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Many priests and preachers are preaching a salvation that leads the human being into an eternal spiritually darkness. You who read my homepages must know, that I am fully aware of the fact that one day I will answer before God and before Jesus Christ for all I teach people and for everything I write on the homepages of The Apostolic Church. In the mission I have received from God I am exhorted to preach the holy truths of God, according to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and so say the Holy Spirit based on the word of God that: Many of the priests and the preachers of today have according to the word of god become the messengers of the devil by withholding god's holy truths in their lukewarm preaching. And because of this omission a multitude of people are being brought into an eternal spiritually darkness! Our heavenly Father has at all times spoken through different messengers. When people have deserted from God's holy truths, He has sent His word and warned the people. Many of those, who have listened to God's warnings throughout the times, have received them with gratitude and humbleness. Others have misunderstood God's warnings and become very upset. In the old testament as well as in the new testament, we can read about human beings accepting the word of God and those who have not. When Jesus spoke of Himself as the light of the world and that he have come to save human beings, the chief priests and the scribes got very upset and meant that he blasphemed God. Who would say, that Jesus didn't love these people? Who would say, that Jesus didn't spoke with love to the chief priests and the scribes when he said to them: "Your father is the devil..." But they misunderstood him all of the time and: "They picked up stones to throw at him..."John 8:44, 59. For information I will mention that about 32000 people have read my homepages. Many of these people are very grateful and they have witness of how they have been helped and strengthened in their faith by the message, among those, are priests, preachers and people from different churches and communions. Others have been very upset and misunderstood the message here on these homepages because they cannot see the truth and the difference between the worldly and the spiritual in God's word. 1 Cor. 2:4-14. When God sent his Son Jesus Christ to this world for about 2000 years ago, God gave him a holy mission so that he with the holy word of God as the basis, might bring the lost human being back into a new spiritually life in fellowship with God. Because of this Jesus was very careful to teach his disciples that it was a matter of life and death to keep to the holy truths of God in their preaching. Jesus especially enlightened them that the power to salvation and sanctification only can be found in the holy word of God. That is the power and the truth of God, that the devil in all eternity cannot defeat. If we don't believe that the word of God is the truth then we are not able to understand God's truth because it is with God's truth we have the possibility to understand the truth. God's truth is described in the Bible as a spiritually living light. King David had discovered the power in God's word and he says: "for with thee is the fountain of life, and in thy light we see the light." Ps. 36:9. (the Swedish Transl.) When Jesus talked with his disciples regarding the new spiritual life, he explained to them, that without God's truth they had no possibility to understand the truth and said: "You shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8:32. When Peter was preaching the word of God, he especially exhorted the Christians to keep to the Word and said: "If anyone speak, may he speak according to the word of God..." 1 Peter 4:11. Many confessing Christians of today do not know the truth about The Apostolic Church, that Jesus Christ founded in 33 on Pentecost-day. History tells us that already in 324 this Church lost its spiritual light when the Catholic Church entered the History. From that time since they have over and over again, changed the holy truths of God so that they might be suitable for different kinds of teaching, interpretation and opinions in different kinds of Churches. The disunion that exists in different kinds of Churches is not from God or Jesus Christ. It is the devil who with his cunning and shrewdness bit by bit has captured people with his delusions. At the same time the disunion in different kinds of Churches has made that if the teaching in one church is not acceptable for a person, she can choose another church that has another teaching that is more acceptable to her outward lower nature. But we must know concerning the holy word of God and the truths of Jesus Christ regarding salvation and sanctification that you cannot compromise or bargain so that it might please your lower nature, because the truths of the Lord are steadfast for all eternity. You cannot discuss the holy truths of the Lord you can only accept them. Jesus said concerning the holy word of the Lord: "Heaven and earth will pass away; my words will never pass away." Matt. 24:35. There are many people today who are members of different kinds of Churches who commonly say they believe in God. But having a belief in God and in Jesus Christ is not enough! The devil knows and believes more than you do. He believes and if he says he doesn't believes, he lies. He is a liar. He believes far more than any of us, but yet he is not sanctified or a true Christian. He is always using lies and delusions and his entire work is built on half-truths, which creates a spiritual lukewarm faith, a faith that is appearing in the lukewarm Christians. Jesus says regarding these lukewarm Christians that: "Not everyone who calls me "Lord, Lord" will enter the kingdom of Heaven, but only those who do the will of my heavenly Father." Matt. 7:21 The one who has God's truth within her spirit and mind is without any difficulty able to listen to the devil preaching through the lukewarm Christians. For example, when they In their blindness and ignorance thank god that jesus is walking beside them. Paul had a complete different faith in the holy word of God and in the Saving power in Jesus Christ within the sanctified human being and said that: "The life I now live is not my life, but the life which christ lives in me". Gal. 2:20. The word of God teach us that we through a true faith might become the owner of Jesus Christ within our spirit and our life. God has given us the possibility to be able to find what we are looking for deep down within our spirit. Listen to the word of god, saying to you: "but to all who did receive him,= (jesus christ) to those who have yielded him their allegiance, he gave the power to become children of god, not born of any human stock, or by the fleshly desire of a human father, but the offspring of god himself." John 1:12-13. It means: first we have to receive the word of God and then Jesus Christ can begin his work of sanctification within us and with the truths of god within our spirit and mind change, cleanse and sanctify us into a new spiritual human being. Gal. 2:20. There is no doubt that in the different kinds of Churches they have lost the elementary truth, instead of bringing people to Jesus Christ and to the living Words of God, which are love, purity, righteousness, faithfulness, humbleness, gratitude, peace and joy, these word, which are the basis of a sanctified spiritually life, they are bringing people to their different Churches, who have a mountain of various interpretations, opinions and conceptions, which have no relation to the gospel of Jesus Christ. The Bible says that an apostasy is never a sudden divergence from the right path. A divergence from the truth makes one compromise leading to another. When the priest or the preacher is teaching one small divergence from the truth the congregation follows. They say in their ignorance and their indifference, since the priest or the preacher has said so, it must be the truth. But no matter how small the lie is, it's still a delusion and never harmonize with the truth. That's why it involves a great responsibility to be a messenger of a holy God, and each preacher must be aware of that one day they will have to answer for what they teach people hear in this world and in these days. Jesus Christ enlightens us distinctly about the fact that: "The kingdom of God is within our spirit." But they don't listen to God's word because those people who declare themselves being saved, also priests and preachers are not looking for God and Jesus Christ within their spirit. Instead they are looking for God and Christ somewhere up there and out there but they don't find them there??? They have not understand Jesus' word when he distinctly warned against the powers of antichrist, that were to come and deny Christ and God's kingdom within the spirit of man and instead announce the kingdom of God: "look, here it is! or there it is!" Luke 17:21. Many priests and preachers are preaching this delusion Jesus warned about: they are placing God and Jesus Christ at a large distance outside the spirit of man. The Bible teach: "When all things began, the Word already was. The Word dwelt with God, and what God was, the Word was...There was life in Him, and that life was the light of men. The light shines on in the dark, and the darkness has never mastered it." John 1: 1-5. Before Jesus left this world he spoke of: "But your Helper, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and will call to mind all that I have told you." John 14:26. According to the word of God it is the Holy Spirit that discloses to our spirit that god is within his word and that the word of god is life. and that life is the light of men, that shines in the dark. The spiritual light, that this Bibletext is talking of and that shines in the dark means that the word of God and Jesus Christ are living within the spirit of the consecrated man. The light which shines in the dark consists of the true love, righteousness, purity, peace, joy, grace, mercy, humbleness and gratitude of god, to mention some of the spirits, within the spirit of the consecrated man. The word of God says that the rescued and the consecrating ones were meant to shine as: "Stars of heaven in a dark world." Phil. 2:15. This is the message of Jesus Christ to us human beings from our heavenly God. Jesus Christ never placed this light of God outside the spirit of man, he distinctly said: "Anyone who loves me will act upon the word of God and my Father will love him and we will come to him and make our dwelling within his spirit." John 14:23. (The Swedish Transl.) To help us human beings to find the right way back to the glory of God and to the kingdom of God, Jesus said: " the kingdom of god is within you." Luke 17:21. In the apostolic Church they were always preaching christ within the spirit of the consecrated man and emphasized that: "This is how we may recognize the Spirit of God: every spirit which acknowledges that Jesus is Christ, and has come in the flesh is from God..." 1 John 4:2. And further, the word of God says: "...and every spirit which does not thus acknowledge Jesus, is not from God. This is the spirit of Antichrist, you have been told that he was to come..." 1 John 4:3. Paul bore witness of this divine miracle and declared that Jesus Christ was living in his spirit and said: "The life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me." Gal. 2:20. This declaration means that the word of God and the Spirit of Christ were living in his spirit. Many confessing Christians believe in spiritual ignorance that they are able to enter the kingdom of God no matter what they do. But Jesus Christ especially enlightened us about Himself: "I am the way, I am the truth and I am life; no one comes to the Father except by me." John 14:6. Jesus distinctly says that if we don't allow him, since he is the way and the truth, to come into our spirit and our mind and there become our spiritual life, then we will not be able to enter the kingdom of God or to have any contact with our heavenly Father. It is through the word of God and the spirit of Christ within us that we have the possibility to have contact with our heavenly Father and Jesus Christ in the realm above because: "If we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship one with another..." 1 John 1:7. God's word is always talking of a new spiritual man. A new spiritual world. A new spiritual way of thinking and Jesus especially emphasized in his preaching and said that: "My kingdom does not belong to this world..." John 18:36. Many who are listening to the message of Jesus about salvation and sanctification find the message hard and they don't see God's unbounded Love, Grace and Mercy in the word, that gives us warning and rebuke and which is meant for a revival in a time of darkness. You have today got lost from the spiritual way, that Jesus showed us. If we read and compare the religious methods of today with the holy word of God, we see how the powers of antichrist have force their way into the different kinds of churches and into religious communions and work there with their destructive forces. There are thousends of people in the different churches that are longing for a deeper contact with their heavenly Father and with Jesus Christ. They are longing for a complete spiritual deliverance but their spiritual yearning for deliverance is killed through the antichrist preachings of today. Jeremiah had the same problems in his time with the priests and the preachers. They didn't listen to God's word, instead they walked their own ways and brought people away from God. Jeremiah says about them: "For the land is full of adulterers, the earth lies mourning under a curse, the wild pastures have dried up. The course that they run is evil, and their powers are unrighteous. For prophet and priest alike are godless; I have come upon the evil they are doing even in my own house. This is the very word of the LORD..." Jer. 23:10-11. (The Swedish Transl.) "To me all her inhabitants are like Sodom and Gomorrah." Jer.23:14. "Is not my word like as a fire, says the LORD and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? Therefore I will rebuke the prophets =(the priests and the preachers), says the LORD, who steal my words from one another for their own use. Yes, I will rebuke the prophets,= (the priests and the preachers) says the LORD, who concoct words of their own and then say: "This is the word of the LORD." Jer. 23:29-30. (The Swedish Transl.) When John for about 2000 years ago was held prison on the Island of Patmos, Jesus Christ revealed to him in a prophesy about the religious methods of antichrist in the last days and said that: "And in those days shall men seek death,(the death of the old human nature) but shall not find it; and shall desire to die, but death shall flee from them."Rev. 9:6. The reason for men not to find Jesus Christ within their spirit and the death of the old human nature, is, because the priests and the preachers don't have the same spiritual message to people today, as Jesus Christ and the Apostles had at their time, instead they keep to the antichrist and lukewarm preaching , which are not from God. You who read the Bible can see, they were always talking of "repentance" and "sanctification" in Jesus'and the apostles' time. These precious and important words are not so often mentioned today. The words "repentance" and "sanctification" don't mean the same thing today, as they meant in Jesus' and the apostles' time. You have lowered the banner and removed the sharpness in these words in order to bring ungodless people into their different kinds of churches without any repentance or sanctification. The priests and the preachers of today have demonstrably sold off the holy word of God and through interpretations and ideas of their own, compromised between the spiritual and the worldly in their preaching and by doing so, closing the way for people, not to enter the kingdom of God. They have converted the holy word of God into sleeping-draught from hell, that has choked the voice of conscience within the spirit of men. The result of their lukewarm preaching has led up to the wrong conception of the members of the church to believe they are saved and sanctified. They have taught their members to cry peace when there is no peace. In conversations and discussions they have together converted the holy truths of God to half-truths. The depth, height, breadth and length of Jesus' words regarding "repentance" and "sanctification" are no longer examining man's conscience. These important words do not enlighten any more as they did in Jesus' and the apostles' time. But these valuable words are of the same significance as the were in jesus' and the apostles' time. I have often heard preachers saying: "It is only one step to Christ and to the kingdom of God." Yes, you have made it easy, very easy. If it is only one step to Jesus Christ and to God's kingdom, then it is a very large step, a step, no man yet has been able to take. Through such ungodly statements in their preaching, they have converted the message of Jesus Christ into a trifle, yes, into a small matter. In some churches they invite the sinner to kneel down and encourage him to pray: "Dear Jesus, save me and forgive my sin." And then they tell the person, who has received salvation, in contradiction to God's word, that he is a children of God, without that person having experienced neither repentance nor sanctification within his spirit or mind. The word of God distinctly separates salvation from sanctification. The sinner who has received forgiveness for her sin from God through Jesus Christ hasn't offered anything but she has received something. The forgiveness we receive from God involves our repentance. A repentance without giving up and offer our old nature of sin, is no repentance according to god's word. The salvation is a gift from God to all human beings and it is true that the sinner has been saved and got his sin forgiven, but salvation is no offer but a gift. Sanctification means to offer oneself and now we have to pay the price and that price is high and according to God's word, it will cost all you can find in this world. Matt. 10:32-39. When we compare the preaching of Jesus about salvation and sanctification with the preaching of the churches in our days, we find that Jesus had an entire different message concerning the salvation and sanctification. The word of God says for ex.: "Someone asked Jesus: Master, are only a few to be saved? His answer was: strive to enter in at the narrow gate; for i tell you that many will try to enter and not be able." Luke 13:23-24. God's word distinctly speaks about the difference between salvation as a gift we might receive free charge, while SANCTIFICATION is about our willingness to offer our old human nature. This offer is the price to be able to find Christ within our spirit. The way from salvation to sanctification is a process. If we for ex. put a grain of wheat in the soil, the old nature must first die before the new nature is able to grow up. To be able to grow up in sanctification, someone is required to teach the person who has been saved, under the guidance of the Spirit of God. Paul writes to the Corinthians about the death of the old human nature similar to Jesus' parable of the death of the grain of wheat and the new life and the spiritual process and says: "You fool! The seed you sow does not come to life(=resurrection) unless it has first died." 1 Cor.15:36. John 12:24. There are many who misunderstand God's word concerning the resurrection from the dead and say it doesn't concerns us now in this earthly life. But we see in this Bibletext, that God's word distinctly talks about the death of the old human nature from sin and resurrection in jesus christ before the physical death. In his letter to the Ephesians Paul writes: "And so the hymn says: Awake sleeper, rise from the dead." Especially observe that Paul here is talking to the Ephesians about the resurrection from the death before the physical death. Eph. 5:14. In his letter to the Galatians Paul writes regarding this death and resurrection in Jesus Christ before his physical death and says: "The life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me."Gal. 2:20. Yes, concerning the salvation and sanctification of man, you have today made it easy for people to enter the kingdom of God. It wasn't like that in Jesus' and the apostles' time. In those days it was a struggle, a fight, a distress, figuratively speaking to cut off your right hand, to tear out your eye. It meant offering and leaving the worldly and choose God and Jesus Christ before everything belonging to this earthly world. It was like living in disgrace, in rejection, in disparagement, hated and cursed, yes, to become a fool to gain Christ, carrying one's cross. Matt. 5:29-30. 1 Cor. 1:21. SEE THE MESSAGE OF THE CROSS! Click here! So that people would understand how difficult it was to find the way back to the kingdom of God, Jesus also said: "No man is worthy of me who cares more for father or mother than for me; no man is worthy of me who cares more for son or daughter; no man is worthy of me who does not take up his cross and walk in my footsteps. By gaining his life a man will lose it; by losing his life for my sake, he will gain it." Matt. 10:37-39. Yes, that is how it was in Jesus' and the apostles' time, but what is the meaning of the words salvation and repentance today? A pleasure, a religious entertainment, a kind of diversion. You have demonstrably made it easy, but Jesus didn't make it easy. He didn't lure anyone with fair and empty words. He didn't declared peace when there was no peace. He knew about the slyness of the devil and words that are not from God was associated with mortal danger regarding the eternal spiritual life. Jesus is still today saying in his word: "Enter by the narrow gate. The road that leads to perdition is wide with plenty of room, and many go that way; but the road that leads to life is small and narrow and those who find it are few...Not everyone who calls me 'Lord, Lord' will enter the kingdom of Heaven, but only those who do the will of my heavenly Father." Matt. 7:13-21. You who are a member in a church and say you are a children of God and a Christian, listen to what Jesus still today is saying: "...unless your righteousness doesn't exceed the Pharisees and the doctors of law, you can never enter the kingdom of Heaven." Matt. 5:20. In the Bible you can read about a young man who asked Jesus: "Master, what good must I do to gain eternal life?" Matt. 19:16-26. this young man would have been very happy if he had been living in our time and met someone of the priests and the preachers of today and have received their answer to the question, but now he met Jesus and instead he got the answer: "...But if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments. Which are they?, he asked. Jesus answered; Do not murder; do not commit adultery; do not steal; do not give false evidence; honour your father and mother and love your fellowman as yourself. The young man answered: I have kept all these. Where do I still fall short? Jesus said to him: If you wish to go the whole way, go, sell your possessions, and give to the poor, and then you will have riches in heaven; and come, follow me". when the young man heard this, he went away with a heavy heart, for he was a man of great wealth. Then Jesus said to his disciples: "I tell you this; a rich man will find it hard to enter the kingdom of Heaven. I repeat, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. The disciples were amazed to hear this. Then who can be saved? they asked. Jesus looked at them, and said, For men this is impossible; but everything is possible for God." Matt. 19:23-26. The Bible distinctly teaches that according to the word, God and Jesus Christ has come within the spirit of the sanctified man and are always alive and present in man's spirit. God's word also enlightens us that: "...if we walk in the light as He himself is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and we are being cleansed from every sin by the blood of Jesus His Son." 1 John 1:7. he light that God's word here is talking about is the love, purity, righteousness, peace, joy, humbleness, gratitude of God and so on. That is, if the confessing Christian has a lack of these divine words within her spirit and deeds then she is still walking in a spiritually darkness and has no contact with God and Jesus Christ who are the light. Many priests and preachers preach about Jesus Christ and his Gospel without having Christ within their spirit. They have not listen to Jesus when he says: "...for apart from me, you can do nothing."John 15:5. Maybe you think I exaggerate the message of salvation and sanctification on my homepages, but Jesus Christ did not exaggerate and he didn't speak empty words when he in his parable, as a serious warning, talked of Lazarus and the rich man's life after the physical death. It describes how the rich man suffered very badly. Jesus distinctly enlightens us that there is no salvation after our physical death. The plain truth is, that everything that man has within her spirit in her hour of death, it will remain in the spirit and follows into the spiritual world, FOR EVER. Luke 16:19-31. You who seek the truth must know, that God is a good God and his word enlightens you that there is a possibility for everyone to come into a right relationship towards our heavenly Father through Jesus Christ. There is a possibility for everyone who preach God's word, to convert themselves to become a living spiritual messenger, because Jesus is still today saying to each one who search for the biblical thruths within their spirit: " ...seek, and you will find." Matt. 7:7. And: "Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts." Hebr. 4:7. Every human being has the possibility to receive God's truths. We have also through a free will, the possibility to repel these truths. God's word teaches us, that we will remain captured through our daily mistakes and unrighteous thoughts. These incorrectnesses might seem to us as small and insignificant, but still they make bars around our spirit where wings of longing flap in vain. In the kingdom of God there is no room for the outward man, because the power that you seek is within you. The way to the kingdom of God is not about creating a power but to release the divine power within your spirit. The spiritual power and strenght is within your spirit and Jesus Christ is willing to help you right now at this very moment to set you free and He says that: "If then the Son sets you free, you will indeed be free." John 8:36. See the message of The Cross! Click here! I wish you all rich blessings, may You receive grace to understand this message before it is too late. And so say the Holy Spirit: "Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand."Dan. 12:10. Greetings of Peace Street-missionary Bror Espegren Back to page 1. I will in the future present more of The Apostolic Church message in English, here on my homepages. © Copyright |