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    Changing Lives:

    Rediscovering Your Roots in God

    Outing the Anti-Christ1

    Part Two

    In Our image, after Our likeness:

    Friend, like unto like.

    There is no I in God.

    The disciples came upon the Lord Jesus one day.

    Lord, teach us how to pray, like John taught his disciples.

    And the Lord Jesus taught them.

    Luke 11.

    Lu 11: 1 And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he

    ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also

    taught his disciples. 2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father

    1 With notes from World Last Chance, Shepherd Staff, the Bible KJV, The Urantia Book, Pastor

    Oyahkilome, Bishop David Oyedepo, Paul Billheimer (Destined for the Throne), Pastor Randall Worley.

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    which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be

    done, as in heaven, so in earth. 3 Give us day by day our daily bread.

    4 And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us.

    And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

    Everything in the above prayer is our, us, thy, not I.

    There is no I in God.

    So the Lord God said, let US make man in OUR image and after OUR likeness.

    Ge 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let

    them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and

    over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that

    creepeth upon the earth.

    Let us make man in our image, and after our likeness.

    The Lord God was not merely indulging in the royal plural of a monarch in the

    above.

    The MAN meant business.

    I refer to our heavenly Father as a Man because until some of us begin to see

    him like unto us we would never understand who we are to him and who he is to

    us. Religion and religiosity has conjured up a grumpy old man who sits there

    watching and waiting to see who he would barbecue.

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    Whereas until we know him fully we cannot aspire to be rooted, let alone firmly

    rooted in him, most people are constantly confronted with the mystery of God.

    The widespread ignorance about who the Lord God actually is the root cause of

    religions (organized and disorganized) as well as religiosity.

    Consequently, great confusion reigns (aided and abetted by Lucifer and his

    human children) respecting the meaning of such terms as God, divinity, and

    deity. The folktale of the Nine Blind Men and the Elephant does not even

    approach our dilemma when it comes to constructing this awesome MAN called

    God.

    Understandably so.

    When a concept is beyond the comprehension of puny man gives it his own

    definition, his own mystification and his own image as best he can. The very lazy

    among men and woman now resort to their own foolish supposition. God does

    not exist they say and then sit back with that silly grin so common to the

    inhabitants of a place called Morontia.

    Pooh, how far from reality are these satanic imaginations. I will show you why

    shortly.

    Who is God really?

    The religious continue to suffer from the influence of their primitive concepts of

    God. Some have invented gods who go on a rampage in the storm; who shake the

    earth in their wrath and strike down men in their anger; who inflict their

    judgments of displeasure in times of famine and flood and must be appeased with

    prayers and gifts. These are the gods of primitive religion; they are not the Gods

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    who live and rule the universes. Such concepts are a relic of the times when men

    supposed that the universe was under the guidance and domination of the whims

    of such imaginary gods. But mortal man is beginning to realize that he lives in a

    realm of comparative law and order far higher than anything man has contrive

    this far in our puerile and futile attempt at self-government.

    The barbarous idea of appeasing an angry God, of propitiating an offended Lord,

    of winning the favor of Deity through sacrifices and penance and even by the

    shedding of blood, represents a religion wholly puerile and primitive, a

    philosophy unworthy of an enlightened age of science and truth. Such beliefs are

    utterly repulsive to the celestial beings and the divine rulers who serve and reign

    in the universes. It is an affront to God to believe, hold, or teach that innocent

    blood must be shed in order to win his favor or to divert the fictitious divine

    wrath.

    These misconceptions have root in ancient primitivism and paganism that

    unfortunately found their way in the heathen-pagan practice in some religious

    organizations and organized religions today. "As God is without beginning and

    without cause, as his being is infinite and underived, the Hebrew language

    consults strict propriety in giving no root whence his name can be deduced." Mr.

    Parkhurst, to whose pious and learned labours in Hebrew literature most Biblical

    students are indebted, thinks he has found the root in hla alah, i.e. he swore, he

    bound himself by oath; and hence he calls the ever-blessed Trinity Myhla

    Elohim, as being bound by a conditional oath to redeem man. Most pious minds

    will revolt from this definition, and will be glad with me to find both the noun

    and the root preserved in Arabic. ALLAH [Arabic] is the common name for GOD

    in the Arabic tongue, and often the emphatic [Arabic] is used. But while our God

    is triune and Trinitarian Islam invents its own paganism by a bewildering

    ignorance of God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. My God is not a third of the

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    Godhead. He is the fullness of the Godhead even when he dwelled among us

    bodily. Islam also fails to comprehend what I am talking about i.e. Relativity or

    Emmanuel God with us as us in us for us and us.

    1Co 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God

    dwelleth in you? 2Co 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with

    idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in

    them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

    The Lord God is mighty, yes.

    But he is only mighty in the MIDST of thee, thou child of God.

    Zep 3:17 The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will

    rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with

    singing.

    Without you he will not and without him, you cannot!

    Friend, the pagans of yore paganism did ascribe unto a god of their own

    apprehension astonishment, fear, or terror; and hence, they pretended to adore

    this god with sacred horror and veneration. The Lord God is your Father. Do you

    fear your father? Especially a Father who is love?

    1Jo 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 1Jo 4:16 And we

    have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that

    dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

    And a father who is Light, so much light that there is no darkness in him at all?

    1Jo 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.

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    The finite level of reality is characterized by creature life and time-space

    limitations. To fear God is to suggest that there is a dark character in him called

    fear and this cannot be the case. It is finite-human to fear-dread the unknown but

    the more you know God the more you come to love him and to dispel the

    apprehension.

    See someone who comes pretty close to giving reality to the Lord God as best he

    can.

    Adam Clark.

    Many attempts have been made to define the term GOD: as to the word itself, it

    is pure Anglo-Saxon, and among our ancestors signified, not only the Divine

    Being, now commonly designated by the word, but also good; as in their

    apprehensions it appeared that God and good were correlative terms; and

    when they thought or spoke of him, they were doubtless led from the word itself

    to consider him as THE GOOD BEING, a fountain of infinite benevolence and

    beneficence towards his creatures. A general definition of this great First Cause,

    as far as human words dare attempt one, may be thus given: The eternal,

    independent, and self-existent Being: the Being whose purposes and actions

    spring from himself, without foreign motive or influence: he who is absolute in

    dominion; the most pure, the most simple, and most spiritual of all essences;

    infinitely benevolent, beneficent, true, and holy: the cause of all being, the

    upholder of all things; infinitely happy, because infinitely perfect; and eternally

    self-sufficient, needing nothing that he has made: illimitable in his immensity,

    inconceivable in his mode of existence, and indescribable in his essence; known

    fully only to himself, because an infinite mind can be fully apprehended only by

    itself. In a word, a Being who, from his infinite wisdom, cannot err or be

    deceived; and who, from his infinite goodness, can do nothing but what is

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    eternally just, right, and kind. Reader, such is the God of the Bible; but how

    widely different from the God of most human creeds and apprehensions!

    God is Deity, the supreme God, the tremendous being. This is not a new idea;

    God was considered in the same light among the ancient Hebrews; and hence

    Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.

    Ge 31:53. 53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their

    father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.

    To complete the definition, Golius renders alaha, juvit, liberavit, et tutatus fuit,

    "he succoured, liberated, kept in safety, or defended." Thus from the ideal

    meaning of this most expressive root, we acquire the most correct notion of the

    Divine nature; for we learn that God is the sole object of adoration; that the

    perfections of his nature are such as must astonish all those who piously

    contemplate them, and fill with horror all who would dare to give his glory to

    another, or break his commandments; that consequently he should be

    worshipped with reverence and religious fear; and that every sincere worshipper

    may expect from him help in all his weaknesses, trials, difficulties, temptations,

    &c,; freedom from the power, guilt, nature, and consequences of sin; and to be

    supported, defended, and saved to the uttermost, and to the end.

    Here then is one proof, among multitudes which shall be adduced in the course

    of this work, of the importance, utility, and necessity of tracing up these sacred

    words to their sources; and a proof also, that subjects which are supposed to be

    out of the reach of the common people may, with a little difficulty, be brought on

    a level with the most ordinary capacity.

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    Friend, the Lord God inhabits ETERNITY, the highest of speeds, the highest of

    realms, a realm where time and space do not exist. In the beginning i.e. before

    the creative acts all was ETERNITY.

    Time signifies duration measured by the revolutions of the heavenly bodies: but

    prior to the creation of these bodies there could be no measurement of duration,

    and consequently no time.

    The El Elyon or the Most High operates from eternity, from the source of all life

    and reality. A place where a day is like unto a thousand years and a thousand

    years is like unto a day.

    2Pe 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the

    Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. PS 90:4 For a

    thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch

    in the night

    God, being a Deity; divine, supreme, eternal, absonite, universal, ultimate,

    absolute, and infinite, does not grow in knowledge nor increase in wisdom.

    Deity is the source of all that which is divine. Deity is characteristically and

    invariably divine, but all that which is divine is not necessarily Deity.

    Supreme because the MAN is self-experiential, self-existent and the Creator with

    everything else being his creation or creatures.

    Eternal, Infinite and absonite because he has no beginning and no ending

    Ultimate because the MAN is self-projecting and time-space-transcending.

    The absolute level is beginning less, endless, timeless, and space less.

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    The El Elyon or the Most High stretches from ETERNITY to now and fills all in

    all.

    1Co 12:6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which

    worketh all in all. 1Co 15:28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him,

    then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him,

    that God may be all in all. Eph 1:23 Which is his body, the fullness of him that

    filleth all in all.

    I have told you, there is a huge difference between the creation of man and the

    making of man.

    We were created by a loving God.

    Fearfully and wonderfully created.

    The Spirit of the Lord God led David into the prophetic past to behold our

    creation in the prophetic past and them man uttered:

    Ps 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:

    marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

    The creation of man was also the handiwork of the Triune or Tripartite or

    Trinitarian God.

    Like unto like.

    The man that the Trinitarian God created, and is making, is like unto the image of

    its Trinitarian Creator.

    Reason why the man has a very distinct spirit, soul and body

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    1Th 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your

    whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our

    Lord Jesus Christ.

    Man is a Spirit, he lives in a body and he has a soul.

    God is a Spirit: Man is a Spirit.

    Job 27:3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils

    The Son gave us a Body: Reason why he is the Son of Man and he calls us his

    brothers.

    Mt 28:10 Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that

    they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.

    The Holy Spirit gave us a SOUL.

    Your soul is like a hard drive. It contains things that you may not even know

    about. Issues that came from your bloodline. But this is another teaching. We

    shall explore the mind of man shortly.

    God creates in his spirit and the things that are created in the spirit are made in

    reality and with time. But our God functions in RELATIVITY and from

    ETERNITY unto time and back to ETERNITY. He declares the end of the matter

    from the beginning and then he goes back to the beginning.

    In a continuum.

    Are you confused?

    Dont be.

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    Matter and energy is one and the same thing.

    Material man is the same as spiritual man. Long, long, long ago, he finished the

    creation of man in his spirit just as he finished all the works of creation.

    Isa 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the

    things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my

    pleasure:

    Let us make man in our image, and after our likeness.

    God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost are now in the process of

    making us into their collective yet, triune image and after their triune yet singular

    image.

    Php 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good

    work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

    It is a process and a journey to a destination. Some are further along the way than

    most but we will all get there.

    If we believe.

    If you have not started the journey do this:

    4 STEPS to God

    http://www.4stepstogod.com/

    I have told you this.

    One nanosecond after you do what is in this link, God the Father and God the Son

    and God the Holy Spirit now reside in you.

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    They now start making you.

    Friend, we are being fashioned by a Triune and Tripartite God. God the Father

    loves men; God the Son serves men; God the Spirit inspires the children of the

    universe to the ever-ascending adventure of finding God the Father by the ways

    ordained by God the Son through the ministry of the grace of God the Spirit

    Every one of them chips in something to make us.

    The Father restores into us his life and his SPIRIT, the same life and spirit he

    gave us before our forefather, Adam, sinned and we got separated from God him

    via sin and death. Hence he restores back unto/into us Zoe or the God-kind of life

    or Eternal life.

    But we are not mere living beings or living souls as Adam was. We are now a

    quickened and a quickening spirit.

    1Co 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the

    last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 1Co 15:47 The first man is of the earth,

    earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

    God the Father watches.

    God the Son or God the Word sanctifies us with the Truth.

    God the Holy Spirit does more than merely ANOINTING or EMPOWERING us!

    Hell, he quickens us!

    Ro 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you,

    he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by

    his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

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    Ps 119:50 This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.

    Ps 119:93 I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened

    me. Eph 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

    Eph 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with

    Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) {by...: or, by whose grace} Col 2:13 And you,

    being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened

    together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 1Pe 3:18 For Christ also

    hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God,

    being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

    Friend, although Divinity may be plural in manifestation, in human experience

    Deity is singular, always one. Neither is spiritual ministry plural in human

    experience. Regardless of plurality of origin, all spirit influences are one in

    function. Indeed they are one, being the spirit ministry of God the Father, God

    the Son and God the Holy Spirit in and to the creatures of the grand universe;

    and as creatures grow in appreciation of, and receptivity for, this unifying

    ministry of the spirit, it becomes in their experience the ministry, and the desire,

    of our Heavenly Father.

    That we may be one with Him.

    This is in answer to a very lethal prayer, made unto the Lord God by the Lord

    Jesus on the eve of his death and resurrection.

    Come with me to John 17.

    The Lords Prayer.

    Not the Babys Prayer that the Our Father Is.

    Hear the Lord Jesus.

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    The How and Why, in Christ, the Christ-ian is given ETERNAL Life or the same

    kind of life that makes God, God.

    The How and the Why the Christian not only has ETERNAL life but is now one

    with the Father.

    John 17: 1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said,

    Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: 2

    As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as

    many as thou hast given him. 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know

    thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 4 I have glorified

    thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. 5 And

    now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had

    with thee before the world was. 6 I have manifested thy name unto the men

    which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them

    me; and they have kept thy word. 7 Now they have known that all things

    whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. 8 For I have given unto them the

    words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known

    surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send

    me. 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast

    given me; for they are thine. 10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and

    I am glorified in them. 11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in

    the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those

    whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 12 While I was with

    them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have

    kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might

    be fulfilled. 13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world,

    that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them thy

    word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even

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    as I am not of the world. 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the

    world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16 They are not of the

    world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy

    word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent

    them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also

    might be sanctified through the truth. 20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for

    them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be

    one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us:

    that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou

    gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in

    them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world

    may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

    24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I

    am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst

    me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, the world hath

    not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast

    sent me. 26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that

    the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

    More than 2000 years ago, the Lord Jesus saw you coming and he prayed the

    Father to make you one with him, with God the Holy Spirit and God the father.

    Verse 20. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on

    me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me,

    and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that

    thou hast sent me.

    And the Father answered him.

    Speedily.

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    Friend, this means we can actually eventuate and accelerate into the plenitude of

    divinity, right here and right now.

    Because the Lord God himself is WORKING IN US, for us, with us, as us, as US.

    The Bible admonishes us to work our SALVATION with fear and trembling for it

    God is working it out for us, in us, with us and us.

    Php 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my

    presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation

    with fear and trembling. 13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and

    to do of his good pleasure.

    Have you seen it?

    Verse 13. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good

    pleasure.

    Do you know the meaning of the salvation that Word of God is talking about

    here?

    Salvation from poverty, disease, and the collective works of the flesh.

    Ga 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery,

    fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred,

    variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders,

    drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have

    also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the

    kingdom of God.

    The end game of the salvation process is to be the image and the nature of God.

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    The end game of the salvation process is to be filled with all the fullness of God.

    Apostle Paul knew it.

    That is why I now echo the prayer that he made for us all.

    Ephesians 3: 14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus

    Christ, 15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 That he

    would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with

    might by his Spirit in the inner man;

    17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and

    grounded in love, 18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the

    breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19 And to know the love of Christ,

    which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. 20

    Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or

    think, according to the power that worketh in us, 21 Unto him be glory in the

    church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

    In fact, the believer is now quickened to have his or her DOMINION over all

    things restored.

    And, O Glory, we are not alone as we march manfully or womanfully forward

    towards our God.

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