Chapter 5: The Eye Exam
As for the remainder of Romans and the rest of Paul’s letters, should the blurry idea of “What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross” ever emerge from the false-bottom of Paul’s footlocker (stuck under a pile of other suitcases stuffed in the back of Paul’s airbus), the true PERFECTION of Grace is always diminished by Paul’s Pharisee-Influenced, doctored-down version of grace infected with endless conditions, ultimatums and additions. Fair warning. After “The Plane Crash” at Romans 6:16, we should carefully test every word that comes to us from the cabin-speakers out of the cockpit of Captain Paul.
Judge Fleming and his pilots adamantly disagree, willing to fly a bicycle head-on into the spinning blades of an Apache helicopter if “The Gospel According to Paul” “says” to do so. Despite Paul, himself encouraging us to “Test everything.” (1Thessalonians 5:21)
Test everything... how? By the absolute God’s-Honest Truth of the Holy Spirit of course. The Holy Spirit is clear and specific. Makes no difference what the holiest icon says in the most hallowed of places, or whether the words are read by the saintliest pastor out of the most sacred of books — yes, reformed Mature-Christian Fundamentalist, even should thy most sacred book be thy King James Bible.
Does thy Holy Spirit have thine attention?
GOOD. Because, this is what does matter:
“Do the Words support what’s been done for you on the cross? Or do the words deprecate what’s been done for you on the cross?”
Any required “AND” on top of Truly-Accepting-What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross, deprecates What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross. Simply put: Anything we add to it takes AWAY from it.
Simply by Truly-Accepting-What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross, we regain EVERYTHING. For, we regain exactly what Jesus blesses upon us to regain. Our PERFECTION. Easier for a non-Christian to accept this Holy Truth than a Paul-Indoctrinated Mature-Christian.
The worst part of buying-into Romans 6:16 (or any diminishment of PERFECT-Grace) is the psychological damage one inflicts upon one’s own self. Every time you buy-into any add-on, you are subconsciously sending a PERFECT-Grace-Destroying-Message to yourself: Simply and truly accepting what’s been done for me on the cross is NOT enough.
Imagine Jesus, himself, interrupting the typical Christian Sunday-go-to-meeting, carrying his cross up the aisle with the blood still dripping off him. There is silence. Every eye is trained upon him. Finally, Jesus asks the pilot, priest, pastor (whoever is flying the airplane)...
“Was this not enough?”
What do you suppose the captain should tell him over the loudspeaker?
“Well, actually, no sir, it’s not. You see…”
Proceeding, of course, to explain to Jesus the contradictory and complicated mess our “belief-system” has made out of Jesus’ pure and simple Concept. Imagine Pastor starting Jesus off with the “mother’s milk” of A,B,C Christianity and then leading Jesus ALL the way into walking that “Christ-like path of discipleship.” Our Savior would very likely hand his cross over to the closest stand-up Mature-Christian and declare:
“When did I ever say, ‘You need to be “Christ-like”?’ I told you to pick up your cross and follow me, not pick up my cross and follow me. But, here, take it if you really want it.”
Picture (if you would) a hood ornament indestructibly connected to every working part of our car — every necessary component, including a jet-fuel system and even the jet fuel itself. Our hood, our engine, our transmission, our electrical system, our tires and everything in-between. If we can envision such a thing, then, Truly-Accepting-What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross is our hood ornament. It is our focal point. What we never lose sight of and what proceeds us.
It is the TOTALITY of what gets us there.
This same parabolic analogy faithfully teaches the perils of the ifs, ands and buts:
Think I’ll attach me a streamer to the hood ornament.
That’ll work! I’ll get one for us while I’m up at the body shop, ’cause Paul says we need a pin stripe, a spoiler, some racing tires AND... a ball-bearing to throw into our camshaft.
Remember, IF... we don’t write CHEVY on the back window, our “Faith” is useless and we are still in our sins.
My preacher told me that ALL we need — to straighten up our hood ornament — is to slap some Mag-wheels into the center of the tires with those hubcaps that spin backward.
Hey, some seat covers would sure make it FEEL better.
Oh, yeah, BUT... don’t ever forget to honor tradition: So, you just know, we got to hang those fuzzy dice from the rear view.
AND... always remember to praise the Lord! So... while you’re over there, be sure an’ have ’em stick us a plastic Jesus on the dashboard.
AND... wait! While your out, pick us up a bunch of that “maturity.” We need plenty of that, too, don’t we? In order to get into heaven?
Remarkably, just the opposite. Jesus tells us exactly what we need to enjoy the Reality of the Kingdom of Heaven. Quite the opposite of maturity, that’s for sure. According to Jesus, we need to become like little children — the exact kind of internalness one takes on once one TRULY and totally accepts What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross. LITTLE children — babes to one-year-olds. Does Jesus speak the Truth? Well... you don’t see little children hating and hurting folks. Now do you?
Here is a dandy of a question. What is a “Mature Christian”?
A Mature-Christian is someone who has been working at this Christianity thing for a long time. Someone who follows ALL the letters of Paul to the letter. Someone who IS walking that “Christ-like path of discipleship.” Jesus tells us, it is by what comes out of a person’s mouth we can see what is Truly happening on the inside of a person. Here is the testimony of every Mature-Christian I know:
“I have a continual war with sin in my Life.”
“To defeat sin, I need to work out my salvation every day.”
“I need to die to self to kill the sin in my Life.”
“To cleanse myself of sin, I need to continually confess and repent of my sins.”
How would Jesus respond? Verily, verily... the testimony of the Mature-Christian grants a person no better plantation-status than that of any other poor soul working Master Sin’s cotton fields:
John 8:34 (NIV) “Jesus replied, ‘Very truly I tell you, anyone who sins is a slave of sin.’”
According to Jesus, we do not have the two choices Paul is offering us at Romans 6:16. We ARE slaves of sin. Period. Without Truly-Accepting-What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross (“Truly” meaning, 100%, with no ifs, ands or buts) our sin remains.
You don’t have to take Jesus’ Word for it. Reread the testimony of the Mature-Christian:
“I have a continual war with SIN in my Life.”
“To defeat SIN, I need to work out my salvation every day.”
“I need to die to self to kill the SIN in my Life.”
“To cleanse myself of SIN, I need to continually confess and repent of my SINS.”
Is this the testimony of an FI — someone who is FREE-Indeed? Or an SOS — a Slave Of Sin? The answer is pretty obvious. This is not a Judgment. The above testimony is an ongoing symptom of the disease. Actually, the above Christian testimony is a prime symptom of the disease mutating into antibodies that have effectively killed the cure.
An SOS is also a cry for help.
The PERFECT cure? The PERFECT help? “Behold (the Son of Man) who takes AWAY the sin of the world.” Indeed, we are getting way ahead of ourselves. Don’t fret-it if you don’t get-it. In ALL fairness, one does have to understand what the Word “AWAY” means — a few chapters ahead of us still. Suffice to say at this point in our discussion, by its very definition, “AWAY” applied to SIN presents a counterintuitive Reality to the seals-barking-in-unison Mature-Christian testimony (cited above).
How is it that we have a “continual war” with the s-word (sin) when the Son of Man has given us the PERFECT ability to send ALL our s-word AWAY?
Why are we struggling to “work out our salvation,” when the Son of Man has gifted us with his sins-AWAY RANSOM — aka: The full working power of What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross?
Explain it to me as if I were a six-year-old. Why do we need to “die to self” to kill the “sin” in our lives (again, that terminated s-word); when, by Truly-Accepting-What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross, every bit of that... terminated s-word... has forever been taken AWAY?
And, why would anyone need to “confess” and “repent” of something that has been taken AWAY?
The answer is elementary, my dear Watson. As trained Christians, we have yet to Truly-Accept that ALL of our sin has been taken AWAY. Thus, our sin remains. A hard Truth. AWAY is a real Truth-flusher-outer. It helps us to SEE. Our testimony embodies the dogma of our FDMC degrees (Fully Dogmatized Mature-Christian). Truly wonderful human souls. However, our testimony qualifies each and every one of us as an FDMCSOS (a Fully Dogmatized Mature-Christian Slave Of Sin). Remember what Jesus says. “ANYONE who sins is a slave of sin.” (John 8:34)
Simple solution. We have been given the power to cast “sin” (along with the proverbial board that inspires it) out of our eyes. For us to be FREE of sin, we simply have to ACCEPT, 100%, with no ifs, ands or buts, that What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross MAKES us FREE of sin. Don’t fret it if you don’t get it. In ALL fairness, one does have to understand what the Word “FREE” means.
Here is a Truth every FDMCSOS needs to learn (this may actually hit home since Mature-Christians love flip-flop sentences so much): If you see your sin, you are blind to what’s been done for you on the cross. However, if you Truly see what’s been done for you on the cross, you are blind to your sin. So blind, you Truly have no sin. So blind, you are completely FREE of sin. FREE-Indeed.
Yes, I am fully aware of our FDMCSOS training. I know. It is a diametrical FDMCSOS impossibility for anyone to become sinless and PERFECT in this world. Our teachers have bewitched us with the Anti-PERFECTION Hex:
1John 1:8 (NIV) “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.”
Our Christian teachers have cut this verse right out of our Bibles, pasted it on our bumpers and our rear-view mirrors and they have effectively cursed us with it. In later chapters (as we dig up and unwrap the Word, PERFECTION) we are going to paste 1John 1:8 back into our Bibles. We will examine 1John 1:8 in great detail (as well as the Romans 6:16 plane crash — oh, yeah, we’re not done with “The Plane Crash” and its domino-effect. There will be an official investigation from every angle). Suffice to say at this juncture, for any “teacher” to present 1John 1:8 ALL by itself, is to present 1John 1:8 completely out of context.
Interested in the counter-spell? Want to reverse the hex? Feel FREE to read the Bible verse that immediately precedes 1John 1:8.
1John 1:7 (NLT) “The blood of Jesus (Son of the Living God of Light) cleanses us from ALL sin.”
Granted, John got sold (along with ALL the rest of the left-behind Apostles) on Paul’s sacrificial blood voodoo. Let’s get real: It is not the blood that cleanses us. It is the RANSOM that FREES us. Even with our RANSOM wrapped up in the “Warshed-In-Da-Blood” metaphor, “Cleansed from ALL sin” means exactly that. Cleansed (actually RANSOMED) from ALL of it. Past-sin, present-sin, future-sin, intentional-sin, non-intentional-sin, venial-sin, mortal-sin and repetitive-sin. ALL of it. Again, we’re getting way ahead of ourselves. Chill out. Don’t fret-it if you don’t get it. In ALL fairness, one does have to understand what the Word “ALL” means. We’ll get to “ALL” soon enough. For now, take solace in the fact that the rest of John’s First Epistle is in total agreement. A true acceptor has no sin... at ALL... under PERFECT-Grace:
1John 3:6: (KJV) “Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.”
1John 3:6 (directly above) is the acid test to determine the true acceptance of the true acceptor. A simple eye-exam. Difficult to see (as it is written above) because “whosoever” is translating this verse into English (likely a panel of Church-Taught Christian Bible-Makers) have no idea what the Holy Spirit (via John) is talking about. It is so simple. So easy. Much easier than “belief” or “faith.” Have you Truly-Taken this FREE gift... or not? John’s eye-exam is the foolproof way to know whether you have Truly-Accepted-What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross (or not). What do you see? Honestly? Do you see what’s been done for you on the cross? Or, do you see your sin? It’s one or the other. The true acceptor knows exactly what the Word, “AWAY” means. Duh. It means, not here anymore. Gone. The Lamb of God who takes... AWAY... our sin — ALL of it. Any man who continues to see even a sliver of his sin has “not seen him (Jesus)” and “knows him not (again, Jesus).” To see Jesus is to SEE what he has done for you. To know Jesus is to KNOW what he has done for you. What John teaches here at 1John 3:6 is in PERFECT agreement with what Jesus teaches. Anyone who sins is a slave of sin; yet, by Truly-Accepting PERFECT-Grace, it is impossible for a true acceptor to commit anything that can be called “sin” in God’s eyes. For, to quote John (above), “Whosoever abides in him, sins not.” Get it? To abide in him is to ABIDE in what he has done for you. In other Words, to abide in him is to Truly-Accept what he has done for you — 100%. This is no “impossible task.” Not even difficult. Actually, it is ridiculously simple. Duh. It is stupidly-easy to simply TAKE something... 100%. John continually exemplifies the Reality of this blessing throughout his First Epistle:
1John 3:9: (KJV) “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.”
Be careful of the newer translations: “He cannot go on sinning,” “He cannot keep on sinning” or “He cannot continue to sin.” (Buzzer sound!) Wrong. Read the Truth. “He CANNOT sin.” Period. This is not an impossible quest “strived for” by “the elect,” “the pure,” “the godly” and the self-righteous. This blessing is for humankind. And? And, that’s it. ALL you have to do is Truly-Accept it. Truly-Take this blessing upon your SELF. Are you ready? Here is your blessing. As far as God and you are concerned; from now unto eternity, nothing you have ever done, are doing or ever will do can ever be considered a sin. Gosh, how can THAT be the absolute God’s-Honest Truth? Quite simply. ALL of your sin has been taken AWAY. It Truly has. ALL you have to do is Truly-Accept that it has. Can you guess what naturally comes to anyone who Lives under this self-accepted blessing?
“Lawlessness” would be Paul’s guess. (Buzzer sound!) Wrong. What naturally comes to you as a true acceptor is a natural love for everyone... starting with yourself. First, we practice this love on ourselves. As the phrasing reads in the original Greek, the natural “practice of righteousness.” The Holy Spirit calls it “natural.” For, practicing righteousness is our true God-Given nature.
Human beings? Naturally righteous? Naturally Good? LOL!
Theological-Intellectuals (crammed full of knowledge) Laugh-Out-Loud at such statements.
Theological-Intellectuals call such statements, “Naïve ignorance!”
Ya “think”? Get the cheese out of your ears and hear the God’s-Honest Truth: No one can regain PERFECT righteousness under a manmade religious banner: REPENT AND BE SAVED. However, everyone can easily regain PERFECT righteousness by simply and Truly-Accepting our RANSOM, which entirely changes the way we think. As far as “sin” is concerned: IGNORENCE IS BLISS. To be made absolutely and PERFECTLY blind to your sin is to HAVE NO SIN. To HAVE NO SIN is a genuine part of your God-Given nature. You reclaim what you naturally are by Truly-Accepting the UNPOLLUTED POWER of What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross. Pure power. Pure acceptance. The pure power of the gift is sitting on the table; just don’t add anything to it or take anything AWAY from it. Pure acceptance is even easier. ALL you have to do is ABSOLUTELY KNOW that you have TAKEN it.
Non-diluted, Truly-Accepting-What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross is some powerful stuff.
Would you like to hear some really Good News? It is delightfully easy to take a gift. Ultimately, every one of us will Truly-Accept-What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross, 100%, with no ifs, ands or buts. That is a Biblical fact. This blessing is not exclusive to one person, two or a hundred-and-forty-four thousand. This blessing is for everyone. Unfortunately, because of our “belief-system,” our “Faith” has made this blessing impossible for anyone (practically speaking). The Church has taken what is simple and made it not merely difficult; but, rather, impossible.
God purposefully made us. God does not purposefully MAKE mistakes. Us SEEING the absolute PERFECTION of our core-self is exactly what we accept-upon-ourselves when we Truly-Accept-What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross. And, yet, we cannot. Our Christian teachers have taught the entire world just the exact opposite: “PERFECTION is impossible.” And, much to our misfortune, we “believe” them. Gone viral, the saying goes: “No one is PERFECT.” When we apply this saying to the universal affliction of SIN we “believe” that “No one is sinless.” Stop. See the Truth. You do not have to throw your Christianity AWAY. Just set it aside for a moment. Can we please just set our religious teaching aside for just one moment and listen carefully to what Jesus has to say?
John 9:41 (Original Greek) “Jesus said to them, ‘If you were blind, you would HAVE NO SIN, but now, since you say, “We see,” your sin remains.’”
The King James Version and the New American Bible are accurate reflections of the original Greek at John 9:41 (cited above). Again, be careful of the newer translations. The newest translations inject the word “guilt” into the equation. As in: “you would have no guilt of sin” and thus “your guilt remains.” A nasty example of Fundamental-Hypocrisy. Swearing by “the inerrancy of Scripture” yet having no problem blatantly recreating Scripture. And, for what purpose? To satisfy our own demise (also known as self-defeating). The fruition of the Jesus Concept is “Go and sin no more.” Go on about your Life with the God-Given confidence that you HAVE NO SIN. For Religion? This proclamation is *Evil.*
Why would such Good News for humanity be “Evil” for Religion?
Bad for business (which is *Evil*). The Scriptures are altered by the Church-Taught to reflect what is *Good* for business. Judge Fleming claims to promote the concept of being “IN Christ” yet he needs for his customers to remain IN Sin. Why? Because that is what is *Good* for business. Most especially, for repeat business. To this never-ending end; better said, to the ongoing endeavor of an ongoing Church, Church-Dogma insists that it is impossible for anyone to go on happily about his or her Life in this world and simply HAVE NO SIN. This totally contradicts what Jesus says. Which should be of concern to any Christian. (Ya think?) Yet, I see no concern among Christians at ALL. Christianity does not isolate itself to what Jesus is talking about. It never has. Christianity concerns itself with ALL sorts of things (things of which Jesus never spoke). Even worse, Christianity has BURIED what Jesus is talking about. Jesus is always talking about one thing: What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross. At John 9:41, Jesus is talking about ALL of humanity becoming PERFECTLY BLIND to sin by TRULY SEEING What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross. That is ABSOLUTELY what Jesus is saying. “If you were blind (if you were to become PERFECTLY BLIND TO YOUR SIN) you would HAVE NO SIN” Because you Truly-See-What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross. The Christian apologetic is compelled to find a way — any way (no matter how insane) — to dismiss this saying of Jesus. How? By “apologizing” it AWAY:
Perhaps Jesus is talking about physical blindness.
Right — gouge out your eyes and have no sin. (Buzzer sound!) Wrong. Jesus is talking about you having no sin BY YOU BECOMING PERFECTLY BLIND TO YOUR SIN. Because you Truly-See What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross. If your eyes were gouged out, how could that keep you from having sin? This thing we call “sin” afflicts the deaf, the dumb, the sightless and the whole; equally and without regard to race, creed, color, political correctness, ecclesiastical correctness or sex.
Perhaps Jesus is talking about spiritual blindness.
(Buzzer sound!) Wrong again. Jesus is talking about you having no sin BY YOU BECOMING PERFECTLY BLIND TO YOUR SIN. Because you Truly-See-What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross. If you were spiritually blind, how could that make you HAVE NO SIN? Jesus is talking about a PERFECTLY-GOOD kind of blindness. Jesus is talking about us changing the way we think, back to our original mindset — ALL the way back to our Factory Setting, where we HAVE NO SIN.
How can becoming “PERFECTLY blind to your sin” make you have no sin?
Ah! Finally! A terrific question! If only we had asked this question two-thousand years ago. Instead, for the last 2000 years, the Church-Taught pontificate: It is impossible for us to have no sin in this world. To the contrary, Jesus says: It is certain that we can HAVE NO SIN in this world. ALL we have to do (each one of us, one at a time) is be made PERFECTLY blind to “our sin” in this world. You may be surprised how PERFECTLY natural it is for each one of us to be-made as such (or remade as it were). How can this Truly-Be — “If you were blind (to sin) you would HAVE NO SIN”? Ready for the answer? Metanoeo: The answer is entirely psychological. The human mind is the most powerful creation in the tangible universe.
The cure has nothing to do with religious-voodoo. Not even spiritual voodoo. The cure has everything to do with how we think. Truly-Accepting-What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross is an undefeatable psychological slam dunk. To you, as an individual, the more and more you see the hugeness of what’s been done for you on the cross, the more and more your (PUNY SINS) become SMALLER and smaller in your sight until, ultimately, the s-word) is Truly invisible to you. Once we SEE our PERFECTLY clean slate (past, present and future), our natural God-Given nature takes over. We reclaim our Factory Setting. Certainly not “our depraved nature” — what Judge Fleming claims as our true nature. Our Creator did not make us... depraved. Nor did we become... depraved. We became mentally ill. We need to get mentally well. To get mentally well, we need to Truly-Take the psychological cure (the little blue pill). We need to Truly-Take-What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross. The “Truly” part is where the tragic problem has come in. That is the importance of unburying and unwrapping these five wonderfully simple Words of Jesus: RANSOM, AWAY, PERFECT, FREEDOM and ALL.
“The Plane Crash” only propels Paul into more cross-fixing: “One needs to gruelingly work (dawn to dusk), slaving toward sanctification” AND “holiness.” An idea self-admittedly doomed to the failure of acceptable-incompletion by ALL who have ever bought into it. Better for the one who has never bought into it. True-Acceptance is so much easier for a non-Christian than it is for an indoctrinated Christian. Even so, there are lots of people with no Christian affiliation whatsoever who have become brutally indoctrinated by what the Church-Taught teach. Every Atheist I have ever met justifies his “Faith” to himself and to others by ridiculing precisely what the Church-Taught have taught him.
The treasure dug up and revealed within these pages is of great help for the brutally indoctrinated. I can personally testify to you, unwrap and embrace these five wonderfully simple Words of Jesus, and you will no longer be a hopeless skeptic nor a “struggling, believing sinner” working at wallowing in the ditch. Rather, you will be “FREE-Indeed” to instantly fall in love with yourself. For, you will know beyond ALL doubt that you are in eternal possession of something much greater than “faith,” “salvation,” “sanctification” and even “holiness.”
Wow. And, what would THAT be?
It just so happens to be one of those five wonderfully simple Words of Jesus. PERFECTION. How could you be left with seeing your core-self as anything less than PERFECT — even as your Father in Heaven is PERFECT? After ALL... ALL of your sin, guilt and evil... has been taken AWAY.
How is ALL this possible for just an ordinary-thinking human being?
Because our disease is entirely psychological. The more a person has the capacity to think, the worse the disease. The devil has an age-old saying: “The smarter they are they harder they fall.” The GOOD NEWS? Our cure is entirely psychological as well. So... no matter what level of intelligence has kept any man trapped in the sick “belief” that SOME portion of his core-self is bad (wrong, sinful, evil), the same level of intelligence is what can easily set him totally FREE. Yes, easily. Our psychological cure is ten-trillion times more powerful than our psychological disease. No matter what any given person’s brainpower happens to be, the cure is being applied to the disease ten-trillion to one. Giving each one of us the ability to kill that “heavy” 6000-Pound-HORSE-In-Our-Head with an atomic bomb.
PERFECTION is what you are left with once you Truly-Accept that ALL of your HORSE (your “heaviness” as Peter refers to IT) has been taken AWAY. True acceptance (100%, with no ifs, ands or buts) is the power pack. Batteries required. The five wonderfully simple Words of Jesus are the batteries. Together, they fully charge the power-pack. Why do we need the power-pack? To ignite the critical mass. To irrefutably obliterate... the HORSE.
Unbury, unwrap and embrace these five Jesus-Words — RANSOM, AWAY, PERFECT, FREEDOM and ALL — and, I promise you, “sin” will be the word wrapped up, buried and well forgotten by you.
The very concept of “sin,” the very utterance of “sin” and ALL its derivatives is the word that should be wrapped up and more than just “s-worded” (the word, itself... sin... being the expletive-deleted). More than just buried. The entire concept should be hurled AWAY into oblivion. Calling ALL Mature-Christians. Here is your Acid-Test. Do you SEE what Jesus is saying at John 9:41?
John 9:41 (NKJV) “Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.”
Do you see IT? If so... that’s your problem. SEEING is “believing.” Same with the Pharisees. You see “your SIN.” Your “belief-system” has taught you to do so. Unwrapping these five wonderfully simple Words of Jesus will teach you NOT to do so. For, you will Truly-See-What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross. It is a worthwhile journey. If you are an untouched nonbeliever — one who has never been taught the first word about Jesus — an easy journey. A simple-as-pie journey. A quick journey.
Let’s see... ALL I need do is Truly-Take-What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross for myself and, forever, I stand PERFECT in MY eye and, if there is such an Entity, PERFECT in the eye of God?
Yep. It’s that simple.
Fine and dandy. I’ll Truly-Take that and be on my way. Thanks!
What does Jesus say in response to such a quick and out-the-door gift-grabber? Now, hold on there, Buster! It’s not that simple. We need to teach you how to become a Mature-Christian... (Buzzer sound!) Wrong. You will not find THAT red-letter quote in ANY red-letter version of any Bible. Nope. That is definitely not what Jesus says. That is what Judge Henry T. Fleming says.
Okay, then. What does JESUS say to anyone and everyone who Truly-Takes his FREE gift?
“Go in peace.”
Pretty simple, huh?
If you are a card-carrying “believer” (especially a Mature one), you are the reason this journey will take much, much longer. Our Religion has made it impossible for you to Truly-Take-What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross and “go in peace.” Religion itself has always been the monolithic, impeding stumbling block. The bulk of this book is comprised of tearing down ALL the religious complications that stand in our way, bagging them up (as trash) and taking them to the curb.
So... be willing to put in the bit of time it takes to move ALL the trash out of the way. Isaiah calls it...
“Making the road clear and easy to travel by leveling the mountains and filling in the valleys.”
Jesus calls it...
“Getting the Wheat ready for harvest — first, by pulling up ALL the Tares.”
Gosh, Doctor Jesus, what then should we do with ALL the Tares we pull up?
“Tie them into bundles so that they can easily be incinerated into oblivion.”
As always, Jesus says it best. Bundles first. So we can separate the lies from the Truth; yet, still keep the bundles (the lies) within easy reach for awhile. Hands-on evidence of what total lies they Truly are.
I call it, taking ALL the ifs, ands and buts to the curb.
This book should be a bumper sticker instead of a Fifty-five Chapter vigil. It should be easy for a man of God to quickly speak the God’s-Honest Truth and be on his way. However, which Truth out of ten-thousand Truths would suffice? What one Truth should I shout into such a sustained circle of lies, when ninety-five percent of Christian dogma lay in abject error? At the writing of this sentence, the spinning Church consists of over 43,000 separately organized Christian denominations. Anyone, even a messenger dispatched from the throne of Almighty God sent to shout Truth into such a multi-divided tower of babble, would have better luck blowing smoke rings into an F-5 tornado.
It is a long and difficult task to cut through the cheese. For, the cheese has grown old and hard. As we tackle this monumental task, bear with me ALL ye non-Christians. Especially those of you who want nothing to do with hearing ALL these details about Jesus; plus, you have decisively come to despise the Bible — specifically, because you HAVE heard plenty about “Jesus” and “the Bible” from our brother and sister cheese-heads. Bare with me as, through these pages, I talk directly to our brother and sister cheese-heads. The Living God powerfully commands me to directly reach out to my brother and sister cheese-heads — the fanatically indoctrinated. Not to imply that there is anything wrong with you being fanatical. If only you had been taught to be fanatical about the one, most important thing:
The full and undiluted power of what’s been done for you on the cross.
Don’t sweat it if you don’t get it. First, you must know what HAS been done for you on the cross. The only way to know that is to ABSOLUTELY KNOW what the Word “RANSOM” means. (First Word on our list).
I send out a big hello and welcome to our non-Christian readers (still with us, hopefully). Just because you identify as “non-Christian” has not shielded you from the imperfect teachings of the Christian Church. One would be hard-pressed to throw a cat without hitting something Church-Influenced. Verily, verily: Some of the most avid Atheists walking the planet are toting around a head-full of Church-Teaching. Be careful, Church-Folk, not to shout “Heathen!” nor “Godless!” at these non-Church folk. Thankfully, EVERYTHING is Living-God-of-Light-Influenced to the last grain of salt.
Mature-Christians talk a lot about discerning “Good” from “Evil.” Would you like to know what is true discernment? Being able to smoke out ALL the ridiculous things in our heads that have been influenced by NOTHING. In the meantime, ALL ye Church-Folk (and trust me on this one): Do not curse those who want zero to do with The Church.
Whether my fanatical Church-Taught brother and sister cheese-heads listen or whether my fanatical Church-Taught brother and sister cheese-heads forbear, they will at least know one thing. They have had a man of God among them, speaking not only the absolute God’s-Honest Truth; but, also, delivering, specifically, to the fanatical Church-Taught Mature-Christian, a PM (a Personal Message) from the Living God of Light. The message is simple. As good, caring people, we need to repair and reverse the damage we as well-taught, fanatical Christians have done to “the cross.”
The moment the new “believer” proclaims “belief” in “salvation” and “the cross,” the mature “believer” does not bestow Jesus’ blessing upon him: “Go in peace.” To the contrary. The never ending cycle of misunderstanding, complication, contradiction and disaster begins. The mature “believer” warns the new “believer” that the devil will try his best to sink the new “believer.” (In actuality, ALL the devil need do is sit back and watch the process unfold.) The Desolate One has already slammed his torpedoes (the ifs, ands and buts) into Church-Taught Christianity. Important concepts fuzzed out of focus. Reduced to brain-dead words in Christianeese. “Our salvation”... and... “the cross.” Let us bring Reality back into focus. Our RANSOM... and... What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross. We do not even realize how far out of focus we are. For, it is us (well-taught, fanatical Christians) who are teaching ALL the ifs, ands and buts. What does that make us? The Light of the World? The Salt of the Earth? Hardly.
We are The Fat Man Stuck In the Stairwell. We can’t go up. And, because of us, nobody else can either.
It is also us (well-taught, fanatical Church-Taught Christians) who have wrapped up and buried these five wonderfully simple Words of Jesus: RANSOM, AWAY, PERFECT, FREEDOM and ALL. We have wrapped up these Words and buried them deep into an unknown graveyard. And, we have driven after them a spike into the ground. Because of this, we (ALL humankind) are unaware of our RANSOM. We do not understand the simple meaning of AWAY. We are blind to the sum total of ALL. We wholeheartedly “believe,” PERFECTION is impossible. And, perhaps worst of ALL, we have been taught to use our FREEDOM — FREEDOM brutally earned for us on the cross — to choose what kind of a slave we want to become.
Ironically, it is to these wonderfully simple Words of Jesus (RANSOM, AWAY, PERFECT, FREEDOM and ALL) that we are blind. It is our SIN we see. Yes, that is too much the Truth. We are blind to what we should be clearly seeing; and, yet, we clearly see that to which we should be blind. We see our SIN. Our entire “belief-system” teaches us to do so. Not only the Christian Church. Nearly everything we encounter in this world, ALL the way back to our days of childhood. Actually (clue) ever since we accepted a certain knowledge.
If MAN'S problem were ever spiritual, our Father in Heaven would have instantly sent His Holy Spirit to rescue us. Our problem is not spiritual. Our problem is very much down-to-earth. Precisely why our Father sent The First Living Being to us to be the Son of Man, giving us a POWERFUL solution to our problem. Fighting fire with FIRE. A purifying-fire that destroys every cancer cell in our brains. Captain John the Baptist was so impressed with it, he called it “the baptism of fire.”
Yee-haw! Let’s load up our fuel tanks, and take a flamethrower to this scourge!
Whoa! Before we can fully understand and Truly-Accept the solution, we must become clearly aware of the problem — the “scourge.” Our disease. That requires clear thinking. Hello? The problem is... we have a thinking disease. A mental illness. We have each let a huge HORSE into our heads.
Even as you are reading this, everything you THINK is currently being thunk through the monstrous old HORSE — our malfunctioning way of thinking. The illness is so universal and has become so debilitating, you (merely at the end of Chapter 5) have yet to experience what it feels like (Truly and completely) to FEEL and THINK... without a gigantic, nasty old HORSE in your brain. Trust me. In the coming chapters, bone to brain, you will soon ABSOLUTELY KNOW the difference.
On an unforgettable day (when I was High in the Spirit) my Father took me on a road trip. I learned a number of very important Wisdoms that day. Here is one of them:
“Should you lose your way, take no shortcuts. Go ALL the way back to where you made your mistake, and then proceed forward.”
Thank you, Father.
Let’s slow this thing down a bit.
Everyone hold on as we bring the vehicle to a complete stop. Okay... off with the seatbelts.
Let’s ALL get out of the car and stretch our legs for a moment or two.
Put the pitchforks and flamethrowers back in the trunk.
I know. We are ALL anxious to know everything Jesus says there is to know about Truly-Accepting-What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross. More so than anyone, I would love to turn the battery-pack — Jesus’ Five Wonderfully Simple Words (starting with RANSOM) — into liquid rocket fuel, pump it into our flamethrower-fuel-tanks and burn ALL our brain cancer AWAY.
Here’s what we need to do first.
Let’s turn this thing around and return to where we (humanity) took a wrong turn a while back.
It’s gonna take us about five extra chapters, but this back-story part of our discussion is going to shed nothing less than God’s De-Weeding Wisdom (His enormous Light) upon “Original Sin,” the Garden of Eden, Adam & Eve, Cain & Abel, the birth of ALL Religion and... most especially... Dr. God’s PERFECT diagnosis of our mental illness. Oh, yes. There is a specific name for IT — our mental illness (our monstrous old HORSE-in-the-head) is documented in inspired Scripture.
Let’s go ALL the way back to the stupid wrong turn we made and take a serious and sober look at the HORSE we let into our heads as well as the brain cancer and insanity that resulted from IT. How IT began. How IT progressed. How IT extrapolated exponentially into everything we feel, think and do.
I promise you, this back-story on us (humanity) will put us on the fast-track to getting healthy as we take our first steps at feeling what it feels-like and thinking what it thinks-like... to be completely well.
