Jesus Christ is my God!
Issued 19.01.2008
God speaks from His temple
Also today God speaks from His temple. A conversation with God is a right of every person. Listen to the initiative speech of God and answer Him.
The curtain of the temple is open
When Jesus Messiah, the Son of God, died on Golgotha, God tore the curtain of His temple in two from top to bottom and so the Holy of Holies of the temple was opened for everybody. Behind the curtain there was the throne of God from which He had spoken to priests. People had heard the words of God from the mouth of the priests. The torn curtain proves that mediator priests are not needed any more, but everyone can personally go before the throne of grace and hear God speaking.
The earthly temple of God in Jerusalem was only a copy of the heavenly temple. When Jesus had risen from the dead He stepped up to heaven and sat down on the heavenly throne of grace. God allowed the temple of Jerusalem to be destroyed so that people would no longer seek God there but would turn to the heavenly throne of grace.
"Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need." Heb.4:16 You will have a share of God's grace when you hear His words to you from the throne of grace.
Jesus is the way to God, but what is the way that leads to Jesus? God draws everybody to Jesus. This is how you can come before the throne of grace. The gospel of Jesus calls you to step directly on the Jesus-Way. There is not a way to Jesus but you can meet Him anywhere and whenever. You can start in the Jesus-Way in every place, because the Throne of grace is in heaven and not on earth. You can reach heaven by speaking the truth in your heart.
"Jesus said to her, 'Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. But the hour is coming and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." Joh.4:21,23-24
You see that a meeting with God is not bound to a certain place, but to the state of your heart. Are you able to approach to God with your spirit and in truth? Your spirit must hear when God speaks to you from His throne of grace so that you could enter the Covenant with Him. You don't live by the words that come out from the mouth of a mediator priest, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
When Jesus Messiah, the Son of God, died on Golgotha, God tore the curtain of His temple in two from top to bottom and so the Holy of Holies of the temple was opened for everybody. Behind the curtain there was the throne of God from which He had spoken to priests. People had heard the words of God from the mouth of the priests. The torn curtain proves that mediator priests are not needed any more, but everyone can personally go before the throne of grace and hear God speaking.
The earthly temple of God in Jerusalem was only a copy of the heavenly temple. When Jesus had risen from the dead He stepped up to heaven and sat down on the heavenly throne of grace. God allowed the temple of Jerusalem to be destroyed so that people would no longer seek God there but would turn to the heavenly throne of grace.
"Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need." Heb.4:16 You will have a share of God's grace when you hear His words to you from the throne of grace.
Jesus is the way to God, but what is the way that leads to Jesus? God draws everybody to Jesus. This is how you can come before the throne of grace. The gospel of Jesus calls you to step directly on the Jesus-Way. There is not a way to Jesus but you can meet Him anywhere and whenever. You can start in the Jesus-Way in every place, because the Throne of grace is in heaven and not on earth. You can reach heaven by speaking the truth in your heart.
"Jesus said to her, 'Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. But the hour is coming and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." Joh.4:21,23-24
You see that a meeting with God is not bound to a certain place, but to the state of your heart. Are you able to approach to God with your spirit and in truth? Your spirit must hear when God speaks to you from His throne of grace so that you could enter the Covenant with Him. You don't live by the words that come out from the mouth of a mediator priest, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
The living temple of God
Now those who belong to Jesus are the temple of God on earth. "Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?" 1Co.3:16 "For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: 'I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be my people'." 2Co.6:16
Jesus said that He will come to those who believe in Him and dwell in them. "Jesus answered and said to him, 'If anyone loves me, he will keep my word; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.'" Joh.14:23
Proud people think that God can only dwell under a golden dome. They cannot understand that God would live in an unpretentious house. "But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us." 2Co.4:7
When we speak about a temple we easily consider it a meeting room. However only the courts of the temple of God were meeting places. The temple of God in Jerusalem was a dwelling place of God. That stone building was the symbol of Jesus. He is the Temple of God. "Jesus answered and said to them, 'Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up'. Then the Jews said, 'It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?' But He was speaking of the temple His body." Joh.2:19-21
Now God hasn't got a temple that would be a building on earth. Why then is the world full of buildings which are called temples of God?
Now those who belong to Jesus are the temple of God on earth. "Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?" 1Co.3:16 "For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: 'I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be my people'." 2Co.6:16
Jesus said that He will come to those who believe in Him and dwell in them. "Jesus answered and said to him, 'If anyone loves me, he will keep my word; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.'" Joh.14:23
Proud people think that God can only dwell under a golden dome. They cannot understand that God would live in an unpretentious house. "But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us." 2Co.4:7
When we speak about a temple we easily consider it a meeting room. However only the courts of the temple of God were meeting places. The temple of God in Jerusalem was a dwelling place of God. That stone building was the symbol of Jesus. He is the Temple of God. "Jesus answered and said to them, 'Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up'. Then the Jews said, 'It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?' But He was speaking of the temple His body." Joh.2:19-21
Now God hasn't got a temple that would be a building on earth. Why then is the world full of buildings which are called temples of God?
The temples of Antichrist
Tearing up the curtain of the temple of God gave us the access to the throne of God. Now anyone who has confessed one's sins and has repented can kneel down before the invisible throne of grace and can hear the words from the mouth of God which change one's heart. This open access caused another kind of an idea in a certain person. That's great, was the access granted to the throne of God or... even on the throne?
Already on the days of the apostles there appeared people who wanted to build a house for God to demonstrate the change the gospel had caused in the temple of God. They wanted to create outward circumstances for the experience of facing the grace of God. The real motive of their passion for building was to obtain a place where a priest could perform in the place of God.
Temples have been built with two parts according to the example of the Old Covenant: the Holy and the Holy of Holies. These parts are separated from each other with the altar taking the place of the torn curtain. Priests perform their ceremonies in the Holy of Holies and the audience sits on the holy pews. Thus a priest when speaking in the Holy of the Holies is speaking in the place of the throne of God. Instead of Jesus the priest is sitting on the throne of God.
This antichristian performance has run in uncounted churches for centuries. In the same way as the temple of Jerusalem was a pattern of Jesus who was to come, these church buildings are patterns of Antichrist who soon will come.
Do not consider any building a temple of God so that you would not be captured by a lie. Instead recognize the persons who are real temples of God.
Tearing up the curtain of the temple of God gave us the access to the throne of God. Now anyone who has confessed one's sins and has repented can kneel down before the invisible throne of grace and can hear the words from the mouth of God which change one's heart. This open access caused another kind of an idea in a certain person. That's great, was the access granted to the throne of God or... even on the throne?
Already on the days of the apostles there appeared people who wanted to build a house for God to demonstrate the change the gospel had caused in the temple of God. They wanted to create outward circumstances for the experience of facing the grace of God. The real motive of their passion for building was to obtain a place where a priest could perform in the place of God.
Temples have been built with two parts according to the example of the Old Covenant: the Holy and the Holy of Holies. These parts are separated from each other with the altar taking the place of the torn curtain. Priests perform their ceremonies in the Holy of Holies and the audience sits on the holy pews. Thus a priest when speaking in the Holy of the Holies is speaking in the place of the throne of God. Instead of Jesus the priest is sitting on the throne of God.
This antichristian performance has run in uncounted churches for centuries. In the same way as the temple of Jerusalem was a pattern of Jesus who was to come, these church buildings are patterns of Antichrist who soon will come.
Do not consider any building a temple of God so that you would not be captured by a lie. Instead recognize the persons who are real temples of God.
Man proclaims himself to be God
If I go to a normal temple, considered Christian, its order is not similar to the reality of my heart. A priest or a preacher is there on the throne and calls people to come before him to face God, but in the temple of my heart Jesus is the centre of everything.
Those who belong to Jesus should speak as one speaking the very words of God, but we should not consider them equal with the words coming from the mouth of God. God appears in His temple, but the temple should not be such a tomfool that he takes glory to himself. We are children of God in Jesus Christ, but only in Him. If you take to yourself glory that belongs to God, it causes you to think too much about yourself. If you don't repent your rebellion, it can finally lead you to proclaim yourself God, a son of God equal with Jesus.
It has been predicted about Antichrist of the last time: "The falling away comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God." 2Th.2:3-4
If a believer considers himself God, he sits as God in the temple of God and has showed himself that he is God. Why has this happened? John, the apostle says about antichrists of his days: "You have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us." 1Jo.2:18-19
Our fellowship with God and with other believers is based on the love that came into us when we experienced God's love in the sacrifice of Golgotha. If God's grace is not sufficient for us, we will fall outside of the fellowship and have a share in the antichristian spirit.
The natural man lives by getting honour, but the man of God lives by getting grace. However every believer has also got the old nature that tries to live and would like to take to itself the glory that belongs to God. If you have mercy on your sinful nature and you don't crucify it together with Jesus, you are in danger of changing into an antichristian. The Christianity pleasing to the human mind will change into antichristianity. When Antichrist of the last days will come amongst the believers who have exalted themselves, it is natural that they will receive him with joy.
The antichristian temple service is performing. Pretending with the gospel of God is dangerous. When the sinful nature is boasting about the gospel of God it makes even the strongest Christian into antichristian. Get out of the temples of Antichrist so that the spirit of lies would not cause you to believe lies about yourself.
Exalting oneself god is a famous religion. A person who considers himself god easily believes that also another person is a god. He has no difficulties to confess that Jesus Christ is god, because he considers many persons god. However it is not possible to believe that the Bible's Jesus is the true God and the true Man without receiving it as the testimony of the Spirit of God.
Everyone who sees the glory of Jesus in the Spirit of God feels himself bad and evil and a lost person. Divinity is far from us, if we compare ourselves with Him who alone is God.
If I go to a normal temple, considered Christian, its order is not similar to the reality of my heart. A priest or a preacher is there on the throne and calls people to come before him to face God, but in the temple of my heart Jesus is the centre of everything.
Those who belong to Jesus should speak as one speaking the very words of God, but we should not consider them equal with the words coming from the mouth of God. God appears in His temple, but the temple should not be such a tomfool that he takes glory to himself. We are children of God in Jesus Christ, but only in Him. If you take to yourself glory that belongs to God, it causes you to think too much about yourself. If you don't repent your rebellion, it can finally lead you to proclaim yourself God, a son of God equal with Jesus.
It has been predicted about Antichrist of the last time: "The falling away comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God." 2Th.2:3-4
If a believer considers himself God, he sits as God in the temple of God and has showed himself that he is God. Why has this happened? John, the apostle says about antichrists of his days: "You have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us." 1Jo.2:18-19
Our fellowship with God and with other believers is based on the love that came into us when we experienced God's love in the sacrifice of Golgotha. If God's grace is not sufficient for us, we will fall outside of the fellowship and have a share in the antichristian spirit.
The natural man lives by getting honour, but the man of God lives by getting grace. However every believer has also got the old nature that tries to live and would like to take to itself the glory that belongs to God. If you have mercy on your sinful nature and you don't crucify it together with Jesus, you are in danger of changing into an antichristian. The Christianity pleasing to the human mind will change into antichristianity. When Antichrist of the last days will come amongst the believers who have exalted themselves, it is natural that they will receive him with joy.
The antichristian temple service is performing. Pretending with the gospel of God is dangerous. When the sinful nature is boasting about the gospel of God it makes even the strongest Christian into antichristian. Get out of the temples of Antichrist so that the spirit of lies would not cause you to believe lies about yourself.
Exalting oneself god is a famous religion. A person who considers himself god easily believes that also another person is a god. He has no difficulties to confess that Jesus Christ is god, because he considers many persons god. However it is not possible to believe that the Bible's Jesus is the true God and the true Man without receiving it as the testimony of the Spirit of God.
Everyone who sees the glory of Jesus in the Spirit of God feels himself bad and evil and a lost person. Divinity is far from us, if we compare ourselves with Him who alone is God.
By the action of God or man
The Christian temple service is life in the Holy Spirit. What I do by the action of God that means a service in the temple of God. If only He were to appear abundantly in His own.
"For we are not, as so many, peddling the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ." 2Co.2:17
Do you live by the action of God or by the action of your own calculation? If someone gives Jesus all authority in his life - by the power of God's love - he will experience the action of Jesus in himself. When He appears in you be careful that you don't fall into the antichristianity!
As the serpent was in the paradise so he also is in an assembling congregation making the same kind of proposals. "But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." 2Co.11:3
Jesus loved me and died for me. Because of this love I am submissive to Him. I am willingly obedient to Him and His grace is sufficient for me. As God forbade Eve to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil likewise the gospel of God forbids us to take for ourselves the glory that belongs to God. If the grace of God is sufficient for us we have remained in the gospel.
Many have received another Jesus than Him about whom is told in the Bible. Therefore they also are boasting about themselves and about their faith. Maybe they themselves have never carried on a conversation with God, but their faith is based on the words of a "great man" of God who performed in the role of God. A divine drama has charmed them.
Many have not regarded the man, Jesus as the true God, although they have believed that Jesus atoned their sins and has risen up. Their faith is not from God but from people.
The Christian temple service is life in the Holy Spirit. What I do by the action of God that means a service in the temple of God. If only He were to appear abundantly in His own.
"For we are not, as so many, peddling the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ." 2Co.2:17
Do you live by the action of God or by the action of your own calculation? If someone gives Jesus all authority in his life - by the power of God's love - he will experience the action of Jesus in himself. When He appears in you be careful that you don't fall into the antichristianity!
As the serpent was in the paradise so he also is in an assembling congregation making the same kind of proposals. "But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." 2Co.11:3
Jesus loved me and died for me. Because of this love I am submissive to Him. I am willingly obedient to Him and His grace is sufficient for me. As God forbade Eve to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil likewise the gospel of God forbids us to take for ourselves the glory that belongs to God. If the grace of God is sufficient for us we have remained in the gospel.
Many have received another Jesus than Him about whom is told in the Bible. Therefore they also are boasting about themselves and about their faith. Maybe they themselves have never carried on a conversation with God, but their faith is based on the words of a "great man" of God who performed in the role of God. A divine drama has charmed them.
Many have not regarded the man, Jesus as the true God, although they have believed that Jesus atoned their sins and has risen up. Their faith is not from God but from people.
God has taken the initiative
Nobody asked God to become man, but He took the initiative. The virgin was with child and gave birth to the Son of God. God became man from a sinful woman, Mary. Jesus Christ is not a son of two gods. Only His Father is God.
God has opened a discussion by speaking through His only Son. So what are you going to reply to this opening speech? Who do you say Jesus is? Most people have rejected God's initiative by denying to confess Jesus to be God.
Many reject Jesus of the Bible because they believe that some have distorted the Bible. However the testimony of Jesus is not based only on the testimony of the Bible. Where ever the name of Jesus is mentioned, God Himself, through His Spirit testifies directly to a human heart that "this is my Son, whom I love, listen to Him".
Jesus Christ is the only mediator between God and men. He is that also for those who have never even seen the Bible. Nobody can come to faith merely based on the testimony of the Bible, but always also the testimony of the Holy Spirit is needed. Instead someone can come to faith merely through the testimony of the Holy Spirit.
Many have believed the testimony that God has given about His Son and opened their heart to Him. The glory and goodness of Jesus called them and they replied to the initiative of God. "His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue." 2Pe.1:3
Everybody has seen the glory and the perfect virtue of Jesus, but only few have received the testimony of God about Him. Some have regarded him as a son of godheads, as an angel of God or as a teacher sent by God or as the revelation of God's love. They have distorted the testimony of God about Jesus, because they don't want it to rebuke them for their evilness. They have said as Peter first said: "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!" Lu.5:8 They have thrown the real Jesus away and received another Jesus.
Denying the judgment of God has produced many religions. Those who initiated them have sought for an answer to the problem of man's evilness. They have experienced a supernatural phenomenon which has caused them to be confident that there is not a judgment of God. Playing God is a desire of the fallen angels. It is natural that they proclaim their own wish that God's judgment would not exist, because they know they have been judged by God. God has prepared the fire of hell for them.
The people, who are captured by another Jesus, believe that finally their evilness will become refined into goodness. They say they believe in Jesus but their Jesus is a lie of fallen angels. Confess that Jesus, Messiah is God and you can accept the judgment of God! Don't escape the judgment, for God of judgment loves you in the Crucified One! He has prepared for you the way out from the judgment!
Nobody asked God to become man, but He took the initiative. The virgin was with child and gave birth to the Son of God. God became man from a sinful woman, Mary. Jesus Christ is not a son of two gods. Only His Father is God.
God has opened a discussion by speaking through His only Son. So what are you going to reply to this opening speech? Who do you say Jesus is? Most people have rejected God's initiative by denying to confess Jesus to be God.
Many reject Jesus of the Bible because they believe that some have distorted the Bible. However the testimony of Jesus is not based only on the testimony of the Bible. Where ever the name of Jesus is mentioned, God Himself, through His Spirit testifies directly to a human heart that "this is my Son, whom I love, listen to Him".
Jesus Christ is the only mediator between God and men. He is that also for those who have never even seen the Bible. Nobody can come to faith merely based on the testimony of the Bible, but always also the testimony of the Holy Spirit is needed. Instead someone can come to faith merely through the testimony of the Holy Spirit.
Many have believed the testimony that God has given about His Son and opened their heart to Him. The glory and goodness of Jesus called them and they replied to the initiative of God. "His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue." 2Pe.1:3
Everybody has seen the glory and the perfect virtue of Jesus, but only few have received the testimony of God about Him. Some have regarded him as a son of godheads, as an angel of God or as a teacher sent by God or as the revelation of God's love. They have distorted the testimony of God about Jesus, because they don't want it to rebuke them for their evilness. They have said as Peter first said: "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!" Lu.5:8 They have thrown the real Jesus away and received another Jesus.
Denying the judgment of God has produced many religions. Those who initiated them have sought for an answer to the problem of man's evilness. They have experienced a supernatural phenomenon which has caused them to be confident that there is not a judgment of God. Playing God is a desire of the fallen angels. It is natural that they proclaim their own wish that God's judgment would not exist, because they know they have been judged by God. God has prepared the fire of hell for them.
The people, who are captured by another Jesus, believe that finally their evilness will become refined into goodness. They say they believe in Jesus but their Jesus is a lie of fallen angels. Confess that Jesus, Messiah is God and you can accept the judgment of God! Don't escape the judgment, for God of judgment loves you in the Crucified One! He has prepared for you the way out from the judgment!
Conversations with God
If you humble yourself and confess your evilness and accept the judgment you deserve - in the light of the Son of God - God will show you Jesus crucified for the sake of your sins. You know, there is a big difference, whether you hear it from me or if God lets the eyes of your spirit to see it. This revelation cannot be without speaking to you deeply, if you know that man, Jesus is God. When facing this great sacrifice love for God is poured into your cleansed heart. For the sake of this love you give Jesus all power in your life. Jesus replies to it by coming to you and making home with you.
The speeches of this dialog were: 1) the testimony of God, which He gave you about Jesus, 2) you replied to God by regarding Jesus as the true man and the true God, 3) the goodness of Jesus rebuked your evilness, 4) you confessed your evilness, 5) God showed you His work on the cross, 6) you believed it and asked for mercy from the throne of grace, 7) God replied by giving you His love, 8) you replied by giving yourself totally to God. At the end of this conversation Jesus came to you and made His home with you. After this you can have closer conversations concerning other things.
The conversation where God is the originator is a better conversation than a dialog where a man is the originator, because these eight first speeches can lead you to the conversation with God which continues for ever. Jesus says to those who belong to Him: "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain." Joh.15:16
An originator makes a choice. So reply to the initiative of God, if you want to be a chosen one. Sometimes He replies also to our initiatives, but thus He wants us to stop and listen to His initiative. The antichristian spirit wants you to be the originator concerning your relationship with God preventing you to be chosen by God.
God wants the saved people to bear fruit. - And do not say that it would be against the salvation by grace! - The life of the Son of God is the fruit that God, the Father is lovingly expecting from His children. When the Spirit of God urges you to crucify your old thoughts and to change the attitudes of your mind, you will gladly give a positive answer, if you love Jesus.
If you cannot be satisfied with the grace of God in Jesus, it can be because you have not received Jesus as the true God. Maybe your conversation with God started from the fourth speech of the previously described dialog when you suffered from accusations of your conscience. The antichristian spirit wants to hide the fact that Jesus is the true God so that the gospel would not have too great an impact on us.
"By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist." 1Jo.4:2-3
Proclaiming the divinity of Jesus is replaced with preaching the law as the impact of the antichristian spirit. If we regard ourselves evil when we see the divinity of Jesus, His work on the cross and His resurrection touch our heart in a very different way than if it is a sermon of the law that reveals our wickedness. It is in this way because in Him there is the greater righteousness than in the law.
If we have received the testimony of God concerning the divinity of Jesus, the events of Golgotha touch our spirit deeper. If we receive Jesus as our Redeemer only because the law wounded our heart, we experience peace that doesn't change our heart. Thus we notice that preaching the law and the gospel is one way of hiding the divinity of Jesus. Preaching only Jesus is preaching all man needs. Grace and truth have been given in Him. He is the full gospel.
So let us not abuse God's love, but let's answer to His initiative. Whatever is the point where we are walking on the way of God, listening to His speech keeps us alive. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." Mt.4:4
God, who started the dialog with us, doesn't discontinue it. He is a faithful companion in making a conversation. You too, don't stop the dialog, but answer Him.
If you humble yourself and confess your evilness and accept the judgment you deserve - in the light of the Son of God - God will show you Jesus crucified for the sake of your sins. You know, there is a big difference, whether you hear it from me or if God lets the eyes of your spirit to see it. This revelation cannot be without speaking to you deeply, if you know that man, Jesus is God. When facing this great sacrifice love for God is poured into your cleansed heart. For the sake of this love you give Jesus all power in your life. Jesus replies to it by coming to you and making home with you.
The speeches of this dialog were: 1) the testimony of God, which He gave you about Jesus, 2) you replied to God by regarding Jesus as the true man and the true God, 3) the goodness of Jesus rebuked your evilness, 4) you confessed your evilness, 5) God showed you His work on the cross, 6) you believed it and asked for mercy from the throne of grace, 7) God replied by giving you His love, 8) you replied by giving yourself totally to God. At the end of this conversation Jesus came to you and made His home with you. After this you can have closer conversations concerning other things.
The conversation where God is the originator is a better conversation than a dialog where a man is the originator, because these eight first speeches can lead you to the conversation with God which continues for ever. Jesus says to those who belong to Him: "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain." Joh.15:16
An originator makes a choice. So reply to the initiative of God, if you want to be a chosen one. Sometimes He replies also to our initiatives, but thus He wants us to stop and listen to His initiative. The antichristian spirit wants you to be the originator concerning your relationship with God preventing you to be chosen by God.
God wants the saved people to bear fruit. - And do not say that it would be against the salvation by grace! - The life of the Son of God is the fruit that God, the Father is lovingly expecting from His children. When the Spirit of God urges you to crucify your old thoughts and to change the attitudes of your mind, you will gladly give a positive answer, if you love Jesus.
If you cannot be satisfied with the grace of God in Jesus, it can be because you have not received Jesus as the true God. Maybe your conversation with God started from the fourth speech of the previously described dialog when you suffered from accusations of your conscience. The antichristian spirit wants to hide the fact that Jesus is the true God so that the gospel would not have too great an impact on us.
"By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist." 1Jo.4:2-3
Proclaiming the divinity of Jesus is replaced with preaching the law as the impact of the antichristian spirit. If we regard ourselves evil when we see the divinity of Jesus, His work on the cross and His resurrection touch our heart in a very different way than if it is a sermon of the law that reveals our wickedness. It is in this way because in Him there is the greater righteousness than in the law.
If we have received the testimony of God concerning the divinity of Jesus, the events of Golgotha touch our spirit deeper. If we receive Jesus as our Redeemer only because the law wounded our heart, we experience peace that doesn't change our heart. Thus we notice that preaching the law and the gospel is one way of hiding the divinity of Jesus. Preaching only Jesus is preaching all man needs. Grace and truth have been given in Him. He is the full gospel.
So let us not abuse God's love, but let's answer to His initiative. Whatever is the point where we are walking on the way of God, listening to His speech keeps us alive. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." Mt.4:4
God, who started the dialog with us, doesn't discontinue it. He is a faithful companion in making a conversation. You too, don't stop the dialog, but answer Him.
The Bible version used in references is NIV