Church is found in the New Testament 79 times. None in the Old Testament.
Jesus mentions the church in only two verses, Mat 16:18, and 18:17. (7 verses in Revelations)
Church in the Greek;
G1577 ἐκκλησία From a compound of G1537 and a derivative of G2564; a calling out, that is, (concretely) a popular meeting, especially a religious congregation (Jewish synagogue, or Christian community of members on earth or saints in heaven or both): – assembly, church.
1Co 3:11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Eph 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Jesus Christ IS the church, He is calling out. Your church begins with Jesus. You as an individual, building upon your church through your personal relationship with Jesus and Father God.
The basis of the truth begins with Jesus and what he taught and how he lived. Begin with the red letters of the bible. Divisions begin going outside of the teachings of Jesus. The teachings of Jesus needs no interpretation because of the simplicity of what is needed to understand how to live and be kept in a “salvation” life.
Jesus taught from the spiritual aspect of church. Jesus had his focus on love being the basis of how to live life. All things can be determined by asking oneself, is this thinking, or is this action done with and through love?
Teachings and traditions created without first applying the base principle of love, is futile.
1Co 3:10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
Mat 16:18-19 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Eph 4:16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
Carnally speaking, the church is a physical building. The church is for edifying from love one to another. To build upon the understanding and growth from love with like minds.
James says;
James 5:14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
Paul has much to say in 1Ti 3:1-16.
Mark 7:6-13 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
1Ti 4:8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Promise from the Greek;
G1860 ἐπαγγελία From G1861; an announcement (for information, assent or pledge; especially a divine assurance of good).
The promise of life and divine assurance of good.
Heb 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
You knew of this promise from within your spiritual self, prior to your worlds eternal bodies.
2Ti 1:9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
2Ti 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,
2Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Slack, slackness in the Greek;
G1022 βραδύτης From G1021; tardiness: – slackness. G1021 βραδύς Of uncertain affinity; slow; figuratively dull: – slow.
Longsuffering in the Greek;
G3114 μακροθυμέω From the same as G3116; to be long spirited, that is, (objectively) forbearing or (subjectively) patient: – bear (suffer) long, be longsuffering, have (long) patience, be patient, patiently endure.
The slackness of man being “slow”, and God does not count slackness because of his longsuffering toward souls so that not any will perish.
1John 2:25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
(See Also; Rom 2:7, 5:17, 5:21, John 14-17, 3:36, 4:14, 5:24, 5:39-40, 6:27, 6:32-33, 6:40, 6:68, 10:28, 17:2, 1Peter 1:3-4, 1John 5:11-12)
The promise, inheritance, grace, mercy, all being the love of God, is eternal. What is not eternal is a soul wanting to live life in his own deaths. A freewill choice. Or quite possibly according to Hebrews 9:15 stated above, “they which are called”. All at some point in eternity, all will be called. Eternal death is not in the Bible. Death can only be referenced from a soul within a body that chooses death in experiences throughout eternal lives.
Vanity is found in 79 verses in the Bible. 3 of which are in the New Testament.
Rom 8:19-21 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
(See Also Eph 4:17, 2Peter 2:18)
Vanity in the Greek is; G3153 ματαιότης From G3152; inutility; figuratively transientness; morally depravity. G3152 μάταιος From the base of G3155; empty, that is, (literally) profitless, or (specifically) an idol.
Vanity is inutility, being useless or unusable. Transient, being morally deprived, empty.
Ecc 1:1-4 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
Ecc 1:14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Solomon states that all is vanity. Paul states we were made subject to vanity, but also to be delivered from corruption. Vexation of the spirit is a feeding upon or grasping after. A spirit with affliction, a troubling spirit. Experiences are what make up life. Lifeliving to choose either goodnesses or evils until we have overcome repetitive evils and understand how true life is, which is a life of total love.
Psalms 94:11 The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
The only way vanity can be understood is because “the creature itself also shall be delivered”, so all would have to be vanity.
What have you gained from the world through your life experiences that you can attribute to growth in your relationship with God, or better said, through your learning to live a life by way of the two greatest commandments? (See Mat 22:36-40)
When a soul understands the difference between the flesh heart-mind, which is “under the sun”, and the spirit-soul that is from above the sun, the following verses make total sense.
The duality of humankind to live life enjoying flesh experiences, and to live by the laws of God which in its simplicity is life, which is love, and by living by that premise.
Ecc 1:9-10 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Ecc 1:3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Ecc 1:14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecc 2:17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecc 2:22-23 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
Ecc 2:11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Vexation in the Hebrew; H7469 רְעוּת Probably from H7462; a feeding upon, that is, grasping after. H7462 רָעָה A primitive root; to tend a flock, that is, pasture it; intransitively to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension to associate with (as a friend).
Vexation meaning to grasp after the tangible things of the flesh, as well includes the inflated ego which are things of the heart-mind. A hindrance to the soul that strives to live by it’s created spirit and not the formed flesh-heart-mind.
Truth, true life, can only come to you through Jesus.
John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
(See Also; John 5:19, John 9:33, Php 4:13)
All souls have only the “want”, to serve God, through Christ, which is life.
Col 1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: (See Also; Rom 16:25-26, 1Co 2:7, Eph 3:3-10)
The mystery of death;
Death is a manifestation from the flesh-self-mind.
Death is in the mind-self, which is not living life in goodness-love. A freewill choice. (Not the “inner” perfectly created-soul. Eph 3:16)
Physical death of the body is meaningless. Life progresses on from the spirit-soul, life to life, unto eternity. Always in freewill, choosing how much heaven-hell is within.
Mat 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. (See Also; John 14:20)
Christ be with you always. Death is only in the mind. Belief that a soul is in danger, is not having the understanding of the mystery.
2Co 4:10-11 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
With Jesus now being within the flesh-mind, the flesh-body can make manifest, living life as Jesus lived and taught humankind. To be Christ-like. Faith is a moral conviction, reliance upon Christ, living in truth, life, not death.
Rev 2:23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
But wait, in Him is NO darkness?
1John 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
John 12:35 Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
Where is the verse that says: “Do as I say, not as I do”?
But wait, God is love, and we live through Him.
1John 4:7-9 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. MJI (LightWorker)
Jesus is just as much a representation of love as Satan is just as much a representation of evil. Love is life, evil is death. Its that simple.
Why does humankind have such a problem with following Jesus and His teachings of love?
It is not “what will Jesus do”. It is what will you do as Jesus did and taught.
Why does humankind think that Jesus’s practices limited to Jesus only? Humankind has the same equality in what the flesh can do as Christ did through our Father God.
Humankind has no problem following the practices of Satan. Your true spiritual self (soul) is from pure love, and is pure love. The purpose of the flesh is to make decisions and experiences wanting to live in love or live in death. That is freewill.
Jesus had faith greater than a grain of a mustard seed. He is telling humankind they can do what He did through this flesh as well. His representation of how it can be done through the flesh showing humankind what they can do through the flesh.
The flesh self should tie their faith and trust in God, and their love for their neighbor as Jesus did and taught.
Mat 17:20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
(See Also; Mat 21:21, Mark 11:23, Luke 17:6, 1Co 12:9, 1Co 13:2)
Mark 9:23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
Luke 1:37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.
(See Also; Mat 19:26, Mark 9:23, 10:27, 14:36, 18:27)
If nothing is impossible, then all things are possible.
Luke 16:17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
That faith includes no judgement because God has total control of every tittle in all of Creation.
I am he: (Deu 32:39, Isa 43:13, Isa 43:10, 43:13, 43:25, 46:4)
I am a great King (Mal 1:14)
I am God, and not a man (Hos 11:9)
I AM THAT I AM: I AM hath sent me unto you (Ex 3:14)
I am God, and none else; I am God, and none like me (Isa 46:9)
I am the God of Bethel (Gen 31:13)
I, the LORD, which call by thy name, am the God of Israel (Isa 45:3)
I am the God of Abraham thy father (Gen 26:24)
I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (Ex 3:6)
(God being “I am”, your Almighty God. A great king and not a man, like none else, and none like Him. Our Father.)
Definitions For I am, God, And Lord;
I am (Greek NT)
G1510 εἰμί First person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb;pill I exist (used only when emphatic). See also G1488, G1498, G1511, G1527, G2258, G2071, G2070, G2075, G2076, G2771, G2468, G5600. Total KJV occurrences: 146
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God (Hebrew OT)
H430 אֱלֹהִים Plural of H433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative. Total KJV occurrences: 2601
God (NT)
G2316 θεός Of uncertain affinity; a deity, especially (with G3588) the supreme Divinity; figuratively a magistrate; by Hebraism very. Total KJV occurrences: 1343
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Lord (NT)
G2962 κύριος (supremacy); supreme in authority, that is, (as noun) controller; by implication Mr. (as a respectful title): – God, Lord, master, Sir. Total KJV occurrences: 748
Lord (OT)
H3068 יְהֹוָה From H1961; (the) self Existent or eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God: – Jehovah, the Lord. Compare H3050, H3069. Total KJV occurrences: 6521
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I am the LORD thy God (Deu 5:6, Psalms 81:10, Isa 43:3, 51:15, Hos 12:9, 13:4)
I am the LORD your God……I am the LORD your God (Num 15:41)
I am the LORD God (Eze 13:9, 23:49, 24:24, 28:24, 29:16)
I am the LORD their God (Eze 28:26, 39:22, 39:28, Zec 10:6)
I am the LORD your God:…..I am holy (Lev 11:44, 20:7)
I the LORD your God am holy (Lev 19:2)
I am the LORD their God,….I am the LORD their God (Ex 29:46, 26:44)
I am he; I am the first, I also am the last (Isa 48:12)
I LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he (Isa 41:4)
I am, and none else beside me; (Isa 47:8, 47:10)
I am the LORD, I change not (Mal 3:6)
I am the LORD that maketh all (Isa 44:24)
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I am for you (Eze 36:9)
I am with thee (Gen 28:15, Jer 1:19, 30:11, 46:28, Isa 43:5)
I am with you (Hag 2:4)
for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God (Isa 41:10)
I am your sign: (Eze 12:11)
I am thy shield (Gen 15:1)
I am your bone and your flesh (Jdg 9:2)
I am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians (Ex 3:8)
I am with thee to deliver thee (Jer 1:8)
I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee (Jer 15:20)
I am with you to save you and to deliver you from his hand (Jer 42:11)
for I am gracious (Ex 22:27)
I am merciful, saith the LORD (Jer 3:12)
I am he that comforteth you (Isa 51:12)
I the LORD am thy saviour and thy Redeemer (Isa 49:26, 60:16)
I am thy part and thine inheritance (Num 18:20)
I am their inheritance:…I am their possession (Eze 44:28)
I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit (Isa 48:17)
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A Jealous God
for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God (Ex 20:5)
I the LORD thy God am a jealous God (Deu 5:9)
I am jealous (Zec 1:14)
I am returned unto Zion with a great jealousy (Zec 8:3)
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Sanctify
I am the LORD that doth sanctify you (Ex 31:13)
I am the LORD which sanctify you (Lev 20:8)
for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy (Lev 21:8)
For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God:….for I am holy (Lev 11:45)
for I the LORD am holy (Lev 20:26)
I am holier than thou (Isa 65:5)
I am the LORD which hallow you (Lev 22:32)
(Hallow in the Hebrew has the same definition as Sanctify. Sanctify from the Hebrew meaning; causatively make, pronounce or observe as clean (ceremonially or morally))
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God Being Against
I am against thee, most proud (Jer 50:31)
I am against thee, O destroying mountain (Jer 51:25)
I am against thee (Nah 2:13, 3:5, Eze 5:8, 21:3, 29:10)
I am the LORD that smiteth (Eze 7:9)
I am against you (Eze 13:8)
I am very sore displeased (Zec 1:15)
I am against your pillows (Eze 13:20) (pillows in the Hebrew meaning to cover up or secrecy)
I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done (Eze 16:63)
(Pacified meaning to expiate or condone, to placate or cancel)
I am profaned among them (Eze 22:26)
(Profaned meaning; To be rubbed or worn; hence (figuratively) to be weak, sick, afflicted; or (causatively) to grieve, make sick)
I am against thee, O Tyrus (Eze 26:3)
I am against thee, O Zidon (Eze 28:22)
I am against thee, O Gog (Eze 39:1)
O mount Seir, I am against thee (Eze 35:3)
I am against thee, Pharaoh (Eze 29:3)
I am against Pharaoh (Eze 30:22)
I am against the shepherds (Eze 34:10)
I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies (Deu 1:42)
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I am returned to Jerusalem (Zec 1:16)
I am bereaved (Gen 43:14)
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New Testament “I AM” Scriptures
This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased (Mat 3:17, 17:15)
Thou are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased (Mark 1:11)
Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased (Luke 3:22)
I am the Son of God (Mat 27:43)
I am come in my Father’s name (John 5:43)
But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me (John 7:29)
I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world (John 8:23)
I am not of the world (John 17:14)
for I am not alone (John 8:16)
I am not alone, because the Father is with me (John 16:32)
Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? (John 14:10)
Believe me that I am in the Father (John 14:11)
I am in my Father, and ye in me (John 14:20)
Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am; and I am not come of myself (John 7:28)
I am (John 18:5)……..I am (John 18:6)……….I have told you that I am (John 18:8)
then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself (John 8:28)
I am the God of thy fathers (Acts 7:32)
I am the root and the offspring of David (Rev 22:16)
Before Abraham was, I am (John 8:58)
I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. (Mat 22:32)
I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob (Mark 12:26)
Thou sayest that I am a king (John 18:37)
I am Jesus (Acts 9:5)
I am Jesus of Nazareth (Acts 22:8)
I am Jesus whom thou persecutest (Acts 26:15)
But whom say ye that I am? (Mat 16:15)
And Jesus said; I am: (Mark 14:62)
Ye say that I am (Luke 22:70)
Whom do men say I am? (Mark 8:27)……..But whom say ye that I am? (Mark 8:29)
Whom say the people that I am? (Luke 9:18) But whom say ye that I am? (Luke 9:20)
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I am come to destroy the law…..I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill (Mat 5:17)
I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance (Mat 9:13)
I am not sent but unto the lost sheep (Mat 15:24)
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on the earth? (Luke 12:51)
I am the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6)
I am come that they might have life (John 10:10)
I am the resurrection, and the life (John 11:25)
I am among you (Luke 22:27)
I am with you (John 13:33)
that where I am, ye may be also (John 14:3)
I am the good shepherd (John 10:11, 10:14)
I am the door of the sheep (John 10:7)
I am the door (John 10:9)
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world (John 9:5)
I come a light into the world (John 12:46)
I am the light of the world (John 8:12)
and where I am, there shall also be my servant be (John 12:26)
I am the bread of life (John 6:48)
I am the living bread (John 6:51)
I am the true vine (John 15:1)……….I am the vine (John 15:5)
Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am (John 13:13)
ye may believe I am (John 13:19)
I am one that bear witness of myself (John 8:18)
I am meek and lowly in heart (Mat 11:29)
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For many shall come in my name, saying, I am, and shall deceive many (Mark 13:6)
for many shall come in my name, saying I am (Luke 21:8)
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? (Mat 20:15)
I am with you always, unto the end of the world (Mat 28:20)
be with me where I am (John 17:24)
For I am with thee (Acts 18:10)
I am he that liveth (Rev 1:18)
I am he which searcheth (Rev 2:23)
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Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me and where I am, ye cannot come (John 7:34)
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Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. (Mat 10:34)
(Sword in this case meaning to war, that is, (figuratively) to quarrel, dispute: fight, strive.)
I am come to set a man at variance (Mat 10:35)
(Variance meaning to make apart, that is sunder (figuratively alienate): set a variance. To make a part from what? Alienate the flesh self from the true spiritual self.)
For judgement I am come into this world (John 9:39)
for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins (John 8:24)
I am come to send fire on the earth; (Luke 12:49)
(Judgement was fulfilled at Creation. There is no time in the Spiritual world. We create linear time from the flesh. God states in Genesis that “it is finished”.
The only death an eternal soul can experience, is living death while alive in the flesh. Life is living through Christ.
It stands to reason that because of the love our Lord and God have for His Creation, fire is a description in the depth of love He has for His souls, and against all that is not in that love.)
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to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? (Mat 20:22)
and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? (Mark 10:38)
and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized: (Mark 10:39)
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I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending (Rev 1:8)
I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last (Rev 1:11)
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end (Rev 21:6)
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last (Rev 22:13)
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MISC
I am glorified in them (John 17:10)
An now I am no more in the world (John 17:11)
I am not yet ascended (John 20:17)
Because thou sayest, I am rich (Rev 3:17)
Believe ye that I am able to do this? (Mat 9:28)
for therefore, I am sent (Luke 4:43)
But after I am risen again (Mat 26:32)………..I am risen (Mark 14:28)
Everlasting – Eternal Covenant, Possession, Inheritance, Mercy, And Life
Everlasting is Eternal. Everlasting eternal life is for all souls.
John 6:68-70 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
God and Christ our Lord does not, will not change.
Mal 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
Heb 1:12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
Heb 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Jas 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
The promise was made before the world began. The promise was made to all souls prior to the flesh earth when souls where in a spiritual body. This is because God knew you before your flesh life. Therefore, judgement if you wish to call it was “finished” at Creation. (Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. Gen 2:1)
A soul has absolute free will. Gods adjustments (judgements) were foreknown.
Rom 11:2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
Act 15:17-18 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
Pro 8:22-23 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
His Mercy Is Everlasting
Psalms 100:5 For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
(See Also; Psalms 103:17, 106:1, 107:1, 118:1-4, Jer 33:11)
Lam 3:18-26 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
Everlasting Covenant
Heb 13:20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
(Gen 9:16, 17:7, 17:13, 17:19, Lev 24:8, 2Sa 23:5, 2Ch 16:17, Psalms 105:10, Isa 24:5, 55:3, 61:8, Jer 32:40, Eze 16:60, 37:26)
Everlasting possession
Eze 46:16 Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons’; it shall be their possession by inheritance.
(See Also; Gen 17:8, 48:8)
Everlasting Salvation
Isa 45:17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
Deu 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
Everlasting life;
Mat 19:29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
(See Also; Luke 18:30, John 3:36, 4:14, 5:24, 6:27, 6:40, 6:47, Gal 6:8, 1Ti 1:16)
Rom 6:22-23 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Scriptures related to DEATH can only be in the flesh. Your lives are eternal, and from life to life a soul can live in death if that is the chosen path. DEATH is simply explained. If a soul is not living through love in EVERYTHING, and love is life, love is truth. Anything other then love is death.
Humankind are eternal spirit-beings. Where do you think you were prior to this flesh birth?
If you believe you didn’t exist prior to this life’s awareness, you believe you are not an eternal being-spirit-soul.
Being an eternal spirit, you have always existed in some sense-form in life. If there is no end to your existence, there was no beginning. You were always at least a thought in God’s mind because that is where you came from.
Rom 11:2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
Death can only exist in the flesh. A spiritual death simply means a soul is not in the love of goodness, and that death can go on and on for as long as the soul decides, and as many lives that it wills. That is free will. Search your heart and align yourself so the Word can expand your wisdom and understanding from life to life.
Col 4:3-4 Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds: That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
Life stems from your conscious state, a state of mind. Life manifested through senses if one so chooses. The location of heaven from the conscience and to the senses.
John 3:13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
The location of heaven is within.
Php 3:20-21 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Mat 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
As heaven, Hell located in the body, and outside the body.
Doesn’t matter what happens, it matters on how you “see” and allow a matter to affect you.
1Co 4:1-5 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self. For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
The more you come to understand yourself, the more understanding you will have for your neighbor. Seeing negativity-sin-evil as darkness, look to instill more light within yourself. Your light will extend to your neighbor as the light becomes truth. When you see the light in your neighbor, they will see that light in you.
1John 2:10
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. MJI (LightWorker)
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