Booklet 01: The Nature of Christ
No one understands Christ or Satan. There has been a covering of delusion over the most important thing in the Bible and in creation.We have all these ideas out there about Christ but none are done by Isa. 28 so none of them are correct.All these idea are based on grace and grace alone. Christ was God so Christ could not sin. There is the 100% God and 100% man idea which shows Christ was fully in the flesh and had human nature but Christ was also God so He could not sin. There is another saying that God was a high bread with both nature ofGod and human.nature but all these ideas come back to the base of grace and grace alone.
What this leaves us with is Christ did not by works with the grace overcome sin but it was grace and grace alone that Christ overcame sin.
All of these ideas add up to is Christ sacrifice was fake it was a show but not real. Christ was not really tempted by Satan because God cannot be tempted.The delusion Satan has set on the earth is Christ was not real, He was a fake and he was not like us in the flesh but had advantages we do not have. You have one person get up and say “I am righteous but not like Chrsit but I did not have the advantages of Christ either. What this man was saying was that he was just as righteous as Christ..
The base of all man’s understand is Christ came to show man how good man can be but Christ had advantages we do not have so Christ is a fake, and salvation that came through Christ is also fake.If Christ over came sin by grace the everything about salvation is fake going by ALL the teaching in the world. Lets leave that a minute and look at Satan
Satan has everyone believing hat he went into the garden to take rulership over man from God. That is true, but there are some that are closer to God and the Holy Spirit can show them Satan did not just want to take rulership over from man buit Satan wanted to kill God before man could become God that way Satan could kill God by killing the God Family. However, no one understands what Satan went into the garden. Satan attack God but God did not fight him he could not get to God which angered him this way he could kill God by killing the Family of God. Men and women that would become God.
Some have this much discernment but most blind themselves before they get this far.There is a bottom line and no one has the bottom line and the bottom line is the key to understanding Christ.Satan did not just go into the garden to kill mankind Satan went into teh garden to kill one of the Godheads, Christ. Now everyone we jump up here and say God cannot be killed, but hat is not what the Bible tell us. God was killed and thee was only one reason that Christ lives today which is He lived a sinless life. Sin blocked the Father from mankind and Christ was a man.
Hab 1:13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
Isa 1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood
The Father does not make exception to His law if Christ would have siied one sin there Christ would not have been resurrect the reason being is tha Father will no tallow sin in His presence, To say by you fake god that God cannot die God did die and Christ would have remained in the grave for the law would have prevented the Father from resurrecting Him. Remember it was not Christ that resurrected himself, it was by the Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Heb 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
power of the Father. He is the reason and only reason why Christ lives today..
Satan has everything about Christ covered in a veil that no one can see< Chist did not come to the earth to show man how great they could me be, but to show man CANNOT be great because of the nature of man.Here is the nature of man.
Eph 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Man”s nature void of the Holy Spirit is evil. By nature man does not want to keep the law but break it. That is man’s nature without the Holy Spirit. This verse shows clearly the word carnal just means the flesh, the internal parts of a body.
Rom 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Your minister spoke out of his ignorance when he said he would be like Christ if had Christ’s advantage. To have Christ’s advantage as his confused man stated then this minister we have to be God. Christ gave up all glory and the only thing Christ had left was who He was. Christ was God and he did not take on the nature of man but came in the nature of God
Php. 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Php 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
likeness of man.
These two verses hold the secret that is veiled by Satan of Christ and the purpose for Christ coming.The word form is a spiritual word and means nature. Christ came in teh nature of God no man has come in the nature of God. Chrfist did not hide it. He was not fake. He said many times He was God on earth. Christ did not come to earth to be a competition to man. Christ came to the earth to show man the only way to overcome sin is to form in the image of the Son and put on the nature of God.
2Pe_1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
The word likeness here in Php. 2:7 is a physical word and it means resemblance. Chrsiy came in teh fles of a man but in the nature of God and that was the reason He was God on earth amd that was the treason He did not sin.
Here are two places in the Bible that show the nature of God. One showing ther eis no darkness in God. Then Christ show Satan has nothing in Him
1Jn 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.
Joh 14:30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
This is why Isa. 28 is the starting part of the Bible because this passage shows us how to learn. People look at the verse where the Bible show us God cannot be tempted and put heir own meaning on what is being said without working Isa.28 and look up the precept on the subject. They come with what SAtan way of life teaches by garce there is some magical thing blocking sin from tempting God. It is not magic and it is not fake. God cannot be tempted because their nature is opposite of sin. Nature of God is the law and the law ends in love. Christ would have had to go against His nature to sin, unlike man has to obey to keep the law and not sin. This is what Christ came to show man, Christ emptied Himself of all glory and started where man starts with one exception He came is the Form (nature of God) showing man only the nature of God can overcome sin that was what purpose Chrsit came to the earth.
Now we seen what human nature is without God and we have seen coveted people putting on the nature of God in 2 Pet. Now before we end lets get a full understanding and look at the starting part of man putting on the nature of God and people that are in the middle
Gen_4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
Gen_4:26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
Gen_5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
Eve had many sons when Seth came along but Eve only had one son as that was like Able. Notice Seth did not come in the form of Adam but came in his likeness the word likeness has the same meaning as in the Greek the physical. Seth did not come in the form or nature of Adam but in the nature of Abel. Adam nature was sin and he did not call on the name of the Lord. Able was righteous and Seth came after Able and this both came with the nature not of God but the nature or conforming to the image of God.
Rom 2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
These Gentiles are not coveted; they are not under the blood of Christ but by nature do things that are contained in the law. The word contain is added what this actually says is this of the law they are a law unto themselves. If that know not to steal and that steal then they convict themselves. If they know not to steal and they do not sin then they are not charged. This shows the Holy Spirit working with all mankind and bringing us back to the garden and the Four River God sent to the earth outside the garden.
BAck to Satan he did not have to go into the garden and their was repentance for his sin of attacking the throne of God. The Bible shows all of the angels under his charge followed Satan to attack the throne but some did not go into the garden with Satan. The Bible speaks of these angles and shows there was repentance The Bible calls regeneration. Satan only way out was not just to try to kill all of mankind and Christ One of the God Head. He could have repented but he did not believe in the greatness of God and he believed that no man even in the form of God could go a life without Satan deceiving Christ to sin once. What Satan did not see in his arrogance was the nature of God. It is like a magnet and wood. It does not make a difference how strong the magnet is it will not affect wood. That is the way the nature of God is not to obey the law. Their nature IS THE LAW. The lesson for man was not how great man can be. Armstrong claimed that God is reproducing Themselves they showed how far he was away from God. For God to reproduce Themselves that would have to start with Themself and that is what Christ purpose of coming to the earth to show man.