God Is Love

God Is Love


CLICK ON THE ABOVE LINK TO HEAR THIS MESSAGE. I PRAY FOR MANY OF YOU WHO MAY NOT KNOW THE GOD OF LOVE, THAT MAY DOUBT HE LOVES YOU, THAT THIS MESSAGE WILL WIPE AWAY ALL DOUBTS AND TEARS AND ALAS SET YOU FREE!
The messages is just the first one of many messages of the assurances of God's love for you on my Pod Cast site. I hope you will take time to hear them.

Nuggets of Wisdom

"Hatred, Murder, and War are not the uniforms of the brave, but the rags of those that fear and are cowardly.'

'Fear and Manipulation has always been the reason for EXCLUSIVISM..... it keeps an us against them mentality."

"Hell was designed by those who wish to keep their power, and to keep their subjects in check, God is not a despot.

"Love may attract a few, but fear moves masses."

"A rod in the hand of the powerful will bend the backs of those with no power, but an individual bent over in pain, will never accomplish the work to be done."


"Bees are like people, they know they have a job to do, and do it well, but when someone bust their honeycomb, they get confused, where can they take their pollen?"

"The hungry and poor will gladly eat from the hand of an evil taskmaster and even accept a beating then face one more day of nothing to eat or to wear."

"Yes, man chose to have a free will, the only choice given him and in that he found he could only choose between good and evil, but holiness, Oh! love, only that belongs to God, and no man can do either by his own choice, he cannot choose and cannot will it, that alone belongs to the Father who is love, only He revealed the true meaning of love by His Son, and only He accomplished that by the work of His Spirit."

"Those that need a hell to motivate them to do good, have not yet understood love."

"Those that do good, and need a hell to rule the masses, have not yet understood evil" It is their hell for which they create for others in what they think is good that becomes evil."

"Ah, yes slay those for whom disagree with you, let the blood flow, but what shall you do, when the sword is in their hands and you have none as they?"

"Man's best always becomes his worst, history proves that."

"Those that dream absolute power will subdue the masses, are those who are too proud and arrogant who are in need of subjection, and not by power that is equal, not by powering over them in rebellion,but by a power not seen by this world except in one, and those that truly followed Him", His name is LOVE, His name is Jesus Christ."

"Love in it's greatest revelation did not come with a sword or power, rather it was revealed in His submission to the sword and power."

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I wrote all these, and have posted many of these on, Face Book, as a message of God's love and who He is, and who we are now in Christ.

Dr. J.

God Is Love Who Loves Eternal

I have recently completed a short but I think effective essay on the Who God Is, as given to us in the words of John. God Is Love.
I wrote this, because I am more and more convinced that God's love expressed to man in Jesus Christ was inclusive of all man kind, and what Jesus did at the cross, in the resurrection and the gift of the Holy Spirit, changed not only the course of history but men for all time and ages to come.
I believe it is a good read, as when I wrote this, my heart was moved by the Holy Spirit, to see the depths of Christ death, as I had never seen it before, to see the New Creation has something I had never seen before. That this was an all encompassing work of God for His creature that He loves. He didn't have to have our love, He gave it like a mother or father gives normally to their children. Adam's fall did not change ownership of whose children they were, they have been and always will be His children.
Alas it was men, who needed to know God is love, but man were blind now, after the fall, their minds corrupted to see everything in terms of good or evil, even God. Thus Jesus work had to eliminate the old man, and create altogether a new man. Not a revised old man, not a something inside the old man but to create a brand new man. Genesis is the beginning story of man, the cross and the resurrection is the new Genesis, it was the change, the end of the ages, the change for all time, for man to be brought back home where he belonged in the loving care of He who is love. This work of God, should ever change the minds of exclusionist. It should bring forth in the minds of those who trust that God is love, a brand new paradigm of understanding those three words like never before God is Love.
If you would like to read the paper it is posted on my ministry website
at: Life Synergy Enterprise (Life Ministry) just click on the left to go there, you will find it embedded under the menu for Keys to Inclusivism

Clarification to the Offended

I want to make something clear, I know often in my rants, that many individuals who may run across what I write here, seem to think it is personal attack, against them.
Nothing of what I ever write is to condemn others, or to judge them, only God is judge, I like the prophets of old am compelled to speak only against their practices, beliefs or teachings that oppose the Who is God, and Who is the Son.
What we believe doesn't change that Christ came to die for all of us and that we all needed that, but it is His life - the message we must understand as well. It must be applied in every area of our lives.

However, history proves that people will kill to defend their beliefs, doctrines, or practices and thus the world rages now. The message cannot be applied but by His grace in our lives, but we must first approach God the Father through the Son always in prayer, not by doctrine or our "Orthodoxy or Orthopraxy."

Religion, Politics, Foreign Policy, Criminal Justice you name it, has it's roots in the sinfulness of men.
Systems are not pure, as the early Christians so better understood.
They may have used the term Devil or Satan but they had a definition outside of what later developed within the context of church. They didn't believe in the Devil, as an entity in competition with God, a second god. They were not dualist. They understood that "Adversary" was all that opposed God's love and mercy, and that individuals, groups, governments and the world are the "Satan".
They never perceived of Him as the church does or we have been taught to do. The Satan is not some weird little pointed ear, long tail, horned and red in color individual that was a "fallen angel" that is in some great cosmic game of chess with God using mankind as the playing pieces.
This teaching so widely accepted with all religions which are pagan, even our "christian paganism," are false and do more to excuse all people from personal sin, then anything else. It has done more to produce the very opposite of what God's revealed love in Jesus was to produce within His people.

All of the "adversaries" of God that I have not completely listed above are the "Satan" they are merely a reflection of the entire human condition of sin and death in this world.
Just as we are, and can be, when we fail to receive God's grace in our lives. We become and are the "Satan" - the adversaries of our Creator.
There is much more that could be said here on the dualism teachings of the church, and the gnostic origins of the church for what is taught but that's for another book perhaps. There have been some very good books written on this matter as well, by men who are thinking men, who have opened their eyes and ears to Jesus Christ, and not Jewish myths, traditions of men, and all the things Paul warned the body of Christ of, time after time. and John and Peter as well.

I love people of all races, because Jesus didn't die for the Caucasian race only as some would have us believe. He lived and died for all men regardless of race, color, creed or religion.
We all needed Him. We all still do.

What I stand against if you have read my writings enough is the total disregard, we, Christians, have for all people, just because of their race, color, creed or religion, and don't see ourselves in light of the living Word of God, that all men are in the same condition, and all institutions are in the same condition, all governments are in the same condition and all religion is in the same condition.
We are without redemption from our evil, ourselves, our violence, our hatred, our selfishness, without Christ being the centrality of our life. Not the Jesus that has so wrongly been portrayed to the world, but the Jesus of the Gospels.

We have far too long focused on doctrinal matters (and most often, been wrong) and not enough on living matters.
God loves the hater as well as the hated, the evil doer as well as those who oppose evil, but without Him, Jesus Christ coming to us, changing us, by seeing the life he lived, the death he died, and what resurrection and Pentecost really mean, we are hopelessly lost in our hatred, and our being a victim of it. We are lost in our doing of evil, and our being a victim of evil.
It is the love of God, that has been shed abroad in our hearts that Christ body needs and the world at large.
Far too long traditional Christianity has defined the atonement in terms that are falsely Judicial rather than Christ the Victor terms. 
God's mission to bring Justice, was in the person of Jesus Christ while He was here both in the life he lived, and the death he died.

Biblically to "bring justice" does not mean to bring punishment,

but to bring healing and reconciliation.

Justice means to make things right. All through the Prophets justice is associated with

caring for others, as something that is not in conflict with mercy, but rather an expression

of it. Biblically, justice is God's saving action at work for all that are oppressed:

"Learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the

fatherless, plead the case of the widow". (Isaiah 1:17)"This is what the LORD says:

"`Administer justice every morning; rescue from the hand of his oppressor the one who

has been robbed" (Jeremiah 21:12)

True justice can only come though mercy

"This is what the LORD Almighty says: `Administer true justice: show mercy and

compassion to one another. (Zechariah 7:9) "Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you;

he rises to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice".( Isaiah 30:18)

--From Penal Substitution versus Christus Victor Atonement-

"The Rebel God" a blog linked on this page.

I believe sincerely anything outside of the action of love, self sacrificing love, in the exemplary way that Christ lived and died, is not Christian. We can turn the Holy Bible into something more unholy so often by all the traditions of men, then hearing the Word of God and seeing the Living Word. We like to shake our fist at the Muslim and their Quoran. When we treat the Truth of the Word of God, and especially the story, the One we trust in, in disregard of the Story, we have reduced our "Holy Bible" to nothing more then that we accuse the Muslim of having - "a book of violence that propagates it."
Wrong, all religion propagates violence, even ours if we treat the Story- Jesus, as a book, defined and dissected by us, into a few choice verses, to justify our own sin. Then it becomes as unholy, as any book claimed to be God's truth, when it is in contradiction to all Jesus lived and died for. This is what the serpent did in the Garden, he was the first Theologian, a simple animal, became man's first great Theologian. The first to WRONGLY divide God's Word.
When we as men, turn to concepts of man's justice, man's hatred for others, man's pride, man's powering over others, man's solution as war to the problems of the world, we have negated Christ in His teaching, His life, and His death. How dare we call ourselves "Christian."

So what I do is stand against all that makes us less then what we are too be or claim to be in Christ, this includes, false teachings, practices, and living. I stand against those things which say, powering over others, rather than submitting to others, is the way we win.
No we win, when we see the REAL JESUS, and we turn to the love He showed, practiced and gave right down to the Cross.  The reasons most Christians don't live this life, is because of false teaching, and listening to evil more than the Holy Spirit and story of God's love to us who deserved none but Christ won the victory for all of us, the victim and the victimizer.
He redeemed us not so we can say, now I can live like the world, think like the world and do like the world and go to heaven. No! He redeemed us, that we redeem others, in this life, by allowing His life to be lived in us, through us and as us. So, that in all that we do and say, it is the same love expressed through Him by the Father to us, that we by the Holy Spirit express that life to others.
His entire story, the message we miss is found in who God is. We have too long tried to define God in every whim of doctrine rather then answering the simple declaration of the Word of God.
God is love!

Thus I oppose war, and power structures, that leave men powering over others.
I believe as Jesus lived and taught, it is in powering under, that we gain real power, It is when we get down and wash each others feet, and the feet of our community, our State, Our Nation and the World, is where real power comes from, resurrection power.
It is when we lay down our lives in love to all men, that we have lived in obedience to the Spirit of Christ and not the spirit of this World (this is the Satan).
So, when I attack a teaching or practice it is to redeem God's people from the sinful thinking that it brings in their lives, and in the end when acted out, it destroys them and all those around them.  Jesus turned over the tables in righteous anger against those taking advantage of the poor, the widowed and the orphan, I get angry and rant... Jesus loved the table tenders, He hated their belief system that had translated the "house of prayer" into a market system.He may have flogged them, but he didn't go get a AK-47 or any kind of sword that physically kills or maims, if any killing was done, it wasn't people that He killed, He killed their "adversarial actions and beliefs about the Father". He chastised those He loved the Temple market place people. We twist that, and say, well in the New Testament Jesus did get angry, so war and hatred is justified.
Yes, He did get angry, righteously angry and He is still angry at our total disregard of our love for Him first, and then our neighbor. He is still flogging us, as a person, a nation, and world. Not to destroy us but to save us, and make His people not the Temple, His house of prayer.

So, don't become personally offended, but do if necessary.
Become offended enough to re-evaluate your actions and belief system in light of no longer proof texting everything you do believe, this is the worst thing that we can do to God's Word, we have come to think to "rightly" divide the Word, is to divide it up into one or two verses, that will appease our sinful nature, make a doctrine out of it, form a group around it, and hate all those who oppose it.
God's "RIGHTLY" dividing is the opposite of our dividing, rather than division it creates unity among those who believe the story. It will always divide when we "search the scriptures thinking we might find life in them, when they speak of Him."
The Bible is not one million verses on how to keep from going to hell, it is the story of God's love to and for His creation. He doesn't want to deliver us from some future "tormenting fires". He wants  to get us out of the hell all men are in right now, in the here and now. This is only accomplished by trust placed in the story of His love expressed through the first human to ever be the full expression of who He is- Jesus Christ- the Second Adam. Our trust is in Him, because of the unity of the story, not it's divisions created by men. This is the worst thing men ever did, at first was to divide it up into chapters, verses, paragraphs, sentences, words, etc. The Christian church has used that division of the story far too long, and miss the entire context from Genesis to Revelation.
God is love.
In light of everything Jesus was, did and is. He is the full expression of the Father. He is love.
Jesus didn't come to formulate a new religion but to deliver us from religion to a life of love for the Father first, and then to our neighbor. 

Then we will find common ground as Believers when we trust the subject of the story and it will be "God is love."

Doctor J.

Life in Christ

Frank Viola has written another excellent book, called the "Jesus Manifesto". I tried finding it several times and finally managed to buy a copy. It focuses on the excellency of Christ as the center of all that is Christianity. We often forget just who is alive in us the very living resurrected Jesus Christ. It is all about Him, not about us. The only us - is what He the Father has done for us through the Son.
I know if it wasn't for Him, my life would be shambles. He has continued to be faithful always through all of my life, I wouldnt trade my life in Him for all the gold in the world.
I have learned in this life, that much of our heartache and pain comes because we forget who and what Jesus has done for us. We often as the Corinthians forget to examine ourselves as Paul exhorted the Corinithians. This is what the church has lost.

I spent from age 6 until age 53, growing in Christ, but all the same struggling to know my idenity in Him, who is life. I went to church a large portion of those years, and was actively involved in ministry. I was doing all the do's performing but ever failing, it wasn't until I met the real Jesus, that my life changed and has been changing. He has brought me a long way over the years. I have learned that those who don't have a relationship in Christ, hate you, even despise you. I never knew this until I became Christ centered rather than religious performing.
I never knew the lengths that people will go to harm a Christian, until the last several years. We are hated, despised even by this world, and the world does have and is full of evil.
I have been struggling for years to love those who hate me, even as Christ loved, when He looked down from the cross, and said, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do".
I have tried to love like that, and failed, it wasn't God's fault, it was mine for trying too hard from my own willpower to love those who are incapable of loving you back. I finally crashed in, and couldnt do it anymore.

The pain is more than one can bear at times. I can tell you how the heart of God must feel, when He loves us so much, that He gave His only begotten Son, yet everyday people reject God's love. How it must hurt Him, as it has hurt me, to love others who just couldnt love back, because, we must realize you must love God before you can love others, and many others do not love God first and foremost, they love self, centered in self, they despise true love.
Their love is based on performance, "you do for me, and I'll do for you".
Jesus said, I will do for you what no man has ever done, I will give without expectations of return, but all the same it will hurt me deeply if you reject my love, my free offering. I somewhat know what He must feel now, when I look at the world around me, and find that the world goes it's own way and never stops for a moment to consider the love that was there when He died on the cross.
The sweat on His forehead when blood came forth, was great love for the Father versus the love of self. It took complete surrender to the will of the Father, that took Him to the cross. Can we surrender our love to the Father like that? Not often, we love, but since we live in a world designed and centered around performance, we grow tired when we love, that others don't respond immediately by returning that love.
The problem is our definition of love often is self centered rather than God centered.
We give with expectations for something in return. In other words in what we do for others, we often consider love, but when it doesn't return to self, then we no longer want to do for that person. Now this should be expected once we discover our reasons for acts of kindness, etc. we have to examine ourselves, are we doing to get in return or we actually loving to love as God loves.
Secondly, often, no matter the love- true love given - there will be those, who will always reject your love. I know that experience. Just as Jesus did, you at times have to say, Ok, enough is enough.
Jesus came to the Jews, showing and displaying His love to His people, they rejected Him, He then did all He came to accomplish and set forth with the giving of His Spirit into those who would recieve Him, and sent them forth to preach the Good News of His love.
For 40 years He spent revealing the reality of who He was through His Apostles, and yet still but only a few, the remnant accepted His love. Then came 70 A.D. He brought forth destruction and wrath upon His people with the destruction of Jerusalem, but it was much more, for this was that Great Day of Wrath prophesied by Him while here on the earth, the Day of the Lord!
He still calls out to His people, every man, Jew or Gentile to come unto Him who is that which is life and love.
For God is love.
Will we hear the call of His love, will we see His love at the cross, and what He gave freely which took love, yet that I have not found in anyone, including myself at times, that says, "not my will but your will be done".
Will we as His people look at Him and say, I accept your love freely, and ask Him to fill us with His Spirit, so that we recieve what He has freely given us, no strings attached. He wants relationship with us, and that is what we all starve for is relationship, with someone who loves us unconditionally. Then come to Jesus, for He loves us, without any strings attached. He says to come to Him, "the living waters", that I might give you life and "life more abundantly".
We don't know this abundant life often, because as people who were and are bent on self, we think, what do I have to do, to get God to love me back.
Even when we first accept Him, often we as Christians think, well I have to do something, whether it be religious activity or charity or whatever, and all John says when we finally get a hold of how great His love is, "then we will love Him".
He ask nothing but our love, and since we as selfish humans can't do that based on what we have learned, we turn it into everything else but pure worship of the Father with the sacrifice of our lives and heart to Him.
I spent many years thinking I could give something back to God, but in reality I could never give back what He has given for me, but I can see more clearly now the love that He displayed at Calvary, and remembering who is alive in me, I ask Him only everyday, love through me, as me, and be in me, in all that I do and say.
Best yet, don't put expectations on those you love, love them as Christ loved and understand at times, there will be those who are incapable of loving back, and when that happens, it is as Jesus said, "If they won't hear you, then dust your feet and go on to preach the good news elsewhere".
This doesn't mean you don't still love them, but at times, by removing your love from others for a time being, it often will make them see just how much you did love them. Then if they don't, then it's not your fault for their rejection, it is theirs. Love them anyway. This the love of God, is that He loves in spite of ourselves. What wonderous love it is.
He may hurt when we don't return our love but it isnt because He is expecting something in return as we do, it is because He is holding out a gift that we refuse that brings life to us. The Life in Christ.
He wants us to have the best of life. If that is what you want really, rather than thinking that the things of this world offer the best in life, have a change of heart and see that life isn't in things, it is in Him.
Jesus desires you as children for the Father. He is our brother who loves us like no friend or family member on earth could ever do.