Jesus Christ is my God!
Issued 07.02.2005
The battle between good and evil
People are willingly watching battles between evil and good in movies and books. Everybody wants to identify himself with a good hero and to see what happens to the evil. In this way one escapes the reality of one's own evilness. From what you see around yourself you can conclude that God is good and all people are evil.
Personal good and evil
So - who is fighting and against whom? Or is it so that goodness and evilness are fighting only against each other? Who is good and who is evil? Or is it so that actually nobody is evil? Often it is talked as if there existed an impersonal evil and good, which are fighting over man and the right to rule us.
In many books and movies man is described only as a pawn in the game of this battle, but not as a real source of evilness. The movie of the Lord of the Rings is a good example. People like this fairy tale because the evil ring makes man evil, and evilness doesn't come from man himself. In real life man is the source of evilness. Thus there is no need to thrown an evil ring into the lake of fire, but evil man.
In this world there has been only one so a good person that he has been able to carry this evil man into the lake of fire avoiding himself to be thrown into it. He is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. He experienced all our temptations without uniting with our evilness. He transported this evil man to Golgotha and destroyed him there.
So - who is fighting and against whom? Or is it so that goodness and evilness are fighting only against each other? Who is good and who is evil? Or is it so that actually nobody is evil? Often it is talked as if there existed an impersonal evil and good, which are fighting over man and the right to rule us.
In many books and movies man is described only as a pawn in the game of this battle, but not as a real source of evilness. The movie of the Lord of the Rings is a good example. People like this fairy tale because the evil ring makes man evil, and evilness doesn't come from man himself. In real life man is the source of evilness. Thus there is no need to thrown an evil ring into the lake of fire, but evil man.
In this world there has been only one so a good person that he has been able to carry this evil man into the lake of fire avoiding himself to be thrown into it. He is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. He experienced all our temptations without uniting with our evilness. He transported this evil man to Golgotha and destroyed him there.
Evil man
Man's evil will is like a tree and bad deeds are like its fruit. Wanting evil comes from the influence of a lie. When man has a liking for a lie, he takes a fancy to evilness. A little seed of a lie grows into a big tree of evilness.
Already a child learns to resort to lies. First only a white lie slips from the lips, but easily it grows to lying on purpose to deceive others. When lying to others a liar finally may not anymore realize that he lies, but considers his own lies the truth. Then he is able to bear the ripe fruit of evilness.
Every man has taken to lying and thus has become evil. Every man is a liar. Some have practised lies more than others, but nobody is without lying. Only God is pure from lies. No human being is good, but one is only less untruthful than another.
If I show my anger against some of your evilness, you easily experience that I hate you. This proves that you cannot make a difference between yourself and your evilness. Every time when you reject a truth in any matter, you reject God. Every time when you resist a truth you resist God, although you would not even believe that He exists. Every time when you resisted God, evilness was pressed deeper into your ego.
You can demand me to rebuke you kindly, but it doesn't guarantee the result. It is difficult to demonstrate real love to an evil man so that he would experience that he was loved. Evil man doesn't experience love if his evilness is not accepted.
It is not love to accept evilness. By love to man the good God strikes evil man with truth. Those strokes are real love. Do not become embittered towards God because of His hard treatment. Through the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross you can understand the loving purpose of God's strokes.
Do you know yourself? Do you know your evilness? Examine your wantings, not only your deeds. Hate your evil wills whenever they appear in you. Hate your wanting to lie. Hate your wanting to boast. Hate your wanting to be selfish. Hate your wanting to commit adultery. Hate your wanting to resort to violence. Hate your wanting to steal. If you hate these, you hate yourself. This kind of hating yourself is healthy, for Jesus promises: "The man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life." John 12:25
If you know the truth about yourself, do not become hopeless. God has opened for you a door into a new life. He will make you new.
Man's evil will is like a tree and bad deeds are like its fruit. Wanting evil comes from the influence of a lie. When man has a liking for a lie, he takes a fancy to evilness. A little seed of a lie grows into a big tree of evilness.
Already a child learns to resort to lies. First only a white lie slips from the lips, but easily it grows to lying on purpose to deceive others. When lying to others a liar finally may not anymore realize that he lies, but considers his own lies the truth. Then he is able to bear the ripe fruit of evilness.
Every man has taken to lying and thus has become evil. Every man is a liar. Some have practised lies more than others, but nobody is without lying. Only God is pure from lies. No human being is good, but one is only less untruthful than another.
If I show my anger against some of your evilness, you easily experience that I hate you. This proves that you cannot make a difference between yourself and your evilness. Every time when you reject a truth in any matter, you reject God. Every time when you resist a truth you resist God, although you would not even believe that He exists. Every time when you resisted God, evilness was pressed deeper into your ego.
You can demand me to rebuke you kindly, but it doesn't guarantee the result. It is difficult to demonstrate real love to an evil man so that he would experience that he was loved. Evil man doesn't experience love if his evilness is not accepted.
It is not love to accept evilness. By love to man the good God strikes evil man with truth. Those strokes are real love. Do not become embittered towards God because of His hard treatment. Through the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross you can understand the loving purpose of God's strokes.
Do you know yourself? Do you know your evilness? Examine your wantings, not only your deeds. Hate your evil wills whenever they appear in you. Hate your wanting to lie. Hate your wanting to boast. Hate your wanting to be selfish. Hate your wanting to commit adultery. Hate your wanting to resort to violence. Hate your wanting to steal. If you hate these, you hate yourself. This kind of hating yourself is healthy, for Jesus promises: "The man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life." John 12:25
If you know the truth about yourself, do not become hopeless. God has opened for you a door into a new life. He will make you new.
Denying one's own evilness
How willingly we entertain ourselves with exciting battles, where we ourselves are the good ones and others are the bad ones. This is an attempt to repress our own evilness from consciousness. Blaming other people for the same evilness that appears in own life is another attempt to heal a bad feeling that comes from our own evilness.
Oh, how willingly people say: "No man is evil, but one is weaker than the other." Denying facts is the essential part of man's evilness. In competition people assure each other that basically all people are good. Evilness is explained to derive from bad conditions such as from poverty. Often news analysts are downright ridiculous when claiming poverty to be the reason behind a piece of news, although it is very obvious that this news gives proof of man's evilness.
Often mass media conveys this untruthful message: "Poverty produces evilness and wealth goodness". Although they don't say this directly, many news broadcasts train us in adopting this attitude. Many have received this message. Therefore they seek money and riches as if it made them good.
For instance when they are speaking about terrorism, they explain that poverty pushes to deeds of terrorism. Poverty and ignorance get the blame for all evilness. In fact this kind of speaking is mocking the poor grossly. The poor are not more evil than the rich. If this matter were investigated, it would be just the other way round.
How willingly we entertain ourselves with exciting battles, where we ourselves are the good ones and others are the bad ones. This is an attempt to repress our own evilness from consciousness. Blaming other people for the same evilness that appears in own life is another attempt to heal a bad feeling that comes from our own evilness.
Oh, how willingly people say: "No man is evil, but one is weaker than the other." Denying facts is the essential part of man's evilness. In competition people assure each other that basically all people are good. Evilness is explained to derive from bad conditions such as from poverty. Often news analysts are downright ridiculous when claiming poverty to be the reason behind a piece of news, although it is very obvious that this news gives proof of man's evilness.
Often mass media conveys this untruthful message: "Poverty produces evilness and wealth goodness". Although they don't say this directly, many news broadcasts train us in adopting this attitude. Many have received this message. Therefore they seek money and riches as if it made them good.
For instance when they are speaking about terrorism, they explain that poverty pushes to deeds of terrorism. Poverty and ignorance get the blame for all evilness. In fact this kind of speaking is mocking the poor grossly. The poor are not more evil than the rich. If this matter were investigated, it would be just the other way round.
Conclude cause from effect
From what you see around yourself you can conclude that God is good and man is evil. The battle between good and evil is the battle between God and man. The whole creation gives proof of this battle. Realize that God has cursed nature for the evilness of man. Because of our evilness a lion tears, diseases kill and many gardens have become deserts.
You can understand that the earth could be a paradisaic place. What we now see around us tell us about the cursed nature. We are able to perceive what is ruined. We know what should be different have a paradise. Nowadays it is known that man's body could live forever. Even a matter in our biology is known, which - if were differently - would prevent us from growing old.
Only God has been able to take away the paradise from us. The facts in nature tell about degeneration and not about evolution, about a curse and not about a blessing. These negative things are the result of the mankind's rebellion against God.
Nature bears witness to the existence of God and to the mankind's rebellion against God. To nullify the proof of God evil man says that nature has not been created, but it has been evolved by itself. In this way man behaves according to his evilness.
Many evolutionists admit man to be partially evil, but they believe that man takes a turn for the better. Really, do you believe in the power of evolution that changes man good? If you believe that evilness is undevelopedness, you actually wait for the lucky coincidence, which would transform man into god, because only God is good.
In practice the evolutionism has evolved nothing good for the mankind. It has inspired Hitler to kill the weak and the sick, and communists to handle people as machines. Also the free market economy is based on the belief of evolutionism, because it trusts "the natural selection's" ability to promote good evolution. Capitalists have destroyed nature, because their belief in miracles of chances has given the right to exploit nature. The theory of evolution is a lie, which serves man's will to play god.
Everybody can notice how much evil has been done also in the name of God. This evilness is the effect the cause of which should be clear to everybody. Only the man's insurgency against God can be the cause. How else anybody would dare to say that he knows God and at the same time act just the other way round than God wants? When we wonder why God allows all this blasphemy to happen, we will find the cause. He is so kind and good that He patiently suffers the religious pretending of the evil mankind.
"The man who says: 'I know Him', but does not do what He commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him." 1John 2:4
Who is a genuine Christian? Many claim to be reborn Christians, but actually they live in self-deception. When somebody bears witness of his Christianity to me, I do not believe him only because he says so. If I don't know how he lives in practice, my only possibility to assure myself of his genuineness is to get a testimony from God about him. In the same way I don't believe the testimony of my own heart concerning myself, but I live on the testimony that God has said about me.
Thus do not assure to yourself that you are saved, but let the Spirit of God do it. Untruthful faith in God has produced the greatest evilness on earth. Many feel they have peace with God, because they have fully succeeded in considering lie truth. Jesus said that a tree is recognised by its fruit. The untruthful Christianity produces evilness.
From what you see around yourself you can conclude that God is good and man is evil. The battle between good and evil is the battle between God and man. The whole creation gives proof of this battle. Realize that God has cursed nature for the evilness of man. Because of our evilness a lion tears, diseases kill and many gardens have become deserts.
You can understand that the earth could be a paradisaic place. What we now see around us tell us about the cursed nature. We are able to perceive what is ruined. We know what should be different have a paradise. Nowadays it is known that man's body could live forever. Even a matter in our biology is known, which - if were differently - would prevent us from growing old.
Only God has been able to take away the paradise from us. The facts in nature tell about degeneration and not about evolution, about a curse and not about a blessing. These negative things are the result of the mankind's rebellion against God.
Nature bears witness to the existence of God and to the mankind's rebellion against God. To nullify the proof of God evil man says that nature has not been created, but it has been evolved by itself. In this way man behaves according to his evilness.
Many evolutionists admit man to be partially evil, but they believe that man takes a turn for the better. Really, do you believe in the power of evolution that changes man good? If you believe that evilness is undevelopedness, you actually wait for the lucky coincidence, which would transform man into god, because only God is good.
In practice the evolutionism has evolved nothing good for the mankind. It has inspired Hitler to kill the weak and the sick, and communists to handle people as machines. Also the free market economy is based on the belief of evolutionism, because it trusts "the natural selection's" ability to promote good evolution. Capitalists have destroyed nature, because their belief in miracles of chances has given the right to exploit nature. The theory of evolution is a lie, which serves man's will to play god.
Everybody can notice how much evil has been done also in the name of God. This evilness is the effect the cause of which should be clear to everybody. Only the man's insurgency against God can be the cause. How else anybody would dare to say that he knows God and at the same time act just the other way round than God wants? When we wonder why God allows all this blasphemy to happen, we will find the cause. He is so kind and good that He patiently suffers the religious pretending of the evil mankind.
"The man who says: 'I know Him', but does not do what He commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him." 1John 2:4
Who is a genuine Christian? Many claim to be reborn Christians, but actually they live in self-deception. When somebody bears witness of his Christianity to me, I do not believe him only because he says so. If I don't know how he lives in practice, my only possibility to assure myself of his genuineness is to get a testimony from God about him. In the same way I don't believe the testimony of my own heart concerning myself, but I live on the testimony that God has said about me.
Thus do not assure to yourself that you are saved, but let the Spirit of God do it. Untruthful faith in God has produced the greatest evilness on earth. Many feel they have peace with God, because they have fully succeeded in considering lie truth. Jesus said that a tree is recognised by its fruit. The untruthful Christianity produces evilness.
Victory for good over evil
The good God is fighting against evil man in a wonderful way. In the battle between good and evil goodness is first defeated completely. God became Man in Jesus. He received upon Himself all judgement that belongs to evil man and atoned our sins on Golgotha. The curse was upon Him so that we could get a blessing. Jesus didn't resist evil man, but allowed Himself to be crucified. Although He died He was raised from the dead.
The resurrection is the victory for the good God over evil man.
The reconciliation with God can be gained by the sacrificial death of Jesus. The Almighty God calls us to confess our evilness and receive Jesus as the redeemer of our own sins. The war against God changes into peace in the power of the blood of the Son of God. How wonderful it is to experience this peace! The curse and the rebellion have gone away. The reconciliation with God gives us a good resurrection.
Jesus is like a seed that died and rose up and produces abundant crop, all the believers having faith in Him.
Although Jesus was raised up and got all authority in heaven and on earth, we don't yet see Him entering His office on earth. The victory for God over evil man has not yet been carried through. God loves the soul of evil man and would like to change evil into good through Jesus Christ. Therefore He is waiting quite a long time.
The honest reconciliation can be effected only through submitting oneself to truth. The gospel never opens to a man living in lies. Therefore God testifies to truth in us. The truth of our own evilness is the hardest truth for us.
Becoming good requires a resurrection from dead. Do you want to become good? Your only possibility is to die together with Jesus Christ so that you also would to rise up together with Him.
The good God is fighting against evil man in a wonderful way. In the battle between good and evil goodness is first defeated completely. God became Man in Jesus. He received upon Himself all judgement that belongs to evil man and atoned our sins on Golgotha. The curse was upon Him so that we could get a blessing. Jesus didn't resist evil man, but allowed Himself to be crucified. Although He died He was raised from the dead.
The resurrection is the victory for the good God over evil man.
The reconciliation with God can be gained by the sacrificial death of Jesus. The Almighty God calls us to confess our evilness and receive Jesus as the redeemer of our own sins. The war against God changes into peace in the power of the blood of the Son of God. How wonderful it is to experience this peace! The curse and the rebellion have gone away. The reconciliation with God gives us a good resurrection.
Jesus is like a seed that died and rose up and produces abundant crop, all the believers having faith in Him.
Although Jesus was raised up and got all authority in heaven and on earth, we don't yet see Him entering His office on earth. The victory for God over evil man has not yet been carried through. God loves the soul of evil man and would like to change evil into good through Jesus Christ. Therefore He is waiting quite a long time.
The honest reconciliation can be effected only through submitting oneself to truth. The gospel never opens to a man living in lies. Therefore God testifies to truth in us. The truth of our own evilness is the hardest truth for us.
Becoming good requires a resurrection from dead. Do you want to become good? Your only possibility is to die together with Jesus Christ so that you also would to rise up together with Him.
New Creation
Evilness has gone so deep into every adult human being that it cannot be separated from us and said that evilness is here and I am here. The longer we have lived the more difficult it is to separate the evilness and our personality from each other. Also God doesn't try to do it, but He has decided to create a totally new man. This new one is good and cannot even become evil, because it is born of God.
The criminal, who was crucified on the cross beside Jesus, said: "We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong. Then he said. 'Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.' Jesus answered him, 'I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.'" Luke 23:41-43
When the criminal confessed that he deserved his punishment, he also confessed his evilness. He wanted to die to his evilness and Jesus opened for him the way to the resurrection from dead. You, too - would you like to die together with Jesus to be able to be admitted to the resurrection of the righteous?
God loved you so much that He sacrificed His only Son for you. What wanting does this deed arouse in you?
Evilness has gone so deep into every adult human being that it cannot be separated from us and said that evilness is here and I am here. The longer we have lived the more difficult it is to separate the evilness and our personality from each other. Also God doesn't try to do it, but He has decided to create a totally new man. This new one is good and cannot even become evil, because it is born of God.
The criminal, who was crucified on the cross beside Jesus, said: "We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong. Then he said. 'Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.' Jesus answered him, 'I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.'" Luke 23:41-43
When the criminal confessed that he deserved his punishment, he also confessed his evilness. He wanted to die to his evilness and Jesus opened for him the way to the resurrection from dead. You, too - would you like to die together with Jesus to be able to be admitted to the resurrection of the righteous?
God loved you so much that He sacrificed His only Son for you. What wanting does this deed arouse in you?
The Bible version used in references is NIV