THE TRUE GOSPEL /GOOD NEWS OF YESHUA/JESUS THE MESSIAH

Many Christians celebrate Christmas , but many Christians are confused about the true message of Yeshua's birth and His death, here is a wonderful message by Andrew Wommack that we all need to read and to finally understand. The message is that the War on Sin is OVER and has been for the past 2000 years! God incarnated into the body of Yeshua/Jesus became sin for us and nailed it to the cross, God is now no longer angry or wrathful to you or anyone else. Please read and understand and take this message to heart. And remember Shalom and good will towards All people because of Yeshua/Jesus!

Jesus forever changed the way God relates to mankind. Sure, there are scriptural examples of God's catastrophic judgment on sin. But God's greatest act of judgment was when He placed all of His wrath for our sins upon Jesus. This forever satisfied God's wrath. Since that time, God hasn't been judging our sins (2 Cor. 5:19). God's not angry at us. He's not even in a bad mood.

Look at the angels' joy at the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem.

Luke 2:13-14 says,

"And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men."

This scripture is very familiar to us, yet there is a lot of misunderstanding about what it's saying. Some translations say they were proclaiming "good will among men" or "peace to men of good will." Basically, this passage has been interpreted to say Jesus was bringing peace on earth among people. That's not why these angels were praising God. If that interpretation were true, then Jesus' own words in Matthew 10:34-36 would contradict this. He said,

"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household."
Jesus Himself said He was not sent to bring peace on the earth among people. The peace that the angels of Luke 2:13-14 were praising God for was peace BETWEEN God and man. They were announcing the end of God's war on sin. Peace now reigns between God and man.
Prior to Jesus' coming, there was wrath from God against mankind for his sins. It wasn't total wrath. Even in the Old Testament, we see God's mercy and grace. Yet the Old Testament Law was a ministry of wrath (Rom. 4:15 with 2 Cor. 3:7 and 9), and people's sins were held against them. But when Jesus came, God quit holding people's sins against them. This is exactly what 2 Corinthians 5:19 and 21 says:
"To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation...For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him."
The word "reconciliation" is talking about making peace. God was no longer holding us accountable. Instead, He imputed our sins to Jesus, making Jesus accountable for our sins. Jesus became what we were so we could become what He was—the righteousness of God.
Jesus was like a lightning rod that drew all the judgment of God unto Himself. He not only bore our sins; He actually became sin (2 Cor. 5:21).
Jesus said this in John 12:27-32,
"Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me."
Many have thought this thirty-second passage means that if God is properly glorified in our preaching, then He will draw all people unto Himself. But that is not what this passage is saying.
If you look in the King James Version Bible, notice that the word "men" in verse 32 is italicized. That means it wasn't in the original language. The translators put this word in italics to let you know this was their addition, but it wasn't a part of the text. If you take this verse in context, I believe that the Lord was saying He would draw all JUDGMENT to Himself. Jesus, like a lightning rod, attracted all of God's judgment for all of mankind's sins for all time unto Himself.
All the murder, all the perversion, every vile and rotten sin imaginable, all sickness, and all disease ever known to mankind actually entered into His physical human body. Isaiah 52:14 talks about the crucifixion of Jesus and says that He was marred more than any man to the point that He was unrecognizable as a human being.
That could not just happen from physical beatings, especially since the Word says that not a single bone was broken in His body (Ps. 34:20 with John 19:36). I believe His body was completely disfigured from the cancers, tumors, diseases, deformities, and anything else human beings have ever suffered.
Jesus didn't ask for the cup to be taken from Him just because of the physical pain He would suffer but because He did not want to become sin. He hated becoming what He came to redeem us from. And the worst part of all Jesus' sufferings was total rejection from His Father.
Matthew 27:46 says,
"And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
God the Father forsook Jesus so you and I would never be forsaken. All that you and I would have suffered, through billions of years in eternity—the grief, the pain and, worst of all, the complete separation from the presence of God—Jesus experienced. And He experienced all of this for us. When we say God is judging our sins as individuals or corporately as a nation, we are voiding what Jesus did. That would be "double jeopardy."
Some of you may not like this, but it's true. Sin isn't a problem with God anymore. It's the church that has made it a major deal. Neither past, present, nor future sins can separate you from God.The only people who will go to hell are those who have spurned and rejected the greatest sacrifice that has ever been made. In heaven, you won't answer for your sin; Jesus already has. You will answer for your acceptance or rejection of Jesus.
You might now be thinking, You're just giving people a license to sin. Well, it seems to me that people are doing a pretty good job of that without a license. What I'm saying will not free you to sin; it will free you from the condemnation and the guilt that comes when you do sin.
To continue in sin is just stupid. You'll be opening the door for Satan to have an inroad into your life (Rom. 6:16). If you do, then you will suffer the natural consequences of sin, but it will not be because of the judgment of God. If you commit adultery, you will probably lose your family, but it was you who caused it, not God.
Natural disasters are just that—natural disasters. We live in a corrupted world where bad things happen, but God isn't the cause of them. If He were, why would He stop at New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of America? Surely all of us deserve the judgment of God. But, praise God, we don't get what we deserve.
Before I learned that the war was over, I used to say, "If God doesn't judge America, He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah." Now I say, "If God judges America, He will have to apologize to Jesus." Thank God for Jesus!
Article by Andrew Womack

“The War is Over”

DO CHRISTIANS SIN? YES.

"By the grace of GOD I am what I am, and HIS grace toward me did not prove vain." 1Corinthians 15:10

"He delivered us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of HIS beloved Son. " Colossians 1:13

GOD did deliver all of  us  from the domain of darkness and transferred us to HIS kingdom, so , can we still be in both kingdoms? When GOD declares that we are not in the flesh but in the spirit as in Romans 8:9 can we be both at the same time?When GOD said we were in darkness and now light can we be both? If GOD says that if we are in Christ and we are a new creation , all of the old passed away and now all things are new in us , can we be both?
Can a Christian sin? we all know that answer, it is a big YES! If any one says differently they do not speak the truth!
Having sin and 'being' sin are two different  issues as a Christian. When we choose to live as our body -flesh- Adam's nature, dictates we will sin, but the fact of the matter is that we DO NOT HAVE TO SIN if we chose not to. 1 John 2:1 reminds us that we do not have to sin. It is no longer in our Nature to sin as it was before we Called Upon Christ to Save our  Souls.
If we, as Christ followers believe that we are part light and part darkness, part sinner and saint we WILL live a mediocre life, with very little to distinguish us from non believers.We may confess that we are prone to sin and that we are striving to do better, but that only leads to a defeated life, why? Because our perception  of ourselves is what guides our actions, and to continue to believe that you ARE a sinner saved by grace then we will live our lives no different than before we were saved and so we will  just be hanging on until we die or Christ Returns. If we believe we are no different from the rest of the world who are non believers then we are in fact no different.The problem in most of our lives who claim to be Christian is that we are IGNORANT of our true identities in Christ Jesus , Yeshua the Messiah. Our inner change from being in Adam to being in Christ happened already in all Christians  (well the fact of the matter it happened for all people of all time, they just do not know it),but for the Believer it happened at our new birth when we  first believed and called on the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, this is called Justification and that is a done deal in the life of a Believer. We have been justified ALREADY and nothing more can be done by us to change what GOD had already done In us by our salvation in Christ redemption.The difference between the believer and non believer is that we know this happened and they do not. But the Progressive work of sanctification will continue through out the rest of our life on earth as believers.But the radical , inner transformation of the justification that happened when we first believed is only fully effective when  it is realized and appropriated by faith in Christ who is doing the work in us. It is as if we came into alot of money , lets say ,an inheritance but if we do not know this, we can not make use of what we already have and so it lays dormant and we live in poverty until we become aware of our inheritance , once we know we have it we then start can start using it.
So if you continue to claim and perceive that you ARE a sinner,what will be the consequence? You will believe that sin is at the core our your identity, which is contrary to what the Bible teaches. Lets believe GOD , that Jesus is at the core of our being and then we will begin to live like it by HIS Spirit , AMEN.

What do these words really mean , that we as Christians use all the time. SALVATION,JUSTIFICATION, REDEMPTION,SANCTIFICATION, ATONEMENT? This will be my next topic of discussion.

Oh Holy ONE of Blessing,YOUR Presence fills the creation and us, thank YOU Father, that we are complete in YOUR Son JESUS/YESHUA and that our identity is rooted in HIM and not in our sin.Thank YOU for waking us up to the fact of YOUR SALVATION AND YOUR GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE WHICH IS KNOWING YOU AND OUR LORD JESUS/YESHUA THE MESSIAH ! amen.

TIME AND ETERNITY, AND JUDGEMENT FROM THE BOOK IS HELL ETERNAL OR WILL GOD'S PLAN FAIL BY CHARLES PRIDGEON

Here are a few tidbits from the book titled below that I agree with .

Is Hell Eternal?Or Will God's Plan Fail By Charles Pridgeon
TIME AND ETERNITY
"Time" is always a relative term; "eternity," in any accurate sense, is always absolute. The difficulty is increased by popular speech. "Eternity" is used for time that does not end, but this is incorrect.
There is no word in the whole Bible that can be accurately and consistently translated "endless time." Time not only implies temporary, but also implies the realm of the phenomenal.
All time will one day be converted into eternity. Time is allied to motion; eternity to rest. Time is made up of successive moments. The quality of eternity is its simultaneousness. Eternity is the opposite of time. It signifies a new state of things, a different condition; it denotes timelessness, that is, the absence of time. Time is the revolving circumference of a circle. Eternity is the fixt and unchanging center.
Hell/Hades
The Hadean/Hades state is the state into which the departed pass immediately upon death and there remain till the resurrection. It is, therefore, frequently spoken of as the Intermediate State.
Many theologians seem to teach that we immediately receive all God has for us when we die. The full harvest of both joy and suffering comes only after the Second Coming of the Lord. This does not derogate from the fact that Paradise is a blessed state, or that Tartarus is a place of suffering. We believe more than this; viz., that rewards and punishments begin in this life, that heaven and hell begin here. He alone can go to Paradise or heaven who has heaven begun in him and he alone can go to hell, Tartarus, or the Lake of Fire, who has hell begun here. The Intermediate, or Hadean state, will have more of both joy and suffering than we have in this life, but the fuller state, heavenly or hellish, will not come until after the resurrection. It is a source of great comfort to know that we never lose our identity in the Intermediate, or in any state.
Our Lord went and preached to the spirits in prison that were aforetime disobedient in the days Noah (1Pet. 3:18-29). He went after He was killed and was quickened in spirit. He greeted the repentant thief in Paradise, but it was especially in the Tartarus portion that He is said to have preached to the very same antediluvians who would not heed Noah's preaching.
Dives and Lazarus are represented as having preserved their identity and as knowing each other.
Moses and Elijah on the Mount of Transfiguration were manifested from the Hadean state--their identity was preserved. Even the unsaved pass into the next life with the forces of their spirit which formed and made their body in this life. This spiritual body goes with them into the Hadean state, no matter how warped and dwarfed it may become. Each one that passes out of this life reaches the next life in exactly the same spiritual condition in which he was when he died. Death did nothing for him except to separate him from his earthly body. The intermediate state is for discipline, punishment, a process of judging, and for improvement, progress, and growth. There are those who without others will "not be made perfect" (Heb. 11:40); and there are others whose "spirits are made perfect" (Heb.12:23). Our Lord, after His death, was quickened in spirit and went and preached to those who were disobedient in the days of Noah (1Pet. 3:18-20); this is proof of conscious activity in the Hadean state.The suffering of the rich man in Tartarus had certainly done wonders for him. He probably had never been concerned about his "brothers" before. Now he is more than solicitous. It was more than earthly water that he thirsted for. He had no physical tongue. His thirst was spiritual, and only the spiritual water of life could satisfy him. He is not saved yet, but he is moving already in that direction. Of those who are righteous the Hadean state will be for them a time of further training, discipline and development. "He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ" (Phil. 1:6). In place of the work of grace being finished God will carry it on till the Day of Christ and that day reaches not only to His coming but to the end of the ages. May we not pray as well as preach in the Intermediate state? Yes, and beyond, for our Lord still does both, and He is in the resurrected state. Our work will extend through all time. He "hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies in Christ; . . . That in the dispensation of the fulness of time He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth" (Eph. 1:3,10). God has called us to a magnificent service which will bring to us an ample discipline and a fuller glory.
When man fell it was a twofold fall. He fell into spiritual selfhood and he fell into an earthly nature. To get man back he has to die two deaths: he has to die to the natural and earthly and he has to die to self. If in this life man does not have these deaths wrought in him, then he enters the Hadean life with its judgments, discipline, training, and service. If man is still stubborn, there awaits him, and all such, the Lake of Fire and Brimstone, which is "the second death." The first death slew the natural and animal and took him into the Hadean state, and at its end, it and death, that is, all in Hades that have not repented are cast into the Lake of Fire where the process of the second death awaits, which is the death of all selfishness.
A Sane and Scriptural Doctrine of Punishment
The text, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" (Gal. 6:7), contains many of the principles that obtain in a true doctrine of punishment. We will note some of these principles.
The Certainty of Punishment. One of the elements that makes punishment effective is its certainty. If a man thinks that there is a chance for him to escape the punishment for wrong doing, he may take that chance. Every one needs to learn that this law of certainty has no exceptions. There is no chance about it; what you sow, you reap. Every sin has its certain consequences. This is true even of the wrongdoer who thinks that he has escaped the working of this law. He is mistaken. The evil has already wrought damage to his character and one day its direful consequence will be manifest, unless divinely dealt with. Every offer of salvation; every presentation of more or new light; and every opportunity proffered, brings added responsibility. Every rejection increases guilt and multiplies the consequences as a punishment. From this law there is no escape. When this principle of punishment is understood, it furnishes one of the strongest deterrents to evil doing and also to the rejection of light.
The Limitations of Punishment. The harvest is limited by the quantity and character of the seed. Punishment is graded in proportion to light and opportunity. The law of justice will obtain. Some will be "beaten with few stripes" and some with "many." "And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more" (Luke 12:47,48). Punishment, as well as reward, is to be graded. A finite sin will have a finite punishment: nothing else would be justice. God Himself has set bounds to the consequences of evil, whereas to good there are practically no limitations.
The Kinds of Punishment. "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap," implies that the punishment will be of the same kind as the sins. Sins of the flesh bring forth consequences in the flesh. Sins of the mind beget mental suffering. Sins of the heart bring forth blasted affections and emotions. Sins of the spirit blight our highest nature on its Godward side. This law is certainly one of the harvest laws and is also in accord with the principles of justice. Jacob cheated his brother Esau, and he himself was deceived ten times (Gen. 31:41). Israel failed to keep God's law of the sabbaths and they reaped seventy years of captivity as a consequence (Jer. 17:27; 25:11; 2Chron. 36:20,21). When we think that every thought, word and deed will bring forth a harvest after its kind, we certainly need to take warning, to "flee from the wrath to come," and to bring forth "fruits of righteousness." The Author of Punishment. God is not the author of punishment, even tho He is over all and makes everything that happens serve His purposes in the government of His universe. It is the creature who is the author of sin and is thus responsible for its consequences. Sin has its origin in the creature's acting independently of God. God is not the author of anything that is evil. He never made any of the consequences of sin any more than He made the sin. God's creature is the only one to blame. God did not make a fallen nature. It resulted from the fall of angel and man. God never made a punishment for sin. Every punishment for sin is manufactured by the one committing the sin, "Whatsoever a man soweth." Our punishment springs from our own sowing. This consideration dispels all detraction in reference to God's character and Word. The place of punishment referred to in Matt. 25:41 as "prepared for the devil and his angels," may be better translated, "prepared by the devil and his angels." Wicked men share this punishment because their sins were similar to those of the evil angels, and they cooperated with the evil angels and followed their suggestions.
THE PURPOSE OF PUNISHMENT
1. He uses the punishment of sin as a preventive. This is for the breaker of His law, that he may be prevented from other infractions of it. God also has in mind the deterring of others who may learn or witness the terrible consequences of sin.
2. Punishment is also disciplinary. The root-meaning of one of the chief words for punishment is that of pruning. The Lord of the harvest never prunes to kill, but to help. The persistence of the consequences of sin long after the sin is forgiven by God is doubtless intended so to deepen and burn in the lesson that the cause of punishment may be cured. God purposes to establish in righteousness, that the creature, even if he could, would not yield to sin.
3. Punishment is also meant by God to be self-corrective. This is expressed in Jer. 2:19, "Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backsliding shall reprove thee." This still is disciplinary, but it implies that in the punishment itself is a self-corrective element. The fermentation of liquids tends to their own purification. The principle of the modern disposal plant is that one germ of impurity devours another till all their malignity is destroyed. God tells us what the harvest of sin is; "The wages of sin is death" (Rom. 6:23). This denotes all kinds of death, answering to the different kinds of sin. Sin always attempts to kill God. Its culmination was reached when it slew the Christ, but His death overcame "him (Satan) that had the power of death" (Heb. 2:14). And through our Lord's death all death has been potentially destroyed, and will be actually and historically destroyed before the end of the ages, when the Son hands over the kingdom to the Father: "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." God has thus limited the extent of the consequences of evil. It, in one sense, wears itself out. Let no one say however that Christ, the Savior, is not needed. We have already indicated that slaying Him only promoted His plan of redemption. It cut away all our nature of flesh and blood that He had taken, and in Him we and the whole creation were potentially set free from all corruption and all harvests that are the consequence of sin and sins. "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death" (Rom. 8:2).This is a Sane and Scriptural Doctrine of Punishment. "For God hath shut them all up for unbelief, that He might have mercy upon all. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been His counsellor? Or who hath first given to Him, and it shall be recompensed unto Him again. For out of Him, and through Him, and unto Him, are all things: to whom be glory for the ages. Amen" (Rom. 11:32-36, literal).