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If anyone could lose salvation, I know this is going to sound like a challenge.

Did you hear what Tomev said?

If anyone could lose salvation, it would be Jesus Christ.

Wake up!

If He lost the salvation He obtained for us, then He would stop being the Savior.

But He will never lose it.

Because the salvation He accomplished for you is perfect and complete.

If you go to a cosmetologist — that's good.

It helps you see yourself better, feel younger.

But the whole point is that if you come to Life Church every Sunday, Victor will give you "botox" straight into your brain.

Instantly — bam! — and your whole body grows younger.

Then you won't need to get botox injections separately anymore.

You won't need to.

What needs to change is your thinking.

When your mind changes, everything falls into place, and your life changes too.

Come — you'll be anointed with oil, and your thoughts will become right, bright, and clean.

Your brain will start sending your body the right signal — not to age.

It will say:

"You are healthy.

You are healthy.

You are healed.

You are righteous.

You are born from above.

You are from heaven.

And everything that is from heaven is eternal."

Jesus said His life was from above.

He said:

"I came from above."

Therefore I am above the serpent, above sickness, above everything, because I came from above.

And He asked:

"Do you now believe that you are the same as I am?"

The meek will inherit — not heaven, but what?

The earth.

And what do the meek usually think about?

In other words, what do Christians usually think when they read these words?

They think they will eventually inherit heaven.

When we say Jesus said, "Whoever believes in Me will never die," on one hand that's an appealing idea people want to believe.

But on the other hand, there are statements like:

"The earth and everything done in it will be burned up."

Then the question arises: if that's so, will you just hang forever in midair?

From God's point of view, a meek person is a person who is not aggressive, who does not seize, oppress, or commit violence.

It is such people who will ultimately possess the earth.

But from this world's point of view — that is, its sinful system — it's the opposite:

whoever is stronger presses on, seizes power.

And that continues to this day.

Even some believers strive for this.

They say:

"We will take the Kingdom of God. Revival will start from the top. Christians need to take power."

But the truth, according to the author of this statement, is that Christians already held such power for about a millennium and a half.

And what did they do with that power?

They killed other people, burned them at the stake, created the Inquisition, used violence, seized and burned the prayer houses of other Christians and dissenters.

I think this historical experience is enough to understand: Christians did not handle this task.

They were not meek.

That is precisely why, first in America and then in Europe, the Church was separated from the state.

There was once a time when almost all control over public life passed through the Church.

If a priest or the Pope permitted something, then it was permitted.

There was neither real freedom nor normal development of society.

So, from this point of view, the religious system that was called Christianity did not teach the words:

"Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth."

Instead, as the author claims, it taught:

"Blessed are the meek, for you will go to heaven."

After that, in his words, a doctrine of the afterlife, heaven, and hell was formed, in which the meek supposedly go to paradise and the unmeek go to hell.

This cannot be verified, and it cannot be proven either — you are simply asked to believe it.

After that, as the author claims, Bible texts began to be selected to fit this idea, so that people would fear disobedience.

And meekness came to be understood as complete submission to the Church and its authority.

Two operating systems can never run at the same time.

They can only be switched.

Once, someone tried to combine two opposing operating systems.

Two "motherboards."

Two matrices, one of which contradicts the other.

They were merged into one Bible.

But that's not even the worst part.

The worst part is that these two matrices are being plugged into one human head at the same time.

They're being run simultaneously in one consciousness.

And you know what happens then?

A crash.

That, according to the author, is exactly why a "crash" is happening throughout Christianity.

"God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

If you look at the Greek text, this means God stands on the opposite side from pride.

Here I am walking the path of grace, living in grace, and on the other side is pride.

God seems to say:

"I am not there. I am on the side opposite to pride."

If you want to receive grace, cross over into humility.

And humility is exactly what we're talking about right now.

Humility is not saying:

"Lord, I am a sinner."

According to the author, that is a hidden form of pride.

God cannot support pride.

God does not cooperate with pride.

God resists the proud.

That is, according to the Greek text, He stands on the opposite side from pride.

He does not reinforce pride with His grace.

He does not wage war against the proud.

He simply cannot bless a person's false picture of themselves.

What, then, is real pride?

Pride is independence from God.

Its essence is:

"I don't need God. I can handle it myself."

Pride is not thinking too highly of yourself.

It is thinking too little of God.

Pride is not thinking too well of yourself.

It's thinking about yourself independently of God's view.

And humility is agreeing with how God sees you.

Then it becomes clear why God resists the proud.

Because a proud person lives by their own version of reality.

And He gives grace to the humble, because a humble person accepts God's version of reality.

Look:

A humble person doesn't try to become smaller.

They simply stop trying to be someone else.

Humility is not thinking worse of yourself.

Humility is thinking about yourself according to the truth.

Religion teaches that humility means thinking less of yourself.

Jesus teaches that humility means thinking about yourself the way God thinks about you.

This is such a fine line that without inner confidence in yourself, it's impossible to have faith in God.

You cannot believe in God if you don't believe that you yourself are capable of believing in Him.

Pride is not thinking too highly of yourself.

Pride is thinking too little of God.

People often think that a proud person thinks about themselves too much.

Is that true?

That's usually what we think.

But what if a proud person isn't thinking about themselves at all?

A proud person constantly thinks about others and compares themselves to them.

They are constantly competing with someone.

Scripture says:

"Clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

The moment you start considering yourself more important than others — that's pride.

Because such a person always fights to make sure others don't have that, so that others are made lower.

A proud person constantly thinks about others.

A humble person thinks about themselves — and thinks correctly.

There is even such a thing as false humility.

When a person says:

"I'm so bad. I can't do anything. Nothing will work out for me."

This is called false humility.

Pride says:

"As if I myself were the source of everything."

Unbelief says:

"I'm not capable."

But faith says:

"God has given me this ability."

"I can do all things in Him."

Without Him, nothing will work out for you.

This is confidence in the masterpiece God created, which bears the name "I."

But — I am with God.

This, according to the author, is true maturity.

A sinner is not a person's nature, but their location.

Christ did not come to change God's attitude toward you.

Christ came to change your view of yourself and of God.

Salvation is not turning garbage into treasure.

Salvation is bringing the treasure home.

Sin is wrong thinking.

It's seeing something as unclean.

Now let's return to the main point.

"To the pure, all things are pure."

Hello!

To the pure…

Where does this purity reside?

In the thinking.

Such a person understands that everything was created by God.

God is the great Creator.

He created masterpieces, and everything He created is pure.

Nothing is unclean in itself.

Only to the one who considers something unclean — it is unclean.

For him, it is unclean.

In reality, everything is pure.

God created everything pure.

Why, then, do sinners exist?

Because someone believes sinners exist, and so for them there are many sinners around.

In other words, once again:

Whoever considers something unclean, sinful, or bad — for that person, it is sinful.

But in itself, nothing is unclean.

Do you live under law or under grace?

In other words, are you under law or under grace?

If your answer is "under grace," then there's good news for you:

the law of the Old Testament does not address you.

It doesn't concern you at all.

Why?

The apostle Paul stated this with total clarity:

"Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law."

In other words, the law speaks only to those who are under the law.

Therefore, all the words of the Law — including those recorded in the books of the New Testament — do not apply to you.

According to the author, this includes those statements of Jesus in which He spoke the words of the Law to Jews who were under the law.

Then what in the Bible does apply to us?

Let me repeat the question: are we under law or under grace?

The answer is entirely clear.

Since we are under grace, the words of grace in the Bible belong to us.

God does not accept thanks for something He had no part in.

Thanks for sickness, for example.

God did not give it, and thanking Him for sickness is blasphemy.

If a person thanks God for everything indiscriminately — both good and bad — then, according to the author, it's clear that in their mind, God is not only good but also the one who does evil: heals and cripples, gives good and evil.

It's the same as with the biblical figure Job, who himself did evil to no one and only did good.

Yet, in Job's understanding, God gave both good and evil.

Isn't that strange?

Someone might say: "But it is written: 'In everything give thanks.'"

Yes, some translations do say that.

But this is a fundamentally inaccurate translation.

Here is what the Greek text actually says:

"In everything give thanks" — not "for everything give thanks."

Do you see the difference?

"In everything give thanks" means: give thanks in every circumstance, in every situation.

Not: give thanks for every situation, regardless of whether it's good or bad.

There are people who accept both the Law and grace, thinking that the Law and grace are two sides of the same coin.

But the truth is that the Law excludes grace, just as grace excludes the Law.

You are either under the Law or under grace.

Let me give you just a few definitions that will already help you understand this.

The Law demands righteousness — grace gives righteousness.

Sin is known through the Law — God is known through grace.

The Law brings death — grace brings life.

Under the Law, people become slaves — under grace, they become sons and daughters of God.

The power of sin is the Law, and the power of righteousness is grace.

The Law produces wrath — grace brings mercy.

The Law condemns — grace justifies.

The Law is based on fear — grace is based on love.

Now I want to ask you:

What do you choose — the Law or grace?

People who have believed the Gospel of grace do not have to do good works.

I want to emphasize that: do not have to.

People who believe the Gospel of grace cannot help but do good works.

They have received grace — that is, God's goodness — and that goodness has become their very nature.

They were created in Christ Jesus for good works.

In the Epistle to the Hebrews, chapter 13, verse 9, it says:

"Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those who were occupied with them."

Where do you think the laws about which foods you can and cannot eat — called "strange teachings" here — are recorded?

That's right — in the Bible, specifically in the Old Testament.

It follows that not everything written in the Bible is addressed specifically to you.

The Law of Moses is a strange teaching for those who are under grace.

So don't be carried away by it, for it is good for the heart to be established by grace alone.

There's a common saying that grace is "unmerited mercy."

But grace is not mercy, and mercy is not grace.

Mercy is not receiving the bad you deserved.

Grace is receiving the good you also didn't deserve.

Mercy cannot be earned — it is shown.

Likewise, grace cannot be earned — it is given.

We need both mercy and grace.

The full picture of mercy and grace being shown is when a person deserved hell but ended up in heaven.

Based on this text, many people conclude that entering the Kingdom of God requires putting in a lot of effort.

But if this text really is about people needing to put in effort, why does it say "from the days of John the Baptist"?

Why doesn't it say, at least, "from the days of Moses"?

After all, it's precisely the Law of Moses that talks about trying hard, putting in effort, and carefully keeping all the commandments.

Have you ever wondered why the starting point is specifically the days of John the Baptist?

As you might expect, all the confusion arose from the Synodal translation.

For example, in a modern translation, this passage reads like this:

"From the days of John the Baptist until now, the Kingdom of Heaven has suffered fierce attacks, and many are trying to seize it by force."

That's all there is to it.

This text is not about you.

It's about the Pharisees, who were attacking the Kingdom of God as embodied in Jesus Christ.

If people defend the Gospel in order to accuse and condemn others, then they aren't defending it — they're distorting it.

The real Gospel does not accuse or condemn people — it justifies them.

The apostle Paul revealed exactly this in the Epistle to the Romans.

He wrote:

"Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge another; for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself…"

You condemn others because you yourself live in condemnation.

But when a person accepts justification and begins to live in the awareness of their own righteousness, they no longer condemn anyone.

Whatever religion teaches people to kill, then its god is the devil.

I have no doubt that many of you will say "Amen" to that.

But if you look at the Old Testament, it seems that God Himself commanded people to be killed, and sometimes struck people down Himself.

Perhaps you've never considered that maybe someone, calling themselves God, was telling people in the Old Testament to wipe out nations.

If at this point you no longer know what to think, I want to help you work through it.

The truth about God was revealed by Jesus Christ.

He told the Jews who were arguing with Him that their god was the devil, because they wanted to kill — and the devil was a murderer from the beginning, not God.

Believe the words of Jesus:

"No one knows the Father except the Son, and only the Son can reveal the true God."

Because the apostle Peter frightened them to death.

Literally.

Upon hearing Peter's words, "You have not lied to men, but to God," Ananias fell down and died.

Most likely from a heart attack.

About three hours later, Sapphira came in, not knowing what had happened.

Peter repeated the same thing:

"Tell me, did you sell the land for so much?"

She answered:

"Yes, for so much."

Then Peter said:

"Why did you agree together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look, the feet of those who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out too."

And that, friends, was already a curse.

As you can see, it was Peter who asked them the questions, and they answered Peter — not God.

It was Peter who said they had lied to God, and that proved fatal for these Jews, who had lived their whole lives in fear of God.

They didn't yet know that in the New Testament, God is merciful toward them.

And, admittedly, Peter didn't explain that to them.

On the contrary, he carried out judgment on them.

One day, Jesus' disciples saw a vision in which Moses and Elijah appeared, speaking with Jesus.

The apostle Peter was so taken with what he saw that he wanted to put up three shelters, so that Moses, Elijah, and Jesus would all stay together.

In other words, to keep it all together — Moses, the prophets, and Jesus.

But suddenly the other two vanished.

Only Jesus remained.

And they heard a voice:

"This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!"

This is the Father's most direct command — to listen to the Son.

It was the Son of God who came and gave us light and understanding, so that we might know the true God.

If you listen to Moses — that is, the Law of the Old Testament — and to Elijah — that is, the Old Testament prophets — while also listening to Jesus' teaching about God, then in your doctrine God will be both good and evil at the same time: the One who heals and cripples, creates light and darkness, loves and hates.

The result is a whole tangle of paradoxes and contradictions.

So listen to the Father's command:

"Listen only to My Son!"

"Sinner-saint" theology.

Yes, friends, it really does exist.

It has crippled many people, turning them into spiritual invalids.

This theology is made up of absolute contradictions that come from both the Law and grace at the same time.

So who exactly is a "sinner-saint"?

It's someone who is holy, yet at the same time wicked, and who must be sanctified their whole life long.

They're righteous, but also a sinner at the same time.

If they hear that a righteous person doesn't sin, that already sounds like a terrible heresy to them.

They're saved by grace, not by works, and yet they believe they can be lost through works.

They're a new creation, and the old has passed away — yet they believe not everything has passed, because they suppose a sinful nature still remains in them.

They died to sin, yet every day they "die" to sin all over again.

They believe Christ is the end of the Law, yet they keep living by the Law.

They know they should always rejoice in the Lord, yet every time they come to the Lord, they weep.

That, friends, is schizophrenia.

This term appears in the Bible only once — in the Epistle to the Hebrews.

Accordingly, it is addressed to Jews — more precisely, to those Jews who first believed in Christ, came to know the truth, and then contemptuously rejected the Son of God, treated as unholy the blood of the new covenant by which they had been sanctified, and insulted the Spirit of grace.

They no longer recognized grace.

Moreover, they returned to the Law and to sacrifices, rejected the New Testament, and went back to the Old, which had already lost its power.

And animal sacrifices no longer covered sin.

That is exactly why it says:

"There remains no more a sacrifice for sins."

There is only one sacrifice — the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, which they rejected.

This is precisely what is called willful, deliberate sin.

Repenting isn't hard.

You just need to know what repentance is.

People usually think repentance means regretting what you've done and asking forgiveness.

But that's not it.

The word "repentance" is translated from the ancient Greek word "metanoia" (μετάνοια), which literally means "a change of mind" or "a change of thinking."

How does a change of thinking happen?

Through information.

When you receive new information and reflect on it, your thinking changes.

In other words, repentance takes place.

Now here's the most important part about the meaning of the word "repentance."

Repentance doesn't just mean changing your thinking — it means changing your thinking for the better, when your mind is transformed by love, by goodness, that is, by the positive.

That's the whole secret.

Listen to positive information, reflect on it — and your thinking will change, and along with it, your life will change for the better too.

A human being lives by reason; an animal lives by instinct.

If you don't develop human reason — if you leave a person to live purely by instinct — they will behave like an animal: they might bark, howl, or crow.

We don't teach our children not to bark.

We teach them to speak.

In the same way, when believers today only teach people not to sin, it's like teaching our children not to bark and not to crow.

We need to be doing something else.

We need to be showing that we are not "animals," that we are not sinners.

We are righteous in Him.

We are a new creation in Christ Jesus.

And that's not because you came to church.

The Lord made you that way.

For as in Adam all became sinners, so in Christ all became righteous.

Go and tell people that they are righteous, and teach them to live righteous lives.

There's no need to preach the Law and the Ten Commandments to people to convince them they are sinners, in order to then lead them to the thought that they need Jesus.

Jesus Himself never commanded that the Law be preached to people.

Jesus said clearly and plainly:

"Go into all the world and preach the Gospel."

The Gospel is the message of what Jesus did for people: He died for their sins and rose again for their justification.

That's it.

I know many will say:

"But it is written that the Law was a tutor to bring us to Christ."

Yes, it is written.

But that's not said about our time — it's about the period from Moses to Christ.

It says the Law was, not that it is, now.

And it was specifically for the Jews that the Law was a tutor to bring them to Christ.

After faith came, we are no longer under the guardianship of the Law.

So there's no need to rip that quote out of context and say that today the Law is a tutor to Christ.

The Law was a tutor to Christ for the Jews.

Read carefully.

The Gospel is not the teaching of Jesus Christ or His apostles.

Nor is the Gospel the four New Testament books that carry the title "Gospel."

These books describe the Gospel, but only in their final chapters.

The Gospel is not what Jesus taught the Jews.

The Gospel is what He accomplished for all of humanity.

The literal meaning of the word "Gospel" is "good news" or "glad tidings."

The good news is that Christ took on our sinfulness, which we inherited from Adam, joined Himself to us, and became sin, as we were.

He died with our sins on the cross.

He crucified our sinful nature, so that we died together with Him in His death.

And when He rose, we also rose together with Him — righteous, as He is.

The Gospel is that Christ died for our sins and rose again for our justification.

Second Corinthians 3:6 says:

"He made us competent as ministers of a new covenant — not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life."

To be a minister of the New Testament means to be able to tell the letter apart from the Spirit in Scripture.

The letter is Moses and his Law, which kills.

The Spirit is Christ and His grace, which gives life.

The letter is judgment, verdict, and condemnation.

The Spirit is mercy, grace, and justification.

Once you understand this, it will become easy to recognize what in the Bible is letter and what is Spirit.

All the words of the Law and of condemnation in the Bible are the letter, which kills.

All the words of grace and justification are the Spirit, which gives life.

So check what's being preached to you: Moses or Christ, the letter or the Spirit.

"The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away."

This phrase comes from the book of Job.

That's what Job said after his ten children died and he lost all his possessions.

The thing is, the biblical character Job did not know the nature and character of the true God.

He had only heard from someone about a god who first gives good things and then sends evil.

That's why Job's statement:

"The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away"

or his other statement:

"Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?"

reflects an ancient, limited picture of God.

The truth is that God gave the good, and Satan did the evil.

God gave, and Satan took away.

Through faith, Job opened his life to God, who blessed him with wealth.

And through fear, he opened the door to Satan, who took away everything God had given.

So never say:

"The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away."

How can you stop sinning if the task set before you is to constantly acknowledge yourself as a sinner?

You've been convinced that you're a sinner.

And a sinner will always sin.

The truth, though, is that we stop sinning when we come to know — not ourselves, but Him.

In knowing Him, you are set free from sin.

By the way, in many churches, people often quote these words:

"If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us."

As if to say the truth is that we have sin.

And, strangely enough, many people like this idea.

They like the thought that in Adam all sinned, and they hold on to this discovery as though nothing had happened between Adam's fall and their own life in the twenty-first century.

As if before your birth there was only Adam — and Christ no longer matters.

Most people today, as a rule, watch reels or shorts because they're always rushing somewhere.

But if we're honest, people are really rushing toward death, because tomorrow we'll already be closer to death than we are today.

That's exactly why we never have time to watch long videos.

But there's good news.

The information I want to offer you can change the direction of your life, and instead of moving closer to death, you'll start moving away from it.

I invite you to watch a video called "The Prohibition on Knowledge and Life. Who Was Behind It?"

The link is in the description of this video.

The information discussed in that video is something religion has carefully hidden.

It's information about how to gain access to immortality.

Let me stress right away: this isn't about the afterlife.

It's about your present life, in which you can gain knowledge that leads to immortality.

The greatest tragedy in human history happened when someone forbade people access to knowledge.

That video reveals the secret of how people were saddled with a prohibition on the knowledge of good and evil, and later, a prohibition on eternal life.

That's exactly how humanity ended up condemned to death.

I'm sure you've never heard anything like this.

And even if you've already heard that a believer in Jesus can avoid dying altogether, this video reveals the actual mechanism of immortality.

I'm sure you'll find it interesting.

The link to the full video is in the description of this video.

Tomorrow will mark exactly two years since I stopped living in expectation of death approaching.

I started moving away from it.

I am not approaching death — I am moving away from it.

This is a very difficult subject.

It's hard to explain, hard to understand, and not easy to prove.

But two years ago, my theology changed.

My views on life changed because of just one word from God:

"Live forever, and you may not die."

Every person can not die.

But if you don't think about this and just live according to certain established patterns, you can look me in the eye a thousand times and argue your point.

You'll say:

"Look at reality. Look at how people age. Whether you like it or not, the whole world moves in one direction. Everyone dies. Can you show me even one living person who doesn't die?"

I know all these arguments by heart.

I've heard them many times already.

But over these two years, I've become even more convinced that I will not die and that I will live.

Demons in people — myth or reality?

Do demons really exist, or is this just an ancient myth?

What lies behind the biblical accounts of possession?

Who are the "spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places"?

And why did theologians turn the king of Tyre into Satan?

Why did we ourselves once cast out demons, and now call that a delusion?

Does modern Christianity know who — and when — imposed demonology on Christians, the same demonology that still has many believers searching for demons in themselves and in others, and eagerly attending so-called deliverance services?

And why, even today, in an age of development and civilization, is there such high demand for exorcists?

Especially, of all places, within the Christian world — that is, among people who believe in Jesus Christ.

Even though, according to New Testament teaching, Christians are a holy people.

In the New Testament, these people are called a new creation, in whom the old has passed away — including sin, the curse, possession, and everything else tied to darkness.

What's more, Christians really are a new creation.

Do you think theologians don't know or understand that the human physical body is a temple of the Holy Spirit?

And yet, somehow, in their teaching, right alongside the Holy Spirit inside a person sits a demon too — and in most cases, an entire "team" of them.

In short, this is a very sharp topic.

And, strange as it may seem, even in the twenty-first century it remains extremely relevant.

That's exactly why I invited to this broadcast Dr. Ottadel, a doctor of theology joining us from Germany, along with Pastor Valentin Myrok from Israel.

So, in today's program, we'll be talking about the origins of demonology.

If this topic interests you, stay with us until the end of the broadcast.

Also, send in your questions — I'll read them out during the stream.

Did you know that in the book of Revelation, God's chosen ones are named as 144,000 from the twelve tribes of Israel?

You're not in there.

In the future, my friends, only the twelve tribes of Israel are mentioned.

What's more, these representatives of the twelve tribes of Israel are called virgins, who were not defiled with women.

If you're a woman, then, according to this interpretation, women won't make it into this Kingdom of God at all — into this thousand-year kingdom.

You, as a woman, aren't there at all, because, in this view, a woman is a defilement.

A woman is evil.

A woman is, so to speak, practically Satan, since it was she who…

How can a person, without the Law, without reading the Law of Moses…

After all, the Law of Moses doesn't stop at the Ten Commandments.

There are 613 of them.

And if you add the Christian commandments on top of that, some have calculated the total comes to over a thousand.

Even if you tried to memorize them, you probably couldn't.

Not to mention actually keeping them, correctly understanding them, and being guided by them in your life.

So how is a person supposed to know what is good and what is evil, without having any of these commandments?

How do you teach a person to act according to God's will without ever reading them a single commandment?

Is it really possible, knowing just one single thing, to always act according to God's will?

Without knowing the Old Testament, without knowing the Bible, and without having heard a single sermon…

Can a person, knowing just one thing, always act rightly?

What is it?

For many people, the Bible has become God.

What do you think — if there is one Bible and over 40,000 Protestant denominations, which one of them is right?

If your understanding of the Bible helps another person, then you're interpreting it correctly.

But if the Bible leads you to condemn another person, then it turns out you're defending the Bible instead of the person.

When you defend the Bible while condemning people — you've got it all mixed up.

By defending the Bible, we send people to hell.

We condemn people.

That's why the biggest problem today, all the conflicts and arguments, arise because of the Bible.

In Christianity, there's no other subject of dispute quite like the Bible.

When we understand its essence, though, we'll see in the Bible Jesus, who brought love.

And love is meant not for the Bible, but for people.

By the way, Jesus didn't write a single book of the Bible.

He accomplished the Gospel.

He accomplished redemption.

He destroyed your curse and mine.

He destroyed sin.

And He rose again to make you righteous.

He simply sent His disciples to go and tell people about it.

Then, for many years, they preached, and for the sake of certain people, they began writing down their testimonies.

Over time, these writings were gathered into Holy Scripture.

Into it went the Gospels, the Law of Moses, and, at the end, the book of Revelation.

And now, having combined all of that into a single book, people ended up with a subject for arguments and divisions.

That's exactly how Baptists, Adventists, and countless other denominations came about.

No matter how well-known or respected a preacher may be, if he preaches that God will punish you or that God will kill you, then he is preaching a different god.

"Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love."

So how did this love reveal itself?

What does God, who is love, do?

His love was revealed in this: God sent His only begotten Son into the world.

Was it so He could kill all those who think differently, send all the heretics to hell, and destroy the wicked?

No.

That is not what God sent His Son for.

So what is love, then?

Love shows itself by giving life.

God is love.

And God is life.

That's what love is.

That, brothers and sisters, is what love truly is.

You need to love people.

You need to love the world.

You need to preach salvation to the world.

That's what really matters.

Once you're living in this understanding, you'll stop trying to "save" people.

You'll see that the world is already reconciled to God.

"God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself."

He no longer holds people's trespasses against them.

That was only ever how you thought about it.

God has already proven that He is love.

Stand in that truth.

We don't need to save the world.

We need to free ourselves from delusion.

We need to be delivered from misunderstanding, from religious superstitions.

Whoever loves knows God.

And it doesn't matter which denomination you belong to.

It doesn't even matter whether you go to church.

If a person loves — they know God.

And if a person hates others, no matter the reason, they have not known God.

Why was Jesus hated?

Did He do anything wrong?

No.

He simply had a different perspective.

He spent time with prostitutes.

He sat at the table with other people and drank wine with them.

He was hated precisely because He treated people well.

People wanted to kill others.

But He always defended people.

Why?

Because He came to bring life.

God has given you the understanding that God is good, that God is not fear, but that God is love.

Understanding that God is love is sound-mindedness — that is, wise and correct understanding.

Thinking that God is fear is foolishness.

Once more:

God is love — that is sound-mindedness.

Because love is goodness.

And the idea that God is fear, that He is merely a consuming fire, is a foolish notion.

Listen up, supporters of grace out there on the internet, who have commented and will keep commenting.

It wasn't Moses, or Job, or Solomon, or David who brought grace and truth.

Solomon didn't reveal God best.

Because Scripture says:

"Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ."

And further on it's written:

"No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son of God… He has revealed Him."

Who is this talking about?

Who revealed God to us?

Who made God known to us?

Jesus Christ, precisely.

Where did Jesus talk about the fear of God?

Where did Jesus tell people to fear God?

Where are all those indirect passages that, in fact, aren't talking about God at all?

To attribute to God something Jesus did not reveal is, in the view of the author of this statement, to attribute to Him something that is blasphemy.