The Father and The Son
The doctrine of the nature of God , His Son and the holy Spirit has become a standard for Christian orthodoxy. Trinitarianism is required by virtually all of Christianity. Yet the Bible makes many statements that contradict this belief.
More than that, hidden within the prophecies of the Old Testament and the revelation in the New Testament scriptures, is a love story between the Father and His Son, a love revealed by the sending of the Son to redeem men from their sins and giving of the holy Spirit to men.
In the video available at right, Pastor John Clark, Sr. reads the tract "Is Jesus God?" Not only does he read the tract but there is much other good understanding to be received from this reading. We hope you are blessed by what you can learn in this video and from the rest of this topical study page.
Thought for the Evening
6-01
KILLING JESUS
Pastor John:
There is something that I have been thinking about on and off for some time now. It is something you've said many times, but I didn't understand it completely. I was riding in the car Wednesday thinking about it again. You've said: "Watch out for the buildings with crosses on top. It is a Roman tool of torture, and it shows what the people inside the buildings would do to Jesus if he were alive on earth again."
I have thought about that and just couldn't take it in. Would people inside Christian places really KILL JESUS if he lived here again? I know that they would definitely say not, but I was already being told that they don't know themselves, that Satan was in control of that religion, and that he had killed Jesus once using people and would do it again. Wow.
I couldn't completely make the connection between the sweet, normal people I have known at school, in my jobs, in the mall, etc. and the angry, insane crowd of Jews who cried, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" So I was praying about it again in the car on Wednesday, and I said to God, "I just don't really see that." But I really wanted to understand it rightly.
Then the best feeling came in the car, and I had the thought (but not from me), "Every time they quench the Spirit, Christians are showing what they would do to Jesus."
The whole thing opened up . . . Jesus did all he did on earth so that we could have his Spirit. His Spirit is Jesus! So to kill his spirit is to kill Jesus. Some, if not all, buildings with crosses on top hold services several times a week that quench the holy Ghost, i.e. kill Jesus! Wow. If possible, it now seemed that the people today are worse off than the Jews because of the fact that the holy Ghost is here now.
I really treasure that experience. I don't know that I can really describe how Jesus helped my thoughts flip-flop so suddenly to see it as he (and you) see it. It is valuable to me. Let me know if what I am thinking isn't exactly right.
Token E.
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Dear Token:
The only way any of us can know how a person (or ourselves) would treat Jesus if he were here among us is how they react to the holy Ghost. It was, after all, the light of the holy Ghost in Jesus that people really hated when he was here the first time. John said, "In him was life, and the life was the light of men" (Jn. 1:4), "but men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil" (Jn. 3). Paul said, "The Spirit is life" (Rom. 8). It was the Spirit of God shining through Jesus that wicked men hated, and they still hate it when it shines through us.
How a person reacts to the power, wisdom, and goodness of God that comes through the holy Ghost is exactly how he would react to Jesus if he were here. In many, many Christian churches, the holy Ghost is not welcome. That means that Jesus would not be welcome.
Don't be fooled by the talk of men. The wicked rulers of the Jews who killed Jesus claimed to love God. Judge all things by the Spirit. That is "righteous judgment", and Jesus warned us to judge all things that way.
Pastor John