Welcome to "It's Finished in Christ"

This is my newest blog, where I will explore the meaning of Christ words at the cross for Him and the world. So drop in often, as I talk about the COMPLETED VICTORY of CHRIST THE VICTOR, THE TRIUMPHANT KING OF GLORY.

Joseph Black D.D.

Who Are You? (Part Two)

That day, after the fall, when God was calling out Adam's name looking for him, and please note Adam was the one in hiding, because what took place the moment after that, when the serpent, the woman and the men, are told what the consequences were going to be for now on, that we came to see this, as punishment for disobedience. Western Society has a grand difficulty in understanding, God didn't view His Creation any differently at that moment then He did moments before the fall. In God's mind, He didn't say to himself, "well you did what I told you not to do, so now I am going to Punish you for it". "You go to hell!"
No! He didn't say that at all, ""bad boy, bad boy, what you going to do when I come for you!"
What a sick perversion of Who God is! Who we are! (Given freely to us by the serpent)
So man now had lost His sense of being who He really is, and His sense of who God really is.
Man sees Himself hopelessly evil, hopelessly good from that point on, because now from that point on, He sees God, as only good, and himself as good, only in relation to what he does, as who he is. Man now sees God as evil at times, by what He does, rather then by who He is.
Yes, God is good but He is much more than just good, He is love, absolute non-polluted love.
We were and are in the eyes of God, much more than just good or evil beings, He sees us always with the eyes of His love.
God's view of "us" never changed, we have been His creation before the fall and after the fall. What changed is our entire perception of truth. We now came to live an illusion, that "what we do, has defined who we are."
I am going to tell you something right now, there is no religion, on earth, did you hear me, on earth, that can change that wrong view of God, or ourselves. Even the "christian religion," doesn't do that for us, because largely that interpretation as presented to us is a perversion of truth as well. It is presented to us in law and grace mixed. The very thing that Paul worked so hard to eliminate.

But wait there is hope, the Bible tells an entire different story, then what you have had drilled in your skull, by the experts, of religion, by the so called good men in cloth, or anyone else for that matter.
Why, because religion is the natural propensity of men since the Fall, with that old mind set, which is the mind set of Adam that caused him to hide from God, and that which caused both Adam and Eve, to make the first attempt to cover something up about themselves, that God was quite pleased with while they were in the garden, but now they saw as something that defined them.
Their nakedness, their having no definition of who they are by the knowledge of good or evil. They were just naked, just as God intended them to be, they were already good, in God's eyes, because God had looked at all He had made, even naked Adam, no definition of good or evil and called all that He created, including the serpent and the Tree as of Knowledge of Good and Evil- GOOD! Read Genesis again, if necessary. I believe it is, for it is the start of the story that ends, not in the future somewhere way out yet beyond, it ended at the Cross and a New Creation came forth at the Resurrection. The end of the Old Story with the beginning of the new, thus Paul calls Jesus - the Second Adam.
Man changed the whole thing for himself and creation, not God.
Man is the one with the problem, not God, He didn't say whoops, now you went and did it, you became evil. He didn't go whoops now you need to make yourself good. Whoops, my goodness I should have put clothes on you before now, my goodness how shameful "your naked!"
It was not that God had to be reconciled to man, He never has left us, alone to wallow in the quagmire of all of this state of lostness. Our own loss of significance and definition of self found only in reliance upon Him.

I will present the rest of this in the following weeks. Stick with me, I promise some of your thinking will be changed and you will see your Daddy in heaven, and Jesus Christ work in a light perhaps not seen before by you. You will see how grand God's plan was and just what it was He accomplished in 33AD.

God bless until the next time.

Brother Joe Black

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

Who Are You? ( Part One)

NOTE: I have decided that I would post this is in different parts, as reduce reading and listening time. This may be the most important beginning post series of teaching I have done yet. The Gospel presented to you like you have never heard it before. I pray it will be life changing and you might discover the Exchanged Life in Jesus Christ. So here is today's portion.
(Music lead on PodCast is by Israel & New Breed-Song Title: Alpha and Omega)

Who Are You?

I am going to start by asking some questions,as I do answer then honestly to yourself as you read or listen to this Part One of the series, Who Are You?

Are you a good person?
Are you an evil person?
What does it mean to be a good person?
What does it mean to be an evil person?
If you are a good person, have you ever done evil?
If you are an evil person have you ever done good?

Now if you answer those questions honestly, you will see
that you are defining yourself as a person, either overall, or at least based upon
what you do, at specific times and in specific situations.

What if I were to tell you, that you are neither one of the above, good or evil?
Do you accept that or do you try to weigh your behavior in some sort of imaginary scales and based on which behavior you experience or perform more often then the other defines who you believe yourself to be? Which side ways the most?

Let's be honest as humans both behaviors are a very real part of our lives.
All of us!
Now, I am going to tell you something you may never even imagined to be true.
You are neither a "good person or an evil person," because your behavior doesn't define who you are.
God has decided forever Who You Are, because He is your Creator.

We (humanity) were all doing just fine, until we developed this concept of seeing ourselves in the eyes of good and evil.
How did that come about?
Most people who don't understand or have a full grasp of the reason why Jesus came, and the what of Jesus life, death, resurrection, and Pentecost live in this nightmare of being a Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
We dare not admit it, but we are all schizophrenic, or at least suffer multiple personality disorder. When we define ourselves by what we do.

To be honest many of you listening to this Pod Cast or reading this blog right now are dealing with issues in your life, you are either trying to be a good person, and finding yourself failing, or you thought you were a good person, until something came along in life, and you failed, and now that image you so held of yourself it has all been tarnished.
Christians do the same thing, that are yet trying desperately to do something to be good. This is called "christian religion" as opposed to the Christ life.
You at least for the moment believe you are what you do, or did, until you can get back on the merry go round, and try to make up for the wrong you did, or perhaps you will just shrug it off, but it still doesn't change your self-image, it's now corrupted. You can justify your behavior, overlook your behavior (impossible to do), or try to make up for it(more religious effort.)
Yes, God called His creation, all of it good, but it was not the substance of who you are.
What the Fall did, was made us believe that the all of life is defined by these things good and evil, what we do, as opposed to who we are. Especially our core being. It does not!

We were and are still God's loved creatures the image of God.
It was because of this transformation Adam brought into the world by eating of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and one that religion, any religion, continually propagates that has so tainted us even more, with the same lies as that first serpent handed us, the failed carnal thinking that "we are what we do, rather than what we are." Once the trap was sprung, once Eve did something she knew in her mind God had told her not to, and Adam followed along, they were trapped, their minds now before the fall, had no idea of either one of these terms as pertaining to their behavior, they were who they were, the Creation of God, who fellowshiped with them and communicated with them and they found joy, peace and righteousness in His presence.
So how can we return to our prior state before the Fall?
We lived that life or at least Adam did as the representation of ALL MEN, we lived in perfect innocent fellowship with the One who loves us beyond what we can ever imagine before this horrid transformation of thought process came into our minds and corrupted our view of God and ourself.
How can we escape this sad tragedy of despair and hopelessness we have in this life bouncing back and forth from one label of description to another of ourselves and others?
How do we come to know who we are, if not a good or evil person?
Where is the picture for me to see?
Can I find it in history?
Where is this story that tells me something different as you say other then good or evil?
Where is it I can find something that assures me, that God views me and others as more grand and glorious then can be imagined?
Where is the story that can be found?
Who will tell me and show me this, that I am free, and that all is well between me and my Creator?
Where can it be found?

In the next blog, I will talk about the Fall and Who We Are Now and more.
I am going to do my best to answer these question and more over the next few days in this teaching as I present it line upon line and precept upon precept.
You will hear I promise the Gospel as never presented to you perhaps, but nonetheless it is the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Come back for Part Two of Who are You?

Dr. J.