The adding
of commands.
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GOD THE FATHER
IS ALWAYS GOOD
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Apart from imposing
a violent beginning in Heaven
It was a necessary violent beginning, God
couldn’t do anything otherwise.
Perhaps see earlier section: THE FIRST WAR. ,,,,,
the Father has always
been, and will always be,
only constructive in Heaven.
Perhaps
see later section:
IT’S BECAUSE OF US THAT GOD IS THREE PERSONS ,,,,,
and
immediately after it:
IN JESUS, THE FATHER REVEALS HIS HEART TO US. ,,,,,
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In this Second Dimension however,
because we humans & demons do bad:
the Father has also
sometimes done bad
(by his Spirit or by his
angels)
in order to do more good.
, , E.G. To improve, or to end, or to rectify, a
situation.
, , See earlier section:
, , GOOD & BAD, RIGHT & WRONG. ,,,,,
, , Perhaps see later webpage:
, , The good & bad that God does. ,,,,,
, , See first cell
, , of later section:
, , GOD IS ALWAYS
CONSTRUCTIVE IN THE LONG RUN. ,,,,,
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WHY GOD’S
WORDS HAVE POWER
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As for what God says:
It’s as if, very early on,
God promised himself something like:
“If I merely say something is happening, or will
happen,
then, as soon as is
practicable, I will actually
do it.
Me saying it – will be
as good as – it happening.”
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Hence, sometimes the Bible says that God
merely spoke
then the thing happened, automatically, with no action on his part:
Gen c1 v3:
And God said, Let there be light:
and there was light. KJV
Mind you, sometimes the Bible says that God both
spoke
and did the thing:
Gen c1 v6-7:
And God said,
Let there be a firmament in
the midst of the waters,
and let it divide the waters from the waters.
And God made the firmament,
and divided the waters which were under the firmament
from the waters which were above the firmament:
and it was so.
KJV
, I explained ‘speaking’
and ‘speaking and doing’
, in the first two cells
, of earlier section: CREATING
MATTER BUT MAKING HUMANS.,,,,,
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Likewise, if you:
believe the gospel
and so have:
renewed every
room of your mind,
every area of
your life,
accordingly:
so that you:
think
like Jesus thinks,
obey
God’s Spirit when he speaks,
then, when you command, in Jesus’ name,
healings/miracles/blessings:
it’s not only you saying it,
it’s God’s Holy Spirit, in
you, saying it as well,
so it happens.
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Jesus explains the command
of faith as follows (black text):
Matt c21 v21
Mark c11 v23-24 (Matt c21 v21-22):
23
For verily I say unto you,
That whosoever shall say unto this
mountain,
Be thou removed,
and be thou cast into the sea;
and shall not doubt in his heart,
but shall believe that those
things which he saith
shall come to pass;
he shall have
whatsoever he
saith.
24 Therefore I say unto you,
What things soever ye desire,
when ye pray,
believe that ye receive them,
and ye shall have
them. KJV
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Jesus
explains the prayer of faith
as follows (black text):
Also explained in: Jam c5 v15.
Also: John c14 v12-18 John c15 John c16 v21-28.
Matt c21 v22
Mark c11 v23-24 (Matt c21 v21-22):
23 For verily I say unto you,
That whosoever
shall say unto this mountain,
Be thou
removed,
and be thou
cast into the sea;
and shall not
doubt in his heart,
but shall believe
that those things which he saith
shall come to pass;
he shall have
whatsoever he
saith.
24 Therefore I say unto you,
What things soever
ye desire,
when ye pray, believe that ye
receive them,
and ye shall have them. KJV
, You may say that Jesus did not change the subject,
, i.e. from commanding to praying.
, But the verse immediately after all this,
verse 25,
, shows that he did.
, Mark c11 v25:
, And
when ye stand praying, forgive,
, if
ye have ought against any:
, that
your Father also which is in heaven
, may
forgive you your trespasses. KJV
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Renewing your mind,
so that you think like
Jesus thinks,
obey God’s Spirit when he
speaks,
means that:
what sort of things you now pray for
and what sort of things you now command, in Jesus’ name,
will not be the same sort of things
that you would have prayed
for, or commanded in Jesus’ name,
in the past.
Indeed, what you want has changed
because you have changed.
Someone who has renewed their mind
is constructive to the max:
Wants, above all, to do
natural & miraculous good.
Do
whatever will have an eternally
good effect.
Is not interested in the
world: it’s too temporary.
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Hence
Jesus futuristically (post-Pentecost)
assumed:
that we would have already changed
from carnal ‘Christians’
to spiritually mature
believers,
when he:
told us to pray for
“What
things soever ye desire”.
and when he:
commanded the fig tree to die
and told us to do likewise,
told us to command the mountain to move.
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Jesus
did not need to kill the fig tree.
He wanted to kill the
fig tree.
, I reckon Jesus cursed a fig tree
, Matt c21 v19-20 Mark c11 v12-14 & v20
, because it was like the ‘religious’ leaders
, that he knew he was about to meet.
, It was all leaves.
They were all show.
, It had no fruit.
They had nothing good to offer.
, Matt c21 v21 – c23 v36 Mark c11 v27 – c12 v40 .
You would not need to
cast a mountain into the sea.
You might only want
to cast a mountain into the sea.
Jesus
exampled such a gigantic frivolous act
so that it included every
smaller frivolous act.
Certainly God is fine with
frivolous aspects
to, otherwise logical,
prayers or commands, in Jesus’ name.
E.G. Jesus taught
& lived
that we are free of
the world.
Hence he,
frivolously:
made a coin
appear
in a wild
fish’s mouth
(wild, yet
trapped here)
so that
they could pay their way
so as to
not offend
some
certain worldly people
(of the
world, so perhaps trapped here).
Matt c17 v24-27,,,,
And Jesus intended that we follow him,
imitate him.
, , Perhaps see later section: GOD’S
METHODS and
the cell before it.
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Whether you should:
pray to the Father
or command in Jesus’ name,
is usually obvious:
In Acts (which shows how it should
be done):
Believers usually prayed generally:
as preparation for commanding healings
and as thanks for everything.
Believers did not pray:
when healing,
to cause the healing,
as Christians do today.
In Acts, there are many instances where believers:
commanded a healing (up close),
miraculously
changing someone’s condition.
e.g. Acts c3 v1-10:
Peter healed a man who’d been born lame. my abbn
But only one instance where believers:
prayed to the Father (from a
distance),
miraculously
changing someone’s situation.
Acts c12:
Believers pray for Peter
to be freed from
prison. my abbreviation
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When praying:
look up . . . . . to the solution.
When commanding:
look down . . . at the problem . . . you are the solution.
When praying:
Your mind is now like Jesus’
mind
so you know what to ask God for.
And God is now your heavenly
dad
so you ask expectantly
When commanding:
You’re commanding in Jesus’ name
Hence you speak to the
problem boldly.
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The
Son (always)
and the Spirit (in these New Testament
times)
each have a tolerance & a patience
that the Father, on his own, lacks.
See earlier section: SON & SPIRIT.
Hence, before this Church Age,
the Father (with his angels & his Spirit doing his bidding)
did bad as well as good:
His attitude, to our bad
ways, used to be:
‘Destroy the whole batch
& start again’. Exo c32 v1-14,,,
But, during this Church Age:
Father &/or
Christian, using the Spirit,
and angels,
do only good.
Perhaps see later
section: THE CHURCH AGE.
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So, if you want to
ask the Father to give you
a good thing (e.g. a blessing):
you
pray, to the Father, in Jesus’ name.
Matt c7 v7-12
John c14 v12-14
But, if you want to ask the
Father
to take away from
you
a bad thing (e.g. a sickness, or a
demon):
you
don’t,
you
command it out, in Jesus’ name.
, This is an observed rule (like the second law of
thermodynamics).
, not an imposed rule (like gravity).
, Hence there can be exceptions.
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The Father does many things by his Spirit:
Designed & created
the material that formed the
universe. Gen c1, ,
Conceived
his Son. Luke c1 v35, ,
But the Father does not do everything
by his Spirit:
An angel killed an enemy
army
in the night.
2 Kings c19 v35
Angels
will sort us
on Judgment Day.
Matt c13 v24-30 &
v36-43 & v47-50, ,
You might suppose, from the
above,
that God does the right-&-good tasks
but dumps the right-but-bad tasks onto angels.
However, God does do some bad things:
,, ,, See earlier
section: SOME BAD-YET-RIGHT THINGS THAT GOD DOES,,,
,, ,, and the links
within it.
,, ,, (This link does
not open a new tab.)
Though notice (through the
above red link)
that God doesn’t do bad
things in this Church Age.
So, it’s not only: ‘who does
what’,
it’s also: ‘when it’s done’.
See
earlier section: THE CHURCH AGE and its two subsections.
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In these New Testament times, this
Church Age,
other people, nature, &
demons,
, The world, the flesh, &
the devil.
do God’s dirty work for him.
Or, rather, they do their
dirty work anyway.
Then God uses that to
do good.
Rom
c8 v28:
And
we know that all things
work together for
good
to them that love
God,
to them who are
the called
according to his purpose. KJV
, Perhaps see earlier section: WHY THE UNIVERSE IS
SECOND CLASS
, and
, later section: GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY. , , , , ,
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Jesus
never prayed for the sick
and never told us to pray for the sick.
Jesus always healed the sick,
commanded the healing,
and always told us to do
likewise.
Matt c10 v8:
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers,
raise the dead, cast out devils:
freely ye have
received, freely give. KJV
Luke c9 v2:
And he sent them to
preach the kingdom of God,
and to heal the
sick. KJV
Luke c10 v9:
And heal the sick
that are therein, and say unto them,
The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
KJV
You may say:
“Jesus was speaking to
his disciples. Not to us.”
I say:
“What he said to them
he said to us:
Matt c28 v19-20:
Regarding
everything I taught you,
teach it to everyone else. my abbreviation”
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, James told us to pray for the sick. Jam c5 v14-15 , .
, But see item 2)
, of earlier section: MY
ATTITUDE TO THE BIBLE , .
, and
, later section: CONTINUING THE SON’S WORK , .
, and
, later section: GODLY SELF-CONFIDENCE, , .
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A MIRACLE IS:
THE ADDING OF A COMMAND
TO EXISTING COMMANDS
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In the section before last I wrote:
A miracle
= the Holy Spirit,
who
is not made of atoms,
manipulating atoms.
But there’s more to a miracle than this.
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Words are important to God
for the same reason they are important to us:
for specifying
things/intentions/actions/etc.
, , Perhaps
see earlier section:
, , ANIMALS WITH LARGE BRAINS.,,,,,
Hence:
o God, throughout the
Old Testament, communicated to us
using actions and words.
o One
of Jesus’ names is:
the Word [i.e. God’s words] made flesh. John c1 v1-14
o God commanded the material of the universe
into existence
using words. Heb c11 v3 Gen c1
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God
commanded the material of the universe into existence
using words.
Hence, when you
command the miraculous, in Jesus’ name:
You are adding a
command
to commands that are already
in place.
You are commanding something
that contradicts the laws of nature.
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Logically, there are limits
to the miracles that can be
done here,
limits to the combinations
of:
commands that
made the universe
and
commands that can
be added to them.
You, and God’s
Spirit inside you, combined,
cannot make a
square circle.
You, and God’s
Spirit inside you, combined,
do not want to
turn the seas into sand.
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COMMANDS THAT INVOLVE
THIS SECOND DIMENSION
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Time travel does not occur here, in the Second
Dimension.
Hence, here:
A set of God’s commands
that involve things, plants,
& animals,
can have commands
taken away from them.
But a set of God’s commands
that involve us
cannot have commands taken away from them.
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For example:
After God made grass, and
made it green,
but before he’d made us,
he could have changed it
from green to pink.
But, as soon as he’d made
us,
he could not have done so
in case it frightened us.
Or, to be precise,
God would not have wanted to do so
in case it frightened us.
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We
want to do more things than we can do.
Our tightest limit is what
we can do.
God can do more things than
he wants to do.
His tightest limit is what
he wants to do.
(Hence I often use the word want, for God,
as one would use the word can, for a human.)
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, , N.B. God does things only for right reasons.
, Perhaps see later earlier section: GOOD & BAD, RIGHT & WRONG, , , ,
, and
,, ,, earlier section:
SOME BAD-YET-RIGHT THINGS THAT GOD DOES,,,
,, ,, and the links
within it.
,, ,, (This link does
not open a new tab.)
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THE
MAKING OF ADAM & EVE
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So, a set of God’s commands
that involve us
(us being eternal beings):
can have more commands added
to them,
but cannot have commands taken
away from them.
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For example:
God made the not-yet-alive
body of Adam. Gen c1 v25-28,,
Then God breathed into it,
making it alive Gen c2 v7,,
(we are this way today: we
will each die
but will then each be an
eternal spirit(ghost).)
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(After God had made Adam’s body
but before he’d breathed life into it, made it eternal,
he could have made a U-turn,
could have destroyed the not-yet-alive body of Adam.
But he didn’t.)
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Then,
from one of the, living Adam’s, ribs
God made Eve.
Then God, presumably,
married them. Gen c2 v25
Then both Adam and Eve
sinned for the first time
revealing their potential
for worse to come.
Hence God had to get them (i.e. humankind, us)
away from the tree of life (i.e. out of the garden of Eden)
in case they ate its fruit as well:
We were
already eternal.
But the fruit of the tree of
life would have made us
eternal and substantial (i.e. not like a ghost: Gen c3 v22)., , .,
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Even
if God had wanted to make Adam
& Eve
temporary again, he could
not have done so
because he had already made them eternal.
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To
conclude: God cannot take away an eternal command
from a set of eternal commands.
He can only add another, perhaps eternal,
command
to the set.
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, , Perhaps also see
earlier section:
, , TREAT THE BIBLICAL ADAM & EVE AS REAL, , , ,
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