in a series we're calling “I Believe” – a line repeated throughout the Apostles' Creed. Connect with us at ➜ Website: https://stjohnsdc.org.au ➜ Facebook: https://facebook.com/stjohnsdc ➜ Instagram: https://instagram.com/stjohnsdc
Title: “In God the Father, Creator of Heaven and Earth” Scripture: Acts 17:22-28 (CEB) By: Rev. Marisa Gertz Message by Rev. Marisa Gertz on Sunday, April 14, 2024 To support the ongoing ministries of Trinity, consider making a gift here: https://pushpay.com/g/trinitygnv?src=hpp
Today is day 42 and we are on the section on the First Article of the Apostles' Creed on God the Father Almighty. Today we are on the third line: “Creator of Heaven and Earth” and studying question 42. 42. Why do you call God the Father “Creator”? I call God the Father “Creator” because he made all things. He creates and sustains all things through his Word, and gives life to all creatures through his Spirit. (Genesis 1:1–2:3, 7; Psalm 104:24–30; John 1:1–3; Acts 17:24–28; Colossians 1:16–18) We will conclude today with The Collect for The Second Sunday of Christmas found on page 601 of the Book of Common Prayer (2019). If you would like to buy or download To Be a Christian, head to anglicanchurch.net/catechism. Produced by Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Madison, MS. Original music from Matthew Clark. Daily collects and Psalms are taken from Book of Common Prayer (2019), created by the Anglican Church in North America and published by the Anglican Liturgical Press. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations are from The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Catechism readings are taken from To Be a Christian - An Anglican Catechism Approved Edition, copyright © 2020 by The Anglican Church in North America by Crossway a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
4th February 2024 - (2nd Sunday before Lent) - St Mary's Slaugham, Morning Worship Preacher: Rev Peter Irwin-Clark Passage: Isaiah 45:15-25 Series: The Creed This week our sermon is the first in a series on the statements of the creed.
You matter to God Almighty. You matter perhaps far more than you know.You are:UNIQUE,one-of-a-kind, special, individual with different and better talents, capabilities, and above all:POTENTIAL.There is no one like you and you cannot be stereotyped, put in a category, or labeled, especially by age for there is only one:YOU.In the beginning, scripture and the precious book of Genesis tell us, God created them:MALE AND FEMALEMAN AND WOMAN.There are no other categories, no other creation, types whether biological, psychological, or spiritual. There are only two, male and female. You are one or the other and no other.In the eyes of God, the creator, categories, types, stereotypes like Italian, Irish, African American, Russian, English, Kenyan, Caucasian, Hispanic, old or young, all of that matters little or nothing to:GOD THE FATHER – CREATOR.You and only you, a unique creation, matter.It matters not to God whether mankind categorizes you as a BABY-BOOMER, whatever that means, or MILLENNIEL, whatever that means, or GEN-X or GEN-Z, whatever those categories mean, for they can do nothing but prevent you from understanding who you really are, God created, the potential you have to live and serve and be all that you can be for HIM. All such terminology does nothing but distracts and destroy WHO AND WHAT you really are:A ONE-OF-A-KIND, ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE, DIVINE CREATION!How the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ must rejoice when we are all that He intended us to be. And how our Great Creator must grieve when we ignore or fail to live to the fullest potential which our God has given us. What a world this would be, dramatically transformed for the good, if you and I lived as God intended us to live. We matter, we really do, to God the Father – Creator.It is undoubtedly a devil's tool to make you think less of who you are and what you are capable of. There is nothing wrong with living lives mediocre, safe, and average, says the world secular to the core, avoiding risk, growth, challenge, and even opportunity. Accepting and living something else as some other way is A-Okay no matter the potential lost or unused. Devil wins if you or I do not live up to our God-given potential, whatever that is.We know whether or not that is happening, for good (God-given eyes to see) or for worse, we know. For the CALL of God is always on our heart, challenging, and convicting. You, and I, hear that still small voice that no one else hears calling, constantly calling. You and I, individually, and only you and I feel the presence of the Holy Spirit in us, showering us with discontent, calling, constantly calling, YOUR OWN INDIVIDUAL GOD-CALL, for you alone asking that you do more for HIM, that you live to the fullest with the talents, abilities which HE has given to you, you and you alone, uniquely so. I do believe we can never be content unless we heed that call. The Holy Spirit will not be denied, will not leave, and will not give up. You can know that in your head, your heart, your conscience, and as one put it:YOUR SPIRITUAL GUT.There is no greater joy, no greater satisfaction than to fulfill that CALL. The called life lived is energizing, satisfying, joyful, and fully productive. Nothing satisfies like living life the way God intended, nothing. You are not a millennial. YOU ARE HIS! In the eyes of God, you are not Caucasian or African American or Hispanic, you are not old or young:YOU ARE HIS SON OR HIS DAUGHTER.You matter to the God who made everything, EVERYTHING, and everyone. Perhaps our supreme task is to understand who we are, what our potential is, what our God-given talents and abilities are, and work, WORK to be all that He intended us to be.You matter. All lives matter. Every individual male and female whom God created matters. If we who believe in the SON of the Living God understand that, and live that way, we change the world in dramatic fashion. Nothing else will!
There is always confusion or lack of understanding about the "kingdom of God" versus the "kingdom of heaven". From the Bible, the kingdom of God is about your personal walk with the Lord and living a righteous lifestyle. Faith is the primary factor as we walk with the Lord that we please Him, and we can't judge each other's walk. The kingdom of heaven, on the other hand, is a location, maybe not physical like earth, but still a place we are desirous of living in eternally. Holy Spirit, Jesus and the Father/Creator reside in heaven, not to mention those who believe and accepted Jesus.
Today is day 42 and we are on the section on the First Article of the Apostles' Creed on God the Father Almighty. Today we are on the third line: “Creator of Heaven and Earth” and studying question 42. 42. Why do you call God the Father “Creator”? I call God the Father “Creator” because he made all things. He creates and sustains all things through his Word, and gives life to all creatures through his Spirit. (Genesis 1:1–2:3, 7; Psalm 104:24–30; John 1:1–3; Acts 17:24–28; Colossians 1:16–18) We will conclude today with The Collect for The Second Sunday of Christmas found on page 601 of the Book of Common Prayer (2019). If you would like to buy or download To Be a Christian, head to anglicanchurch.net/catechism. Produced by Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Madison, MS. Original music from Matthew Clark. Daily collects and Psalms are taken from Book of Common Prayer (2019), created by the Anglican Church in North America and published by the Anglican Liturgical Press. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations are from The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Catechism readings are taken from To Be a Christian - An Anglican Catechism Approved Edition, copyright © 2020 by The Anglican Church in North America by Crossway a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
76-8-6, SHOW NOTES & COPYRIGHTS, (Scheduled 9/29/2022) Today we are going to read poems about and discuss man's rebellion against God; what it has done and what we can do about it. BROKEN HEARTED (God's Rhyme, pg. 141) A chosen people led to a land promised by God, And in another land God chosen by the people. I. The Promised Land After the fall of man sin prevailed. There were times when sin was hailed. Amid that sin in which the world regaled Lived a people, God's chosen ones. Throughout their history in Old Testament times, Through prosperity and captivity, perils and dangers, Whether living a promise or amidst strangers, They were at times distracted from looking toward the manger. Though they had the Law, All around they saw The perversions of idols As their faith became idle. If they could only have seen God at the end of the prophesies. Knowing what it would mean, Would they have forsaken idolatry? the rebellion the forgiveness again and again and over again God's chosen people since the time in the Garden Sinned and mocked their Father Creator, Then the sacrifice of a spotless lamb of wool To forgive the sins of their hearts so full. year after year tear after tear a new sacrifice for the after life After so many years and so many tears The ultimate sacrifice had to be made, Sorrow upon sorrow Left no time to borrow. Discussion: II. God As Man So . . . God, through Jesus, by human birth became man, To become one of His own creation, To live in this world as one of us So He could complete His saving plan. Jesus, one with God, humbled Himself, The ultimate and eternal sacrifice, To pay the price, not by earthly deeds or self, But by His precious shed blood. Not a sacrifice to be repeated year after year, Jesus died for sins from the time of the Garden, Now and until the end of days So we may stand before God without fear. Discussion: III, The Days Anew Then as an hour in a day Of a thousand years, A people persecuted for their faith Left where they could no longer stay. Their ocean voyage a second journey to the promised land. Believing they were fulfilling what God had planned; As Israel became the first Jerusalem, America was to become as a new Jerusalem. * God prevailed a people thrived the land was hailed for those deprived now able to worship to pray to God without the kingship commands of man but the world interrupted and lives were corrupted idols revered God not feared As in ages before. though a revival or two Man still ate from the tree of strife.. They were so many more than a few Never, not ever, foreseeing their life. Discussion: IV, Yesterday And Today The chosen ones, worshiping false gods, Sacrificed their children on altars of sin; Hundreds, thousands, breathing now dead. Hoping ... , forgetting ... , denying God. Now today, a people who chose God Are taking their children, those unborn, And, though not understanding the sacrifice, Are killing their children at the altar of Satan. There are those today who believe we are falling Again - failing and flailing as we turn, Not just our backs, but our hearts, from God; As those before us, so do we burn. Yesterday, today and tomorrow Worshiping all but what is right, Seeking, then reeking, lying in sin, Rebelling openly and eagerly in His sight. For seventy years in Old Testament times Jerusalem besieged, taken captive by Babylon. Today, the new Jerusalem can look to the future To destruction by the rise of the new Babylon. Discussion: V. The Broken Hearted "My God, my God, why have you...
Get the Heart of Freedom III Replay here: https://hof3replay.thefuturegen.com/hof3recording Join the Future Generations Community here: https://community.thefuturegen.com Remember to Rate, Review and Subscribe on iTunes and Follow us on Spotify Follow us on Instagram: @futuregenpodcast San Diego area residents, take advantage of our special New Patient offer exclusively for podcast listeners here. We can't wait to experience miracles with you! In this episode, Dr. Stan has the honor of being Dr. Madej's first interview since being in a plane crash in June 2022. Many of you will be familiar with topics such as nanotechnology that Dr. Madej often discusses, but this interview is different. Dr. Madej shares her powerful conviction and certainty in not only her ability to survive, but to heal…which is something we all have inside of us. May this episode transform you! Dr. Carrie Madej is originally from Dearborn, Michigan and received her medical degree from Kansas City University of College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2001. She then completed her traditional internship at The Medical Center in Columbus, Georgia and internal medicine residency at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. Dr. Madej served as a private clinician and medical director of clinics in Georgia until 2015. Dr. Madej also served as an attending physician for the Pennsylvania College of Osteopathic Medicine - Georgia Campus, where she mentored students in clinical applications of internal medicine for 8 years. Her teaching and practice incorporates the importance of body, mind, and spirit in achieving wellness, and that the balanced body has the inherent ability to heal itself. She believes a physician should be a teacher of health to the patient, as well as identify the causes of dis-ease, in order to have an optimal body. It is her mission for us to remember the sacredness of life, our inherent ability to heal, and our connection to God, our Father Creator in Heaven. Stay Connected with Dr. Madej: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fenixmeddr/ Website: https://www.carriemadej.com/ ______________________________ Stay Connected with the Future Generations Podcast: Instagram: @futuregenpodcast, @thefuturegensd and @drstantonhom_ Facebook: Future Generations Podcast and Future Generations | Clinic of Chiropractic Website: Future Generations | Clinic of Chiropractic Remember to Rate, Review and Subscribe on iTunes and Follow us on Spotify
The following episode is a live recorded sermon from the Sunday gathering at The Heights Church Denver on 9/05/21 Father/Creator - The Apostles Creed by Corbin Hobbs For more information about The Heights Church, or to contact us, visit our website at TheHeightsDenver.com
Frequency?!?! What in the world does, “The Prophetic”, have to do with Frequency? So here we go… Before you were in your mothers womb. When you were all together ONE with the Father of Lights within the Glory realm of His heart. In this Place (The Glory Realm of His Heart), you were all together ONE. In the oneness on the inside of the heart of God, you still had a distinctive life. Your life, even in this place, had many distinctive qualities one of which is/was your FREQUENCY . The time would finally come when the created, physical realm needed your distinctive, authentic, harmonic, symphonic sound, to be the answer your world needed. This is when your predesigned purposeful time had come and you were Apostolically sent to earth and into this time and space continuum. This is when the strategies of your Divinely Designed Dream for your time on the earth, began to manifest! Within your burst of Light was an extension of the Father of Lights and in the eternal realm of your spirit carried all your DNA of your Father/Creator. You also carried Words that would be spoken and all the Resources to save your world. You literally came into this physical realm housing eternal, infinite resources that you could not exhaust in a million earth lifetimes. Jump on todays revelatory Podcast and receive some more weaponry to fulfill your maximum potential! Much love as always, Barry C. Maracle
Speaker: Bryan Scott Sermon Series: We Believe Scripture: Genesis 1:1-5, Romans 8:14-17 To see more about this sermon, go to tcbc.cc/sermons TCBC is a non-denominational church in Urbana, IL. Visit us at tcbc.cc, follow us on Facebook and Instagram @mytcbc. Contact us at office@tcbc.cc or call (217) 344-0641
This We Believe: Exploring the Essential Texts of the Christian Faith
Christians believe that God created the world. This raises an important question: why did God decide to do this? Was God lonely, did he need something to do, or is there some other reason that prompted the creation of the world? The Apostles' Creed begins by describing God as the “The Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth,” so in this episode we are going to unpack this statement, discussing what it means to call God Father, as well us delving deeper into the creation of the world in Genesis 1.
Outdoor addition Taken from John 9:24-34 1. The religious leaders attempt to politically sway (spin the truth) the former blind man. 2.The Blind man refuses to play there game. *I am no expert. *I was blind. Now I see. 3.Another attempt by religious leaders to re-influence the former blind man. 4.The former blind man re-asserts the truth. 5.The religious leaders attack the former blind man. 6.Jesus is present when everyone else has left the former blind man. (vs.35) Jesus is present for you even if all the world isolates you. Jesus is actively working to bring glory to God the Father (Creator) and bring you into right relationship with Him. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mattrolo/message
PREPARE THE WAY OF THE LORD Twelve years after the rebuilding of the walls and gates of the city at Jerusalem had been accomplished the prophet Malachi wrote the last prophetic book of the Old Testament. God’s people now had all they needed to present themselves to the world as a people of God who would be a testimony to the fact that an all loving, all powerful, just and good God was alive in the Heavens. They had rebuilt the altar of sacrifice, laid the cornerstone and true foundation and rebuilt the temple, then re-established the Word of God through Ezra and the priests, then rebuilt the walls and gates of the city, and everything looked so good. There had been such a lot of ‘rise up and build’ on the outside - but unfortunately there had been very little ‘rise up and build’ on the inside that God wanted from them. Prophets like Haggai and Zechariah’s had been speaking a message of the coming of the Messiah and the completion of the temple (516 b.c). And now a mere twelve years after the completion of all the gates and walls and temple there came the final prophesy of Malachi, who was also prophesying that The Messiah would come to this completed temple. Here is the key verse; Malachi 3:1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord (Messiah) whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple, the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. You would have thought that now was the time for something wonderful to happen, but nothing wonderful happened – everything stopped, came to a standstill. There Then there was time of silence for four hundred years – a prophetic pause! The next prophet to speak was John the Baptist. What does a time of silence of four hundred years speak of? What does a prophetic pause like this mean?It speaks of preparing the way of The Lord even in a time of scarceness and insufficiency with a full hope and expectation for something wonderful to happen. I believe we are in a global prophetic pause in this current global catastrophe. But the pause is full of the purpose of God, and a moving forward in the purpose of God, with the promise of worldwide Holy Spirit activity. So, There was a silence of four hundred years after the final word from Malachi, no prophets and no revelation of God’s word or priestly instruction in the ways of God. Then something wonderful happened – John the Baptist prepared the way for Jesus.There was also a silence of four hundred years from the time God’s people became slaves in Egypt and then became free, and during that time there were no prophets and no revelation of God’s word or priestly instruction in the ways of God. Then something wonderful happened. God set Israel free to be led on a journey to the Promised Land. A four hundred years experience is a time of preparation, the time of expectation for something wonderful to come, while at the same time knowing that things should and could be a lot better now. A four hundred years experience in the Old Testament does not have to be a literal four hundred years in the New Testament (Kairos prophetic time). It simply indicates a time of preparation, a time of expectation, and of waiting for God to presence himself among us. Paul told us that what Israel went through in the forty years in the wilderness was a prophetic pause for them to be ready to go into the promised Land. He spoke of Israel in their forty year wilderness experience as an example for us of learning how to trust God individually and corporately so as to enter into the fulness of the promise of God in Christ. For us that obviously doesn’t mean forty years – it means the challenges of faith and trust in God that can be jammed into whatever time frame God has to get our attention, to get our response.1Corinthians 10:11 Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come. This preparation time of waiting and expectation for us becomes the time of understanding how we can be part of the preparing of the way of The Lord, for the powerful presence of God to come, in His time. There are also things we need to attend to that we may need to change, or at least get done with more faith and understanding and revelation from The Holy Spirit. who is our anointed teacher (1John 2:27). The next prophet to speak after Malachi four hundred years later was John the Baptist, spoken of in Malachi as Elijah, a messenger to prepare the way for the other Messenger who was Jesus the messenger of the New Covenant. Can we presume this ? Jesus said it! Matt. 11:13 “For all the prophets and the Law prophesied until John, and if you are willing to accept it, John himself is Elijah who was to come. The Holy Spirit as our anointed teacher instructs us in the way we should go and challenges when we need course correction through neglect or distraction and inspires us when we need motivation to reach a higher spiritual vision – they needed prophets, we have the Holy Spirit. And at that time the anointed prophet Malachi begins to set a higher goal for God’s people by addressing the priests, who were not honouring God and had become corrupt. Worship had become routine and unfaithfulness in marriage was widespread. Their vision had to be lifted higher. Social justice was being ignored and tithing was neglected. “Will man rob God?” the Lord asks (3:8), and he promised to “open the windows of heaven” (v. 10) if they honoured Him in this way. Malachi assures his people that God knows those who fear him and those who do not. now let us look at seven things that Malachi said God’s people would need to attend to for that time of preparation to be fruitful. Malachi was actually seeking to set their vision higher for their sakes, not just to admonish them in their insufficiency. God sets our vision high because it the most efficient way to inspire us to embrace a life full of meaning and purpose. The most positive emotion we can experience physiologically is that of pushing toward the highest most worthwhile goals (emote = Pootho’ Grk = push forward). God created us with a neurological hormonal pathway from a certain part of our brain, the Hypothalamus that stimulates and motivates us into a sense of purpose and meaning when we aspire to higher goals. A substance called dopamine is released and energizes our entire motivational attitude when we set our heart on achieving what is worthwhile and meaningful to us (in fact the artificial administration of this substance makes a person feel that whatever they are doing seems amazingly meaningful – thus the popularity of illegal recreational drug taking. But God always has something for us to aspire to that is full of his reality and purpose for our lives. Seven pathways of preparing the way 1. Preparing the way as a priest in the role and example of worship and instruction and faithfulness because a priest was a ‘go-between’ from God to His people. Angels could bless people and mediate the Old Testament Law but they are not authorized to preach the Gospel ( and many strange religions have claimed angelic revelation- the warning of this is in Galatians).Malachi 2:1 Listen, you priests—The words of a priest’s lips should preserve knowledge of God, and people should go to him for instruction, for the priest is the messenger of the Lord. But you priests have left God’s pathsWe are ALL his priests and able to give Words of life as God’s messengers of hope in a bleak and disheartened world. (1Peter 2:9 …you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood). So who gets us back on the path, the Holy Spirit, who makes the truth of God’s word alive to us so that we can make it live in other people. 2. Preparing the way as bridge-builders of trust in God’s Covenant.Malachi 2;10 Are we not all children of the same Father? Are we not all created by the same God? Then why do we betray each other, violating the covenant of our ancestors?We can see all of humanity as belonging to God the Father, and we can be bridge-builders of trust in a world where many people are polarized because of tribalism and identity politics. Holy Spirit can give us wisdom when we become engaged in conversation with people who are being overwhelmed with all the negative talk they are hearing these days, and the abusive criticism they see people attacking one another with constantly on TV or radio. Mark 4:24 Take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; We have the choice of what to have multiplied within us. 3. Preparing the way through loving relationshipsMalachi 2:14 You cry out, “Why doesn’t the Lord accept my worship?” I’ll tell you why! Because the Lord witnessed the vows you and your wife made when you were young. But you have been unfaithful to her.God honours faithfulness in marriage and wants to see healing in our land because of the wounding caused by unfaithfulness. He wants to see faithfulness in all of our relationships and because we are His beloved as His bride we have a special work of the Holy Spirit releasing a loving faithful response back to Him from our hearts -what an aspiration! 4. Preparing the way through showing justice and mercyMalachi 3;5 I will speak against those who cheat employees of their wages, who oppress widows and orphans…says the Lord.True leadership is demonstrating integrity and honesty and mercy in the workplace. When we work as unto The Lord he resources us and rewards the work of our hands (Colossians 3:23)God’s people can be blessed in the workplace in their faithfulness and their faith and be seen as givers and not takers of all God given blessings. We are here to be blessed and to bless. 5. Preparing the way by embracing trials of faithMalachi 3:1-3 I am sending my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. Then the Lord you are seeking will suddenly come to his Temple. Who will be able to stand and face him when he appears? He will sit like a refiner of silver, burning away the dross. He will purify the Levites, refining them like gold and silver…Malachi is talking to the priests again here (that’s us!) and we can only pass on to others what we have actually received from the Lord and then we have the authority declare the purposes of God – and you will do that by living out the purposes of God.’ That comes by embracing the trials of faith that purify our hearts, knowing that they transform us into his likeness, which is the gold that speaks of the nature of God. (1Peter 1:7). 6. Preparing the way by honouring God financially and materiallyMalachi 3:8-12 Should people cheat God? Yet you have cheated me!“But you ask, ‘What do you mean? When did we ever cheat you?’“You have cheated me of the tithes and offerings due to me. You are under a curse, for your whole nation has been cheating me. Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do,” says the Lord of Heaven’, “I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won’t have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put me to the test! Your crops will be abundant, for I will guard them from insects and disease. Your grapes will not fall from the vine before they are ripe,” says the Lord of Heaven. “Then all nations will call you blessed,New Testament tithing is a willing response of grace filled gratitude for God’s provision. It is not a legalistic way of earning God’s blessing or negotiating a deal with God. We do not tithe to an Old Testament levitical priesthood. We tithe out of grace to Jesus our Melchidisek priest. In all my years of ministry I’ve never believed in putting people under the law in this truth because no human pressure or manipulation should touch this this act of faith. I have been blessed to witness the response of many hearts of such and grace, and seen the blessing of God upon that.Hebrews 7:8 Here mortal men (Levites) receive tithes, but there (Heaven) He (Jesus) receives them, and that is our witness that we believe that he lives.(I have expanded on this special priesthood of Jesus in Commandment eight in my podcast on the Ten Commandments – click the link at uncreated.podbean.com ) 7. Preparing the way through family harmony and honour. This is the final Word for us to hear and respond to in our time of silence, our time of hope and expectation to see the blessing of God upon this world. Malachi 4:1 The Lord says, “But for you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings. I am sending you the prophet Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the Lord arrives. His preaching will turn the hearts of fathers to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise I will come and strike the land with a curse. (So let there come a blessing and not a curse upon our land) In these times in which we live this is not only a word spoken by Malachi in the very last verse of the very last book of the Old Testament about Elijah/John the Baptist – it is the Word being spoken to us in these days.Jesus has made us one with Himself and with His Father. That was his great work to make us a part of his family. We have the power of The Holy Spirit drawing us into his family bond of love with them and with one another. These times of challenge are the times to expect to see the blessing of the healing power of Jesus for families in spirit, soul and body. Pray for reconciliation to happen in families to bless our land of hope and faith and love. There may be ones who feel they have reached out and done all they can, and what more can be done? Remember – We keep our hearts aligned with God’s and It is God who turns the hearts of people. God wants to bring this final blessing upon the earth in these days. Malachi’s message is in the context of preparing the way for the Father’s heart of blessing to be received by his childrenAnd now Malachi writes. The opening statement from God through Malachi (Ch 1:2) is in the context of a loving Father whose inheritance is not being appreciated. He uses the illustration of Jacob and Esau, where Jacob regarded the inheritance and Esau did not. Then a few verses later (CH1:6) God says ‘A son honors his father, and a servant respects his master. If I am your father and master, where are the honor and respect I deserve? You have shown contempt for my name! 10 How I wish one of you would shut the Temple doors so that these worthless sacrifices could not be offered! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord.’The theme of the honour due to a father is not only spoken of in the first few verses of the book, the aggrieved fatherhood theme is also emphasised in the centre of the book where God speaks as the Father/Creator of all of humanity. Malachi 2;10 Are we not all created by the same God? Are we not all children of the same Father? Then why do we betray each other, violating the covenant of our ancestors?The theme of the honour due to a father is also the theme of the last verse of the book (Ch4:6) I am sending you the prophet Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the Lord arrives. His preaching will turn the hearts of fathers to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise I will come and strike the land with a curse.In the last few verses of this book Malachi speaks of judgment and of blessing to come, and so it commands the attention of everyone who reads it. As in the previous accounts of this reset and rebuild of God’s people after a strange time of standstill and disorientation, there are parallels to the Church in this strange time in which we live, in a time of standstill and disorientation. The Church today appears to have all it could need in the form of resources such as churches and worship and leaders and helpers and programs and marketing, but is God calling for something more? What we want and need is the presence of God in our midst, rather than just the presence of all the sincere and wonderful human ability and performance and Bible knowledge in our midst. From the first few verses of this book Malachi’s purpose was to assure his people that God still loved them and was keeping his Covenant with them (Ch.1:2-5 - "I have loved you," says God. But you say, "In what way have you loved us?). Malachi tells us throughout the book that God calls for respect and honor, and faithfulness and love. But my name is honored by people of other nations from morning till night. All around the world they offer sweet incense and pure offerings in honor of my name. For my name is great among the nations,” says the Lord.
I call God the Father “Creator” because he made all things. He creates and sustains all things through his Word, and gives life to all creatures through his Spirit.
Main text: John 5:17-24. 1. Equality (Isaiah 46:3-6). 2. Authority (Luke7:6-10). 3. Judge (Ps. 119:66; Phil. 1:9-11, Gal. 6:7). Declare: Jesus, You are equal w/God our Father/Creator. I trust You! Jesus, You hold ALL authority of Heaven, Earth, & my life. I give You complete authority over my life today. Jesus, You are the Rightful Ruler/Judge. Teach me to discern right from wrong, good from bad, corrupt from righteous. May I hold loosely of the power of judgement, which is reserved for You. Today may my faith grow. May my trust strengthen. May my hope be secure in Christ Jesus. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mattrolo/message
3 Steps to More Active FellowshipDefinition of fellowship:Noun: a community based on shared interest, activity, feeling, experience. So you could say the church is a fellowship because we have the same beliefs, we have the same worship practices [Sabbath, holy days, tithing etc.], we share the same holy spirit, we have gone through trials together.Verb: the interaction that comes about through common cause... sharing, giving, for example the words we say to one another, the time we spend together, or material goods. Today I want to concentrate on fellowship that is active... intentional... mindful... and pleasing to our Father Creator. I have three points: 1) presence 2) communication 3) hospitality. But first…God Designed The ChurchIf we have a problem with the church we actually have a problem with God and the way He has set things up. We can try to wriggle around this dilemma by blaming the people. That way we can let God off the hook, or separate our interaction with Him from our interaction with the church:For example: you might not like being thrown together with this motley crew, you might question how could God allow such a person or people in His church. Maybe you don't like the people in charge are doing things. We might want to walk away or distance ourselves… but our interaction with God cannot be separated from the church.God designed His way of life... his truth... to function within the context of and assembly, an ecclesia, a church, a fellowship. At one time that meant an assembly of people called to be a nation [Israel]. In this present age it means an assembly, an ecclesia, a church, composed of people called from all different backgrounds and ancestries. A family of people who are not blood related... who share the same beliefs and ideals... who can offer help and encouragement to one another as we grow into the fullness of Christ. God has designed the church to accommodate flaws. What He is interested in is how you deal with these problems… not that we all reach nirvana in the church.The church is not your "destination" it is a road. Fellowship is part of how you get on down the road!Get a FREE copy of The Church Jesus Built... discover what the bible really says about the church Jesus would leave behind!Keep Reading »
What is catechesis? Catechesis simply means to teach by word of mouth. In its principle parts it literally means to echo forth or resound down. Christian catechesis, then, is an echo of the Word of God spoken through a teacher, the catechist, that resounds into the minds and hearts of those who hear it, the catechumen. This echo is a passing or handing on of the faith and teachings of the Church to adults and children alike. Formal catechesis developed in the first few centuries of the Church, and over time the content of this teaching came to include four pillars or four movements of a great symphony: what the Church believes (the Apostle’s Creed), what she celebrates (the Sacraments), what she prays (the Lord’s Prayer), and what she lives (the Commandments and fruits of the Spirit). Catechesis is not information but formation into a way of life, the life of Christ and his Body, the Church. Why catechesis? The ultimate purpose of catechesis is communion with the triune God. Practically and more specifically, the purpose is to pass on the Christian faith from one person and one generation to the next, just as Jesus did with the apostles and the apostles with those after them and someone, whether priest, teacher, parent, or friend, did with you. This is what the word “tradition” means: to hand on the faith. The Church, regardless of denomination, has struggled to do this in our post-Christian age. The numbers are staggering of those who grew up in the faith but have now left. We are daily immersed in a secular culture and story, a world where God is either privatized or anesthetized. The goal of catechesis is to immerse us – adults and children – into an alternative story and culture, the kingdom of God, and form us into an alternative way of being, the life and love of the triune God. No one baptizes himself, likewise no one catechizes himself. We all receive the faith with its teachings as gift from those who have gone before us. The purpose of catechesis is to create missionary disciples, who receive the gift of the Gospel from spiritual fathers and mothers and pass it on to others. The Apostles Creed I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again. He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of the saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
Fr. Chris reflects on the two ways we can know God as Father. He discusses how God intends us "to be" and knows us intimately. And then he discusses the great gift of the OUR FATHER, Jesus' greatest gift to us, which is to win His Father through grace in the same way Jesus is loved by His father.
March 31, 2019 “I Believe in the Holy Spirit.” –from the Apostles’ Creed {Ephesians 5:15-20} God’s Word tells us of our Father-Creator. It teaches us about our Lord Jesus. Still, it’s a book. It’s not enough. We need to experience God. We need the prevailing presence of the Holy Spirit. We need the continual filling of the Spirit to do within us what we cannot do by our own power.
March 3, 2019 “I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth.” –from the Apostles’ Creed {Psalm 19:1-6} How do you decide if God is real? Theists and atheists stack up the evidence and arrive at conflicting conclusions. So we must search for truth with an open mind. We examine the scriptures. We learn from science. We weigh our personal experiences. And we listen to Jesus, who taught us to pray to “Our Father.”
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This second message begins us looking at what we are to believe as Christians seeking sound doctrine.
God My Father: Creator, Controller, Comforter Confession: Heidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day 9, QA 26 Scripture: Isaiah 40:12-31, Romans 8:28-39 (Read from ESV) Preacher: Rev. David Inks Sermon Outline: Introduction I. Creator II. Controller III. Comforter Conclusion The Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 26 Q. What do you believe when you say, “I believe in God, the Father […] The post God My Father: Creator, Controller, Comforter appeared first on Covenant United Reformed Church.
We celebrated Pentecost last week- the fulfillment of God's promise to give his Holy Spirit, the very Spirit of the risen Christ, to the church. Now that we have the full revelation of God through Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, this Sunday is Trinity Sunday. The scripture text comes from John 3: 1-17. The word "trinity" is not mentioned in the Bible, but it is presented as an experience of the church. For this Sunday you might reflect on your experience of God as Father/Creator, Jesus as Son and Redeemer, and the Holy Spirit as Comforter and Sustainer of God’s Church.
Deborah Vidal welcomes Mytrae Meliana to the Vidal Speaks Show. Vidal extends an invitation to you to keep an open mind and listen to a story of healing, of overcoming a diagnosis and symptoms of Lyme disease through a spiritual intervention with the guide of John of God as well as a lifestyle change. Mytrae Meliana is a women's empowerment and Divine Feminine teacher, soul purpose coach, holistic psychotherapist, and sound healer. She empowers women to find their voice, stand tall in their power, love and be loved, and live from their Soul. She helps them connect with their Inner Goddess. Mytrae awakens people to their Soul Purpose so they can create a life of joy, passion, and inspiration from the inside-out. She heals people from trauma and blocks from past lives that cause physical illness and emotional issues in this lifetime. Mytrae's spiritual path, which she's had for most of her life, has wound through Integral Yoga, Tantra, mysticism, and metaphysics. She was miraculously healed of Lyme Disease on her first visit to John of God, a spiritual healer in Brazil. Her own life journey is a testament to hope, possibility, and the power of love. An award-winning writer, she's the author of John of God: A Guide to Your Healing Journey with Spirit Doctors Beyond the Veil, and How I Healed From Lyme Disease: My Story, Lessons, And Steps To A Miracle. A pianist, she is blessed with the gift of channeling what her Guides call “The Language of Light.” What comes through her is celestial music from Father Creator and Mother Creator. This music contains healing keys which unlock and release disease, retrieve fragmented soul parts, activate chakras and DNA, and people's wisdom, love, strength, and Divinity. She teaches “Women and Tantra” in the Women's Spirituality program at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). In case you haven't heard about John of God, here is some information about him. João Teixeira de Faria, internationally known as John of God or João de Deus, is one of the most powerful channeling mediums and healers alive today. He began his spiritual career over 30 years ago and in this time has helped millions of people heal a variety of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual diseases. John of God is a humble man who is very clear about one thing: “I do not cure anybody. God heals, and in his infinite goodness permits the Entities to heal and console my brothers. I am merely an instrument in God's divine hands.” There are a variety of spiritual healing guides that have chosen to work with and through John of God. Together they treat the whole person and their whole life. The glue that binds humanity is Love and John of God and the entities are most concerned that you are whole and a reflection of this love in the world, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. He and the entities, through a constant and thorough cleaning of your energy field, and your own efforts, are able to elevate you in a phenomenal way to become who you truly are — radiant and a reflection of the divine on earth. Healing services are provided at The Casa De Dom Inacio in Brazil in person and through Crystal Healing Beds. Many make the trip to meet John of God and receive healing in person. For those who are unable to make the trip or those who are continuing their healing journey, John of God Crystal Healing Beds are available around the world through selected spiritual practitioners. He also offers distance healing. Some of the physical diseases that have been healed in others are AIDS, cancer, autoimmune disorders, arthritis, and injury from sports and accidents. Some of the emotional diseases that have been healed in others are addictions, depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. Karmic patterning, family lineage, as well as relationships between families and loved ones can also be repaired and restored. Outline of This Great Episode [10:30] Mytrae's personal story with Lyme disease. [12:20] First symptoms of Lyme disease. [19:33] Mytrae meets John of God. [27:45] Alternative medicine's approach to the 10% remaining symptoms of Lyme. [29:54] Amazonian herbs, essential oils, and homeopathic remedies Mytrae took. [33:14] Toning sounds. [37:33] Mytrae stopped taking caffeine, sugar, canned food, and processed foods. [38:54] Supplements. [41:03] John of God helped me to change how I see life and how I see myself. [42:05] Distance healing with John of God. [47:30] Mytrae's partner's undiagnosed disease treated with John of God. [52:10] Sound healing. [53:50] We are energy and vibration. [1:01:32] Mytrae's work with women. [1:06:55] Approaching a disease — first of all, take ownership! [1:08:20] What is the underlying cause of these symptoms? 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Rev. Monica, guest preacher, preaches on God the Father, Creator of Heaven & Earth
Dagney Kvamme Walters is a Divine Angelic Reiki Master who works closely with the angels and channels Divine Wisdom from Archangel Metatron. With angel assistance, is a spiritual guide, healer, and instructor for Divine Angelic Reiki. Dagney maintains the belief of the necessity of healing starting from within, which allows elevation from a fear based life. Top Pick: This month we are talking about the Serraphins and Cherubims. The two angels closest to God the Father Creator. Call in to receive a message from your angel by Archangel Metatron, or a reading of one angel card picked just for you. Visit www.divinefey8.com for additional information, there are destinies to discover. 612 501 085eight The Edge Magazine Staff contacts: Advertising and Add The Edge Magazine to your neighborhood – Cathy Jacobsen 763 433 9291 - email cathy@edgemagazine.net Submit Article - Tim Miejan 651 578 8969 - email editor@edgemagazine.net Edge Talk Radio - Cathyrn Taylor email cathyryn@eftforyourinnerchild.com
Because of our rebellion against God, we are born spiritually empty and experience the despairing void of being alienated from our Father Creator. When we try to fill (put on the throne) the great emptiness within us with anyone or anything other than Jesus, we are running on empty. Jesus is the only one who belongs on the throne of our lives and is the only one who can authentically and eternally fill us. When anything else is on the throne, it takes away and empties us. When we are in Christ, we are filled with his holiness and made perfect with God. The love that Jesus has for us compels him to fill us. This is the restoration of our intimate relationship with God that was part of God’s original blessing. After hearing this sermon, we hope you will answer this question for yourself: “What is on the throne of my life and how well is that filling me?” If it is not Jesus, identify what barriers you would have to remove for Jesus to be on the throne of your life. If you are ready, begin praying for God to help you remove those barriers and to accept that Jesus is on the throne of your life. Lessons: Colossians 1:9-23
Crying COFAH, Jubliee Living- Why Did Our FATHER ( Creator of the Heavens and the Earth) Embodied HIS Word / PROMISE? Yahya Bandele was the Founder and Chairman of The C.O.F.A.H Network and the Creator, writer and director of the best selling Documentary on amazon.com "Hebrew or the So-Called Negro" The brothers will discuss current events, history, science and Geo-politics from a scriptural Hebrew Ysralite scriptural perspective. We also encourage caller participation and feedback View Yahya's feature films by clicking link https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=FLdws1o2agoBw-nqaYBjG9Yg View Yahya's Daily Video Blog https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv4Ov4g0N91ikDd5zHMAmvxr2Fyhf9s7v Yahya's Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/yahya.bandele To learn more about COFAH log on to http://www.cofah.com
Father/Source: "I will talk with all of you about the departure of the cabal souls and what that means for you on the ground. You will learn about the soul process that will allow the dark ones to raise themselves back to the Light and to redeem themselves after the thousands of years without my guidance or comfort. It will give you a perspective on the deep connection we have with you. The energies you now feel are helping you toward ascension, and part of that process is the growing flow of Love and support you are all sending to your Higher Selves. For the first time, you are experiencing the possibility of an equal relationship with your Higher Selves and with the Company of Heaven. This new partnership is possible because of the lifting of the quarantine that has been in place around Planet Earth since the fall of Atlantis. No energies from the surface of Earth have been allowed to be transmitted into the higher dimensions because of the danger presented by the cabal. This quarantine is being gradually lifted, as safety permits. This will be the first of a series of programs to teach you more about your destiny as souls, and how you fit into the Great Plan. Please join me this day, as I send you all my Love through Kathryn and her beloved team of Lightworkers. I am your Father/Creator, the one you call Source."
Foreword (1.1) 0:0.1 IN THE MINDS of the mortals of Urantia — that being the name of your world — there exists great confusion respecting the meaning of such terms as God, divinity, and deity. Human beings are still more confused and uncertain about the relationships of the divine personalities designated by these numerous appellations. Because of this conceptual poverty associated with so much ideational confusion, I have been directed to formulate this introductory statement in explanation of the meanings which should be attached to certain word symbols as they may be hereinafter used in those papers which the Orvonton corps of truth revealers have been authorized to translate into the English language of Urantia. (1.2) 0:0.2 It is exceedingly difficult to present enlarged concepts and advanced truth, in our endeavor to expand cosmic consciousness and enhance spiritual perception, when we are restricted to the use of a circumscribed language of the realm. But our mandate admonishes us to make every effort to convey our meanings by using the word symbols of the English tongue. We have been instructed to introduce new terms only when the concept to be portrayed finds no terminology in English which can be employed to convey such a new concept partially or even with more or less distortion of meaning. (1.3) 0:0.3 In the hope of facilitating comprehension and of preventing confusion on the part of every mortal who may peruse these papers, we deem it wise to present in this initial statement an outline of the meanings to be attached to numerous English words which are to be employed in designation of Deity and certain associated concepts of the things, meanings, and values of universal reality. (1.4) 0:0.4 But in order to formulate this Foreword of definitions and limitations of terminology, it is necessary to anticipate the usage of these terms in the subsequent presentations. This Foreword is not, therefore, a finished statement within itself; it is only a definitive guide designed to assist those who shall read the accompanying papers dealing with Deity and the universe of universes which have been formulated by an Orvonton commission sent to Urantia for this purpose. (1.5) 0:0.5 Your world, Urantia, is one of many similar inhabited planets which comprise the local universe of Nebadon. This universe, together with similar creations, makes up the superuniverse of Orvonton, from whose capital, Uversa, our commission hails. Orvonton is one of the seven evolutionary superuniverses of time and space which circle the never-beginning, never-ending creation of divine perfection — the central universe of Havona. At the heart of this eternal and central universe is the stationary Isle of Paradise, the geographic center of infinity and the dwelling place of the eternal God. (1.6) 0:0.6 The seven evolving superuniverses in association with the central and divine universe, we commonly refer to as the grand universe; these are the now organized and inhabited creations. They are all a part of the master universe, which also embraces the uninhabited but mobilizing universes of outer space. I. Deity and Divinity (2.1) 0:1.1 The universe of universes presents phenomena of deity activities on diverse levels of cosmic realities, mind meanings, and spirit values, but all of these ministrations — personal or otherwise — are divinely co-ordinated. (2.2) 0:1.2 DEITY is personalizable as God, is prepersonal and superpersonal in ways not altogether comprehensible by man. Deity is characterized by the quality of unity — actual or potential — on all supermaterial levels of reality; and this unifying quality is best comprehended by creatures as divinity. (2.3) 0:1.3 Deity functions on personal, prepersonal, and superpersonal levels. Total Deity is functional on the following seven levels: (2.4) 0:1.4 1. Static — self-contained and self-existent Deity. (2.5) 0:1.5 2. Potential — self-willed and self-purposive Deity. (2.6) 0:1.6 3. Associative — self-personalized and divinely fraternal Deity. (2.7) 0:1.7 4. Creative — self-distributive and divinely revealed Deity. (2.8) 0:1.8 5. Evolutional — self-expansive and creature-identified Deity. (2.9) 0:1.9 6. Supreme — self-experiential and creature-Creator-unifying Deity. Deity functioning on the first creature-identificational level as time-space overcontrollers of the grand universe, sometimes designated the Supremacy of Deity. (2.10) 0:1.10 7. Ultimate — self-projected and time-space-transcending Deity. Deity omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Deity functioning on the second level of unifying divinity expression as effective overcontrollers and absonite upholders of the master universe. As compared with the ministry of the Deities to the grand universe, this absonite function in the master universe is tantamount to universal overcontrol and supersustenance, sometimes called the Ultimacy of Deity. (2.11) 0:1.11 The finite level of reality is characterized by creature life and time-space limitations. Finite realities may not have endings, but they always have beginnings — they are created. The Deity level of Supremacy may be conceived as a function in relation to finite existences. (2.12) 0:1.12 The absonite level of reality is characterized by things and beings without beginnings or endings and by the transcendence of time and space. Absoniters are not created; they are eventuated — they simply are. The Deity level of Ultimacy connotes a function in relation to absonite realities. No matter in what part of the master universe, whenever time and space are transcended, such an absonite phenomenon is an act of the Ultimacy of Deity. (2.13) 0:1.13 The absolute level is beginningless, endless, timeless, and spaceless. For example: On Paradise, time and space are nonexistent; the time-space status of Paradise is absolute. This level is Trinity attained, existentially, by the Paradise Deities, but this third level of unifying Deity expression is not fully unified experientially. Whenever, wherever, and however the absolute level of Deity functions, Paradise-absolute values and meanings are manifest. (3.1) 0:1.14 Deity may be existential, as in the Eternal Son; experiential, as in the Supreme Being; associative, as in God the Sevenfold; undivided, as in the Paradise Trinity. (3.2) 0:1.15 Deity is the source of all that which is divine. Deity is characteristically and invariably divine, but all that which is divine is not necessarily Deity, though it will be co-ordinated with Deity and will tend towards some phase of unity with Deity — spiritual, mindal, or personal. (3.3) 0:1.16 DIVINITY is the characteristic, unifying, and co-ordinating quality of Deity. (3.4) 0:1.17 Divinity is creature comprehensible as truth, beauty, and goodness; correlated in personality as love, mercy, and ministry; disclosed on impersonal levels as justice, power, and sovereignty. (3.5) 0:1.18 Divinity may be perfect — complete — as on existential and creator levels of Paradise perfection; it may be imperfect, as on experiential and creature levels of time-space evolution; or it may be relative, neither perfect nor imperfect, as on certain Havona levels of existential-experiential relationships. (3.6) 0:1.19 When we attempt to conceive of perfection in all phases and forms of relativity, we encounter seven conceivable types: (3.7) 0:1.20 1. Absolute perfection in all aspects. (3.8) 0:1.21 2. Absolute perfection in some phases and relative perfection in all other aspects. (3.9) 0:1.22 3. Absolute, relative, and imperfect aspects in varied association. (3.10) 0:1.23 4. Absolute perfection in some respects, imperfection in all others. (3.11) 0:1.24 5. Absolute perfection in no direction, relative perfection in all manifestations.* (3.12) 0:1.25 6. Absolute perfection in no phase, relative in some, imperfect in others. (3.13) 0:1.26 7. Absolute perfection in no attribute, imperfection in all. II. God (3.14) 0:2.1 Evolving mortal creatures experience an irresistible urge to symbolize their finite concepts of God. Man’s consciousness of moral duty and his spiritual idealism represent a value level — an experiential reality — which is difficult of symbolization. (3.15) 0:2.2 Cosmic consciousness implies the recognition of a First Cause, the one and only uncaused reality. God, the Universal Father, functions on three Deity-personality levels of subinfinite value and relative divinity expression: (3.16) 0:2.3 1. Prepersonal — as in the ministry of the Father fragments, such as the Thought Adjusters. (3.17) 0:2.4 2. Personal — as in the evolutionary experience of created and procreated beings. (3.18) 0:2.5 3. Superpersonal — as in the eventuated existences of certain absonite and associated beings. (3.19) 0:2.6 GOD is a word symbol designating all personalizations of Deity. The term requires a different definition on each personal level of Deity function and must be still further redefined within each of these levels, as this term may be used to designate the diverse co-ordinate and subordinate personalizations of Deity; for example: the Paradise Creator Sons — the local universe fathers. (4.1) 0:2.7 The term God, as we make use of it, may be understood: (4.2) 0:2.8 By designation — as God the Father. (4.3) 0:2.9 By context — as when used in the discussion of some one deity level or association. When in doubt as to the exact interpretation of the word God, it would be advisable to refer it to the person of the Universal Father. (4.4) 0:2.10 The term God always denotes personality. Deity may, or may not, refer to divinity personalities. (4.5) 0:2.11 The word GOD is used, in these papers, with the following meanings: (4.6) 0:2.12 1. God the Father — Creator, Controller, and Upholder. The Universal Father, the First Person of Deity. (4.7) 0:2.13 2. God the Son — Co-ordinate Creator, Spirit Controller, and Spiritual Administrator. The Eternal Son, the Second Person of Deity. (4.8) 0:2.14 3. God the Spirit — Conjoint Actor, Universal Integrator, and Mind Bestower. The Infinite Spirit, the Third Person of Deity. (4.9) 0:2.15 4. God the Supreme — the actualizing or evolving God of time and space. Personal Deity associatively realizing the time-space experiential achievement of creature-Creator identity. The Supreme Being is personally experiencing the achievement of Deity unity as the evolving and experiential God of the evolutionary creatures of time and space. (4.10) 0:2.16 5. God the Sevenfold — Deity personality anywhere actually functioning in time and space. The personal Paradise Deities and their creative associates functioning in and beyond the borders of the central universe and power-personalizing as the Supreme Being on the first creature level of unifying Deity revelation in time and space. This level, the grand universe, is the sphere of the time-space descension of Paradise personalities in reciprocal association with the time-space ascension of evolutionary creatures. (4.11) 0:2.17 6. God the Ultimate — the eventuating God of supertime and transcended space. The second experiential level of unifying Deity manifestation. God the Ultimate implies the attained realization of the synthesized absonite-superpersonal, time-space-transcended, and eventuated-experiential values, co-ordinated on final creative levels of Deity reality. (4.12) 0:2.18 7. God the Absolute — the experientializing God of transcended superpersonal values and divinity meanings, now existential as the Deity Absolute. This is the third level of unifying Deity expression and expansion. On this supercreative level, Deity experiences exhaustion of personalizable potential, encounters completion of divinity, and undergoes depletion of capacity for self-revelation to successive and progressive levels of other-personalization. Deity now encounters, impinges upon, and experiences identity with, the Unqualified Absolute. III. The First Source and Center (4.13) 0:3.1 Total, infinite reality is existential in seven phases and as seven co-ordinate Absolutes: (5.1) 0:3.2 1. The First Source and Center. (5.2) 0:3.3 2. The Second Source and Center. (5.3) 0:3.4 3. The Third Source and Center. (5.4) 0:3.5 4. The Isle of Paradise. (5.5) 0:3.6 5. The Deity Absolute. (5.6) 0:3.7 6. The Universal Absolute. (5.7) 0:3.8 7. The Unqualified Absolute. (5.8) 0:3.9 God, as the First Source and Center, is primal in relation to total reality — unqualifiedly. The First Source and Center is infinite as well as eternal and is therefore limited or conditioned only by volition. (5.9) 0:3.10 God — the Universal Father — is the personality of the First Source and Center and as such maintains personal relations of infinite control over all co-ordinate and subordinate sources and centers. Such control is personal and infinite in potential, even though it may never actually function owing to the perfection of the function of such co-ordinate and subordinate sources and centers and personalities. (5.10) 0:3.11 The First Source and Center is, therefore, primal in all domains: deified or undeified, personal or impersonal, actual or potential, finite or infinite. No thing or being, no relativity or finality, exists except in direct or indirect relation to, and dependence on, the primacy of the First Source and Center. (5.11) 0:3.12 The First Source and Center is related to the universe as: (5.12) 0:3.13 1. The gravity forces of the material universes are convergent in the gravity center of nether Paradise. That is just why the geographic location of his person is eternally fixed in absolute relation to the force-energy center of the nether or material plane of Paradise. But the absolute personality of Deity exists on the upper or spiritual plane of Paradise. (5.13) 0:3.14 2. The mind forces are convergent in the Infinite Spirit; the differential and divergent cosmic mind in the Seven Master Spirits; the factualizing mind of the Supreme as a time-space experience in Majeston. (5.14) 0:3.15 3. The universe spirit forces are convergent in the Eternal Son. (5.15) 0:3.16 4. The unlimited capacity for deity action resides in the Deity Absolute. (5.16) 0:3.17 5. The unlimited capacity for infinity response exists in the Unqualified Absolute. (5.17) 0:3.18 6. The two Absolutes — Qualified and Unqualified — are co-ordinated and unified in and by the Universal Absolute. (5.18) 0:3.19 7. The potential personality of an evolutionary moral being or of any other moral being is centered in the personality of the Universal Father. (5.19) 0:3.20 REALITY, as comprehended by finite beings, is partial, relative, and shadowy. The maximum Deity reality fully comprehensible by evolutionary finite creatures is embraced within the Supreme Being. Nevertheless there are antecedent and eternal realities, superfinite realities, which are ancestral to this Supreme Deity of evolutionary time-space creatures. In attempting to portray the origin and nature of universal reality, we are forced to employ the technique of time-space reasoning in order to reach the level of the finite mind. Therefore must many of the simultaneous events of eternity be presented as sequential transactions. (6.1) 0:3.21 As a time-space creature would view the origin and differentiation of Reality, the eternal and infinite I AM achieved Deity liberation from the fetters of unqualified infinity through the exercise of inherent and eternal free will, and this divorcement from unqualified infinity produced the first absolute divinity-tension. This tension of infinity differential is resolved by the Universal Absolute, which functions to unify and co-ordinate the dynamic infinity of Total Deity and the static infinity of the Unqualified Absolute. (6.2) 0:3.22 In this original transaction the theoretical I AM achieved the realization of personality by becoming the Eternal Father of the Original Son simultaneously with becoming the Eternal Source of the Isle of Paradise. Coexistent with the differentiation of the Son from the Father, and in the presence of Paradise, there appeared the person of the Infinite Spirit and the central universe of Havona. With the appearance of coexistent personal Deity, the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit, the Father escaped, as a personality, from otherwise inevitable diffusion throughout the potential of Total Deity. Thenceforth it is only in Trinity association with his two Deity equals that the Father fills all Deity potential, while increasingly experiential Deity is being actualized on the divinity levels of Supremacy, Ultimacy, and Absoluteness. (6.3) 0:3.23 The concept of the I AM is a philosophic concession which we make to the time-bound, space-fettered, finite mind of man, to the impossibility of creature comprehension of eternity existences — nonbeginning, nonending realities and relationships. To the time-space creature, all things must have a beginning save only the ONE UNCAUSED — the primeval cause of causes. Therefore do we conceptualize this philosophic value-level as the I AM, at the same time instructing all creatures that the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit are coeternal with the I AM; in other words, that there never was a time when the I AM was not the Father of the Son and, with him, of the Spirit. (6.4) 0:3.24 The Infinite is used to denote the fullness — the finality — implied by the primacy of the First Source and Center. The theoretical I AM is a creature-philosophic extension of the “infinity of will,” but the Infinite is an actual value-level representing the eternity-intension of the true infinity of the absolute and unfettered free will of the Universal Father. This concept is sometimes designated the Father-Infinite. (6.5) 0:3.25 Much of the confusion of all orders of beings, high and low, in their efforts to discover the Father-Infinite, is inherent in their limitations of comprehension. The absolute primacy of the Universal Father is not apparent on subinfinite levels; therefore is it probable that only the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit truly know the Father as an infinity; to all other personalities such a concept represents the exercise of faith. IV. Universe Reality (6.6) 0:4.1 Reality differentially actualizes on diverse universe levels; reality originates in and by the infinite volition of the Universal Father and is realizable in three primal phases on many different levels of universe actualization: (6.7) 0:4.2 1. Undeified reality ranges from the energy domains of the nonpersonal to the reality realms of the nonpersonalizable values of universal existence, even to the presence of the Unqualified Absolute. (7.1) 0:4.3 2. Deified reality embraces all infinite Deity potentials ranging upward through all realms of personality from the lowest finite to the highest infinite, thus encompassing the domain of all that which is personalizable and more — even to the presence of the Deity Absolute.* (7.2) 0:4.4 3. Interassociated reality. Universe reality is supposedly either deified or undeified, but to subdeified beings there exists a vast domain of interassociated reality, potential and actualizing, which is difficult of identification. Much of this co-ordinate reality is embraced within the realms of the Universal Absolute. (7.3) 0:4.5 This is the primal concept of original reality: The Father initiates and maintains Reality. The primal differentials of reality are the deified and the undeified — the Deity Absolute and the Unqualified Absolute. The primal relationship is the tension between them. This Father-initiated divinity-tension is perfectly resolved by, and eternalizes as, the Universal Absolute. (7.4) 0:4.6 From the viewpoint of time and space, reality is further divisible as: (7.5) 0:4.7 1. Actual and Potential. Realities existing in fullness of expression in contrast to those which carry undisclosed capacity for growth. The Eternal Son is an absolute spiritual actuality; mortal man is very largely an unrealized spiritual potentiality. (7.6) 0:4.8 2. Absolute and Subabsolute. Absolute realities are eternity existences. Subabsolute realities are projected on two levels: Absonites — realities which are relative with respect to both time and eternity. Finites — realities which are projected in space and are actualized in time. (7.7) 0:4.9 3. Existential and Experiential. Paradise Deity is existential, but the emerging Supreme and Ultimate are experiential. (7.8) 0:4.10 4. Personal and Impersonal. Deity expansion, personality expression, and universe evolution are forever conditioned by the Father’s freewill act which forever separated the mind-spirit-personal meanings and values of actuality and potentiality centering in the Eternal Son from those things which center and inhere in the eternal Isle of Paradise. (7.9) 0:4.11 PARADISE is a term inclusive of the personal and the nonpersonal focal Absolutes of all phases of universe reality. Paradise, properly qualified, may connote any and all forms of reality, Deity, divinity, personality, and energy — spiritual, mindal, or material. All share Paradise as the place of origin, function, and destiny, as regards values, meanings, and factual existence. (7.10) 0:4.12 The Isle of Paradise — Paradise not otherwise qualified — is the Absolute of the material-gravity control of the First Source and Center. Paradise is motionless, being the only stationary thing in the universe of universes. The Isle of Paradise has a universe location but no position in space. This eternal Isle is the actual source of the physical universes — past, present, and future. The nuclear Isle of Light is a Deity derivative, but it is hardly Deity; neither are the material creations a part of Deity; they are a consequence. (7.11) 0:4.13 Paradise is not a creator; it is a unique controller of many universe activities, far more of a controller than a reactor. Throughout the material universes Paradise influences the reactions and conduct of all beings having to do with force, energy, and power, but Paradise itself is unique, exclusive, and isolated in the universes. Paradise represents nothing and nothing represents Paradise. It is neither a force nor a presence; it is just Paradise. V. Personality Realities (8.1) 0:5.1 Personality is a level of deified reality and ranges from the mortal and midwayer level of the higher mind activation of worship and wisdom up through the morontial and spiritual to the attainment of finality of personality status. That is the evolutionary ascent of mortal- and kindred-creature personality, but there are numerous other orders of universe personalities. (8.2) 0:5.2 Reality is subject to universal expansion, personality to infinite diversification, and both are capable of well-nigh unlimited Deity co-ordination and eternal stabilization. While the metamorphic range of nonpersonal reality is definitely limited, we know of no limitations to the progressive evolution of personality realities. (8.3) 0:5.3 On attained experiential levels all personality orders or values are associable and even cocreational. Even God and man can coexist in a unified personality, as is so exquisitely demonstrated in the present status of Christ Michael — Son of Man and Son of God. (8.4) 0:5.4 All subinfinite orders and phases of personality are associative attainables and are potentially cocreational. The prepersonal, the personal, and the superpersonal are all linked together by mutual potential of co-ordinate attainment, progressive achievement, and cocreational capacity. But never does the impersonal directly transmute to the personal. Personality is never spontaneous; it is the gift of the Paradise Father. Personality is superimposed upon energy, and it is associated only with living energy systems; identity can be associated with nonliving energy patterns. (8.5) 0:5.5 The Universal Father is the secret of the reality of personality, the bestowal of personality, and the destiny of personality. The Eternal Son is the absolute personality, the secret of spiritual energy, morontia spirits, and perfected spirits. The Conjoint Actor is the spirit-mind personality, the source of intelligence, reason, and the universal mind. But the Isle of Paradise is nonpersonal and extraspiritual, being the essence of the universal body, the source and center of physical matter, and the absolute master pattern of universal material reality. (8.6) 0:5.6 These qualities of universal reality are manifest in Urantian human experience on the following levels: (8.7) 0:5.7 1. Body. The material or physical organism of man. The living electrochemical mechanism of animal nature and origin. (8.8) 0:5.8 2. Mind. The thinking, perceiving, and feeling mechanism of the human organism. The total conscious and unconscious experience. The intelligence associated with the emotional life reaching upward through worship and wisdom to the spirit level. (8.9) 0:5.9 3. Spirit. The divine spirit that indwells the mind of man — the Thought Adjuster. This immortal spirit is prepersonal — not a personality, though destined to become a part of the personality of the surviving mortal creature. (8.10) 0:5.10 4. Soul. The soul of man is an experiential acquirement. As a mortal creature chooses to “do the will of the Father in heaven,” so the indwelling spirit becomes the father of a new reality in human experience. The mortal and material mind is the mother of this same emerging reality. The substance of this new reality is neither material nor spiritual — it is morontial. This is the emerging and immortal soul which is destined to survive mortal death and begin the Paradise ascension. (9.1) 0:5.11 Personality. The personality of mortal man is neither body, mind, nor spirit; neither is it the soul. Personality is the one changeless reality in an otherwise ever-changing creature experience; and it unifies all other associated factors of individuality. The personality is the unique bestowal which the Universal Father makes upon the living and associated energies of matter, mind, and spirit, and which survives with the survival of the morontial soul. (9.2) 0:5.12 Morontia is a term designating a vast level intervening between the material and the spiritual. It may designate personal or impersonal realities, living or nonliving energies. The warp of morontia is spiritual; its woof is physical. VI. Energy and Pattern (9.3) 0:6.1 Any and all things responding to the personality circuit of the Father, we call personal. Any and all things responding to the spirit circuit of the Son, we call spirit. Any and all that responds to the mind circuit of the Conjoint Actor, we call mind, mind as an attribute of the Infinite Spirit — mind in all its phases. Any and all that responds to the material-gravity circuit centering in nether Paradise, we call matter — energy-matter in all its metamorphic states. (9.4) 0:6.2 ENERGY we use as an all-inclusive term applied to spiritual, mindal, and material realms. Force is also thus broadly used. Power is ordinarily limited to the designation of the electronic level of material or linear-gravity-responsive matter in the grand universe. Power is also employed to designate sovereignty. We cannot follow your generally accepted definitions of force, energy, and power. There is such paucity of language that we must assign multiple meanings to these terms. (9.5) 0:6.3 Physical energy is a term denoting all phases and forms of phenomenal motion, action, and potential. (9.6) 0:6.4 In discussing physical-energy manifestations, we generally use the terms cosmic force, emergent energy, and universe power. These are often employed as follows: (9.7) 0:6.5 1. Cosmic force embraces all energies deriving from the Unqualified Absolute but which are as yet unresponsive to Paradise gravity. (9.8) 0:6.6 2. Emergent energy embraces those energies which are responsive to Paradise gravity but are as yet unresponsive to local or linear gravity. This is the pre-electronic level of energy-matter. (9.9) 0:6.7 3. Universe power includes all forms of energy which, while still responding to Paradise gravity, are directly responsive to linear gravity. This is the electronic level of energy-matter and all subsequent evolutions thereof. (9.10) 0:6.8 Mind is a phenomenon connoting the presence-activity of living ministry in addition to varied energy systems; and this is true on all levels of intelligence. In personality, mind ever intervenes between spirit and matter; therefore is the universe illuminated by three kinds of light: material light, intellectual insight, and spirit luminosity. (10.1) 0:6.9 Light — spirit luminosity — is a word symbol, a figure of speech, which connotes the personality manifestation characteristic of spirit beings of diverse orders. This luminous emanation is in no respect related either to intellectual insight or to physical-light manifestations. (10.2) 0:6.10 PATTERN can be projected as material, spiritual, or mindal, or any combination of these energies. It can pervade personalities, identities, entities, or nonliving matter. But pattern is pattern and remains pattern; only copies are multiplied. (10.3) 0:6.11 Pattern may configure energy, but it does not control it. Gravity is the sole control of energy-matter. Neither space nor pattern are gravity responsive, but there is no relationship between space and pattern; space is neither pattern nor potential pattern. Pattern is a configuration of reality which has already paid all gravity debt; the reality of any pattern consists of its energies, its mind, spirit, or material components. (10.4) 0:6.12 In contrast to the aspect of the total, pattern discloses the individual aspect of energy and of personality. Personality or identity forms are patterns resultant from energy (physical, spiritual, or mindal) but are not inherent therein. That quality of energy or of personality by virtue of which pattern is caused to appear may be attributed to God — Deity — to Paradise force endowment, to the coexistence of personality and power. (10.5) 0:6.13 Pattern is a master design from which copies are made. Eternal Paradise is the absolute of patterns; the Eternal Son is the pattern personality; the Universal Father is the direct ancestor-source of both. But Paradise does not bestow pattern, and the Son cannot bestow personality. VII. The Supreme Being (10.6) 0:7.1 The Deity mechanism of the master universe is twofold as concerns eternity relationships. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit are eternal — are existential beings — while God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and God the Absolute are actualizing Deity personalities of the post-Havona epochs in the time-space and the time-space-transcended spheres of master universe evolutionary expansion. These actualizing Deity personalities are future eternals from the time when, and as, they power-personalize in the growing universes by the technique of the experiential actualization of the associative-creative potentials of the eternal Paradise Deities. (10.7) 0:7.2 Deity is, therefore, dual in presence: (10.8) 0:7.3 1. Existential — beings of eternal existence, past, present, and future. (10.9) 0:7.4 2. Experiential — beings actualizing in the post-Havona present but of unending existence throughout all future eternity. (10.10) 0:7.5 The Father, Son, and Spirit are existential — existential in actuality (though all potentials are supposedly experiential). The Supreme and the Ultimate are wholly experiential. The Deity Absolute is experiential in actualization but existential in potentiality. The essence of Deity is eternal, but only the three original persons of Deity are unqualifiedly eternal. All other Deity personalities have an origin, but they are eternal in destiny. (10.11) 0:7.6 Having achieved existential Deity expression of himself in the Son and the Spirit, the Father is now achieving experiential expression on hitherto impersonal and unrevealed deity levels as God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and God the Absolute; but these experiential Deities are not now fully existent; they are in process of actualization. (11.1) 0:7.7 God the Supreme in Havona is the personal spirit reflection of the triune Paradise Deity. This associative Deity relationship is now creatively expanding outward in God the Sevenfold and is synthesizing in the experiential power of the Almighty Supreme in the grand universe. 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