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Christ as eternal life

   After working under the scorching sun in midsummer, I sweat a lot, and after sweating, I feel very thirsty. A bowl of cool water at that time is like the water of life. It is said that the human body is made up of 70% water. Without water, humans will soon die. Water is not only necessary for humans. Everything that lives and breathes in this world needs water. The reason the Creator made all things need water when he created them must have been to make people realize their need for Christ.

 

Just as living creatures need water, all humans need Christ. Those who live without Christ, no matter how excellent and clever their knowledge, are of no use in the kingdom of heaven. Those who do not live without Christ are living in vain. It is God who moves all history in this world, but Christ is the master of all human beings in this world.

 

Christ, the Lord of man, is not something that can be won through religious action, nor is it something that is automatically given by attending church for a long time. And just because you are in charge of a large church or because you have received the full gift of the Holy Spirit is not a given for free. Those who live under the law of the Holy Spirit must believe in the Son sent by God in order to be born again into Christ.

 

From the moment God created the world, no one could enter the kingdom of heaven except through His Son. So the first law was given and all the people of Israel were imprisoned under the law. But foolish men did not know this and believed that the law made men righteous. When the deadline promised with Abraham came, the second thing God sent his son before the people of Israel. However, the Israelites rejected the Son after only holding on to the first example.

 

Christians today call on the name of Jesus who came in the flesh to the land of Israel and receive the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit came to the Gentiles who lived like dogs and pigs as evidence that their original sins were forgiven through the blood that Jesus shed. However, the Holy Spirit given to Christians is God's law given in their hearts to act as a spiritual law for Gentiles who lived without a law. Therefore, all Christians must live by the Holy Spirit. But as Christians of a corrupt heart, no one can live by the law that has been given to them in their hearts. At this time, all Christians are automatically imprisoned under the spiritual law. God knew this fact and gave a law in the hearts of Christians to imprison them under the law of the Holy Spirit. This is because God's spiritual Son can be sent to save Christians who have disobeyed the law of the Holy Spirit from their sins.

 

Today's Christian leaders are teaching that if you open your mouth, you cannot be saved by the law. They are teaching that they are saved by the Holy Spirit. Paul says that God revealed the Holy Spirit to the Gentiles who called on the name of Jesus in order to benefit the Gentiles. It is for your own good that you look into your heart through the Holy Spirit and realize that you are a sinner. This is because Christians can believe in Christ who will come before the Gentiles in the future.

 

  “The manifestation of the Holy Spirit to each one is for profit” (1 Corinthians 12:7).

 

If it was believed that the Gentiles who called on the name of Jesus would attain salvation through the Holy Spirit, Paul would have been right to use the word ' salvation' instead of 'benefit'. However, Paul used the expression 'beneficial' because Gentiles have not yet reached full salvation through the Holy Spirit. The 'benefits' that Gentiles receive from the Holy Spirit are not only that they realize their sins, but they show signs through the gift of the Holy Spirit so that unbelievers can see it and believe in Jesus, so that those who used to live as unbelievers are also working to make the people of God at the same time.

 

But none of the Christians know this. As a result, Christians claim that they are saved by the law (the law of the Holy Spirit) just like the Jews. However, the Bible repeatedly emphasizes that the law, whether it is the law or the law of the Holy Spirit, can only make us aware of our sins and cannot make us perfect. Despite this, Christians continue to claim that they have been reborn as Christ because they have consistently mistaken the Holy Spirit for the Spirit of Christ. If we continue to misunderstand the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Christ, Christians will fall into the snare set by the devil themselves.

 

The Holy Spirit and Christ are distinctly different things. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Father (Matthew 20:10), and Christ is the Son. Therefore, each of them is different in what they do. However, if the Father and the Son are seen as the same person, the meaning of the Father sending the Son to the human race becomes meaningless. Of course, when we are in the kingdom of God, the Holy Spirit and Christ are both one. However, because the work they do is different, if they see the Holy Spirit and Christ as the same person, salvation will never be achieved for humans.

 

If you look at the temple in Jerusalem, there is the Holy of Holies where God dwells and the Holy Place where the Son dwells. This is because the temple was built with a focus on the human soul. The Holy of Holies is the place where God (the Holy Spirit) resides, and it refers to the human spirit. Therefore, the Father must be in the Most Holy, and the Son must be in the Holy of Holies. If God, who should be in the Holy of Holies, enters the sanctuary where the Son is, the hierarchical order of the kingdom of heaven will be destroyed. If the hierarchy is broken, even human salvation cannot be achieved.

 

Unlike the world in which humans live, the kingdom of heaven is a place where hierarchical order is strict. Lucifer broke the hierarchical order of heaven and left his place, but became a criminal and was cast out of heaven. However, if God does not distinguish between the work of the Holy Spirit and the work of the Son, and God does both this and that, then God himself is destroying the hierarchical order of heaven. Even less so, when humans build houses, they do not use wood for pillars as rafters, nor do they use wood for rafters as pillars. The human world is like this

But would God say that the work of the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Christ is the same?

 

When God is in heaven, he is one, but when he does it through the Holy Spirit, he becomes several spirits and comes into each person's spirit (thought) (Acts 2:3). Likewise, while Jesus was one in the flesh when he was in the land of Israel, he ascended to heaven and received the glory of the Father and became a spiritual being, and he became several spirits, able to come into each person's heart. This is what Jesus was referring to when he said to his disciples that it is better for me to go to the Father than to be on earth (John 16:7).

 

The Holy Spirit indwells anyone who lives on earth as long as they call on the name of Jesus, because of the efficacy of the blood that Jesus shed. The Holy Spirit was present even in the Old Testament, but at that time, before Jesus shed His blood, the Holy Spirit could not indwell human beings. Then, the reason the Holy Spirit came to dwell in man is because of the blood that Jesus shed when he died on the cross. The blood that Jesus shed has the power to atone for the original sin committed by the first man, Adam. It is because of the blood that Jesus shed that the devil was cast out of his position as the ruler of the world. However, just because Christians received the Holy Spirit and received the forgiveness of their original sins, does not mean that all sins are forgiven. Christians can enter full salvation only when they believe in Christ who comes as the Spirit and have their sins against the law of the Holy Spirit resolved.

 

“Then he said to the servants, “The wedding feast is ready, but the invited ones are not worthy. Go to the crossroads and invite as many people as you find to the wedding feast, and come. The servants go out on the road and bring all they can find, both good and evil. is full of hands! When the king came in to see his hand, he saw a man there without a robe, and said, “Friend, why did you come in here without a robe?” The king said to his servants, “Tie his hands and feet and bring him out into the darkness outside. Throw it, and there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!” (Matthew 22:8-13)

 

These words were written with the salvation of the Gentiles in mind. Christians are people who have been invited from earth to go to heaven, but have not yet won a ticket to heaven. In order to get a ticket to heaven, Christians must also believe in the spiritual son God has sent and receive forgiveness of sins. Christians keep believing in Jesus who came in the flesh to the land of Israel and mistake them for believing in the Son sent by God. Gentiles believe in Jesus who came to the land of Israel, and only their original sin has been resolved, but their sins have not yet been resolved.

 

Since Christians are still living under the law of the Holy Spirit (sin), they have never received a 'robes' as a gift from their spiritual son. This is because the spiritual Son of God has not yet come before Christians. Christians, too, will receive robes as a gift if they believe in the spiritual Son and are born again as Christ. However, those who do not believe in the Son and go to heaven will eventually be expelled from Heaven because they do not have robes. Today, it is said that there are about 2 billion Christians worldwide who call on the name of Jesus, and what they are saying is that “many are called, but few are chosen” (Matthew 22:11) .

 

Here are some examples of the basis for today's Christians claiming that the Holy Spirit is the same Spirit as the Spirit of Christ. “If the Spirit of God dwells in you, you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit. If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not of Christ” (Romans 8:9). The 'Spirit of God' that Paul spoke of here refers to God the Holy Spirit. And the word 'Spirit of Christ' is the Spirit who wants to come into our hearts as words.

 

However, this misunderstanding arose because those who interpret this view the 'Spirit of God' and the 'Spirit of Christ' as the same spirit. The reason Christians have no choice but to make this interpretation is that none of the Christians have yet received the Spirit of Christ. As a pastor, when I lived under the Holy Spirit, I thought that the Holy Spirit was the Spirit of Christ. Then, when I met Christ, who came as the Spirit by the grace of God, I realized that the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Christ are different. This is similar to how Paul realized that he was wrong only after he met Jesus who came as the light after living under the law.

 

Paul was the only Jew who received the Spirit of Christ with the Holy Spirit. Therefore, the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Christ are being explained separately. However, unlike Paul, the 12 disciples, when Jesus forgave the sins in their hearts, the Holy Spirit took hold of their innocent hearts and worked. This is the same principle as the Holy Spirit took hold of the sinless heart of Jesus and wrote it. So the Twelve make frequent mention of the Holy Spirit, but not as often of the Spirit of Christ as Paul did. As a good example, if you look at the Bible written by Paul, you can see that God is often called Father, but if you look at the Bible written by the 12 disciples, you can see that God is not often expressed as Father. The reason Jesus wrote Paul in this way was to call him specifically to foreshadow the Christ who would come before the Gentiles.

 

If the Holy Spirit gave the law to believers and imprisoned people who did not keep the law under sin, the Son works to save sinners imprisoned under the law. Because the work of the Father and the work of the Son are strictly separated, we humans are able to achieve salvation. However, if you deny this and see the Father and the Son as the same Spirit, you are denying God yourself and you will not be able to achieve salvation. Of course, this is a trick that evil spirits use to distrust the son, but that doesn't mean that Christians should never be used by these evil spirits.

 

The best way for Christians today to ascertain whether the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Christ are the same Spirit is to quickly find out whether or not Christ is in their hearts. If Christ is in the hearts of Christians, under no circumstances should Christians be thirsty. But if you look at today's Christians, you can see at a glance that everyone is thirsty. As a good example, if you are a Christian who accepts Christ, at least you shouldn't struggle to get ahead in the world like everyone else. However, you can see that Christians are also desperate to grab hold of the world. This is evidence that Christians are very thirsty.

 

So let's take a look at why Christians are thirsty! When a person who used to live as an unbeliever believes in Jesus for the first time and is filled with the Holy Spirit, he gives up all his possessions and makes a fuss as if he would pluck out his eyes. At that time, he must believe that he has been regenerated by the Holy Spirit. Then, after a certain amount of time, it cools down like it did when. And as time goes by, the religious life becomes more and more formal. And later, the feeling of being saved gradually disappears. If the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Christ, this should never happen.

 

Why does this happen under the Holy Spirit? Because the Holy Spirit is the one who gave God's law to Christians who lived without the law, if the Holy Spirit is quenched, Christians will be disobeying God's law, and the heart of the believer will become more and more desolate. To say that the mind is desolate means that the human mind is sick. And later, they fall so badly that they say, "Is that person a believer?" If you compare the Korean church in the 1960s and 1970s with the current Korean church, everyone will know how serious the level of corruption is. If the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Christ, this can never happen.

 

Because the Holy Spirit comes as a law, He does not limit human free will, and because He does not impose sanctions on humans even when they break God's law, they can go to the Fall. However, because Christ comes as the Lord, He limits man's free will so that man will never fall.

 

Today's Christians say that they have been saved by the Holy Spirit, but in their hearts, there is no day to feel at ease because of constant anxiety and worry about the future. There is a saying that everyone can go to heaven when they die, but the fear of death still makes people tremble with anxiety. Therefore, all of these people snooping around from church to church is because their souls are thirsty. The members of the church look here and there to satisfy the thirst of the soul, but there is no place to satisfy the thirst of the human soul under the law of the Holy Spirit in any church in the world. Then, those who are impatient, can't wait for their son to come and fall into heresy. In the end, if you fall into the spirit of the antichrist disguised as Jesus, it is difficult to break free from it.

 

If you understand why Christians go to worship services, it is part of an effort to fill the emptiness in their hearts. If Christ is in the hearts of Christians, Christians no longer need to worship together in buildings built by hand. However, since the Holy Spirit came to give the law to Christians, according to the law of the Holy Spirit, Christians must worship until Christ enters their hearts. However, under the law of the Holy Spirit, no matter how much worship is offered in the name of Jesus, the hearts of Christians can never be perfected.

 

Now, in order for Christians to quench their soul's thirst, they must believe in Christ, who comes as the Spirit, regardless of position. This is because the only person who can quench the thirst of Christians is Christ, who comes as the Spirit. Christians have only sinned under the law of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, Christ must come and solve the problem of sins of Christians. Only then can Christians quench their thirst. Not only Christians, but all human beings on the earth must drink the water that Christ gives to live forever and never die.

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