Every vessel of dishonor will be used by God to display His glory, then refashioned into a vessel of honour. We should welcome the judgement, not with vindictiveness, not with an attitude that "it's good enough for you." but with the realization that the lake of fire is only a means to an end, not an end in itself. Christendom has long taught the severity of the wrath of God and the judgement to come. But they have distorted its purpose by making it an end in itself. The judgement of God will make the restoration of all things an accomplished reality.

I've never been able to figure out why they call it a "full gospel" when they assign the majority of mankind to eternal torment in the lake of fire. That's sure not a full "good news!"

Jesus said to Satan, "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve." This was no mere exhortation about what Satan should do, but rather it was a divine prediction of what Satan, and everyone else will do before God's purpose for the ages has been completed. There is a time coming when Satan will worship the Lord with all his heart and mind and strength. "For the Son must reign until all enemies have been subdued under His feet; then shall the Son deliver up the kingdom to the Father, that God may be All in all." 1 Corinthians 15:28.

Matthew 12:20 says, "A bruised reed shall He not break," God only allows the amount of bruising needed for our good. God's bruisings are instructive and, if necessary, corrective. God will not allow anyone to be bruised forever; neither will he allow their bruisings to annihilate them. He will use all bruisings to make us fit to fulfill His purpose for us.

"For he hath said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me."

No one can choose the timing of the process of their coming to Jesus Christ. The Father will successfully draw each of us to Christ at different rates of speed. The Greek work "draw" means "drag." He will drag us to himself in spite of our self-will and rebellion. Such is the quality of His grace. God brings us to the place where we freely acknowledge that we have great areas within us that only He can handle. In many and various ways He reveals to us our need for Him.

The Greek word "helper" literally means "one who runs to the aid of." That's what God is like. He is never late to supply the help that He wants each person to have. The help of the Lord is sure, and it cannot fail. Isaiah 42:5 & 6 says, "Thus saith God the Lord, He that created the heavens, and stretched them out; He that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; He that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein. I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee." The Lord calls everyone according to His own timing for them, and as He calls, His sustaining grace conquers all obstacles - including the stubbornness of our own will.

The doctrine of substitution is an escapist doctrine. Believers use it to try to avoid the process of dying out to sin and self-will. Christ did not live and die as our substitute. He lived and died for us, so that we can both live and approach death with confidence and victory.

He died for us to give us confidence that He will stick with us through the process of our dying out to sin and rebellion. The lake of fire is for the one distinct purpose of burning out the dross, self-centeredness and resistance. It will burn out the old to prepare us for the new. It will not save us, but it will certainly condition us for salvation. The death of Christ does not absolve us from the purging process, but it does guarantee that we will go through the purging process victoriously.

11 Corinthians 5:14 says, "The love of Christ constrains us in that if One died for all, then were all dead." All creation will die to evil and be restored to righteousness because the love of Christ constrained them. Most of Christendom doesn't believe this passage of scripture. They don't believe that all are dead to sin in Christ. Instead, they believe that most are going to live forever in a burning hell of suffering. The scripture says that Christ tasted death for every man. Christ personified what it means to die out to self-centeredness. He blazed the trail through death and came out saying, "I, and I alone have the keys of death and hell, and I will be your help through all death processes and will work it all for your good." Some will be "hurt" by the second death process, but the hurting is only a means to a good end. God is such a wise economist that he doesn't waste a single thing. He gets double results out of every act, and every death throe becomes a birth pang.

Christ gave Himself a ransom for us, but He didn't pay the ransom to a kidnapper. He gave the ransom to us so we would have enough were-with-all to successfully make it home. The ransom comes to us and works into us a change of mind and a change of heart, and changes us from glory to glory. The ransom comes to us soothing our spirit, conciliating us to God and giving us strength to complete the journey come. God Himself takes the full responsibility for bringing us home according to His special timing for each one of us.

Psalm 119:156 says, "Great are Thy tender mercies O Lord. Quicken me according to Thy judgements." Tradition has taught us that God's judgements are punitive, a way that God gets even with us for what we have done against Him. But the scripture tells us that His judgements bring us into life. Verse 175 says, "Let my soul live and it shall praise Thee; and let Thy judgements help me." The judgements of God are always ultimately helpful.

God has even transformed the judgement of death into that which works for our benefit. He took our greatest enemy death and changed it into a friend by using the death process as the means of releasing us from the power of sin that He might bring us into His more-abundant life. Through the death process God destroys all the negative kingdom by causing us to die out to it. This is absolutely marvelous! Colossians 2:14 says that Christ nailed to His cross all the judgements that are against us. And this is so all-inclusive that 11 Corinthians 5:19 says, "That God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them." God has removed all the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them." God has removed all the "against" Judgments and replaced them with judgements that are only for us. This is beautiful! Romans 8:31 says, "If God be for us, who can be against us?" Because God is "for us" He controls the actions of those who would be against us and works them into good.

Even though the judgements of God will be against the evil works that man has done, those judgements will still result in man's salvation. 1 Corinthians 3:13-15 says, "Every man's work shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.

If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be save; yet so as by fire." No matter what a man has done, his ultimate salvation is secure; but his reward will depend on how much of his works stand up to the test of God's judgemental fire. The fire will judge the motivation behind the work and the faithfulness of the worker. The results of the work may not appear spectacular, but God is more interested in the quality of the worker than He is in their apparent accomplishments. We should endeavour to do everything that we do out of love for God and a desire to please Him. If we do this then our works will stand the test of the fire, even if they did not appear to be successful, and even if they appeared to cause more harm than good; for our reward will depend on our motivation and faithfulness, not on our apparent accomplishments.

Did you was the dishes today with love for the Lord and as doing it unto Him? Do you approach the nitty-gritty of everyday living, right down where the tire meets the road, with love for the Lord and as doing it unto Him? This is the attitude and the faithfulness that will stand the judgement of fire. And the reward will be that God will grant us greater abilities to be even more useful, as well as increased capacity to enjoy and share His glory.

"For which of you , intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he that laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock Him, saying, This man began to build, and he was not able to finish. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgements, and His ways past finding out! In all this Job did not sin, nor did he attribute folly to the way God was working. Luke 14:28-30; Roman 11:33 and Job 1.22.

No matter what the circumstances of life are, we should not charge God with folly. Natural reasoning cannot wrap around the negative happenings of this life, but we can relax in the knowledge that God is in complete control and He knows what he is doing.

Christendom's theology on the plan and purpose of God has become a gross perversion of the truth and most certainly attributes folly to God. They want us to believe that God started well but the devil upset His plans; so so now He has substituted a salvage program to try and save a few scraps, even though His initial plans has ended in disaster. No wonder it reads in Matthew 15:9, "In vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." They call Him "God" but they deny it by their teaching. They exalt the devil and attribute to his power that he doesn't even have. They teach a so-called "rapture" in which God somehow manages to snatch a few out of the hands of a semi-omnipotent devil, while the rest are destined to suffer in the fire of hell forever. This kind of teaching, my friends, is attributing folly to God. Such a god deserves to be mocked and ridiculed for such a performance. Such a god is not really God!

Jesus said that a man should count the cost before he enters into any endeavour, otherwise his half-finished project will attest to his inability and lack of resourcefulness. And yet Christendom dares to attribute such folly to God Himself! When God laid out His plan and purpose for the ages, He guaranteed ahead of time a totally successful accomplishment of all His pleasure. Surely God in His all-knowing omnipotence should not be accused of operating by a principle that is inferior to how He has instructed weak and finite man to operate by!

Job38:7 tells us that the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy when God started His plan of the ages. They knew that God was going to do something beyond all expectation. Christendom comes along and tries to tell us that all of a sudden the bottom fell out, an enemy interfered, and now the best that God can do is a patch up job.

God is raising up a people who will preach the truth about His plan of the ages, and this preaching will produce the results that God is after instead of bondage to a Babylonian system of beliefs. Isaiah 40:12-14 says, "Who hath measure the waters in the hollow of God's hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales. and the hills in a balance? Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being His counsellor hath taught Him? With whom took He counsel, and who instructed Him, and taught Him in the path of judgement, and taught Him knowledge and shewed to him the way of understanding?" God does not need any help from anybody to finish His job and accomplish all His pleasure. Neither can anybody hinder or delay His purposes. He is all-sufficient within Himself to get done what He wants done, and no created will can affect the working out of His plan. God has said to Himself, "I have counted the cost, and I know that I have enough resources to finish My plan for the ages and present it back to Myself a total triumphant victory. In Psalm 50:12 God says, "The world is Mine, and the fulness thereof." The entire world belongs to God. None of it belongs to Satan. Satan can only manifest temporary partial control so that God can work a greater purpose out of it. God knew that He could not lose, because He knew that he was willing to give enough of His resources to attain a total reconciliation.

The reason that man's love fails is because it doesn't deep loving long enough. But God's love NEVER fails, because He will keep loving, and keep loving until the desired loving response has been attained. God will not, indeed cannot fail to win the loving allegiance of every heart that He has created.

A man who loves a lady until she consents to marry him is like God. While courting her, the man brings her many gifts. But after she marries him he goes to her place, loads up all the gifts and takes them and her back to his place, and he hasn't lost a thing. If he only loved half-way he would lose his entire investment; but God loves all the way and He will not lose even one soul. It is true that the sinful soul will die, but it will be raised up again into newness of life in Christ Jesus. The destruction of the sinful soul is part of God's love-process. God's love never fails. God's love always wins. Contrary to what Christian Babylon teaches, God's love will not stop being effective when we die. Neither will it stop being effective at any point in time after the resurrection. Without any failures, God will accomplish His purpose for loving us. Not even our won will can separate us from the love of God; for He has not created us with a will so strong that he cannot influence it for our own good and for His glory. God counted the cost and he said to Himself, "I will spend everything necessary till I have gained everything for My glory." God so loved the world that He gave to receive it and, bless your heart, the world He will get! Nothing will be wasted. Nobody will be lost. But in God's year of jubilee the creation will be returned unto Himself in better shape than when He thrust it away from Himself. Acts 15:18 says, "Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the ages." God knew every act and every sequence of events. He always knew what followed each development, for He Himself is the cause behind every development.

God knows us inside out. He knows why we feel the way we feel and why we do the things we do. He knows all of our motivations and desires, and He will control them all to work out His special plan for us. The Psalmist said, "O Lord, Thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and my uprising. Thou understandest my thoughts afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art aquainted with all my ways. Lo, O Lord, Thou knowest it altogether, Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit, or whether shall I flee from Thy presence? If I make my bed in hell, behold Thou are there. If I dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand shall hold me. How precious also are Thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them they are more in number than the sand, And when I awake, I am still with Thee. Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts, and see if there by any wicked way in me, and lead me in Thy way for the ages." God is responsible for, and in perfect control of the interplay of good and evil in our life. He does not tempt us to sin, but He does allow us to be tempted in order to teach us lessons through it. God takes full responsibility for our temptation, for it is only because of His sustaining power that any tempter can tempt us. Man is accountable for yielding to temptation but God is responsible for it. And because God is responsible for it, He will see to it that man learns a positive lesson through the negative result of his accountability. God will not allow any sin to gain a permanent victory over anyone, but He will reverse its destructive power and turn it into good.

Rejected and scorned, ignored and trampled on and utterly despised - still God's love suffers it all till it has won over every heart. Isaiah 66:9 says, "Shall I bring to birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the Lord. Shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith Thy God." God counted the cost and He knew that he would not lose out on any part of His plan of the ages, but would gain all back into Himself. All loss is temporary, for God sows the seeds of gain in every loss. "For from Him and for Him and to Him are all things." Romans 11:36. And Hebrews 2:15 says that Christ rendered of non-effect him that had the power of death, that is the devil, for the purpose of delivering them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage."

Let him that buildeth a tower be careful to count the cost,

Lest having the tower started, he finds that it cannot be finished.

And others beholding will mock him for all that he purposed and lost.

Our God has a plan for the ages - a purpose beyond all compare.

He carefully weighed out the balance and marked out the course for each man.

Then measure the good and the evil, creation in sorrow would share.

He willingly gave of His treasure - not even withholding His Son,

But followed His plan of redemption through Calvary, death and the tomb,

Secure in the knowledge that vict'ry would climax all He began.

He shall not be mocked by sinners; He shall not be found to fail.

The purpose which He determined, in mysteries yet to be known

Will find in Him its perfection - His love and His grace shall prevail.

He bringeth to birth and His power is strong to deliver His own.

The firstfruits of this generation, and all that the ages shall hold,

Till ALL THINGS in Him are united to worship the King on His throne.

God has not lost. God will not lose. He sat down, counted the cost and said, "I have enough grace and love to finish the job before the ages have been completed." ALL THINGS will be restored; nothing will be wasted, nothing will be lost. Everything will be returned to His glory and praise.

God uses circumstances which appear to be a form of captivity to work in us and through us the accomplishment of His purposes. It may appear to others around us that we are in bondage to Satan, but in our heart we know that we are not submitting to the circumstance, we are submitting to the God of the circumstance, and Paul says, "In all these things we are more than conquerors!" God says, "When you pass through the waters I will be with you." It is only when we are "in all these things, not out of them that we can become more than conquerors. And it is "when" not if we pass through the waters that God will be with us. We all will have to pass through the waters of suffering and trouble that God prepares especially for us. No one can avoid it. An important observation is that we are only "passing through." Hosea 6:1 says, "God has torn, and He will heal us; He has smitten, and He will bind us up. Both the smiting and the binding up are in His hands.

Until we will accept the evil as well as the good as from the hand of the Lord, we cannot know true victory within our spirit. We should not believe in two Gods, God for good and a devil for evil. We should see God alone as being in total sovereign control of every circumstance, both good and evil, all of the time.

This is not the age in which we are supposed to be "need-conscious." This is the age in which we should become God-conscious and learn that He is going to meet all needs according to His own timing. This kind of God-consciousness requires a far different understanding of God's purpose for the ages than Christian Babylon has taught us. They have taught us for so long that if the sinners don't find help now, they will be "eternally lost" or will "suffer forever in hell." But the scripture is plain that as in Adam all died, so by Christ shall the same "all" be made alive. The words "in Christ" can just as accurately be translated "by Christ," - "but every man in his own order." If the iniquity of one man had the power to open the door and multiply itself to the extent that it is at today, dare we say that the death of Christ is any less effective? Romans 5:22 says, "Where sin abounds, Grace doth much more abound, and by One Man's righteousness (Christ) shall the free gift come upon all men." Romans chapter five makes it plain that whatever sin did, grace will do much more! It's not just tit for tat, but a more than overcoming. The negative effect of Adam's sin reached everyone on earth, but the restorative work of Christ will reach the entire cosmos until the universe will be better off that sin temporarily prevailed than if it had not existed at all.

Jesus said that the glory the Father had given to Him, He also will give to His disciples. The italics should be left out of Psalm 2:8. It should read, "Ask of Me and I shall give the heathen thine inheritance." The firstfruits of election will be used to impart the riches and glory of Christ to the rest of creation. In our various forms of apparent captivity God will strip us of all self-motivation and self-interest until with Jesus we can say, "I have no aim and no ambition of my own." He will process us till we never take the glory for what He accomplishes through us. Each one of us must go through our own personal chastenings from the Lord. Ezekiel 14:16 says that if even Noah, Daniel and Job were in the land God would not deliver their sons and daughters. "For thee and thy house" is the promise of salvation. but "for thee and thy house" is not a promise to escape the judgements that are coming. There comes a time when you cannot pray your loved ones out, you cannot lift their burden, you cannot be a help.

Even your children must be left alone in God's hands, and He deals with them according to His special plan for them. This is hard on parents who would love to gather them all up and say, "Because you're a part of me, you're safe - THEY'RE NOT! Every individual will be sovereignly dealt with by God to be fitted in their own special way into God's master-plan.

Mark 4:34 says, "But without a parable Jesus spoke not unto them but when they were alone He expounded all things to His disciples." This scripture proves that the story of the rich man and Lazarus is only a parable. Contrary to traditional teaching, the rich man does not represent the wicked; neither does Lazarus the beggar represent the righteous. Psalm 37:25 says, "I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread." This parable is not a type of the righteous begging bread from the wicked.

The rich man in this parable represents Judah who had "five brethren." Judah retained the throne of Israel, which is typified by the purple the rich man was clothed in. Judah retained the priesthood which is typified by the fine linen that he was clothed in. And Judah retained Jerusalem, the prosperous headquarters of Israel, which "fared sumptuously."

Lazarus represents the rest of Israel who lived outside the gates of Jerusalem. They had lost the kingship. They had lost the priesthood, and they depended on Judah for both natural and spiritual government. Because of their rebellion against the Lord they had become spiritually starved and sick. The dogs represented the Gentiles, who shared the crumbs from the Master's table and were more of a comfort to the ten other tribes of Israel than Judah was.

The beggar died first, which represents the ten norther tribes going into captivity. "He was carried by the angels" represents God's control over their journey into captivity. And, he was comforted in Abraham's bosom, represents the spiritual revival that took place while they were in captivity.

Later on the rich man died. This represents Judah being taken into captivity about 100 years later. It says that Lazarus was carried to Abraham's bosom, but it says that the rich man was "buried." It does not say that Lazarus was buried. Judah, as a nation, was buried, never to be a nation in its own right again. The people of Judah will find restoration only when God reunites them once again with their brethren in the other tribes. It is true that some of Judah returned to their land after captivity, but they have lived out a miserable existence and have never been recognized as a nation in their own right again. Not even the present day state of Israel is the restoration that God is going to bring about.

The scripture says that Jesus came to his own, but His own received Him not. And Jewerey has been in a veritable lake of fire ever since they rejected Christ. There was a great gulf fixed between Lazarus and the rich man. This represents the division that was predicted in Zechariah 11:14. "I cut asunder my other staff that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel." And verse ten says they lost the covenant blessing. This great gulf is fixed so that even though Christ rose from the dead, they will not, indeed they cannot believe.

But thank God, this gulf is not eternal. A time is coming when God is going to purify and untie Israel once again and establish them as rulers in His millennial kingdom. Hosea 1:10 & 11 predicts, "In the place where it was said unto them Ye are not My people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together and appoint themselves on head (even Jesus Christ the Messiah whom they had before rejected).

Christ has bridge the great gulf and will restore the covenant blessing to a united Israel when the time is right to do so. Then will all Israel, including Judah, benefit from Ephesians 2:12-16, "That ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise. But now in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For He is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us, that He might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby."

God has never been against anyone. Neither will He ever be against anyone in the future. He has always been for everyone. All that Christ has ever done and ever will do is "for our sake."

The Holy Spirit does not impart explosive energy to blast our way out of our difficulties. He imparts controlled energy that enables us to plod our way through to victory. The same God who has subjected us to bondage to vanity is the same God who will hold us in that bondage until He wants us to be released. Not even Jesus escaped from bondage to death on His own, but as the scripture says, it was according to the mighty power which God wrought in Christ when He raised Him from the dead. Both our bondage to vanity, and our complete restoration to the opposite of vanity, are the responsibility of God alone. He completely controls the process from the time we are born into this world, until we have been vivified into the perfection of His resurrection life. God has prepared a position for each one of us to fill, and He is preparing each of us to fill that position.

Luke 16:10 & 11 says, "He that is faithful in that which is not so important, will also be faithful in the more important responsibilities. If therefore you have not been faithful in the least important responsibilities, how can you ever be trusted with greater responsibilities?" Let us heed the admonitions of the apostle Paul who tells us to take care of our responsibilities with "all our might, as unto the Lord." Then God will reward the faithfulness to our lesser things by involving us in HIS greater things; thus we are transferred from our poverty to His riches.

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot ear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in Me." Abiding in God produces the fruits of the Spirit in our life. It produces genuine love, joy, longsuffering, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance, Galatians 5:22. Many try to imitate these fruits, but fail. Only as God motivates and enables us to abide in Him are we able to manifest the fruits of His Spirit. God uses very many ways and arranges a multitude of circumstances to cause us to abide in Him.

Many people come to a time in their life when they feel that they just can't stand the pressures of their circumstances any longer, and some actually put legs to their feelings. They abandon their family, their job, and their responsibilities and flee as it were to a far corner of the earth, only to discover that even there the Lord was with them, awakening in them the need and desire to abide in Him; there is no place that we can go, and there is nothing that we can do to prevent God from working out His purpose for our life.

Reject all theology that says, "reach out and touch the Lord while he's passing by." He always remains with us no matter where we go, and no matter what we've done. We don't "come into" the presence of God, we LIVE in the presence of God. maintaining an awareness that this is so is what it means to abide in God.

Hebrews 10:25 says, "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together." Babylon loves to use this verse to keep people trapped in their systems. You can dump 24 blocks on the floor in the middle of a room and they will be together, but they won't be assembled. The Greek word for assembled means to be "led together." Babylon does not gender this kind of abiding in God. They gather together every Sunday because they are afraid of what people might think, or what God might do to them if they don't. This is not what the scripture means by "assembling." When our gathering together is a spontaneous reaction to the influence of God's leading, that is what is meant by "assembling." Babylon uses the noisy persuasiveness of fear to maintain their kingdoms, but God uses the power of love to assemble us together at His direction. It is not done by human effort, nor does it achieve any merit. It is solely a product of the influence of the grace of God within.

The hangover from Babylon is a hard thing to get rid of. Abiding in God means just to be, and refuse to accept the pressure of "you must do this," or you must do that." Refuse to accept any guilt that you are useless and unproductive. Just rest and abide in God, letting His life flow through you. Only His life through you will accomplish anything worthwhile.

God is preparing a people under His shadow, a people who have no spiritual reputation and are known only to God. He is teaching them to abide in him by recognizing His constant presence and control. Then, according to God's timing He will manifest these prepared ones for the restoration of all creation.

Living in Thee Lord, and Thou in me,

Constant abiding, this is my plea.

"Lo, these are parts of His ways; but how little a portion is heard of Him? All these things worketh God oftentimes with man, to bring back his soul from the pit, and his life shall see the light. He made know His ways unto Moses, His acts unto the children of Israel." Job 26:14; 33:29 & 30 and Psalm 103:7. Most people are content to only see the acts of the Lord. Not many are interested in knowing God's way. This too is of God, for He has chosen to obscure the truth of His ways through faulty translations.

Job 32:9 & 13 says, "Great men are not always wise, neither do the aged always understand judgment. Lest ye should say: we have found out wisdom - God thrusteth him down, not man." Job's three friends mistakenly thought that the sole purpose of God's judgement is punitive. They could not comprehend that the purpose of judgement is always to bring about a restoration or an advancement into the ways of the Lord.

God was already pleased with Job, but he had a plan that would make Job even better. Job was a perfect man, but his perfection needed to be tested. Job said, "God knoweth the way that I take, and when He hath tried me I shall come forth as gold. For HE performeth the thing that is appointed for me, and many such things are with Him." Job 23:10 & 14. God has prepared a special kind of testing for each individual. In Job 32.13, Elihu said, "God thrusteth Job down, and not man." We can well add, "And not Satan, either!" God takes the full responsibility for every person's fall. These are parts of His ways. All negative forces are as a dog on a leash. They can only do what they are allowed to do by the Hand that holds the leash. The perplexities, the trials, the testings, the pressures and the failures are all God's responsibility and it will all be worked into our good.

It has been well said that "four walls do not a prison make," When we submit to the God of the circumstance instead of to the circumstance itself, then we can know the meaning of genuine freedom and peace. Are the silences of God comfortable to you, or are they frustrating? if you feel secure in the knowledge of what God is really like, then you will be able to accept God's apparent disinterest as part of His ways. Zephaniah 3:17 says, "The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty, He will save, He will rejoice over thee with joy; He will (literally) be silent in His love."

Parts of His ways, just line upon line,

Edges and fringes of glory divine.

Wonderful working of mercy and grace,

Measure and fitted for running this race.

How little the portion is know of Him;

Our footsteps are shortened, or vision is dim.

But faithful the leadings as He goes before,

With judgement and truth to balance the score.

We ponder and reason and wonder just why

He separates us from those passing by.

Invisible wall that others can't see,

The Spirit encircles, and yet we are free.

He strips and He purges, all props to remove,

Our trust and our leaning on Him He doth prove.

To drink of the fountain that's flowing within,

And praise Him for this - His love's discipline.

The way he is leading - so perfect, so right,

The blending of blessing with seasons of night.

The times of His silence, the times when He speaks

To manifest strength by making us weak.

All this, and far more are the parts of His ways,

Unsearchable working yet all to His praise.

Until He hath brought us to Zion's blest hill,

The perfect fulfillment of our Father's will.

"God hath laid on Christ the iniquity of us all." Isaiah 53:6. This verse means that God laid on Christ the responsibility to redeem every person from the yolk of sin. God laid on Christ the task of participating in every individual life to work a redemption from the negative consequences of sin. And thus, He by the grace of God, tasted death for every man.

Not only does God know about the fall of a sparrow but He consents to its fall; and even more, He participates in its fall. To these facts Christ added, "Are ye not of more value than many sparrows?" He knew we were going to fall into sin and He consented to it; and more than that, He personally involved Himself in our fall. He is personally participating in the death process of every man. This is why the death process cannot fail to succeed in every case.

Christ is not only the light which lighteth every man who comes into the world, He is also the means by which we are brought to the light. As long as there remains one individual that needs to die out to selfishness and rebellion, as long as there is none in the universe who needs to be reconciled, Christ will stay with them and will participate in their death process until it has been completed. This is what Jesus is really like! He is the first One to enter the death process, and He will be the last One out of it. He is the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. Is it any wonder that we worship and adore Him?

We are so impatient and shortsighted. We will stick with the rebellious for awhile but then, when they don't respond we consider them hopeless. Not so God, for He is Love, and Love never faileth. Love does not give up. When Christ took on the job of restoring creation back to God again, he knew that He would not quit till He had presented a completely restored creation back to His Father.

Everything that Christ did He did for us, not instead of us. He did it all for us to undergird our experiential processing. Nothing that He did absolves us from experiencing the processing, but it does guarantee that everyone will go through the processing successfully. Our salvation does not depend on our own willingness but on God's determination to save us in spite of ourselves. He will influence us to become willing to want His will. We know that the death process turns into victory because that's how it ended for Christ. He rose out of it in great resurrection power. Yet every time a new aspect of the death process comes into our lives we are inclined to forget that its victorious conclusion is secure. Every new trial tends to send us into a panic about how it will turn out. But there is only one way that it can turn out, and that's victoriously, for Christ's work on our behalf guarantees that it must be so. There can be no other result. We can rest assured that every aspect of the inworking and outworking of our identification with the cross of Christ will be brought to a successful conclusion. For Gold will apply it to each individual according to His special plan for them.

Because of the exceeding glory that is to be accomplished through the cross, Christ did not consider it to be too great a sacrifice. he endured it and despised its shame. Zephaniah 3:17 says, "The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; He will save, He will rejoice over thee with joy." The emphasis is on what God will accomplish. It is all of Him and not of us, even in part. Paul said in Galatians 6:14, "God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom the world is crucified unto Me and I unto the World."

The cross does not save us. The cross cancels out the enmity between us and God and guarantees that everyone in the entire cosmos will die out to sin. The cross brings death, but the cross cannot save us. We will be save by Christ Himself with the life that he will impart to us.

Christ will cause us to die out to Christian Babylon and depend on Him alone. He will also cause us to die out to the worldly values of power, and the pursuit of money and enjoyment. Christ has ways of crucifying the world to us so there is no longer any power or allurement to cause us to chase its empty pleasure. He has ways of making us so much not of this world's values that we will marvel that anyone can be tempted by its hollow offers. Only spiritual values are of lasting value, and the cross will do its work in us until we become convinced that this is true. This is not a loss, but a gain, for it will result in genuine peace and contentment.

Crucified with Christ, the victory of His cross

Has turned to utmost gain, and not to utter loss.

The former things are gone, their memory fades away.

Yet new horizons come, the dawning of His day.

In Christ the goal I see, His cross is but the means.

He is the First and Last, and all the inbetweens.

He blazed the trail through death and conquered it for all.

And now he gives us grace to drink the bitter gall.

Through Him the world, praise God, is crucified to me;

Its power stripped away to end its tyranny.

And though we wonder why, a stranger we become

To all the world around, and even dead to some.

It is because in Christ we too are crucified;

The world to me, and yes, unto the world I died.

We cannot pine away for things that used to be;

The old must pass away for His reality.

Crucified with Christ, the process reaches far.

The world and all its kin, and even our own star.

But oh the light that comes like sunshine after rain,

In Christ my Lord and King, I too shall live again!

Jesus said, "I am come that they might have life, and have it more abundantly." In that little word "and" is contained all the process of dying out to the old, and coming alive to the new.

The anger of the Lord simply refers to the energy sources that God sets in motion to correct a situation. It never refers to a vindictive act of God to get back at His creation for what they have done. God's anger is never vindictive. It is always corrective. There is nothing of the pervertedness of human anger in God's anger. God's anger is always motivated by his love. it will always result in our producing more of the fruit of His Spirit through our lives. The fruit of His Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, humility, gentleness, self-restraint, and God will prune away the branches of our life that prevent these fruits from prospering.

"Anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see." Revelation 3:18. "In that day the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness." Isaiah 29:18 & 19.

Much of the truth of God's Word has been obscured and enveloped in darkness by the

traditional teachings of Christian Babylon. Those who desire to mature in their knowledge of

God must not allow room in their thinking for any secondary power to be able to successfully

defeat, frustrate or even delay God's plan of the ages, which is to head up ALL things in

Christ. The more we see that God does not just allow, but that He is the actual cause of

everything that comes into our life, the more Satan will be able to have no effect upon your

mind. Satan is the negative handiwork of GOD, and he can do only that which is the will of

God in everything He does.

God does not merely allow all things to happen, He is the actual cause behind all things that

happen. Whether He stand fast or whether we fall, both are equally a product of God's

grace. When you come to know what God is really like it will stabilize your walk. Anointed

eyesight does not see the negative as an ultimate end for anybody, but merely the means to

an end of victory for everybody.

God's method of winning souls is just the opposite of the evangelical method. The evangelical

method is to make people sin-conscious. God's method is to not impute their trespasses unto

them, but tell them that God has already been reconciled to them so "be ye reconciled to

God." We can neither hasten nor delay God's timing for the processing of each person's

salvation. Neither can we hasten or delay the timing for the outworking of God's eonian

purpose. Anointed eyes are able to see that everything is right on schedule all of the time.

Anointed eyes can see that God has been, and is now processing His firstfruits of election to

use them in the outworking of His plan to head up all things in Christ.

Evangelical Babylon preys upon the minds of congregations with the esthetic force of their

music and the emotional persuasion of their sermons, and they all fall into the ditch together.

"Blind leaders of the blind," Jesus calls them, "for they have a form of godliness, but deny the

power thereof." Their eyes have been conditioned and blinded so they cannot see the truth.

If congregations could see and understand what God is really like, most preachers would

lose their power over their man-made kingdom that they have worked so hard to establish.

But the anointed eyes can see that God is working out His purpose through evangelical

Babylon IN SPITE OF THEMSELVES, for all Babylon is a golden cup in the hand of the Lord.

Every sigh and every groan that comes from every heart is a prophecy that a time is coming

when all creation shall be delivered from bondage to corruption into the glorious liberty of the

children of God. There will be no one anywhere who will not experience the restoring power

of God's love. There will be victory for everyone in all of God's judgements. This is the

glorious truth that God anointed eyes can see.

Oh I'm thinking, yes I'm thinking of the way that God doth lead,

And the stirrings in my spirit that would now the message heed.

When our eyes have been anointed by the blessed Spirit of truth,

And we see beyond the present with its pressures so uncouth.

See how God will bring forth people to the glory of His Name

Those who shall show forth His praises, nevermore to bring Him shame.

Those in whom His soul delighted and in whom He is well pleased

To become His habitation; truth and mercy are appeased.

Of the old, no part remaining, none of Babylon's wanting score,

For the new is far excelling where His grace aboundeth more.

Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God

Where the message is "becoming," messengers with peace are shed.

Dawning of His day of power from the depths of mourning's womb,

Now emerging from the stillness, see the sons dispel the gloom

We are waiting for that hour when the Christ will sure appear

And we sense within, the timing, that redemption draweth near.

Eyes anointed pierce the darkness, past the bleakness of the night

To declare with utmost courage that they see the victory's light.

With the present kingdoms falling and confusion taking toll

Yet we see His Kingdom bringing full salvation for each soul!

God has in the past, and is now bringing forth a people who are so sovereignly His handiwork that only He will receive glory for them.

I Peter 1:7 says, "The trial of your faith is much more precious than gold, and though it be

tried with fire, it will be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus

Christ. The kind of faith that God inspires within us is the kind that still shines brightly under

the disapproval and condemnation of evangelical Babylon.

Psalm 12:6 says, "The words of the Lord are pure words, as silver tried in a furnace, purified

seven times." When God speaks a word of revelation to our heart, He will cause it to be put

to the test over and over again, until it has been purified and has become immune to every

kind of assault that can be brought against it. When God gets through testing the inner word

that He has spoken to us, we will have been so processed through the furnace experiences

and the fiery trials, that it will have become a pure word that produces the fruits of the Spirit of God in and through our lives.

God' will cause us to fall over and over again, in order to strip us of those beliefs that He

does not want us to hold on to. The wheat of God's truth has become so thoroughly mixed with the chaff of human personality and traditional teachings that God often has to call us out

of evangelical Babylon in order to purify the faith that He wants us to have. And He will cause

our state of being to become the pure word of the Lord that will shine forth to all around us.

God will work into us a faith that will be equal to the needs that characterize our individual

lives. We will become so God conscious that it will far exceed of need consciousness. When we begin to see what God is really like, we will be able to rest in the knowledge that HE carries the full responsibility for meeting, or not meeting all our needs.

Evangelical Babylon, out of its own kingdom building principles, has coined the unbiblical phrase, "we are saved to serve." It is true that .there will be a spontaneous outflow of spiritual life through those whom God is apprehending; that will be a natural outcome of the working of His grace within. But we should not accept condemnation for not joining any of man's kingdom building programs.

"The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but the Lord trieth the hearts."

Recently I received a tape, and on the tape a man sent me a message, telling me that I am

heading straight for hell because of the way I believe. At first I didn't feel free in my spirit to

answer him, so I let a week go by and by that time, I didn't even consider it to be worth

answering. So I mailed him a completely blank tape by way of reply - a tape with absolutely

nothing on it.

Part of the processing of the furnace is to have other believers tell you that you are on your

way to hell because you don't believe as they do. Among believers, when your name

becomes absolutely mud - that's part of the furnace of purification.

In I Chronicles 22r14 David said, "In my affliction I have prepared for the house of the Lord."

It is during our times of affliction that we gather our best material for spiritual development.

We are the "temple of God, made for a Holy habitation," and this temple of ours is being

forged in the furnace of affliction. All of the adversities, hardships and trials of this present

life are what make up our furnace of affliction. The New Testament Creek word for affliction

means "pressure."

Proverbs 27:21 says, "A man is tested by his praise." Part of the furnace processing

is to test how we react on the inside when people butter us up. The furnace also

tests us when we make a judgement on what WE consider to be praise-worthy. The

judgement that we make reveals what we are like on the inside.

God is the One Who is responsible for placing us in the furnace of heresy and false doctrines.

We should not condemn others for not believing the way that we do, because God wants them to believe the way they do until He has accomplished the reasons that He allowed them

to believe that way. All false doctrines are a part of God's great purifying furnace. When

God finishes bringing us through the furnace of heresy there won't even be the smell of smoke on us. Even though the process might be painful, God will turn all the scars from the furnace into beauty marks. We will also come out with our bonds burned completely off from us, and we will be totally free!" End of quote.

All powers are doing God's pleasure. No matter how perverted the power, they are always perfectly doing the will of God. God ordains and sustains His own adversaries through which He will work out His purpose for the ages.

Out of the restoration will come a greater glory for God than if creation had not been marred by sin in the first place. All the ruination, all the devastation, and all the chaos is not worthy to be compared to the glory that God will produce through it all. When God gets through with the vessels of dishonor, they will bring a praise to Him that is unimaginable and unspeakably glorious. God takes full responsibility for the marring of the vessel, and with the same lump of clay He remakes each vessel to His praise.

The reason most people don't believe that everyone will be saved is because they don't understand the quality of our foundation, Jesus Christ. He is our sure foundation, strong enough and large enough to support the entire creation as God's dwelling place." End of quote.

Neither is the purpose of our being saved so we can go to heaven instead of hell, for the lake of fire itself is part of God's saving process. But we are being saved for one purpose and one purpose only - to be conformed to the image of God's Son, and be brought into a state of being that manifests His perfection.

The majority in Chrlstendom is full of fears because they don't have faith in what God is really like. The Lord spoke toIsaiah and said, "Fear not the fear of these people, but sanctify the Lord Himself in your heart, and He shall be to thee a place of refuge." God is teaching us that all of the events that are taking place in this world are under His perfect control. God is a wise economist. He doesn't waste one single incident of suffering. He always converts every suffering into something better that it happened. God is teaching us not to be overwhelmed by the negative circumstances, but rather to see them as the birth pangs of something new and better. We need to keep our eyes"focused on the end result, instead of the suffering that God uses as a means to that end.

The realm of fear is being replaced by the knowledge of what God is really like. The trial of our faith is for the purpose of taking us beyond the realm of being fearful. When we, like Paul, really come to know in Whom we have believed. It will not matter what the circumstance' of life might be. We will rest secure in the knowledge that our Lord is in perfect control over its outcome.

God will so purify our faith that none of Babylon's doctrines (which Jesus called the leaven of the Pharisees) can any longer keep us in bondage to their control. We are so incline to interpret Scripture according to the ideas that Babylon crammed into our heads, but God says, "Get rid of the leaven of the Pharisees and listen to Me speak to your heart."

Our faith must grow until it is equal to meet the need of the entire groaning creation. Only then has it reached its full maturity. Paul says in Romans 1:16 & 17 that in the Gospel of Christ the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; or as it reads in the original text, "out of faith into faith." From glory to glory, and from strength to strength will God lead us until He can see a time coming when we will look back and say, "It was better that everything happened to everybody than if it had not happened."

There is much good in Babylon, but good is always an enemy of the best. When God's

time is ripe the best will swallow up the good and lift it up to its own Level. God will bring us into a realm of faith where immediate deliverance is unimportant. Only the ability to endure and overcome is important. Mature faith does not search for detours. Mature faith accepts the circumstance as from the Lord and proceeds to overcome In the midst of it. Babylon isn't just content with inventing rapture theories. They also want God to float them through each day on flowery beds of ease. But God is preparing a people who can stand the test of pressure because they know that the ultimate outcome is secure. And these prepared ones will blase the trail for the rest of creation to follow. Peter exhorts us in I Peter 1:13, "Gird up the loins of your mind, be steady in spirit, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ." And in 5:10 & 11 He concluded with this benediction: "The God of all grace, who hath called us into His eonian Glory by Christ Jesus, after ye have suffered awhile make you perfect, establish you, strengthen and settle you. To Him be glory and dominion for the eons of the eons. Amen!"

53:10.

The Hebrew word translated "pleasure" carries with it the -meaning of desire and will. The desire and will of God shall prosper in the hand of His Son, Jesus Christ. The victory for everyone is so secure that it leaves no room for doubt. Not even Satan can exercise his will outside of the will of God.

The pleasure of the Lord is to call out a firstfruits from each generation. Evangelicalism has the self-appointed mission of trying; to save the world. They use self-appointed methods with self-appointed money, and they have self-appointed breakdowns when they fail, because it is not God's pleasure to'save the world as a whole during this age, Everyone is going to be saved - that is certain, but it will only happen when God.wants it to, not when man thinks it should happen.

In Galatians 1:15 & 16 Paul wrote, "It pleased God, Who separated me from my mother's womb, set me apart even before my birth, and called me by His grace, to reveal His Son in me, so that I might tell the good news Of Him among the Gentiles."

God is going to do what He wants to do in spite of what man does. It is not possible

to "help God out "by "cooperating with Him." Neither is it possible to hinder God from

working by not "cooperating with Him." He always does what He wants to do when He wants to do it. We should neither give ourselves the credit for helping God, nor should we accept condemnation for hindering Him. If God does not energize within you the will to do either good or evil, then you cannot have a will to do either. God does not "tempt" us to do evil, He CAUSES us to do evil. It is God Himself who plants within us the desire to be made willing to submit to His will. Even before we were born - before we had any impulses or principles of our own, God set each one of us apart for a special purpose and destiny.

"Of the increase of Christ's government there will be no end. It will go on increasing until it is universal in its scope. It is the sovereign work of God alone that causes us to believe the gospel. There is coming a time when each person will not say to their neighbour "know the Lord," for "all shall be taught of God."

The death of Christ guarantees that everyone will die out to rebellion against God's revealed will. Paul said, 'We are persuaded that if one died for all, then are all dead," for "Christ tasted death for every man," - not "instead of every man," but "for" every man. The doctrine of substitution is an evil escapism doctrine. Escapism is not a part of the gospel of Jesus Christ. We must all be made conformable to His death and participate in the fellowship of His sufferings.

Although Satan is said to be the god, of this world, yet he is an underservant and can only do what God wants him to. He can only do what God intends to eventually turn into good. When God has fulfilled His purpose, the kingdoms of this world shall have become the kingdoms of our Lord.

You cannot self-appropriate the things of God. They are both begun and sustained to fruition by God Himself - alone.

You will know that you are making spiritual progress when negative things happen and you don't blame them on the devil but accept them as a gift of God instead.

Christ has set in motion the power of the seed of His life, and it will not fail to grow until it has changed the entire universe into part of His kingdom.

The evil spirits were typified by Jesus as "the fowls of the air." When they eat the seeds of the Word of God it will change them from being evil into being good. When this happens Satan will lose another emmisary.

The important thing about mustard seed faith is not that it is small. The important thing is that it is growing faith. Has your faith grown to the extent that you know that the evil spirits are going to find rest and restoration in its branches? Have confidence in the power of the seed, not in the power of that which devours the seed. Every time the adversary sends an evil spirit to devour the seed, it only guarantees the conversion of that "fowl of the air." God isn't going to lose - I don't care which way you look at this subject. You say your faith can't quite wrap around the restoration of the fowls of the air? Alright then, let your faith grow. It took awhile for mine to grow that much. Now, I can see a concept in the Word of God that will have our faith growing until it becomes a great tree that brings restoration everywhere.

Paul understood this truth. He said that principalities and powers in the heavenlies will come

to know the manifold wisdom of God according to the purpose of the ages which he purposed in Christ - for the pleasure of the Lord is to head up all thing in Christ, and it will most assuredly come to pass. Creation everywhere will be changed, renewed and restored to His glory.

Jesus said, "And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me." The Creek word translated "draw" actually means "drag." The grace of God is irresistible. When God wants a man to stop resisting His drawing power - HE WILL STOP RESISTING. The force and the power of the effectiveness of God's drawing belong to Himself alone. It is God who gives the increase; it can Only come from God. I don't care if it's physical, mental or spiritual, the help we receive is is not attained by the input of ministry from without - it is produced fnm the outflow of His life from within. The more spiritually mature you become, the less credit you will give to the operations of the ministries from without, for it is Cod alone who works in you to accomplish HIS good pleasure. We must all learn to live by the outflow of God's Spirit from within, and we must cease relying on others to meet our needs. We can appreciate the ministry of others, but sooner or later they must cease to be a prop upon which we need to lean.

"And the God of all grace, the giver of every spiritual blessing, who has called us by Christ Jesus to share in His eonian glory after you have suffered awhile; will Himself restore, establish, and strengthen you on a firm foundation. His is the power and the glory and the dominion to the age of the ages. Amen."

Every one of us will "go on to perfection" according to the specific time table that God has prearranged for each individual, Every on of us will ultimately show forth the praises of Him Who will call us "out of darkness, into His marvelous light." The processings of God are very individualistic. God makes no duplicates; each one of us in an original. Each one of us in further expression of His originality - an individual, unique piece of His handiwork.

The principles of God's workings are the same in all, but the inworking of those principles are adapted by God through each person's set of circumstances. In the final analysis we will all say as Christ said, "I have trodden the wine-press alone." Each of us must suffer in a way that no one else can quite understand, for each of us is being fitted into God's plan in a special but different way.

Each of us are destined to become our own individual expression of the wonderfulness of Christ. Everyone will become yet a further manifestation of Him. It is "the God of all grace" who will bring us through the sufferings triumphantly. That is why the victory is certain. And His promise enables us to despise the shame of the sufferings, fully confident that His glory will be made manifest in us in due time. Knowing that this is so, we can prevent the question "Why is this happening to me?" from eclipsing the joy of trusting in God's intention to transform it into something better that it happened. In Philippians 3:10 Paul said, "My determined purpose is that I may know what Christ is really like, and know the power which is in His resurrection, and all that it means to share His sufferings, with my nature transformed to die as He died." We will be better prepared to rejoice in the Glory to follow, if first we learn to know Christ in the fellowship of His sufferings. It is through our sufferings that God works into us His nature and glory so that in the ages to come we will be a testimony to the triumph of His grace. It is in the arena of suffering that we are being continuously transformed from within, even though outwardly, others cannot understand or appreciate what is happening.

In Psalm 119:67, David said, "Before I was afflicted I went astray." And the apostle Peter said, "He that hath suffered hath ceased from sin." We are not saved from sin by suffering, but we are conditioned for salvation by suffering. After you suffer awhile you begin to realize that the enjoyment of sinning is not worth the suffering that follows. God has chosen to use suffering to work a perfection into us that will be more glorious than if we had not suffered.

I take courage in this truth that God will always lead me by the best route for me, and He will do it by any means that will attain the utmost results. He will not allow us to suffer even one little bit more than is necessary to prepare and mature us for our special place in His plan. God never lets people suffer for no good reason. He always brings suffering to a bait after it has attained His desired results. However, we should not get the idea that we "buy" future glory by the amount of suffering we endure. Paul said that the sufferings of this life are worth than nothing compared to the glory to Follow. You can't buy something when you only have less than nothing to pay for it. Suffering is not a payment; it is the means that God uses to condition us for our special place in His plan of the ages. The entire work of salvation, from its beginning to its completion is totally by the sovereign grace of God. Suffering is always involved in its process, but suffering should never be regarded as part of the payment for our salvation. There is not even one aspect of our salvation that we can claim any merit for. That is why the successful completion of our salvation is guaranteed .

Evangelicals carry a self-imposed burden for the salvation of souls. God is not worried about the salvation of the world. He has already set forces in motion that will expand His kingdom until the world and even the entire cosmos has been included. And so with Paul we say, "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the all-merciful Father, and the God of all comfort, whose consolation never fails us. Who comforts and consoles us in our every trouble and distress, and every sorrow and affliction that we have, so that we in turn may be able to comfort others in any trouble or distress of theirs, and to share with them the comfort and consolation we ourselves receive from God. II Corinthian 1:3-5.

Jesus said, "All that the Father gives me shall come to me," John 6:37. All will eventually come to Christ, "For the earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof," and "God hath appointed Him heir of all things." Hebrews 1:2. John 6:44 says, "No man can come to Me except the Father draw him." And in verse 38 Jesus said, "Of all which He hath given Me I will lose nothing." The Father said, "Son, all that I have is Thine."

A friend in -Oklahoma wrote the words to this chorus:

He came to reconcile the world,

Nothing wasted, leaving none out.

He came for all men everywhere,

To redeem the world to Himself.

Preachers will appeal to our soulish sympathy and try to convince us that we should give money to their work so people won't have to spend eternity in hell. Well first of all, NOBODY is going to spend eternity in hell; and second of all, anybody who does go to hell will be glad that they did, because it will get rid of everything in their attitude that God does not want. Preachers who use such fear tactics don't really know the will of God. When we understand the will of God we will stop being need-centered, and we will be centered on the will of God instead - for according to His chosen timing, the needs of all creation will be totally met.

God has only one end in view, and that's for everyone's highest good. Salvation is to be to the uttermost for everyone - that is God's will. There is no "permissive will" involved here, as some teach. Everything that happens is God's determinate will, even if it involves a temporary rebellion against His revealed will. God will not be satisfied, neither will He let us be satisfied with anything less than an uttermost salvation for everyone. The working out of His plan of the ages will be the best, the highest, and the most perfect operation possible from its beginning to its all-encompassing completion.

Strange happenings of providence, and strange troubles may enter our lives. The explanation of the entire mystery of them is that God is working out His special plan for us as a unique individual. None of the strange unexplained happenings in our life are merely disconnected phenomena. They are all brought into our lives in perfect sequence to accomplish God's special purpose for us.

The will of God is that we become holy as He is holy, and God will not stop working until He has accomplished this will of His in everyone. Don't blame the devil for the negative happenings in your life. Recognize that it is God Who is always responsible for every negative thing. It is part of the characteristic of holiness to attribute to God the responsibility for everything that happens, good or bad. When we can accept bad things as well as good things as gifts from God, then that is practical holiness in operation. How we react to what happens to us determines the degree to which God has worked holiness into us. Paul said, "In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you." 1 Thessalonians 5:18.

Many believe that God is only going to save a few and let the rest suffer forever in hell. Thank God that He is beginning to evaporate, like the mist before the morning sun, this doctrinal error of man's foolishness; and He is beginning to inspire an understanding of what He is really like - to know that His mercy will last as long as mercy is needed, that His grace is inexhaustible, that His power has no limits, that His love will never end, nor will it fail to accomplish His desires, and whatever the need - including a change in man's stubborn will. Grace will always abound much more than the sin - and we rejoice in that knowledge.

Jeremiah 31:37 says, "If the heaven above can be measured, I will also cast off the seed of Israel for all that they have done." What's the chance of getting cast off? Try to measure the heavens above and find out! On Mars Hill, Paul preached to the multitude of heathen unbelievers and he said, "We are God's offspring, and in Him we live and move and have out being, and He be not far from everyone of us." From our point of view we may sometimes feel cast off by God; but from His point of view we have always been, and always will be under His control. He has, and He always will be intimately involved in all our afflictions.

How do people who don't know the Lord get through the tremendous trials of life? The answer is that although they don't know Him, HE KNOWS THEM and He is intimately involved with them through EVERYTHING they go through, upholding them with His grace. Jesus knew just how far down the path of destruction would take mankind and He said, "In all their affliction I was afflicted." Even though they are not conscious of it, the unbeliever is prevented from falling into sin any further than God intends to use that fall to work out His purpose for them. And even though they may be placed in the lowest regions of hell, yet underneath them God is still there holding on to them securely, for He will NEVER let them go.

Children get their ideas about God from what their father is like. My father was always getting angry and using a stick on us. He knew very little about the mercy and compassion of God. So I grew up believing that God was like that too. And it took a real working of the Spirit of God to get my eyes off my father and onto Him to get a revelation of what He is really like. Then I began to realize my awesome responsibility of portraying to my own children the Spirit of Christ so they could know what God is like.

Just about a year ago, the Lord quickened to me a study of His anger. And through that study I learned that what I had been taught about the anger of the Lord had nothing In common with the truth, God is not a man, so don't think about the base emotions of a man and attribute them to God. God's anger is always associated with a constructive purpose - even though it may temporarily appear to be destructive. God's anger is NEVER separated from His love. He has set the bounds of every man's rebellion; He says, "This far, and no farther." And when these boundaries have been reached, counter-action is in order.

When God is said to be "provoked to anger," it always means that He has been stirred up to action to prevent sin from going beyond the boundaries that He set for it. The anger of the Lord is His energy force set in motion, reaching out to accomplish the purpose of correcting and restoring. It includes the judgements of God, only because it's time to correct and restore again. When the Spirit of God revealed this to me, I began to appreciate every Scripture that spoke of the anger of the Lord, for I knew it meant that the time had come for a positive change to take place.

God's anger never vents His frustration, because He never gets frustrated I admit with regret that I have sometimes whipped my children out of frustration in anger, but God is never like that. The more we become like God the less we will become angry out of frustration. The Lord taught me to stop trying to force my children into a certain mould. He taught me to just make sure they understood I loved them, and He taught me to know that He will bring them back to Himself through my love.

The more we rebel against other people's rebellion towards the truth, the more we take on the wrong spirit that they have, and the less we, are effective in drawing them to Christ. When others tell you that what you believe is not the truth, tell them, "That's alright, you don't have to believe it. God will quicken it to you if and when He wants you to accept it." You don't have to fight for truth, it defends itself. Truth stands on its own merit. It doesn't depend on getting others to believe it. It will still be there, shining brightly, after all the fighting has come and gone.

It is God Himself Who causes the breaches in our lives, and only He can heal them. God is the cause behind all mentdl anguish, and He will always create something beautiful from it. The experience of mental anguish will bring us an inner power so we can bring healing and love and restoration to others. In Isaiah 8:12 God is called "the Repairer of the breach," and "the restorer of paths to dwell in." And He will do this through those who have learned what

He is really like, and He will do it until a total restoration of all has been completed.

The popular theology in Christendom is that Satan holds the keys of death and hell. They

know the scripture that says that CHRIST holds the keys of death and hell, yet they deny this truth in a practical way by blaming the devil for the negative things in their life instead of recognizing that ALL things are from the hand of God. The power of life and death never leaves the hands of God. Satan tries to use death destructively but God takes the key of death and uses it to release life. God leads us through the process of dying out to selfishness and rebellion into the more abundant life of Christ. That is how God uses the key of death.

Paul said "By the grace of God I am what I am." He didn't say he had attained the fulness of God yet, but he attributed the extent of his present development to the grace of God alone, and he accepted his present state of development as God's will for right now. The King James says, "I do not frustrate the grace of God." The Greek actually means, "I do not belittle the grace of God." It isn't even possible for anyone to "frustrate" the grace of God. We should never feel defeated if our spiritual development doesn't seem to be as advanced as someone else's. Paul says if you compare yourself with others you are not wise. We need to recognize and acknowledge the fact that the grace of God has already accomplished exactly what God wanted it to up to this point in time. We should neither think less of ourselves than we ought, nor should we exalt ourselves above measure in our own eyes, claiming that the grace of God has done more than it actually has. God will faithfully bring into our lives just the right amount of evil each day, for the progress of our spiritual development. We will always have progressed exactly as far as God wanted us to.

God has set a time for every individual in which he is going to loose them from the bondage of corruption into the fulness of His life. David prayed, "O Lord quicken me according to Thy judgements." According to God's timing His judgements will discipline us until his resurrection life can be released in and through us. So with Paul we want to say that, "We look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ Who will change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able to subdue ALL things to Himself." Philippians 3:20 & 21.

Most in Christendom have exalted themselves to the point that they think they re above God. They believe that God can't save unless man chooses to come to Him, and then only if they believe and make the choice of their own so-called "free will." They claim that God cannot do anything about it if man chooses to resist His influence. such a belief shows that they have an exalted false-god image of themselves. God prepares a thorn for this carnal mindedness of man who would sit in the temple as God and call all the shots.

I see a service so profound - I marvel at God's ways.
That even when the thorns abound, his purpose underlays.

For He doth use these bitter things to discipline thy soul,
And guide thy feet into the path that leads to victory's goal.

Thy flesh subdued - its passions tamed, diminishing the pride;
The ministry of thorns is there, till all is crucified.

To teach a lesson - teach it good, no more to go astray.
A blessing is disguised within the thorns that hedge thy way.

When His life alone is thine, surrendered to His will,
The thorns will vanish with the night - their blessing lingers still.

And thou shalt see His glory dawn - His joy and peace to share,
And praise Him for the thorn He used to work a purpose rare.

Man can receive nothing except it be given to him from above. Each person will receive what God wants them to receive at God's appointed time.

Romans 8:19 says, "We are waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God." So don't try to manifest yourself instead, in an effort to fulfil this prophecy.

Romans 8:23 says, "We are waiting for the redemption of our body." So don't expect to live on this earth any longer than God wants you to.

1 Corinthians 1:7 says, "We are waiting for the hope of righteousness." So don't put your confidence in your own righteousness as having any merit with God.

Luke 23:51 says, "We are waiting for the kingdom of God." So don't waste your energy trying to establish and maintain your own spiritual kingdom, whether it be a personal kingdom or an organizational kingdom.

We should not wait for the Lord passively. We should be actively waiting to see what good result God is going to accomplish from each circumstance in our life.

Through the process of elimination, God gradually replaces our wants with the wants that He desires us to have. He gradually solidifies our vision until we know which desires He wants us to have.

Many preachers will try to sell you a bill of goods on what you should want. But God will make it clear to you if HE wants you to desire it. When you have a clear enough revelation of

what God is really like and what His intentions are towards His creation, you will not be tempted to buy any of the spiritual drivel that is being sold today. When you abide in Christ

you will not abide in what people think you should be like and what they think you should be doing.

Many people spend their entire life in feverish activity "for the Lord," and they never do find out what He is really like. Psalm 37:7 says, "Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him."

The meaning of abiding in the Lord is to wait in expectancy for what He has revealed to you to be fulfilled.

The evil spirit of Babylon is manifested by a stubborn refusal to pay attention to proof that what they are believing is wrong. (Editor's note: This spirit is often manifested in my telephone ministry. After a lengthy presentation of answers to their arguments, the caller will say, "I don't care what you say, I know that hell is going to be endless."

Ray Prinzing continues, "The fear of the Lord means a combination of trust and respect. It does not mean a terrified attitude about what God might do to us. When we learn what our sovereign God is really like and what His plan for the ages is like, it bring us to the place where we can trust Him in all things. He can't expect people to be able to trust the kind of God that most people in Christendom say they believe in. In the book of Job it says, "Aquaint thyself with God, and therefore be at peace." It's no wonder there are so few in Christendom that are able to trust God, because they think He is different from what He really is like.

Most in Christendom believe that Satan is stronger than God most of the time, and that even their own will is a god that is stronger than God. Slowly, but surely God is building up in our minds a,knowledge of what He is really like, and this in turn is producing within us a trustful attitude towards Him as we live out life day by day.

The ministry of waiting, a strange peculiar thought.
To rest in Him completely, for He my life hath bought.

There is the need of learning the counsels of His mind.
It takes a lot of waiting e're to the world I'm blind.

Then He unfolds the mystery, the secret of His will,
The high and holy calling, be still my soul, be still.

True waiting is abiding, in Christ alone to dwell.
No more the troubled doing, let inner praises swell.

A heart that's filled with worship, a tongue to sing His praise,
The whole directed Godward to bless thy waiting days.

Let others build their kingdom, let others play the game.
He called me to the sideline to wait and bear the shame.

But e're the dark night passes and morning draweth near
You'll see the shadows fading, the sun will soon appear.

You'll find when night is over and things of earth grow dim,
The ministry of waiting was service unto Him.

Romans 11:36 says, "For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things - for all things originate with Him and come from Him; all things live through Him, and all things center in and tend to consummate and to end in Him. To Him be glory for the eons." This is the great law of circularity. Everything came out of God, and everything will go back into God.

After we have experienced all of the suffering that God has appointed for each one of us, then the river of life will so completely envelope His creation that it will minister life to every creature that is groaning with pain in their bodies, or their minds, or their emotions, or their spirits - until there has been a full restoration to the perfection of His resurrection life. Psalm 22:27 says, "All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord and all

the kindreds of the nations shall worship before Thee."

There is an inner beauty that can only be attained through travail. God will turn every irritating problem into something beautiful that will be to His praise. Everything that we have looked upon as being stressful in our life will be changed into a manifestation of His beauty. We will learn that everything that happened to us was for a good reason, and all will be to His praise.

Christendom has invented the nonsense that only the elect are to enjoy the benefits that God will impart to us because of our sufferings. The truth is that ALL CREATION will enjoy the transforming power of God's river of life. Christ Jesus is the Anointed Saviour, and He will remain the Anointed Saviour until the last sinner has been saved. The Scripture says, "Of the increase of His government there shall be no end." It will increase and encompass all of creation until there are none left that have not become willing subjects of His governing control.

Jesus said, "No man can come to Me unless the Father Who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets And they shall all be taught by God. Everyone that hath learned from the Father cometh unto Me. But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray Him. And He said, "Therefore said I unto you, that no one is able to come unto

Me unless it is granted them by the Father." John 6:44,45,64,65.

Salvation is ALL of God. Its first beginning, its final completion, and everything in-between, is ALL the handiwork of God. Down through the centuries, Christendom has tried to take some of the glory for their salvation for themselves by claiming that they "appropriated it." As it relates to God's dealings with man, the word "appropriate" is an abominable word. You

cannot "appropriate" the things of God. They are given, they are given. All of the initiative for salvation is God's. We cannot come to God unless He grants us the ability to come; and then we will not come of ourselves, but we will come according to the measure that He draws us..

Everyone of us is what we are by the grace of God, and by His grace alone. Certainly we will believe; yes, we will yield; yes, we will follow after; certainly, we will give ourselves to the truth; but we can only do these things in the measure that God initiates and energizes His will within us. Jesus said, "I can of my own self do nothing." And so it is with us.

Jesus said, ''I will draw all men unto Me." The Creek word "draw," literally means "drag." The scripture says that our flesh is enmity against our spirit, and that the carnal mind is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be. Therefore God calls, draws and apprehends use while our own self-will wears out and dies in the process.

Jesus said to Saul of Tarsus, "Don't you know that it's hard to kick against the pricks?" And when Saul's name was changed to Paul he said, "God separated me from my mother's womb, called me by His grace, and chose to reveal His Son through me." God's drawing of Paul started when he was born, and so it is with us all. John 3:27 says, "A man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven." And 1 Corinth. 4:7 adds, 'What hast thou that thou didst not receive?" If God has given you sufficient motivation to choose Christ and His way, why do you glory in yourselves as if you were responsible for the decision? Why do you act as if your motivation to choose was something that was inherent in you? Your choosing of Christ is not your own decision. It is God's decision working in and through you. Glory only in the God Who gave you this faith..Don't glory in yourself for receiving it, you received it only because God decided that it was time to successfully motivate you to receive it.

Isaiah 54:13 promises that we will ALL he taught of God,.and great will be the peace of our children. 1 Corinthians 15:23 says, "For as with, in and by Adam all died; so with, in and by Christ shall all be made alive, but each man in his own order. None of our children will be eternally lost. They are scheduled by God to be taught by Him. God has reserved a specific time schedule for every one of us to be taught by Him. Isaiah 11:9 says, "The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea."

We can think we have a knowledge of God's love, but we will never really know it until He reveals to us what He is really like. God's nature is love, and His love will not fail to achieve its desire to receive a loving response from everyone.

Only to the extent that we understand God's love, can we love others. We shall all be taught by God to love one another. Love is the bond of perfection, and the fulfilling of the law. God will teach us how to apply His love. We may know all about God's love, but it will do us no good until God teaches us how to apply it in our relationships with others.

Isaiah 29:13 says, "For as much as this people draw near Me with their mouth, and with

their lips do honor Me, but they have removed their heart far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the precepts of men." When your fear of God is taught only by the precepts of man, you will fulfil Matthew 15:9 which says, "In vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandment's of men. " And 1 Timothy 1:7 adds, "Desiring to be teachers of the law, they understand neither what they say nor whereof they affirm." We need to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ." Evangelical Babylon confines its people within the circle of a limited concept of God's love, consequently, their

"fear toward God has been taught them by the precepts of man," and they are prevented from learning what our Lord and Saviour is really like. As the Scripture says, "Their bed is too short and their covers are too narrow." In order to grow in their knowledge of God's love, they need to get out of the bed they are trying to sleep in.

O to learn from the Father! Jesus said that everyone who learns of Me, comes. Evangelical Babylon tries to reverse the order. They tell us that if we come, we will be able to learn. But Jesus says, "When the Father teaches you about Me, then you will come." Psalm 40:6 says, "Mine ears Thou hast opened." The Hebrew word "opened" literally means "digged." God has to dig our ears out of all the other voices that prevent us from knowing what He is really like.

John 5:25-28 says that the hour is coming when all who are in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God and they shall live. They who have done evil will come forth unto the resurrection of damnation. The word "damnation" is the Greek word "Krisis"`from which we get our word "crises." A crisis is a turning point. The Chinese word for crises consists of two characters. One means trouble and the other means opportunity. All of God's judgements, including the lake of fire, are positive in nature and are motivated by His love, for He has no other motivation, and they are all correctional processings of God to bring us into righteousness. When evil-doers learn from the correctional instruction of God's judgement, it will cause them to come to the Saviour. First there is the learning, then there is the coming. Every judgement is a part of the process of being taught by God. Every day, all day long we are in the process of being judged by God. Our reaction to every seemingly insignificant happening in our life is judging us before God, and the reaping of what we sow through these reactions is part of the process of God's instruction. They are instructional chastenings and are part of the judgements of God.

Most of Christendom's concept of God's judgement is condemnatory and negative. This concept is an anti-Biblical misconception from beginning to end. All expressions of judgement are the handiwork of God and their end result will be to gird us up unto righteousness. We ought to have the attitude of the Psalmist who said, "I have hoped in Thy judgements."

I Corinthians 8:6 & 7 says, "To us there is but one God, the Father, out of Whom are ALL THINGS and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by Whom are ALL THINGS and we by Him, howbeit, THERE IS NOT IN EVERY MAN THAT KNOWLEDGE." In fact, most people have the conception that there are two sources - a God for good and a devil for evil. And because they do not have an eye single to God but have dual vision, they continually walk in confusion. When a situation starts out bad but turns good, they think the devil tried to harm them but God rescued them. And when a situation starts out good but turns bad, they think the devil got hold of it and defeated God's intention to be good to us. They are never quite sure if their situation is being controlled by God or the devil. There is not within them "the knowledge that there is but One God, out of Whom are ALL THINGS." "This is the life of the ages, that they might know Thee, the only true God." If you really want a hassle on your hands, try to convince Christian Babylon that their devil is not as strong as they think he is. They will arise and vigorously defend their semi-omnipotent devil at the drop of a hat. But we can't blame them for not having the knowledge that there is only one God. Such knowledge only becomes our at the rate of speed that God wants to teach it to us. Only those who are God-taught know that He is in intimate sovereign control over ALL. But in Revelation 14 it says that the messenger of God will preach the gospel of the ages, and will instruct us to fear God and worship only Him. He is the Creator, Sustainer, and Controller of us all. Both the vessels of honor and the vessels of dishonor are in His hands and neither of them ever leave His hands.

When your spouse seems to be a vessel of dishonor, the grace of God will purify your reactions towards them. And when God has finished using your spouse as a vessel of dishonor, He will remake them into a vessel of honor. He will fashion them like to His glorious body, for ALL will be taught by God. Although for the moment our spouse may be a constant vexation to our spirit and soul and there seems to be no love in them at all, the promise still remains that they shall be taught of God, and God teaches but one thing - and that is, to love. That is why the Scripture says that the unbeliever is sanctified unto all the fulness of the inheritance that the believer shares. This is the marvelous handiwork of God, and it is the power of His love that extends it so far.

The Scripture says, "I will give you pastors according to My heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding." When God joins the messenger to the message of what He is really like, they will feed the people with this knowledge and understanding. And though God gives us the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, they will serve as our teachers unto righteousness.

"I have set the Lord always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved." Psalm 16:8. Entering into the Kingdom of God is a process. In the measure that the King is ruling in your heart, in that measure the kingdom of God has come. The word "kingdom" is made up of two words meaning "kings domain." When your heart fully becomes God's domain, the Kingdom of God will have fully come within you. Jesus prayed to His Father, "Thy Kingdom come."

Even when the kingdoms of this world are shaken and everything seems to be falling apart, when we have the Lord always before us, we will be able to go on living in the calm, cool, royal dignity of the Spirit of God, for we will see Him alone as the One Who is responsible for it all. Paul said, ''None of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, that I might finish my course with joy.

The Hebrew word "set" means to level off or equalize. It means to use as an adjustment to counterbalance all else. When we place the Lord before us, He is the counterbalance to every situation. And when God counterbalances you He levels you off and holds you steady. When all hell breaks loose we will not be moved because we will know that Cod is in complete control over the situation.

Numbers 13:13 says that the spies reported that the Caananites were giants, and compared to these giants the Israelites looked like grasshoppers. This is the kind of thinking that is in the minds of those who do not set the Lord always before them. They cannot see that our weakness plus His strength always guarantees victory. Matthew 14:30 tells us that Peter walked on the water towards Jesus. But when he took his eyes off the Lord he became afraid and began to sink. The Scripture says that if our eye is single to Him we will be full of light. God is using many nays of processing us to cause us to have an eye single to Him alone. He is stripping and purging us of everything that prevents us from recognizing His intimate sovereign control over everything.

Ephesians 4:27 says, "Give no place to the devil." Not even in one case will the devil gain a permanent victory. God will always make something better out of everything the devil does. Someday, God may even say to Satan, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant," for it is a fact that Satan is perfectly doing the will of God all of the time. God has a plan that He is working out during the ages of time, and He will sovereignly control the interplay of good and evil until the ages of time have come an end. At no time can the forces of evil go beyond the bounds that God has set for them, therefore, at no time has Satan ever stopped doing the will of God.

In every life, the time of degeneration will be followed by a time of regeneration. The grace of God will be effective in every person when God chooses to reveal Himself to each heart. Before the ages of time have run their course, God will have reversed the degenerative course of this galaxy and will turn it all around through a process of regeneration. "For of Him, and through Him and back into Him are ALL things, and ALL things shall consummate in Him."

1 Timothy 4:1 says, "The Spirit speaketh expressly that in the later times, some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines concerning devils." When you believe that evil spirits can rob God of part of His control, you are giving heed to seducing spirits and you believe in a false doctrine concerning devils. These are the teachings of Babylon. Pay no attention to that, yet do not make railing accusations against Babylon, for she is a golden cup in the hand on the Lord. She will be destroyed after God has finished using her to accomplish His purposes. But everyone in her will be saved. God is totally God over both the good and the evil. He is responsible for all evil and will not let it prosper past the point where He cannot change it into a better good .

When God uses someone to help you, don't keep your spiritual eyes on them. Keep your eyes single to God, for God may not use the same person to help you a second time. Indeed, that person may become a vessel of dishonor, and if your confidence is in them, you may also fall into dishonor.

Luke 3:5 says that all flesh shall see the salvation of God. And in Isaiah 65:1 God says, "I am found of them that sought Me not." The meek and lowly and nonentities are prime candidates for the Spirit of God to come upon and use. The ecclesiastical bigwigs may be the last to be used, for they have established powerful personal kingdoms that detract from the glory of God.

It was God Himself Who planned all the apparant chaos that presently prevails on the earth. When the clothes line breaks just after you have filled it, and you have to wash the clothes all over again, if you respond by praising God for it, instead of blaming the devil, you are well on the way to spiritual maturity. This is a practical illustration of what it means to keep the Lord always before you.

God will see to it that EVERYONE will arrive at the full potential for which they were created, and no matter how difficult the way may seem, it will always be by the easiest route possible.

There is a uniqueness in everyone's experience that others cannot identify with. Neither can others help carry the weight of it for they cannot understand it. Mere are experiences in everyone's life when they must tread the wine-press alone. It is our appointed lot to go through a special set of experiences that have been assigned to us by God as unique individuals.

My wife and I have been married for over 30 years. We have been married longer than we have been single, and we've traveled down an interesting road together on our journey through life. There's been a lot of potholes in that road, and I think we hit them all! Most things we have faced in sweet togetherness, and we praise God for it. But every so often one of us finds ourself in a circumstance that the other can't touch - a circumstance assigned to us by God for our individual development. In this kind of circumstance the one who is not experiencing it is not able to help carry the weight of it, in fact, they can't even understand why it is being a problem. In these instances we walk out the processings alone, even though we still share a common ground of interest in other things.

God's special interest in each person as an individual, is one of the many qualities that makes Him so wonderful.

"He knoweth the way that I take, and when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold." Job 23:10.

Christian Babylon promises freedom, but imposes bondage instead. As a "golden cup in the hands of the Lord" God is accomplishing a purpose through Babylon's bondage that He could accomplish no other way; He uses Babylon to winnow the chaff out of us so we can be pure food to feed the spiritually hungry. God is in perfect control of the timing of when we get into Babylon, of how long we stay in it, and of when He brings us out of it - so we should not worry or fret when we see others in bondage to Babylon's control.

Isaiah. 48:10 & 11 says, "Behold I have refined thee, and I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. For mine own name's sake I will do it, for I will not have My name to be polluted." The name of God means that He will become whatever He wants to become to meet everyone's need, whenever He wants to do it. In order for us to become the expression of the name of the Lord in the earth, it is essential that we be purified from all that does not bring glory to His name. This is what the furnace of affliction will do. Affliction includes all of the adversities, hardships and trying experiences that are a part of our life. The Greek word for affliction means pressure. Paul said that we are pressed, not only from without, but from within. All of these pressures, both external and internal, are controlled by God and are urging us into Him. Paul tells us that we must through much pressure, enter the kingdom of God.

We should never view suffering in a negative way. We should always see it as a totally positive handiwork of God that will always have excellent results, without any defeat whatsoever. In all Job's suffering He did not attribute folly to God. Job 1:22. God Himself is fully responsible for all of our negative situations. The statement is true that was made by a man of God back in the eighteen hundreds: "WHATEVER IS, IS RIGHT." And the reason that it is right is because God is going to turn all negatives into good for everyone.

Don't worry if you can't find God. He knows where you are all the time. He knows all about you all the time, and He knows the way that He is causing you to walk. He also knows that the process of walking that way will guarantee the exact results that He wants to accomplish in and through us. God knows everything there is to know about us. He knows why we think and act and speak the way we do, and He knows exactly how we will react in every situation. Because He knows our inner nature thoroughly, therefore He knows how to prepare us for the special place that He has predetermined for us in His plan.

Our children may not chose the occupation that we would wish for them, but we should not be distressed about it for God is in control of their choice.

If I had false teeth, they would fall out of my mouth if, later on this week I heard you trying to tell someone else what I said to you today. I would want to say, "But I didn't say it that way!" Good for you! I really don't want you to say it the way that I did. I want you to pass on what God spoke to your own heart, not what I thought you should get from my message. God is producing Himself through each of us in a unique way. Christian Babylon tries to fit us into a mold, but God will, break us out of the mold so we can be free to grow as He wants us to grow. He will help us to find peace in believing what HE wants us to believe, even though it might not agree with what others believe.

God knows every minute detail of your life. He knows every part of your bent. And He knows all there is to know about your actions and reactions, Psalm 139:1-18 - so you can relax in the knowledge of His personal care. He also knows what needs to be refined and purified, and He will not atop the process until it has been completed. The principles that He uses are always the same, but the situations that He uses vary because He knows our exact need. The result of every process will be that we will become more useful for helping others.

Psalm 8:4 & 5 says, "What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you visit him. You have made him to lack a little from the God-company." The King James version has translated this "a little lower than the angels," but it should`be literally translated, to lack a little from elohim, or the God-company.

Through causing man to lack from the God-company, God is gaining a greater glory for Himself and for all His creation than could have otherwise been attained. He set aside a portion of time called "the ages" (Ephesians 3:11) - to work out a purpose for His creation that would fulfil all the longing of His heart. It is God alone Who is responsible that man lacks from the God-company. And because He is fully responsible, by His sovereign grace He will see to it that all mankind will be made into His image.

God is acquiring an added glory throughout the ages with the process of the interaction of good and evil. And when the process has been completed; all evil will have served the purpose for which it was allowed to exist. And then all evil will cease to exist. Evil will effect no permanent loss, for God will work it all into good for His praise.

God's energy force is motivated by His nature of love. This is why He will not allow people to exist eternally in hell fire and damnation. Because God is good, everything He allows will be worked into good. Because God's nature is goodness and love, He cannot allow anyone to suffer the negative effects of evil forever.

Don't join yourself to the spirit of Babylon that seeks to control the spirits of others. Don't join yourself to the spirit of the world that seeks only the selfish gratification of its own desires. Join yourself to the Spirit of God Who, through His Son, sacrifices His time and energy for the welfare of others.

Isaiah 63:17 says, "Why hast Thou made us to err from Thy ways, and hardened our heart from Thy fear?" God assumes full responsibility for having turned man to the experience of evil. It was God who "made peace, and created evil." It was God who turned creation on a self-willed course and then said, "return ye sons of men." And in the process of our contract with evil, through His grace he will have worked a wonder of blessing for everyone, that could not have been attained any other way.

Jeremiah 51:34 says, "Babylon has crushed me and made me an empty vessel." part of god's purpose for Babylon is to cause us to realize how much we lack. The control that organized Christianity tries to impose upon us serves to crush us and makes us realize how much we lack.

"Acquaint thyself with the Almighty and be at peace." Job 22:21. Almightiness is not the power to do anything and everything. Almightiness is the power that God has to carry out the will of His divine nature. God cannot use His almightiness to act contrary to His nature. God is LOVE, and because he is LOVE, it is His WILL to bless ALL. 1Tim.2:4 says that God will have ALL men to be saved and come into a knowledge of the truth. God will use His almightiness to see that this is done for "He is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." It would not be a proof of God's almightiness if, instead of saving and blessing all His creation, He could only punish and destroy most of them. God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we can ask or think (Ephesians 3:20), according to the working whereby He is able to subdue all things to Himself (Philippians 3:21). To be almighty, God must be able to carry out the purpose of His own will to the uttermost. Annihilating part of His creation would not make God almighty, for annihilation is not in harmony with the rest of His nature. That would show up the power of God's love to be less effective than it really is. And if the power of God's love is diminished, He would no longer be "almighty."

God's love, however, is all-conquering, for it "never fails." If God cannot "turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just", then He is not almighty, for He would be unable to fulfil the desires of His heart. God has the strength to do all that He has purposed to do. He said, "My arm is stretched out, and none can turn it back." God may have to humble us to the point where we only have husks to eat in a pig pen, or He may use Christian Babylon to crush us, but, in every way that is necessary, God will subdue and strip and purge us until we are brought to the end of our rebellious self-will.

Job's friends were miserable comforters. they saw God as the One who makes people suffer to get back at them for what they did or did not do. Christian Babylon sees God this way. In fact, most of Christendom sees God as the One who lets people suffer forever for what they did or did not do. Christian Babylon is a miserable comforter. God uses her to crush us until we are ready to become truly acquainted with the Almighty so we can be at peace. The deeper God ploughs in our life, the more bountiful will be the harvest that we reap. We don't really know the Almighty until we know Him as the God of positive judgements Who will correct everything in everyone that needs to be corrected and then fill us all with His glory.

"God's love will not be satisfied until everyone has been fully transformed so that they return to Him the same quality of love with which He gives us. The patience of God's love never runs out. The day of His full satisfaction will come and He will not stop loving until it does.

When God has finished His processings, everyone will have reached the full potential for which they were created, and everyone will have a share in His positive blessings. 1 Corinthians 15:22 & 23 says, "As in Adam all died, even so in Christ shall all be made alive - but every man in his own order." Christian Babylon admits that we all died in Adam, but they limit the all being made alive to those who believe as they do. They do not recognize the fact that it is God's responsibility to reveal Himself to you and prove Himself to you so that you will believe in Him. None of us can believe in Him until He causes us to, and we will all believe in Him when He wants us to - each of us in our own order. We don't loan our new car to a stranger. Neither do we trust our lives to God before we know what He is really like.

Don't condemn people for not trusting God. Many people cannot trust in God because they have been taught a false concept of God. People will learn what God is really like when He wants them to know it, and when God reveals Himself to them personally, they will not be able`to help but love Him. God said, "I was found by a people that sought me not." According to His own timing for each individual, God will draw everyone to Christ to willingly submit to them as their Lord - everyone who Is on earth and everyone who is in the heavens. THIS IS GOD'S MERCIFUL PURPOSE. The Greek word for God means "PLACER." Through a unique set of processings God is going to place everyone exactly where He wants them so they can enjoy the benefits of His special purpose for them. Christendom teaches us to be need-centered instead of God-centered. Many people at the pool of Bethesda "needed" to be healed, but Jesus knew that God only wanted to heal one of them at that specific time. God will meet every need when HE wants it met. Christ is the firstborn from the dead THAT IN ALL HE MAY HAVE THE PREEMINENCE. Colossians 1:18.

Isaiah.10:22 & 23 says, "The completion decreed shall overflow with righteousness, for the Lord of hosts shall make a consummation in the midst of all the earth. "The apostle Paul wrote on the same them in Romans 9:28, "The Lord will execute His sentence upon the earth. he will close His account with men and without delay, rigorously cutting it short in His justice."

Creation is the work of God's hands, and god's desire for the work of His hands is to head up all things in Christ - both things on the earth and things in the heavens. Nowhere in God's creation will sin go on forever, for God will subject all things to Himself that he might be All in all. this is the consummation and purpose of the ages of time - a creation that is better off by far than if it had not been subjected to the bondage of vanity.

It was God Himself who turned man to destruction. That's why it's His responsibility to cause every man to answer the call, "return ye sons of men." If necessary, God will accomplish it through the purging fire, but, one way or another, his purpose of changing the negative consequences of evil into a greater positive will be successfully completed in everyone. "All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto the Lord." It doesn't matter how controlled by the carnal mind they are. It doesn't matter how far down the path of iniquity they have traveled. When God's time comes for them to respond to the call "return ye sons of men," they will not fail to return.

All of God's fallen creation is His unfinished handiwork. Hebrews 9:26 says that Christ came to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. this is a process that he will complete for every individual, "each man in His own order." God will faithfully purge the last vestige of carnal-minded self-will out of everyone, without exception. God will faithfully "send forth judgment unto victory" for everyone. It is He who will work unto us the desire and ability to do His good pleasure. The work is all HIS.

That's why it will succeed in everyone. God said, I will write My laws in their mind and in their heart; then their sins and iniquity I will remember no more.

Hebrews 4:3 says that we who have trusted and relied on God are entering into rest although God's works were finished since the foundation of the world. God's plan and purpose of the ages was as good as done as soon as He began it. Experientially it remains incomplete but the end is secure for everyone; for as far as God is concerned, in His own mind the work is finished. As the Spirit of the Lord takes control of our hearts we will all be changed from glory to glory (II Corinthians 3:18). there is a changing process, but thank God, there will also be a COMPLETION for everyone in God's own time (Isaiah 10:22).

Abraham was "fully persuaded that what god had promised, He was able also to perform." Romans 4:21.

I am persuaded that he Who began His purpose in us shall work until all is complete. His timing is perfect so He'll not delay, nor hurry the task with overmuch heat.

I am persuaded that nothing can ever separate us from His love divine.

No power can conquer its shining forth, nor hinder its work in this heart of mine.

For He's altogether the Lord triumphant - His love shall All to His will align.

David said, "I am continually with Thee. Thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with Thy counsel and afterward receive me to glory." Psalm 73: 23 & 24.

The steps of a man are so intimately ordered by the Lord that he cannot even fall without God being responsible for it. And God knows exactly how far to let us fall. Even if we fall into hell, God will bring us back out. The translators couldn't accept such a great truth so they added the word "good" to make the verse say that the steps of a "good" man are ordered by the Lord, and he delights in his way. But Jesus disallowed such an addition when He said, "There is only One Who is good, and that's God."

God knows exactly how to chasten and subdue each one of us, for "our own wickedness will correct us...and we will find out that it is an evil and bitter thing to forsake the Lord." Jeremiah 2:19. By a mixture of positive and negative influences, God will bring everyone back to Himself. God's dealings with mankind will successfully conclude with everyone being brought into the fulness of His righteousness, and even when we fall we will not be utterly cast down. Every fall is with God's knowledge, with God's consent, and with God's participation. Every time we fall, God goes down with us to bring us back up. Isaiah 63:9 says, "In all their afflictions He was afflicted, and He carried them all the days of old." Ultimately, He will work all things, including all the falls, into good for everyone.

"They took the thirty pieces of silver..and gave them for the potter's field as the Lord appointed me." Matthew 27:9 & 10.

The Lordship of our Heavenly Father is so total that He even controlled the burying place of Judas. They buried him in the field where the potter dug his clay. His decomposed body would become part of the clay, and the potter would fashion Judas into another vessel.

This is an illustration of God's appointment of everyone to their own place in His plan, so that ultimately He can restore everyone to Himself. Satan is not lord. Only God is Lord. Satan is God's servant. In fact, Satan is God's most faithful servant, even though he is perfectly fulfilling God's desires in a negative way.

Many have tried to make Satan a lord. But the day will come when Satan will willingly worship the Lord our God. In that day Satan will give total allegiance to Christ and will say "no longer my will, but Thine be done", completely and in every way.

Colossians1:20-23, Having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him, to reconcile all things unto Himself, By Him I say, whether they be things in the heavens or things on earth. and you, who were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now he hath reconciled."

The word "reconcile" comes from a Greek word that means "to thoroughly change from." When God finishes working a reconciliation in us, He will have thoroughly changed us so that we will not, indeed, cannot sin. We will become transformed by the renewing of our mind so that we will want to do what God wants us to do and we will' also be able to do it as well.

All sin originates in the mind. Genesis 11:6 says, "Nothing now will be restrained from them which they imagined to do." So god caused them to have different languages, making it difficult to share their imaginations and carry out the ideas of their evil minds. But not only did God confound their speech, he has also restricted man's ability to use his mind. scientists say that even the most clever of us are still only able to use less than 2% of our mental capacities. God is holding our mindpower in check until we have the mind of Christ. Then He will release the whole potential of our mind in the ages to come, for the purpose of unveiling the manifold riches of the wisdom of god in its expression through His creation.

Ephesians 4:11 says, "having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart." Acts 20:21 says that we need to have repentance towards god." Our feelings toward god and our concept of what He is like is the greatest area of need for repentance which literally means "a change of mind." Christianity has taught us a distorted characature of what God is like. We need to repent of the perverted theology of Christianity.

God has always been reconciled to us. It is we who need to be reconciled to Him. Acts 17:27 says that He is not far from any of us, for in Him we live and move and have our being. Paul was not talking to believers in Christ. he was talking to the Greeks of Athens who worshipped many different idols. Paul was telling all these ungodly superstitious people that they lived and moved and had their being in the true God, because GOD HAS NEVER ESTRANGED HIMSELF FROM HIS CREATION. GOD HAS NEVER, AND WILL NEVER STOP LOVING HIS CREATION. This is not what Christendom teaches, BUT IT IS THE TRUTH.

Colossians 1:17 says, "by Christ all things are held together." If God wasn't holding you together, you'd fall apart at your socks - but he holds you together. And even when He lets a person fall apart it is only for the purpose of working out His beautiful sovereign will as He molds and shapens us into vessels of His choosing. No one can fall apart any farther than God wants them to, for God will use our falling apart to fit us into His plan for us.

In spite of evidence to the contrary, God's purpose to reconcile the world is right on schedule. God takes full responsibility for the way this age will end, and whatever happens will be under His perfect control. The negative things that will yet bring this age to its conclusion successfully and the devil will have accomplished nothing, nothing that God didn't want him to. We need a definite change of mind as to the extent of God's intimate sovereign control over all events and over every person - including the devil. SATAN CANNOT DO ONE THING THAT GOD DOES NOT WANT HIM TO DO.

God is always in perfect control all of the time. God IS NOT in mortal combat with the devil. God has not lowered Himself to the role of being the eternal janitor for the devil, to clean up his messes. God does not plan a perpetual repair program to handle all the human wreckage left in the wake of Satan's destructive acts. God is not the devil's janitor. The devil is God's tool used to accomplish a more glorious purpose for everyone - including the devil.

Christ is not just the propitiation for our sins, but also for the sins of the whole world. If you hear someone telling another to "go to hell," you can say, "thank you Jesus." You will already be there to receive them if that's where they will go. Christ will be there waiting as a welcoming committee as low down as anyone may go into the bottomless pit. Charles Price wrote, "There is no fear in hell for God will be there, and since God is perfect love, He will cast out all fear." By the blood of His cross Christ blazed the trail even to the lowest hell for the purpose of reconciling all to Himself. No person will be left outside that reconciliation. And not even one event in anyone's life be wasted. God will relieve us of our torments in hell just as soon as they have accomplished His purpose, and the result of His purpose will be more glorious for us than if we had not endured the experience of hell.

Mankind is afraid to trust Cod`because they don't know what He is really like. For 2000 years the myriad branches of Christendom have taught us that Cad will eternally torture everyone who doesn't believe their interpretation of what the Bible teaches is necessary for salvation. There's something wrong with that, beloved. Jesus will reconcile all to himself and He will be there in hell to lift everyone out of it. God is in such complete control over the interplay between good-and evil that even the devils of hell will be turned into something good. Christ tasted death for every man and blazed the trail through hell itself. And He will lead us through the fires of hell until every bit of rebellion has been dealt with.

Christ didn't die as our substitute. He died and rose again to insure that we will all die and rise again victoriously. This is the true message of reconciliation. God has a plan by which everyone will come through into His glory and life, and His sovereign grace will, guarantee the successful completion of that plan. II Corlnth. 5:14 says, "For the love which Christ has for pie presses me on all sides, holding me to one end and prohibiting me from considering any other, wrapping itself around me in compelling tenderness and giving me an impelling motive, having brought me to this conclusion, namely, that since One died on behalf of all, therefore all died." When Christ died and rose again victoriously, He guaranteed that everyone else would also die and rise again victoriously. All the death throes of the second death will turn out to be birth pangs.

Christ didn't die on the cross to pacify the anger of God, When I was a child I was taught that God was mad at me because I was a sinner, but Jesus died to make God get over His anger and be nice to me. But since my childhood, I have had a repentance towards God and I have changed my mind about what He is like. Now I can see that God has never been mad at no but He was in Christ, reconciling the whole world to Himself, NOT IMPUTING their trespasses unto them. Matthew 5:23 says, "If thy brother has ought against thee, go thy way and be reconciled to thy brother." God operates by the same principle that He taught us to live by. He knows that we have"ought against Him" for subjecting us to this life of suffering. So He comes to us through Christ and takes the full responsibility of winning our love and respect - to the extent that He says, "I am sought of them that ask not for Me, and I am found of them who sought Me not."

The evangelical :ABC" method of conversion is NOT the message of reconciliation. Trying to make people "acknowledge" that they are sinners is imputing their trespasses unto them. This is NOT how God reconciles us unto Himself. God takes full responsibility for our sinful condition and full responsibility for our deliverance from it. According to His timing for each individual, He brings them into the light of the truth that He is reconciled to us, and that light dissipates the darkness of our sinful condition. This is a truth that sets men free. Psalm 103:10 says that God does not reward us according to our iniquities. The negative results of our involvement with sin will be changed by God into a greater positive than if we had not been involved. After God has used the negative results of our involvement with sin to accomplish His glorious purpose for us, then He casts all of our offences into the sea of his forgetfulness. God makes us sick of our old sinful ways by causing us to see and desire "a more excellent way." Both the ability to see, and the desire to walk in "the more excellent way" are entirely a products of the influence of God's grace. God is reconciling everyone one of us unto Himself. He says to every one us, "Neither do I condemn thee, go and sin no more."

Iniquity is lawlessness, or to operate outside of God's revealed will.

Ephesians 1:9 & 10 says, "God has allowed us to know the secret of His plan and it is this: he purposes in His sovereign will that all human history will be consummated in Christ, that everything that exists in the heavens or on earth shall find its perfection and fulfilment in Him." God said it - that settle it. All of creation is going to be totally, irrevocably and gloriously reconciled and made perfect.

II Timothy 3:1 says, "In the last days perilous times will come." But most people fail to read on to the ninth verse that says, "But in the long run they will not get very far for their folly shall be manifested to all men." (Amplified version). Perilous times will only prevail as long as God wants to use them to accomplish something better that they prevailed. Eventually all evil will self-destruct, but all good will perpetuate itself.

God either must have had some glorious purpose in mind for all creation when he allowed Adam to fall into sin, or it was the most profound blunder of all time. God is sovereign and He is totally victorious. He has not, indeed he cannot, make opposing will so strong that it can defeat His desire to bring it into positive blessing.

Contrary to popular belief, God intended for Adam to partake of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. he wanted Adam to violate His revealed will to accomplish something better for mankind than if he had not violated it. Isaiah 45:7 tells us that God accepts responsibility for all the evil that exists. Evil is only perverted good, therefore God can and will change all evil into something good for everyone.

"The completion decreed shall overflow with righteousness. For the Lord god of hosts shall make the completion which he has determined, in the midst of all the land."

All of God's completions end in righteousness because he always brings iniquity to an end. Traditional Christian theology teaches that the end for most people will be writing torment in a cesspool of fire where they will suffer forever with an asbestos like body that doesn't burn up. If this is what you believe, I want to change your mind about what the Word of God says about this matter. It tells us that God's thoughts toward mankind are not thoughts of evil calamity, but of glorious expectation for their final outcome.

The Word of God tells us that when God is finished with his purpose for the ages and time has run its course, then the whole creation will be delivered from the tyranny of change and decay into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Isaiah 14:24 says, "The Lord of hosts has sworn, surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and As I have purposed, so shall it stand." Romans 9:28 says, "He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. When God is finished with His purpose for allowing iniquity, it will be brought to a conclusion quickly, and His righteousness will then prevail everywhere. Isaiah 28:21 says, "The Lord shall rise up that He might do His work and bring to pass His act." When we talk about "getting our act together," we need to realize that God is going to get His act together too! Verse 22 continues, "For I have heard of His completion that He has determined for the whole earth." God's act of completion is not just for a few, it's for the entire earth and it will end in righteousness for ALL; that's what God has promised.

Our willing surrender to God's will is not accomplished by us. It is a process that is all of

God. God says, "I will...and they shall..." God doesn't just know when we will surrender, He causes us to do it. It's because He is the cause that He can confidently say, "They will surrender." It's God all the way. We don't find the Good Shepherd; the

"If thou hast known the things belonging to thy peace ..." Luke 19,42.

Several times the Scriptures use the phrase, "Peace be unto you, fear not." We need to know that our God is in control of all that happens to everyone. When we are assured of this fact, we can prevent fear from usurping the scene and bringing with it its torment. Ephesians 1:11 says that God works ALL' things after the council of His own will." Job 37:7 says, "God sealeth up the hand of every man that all men may known His work." God TOTALLY controls all of our circumstances - therefore FEAR NOT! This truth totally destroys the Babylonish doctrine of "free moral agency" and the "free will of man." We simply just don't have it and we never did. God says, "I seal it up." God lets some of us sink further into iniquity than others. But we need to remember that when God finishes using it, iniquity will have an end and righteousness will overflow. Therefore FEAR NOT!

We need to have our understanding about God changed from a negative to a positive. God is not eagerly poised to clobber us when He doesn't like what we do. He never even lets us get into a position where we need clobbering unless He intends to make us better off for it in the end. When you have a God like this, people will feel peaceful when they come into your presence, for they will understand that you have a God Who is so loving that He transforms all negatives into glorious positives. This kind of God speaks peace to the inner being, brings joy to the soul, and makes life worth living. This is what God is really like.

Christian Babylon cultivates fear by teaching a wrong concept of God. They do this to bring you into submission to their beliefs. But when you know what God is really like, then all that is within you can bless His holy name without any fear at all. The true Gospel does not include the threat of permanent death or eternal doom. The true Gospel announces that death will be destroyed, and life and incorruption will be brought to everyone. Are you afraid of the future? Daniel was. When the Lord revealed the future to Daniel, Daniel said, "My sorrows have turned upon me and there remains no strength in me." But God said to Daniel, "Fear not; peace be unto you: be strong, for there is none who can succeed against Me in these things."

Zechariah 4:6 tells us that our strength will not depend on the might and power of ourselves, but on God's Spirit. We will not be strong by sheer grit, tenacity of will or mental cunning. Our strength will come by the Spirit of God quickening to us what God is really like. As we become convinced that He is in control of all that touches the lives of everyone, this will give us strength to face our circumstances victoriously. Our peace of mind and heart is dependant on what we think God is like. Negative thoughts, questions, surmisings, imaginations, conjectures and speculations are all swept away by a glorious revelation of what God is like.

The reason that men's hearts are failing them for fear is because they don't have a revelation about God's plan for the ages and what He is really like. If they knew, then they would realize that God will change all sorrow and suffering into something better that it happened. A lack of knowledge of what God is like always brings fear, but God will bring us all to the point when we will truly know Him in whom we have believed. As we learn to understand the Scriptures correctly, we will learn what God is really like and we will be able to trust Him the way that He wants us to, without fear. We will trust Him with our problems, our family, our children, and our future unafraid. "For He is our peace," Ephesians 2:14; "and in Him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge."

Isn't it interesting that men fear believing what God is really like, when such knowledge is the very thing; that would take away their fear! They are afraid that God may not be as wonderful as He is. But if they knew how wonderful He is, they would stop being afraid! "Therefore I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him," Ephesians 1:17. Known that God is in intimate control of everyone for their ultimate good. To know this is to know real peace.

"I am my beloved's, and His desire is toward me," Song of Solomon 7:10.

1 John 4:19 says, "We love Him because He first loved us." It is God's responsibility to cause us to love Him. Even the initiative to cause us to want to love Him belongs to God alone. Lamentations 5:21 says, "Turn us unto Thee O Lord, and we shall be turned."

Psalm 84:2 says, "My heart and my flesh cries out for the living God." It is God Himself Who creates this depth of desire within, and He will do it for all of us according to His timing. It is true that God is going to destroy the devil, but He will do it by making him into a new creation. Job 14:15 says, "Thou shalt call and I will answer Thee. Thou wilt have a desire to the work of Thy hands." We are all the work of God's hands, and He will complete His workmanship in us in due time.

"I will refine them as silver is refined and they shall call on My Name and I will, hear them. I shall say, These are my people, and they shall say, The Lord is my God." Zechariah 13:9.

Because it is God Who controls the process of refining, the result for everyone will be the confession, "The Lord is my God. Christian Babylon doesn't understand the true nature of God's grace. The operations of God's grace are not the same as man's programs of the flesh. The grace of God always accomplishes its intended purpose, but it doesn't operate according to man's timetable. Babylon has its doctrines of redemption, but they all fall short of God's plan.

The second death is the process of dying out to our opposition to Tod's reveled will. this process will take place both during this lifetime and, if necessary, during the ages to come.

Although we are all to be refined as silver, we should never idolize each other as a god of silver. Never put another person on a pedestal in your thinking. We are never more, or less, than an outworking of God's grace alone. Proverbs 27:21 says, "As the refining pot is to silver, so is a man to his praise." The praise of man is a refining fire that will test the quality of his sliver. Never accept praise unto yourself. Always direct it back to God. We are nothing in ourselves. Only what the grace of God has accomplished in us is worth anything. If we retain praise unto ourselves our spirit becomes polluted. It is not wrong to receive compliments from others, but the test of the quality of our silver is revealed in how we receive those compliments. Do we store up the raise unto ourselves, or do we acknowledge the true source of our good behaviour? Christ always pointed to God His Father as the source of all His good deeds. He said, "I can of my own self do nothing." God will put each of us through the refining fires until we too acknowledge that we can of our own selves do nothing. The apostle Paul said, "I can do all things through Christ Who strengthens me."

God who has a constant alert awareness of our immediate circumstances, and he is intimately involved in them. Until you know the god that controls the mystery of iniquity for everyone's good - you still don't know your God.

It is a marvelous truth "that all the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto the Lord to serve Him with one consent." I thrill to the fact that in god's predestined purpose it is an immutable part of His plan that the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ to serve the Lord. The same "all" that was in Adam shall be made alive in Christ, or you have two different "alls" which, of course, isn't so. "By Adam ('by' is just as accurate as 'in') - By Adam all died, even so by Christ shall all be made alive, but each man in his own order." Every tear and every sigh is a prophetic promise that there will be a liberation - that ultimately all creation will be released from its bondage to corruption.

So great has my concept of God become that when anything negative happens I no longer attribute it to Satan, but to God alone. There is a higher realm than being hemmed in by Satanic forces. When you learn that the cause of all the negative realm is God, then you will stop being afraid of it.

Ephesians 1:10 says that it is God's purpose, the dispensation of the fulness of time, to gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in the heavens and on earth. God purposes, when the times are right for it, when all the conditions have been met and He has fully set the stage for it, to gather together in one, everything in Christ. The quality will never be diminished. God maintains the quality even though the quantity will reach out and include everyone everywhere in the heavens and on earth. We will all be brought up to the level of the standard which is Christ Himself. and in Him we will all be one.

Until you know that god is just as responsible for the evil as he is for the good, you don't really know Him. Paul says, "all things are yours, both life and death..." We love to think that more-abundant life is ours but not many understand that God will use the process of death for EVERYONE'S benefit. God is totally God, and everything, including death, is subservient to His will.

We need to know Jesus as he really is. We cannot become like Him until we see Him as he really is. Paul said, "O that I might know Him!" Learning to know Him is a process, just as becoming like Him is a process. We will all learn to know Him and become like Him according to His own sovereign timetable for us, "every man in His own

"When everything is subjected to Christ, then the Son Himself will also subject Himself to the Father Who put all things under Him, so that God may be All in all - that is, be everything to everyone, supreme, the indwelling and controlling factor of life in every creature." 1 Corinthians 15:28. It is more than forced subjection that causes everybody to bow before Him coercively on the outside. Every knee shall bow in worship, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord because of the factor of God's indwelling control. No man can acknowledge Jesus control except by the Holy Spirit, and the Scripture says that God will pour out His Spirit on all flesh. When every creature has been infused by the Spirit of God, it will be an automatic spontaneous outflow for them to say, "Jesus, you are lord."

God is a very wise economist. He doesn't waste anything. What seemingly are the death throes of a whole existing order, are but the birth-pangs of a new order that He will bring forth. On Romans chapter 8, Conybear wrote, "The very struggles which all animated beings make against pain and death, show that pain and death are not a part of the proper laws of their nature, but rather a bondage imposed upon them from without; thus every groan and tear is an unconscious prophecy of liberation from the power of evil. Lamentations 5:21 says, "Turn Thou us unto Thee O Lord, and we shall be turned." It must be God Who turns us. We, of ourselves cannot turn. Because it totally depends on Him, everyone will be turned unto Him.

Hebrews 13:9 says, "Be not tossed about by various doctrines, for it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace."

The grace of God effectively turns us from sin. It includes the bestowal of righteous attitudes and causes us to receive it. It inwardly transforms us and breaks the power of our wrong attitudes. God's grace replaces our sinful attitudes with His divine nature and it establishes us in righteousness.

God sends grace on His enemies, and that grace sets in motion, forces that effectively bring His enemies into His righteousness and life. The grace of God humbles us by a process of conditioning, thus guaranteeing its effectiveness. not only does God give grace to the humble, but the same grace humbles us so we will receive it without fail. "As sin abounded unto death, even so will grace reign through righteousness to eonian life by Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 5:21.

Through the light of God's judgement all creation will be restored to harmony, tranquility and peace in Him. The process is not by escapism. None of us will escape the correctional process of God's judgements until they bring us into His peace. The grace of God will teach us all to "deny ungodliness."

We can be confident that the Lord will finish His work in each one of us. Christendom has fallen into the error that God started our salvation, but it if we don't help Him out He'll never be able to complete it. God is the author and the finisher and all the distance in between. he will impart His victorious life and live it out through us. He will work in us until we become steadfast and unmovable. He is able to keep us from stumbling, and he will do so after our stumbling has taught us the lessons that he wants us to learn. John 6:45 says that "all shall be taught of God."

Christian Babylon loves to preach the wrong kind of judgment. Babylon's judgment is eternal suffering in hell-fire. God's judgement "rests for a light." God's judgement is a correctional process that will bring each one of us into harmony with His desire. God's judgements will always rehabilitate us. They are always remedial and will produce an inner change of attitude that will condition us for salvation. His judgements will bring us into an alignment with His truth and righteousness as it rests for a light. All of God's judgements are the means to a good end for everyone. The marred vessel never leaves the hand of the divine Potter.

There is a realm of light, a consciousness of the triumph of mercy, a vision of the future's unfolding glory, that will illuminate our mind to the extent that it will dispel all of our fear and despair.

the Scripture says that gross darkness covers the people of the earth. Most people cannot see that God's ultimate end for everyone is not loss and darkness, but light and restoration. God will lift us out of the prison mentality of the darkness of the negative realm, loosing us into the light, to know that he is truly Lord of all.

The heart-beat of God is mercy, and all mankind will receive that mercy. Luke 6:35 says "He is kind to the unthankful and to the evil; be ye therefore merciful as your Father also is merciful." Come judgement time God's mercy will be unconditional. It will not be bestowed upon us because we earned it. We will receive it because of His decision and His decision alone.

Sinful man loves a god of endless punishment and torment because their own sinful heart loves the idea that their god is just like they are. Lamentations 3:23 says, "God's compassions fail not, they are new every morning; great is Thy faithfulness." God's mercy will be applied universally under the time element of His own wisdom. "For God locks up all together in stubbornness, that He should be merciful to all." Romans 11:32. Because everyone has been locked up by God in the realm of unbelief, everyone shall also receive His mercy. God takes full responsibility, both for our unbelief, and for our deliverance. The restoration of all to the government of God, and the gathering into one of all that has been scattered, will depend entirely upon the effective influence of the mercy of God. The ultimate goal of God's thoughts for all men will be consummated in the triumph of His mercy.

In the ages to come, God will bring out of His storehouse the treasures of His bountiful blessing of mercy for everyone. We will forget all of our suffering as a dream in the night when He brings us to His mercy seat. After God has worked His purpose out by sending us through our bruisings, purgings and chastenings. He will bring everyone of us to His mercy seat and say to us, "I will make it better for you that you experienced all of your sufferings."

God will appease every one of us for all of the evil that He has done to us. He will so bless us and superabound towards us in mercy that we will forget the dark night of the soul. The mercy seat will reveal the outflow of God's love to us as He appears, conciliates, and blesses us and brings us into harmony with His purposes. It was God Who turned us all to destruction, and It will be God Who turns us all back and will bless us for all that we have experienced.

God says, "I guarantee you're going to make it because I will do everything that needs to be done in and through you." God takes total responsibility for everyone's salvation from its beginning to its completion.

As long as there is duality in our minds we cannot find true peace. Only in total singleness of mind about Who is always in control can we find true peace. You cannot fully partake of the tree of life as long as you partake of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. We should not ask, "Is this good," or "Is that bad?" We should ask, "Does it minister life?"

Don't worry about whether or not the devil is behind a certain thing. Attribute everything to God's control and the devil will lose his power over you. When adversity comes, don't think about how strong the devil is; think about what God is teaching you through it. Our adversary, the devil, cannot do anything to us unless God wants him to. Fear of what may happen, and ignorance of God's sovereign control combine together to rob us of true peace. Ephesians 4:27 says, "neither give place to the devil." Not many in Christendom know the peace of having their minds guarded by a knowledge of God's intimate sovereign control over Satan's activities. The harlot Babylon (falsely called "Christianity") has plagued us with ideas about Satan's power that has kept us occupied fighting a war that doesn't even exist.

Proverbs 11:9 says, "Through knowledge shall the just be delivered." The Hebrew word "delivered" means, "drawn out, armed and fortified." Learning about God's intimate sovereign control over all negative activities will draw us out of Babylon's bondage and arm and fortify our minds to face them victoriously.

Neither God nor truth need any defence, for God's sovereign control is total all of the time. When Jesus said (Matthew 28:18), "All power is given unto Me in heaven and on earth," He meant "ALL" power. That includes the power of the adversary. When we see God in everything, we will be able to face up to the temporary triumph of evil, for we will know that God is in control. Jesus said, "I can do nothing of Myself." And I declare unto you, neither can Satan. He has no power of his own. Jesus said to Satan, "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and Him only shalt thou serve." This was not just a command. It was also a prophecy. God will see to it that everything that Satan has done will redound to God's glory, and eventually even Satan himself will bow in loving worship before God.

The Adversary has been divinely placed by God, the Placer, to try us. Isaiah 63:17 tells us that it is God Himself Who causes us to err from His ways, and it is He Who hardens our heart. And Isaiah 66:4 tells us that it is God Himself Who chooses the delusions we get into. We can't even fall into a false cult of our own "free will," for it is God Who causes us to fall. God will involve us in the false cult that He can use the most to process us and fit us into our special place within His master-plan

God is always in total control, always in total intimate sovereign control over everyone and every circumstance. Paul said, "There is only one God, the Father, and one Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom are ALL things. Howbeit, there is not in every man that knowledge." 1 Corlnthians 8:6. God will lead everyone into an understanding of this truth according to His own perfect timing. Sooner or later He will reveal to everyone that He alone is in control, and He will end the duality of division that is in most minds.

When we learn that all powers are regulated by God, it will change the negatives in our life into positives. If you think that you of yourself can contribute to beginning and sustaining your salvation, then you yourself have become an adversary to God. Believing in two sources of salvation is just as double minded as believing in two sources of evil. In both cases you are partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Although Satan doesn't know it yet, he is a co-labourer with God in the development of God's plan for the ages.

There is no ultimate loss for anyone, because God controls the destiny of everyone. The Greek word for dammed means "to be judged." To be damned means to enter a process

of judgement unto purification.

God only allows to happen that which He intends to work into good for everyone. At no time has God ever relinquished control of anyone. God is in intimate sovereign control over everyone all of the time. He always has been, and He always will be. Anything that is not built on the foundation of the sovereignty of God will eventually collapse and be destroyed.

Satan will temporarily be cast into a bottomless pit. Since there is no bottom he will not be able to build a foundation of any sort, and he will have to acknowledge that there is no foundation but Jesus Christ and of God. Jesus said, "The prince of this world cometh, and he hath nothing in Me. For Satan, Jesus was a bottomless pit, and so shall we all become according to God's timing. The sooner we acknowledge God's sovereignty, the sooner we will become a bottomless pit to Satan and the entire negative realm. Negative influences will flail the air, but they won't find a resting place in us.

God will never abandon anyone. He will temporarily remove us from positive manifestations of His presence, but He will never abandon us. During the ages to come, His love will keep on being manifested until everyone is responding to it in a positive loving way. God will change the negative past into a glorious positive for everyone.

Fire makes glass malleable, and God's fire will make us malleable so that we will release ourselves into His hands. Iron ore is useless until it is put into the fire to remove the slag. The result is pig-iron which is still useless. But through a second firing with molten salt, the very finest of steel is made. Molten salt rearranges the molecules so they are all going in the same direction. The finest of steel is used in automobile springs. They absorb the road-shock so you can ride in comfort. When all the "molecules" of our spirit cooperate with each other and cease their internal struggle, there will be a reconciliation to God's will and the resulting enjoyment of His positive blessings. God's fire will get rid of everything in everyone that causes them to be useless.

In England, they manufacture a certain kind of chinaware that is put through the fire eighteen times. The resulting product will not shatter, but will bounce when dropped, When God has finished with everyone, He will have purged out all of the dross so that

when they receive a blow, it will only propel them higher into the positive realms, "For everyone shall be salted with fire." Mark 9:49.