Saturday, April 21, 2018

Understanding The Existence Of God

God is one.

There is no other.

In the Hebrew, it says that God is Echad. The word, Echad, is the word for a unified oneness, not a multi personality oneness as commonly taught, within the Christian church today. It simply implies that God enjoys a multidimensional existence. In the same way that we enjoy a four dimensional reality and have would abilities over a lesser dimensional creature, God enjoys a reality that gives him abilities, to act upon, which far supersedes on our abilities. In Isaiah 11:2-3 and Revelation 1:4-5, we are told that God is a sevenfold Spirit. His existence is only comprehended by the spiritually minded and is beyond normal human understanding, which explains the differing views of the make up of God.

The Father

When the Bible references the Father, it is talking about the guiding personality, the thought processing entity that makes up who God is. The psyche of God, if I may. He is all-knowing and can see the beginning to the end, within our Space-Time and beyond.

The Holy Spirit Of God

The All Consuming Fire Of God, His Holy Spirit is his omni-present existing presence, which circumvents the constraints of time itself. It is how God exists everywhere and at every point in time within our time space reality. His Holy Spirit radiates throughout all of creation. In a crude representation, his Spirit is like radiation, able to permeate all things, even changing our physical make up, while doing things according to his will, without circumventing our autonomy and free will. His Holy Spirit is how our Father gives us abilities and changes our heart and souls to his glory.

The Word of God

The Word of God is his creative conduit, speaking all things into existence and conveying his will to all his creation. It can be both audible and non-audible, physical or non-physical, conveying what the Father thinks, to all who will listen. The Word of God comes in many forms, such as a voice from a burning bush, a voice from a whirlwind whirlwind, the inspiration within our minds and my favorite, the theophany, physical appearances of God in human or material form, culminating in the promised Mosaic prophet, our Messiah, Y’shua/Jesus, the Son of God. Combined with his spirit, the Word of God reveals the ultimate power and will of God to all creation.

The Hand Of God

The Hand of God is his physical impression or expression, within our time space, not to be confused with the Word of God, which is strictly physical. The hand of God results in evidence, not of the physicality of God, but clues to his existence. From the complexity of our DNA, to the protective shield around our solar system, as we race throughout our galaxy, to the fine-tuning of our universe that results in the ability for humans to exist, the Hand of God reveals the fathers handiwork.

The Finger Of God

The Finger of God is when he wants that impression to be conveyed in permanent form such as the giving of the Law on stone tablets or the writing on the wall to Belshazzar. It will be the finger of God that will reach into our existence, at the end of days, when Y’shua/Jesus, the Son of God, will hand over the reigns of the Kingdom to his Father.

The Just Righteousness Of God

The Just Righteousness of God is the dimensionality of God’s existence that reveals why one simple act of disobedience creates an uncrossable chasm between a perfect God and an imperfect mankind. It’s not that God couldn’t ignore the sin of disobedience, it’s the fact that his perfection demands a balancing of the scales. God‘s perfection will not allow his existence to be in the presence of an imperfect mankind, without the cost thereof being paid for in perfect life blood.

The Love of God

The Love of God reveals the Father’s all consuming total commitment to all his creation. It is the relational aspect of his personality. When the first man and woman deliberately disobeyed and fell from his grace, he went to great lengths to reconcile mankind back to him. For thousands of years, the Father set up an object lesson, within his Law, showing mankind, that one act of disobedience created a chasm that no human act could bridge. 

In a totally committed act of love, the Father allowed the fullness of his dimensionality to dwell within the perfectly created man, the Messiah, Y’shua/Jesus. This man, with the fullness of God and his Spirit led guidance, would go on and live a perfect life. He taught the will of God to all who will receive it, completely fulfilling the will of God and giving his perfect life blood, as the ultimate sacrifice for mankind sins, upon the altar of God. He bridged that chasm, so long ago created by Adam and Eve. Now that the chasm was bridged, humanity can now have access to the throne room of God, by accepting the act of our Messiah Y’shua/Jesus, as their own.


Wednesday, April 18, 2018

"My Creed" Is To Go "Beyond Belief" And "Stand On The Rock"!

In 1990, an album was release, which produced three of my all time favorites. They both come to mind, more times than not, especially when asked about my testimony, concerning my relationship with God. One song is where the apostles Creed was put to music. The other is where that Creed should lead us, Beyond Belief. The last one is where I stand, I Am On The Rock. According to most critics, this album also came as the final nail in the coffin, to those who believe that Rock Music was the Devil's music. I have always asked, "How could it be Devil's music, when it glories God?" Below are the links and lyrics to the videos. 



My Creed

Words and music by Bob Hartman

I believe in God the Father, maker of heaven and earth.
And in Jesus Christ His only son, I believe in the virgin birth.
I believe in the Man of Sorrows, bruised for iniquities.
I believe in the lamb who was crucified, and hung between two thieves.

I believe in the resurrection, on the third and glorious day
I believe in the empty tomb, and the stone that the angel rolled away
He descended and set the captives free
And now He sits at God's right hand and prepares a place for me

This is my creed
The witness I have heard
The faith that has endured
This truth is assured
Through the darkest ages past
Though persecuted it will last
And I will hold steadfast
To this creed

I believe He sent His spirit, to comfort and to reveal
To lead us into truth and light, to baptize and to seal
I believe He will come back, the way He went away and..
Receive us all unto Himself but no man know that day

This is my creed
The witness I have heard
The faith that has endured
This truth is assured
Through the darkest ages past
Though persecuted it will last
And I will hold steadfast
To this creed

I believe He is the judge, of all things small and great
The resurrected souls of men, receive from Him their fate
Some to death and some to life, some to their reward
Some to sing eternal praise, forever to the Lord
And through the darkest ages past
Though persecuted it will last
And I will hold steadfast
To this creed

Beyond Belief

Words and music by Bob Hartman

Based on Hebrews 6:1a, Romans 1:17, Philippians 1:6

We're content to pitch our tent
When the glory's evident
Seldom do we know the glory came and went
Moving can seem dangerous
In this stranger's pilgrimage
Knowing that you can't stand still,
you cross the bridge

There's a higher place to go, beyond belief, beyond belief
Where we reach the next plateau, beyond belief, beyond belief
And from faith to faith we grow
Towards the center of the flow
Where He beckons us to go, beyond belief, beyond belief

Leap of faith without a net
Makes us want to hedge our bet
Waters never part until our feet get wet
There's a deeper place to go
Where the road seems hard to hoe
He who has begun this work won't let it go
And it takes so long to see the change
But we look around and it seems so strange
We have come so far but the journey's long
And we once were weak but now we're strong

There's a higher place to go, beyond belief, beyond belief
Where we reach the next plateau, beyond belief, beyond belief
And from faith to faith we grow
Towards the center of the flow
Where He beckons us to go, beyond belief, beyond belief.

I AM On The Rock

Words and music by Bob Hartman

The earth is shakin'
It's like a bad dream
This world is crumblin'
Comin? apart at the seam but
I am on the Rock
I am on the Rock

Everywhere I'm turning it's only bad news
This bomb is tickin' and we're getting to the end of the
Fuse but
I am on the Rock
I am on the Rock

I am on the Rock, the sure foundation
I am on the Rock, on the Rock
I am on the Rock, His revelation
I am on the Rock

Though the winds may blow
And though the floods may grow
I shall not be moved, 'cause I am on the Rock

The storms approaching, I'm standing high and dry
Firmly planted on the Rock that is higher than I
I am on the Rock
I am on the Rock

Kingdoms failing, they fall around me
Plans eroded, and washing away to the sea but
I am on the Rock
I am on the Rock