The Gooder News!

The Gooder News!

Where are we now?

By Jeff Moore • 13 Jun, 2023
To see what we have become we must take a step back to examine the whole picture. As we modernized and made bible schools approved in the 1800’s we legitimized man’s approval over God’s. Since then we have learned to brand and sell one denomination as better than someone else’s which really just conformed the masses to see only our religion and not the truth of Jesus words. By neglecting the teaching of the New Testament, we have defended ourselves from both criticism and honest instruction. We don’t have bible enthusiasts anymore we have numbed church goer’s that have no idea what exactly Jesus taught! They quote scriptures at random by topic but almost never in context. For if they could remember its context then they would see how far off we have wondered from His Kingdom today!

THE FACTS OF THE MATTER!

1/ Bible schools are a recent invention in the history of the church. They only indoctrinate to graduate or you will not get a diploma or a pay check! That means you must obey their doctrine as opposed to another colleges doctrine. All of course are just man made preferences and each college builds in this prejudice against the bible truth by nature. A version of truth is never the truth! But it is not just about mere doctrinal differences. It is about selling “our brand” to the minds of the public. Hence a distrust is sown in anyone who does not wear our brand or logo! This is how all branding works and it is the manipulation of mindsets that ensures the brands longevity. Bible college is just a man made invention to brand someone into a thought process. However God wants us to be serving our Lord and Christ not just the church brand scripted and sold today! He does not care about any name other than Jesus Christ being lifted up as the Lord of Glory!

2/ Denominations are a man made structure of systematic theology. They were never required or asked for by God in the bible. They were invented in our modern love of education and thematic learning. Unfortunately they only feign an interest in the truth of bible studies. Because they only teach their doctrine their libraries are mute on several subject and full of books by this they support! It is more political and money driven than as honest study of theology. They have become a ministry mafia secretly killing anyone who knows that their structure is unbiblical and that man made branding is just a franchise! Not unlike the Roman Catholic church they sell church loyalty instead of having a “simplicity of devotion to Christ” relationship with God as the bible teaches. This stops the normal cross pollination of the Christian life. It makes us weaker and less tolerant of differing views. Instead of being devoted to Christ we become a brand defender which most of the time means that we prefer our brand over the scriptures! What a waste of time!

3/ Pastors indoctrinate to support their ministry and their building which supports their denominational head! That is not world evangelism at all but mainly money laundering to support the man made overlords. Ministry has become a profession not a calling. They work for a salary given by the head office which is only a fraction of what is taken in. A job to be protected not a life of service. The lie of “I have arrived” is sold to the people as they brag on how much they love their pastor but they have no idea what God has actually called each of us to! This disempowers the born again believer into being a church supporter and not a ardent lover and worshiper of God Himself. The pastor’s approval becomes the replacement for knowing the scriptures. This is a perversion of the very definition of a born again Christian. We are to be His first and then love one another as equals. The old testament idea that God calls one to Lord over the others is sold as truth today but to promote that today it is a lie! We now are in a New Covenant of relationship to God. New Covenant leadership is not lordship over each other! Our calling requires true humility to be effective not vain showmanship! Our ministries must serve people not use people for profit!

4/ A church goer is blinded from seeing a lost and dying world as they close their doors to relational living. They quickly become addicted to a ministry flavor and the Pastor repeats the doctrine of selfish meism and waiting for God to do something! Church loyalty is defended rather than living life to honor Jesus Christ. We have followed the lead of the Catholic doctrines to control the people with guilt and make the church thrive. The corrupt monetary system has sold the idea of proof of life in cash flow which in Christ is not true at all! You are not defined by what you give in God but it is what you do in life and in sharing His love with each other that defines you! Not a once a week addiction to someone else’s gifting but a living testimony of Christ’s life in us! Jesus is not a club you can buy yourself into. He is God in the flesh and His love is our only proof we are walking with Him daily!

5/ A culture of Gifting Addiction becomes a false image of Godliness which is just a rebranding of meism to suit the culture. Religion misrepresents the clear teaching of Jesus Christ to practice a man centered, ego stroking prize fighter cheering, team for their own version of the Pastor they approve of this week. As long as the denomination is supported, they support the pastor even if crimes are committed by them. But the first church did not have this mindset at all. It was run by the eldership not by the gifting and walked out in humility and prayer. Several times in scripture the eldership told the gifted what they thought the Lord was saying and the gifted obeyed their counsel! What a difference from today’s selling of the top dog in a gifting! This gift worshipping mania has oversold the idea of prophecy and end time concepts to just put fear and control into their Christian zombies. Belonging to Jesus is the focus of real Christianity. Not belonging to the over lording, self inflated gifting. People worshiping does nothing to help folks grow up into their role in His great life today! 1 Cor 14:26 proclaims “let each of you bring!” Not line up to get re-indoctrinated to my gift each week. That habit actually enslaves the body of Christ!

6/ The bible says that the New Covenant is the New and you cannot ever go back in the Old Covenant to make it the New. However, in today’s teaching there is a subtle deception that says the Old is part of the New. Now the bible totally states that the New Covenant ended the Old. But modern religion does not teach that at all. I see today’s Christian being more familiar with quoting the Old as if in it they had some understanding. But please hear me. The ONLY covenant you are in is in the New Covenant in Christ Jesus. He is NOT the amen to a former covenant that could never make anyone perfect! He is the New and Living way into the very heart of the Father! Think of it like marriages for a moment. Just because your former spouse liked their coffee a certain way does not mean that now in a new marriage you can serve the old coffee and think that your spouse must like it. That would be crazy wouldn’t it?! But that is how modern Churchianity is selling Christ and His New Covenant. Like the old can still be valid. It is not!

Now what is good in the bible is always good and what is bad is always bad but the WAY we are walking is not as they walked. Today we are walking in the simplicity of devotion to Christ. No other covenant can be valid but the new one in Jesus Christ. His sacrifice and words are for us to live by in context. His life to be modeled not any other. This will speak volumes as you look into it. Jesus did not come to add to the law. He came to fulfill it!

7/ Our view of the bible has been marketed to us in such a way as to control our view away from God. God is not speaking the entire bible at once like some kind of holy book. That is actually the teaching of witchcraft. They always have a magic book that does miracles. That is not our focus in Christ at all! Jesus alone is called the Word of God in the bible. The bible is never called a holy book in the bible. God is holy the book was a man made collection of God inspired writings. It along with others is called the scriptures that we must study to show ourselves approved. Did you know that 13 other works from 8 different authors are quoted in the bible we have today but not in our bible at all!?! We have been so marketed a brand of Christianity that we do not even know its basic ideas! How sad that we do not take the scriptures in their context, audience relevance and language!

      Context- What is being said to whom?
      Audience Relevance - What did it really mean to those who heard it at that time?
      Language - What meaning does those words have as used by the people of that culture?
      Only CARL knows what the bible is saying.

Today most take the text out of context to make pretext that disagrees with the teaching of the scriptures! We must study to show ourselves approved not seek lies as truth just to be liked! The bible is to be studied not just read. The New Covenant is the only covenant that we Christians are now in. Please live in the laws and commands of your now marriage to God. Do not try and regurgitate the old into the new. Be only of the new and enjoy His life today!

Most people do not know that God never commanded for man to build a building in the New Covenant. He never asked us to follow a gifted person either. He said “I will build my church” and He was referring to the people of His own body in the earth not buildings at all! It was the gift of having a revelation from God that Jesus was the Christ, that Jesus would build His church on. Not a once a week shelter but a glorious daily sharing of lives where He could be seen in our midst as only two or more gather in His name. As we grow up in real holiness and love in action with real connectedness this is how God changes lives. Not a Sunday experience that most forget on Monday but a daily sharing of lives known by His love!

Please study to know Jesus as He is today! Don't buy modern religions lies of belonging and separating to be controlled by man! Gather together as often as you can daily with all those who call upon the name of Jesus and learn to love those He loves! Let’s honor God not man in our lives! To Him be the glory in the people of His body today!

Bless you!

ME-ny, MY-ne and MO-ism!

By Jeff Moore • 23 Nov, 2019
Biblical Christianity is rarely seen anymore. It has been replaced by "me"eny, "my"ny and "mo"ism!

"Me"eny is all about me, my comfort and my understanding, a very western concept. It says "Make Jesus fit my world". Don't make me study or change, just bless me!

"My"ny is all about what I think, my philosophy, my church, my pastor. None of those would be bad unless of course they run cross grain with the bible and the Holy Spirit. Most Western Christians doctrines are more a product of a personality or a mission statement than actually what the bible teaches. People compartmentalize and put a flag up on what they believe rather than Who they believe in. That results in judgmental-ism based on insecurity and fear because of basing what they believe on someone or something other that Christ himself. Letting someone else do all the studying is a recipe for blindness. When people talk as if they have something to lose when facing a new concept and are not teachable they have lost their first love and stopped seeking Him.

"Mo"ism is just that. More for me and no one else. We are called to lay down our life for one another yet imagine how "mo"ism turns Christianity into a selfish game of pecking order or the haves verses the have-nots. This is a gang mentality that circles the wagons to protect "us" verses them. Pharisee-ism at it's heart. This creates division among the brethren and a numbness to things Spiritual. Mo has to die and Christ must increase. "Mo"ism doctrines are based on a give to get mentality but God gives without thinking of Himself. Mo-ism tries to destroy unity and the reverence for Christ in His body here and now. We are called to be loving not just talk about love.

The word and the Spirit are clear on these issues. Sad how western church teaches the opposite. While promoting rock star teachers and drawing fighting lines over doctrines they cannot prove, they have no idea that they are worshiping idols of their own making. The form of godliness but without Him who is the real power of real life!

Choose Jesus not the stooges!

Pornography has Little to do with Women!

By Jeff Moore • 11 Mar, 2019

The answer for those who are enslaved to pornography is not mere willpower alone. What drives men to pornography is poor self-esteem based around identity issues. Without good male role models and male bonding relationships that give validation and vision to their maleness, men will look for gender confirmation and identification in the opposite sex. Which really only robs them of their real identification and amplifies the problem with guilt and confusion. The same principle of course works for females as well. Proper role models and bonding with those of your same sex gives you peace and purpose in your relationships with those of the opposite sex. If you deal with the root of the problem all your relationships will benefit.

 

We live in a hyper-sexual society that plays on the affections of people to manipulate them at every turn. At the same time the woman's role has changed in society leaving very little room or sometimes want for a man's role to be defined. Concurrently the government in it's blindness also has instituted systems that are anti-family and actually circumvent the fathers place in the home. This has caused what is called the disenfranchised male syndrome. Consider also that male bonding is no longer achieved in the traditional roles of physical work in the field or the factory as now our male workforce is more white collar than blue. All this is compounded by a selfish "me first", entertainment based society that places little value on quality relationships of any kind.

 

Addiction is the fruit of pain. Addiction to porn is not the root it is the pain of not being affirmed in self worth. The root is a man's low self esteem that is fed by his inability to bond with other men in healthy relationships. We live in a society where men are not being validated as to their clear role and respect in that role. If they are affirmed through male relationships with a vision to better themselves the result is freedom. Without this vision the pain makes addiction normal by this I mean it is prevalent in our culture not isolated or in a sub group. Porn is so available at the touch of a button or cell phone that it is the largest profit media in the world. Our focus needs to shift from legalistic blame shifting and shaming to a cure. God fixes things at the heart level. When loving male role models are in someones life they become empowered. In the church men need to organize and mobilize methods of fellowship and meaningful acts of service. This is how men bond. Women are more social by nature and need little help to connect. The body of Christ needs to understand that regularly gathering men together is a vital part of keeping men healthy and focused on growing in true identification.

 

Now God is returning the hearts of the fathers to the sons and the sons to the fathers. That momentum is to heal a sense of purpose and true identity in men. Vision gives purpose and meaning which is necessary to move away from self destructive habits. Of course submitting yourself to God and resisting the flesh are being learned at the same time as this. But keep in mind that an excess of performance focus always leads to self condemnation and self hatred. Until the soul is healed  of the pain the addiction is an automatic response to stress. Legalism creates a kind of endless roller coaster for the self image sufferer. Working on the identification and acceptance of God's love for you and your roll with other men is more efficient and eventually by God's grace it will manifest a permanent healing of the soul.

 

Finally I do want to make clear that I disagree with the idea that "if a man will look upon women in a better way then he will be free of pornography". Though I know that can be helpful and I teach similar things as part of a course of recovery. However since women are not the source of the problem but only an alternative route of affirmation, any correction of how one thinks of women is only a small part of the deliverance. There is much more than just lust involved here. Real healing and deliverance only comes from an identity in Christ and knowing your identity among your fellow males. I'm saying that it has very little to do with women at all. I'm only sharing this because I care very deeply about the needless pain men and women are in.

 

I highly recommend a book called "Healing of the Masculine Soul" by Gordon Dalbey

http://www.amazon.com/Healing-Masculine-Soul-Restoration-Manhood/dp/0849944384

 

In His love,

Jeff Moore    www.JeffMooreMinistries.com      

Think!

By Jeff Moore • 29 Jan, 2019

1/ Don't get involved in someone's problem more than they are.

2/ God must love stupid people cause He made more of them.

3/ Father forgive them for they KNOW NOT what they do. Pretty much is a daily prayer.

4/ Christianity is not about you or me it is about Jesus love.

5/ Salvation is unconditional. Relationship with God is very conditional.

6/ God loves everyone but He's not going to put up with everyone.

7/ God's answer to sin was to kill everyone (Jew and Gentile means everyone) and raise them up in a new creation in Christ Jesus. Galatians 2

8/ If the book is called "The Revelation of Jesus Christ" perhaps that is what it is about.

9/ The translation of Romans 8:1 would be nonsense if the no condemnation only applied to "those who walk in the spirit and not after the flesh" because there has never been ANY condemnation for those folks! The better translations do not add that part in there. Then the thought makes sense!

10/ Most people think reading the bible is enough. Yet the bible says to study the bible. The difference is life and death!

11/ God's love is not human love on steroids. It is His love let His word define it!

12/ Grace is not unmerited favor. You could not fall from unmerited favor! Grace is the empowerment of God that comes from His presence.

13/ It is always God's grace, it is never ours.

14/ Don't let your righteousness be in competition with God's righteousness.

15/ Don't let your conscience ever try and tell you how God feels or what He thinks. You conscience is not God. It was trained by your culture.

16/ Don't be fooled by your opinion of yourself. God loves you much more than that!

17/ He who does the work gets the glory. He also gets the blame. Let Jesus do the work and He will take the blame.

18/ Most Christians have no clue what covenant they are in. Most make a third one from blending the two. God cannot honor that!

19/ You were never under the 10 commandments.

20/ Christianity is a sharing of lives not a sharing of Sundays.

21/ The Golden Rule is the fulfillment or sum of all that the law and prophets hang. That is not the Christian law or new covenant law at all. Jesus gave only one new Covenant law. That you love one another AS I HAVE loved you.

22/ We cannot manufacture the love of God. We must receive it more and more in order to give it more and more.

23/ Love is it's own reward.

24/ Legalism is the power of sin. The mind set on His finished work will produce the works that glorify God.

25/ God gave you a brain and He expects you to use it!

26/ Jesus removed you from the curse of the law and brought you from death unto life but you a not free from the consequences of your choices.

27/ All spiritual gifting is a matter of focus. Spiritual maturity is another thing entirely.

28/ Your actions trump your prayers. Being good to one another count for more than being bad to them and then praying for them.

29/ You cannot do both sides of a relationship.

30/ All relationships breathe. They have close times and far times. If you do not let it breathe, you will smother it.

31/ Nowhere in the bible does it say to make a bible. Stop worshiping a book and learn what the scriptures say!

32/ Go where your celebrated not where your tolerated.

33/ Who you love is more important than who loves you!

34/ Lucifer never was the devil. The text says he was "the king of Tyre", a man even perhaps allegorically, all men. The devil, the dragon and the serpent of old were all the same person, and he was the one being disarmed at the cross!

35/ God gives us over to what we want. He is so gentle and so not self centered that He allows us to have our desires. By this we learn to want what He wants for us. David said, "Thy gentleness hath made me great".

36/ Joy is OUR portion! Get some!

Bible Facts

By Jeff Moore • 13 Jan, 2019

"The failure of Christianity is not the failure of the nature of God in man, but it is because Sense Knowledge has gained the supremacy in the church, and Jesus is no longer Lord or Head of the Church.
Worldly-minded men rule most of the churches."

- E.W. Kenyon

1/ Grace has never meant unmerited favor. It means the empowerment of God. How could you "fall from grace" if it was unmerited?! Grace works by faith in God. Without faith it does you no good at  all!

2/ As He is so are we in this world is conditional on us acting like Him. His love is what is seen when He appears through us!

3/ Unconditional love is not in scripture anywhere! It is a man made concept. Jesus unlimited love was shown in His condition of the cross. You cannot be in relationship with God without accepting His cross!

4/ All does not mean all in all contexts. Universal-ism is the lie of futurism. It does not preach a now condition of acceptance of Christ which is clearly in the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

5/ Salvation is free for the asking but relationship with God is very conditional by faith!

6/ Nowhere in the bible does it say to make a bible. Or to make a book with all the scriptures in it. God still speaks and writes today! Cannon was a political thing not a Spiritual thing. Proved by the bible mentions other books it does not contain!

7/ All are not already reconciled since we are to beg men to be reconciled and we have been given the ministry of reconciliation. The Gospel only reconciled the unbeliever if the person accepts Jesus cross for them. Reconciliation is NOT salvation in the bible! It takes two "I do's" to make a marriage NOT one!

8/ God is love but your version of love may not be God. Only God has and gives us AGAPE love to use, grow and live by!

9/ The whole bible is written for you but it is not all written to you.

10/ Peter and Paul both wrote "now at the end of the age/world" 2,000 years ago so if your reading this, you missed that end! There is not another end for the bible says "the world without end"!

11/ There is a street of gold not streets in the book of Revelation. The highway of holiness is Jesus Christ!

12/ The words rapture and trinity are not in the bible. If you search the Greek you will find that they are man made doctrines. The rapture started in 1827 from a spiritualist girl's dream and published by non-Spirit filled men! The Greek words used in 1 Thess. 4 mean the "air" we breath and a secret "twinkle" knowing not anything to do with "in the sky" or anything sudden.  etc. The trinitarian scriptures in our Bible were added to it by Tertullian (not a Christian) during the Nicene Council! He was trying to appease the polytheism cults to join the official church of Rome. Nothing holy about that at all!

13/ The Gospel message is about a now choice to come into relationship with Jesus Christ which is a life or death decision.

14/ The only thing called the word of God in scripture is the person of Jesus Christ. The term Holy Bible is not in the bible and just a man made tradition.

15/ The KJV is not a translation to this generation at all. No one speaks in that language but folk have convinced themselves that that is how God speaks? Rubbish! It needs an interpreter and that is why religion uses it to control. Men speaking for God rather than studying to relate, they are hiding the word from the people like the Catholic Church did. NASB is my personal favorite. Keep studying!

16/ All but two percent of Christians are not taught to study the bible for themselves! Hence they cannot reason through the ideas of scripture. Bible interpretation has grown with the archaeology and science in the last 400 years. No bible contains that information today! None! Please STUDY like your life depended on it!

17/ Jesus spoke in Matthew 24 to people whom He said would not die before it happened. So it happened in 70AD thus Jesus is not a liar. Study Josephus and Tertulian to learn what happened as predicted in the Book of Revelation that was written around 68AD!  Not in 95AD as some denominations say! How could the temple being destroyed not make it into The Book of Revelation if it was written after 70AD?!

18/ There is more evidence that what we have as the bible is the authentic material than any other ancient book in the world. Exceptions: What King James added to the text. What Tertulian (not a Christian) added about the trinity in the counsel of Nicine and also what names were changed to hide that women were equals in the early church structure! 

19/ For centuries when man tried to disprove the bible through archaeology or any other science they have been proven wrong and the scriptures true.

20/ The kingdom of God is invisible until someone with righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit lets it out of them!

21/ The entire old covenant was fulfilled in Jesus Christ and all the prophecies of Jesus were fulfilled in the 70AD event. Now we are living in the age of Luke 13:32 and a coming of the Lord through His mature people (Rom. 8:19) to the rest of the world.

22/ God is Holy! The bible is NOT! We are told in the bible to study the scriptures and some of which are mentioned in the bible but not part of it! Study the bible using Context Audience Relevance and the Language it's written in! Do not just read the bible for then you may be reading INTO it from your cultural view or hearts condition. But study to hear what God is saying today! 

Keep seeking Jesus!

My Salvation Testimony

By Jeff Moore • 08 Jan, 2019

I was 21 when I came to know Jesus personally.


Born Catholic, I had always known God by the sacrifice of His Son, but I had never had any personal experience, just a lot (and I do mean a lot) of one-way conversations! Dry religion with a lot of questions and obvious meaningless ritual. However, I thank God that I knew the basics of who He was.


Twice I remember distinctly trying to give my life to the Lord and asking for his will to be done in my life. Once at age eight and again at age 15. When I finally did meet Jesus, I asked him why not sooner and He replied, "My time is My time!" So to me, being "Born Again" is not so much a matter of our will but His! None are out of His sight or His care!


It happened on Monday, April 19, 1979.



I went to a meeting being held by the then little known, Benny Hinn. I was surprised to see the people there were from all walks of life and made no special effort to dress up for God. Not like most churches I'd seen! I had played guitar in a traveling youth group with the United Church so I had seen a lot of churches (my church had no youth groups). The first thing I saw was a huge man in a plumber's uniform shaking peoples hands and asking "Are you born again?" I said a quick prayer! "Lord, don't let him ask me that question, I don't know the answer!" Well I was spared as I slipped past the crowd and sat with my chess-playing friend that had brought me. The worship music started and I enjoyed that! Most were lifting their hands unto God and I had never seen that but I thought it was cool and I tried it!


Then out near the front of the church I saw them! Three little old ladies with the sweetest, clearly supernatural, glow all around them! I had seen lots of blue haired old ladies as I toured with the youth group but I had never seen this glow before!!!


I was enraged at God!! I think even I was surprised at my reaction to this! I said to God, "All my life I've been looking for this and look! You gave it to them!" I was so angry but after a minute or so I realized that being angry wasn't doing me any good so I decided to give it a try. I said to Jesus "They are worshipping like you are really in the room so I'll try it!" I lifted my hands and imagined for a moment that Jesus was standing right in front of me, then WHAM He was!!! I could see Him standing right in front of me and I was so overwhelmed that I went to hug Him! All of a sudden He grew right there into this huge person as tall as the empire state building and all white and glowing! I felt very small. I realized then that I had to do something.

Right there with no one to lead me I said "Jesus, I know you died on the cross for me, and I am sorry for all the wrong things I have done! Help me do batter." Immediately He came back to my size, He reached out His arms and we hugged. While in that embrace, I had a series of visions and conversations with Jesus!!


He showed me my life like a giant chess board (I played a lot of chess back then) and I was one of the pawns trying to make it to the other end. Being a pawn I could not see all the other pieces and their potential threat! He showed me that from where He was He could see the entire board and all the pieces! He could lead me safely! I replied to that saying, "Ok Lord, wherever you lead me I will follow for the rest of my life!"


Next I thought of my family and the others I had cared about and I realized how much I had tried to love them yet it seemed fruitless. He then showed me His great love for them and I cried out to Him that I had tried so hard. "I've tried to love them", I said sobbing. He then showed me how His love was perfect and I responded, "Please Lord, show me how to love them properly." I felt a tremendous weight lift from me! I asked Him, "Why didn't you get me sooner?!" He then showed me a pocket watch and said to me "My time is my time!" When the experience seemed to be lifting I said to Jesus, "Please don't ever let me forget to tell people how to cross over." I was so grateful; I wanted everybody to know Him!


All this happened without any sermon or miracles happening around me! Just Jesus and me during the worship time! Later at the end of the awesome miracle service they gave an altar call to meet Jesus. I knew I already had, but I went up there to be obedient! I felt as if I was a giant clock and only the God that made me could have placed the gear deep inside me that make me work. I was Born Again by God!


When my friends drove me home, they told me to go home and throw away my astrology books and Tarot cards. My answer was sincere. I said, "All my life I've been doing what other people had told me!" (Thinking angrily of the Catholic church). "Now I've met Jesus and from now on He'll tell me what to do!" (Two months later, Jesus clearly showed me that they were deceptive, so I got rid of them). As I left the car, my dear friend turned his head and told me to read Romans chapter 8 when I got inside! I did and it has been my favorite chapter ever since!!


Lying on my bed that night, still too excited to sleep, I saw eight faces in a circle on my ceiling! Those faces almost scared me at the time, but I trusted God with them. During my walk I have met some of those faces and they all have been ministers and important teachers to me!


The next morning as I was washing my face I asked Jesus if what has happened to me was just for last night or forever. He gave me a sign that I asked for and I was so happy I did not want to even step on a bug! Literally!! I would meet people on the street and I would shake their hand and say, "I'm a born-again Christian! I have no idea what that is but it is wonderful!"


After more than 35 years I can still say, "IT IS WONDERFUL!!!!" and my favorite saying is "How good does this get?" and it still gets better every single day!


Thank you Jesus!

         In His Love, Jeff Moore


Footnote Thought:

The bible clearly teaches and my own experience tells me that I was dead in sins and trespasses before I got born again approximately 1979 years after the cross! Even though He had already reconciled God to me, I was not yet reconciled to God! It takes two "I do's" to make a marriage. The day I got born again I was made a New Creation. Right then I knew I was in Him on the cross and raised with Him in His resurrection. I had New Life! Two minutes before however I was still dead in sin before I accepted that finished work.

Just spiritual facts laid out clearly in scripture. No new age psycho babble to confuse what really happened. I was saved by grace THROUGH faith. I had a choice to accept His grace or not by my faith. You may ask who can refuse God or resist His will? Well we may not know just how much free will God has allowed within His sovereignty. Perhaps His gentleness is so great that He wants a willing bride and not just an arranged marriage! Many are called but few are chosen or as it says in the Greek "qualify"! I cannot add to the work of the cross in any way but I can choose to receive it for me or not.

The Speaking Blood!

By Jeff Moore • 08 Jan, 2019

The evangelical church at large has a serious problem in that it thinks that you can start in the Spirit and end or complete the work in the flesh! (Outward rules rather than teaching a walk in the Spirit. Starting in Christ but trying to finish in Adamic thinking.)

 

"Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?" Galatians 3:3 (NKJ)

 

The Principle Thing

 

If you can see it you can have it!

(Jesus is our pattern. We do what the Father has shown us in the Spirit.)

 

"Then Jesus answered and said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner." John 5:19 (NKJ)

 

"As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him," Colossians 2:6 (NKJ)

 

Practical Exercise

 

Look at someone and say "I see Christ in you!"

(You are agreeing with scripture. His heavenly viewpoint!)

 

"Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?-- unless indeed you are disqualified." 2 Corinthians 13:5 (NKJ) We walk by faith and not by sight. So we speak what others do not see by faith!

 

"Therefore from now on we recognize no man according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know {Him} {thus} no longer." 2 Corinthians 5:16 (NAS)

 

1. Jesus' Blood Speaks Forgiveness For All

 

"to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel." Hebrews 12:24 (NKJ)

 

Better means BETTER, more of the same! (Strong's #2909 = stronger)

Jesus' blood speaks of more excellent things, we agree!

 

"And He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries out to Me from the ground." Genesis 4:10 (NKJ) (Read the rest of the section for context)

 

Cain should have died, as God is just and holy, yet Cain did not die for his offense but was marked  for MERCY! No other logical reason applies here but that his brother (the one who had an acceptable sacrifice) must have known something about God and cried out for MERCY for his brother. The Greek shows this as the word "better" here means "more of the same". Cain reaped what he sowed from the ground in some hardship yet he still went on and had a productive life. He even built the first city. Grace was given to save his life!

 

"Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;" Hebrews 9:23-24 (NKJ)

 

Jesus' blood speaks for all mankind in the heavenlies! Always crying out that they are forgiven by His work. This is the testimony that we agree with on the earth as it is in heaven!

 

"For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree as one." 1 John 5:7-8 (NKJ)

 

Water = Word, which is God; Spirit, which is the Holy Spirit; and the blood, which is Jesus'. Both sets of three are God's testimony! And they all say that the price has been paid and it is finished! All men have been forgiven! No other sacrifice is needed, only your response to God's great gift. Heaven is saying Holy, Holy, Holy to our God who forgave all mankind through the work of His Son!

 

2. Jesus Paid It Once For ALL, The Whole World!

 

"For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;" 2 Corinthians 5:14 (NAS)

 

"For God has shut up all in disobedience that He might show mercy to all." Romans 11:32 (NAS)

 

"For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly." Romans 5:6 (NAS)

 

"So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men." Romans 5:18 (NAS)

 

"that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation." 2 Corinthians 5:19 (NKJ)

 

Most of the church is still preaching condemnation and death which is not Good News to anyone! The salvation they preach is not the glorious finished work of Calvary but a limp appeal to man to make himself ready for judgement!

 

Judgement is not our message! Fear is not our message! Jesus Christ and Him crucified is our message!

 

God has taken away their sin and shame through the free gift of His Son! Read the tense of this scripture!! God WAS in Christ reconciling the WORLD to Himself!! NOT imputing THEIR trespasses against them! He's not looking at their sin. He's looking at them through the blood of Jesus! The NIV says "that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them." Most Christians have an "us versus them" mentality but God is not counting their sins against them!

 

When we approach the world we should be seeing them through Jesus' eyes! Not the eyes of judgement (See John 3:17) but the eyes of forgiveness. "Mercy triumphs over judgement" James 2:13 (NAS). Our message is that we have found out that the debt has been paid for ALL OF US. So we found out before them, big deal. It is still the same blood that cries out for them as us saying "Not Guilty!" If we tell them this Gooder News and love them as our own flesh and blood, how can they refuse?! How and when they accept this great news is not our job, it is the Holy Spirit's. But getting the news straight IS our job!! We should not be adding to or taking away from His word! We should be forgiving others as we have been forgiven! This is what we have seen our Father do!

 

People preach death and judgement because that is what their mind is stuck on. They have not renewed their mind to the will of God and have forgotten how they got born again, if they are born again at all!

 

When you get born again you SEE God in Christ forgive you all your sins, even though the cross happened years before! His blood was already saying "NOT GUILTY" for you! The moment you accepted the Good News you SAW it! Jesus is the Lamb slain since before the foundation of the world. It was done before time started! If you will preach this wonderful God of love for all and pray accordingly, you will see wonderful results because you will be agreeing with what the Word and the Blood and the Spirit say about them!

 

This is our "ministry of reconciliation" not that they can be saved but that God has already paid the price to receive this LOVE! More accurately we should be telling them that they have been forgiven but they will not know it until they respond with thanksgiving! This is agreeing with the speaking blood of Jesus! Jesus doesn't say "do this or that and I'll forgive you", He says "repent" which means CHANGE YOUR MIND. Think in accordance and in line with My (Jesus) thinking!

 

When anyone accepts  His way of looking at themselves they are born again because they have believed His great message of unconditional love. If we see their sin and hold it against them we are at war with God's Word and Spirit! This way of looking at our message is not preaching universal reconciliation it is preaching the finished work of Calvary and what God's will is for all men. The choice is theirs but our message should be to draw all men not condemn. We have seen this forgiveness not based on anything but the grace of God. How much more should we share what we have been given!

 

3. His Life, His Gift, His Grace, His Glory!

 

"For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers." 1 Timothy 4:10 (NAS)

 

"For whom He fore knew, He also predestined {to become} conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren; and whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified." Romans 8:29-30 (NAS)

 

Remember, we didn't choose Christ He chose us! No man has ever decided to follow Christ or become born again. We respond to a divine call through someone else's prayer and preaching!

 

"For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not {come to} know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe." 1 Corinthians 1:21 (NAS)

 

"No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day." John 6:44 (NKJ)

 

"But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." John 1:12-13 (NKJ)

 

"For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God," Ephesians 2:8 (NKJ)

 

4. We as His body declaring and demonstrating His forgiveness! 

 

The world will respond to His Holy Spirit when we preach a Gospel of this Gooder News! That of a higher quality; more pure and accurate! Jesus is glorified by this as the finished work of the cross is preached with boldness!

 

We, as ambassadors of Christ, should be speaking the forgiveness that we have SEEN the Father do! How powerful is this type of simplicity of devotion to Christ! This commitment to only represent the Christ that we have a personal testimony of! Remember the opening scripture, "As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him," Colossians 2:6 (NKJ)

 

Jesus said "As the Father has sent me so I send you." Consider His calling yours as well! This is the law of spiritual reproduction!

 

"For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him." John 3:17 (NAS)

 

"And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, 'All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Matthew 28:18-20 (NAS)

 

Jesus was rebuked for forgiving sins as He healed a man yet He responded so as to teach that forgiveness and healing are the same thing. We are told in scripture to lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.

 

"they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly {poison,} it shall not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover." Mark 16:18 (NAS)

 

"Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him." James 5:14-15 (NAS)

 

In John 20:23 Jesus commissions His disciples with the power to forgive sins. We all are His disciples and are called the "sons of God". We all have this authority in Him, to see His will done on earth as in heaven! Consider that we are the living proof now to this generation that He is risen! We are the testimony of His love as we proclaim His forgiveness to all mankind!

 

"If you forgive the sins of any, {their sins} have been forgiven them; if you retain the {sins} of any, they have been retained." John 20:23 (NAS)

 

A scriptural example of this power is seen in Stephen's life as he is martyred. The robes were laid at the feet of a Pharisee by the name of Saul. This signified that he was the chief witness to a legal stoning under the law and not murder.

 

"And when they had driven him out of the city, they {began} stoning {him,} and the witnesses laid aside their robes at the feet of a young man named Saul. And they went on stoning Stephen as he called upon {the Lord} and said, 'Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!' And falling on his knees, he cried out with a loud voice, 'Lord, do not hold this sin against them!' And having said this, he fell asleep." Acts 7:58-60 (NAS)

 

Notice how in a short time later a religious Saul who is not looking for God; even the enemy of God found salvation in a divine encounter!

 

"Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, and asked for letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. And it came about that as he journeyed, he was approaching Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him; and he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?' Acts 9:1-4 (NAS)

 

What makes Saul so special...Stephen! Stephen's forgiveness at the time of his death gave God the opportunity to draw Saul supernaturally by reason of Stephen's faith! Saul didn't stand a chance once a believing Christian loosed him from his sins and agreed with the speaking blood! Jesus appeared to Saul and could only do so if Saul had already had forgiveness. As you remember, Isaiah knew he would die in God's presence as a man. Stephen's prayer caused a powerful reaction as we are promised, if we ask anything in faith it will be done for us!

 

Forgiveness takes faith as it works by love! It works!

 

Believers can do anything they see the Father doing! And, for sure, all born again Christians have seen the Father forgive all their sins! As we agree with God, His power is loosed to the glory of His Son! If two of you agree on anything touching heaven it shall be done for you! Nothing touches or speaks of heaven more than the forgiveness of Jesus' blood! We forgive others in Jesus' name and the Holy Spirit then draws them to the Father! God speaks light into darkness and there is light! Not one person you can pray for hasn't already been paid for already by the blood of Jesus!  It is the same with the people you meet. They will know you're a Christian by YOUR  love! If you see them as God sees them His love in your heart will be evident to them and they will want to know more about this Jesus!

 

The world is trapped in it's earthly thinking and only one set free can set others free. The good and evil thinking of Adam can only be destroyed by the unconditional love of the cross!

 

Christians are suppose to be speaking and demonstrating this wonderful love but most have not got their mind renewed and like Jonah are reluctant to see others get the same forgiveness they received! This explains the weak and confused state of the church at large. What you sow so shall you reap! We are God's ambassadors we have no business representing Adams judgemental mind set! We have been ordered  to forgive and preach Good News!

 

"But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins." Matthew 6:15 (NIV)

 

"Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen of me and what I will show you. I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me. Acts 26:16-18 (NIV)

 

"and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem." Luke 24:47 (NIV)

 

"All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." 2 Corinthians 5:18-21 (NIV)

 

Reconcile means to make a way to restore! Now we are preaching and praying the finished work of Jesus Christ into sinner lives. We should be preaching what God has done not will do! Nobody needs to be told they are a sinner! If you preach the love of God they will be convicted by the Holy Spirit to come! This is the Gospel not Adams cheap version of looking down at the unsaved; for Jesus died once for all! Before you were saved the blood was speaking for you and you didn't know it! Someone prayed for you and you were awakened by His love in His time. Through someones prayer of agreeement! He is the author and finisher of your faith and theirs too! Will we love the unlovely and see them as Christ does now? If we raise our thinking and agree with the speaking blood, God will confirm the work of His Son in their lives. His love NEVER fails!

 

Conclusion

 

1. Everything reproduces after it's own kind! If you sow to the flesh you reproduce flesh if you sow to the Spirit you reproduce the Spirit.

 

2. You only should be reproducing that which you have seen the Father do! Forgiveness!

 

3. Mercy and forgiveness is our only calling and is how Jesus appeared to us at the time we were born again.

 

4. "For God so loved the world" is still His attitude on the subject as HE changes not!

 

5. We are His body not our own. We represent His love to the world! We speak His words!

 

6. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven is our prayer. Heaven agrees with His Speaking Blood!

 

7. We love all those whom God paid for and He gets the glory!

 

8. Agreeing with God is the key to powerful results! We pray the rest is up to the Holy Spirit to lead them to accepting Jesus!

 

I'm believing that God will confirm His word and strengthen you in His great love for...
YOU AND ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD!

100 Things About Jesus

By Jeff Moore • 02 Jan, 2019
Jesus centered bible teaching, grace and truth, real
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