Coming March 2010, we are going to launch the Point2One beta blog. This will be our all-custom design and will replace the current design. It won’t be perfect right out of the gate, but it will be more customizable and in time will meat more of the demands we have for our blog. We want your ideas! Comment on this posting and let us know how we can make the blog better!
New Video Coming
Last summer I wrote a poem that put into words some of the things I have learned about God, and some misconceptions we often times have about God. I believe it can be a tool to show people the true intentions God has for us, and why so little of what we hear about God in most churches today is true. It is a sad reality that more people misunderstand God’s intentions than understand them. Through recent events in the Christianity, my life and family, and the news, I have become open to the idea of sharing this personal poem. It is not the tale of lofty places or flowers tender, but of a world filled with horror and violence and a God who had no such things in mind at creation, and who causes none of these things today.
Yes, the poem tells of war and starvation, of famine and disease; dead soldiers and funerals for young men; slavery and poverty – a representation of all the unwelcome plagues of humanity. It is real. But it also tells about God, our hope as human beings, and our role in solving this mess.
It will be released as a video with narration. I hope you will stay tuned for its release, and that you will let me know how it has effected you. It will be titled, “That Day.”
Haiti
I am not surprised at the utterly absurd claims that the earthquakes in Haiti were God’s judgment. These religious lies are from the father of lies and originate in hell itself.
I would like to express my outrage against the religious leaders in America and abroad who have propagated such stupidity; and also, to extend grace to them and tell them that God just isn’t like that. (For more, please read “The True Nature of God” on the Point2One site)
What happened in Haiti was evil, and harmful, not prosperity and peace (see Jeremiah 29:11). How is it that we think ourselves so great that we can cast judgment on Haiti? I am not here to warn of impending doom or sell forgiveness for $77. I am hear to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the cancellation of debts against God through Christ Jesus.
Jesus didn’t come to condemn the world but to save it. (John 3:16-17) He also came to atone for all sins of all people (1 John 2:2). Judgment for all people is reserved for one final day (Hebrews 9:27). And finally, the only reason people will be punished on that final day is for their failure to receive Jesus, not because of any particular sin that you will find in the halls of the holiest churches just like the streets of the ghetto. (John 8:24; John 16:18-19; Acts 10:43; Galatians 3:22).
Please pray for our fellow humans in Haiti that the light of the truth would shine during this time. If you have this world’s goods, please give to help those in Haiti, and express your love, and God’s love for those impoverished people. God does love them. And He loves you too.
The new video is here!
“The End of Hostilities” –
Video! (Coming Soon…)
Video has been shot, is being edited and will be posted very soon. To follow P2O video please stay tuned to our media page, this blog, or our youtube page. The first video will be a brief version of “The End of Hostilities.”
2010
I hope you will take the time – even if only 5 minutese – to stop and think about your life, the past year and what you feel lead to do during 2010. It could mean an eternity of difference for someone else. “Commit your way to the LORD, Trust also in Him, and He will do it.” (Psalm 37:5)
For Point2One, this coming year will (Lord willing) be the largest expansion of our ministry. After about a year of looking at various technologies, and learning a few new tricks, Point2One is going to put the Love-Truth onto more computer screens (and even TV screens) than ever before. To our new viewers who may not know, we recently acquired www.point2one.com to simplify our web address. We also started podcasting (now almost a year ago)… and now, blogging. So what’s next?
In January I am writing and then publishing a new article titled “The End of Hostilities.” This teaching, like “The True Nature and Will of God,” is simply one of those teachings that have had a huge impact on my life, an so many others. i am looking forward to this Article very much, and hope you will venture back by when it is published.
Also in 2010 (about March 31, 2010), this blog will take on a new, custom design, exclusive to P2O, and will make the whole process of adding articles way easier for me.
I am also excited (and a little nervous) about the next thing for P2O. Videos. Like blogging, video technology is a little less formal, and provides an easy way for you to comment and get in touch with P2O. I am really looking forward to this – as awkward as I’m sure it will be for me. This has been a my hear for a long while now, and I believe it is time.
If you have comments on how we can expand our ministry outreach, or ways that you’d like to see a Christian Video done, please comment below. Click where is says “[#] Comments ->”.
6 Years and Counting
Well, this summer will have been six years since Point2One went online with the Love-Truth that changed my life. My life was radically changed when, one year prior to this ministry’s real launch, I encountered a God who was quite different than all my preconceived ideas about him. I had been a Christian for years and was on my way to heaven… but I was living life a poor wounded soul afraid of breathing wrong for fear of God, and so bound by religion that I could barely stand myself. It was at that moment that our enemy, the devil (deceiver) really came against me hard. The lies I had believed subconsciously in my mind were now screams of condemnation and tormenting spirits. In short, I was facing the devil head-on and woefully unprepared. Having a warped understanding of who God is gave place to not knowing who I was, and by consequence, I gave satan way too much power in my mind.
Slowly but surely, I was exposed to truth. Truth, for me, initially came when God wooed me to listen to a prophetic music CD that I had owned for years. I had listened to it many times before in years past, but this time was remarkably different. The words of the songs began to resonate in my heart and Jesus became so real to me.
My initial journey of freedom didn’t happen overnight. It took months, and to some extent, years. What did happen instantly was that I received a new hope that freedom was on the horizon, and strength in knowing that God Almighty knew me more intimately that I had even imagined, and yet loved me regardless of my faults, failures and all the broken promises I had made to Him. He loved me by choice, not by any attribute typically measured by human-beings. He loved me because I was me – and I was a reflection (marred though it was), of Him.
What so many Christian’s fail to understand is that the spirit, the soul and the body of each and everyone of us are different, and at different stages in the redemption processes that was provided when Christ offered his soul as an offering for guilt. (Isaiah 53:10-11)
The Spirit
The spirit is the part of you that became an exact duplicate of Jesus when you got born-again. That part of you never sins, is never made at odds with God, and lives at total and complete harmony with God. This part of you is the deepest part of you - the part most wholly you. The part that is totally unaffected by the world and its lies.
Jesus said this is that part of us that truly worships God (John 4:23, 24). This is the part of us that Jesus provided for when He died and rose again, defeating hell, and providing for us a life eternally secure in Him.
The Soul
The soul is the part of us that thinks about the world, the part that contains most of our emotions, and the part that is subject to bondage, betrayal, bitterness and rejection. This is the part that is constantly becoming more like Jesus through His Word (Romans 12:2). This is where the war is taking place between the Kingdom of God, and the kingdom of this world. Lies assail this part of us and hold us in bondage. This is the part of us that God is working on right now. This is the part of us that Christ provided for in carrying our griefs, being rejected and baring our iniquities. (Isaiah 53:3-5)
The Body
The body is our physical being, the part that has presence in this world. It contains our soul. It is effect by both the body and spirit, and will be made perfect when we see Christ at His coming (1 John 3:2). It is the part of us that Christ was wounded to heal. (Isaish 53:5)
Christmas at Point2One
Hello everyone,
In the next few days we will be making changes here at P2O for Christmas. The main site, as well as this blog, will be decorated for this beautiful season. I am working on a new article to be posted (hopefully) in December, or possible early January. Please stay “refreshed” for that.
Also, I am working on video (still), and designing a new Blog theme that will better incorporate the “look and feel” or the Point2One site, which is changing. Look for video early next year, and a version 1.0 blog sometime March-April (Lord willing).
Well, I guess I’m just about done here. Just wanted to update everyone with what’s up here at P2O. I hope you are being encouraged by this site, and if you need someone to stand in agreement with you on the word of God, please let us know by either email us on the main site or by commenting here.
Veteran’s Day
Let me express my deepest gratitude to the many men and women who have advanced freedom, strengthened our nation and protected our people. You are heroes. Your bravery and courage to do what has to be done deserves our respect and admiration. Let me remind all veterans that the Bible says that you, in fighting for freedom and protecting your people, are a servant, not only of the public, but of God Himself. Paul exhorts of military personel, “for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.” (Romans 13:4 KJV)
For non-veterans, thank a veteran today. They have put their lives on hold and on the line for you.
Thank you!
“Atonement Offering”
I would like to take just a minute to share with you something that has greatly bothered me for the past few years. It is, in my opinion, one of the saddest and most perverted teachings being passed off as Christianity today. This teaching is that of giving God an “Atonement (or Passover, or Pentecost)” offering in order to ward-off cursing and ensure for yourself some sort of blessing. People of God, please listen to what the Bible says about this, and prayerfully reconsider such an “offering” if you are planning to give one.
The Bible gives many curses and blessings under the law (the part of the Bible that these preachers quote to entice our giving) that pertain to works of righteousness, and works of sin. However, the the New Testament tells us that, “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us–for it is written, “CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO HANGS ON A TREE”– (Galatians 3:13 NASB)
Christ became a curse for us, and redeemed us from the curses in the law, and freed us from works-based righteousness into freedom through His blood to experience blessings and grace in Him. Why else, if not to redeem us from our sins, did Jesus die? Or are we saved by both Christ and money? God forbidd!
Paul warned us against such practices as legalistic offerings when He said boldly,
“You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? Did you suffer so many things in vain–if indeed it was in vain? So then, does He who provides you with the Spirit and works miracles among you, do it by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?” (Galatians 3:1-5 NASB)
Were we just saved by faith, and now, having been saved, are we to continue in this kind of legalism? Or is this kind of legalism negating Christ’s work? Surely, the verse above make the answer clear that Christ has saved us by faith, and now, having been saved, we should continue to have fellowship with God and receive both forgiveness and blessings by faith.
Are some blessings not included in “all?” Or does the Bible mean “all” when it says, “For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God.” (2 Corinthians 1:20 NASB)
Surely, in Christ we are partakers of all blessings, “According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” (2 Peter 1:3-4 KJV)
We are, because of (an only because of) Jesus Christ, partakers of all things pertaining to life and godliness through the knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue” – not through endless offerings that have no ability to remove sin, but through knowledge of Jesus Christ.
The Bible says of the Atonement Offerings,
“Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.” (Hebrews 10:11 NASB)
And, to make all of this even clearer, let us consider what the writer of Hebrews says about the offering given on Atonement Day (Yom Kippur): “but into the second, only the high priest enters once a year, not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.” (Hebrews 9:7 NASB)
Therefore, we must conclude that only through the blood of Jesus Christ, not through money or pledges, are blessings and real atonement offered… and these are appropriated by faith.
If you have bought into these lies, you are not condemned. In faith, repent of those things and start to receive blessings and forgiveness through faith and through the knowledge of the truth (which is, knowing and practicing the Word of God in your life).