Today,
reply is on the origin of divine grace, rebirth and salvation as
sacred gifts that become available from GOD through the ministry of
Jesus Christ. The fighter in the public forum at “Yahoo! Answers”
Religion and Spirituality who uses the ID “Christian sinner”
(Level 7 with 212,433 points, a member since November 28, 2006)
posted the following:
What
did John the Baptist mean when he said this? Did John mean
e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g? How do you see it?
John
3
27
To this John replied, “A person can receive only what is given them
from heaven."
Update:
If John was right and he meant everything is received from heaven,
then are atheists not given something very important? Like an ability
to trust in Christ? Are the atheists who never trust in Christ
incapable of trusting Christ because God didn't give them the
ability?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: This is the stone which was set at nought of you
builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there
salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven
given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4: 11-12, King
James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: John Anointed To Prophesy (05/21/2018); The Origin
And Source (04/26/2018); The Lamb of GOD (08/19/2015); Jesus Given A
Divine Ministry? (08/18/2015); He Must Increase? (04/01/2015); The
Baptist and The Tishbite? (02/18/2015); Both Born Holy? (04/29/2013);
Scripture at Funerals? (04/30/2013)
“Christian
sinner”, be encouraged. Although John the Baptist served in
priesthood at the Temple in Jerusalem, under the influence of the
Holy Spirit (we also say, the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, the Spirit
of Prophecy, the Spirit of Truth) that he received before his birth,
John established a ministry preaching repentance, performing baptism,
and proclaiming the kingdom of GOD would soon appear. The many
sacred gifts granted to mankind from the divine fullness (we say, the
GODhead) allow those living on the earth to be in a lawful, ongoing,
personal relationship with divinity. Included are atonement for sin;
covenant law; grace; divine inheritance; joining to the oneness without sameness that is shared among the divine
fullness (we say, the Godhead); and the privilege of serving as
anointed kings, ministers, and prophets on the earth. These, and
many other blessings are possible only through actual operations of
the active presence we know and speak of as the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Developing
Christian believers are to acknowledge that the makeup and operation
of human consciousness and self-will were imparted to mankind from
Creation as life essence (we say, breath; spirit; the
word of GOD). Because the operations of sin dominated human
awareness and willpower within Adam (the male and female), the living
now must receive a fresh endowment of spirit substance from the
makeup of GOD (we say, A sinner must be “born again” having the
Spirit imparted from GOD, and grow up again (i.e., mature) while
living on the earth. By being filled as vessels of divinity, sinners
are transformed, and through discovery, gradual growth, learning and
service they acquire the “ability” to receive, recognize, retain,
and become fruitful using the things from GOD to address his eternal
purposes.
Through
Jesus Christ, sinners who repent, and contain his personhood and
Spirit exist as the new creation, the sons and daughters
of GOD, and joint-heirs with Christ. While men on the earth may
share with one another the benefits of divine ministry from Jesus as
the Risen Lord and High Priest of heaven, none may bestow the divine
gifts of glory, holiness, honor, purity, redemption, salvation, and
eternal life as though these are the products of human imagination,
intellect, and self-will. Consider again the following that uses
language from the Bible:
(1.)
John 3: 25-30, King James Version (KJV): 25 Then there arose a
question between some of John’s
disciples and the Jews about purifying. 26 And they came unto John,
and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to
whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men
come to him. 27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing,
except it be given him from heaven. 28 Ye yourselves bear me
witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before
him. 29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of
the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly
because of the bridegroom’s
voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. 30 He must increase, but
I must decrease.
(2.)
Deuteronomy 13: 1-11, KJV: 1 If there arise among you a prophet,
or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 2 And
the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee,
saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and
let us serve them; 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that
prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD
your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD
your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 Ye shall walk
after the LORD
your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his
voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. 5 And that
prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he
hath spoken to turn you
away from the LORD
your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed
you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which
the LORD
thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away
from the midst of thee. 6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or
thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend,
which is
as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve
other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 7
Namely,
of the gods of the people which are
round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one
end of the earth even unto the other
end of the earth; 8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken
unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare,
neither shalt thou conceal him: 9 But thou shalt surely kill him;
thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and
afterwards the hand of all the people. 10 And thou shalt stone him
with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away
from the LORD
thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house
of bondage. 11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no
more any such wickedness as this is among you.
(3.)
John 1: 11-17, KJV: 11 He came unto his own, and his own received
him not. 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to
become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor
of the will of man, but of God. 14 And the Word was made flesh, and
dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only
begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. 15 John bare
witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He
that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. 17
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by
Jesus Christ.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, (4.) Hebrews 5: 1-10, KJV: 1 For every
high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things
pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices
for sins: 2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them
that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with
infirmity. 3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so
also for himself, to offer for sins. 4 And no man taketh this honour
unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. 5
So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but
he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.
6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest
for ever after the order of Melchisedec. 7 Who in the days of his
flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong
crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and
was heard in that he feared; 8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he
obedience by the things which he suffered; 9 And being made perfect,
he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey
him; 10 Called of God an high priest after the order of
Melchisedec.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it
unto you according to your faith.
THE
BLACK PHOENIX
Washington,
DC
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