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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everybody, welcome to today's episode of
Walk With Me.
I am your host, jj.
So good to have each and everyone of you here.
So good to have every one ofyou who are following this
program and sharing this podcast, talking about it, sending me
questions, and trust me when Itell you I love the questions
(00:22):
and, as a matter of fact, I dolove the question so much that
it actually generates additionalstudy.
I I really like it when peopletry to confound me with the
question and that's reallylovely because it helps me and
which, in turn, helps you.
So I trust me when I tell yousend me all your questions to
walk with me bible studyestudyat gmail.
(00:43):
I really mean it and we'regoing to be starting with a
question today.
Well, basically, what happenedis I got a question and it
started a hole because I wantedto thoroughly explain it and I
don't care how many times I getthe same question.
Don't go back, because we'vegot four years worth of podcast
(01:07):
episodes.
Don't go back and try to lookfor any particular episode that
you might've heard me talk about, a question that you might have
.
It doesn't matter.
Send it to me.
Listen, I can teach this.
I can go over this.
I can talk about this all day,every day.
You know, it's just.
I love doing it, love studyingthe Word of God, and I hope that
(01:29):
I am a help to somebody outthere who has questions and just
wants to know a little bit moretruth.
Okay, so what we're going totalk about today?
Oh, before we get started withthat, I got to give my
shout-outs.
Shout-outs to Juvar Cicricistfor the intro and outro.
Shout-out to ExquisiteCreations.
(01:49):
We have our new Tumblr.
I can't wait to put it on thewebsite so I can give you all
the link.
Thank you all so much, andthank you for her sister doing
something.
I'm still waiting to find outthe finished product on that,
but I am very patient and I knowshe has other projects that
she's working on.
So love each and every one ofyou.
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Thank you all, thank you, thankyou, thank you.
Thank you for my big, mylisteners outside of the US.
I'm not going to name yourcountries because I know one.
If I start naming somecountries and forget others,
then you feel a little slightedand I don't want you to do that.
But the biggest reason is thatI know that some of you are
listening in places that doesn'taccept the word of God very
(02:33):
well.
You know what I mean, so I'mnot going to get you in trouble,
but I thank you all for that.
One more big thing before weget started If you do have a
question and you want your nameto be used in the in the episode
, like you want me to say, hey,johnny, thank you for the
question, and if you turn tothis page and I, like you, want
(02:55):
me to just have a conversationwith you, with other people
listening, sort of then just goahead and put your name in the
subject line of the email thatyou send me.
If not, then that that's fine.
I will assume that you don'twant your name to be read or
mentioned, and there's reasonsfor that too, and I understand
that.
So it's not a big deal.
I'm not going to ask you tohold, subscribe and pay and all
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that stuff.
Subscribe for free.
Salvation is free, except Jesuspaid for it, right?
So no further ado.
We're going to get into ourlesson today.
What we're going to talk about?
We're going to talk about theoneness of God.
Now, I know that a lot ofpeople probably just heard that
and went what?
And maybe you might even turnthis podcast off.
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You may not continue thispodcast, and it is what it is.
But there are a lot of thingsgoing around and there's a lot
of doctrine.
There are three main doctrineswe have.
There are three main doctrines.
You have the Trinitariandoctrine, which generally
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describes God or Godhead asthree distinct and separate
persons.
And then you have sort of atriunitarian sort of God, which
is three distinct gods butthey're all sort of together.
They're not distinct andseparate, but they're distinct
and joined together in one sortof centralized god.
And then you have the onenessof God, which is one god which
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is manifesting in different,different methods, different
methods or different examples ordifferent scenarios.
The same God is coming throughin different manifestations.
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So what we're going to talkabout is the oneness of God,
because this is the type ofdeity that the Bible supports.
Now, the difference in thiswhole thing and understanding
who God is is the definition ofperson.
Now, I know that sounds weird,but you know, some understand
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person to mean like a orappearance or a visible
expression.
You see your friend, you seeyour uncle, you see your dad,
you see your mom.
That's a person.
Now, if we accept thedefinition, then God, the Father
is not a person, because theBible clearly says he is a
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spirit.
I really try not to get aheadof myself.
So, on the other hand, if weunderstand person to be
associated with a personality,like a self-consciousness or
determination or individuality,then the God, the Father, is a
person.
However, this doesn't make twoor three persons in the Godhead.
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There's only one God.
Let's settle that right away.
There's only one God, there'sonly one personality of the
deity, and this is the samepersonality, that is one and the
same whether you're talkingabout Jehovah in the Old
Testament or Jesus in the NewTestament.
So then you ask yourself whatis the personality of God?
So then you ask yourself whatis the personality of God?
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Now, in both Old Testament andthe New Testament, man is able
to have a fellowship with God,he's able to talk to God and
he's able to have communion withhis maker.
And we must never think of Godas being just some sort of
impersonal force of nature.
That's how I kind of grew up.
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God was on this big, he wassitting on the plow with a box
of lightning bolts ready to zapme out of existence.
And this is not God, because hewas a personal God and he
manifested himself and heblessed to die for it.
Such is the kind of personality, but he is still one God.
He's one divine person.
The best way to kind of bringthat down to a way that we can
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understand is kind of look at usBecause, remember, god made man
in his own image, right?
So even though the titlesFather, son and Holy Ghost are
freely used in the scriptures,it doesn't make them three
persons or three different gods.
The Bible does declare that theFather, son and Holy Ghost is
one person John 1, john 5 and 7.
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But let's pause right here.
I know I have not mentionedthis rule in a few weeks.
This rule has not changed andwill not ever change, will never
change the rule of this podcastwe're going to talk if, if I
throw a scripture out there,because of the sake of time, I
want to give you one verse, twoverses, always.
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I don't care if it's nineverses, it always be the verse
or two above what we talk aboutand a verse or two below what we
talk about, or preferably thewhole chapter.
That is the only rule of thispodcast.
Everything else I justappreciate.
But the reason why this is arule is because context is key
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and I don't want to bemisleading anyone, like I had
been misled by taking a verse ortwo out of context and then
building an entire doctrinearound it.
So when we talk about thingslike that, I really, really want
everyone to get into that habit.
For example, if I say 1 John 5and 7, go ahead and read 1 John
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5, just because you want it, incontext of what the writer is
talking about at that time.
So 1 John 5 and 7, there arethree that bear record in heaven
the Father, the Word and theHoly Ghost.
These three are one, not threeseparate people, not three sort
of Siamese gods joined at thehip, but these are one God.
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Now, to understand it, rememberGod made man in his own image.
I said that a few moments ago.
This is where this becomes veryplain.
He is spirit, we are spirit,soul and body, but we are one
person and we are one person andwe have one name.
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This doesn't make us threedifferent people.
Even I could say to myself hey,I am a husband, I am a son and
I am a brother.
These are all just titles.
Again, but if I wrote a checkfor a million dollars and signed
it husband, son, brother and ifticket to the bank, the bank
will laugh at you and saythere's no name here.
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Because there's no name.
And the name is the power.
The name gives you theauthority to cash that check and
take that money out of myaccount.
So this everyday scenario givesus examples and empowerment of
what the name really means orwhy the name is important.
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So no, holy Ghost is not a name.
It's capitalized to symbolizethe deity of God.
Father is not a name.
Same title, same situation, godsame.
It is merely that theycapitalized to show the
differences between the one trueGod and idol gods that men
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worship.
I'm trying not to get ahead ofmyself again.
I know this is going to takemore than one episode and I'm
here here for it and I'm gladthat you're here for it Now.
1 Timothy 3, 16.
And I want you to read that.
I'm only going to read thefirst few words of it, but this
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is also going to go into what wejust talked about in 1 John 5,
7.
And without controversy, greatis the mystery of Godliness.
God was manifest in the flesh,so let's talk about God being
manifest Now.
People like the Amplified NewTestament.
I like the New LivingTranslation because it tends to
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be a little bit harsher on thelanguage, but the New Testament,
in the Amplified, reads he wasmade visible in human flesh.
Now, this is one of the keyverses that can only be
understood by revelation.
Now, when I say revelation, I'mnot talking about the book of
Revelation, I mean spiritualrevealing to you, and it has to
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be understood.
It has to be understood.
We're going to be understandingand grasping what God is saying
, or what the apostles meant byGodhead.
Now, in the past we've seendifferent manifestations of God
in a lot of different ways, likein creation, sinai, theophanies
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, tabernacles.
God manifested himself in ameasure to man and man was able
to have a certain knowledge ofGod.
However, there's one scripturethat speaks of God being
manifested.
We have the greatest knowledgeof God ever given as far as the
incarnation of Christ and theexpressed image of his visible
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God.
That's going to be Hebrews 1and 3.
Now, I'm not going to tell youthat I'm going to stop and read
it, but go ahead and read 1 and3 before you continue.
So, now that you've read that,just go ahead and continue that.
On this thought, we should bequoting John 17 and 6.
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A little of divine nature isknown by the works of creation.
A little more was known by theMosaic revelation.
But the full manifestation ofhis nature, his attributes, came
only through the revelation ofChrist.
Now that came from Adam Clark,and Adam Clark was actually
discussing John 17 and 6.
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He was talking about it.
Now I generally kind of stayaway from commentaries.
Only because you get the wrongcommentaries they will start
throwing false doctrine in there, because they start throwing
opinion in there.
But I find that commentary tobe very, very strong.
So what is the mystery of God?
Let's go back to that verse.
We just read 1 Timothy 3.16.
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What is the mystery of God?
Let's go back to that verse.
We just read 1 Timothy 3.16.
What is the mystery of God?
The mystery of God is Godmanifesting himself in the flesh
.
This is because flesh hasalways been associated with
iniquity and the mystery is thatin this flesh that is full of
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iniquity and the mystery is thatin this place that is full of
iniquity, it was alsomanifesting itself as God.
These are contrasted in thescripture because man has his
choice.
If he doesn't accept themystery of godliness, he will be
compelled to accept the mysteryof iniquity.
I know that sounds a littleweird, it sounds a little
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confusing and basically, if youdon't, if you, okay, let's talk
about something that we see inthe world a lot, especially
lately.
You see that there's a movementout there Just for the sake of
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being nice, I'm going to call itthe Purdy Movement Because they
want to water down andeliminate the message of Jesus.
They're saying that Jesus isone of them, that Jesus was
confused about how he was bornand how he lived, and so they
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are basically assigning theiniquity of our manly flesh,
which is what Jesus was, was Godmanifest in the flesh.
They're assigning that iniquity, they're assigning that
propensity of sin to Jesusbecause they're trying to
assuage you, or anybody else whomay be on the fence of fighting
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this thing, to just go hard andsurrender to it, because Jesus
was this way too, which is anabsolute lie.
I know it is.
It's an absolute lie, but Ihave seen many signs at some of
these marches and rallies thatproudly proclaim it, and it's
about as close to blasphemy asyou can get that I would be even
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willing to, you know, touch iton those waters.
As you notice, I haven't reallyquoted the signs, but these
signs are out there and they'reblasphemous.
They're absolutely blasphemous,but basically they are
assigning the iniquity of theflesh to Jesus.
Instead of Jesus is Godmanifesting in the iniquity of
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flesh.
I hope that is a little bitclearer.
If not, send me a question andlet me know.
I'll go back and revisit andtry to pull it out a little more
.
Now here's the word.
Now in the Greek word they callit loke, which is the logic,
the word, the thought.
John 1 and 1 deals with that.
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We're still talking about.
The oneness of God In thebeginning was the Word.
The Word was with God and theWord was God.
This is John 1 and 1.
If you have a Bible written by acertain organization, they
changed John 1 and 1 and put theword was a God and basically
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that destroys the entire Bibleand it literally creates a
separate God.
Now you have four of them andthere was one person in that
organization that had attemptedto convert me when I first got
the Holy Ghost and we wrestledthat one scripture for a month
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before I actually picked up myown Bible and looked at it
because he was showing it to mein his book and I knew that
there was only one, god.
But he kept showing me thisscripture and I'm like how do I
not know this?
This is why, walters, I'mtelling you it is very important
.
Two things, two things Get anaccurate translation of the
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Bible.
You want my recommendations KingJames Amplified, new Living
Translation.
There's a couple other onesthat are really good, but those
are the only ones I ever dealwith, just because there's so
many different wordings and allyou have to do is insert a
letter and it changes the entiremeaning.
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Those are the versions that Istick to.
Now, this word is translatedfrom the Greek Logos.
We talked about Logos.
Now what that means is not onlythe expression of an inward
thought, but also the thoughtitself.
Now, the word may be betterleft not translated, but for the
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sake of understanding, we mightattempt to find the meaning of
this word Logos, because that'simportant.
We might say that the meaning oflogos is deity, expressed In
other words, only in this case,this is God thinking and saying
a thing.
This is what the word is.
In other words, logos is theexpression of the invisible God,
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and just is the way we thinkand express ourselves.
That thinking cannot beseparated from us and, in
essence, it's a part of our verybeing, not another person.
So it is with God.
What are you saying?
Jj, one of the philosophers Idon't want to misquote her,
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maybe it's Shakespeare, maybesomebody else but she said as a
man thinketh, so he is we think,so we are.
The Bible says as a man thinksin his heart, so is he.
This is the same concept and wecan't separate.
We can separate ourselves froma thought, but we cannot
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separate a thought from us,because that thing is what we
created.
We thought it out, we said it.
It's out there, one of thethings we get into so much
trouble with in the world.
We get into an argument withsomebody, we let our tongue fly,
we say words.
Those words can never come back.
We just want to take them back.
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We wish he'd never said them.
Those words are now us, and ifyou hurt somebody enough with
your words, whenever they seeyou they won't even think about
any of the good things thatyou've done, but only the words
that you have said.
And this kind of cuts quick tome too.
Sometimes I get on social mediaand I'm debating something and
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I get real touchy sometimes, andit's something that I have to
work on, I have to repent on.
But it's something that we haveto do because our words, the
words that we have come togetherwith and our thoughts that we
have come together with and ourthoughts that we have come out
with, they are us.
They're not separate from us.
Just if I say I can't createanother JJ and be sitting at
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Golden Corral while I'm doingthis podcast, I can't do that,
and God you know why?
Because God didn't do thateither.
God fills the universe.
There's no need for him tocreate another God.
So the word of God is God.
So that comes into a dualnature of what Jesus was.
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Jesus as an incarnationpossessed a dual nature.
What Jesus was.
Jesus as an incarnationpossessed a dual nature, which
was divinity and humanity.
And a lot of times if you'rereading the Bible, it's kind of
difficult.
If you're just reading it fromsort of a novelistic perspective
, it's very difficult tounderstand the difference
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between the humanity and thedeity.
A good example that people liketo point to that they use as an
attempt to discuss three godsis who was Jesus praying to God
and who was Jesus talking to onthe cross?
And if you look at it from anovelistic perspective you could
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think, well, he's talking tosomebody else.
No, this is his humanity,talking to his divinity.
Now, as a human being, he wasthe.
He was born the way god wantedpeople to be born.
God followed all of his rules,but he was also as God, the
Father.
He was also able to calm stormsand feed masses of monster
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people and shame Pharisees justby speaking, make wine, raise
people from the dead.
Now, many times he spoke andacted like a man, and when he
spoke and acted like a father,he was acting as God.
Now, once this is kind ofunderstood, then the door is
open for a clean understandingof who Jesus really is.
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And this is why, when you havescriptures in the Old Testament
when it's talking about unto usa son is born, unto us a son is
given, the government shall beon his shoulder and his name
shall be called the mighty God,the everlasting Father, and then
the Prince of Peace, thesethings even itself seem
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contradictory if you thinkyou're talking about more than
one person.
But you're not.
You're literally talking aboutthe same God in different
manifestations.
So it's important to understand.
Important to understand this.
We're going to talk about a lotof different things when it
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comes to the Trinity, and we'regoing to stay on this subject, I
think, at least for anotherepisode.
But before we close out, I wantto touch base on something.
Jesus was not quote-unquote theeternal son.
This eternal son theory is notgood.
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As a matter of fact, it wasborn out of the Trinitarian
theory that sort of popped outsomewhere around the 2nd or 3rd
century when the Catholic Churchwas born.
Jesus Christ in the flesh wasthe begotten son.
Yes, absolutely, john 3.16,.
God so loved the world, he gavehis only begotten son.
So if he had been begotten andeternal, that would be two
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different things and they wouldcontradict each other.
We would say well, jj, whatabout slaying from the
foundation of the world?
Here's where we're going towrap up.
Here's the thing with slayingfrom the foundation of the world
what God knew.
God knew from the moment, fromthe moment Adam sinned.
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Well, even before God did that,before God knew that he was
going to create Adam, he knew hewas going to create Eve.
He knew that Eve was going tobe deceived.
He knew that Adam was not goingto be deceived but was going to
be sort of simping andfollowing along with his wife.
He already knew that there wasa plan of salvation, that was
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going to be deceived but goingto be sort of simping and
following along with his wife.
He already knew that there wasa plan of salvation going to be
enacted.
But in order for that to happen, god did a lot of things in
between to set up the why, toset up the rule of why Jesus was
going to have to be crucified.
So no, jesus was not the eternalson.
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There is no such thing aseternal son, because if there's
eternal son, then there's aneternal father, then there's an
eternal Holy Spirit.
And while that sounds Unitarianon its face, it's clearly
Trinitarian, because themanifestation of Jesus' flesh we
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didn't know about Did not existbefore what we commonly know as
the Doctrine.
Now, did God make appearances?
Oh, yes, god made appearances.
One of the big under preachedor under discussed appearances
God made was when the threeHebrew men were in the fire
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furnace, because Nebuchadnezzar,who had never seen God we
talked about it a couple weeksago Nebuchadnezzar, who had
never seen God, recognized thatit was God inside the furnace
with them.
So we are going to talk aboutthings like that, we're going to
talk more about that.
So I know we're out of time, Iknow I've covered a lot.
I hope.
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If it's too much, just let meknow.
Send me a question.
You can send me whatabouts.
I love those because that meansI can dig some more scriptures
and we can talk about it more.
This podcast is not about megetting on here and just
spitting stuff for half an hour.
It's about learning us you andI learning how to walk towards
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salvation, walk in victory, walkin being one with God.
So that's what this is allabout.
I love each and every one ofyou.
My time is up.
My time is up.
Thank you all so much forjoining us.
Thank you so much for being apart of this.
Thank you so much for likingand sharing Some of the new
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listeners.
I appreciate you all so much.
Listen, if you go outside andyou run across a random person,
tell them that Jesus loves them.
It might be the only positivething they hear that day.
People are hurting in thisworld.
People are hurting and even ifthey look crazy, it's okay.
It's a seed.
It's a seed, okay.
God bless each and every one ofyou.
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I hope to see you all next week.
Hello everybody, welcome to today's episode of
Walk With Me.
I am your host, jj.
So good to have each and everyone of you here.
So good to have every one ofyou who are following this
program and sharing this podcast, talking about it, sending me
questions, and trust me when Itell you I love the questions
(00:22):
and, as a matter of fact, I dolove the question so much that
it actually generates additionalstudy.
I I really like it when peopletry to confound me with the
question and that's reallylovely because it helps me and
which, in turn, helps you.
So I trust me when I tell yousend me all your questions to
walk with me bible studyestudyat gmail.
(00:43):
I really mean it and we'regoing to be starting with a
question today.
Well, basically, what happenedis I got a question and it
started a hole because I wantedto thoroughly explain it and I
don't care how many times I getthe same question.
Don't go back, because we'vegot four years worth of podcast
(01:07):
episodes.
Don't go back and try to lookfor any particular episode that
you might've heard me talk about, a question that you might have
.
It doesn't matter.
Send it to me.
Listen, I can teach this.
I can go over this.
I can talk about this all day,every day.
You know, it's just.
I love doing it, love studyingthe Word of God, and I hope that
(01:29):
I am a help to somebody outthere who has questions and just
wants to know a little bit moretruth.
Okay, so what we're going totalk about today?
Oh, before we get started withthat, I got to give my
shout-outs.
Shout-outs to Juvar Cicricistfor the intro and outro.
Shout-out to ExquisiteCreations.
(01:49):
We have our new Tumblr.
I can't wait to put it on thewebsite so I can give you all
the link.
Thank you all so much, andthank you for her sister doing
something.
I'm still waiting to find outthe finished product on that,
but I am very patient and I knowshe has other projects that
she's working on.
So love each and every one ofyou.
(02:10):
Thank you all, thank you, thankyou, thank you.
Thank you for my big, mylisteners outside of the US.
I'm not going to name yourcountries because I know one.
If I start naming somecountries and forget others,
then you feel a little slightedand I don't want you to do that.
But the biggest reason is thatI know that some of you are
listening in places that doesn'taccept the word of God very
(02:33):
well.
You know what I mean, so I'mnot going to get you in trouble,
but I thank you all for that.
One more big thing before weget started If you do have a
question and you want your nameto be used in the in the episode
, like you want me to say, hey,johnny, thank you for the
question, and if you turn tothis page and I, like you, want
(02:55):
me to just have a conversationwith you, with other people
listening, sort of then just goahead and put your name in the
subject line of the email thatyou send me.
If not, then that that's fine.
I will assume that you don'twant your name to be read or
mentioned, and there's reasonsfor that too, and I understand
that.
So it's not a big deal.
I'm not going to ask you tohold, subscribe and pay and all
(03:18):
that stuff.
Subscribe for free.
Salvation is free, except Jesuspaid for it, right?
So no further ado.
We're going to get into ourlesson today.
What we're going to talk about?
We're going to talk about theoneness of God.
Now, I know that a lot ofpeople probably just heard that
and went what?
And maybe you might even turnthis podcast off.
(03:42):
You may not continue thispodcast, and it is what it is.
But there are a lot of thingsgoing around and there's a lot
of doctrine.
There are three main doctrineswe have.
There are three main doctrines.
You have the Trinitariandoctrine, which generally
(04:06):
describes God or Godhead asthree distinct and separate
persons.
And then you have sort of atriunitarian sort of God, which
is three distinct gods butthey're all sort of together.
They're not distinct andseparate, but they're distinct
and joined together in one sortof centralized god.
And then you have the onenessof God, which is one god which
(04:30):
is manifesting in different,different methods, different
methods or different examples ordifferent scenarios.
The same God is coming throughin different manifestations.
(04:50):
So what we're going to talkabout is the oneness of God,
because this is the type ofdeity that the Bible supports.
Now, the difference in thiswhole thing and understanding
who God is is the definition ofperson.
Now, I know that sounds weird,but you know, some understand
(05:13):
person to mean like a orappearance or a visible
expression.
You see your friend, you seeyour uncle, you see your dad,
you see your mom.
That's a person.
Now, if we accept thedefinition, then God, the Father
is not a person, because theBible clearly says he is a
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spirit.
I really try not to get aheadof myself.
So, on the other hand, if weunderstand person to be
associated with a personality,like a self-consciousness or
determination or individuality,then the God, the Father, is a
person.
However, this doesn't make twoor three persons in the Godhead.
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There's only one God.
Let's settle that right away.
There's only one God, there'sonly one personality of the
deity, and this is the samepersonality, that is one and the
same whether you're talkingabout Jehovah in the Old
Testament or Jesus in the NewTestament.
So then you ask yourself whatis the personality of God?
So then you ask yourself whatis the personality of God?
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Now, in both Old Testament andthe New Testament, man is able
to have a fellowship with God,he's able to talk to God and
he's able to have communion withhis maker.
And we must never think of Godas being just some sort of
impersonal force of nature.
That's how I kind of grew up.
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God was on this big, he wassitting on the plow with a box
of lightning bolts ready to zapme out of existence.
And this is not God, because hewas a personal God and he
manifested himself and heblessed to die for it.
Such is the kind of personality, but he is still one God.
He's one divine person.
The best way to kind of bringthat down to a way that we can
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understand is kind of look at usBecause, remember, god made man
in his own image, right?
So even though the titlesFather, son and Holy Ghost are
freely used in the scriptures,it doesn't make them three
persons or three different gods.
The Bible does declare that theFather, son and Holy Ghost is
one person John 1, john 5 and 7.
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But let's pause right here.
I know I have not mentionedthis rule in a few weeks.
This rule has not changed andwill not ever change, will never
change the rule of this podcastwe're going to talk if, if I
throw a scripture out there,because of the sake of time, I
want to give you one verse, twoverses, always.
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I don't care if it's nineverses, it always be the verse
or two above what we talk aboutand a verse or two below what we
talk about, or preferably thewhole chapter.
That is the only rule of thispodcast.
Everything else I justappreciate.
But the reason why this is arule is because context is key
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and I don't want to bemisleading anyone, like I had
been misled by taking a verse ortwo out of context and then
building an entire doctrinearound it.
So when we talk about thingslike that, I really, really want
everyone to get into that habit.
For example, if I say 1 John 5and 7, go ahead and read 1 John
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5, just because you want it, incontext of what the writer is
talking about at that time.
So 1 John 5 and 7, there arethree that bear record in heaven
the Father, the Word and theHoly Ghost.
These three are one, not threeseparate people, not three sort
of Siamese gods joined at thehip, but these are one God.
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Now, to understand it, rememberGod made man in his own image.
I said that a few moments ago.
This is where this becomes veryplain.
He is spirit, we are spirit,soul and body, but we are one
person and we are one person andwe have one name.
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This doesn't make us threedifferent people.
Even I could say to myself hey,I am a husband, I am a son and
I am a brother.
These are all just titles.
Again, but if I wrote a checkfor a million dollars and signed
it husband, son, brother and ifticket to the bank, the bank
will laugh at you and saythere's no name here.
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Because there's no name.
And the name is the power.
The name gives you theauthority to cash that check and
take that money out of myaccount.
So this everyday scenario givesus examples and empowerment of
what the name really means orwhy the name is important.
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So no, holy Ghost is not a name.
It's capitalized to symbolizethe deity of God.
Father is not a name.
Same title, same situation, godsame.
It is merely that theycapitalized to show the
differences between the one trueGod and idol gods that men
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worship.
I'm trying not to get ahead ofmyself again.
I know this is going to takemore than one episode and I'm
here here for it and I'm gladthat you're here for it Now.
1 Timothy 3, 16.
And I want you to read that.
I'm only going to read thefirst few words of it, but this
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is also going to go into what wejust talked about in 1 John 5,
7.
And without controversy, greatis the mystery of Godliness.
God was manifest in the flesh,so let's talk about God being
manifest Now.
People like the Amplified NewTestament.
I like the New LivingTranslation because it tends to
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be a little bit harsher on thelanguage, but the New Testament,
in the Amplified, reads he wasmade visible in human flesh.
Now, this is one of the keyverses that can only be
understood by revelation.
Now, when I say revelation, I'mnot talking about the book of
Revelation, I mean spiritualrevealing to you, and it has to
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be understood.
It has to be understood.
We're going to be understandingand grasping what God is saying
, or what the apostles meant byGodhead.
Now, in the past we've seendifferent manifestations of God
in a lot of different ways, likein creation, sinai, theophanies
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, tabernacles.
God manifested himself in ameasure to man and man was able
to have a certain knowledge ofGod.
However, there's one scripturethat speaks of God being
manifested.
We have the greatest knowledgeof God ever given as far as the
incarnation of Christ and theexpressed image of his visible
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God.
That's going to be Hebrews 1and 3.
Now, I'm not going to tell youthat I'm going to stop and read
it, but go ahead and read 1 and3 before you continue.
So, now that you've read that,just go ahead and continue that.
On this thought, we should bequoting John 17 and 6.
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A little of divine nature isknown by the works of creation.
A little more was known by theMosaic revelation.
But the full manifestation ofhis nature, his attributes, came
only through the revelation ofChrist.
Now that came from Adam Clark,and Adam Clark was actually
discussing John 17 and 6.
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He was talking about it.
Now I generally kind of stayaway from commentaries.
Only because you get the wrongcommentaries they will start
throwing false doctrine in there, because they start throwing
opinion in there.
But I find that commentary tobe very, very strong.
So what is the mystery of God?
Let's go back to that verse.
We just read 1 Timothy 3.16.
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What is the mystery of God?
Let's go back to that verse.
We just read 1 Timothy 3.16.
What is the mystery of God?
The mystery of God is Godmanifesting himself in the flesh
.
This is because flesh hasalways been associated with
iniquity and the mystery is thatin this flesh that is full of
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iniquity and the mystery is thatin this place that is full of
iniquity, it was alsomanifesting itself as God.
These are contrasted in thescripture because man has his
choice.
If he doesn't accept themystery of godliness, he will be
compelled to accept the mysteryof iniquity.
I know that sounds a littleweird, it sounds a little
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confusing and basically, if youdon't, if you, okay, let's talk
about something that we see inthe world a lot, especially
lately.
You see that there's a movementout there Just for the sake of
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being nice, I'm going to call itthe Purdy Movement Because they
want to water down andeliminate the message of Jesus.
They're saying that Jesus isone of them, that Jesus was
confused about how he was bornand how he lived, and so they
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are basically assigning theiniquity of our manly flesh,
which is what Jesus was, was Godmanifest in the flesh.
They're assigning that iniquity, they're assigning that
propensity of sin to Jesusbecause they're trying to
assuage you, or anybody else whomay be on the fence of fighting
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this thing, to just go hard andsurrender to it, because Jesus
was this way too, which is anabsolute lie.
I know it is.
It's an absolute lie, but Ihave seen many signs at some of
these marches and rallies thatproudly proclaim it, and it's
about as close to blasphemy asyou can get that I would be even
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willing to, you know, touch iton those waters.
As you notice, I haven't reallyquoted the signs, but these
signs are out there and they'reblasphemous.
They're absolutely blasphemous,but basically they are
assigning the iniquity of theflesh to Jesus.
Instead of Jesus is Godmanifesting in the iniquity of
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flesh.
I hope that is a little bitclearer.
If not, send me a question andlet me know.
I'll go back and revisit andtry to pull it out a little more
.
Now here's the word.
Now in the Greek word they callit loke, which is the logic,
the word, the thought.
John 1 and 1 deals with that.
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We're still talking about.
The oneness of God In thebeginning was the Word.
The Word was with God and theWord was God.
This is John 1 and 1.
If you have a Bible written by acertain organization, they
changed John 1 and 1 and put theword was a God and basically
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that destroys the entire Bibleand it literally creates a
separate God.
Now you have four of them andthere was one person in that
organization that had attemptedto convert me when I first got
the Holy Ghost and we wrestledthat one scripture for a month
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before I actually picked up myown Bible and looked at it
because he was showing it to mein his book and I knew that
there was only one, god.
But he kept showing me thisscripture and I'm like how do I
not know this?
This is why, walters, I'mtelling you it is very important
.
Two things, two things Get anaccurate translation of the
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Bible.
You want my recommendations KingJames Amplified, new Living
Translation.
There's a couple other onesthat are really good, but those
are the only ones I ever dealwith, just because there's so
many different wordings and allyou have to do is insert a
letter and it changes the entiremeaning.
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Those are the versions that Istick to.
Now, this word is translatedfrom the Greek Logos.
We talked about Logos.
Now what that means is not onlythe expression of an inward
thought, but also the thoughtitself.
Now, the word may be betterleft not translated, but for the
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sake of understanding, we mightattempt to find the meaning of
this word Logos, because that'simportant.
We might say that the meaning oflogos is deity, expressed In
other words, only in this case,this is God thinking and saying
a thing.
This is what the word is.
In other words, logos is theexpression of the invisible God,
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and just is the way we thinkand express ourselves.
That thinking cannot beseparated from us and, in
essence, it's a part of our verybeing, not another person.
So it is with God.
What are you saying?
Jj, one of the philosophers Idon't want to misquote her,
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maybe it's Shakespeare, maybesomebody else but she said as a
man thinketh, so he is we think,so we are.
The Bible says as a man thinksin his heart, so is he.
This is the same concept and wecan't separate.
We can separate ourselves froma thought, but we cannot
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separate a thought from us,because that thing is what we
created.
We thought it out, we said it.
It's out there, one of thethings we get into so much
trouble with in the world.
We get into an argument withsomebody, we let our tongue fly,
we say words.
Those words can never come back.
We just want to take them back.
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We wish he'd never said them.
Those words are now us, and ifyou hurt somebody enough with
your words, whenever they seeyou they won't even think about
any of the good things thatyou've done, but only the words
that you have said.
And this kind of cuts quick tome too.
Sometimes I get on social mediaand I'm debating something and
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I get real touchy sometimes, andit's something that I have to
work on, I have to repent on.
But it's something that we haveto do because our words, the
words that we have come togetherwith and our thoughts that we
have come together with and ourthoughts that we have come out
with, they are us.
They're not separate from us.
Just if I say I can't createanother JJ and be sitting at
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Golden Corral while I'm doingthis podcast, I can't do that,
and God you know why?
Because God didn't do thateither.
God fills the universe.
There's no need for him tocreate another God.
So the word of God is God.
So that comes into a dualnature of what Jesus was.
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Jesus as an incarnationpossessed a dual nature.
What Jesus was.
Jesus as an incarnationpossessed a dual nature, which
was divinity and humanity.
And a lot of times if you'rereading the Bible, it's kind of
difficult.
If you're just reading it fromsort of a novelistic perspective
, it's very difficult tounderstand the difference
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between the humanity and thedeity.
A good example that people liketo point to that they use as an
attempt to discuss three godsis who was Jesus praying to God
and who was Jesus talking to onthe cross?
And if you look at it from anovelistic perspective you could
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think, well, he's talking tosomebody else.
No, this is his humanity,talking to his divinity.
Now, as a human being, he wasthe.
He was born the way god wantedpeople to be born.
God followed all of his rules,but he was also as God, the
Father.
He was also able to calm stormsand feed masses of monster
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people and shame Pharisees justby speaking, make wine, raise
people from the dead.
Now, many times he spoke andacted like a man, and when he
spoke and acted like a father,he was acting as God.
Now, once this is kind ofunderstood, then the door is
open for a clean understandingof who Jesus really is.
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And this is why, when you havescriptures in the Old Testament
when it's talking about unto usa son is born, unto us a son is
given, the government shall beon his shoulder and his name
shall be called the mighty God,the everlasting Father, and then
the Prince of Peace, thesethings even itself seem
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contradictory if you thinkyou're talking about more than
one person.
But you're not.
You're literally talking aboutthe same God in different
manifestations.
So it's important to understand.
Important to understand this.
We're going to talk about a lotof different things when it
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comes to the Trinity, and we'regoing to stay on this subject, I
think, at least for anotherepisode.
But before we close out, I wantto touch base on something.
Jesus was not quote-unquote theeternal son.
This eternal son theory is notgood.
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As a matter of fact, it wasborn out of the Trinitarian
theory that sort of popped outsomewhere around the 2nd or 3rd
century when the Catholic Churchwas born.
Jesus Christ in the flesh wasthe begotten son.
Yes, absolutely, john 3.16,.
God so loved the world, he gavehis only begotten son.
So if he had been begotten andeternal, that would be two
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different things and they wouldcontradict each other.
We would say well, jj, whatabout slaying from the
foundation of the world?
Here's where we're going towrap up.
Here's the thing with slayingfrom the foundation of the world
what God knew.
God knew from the moment, fromthe moment Adam sinned.
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Well, even before God did that,before God knew that he was
going to create Adam, he knew hewas going to create Eve.
He knew that Eve was going tobe deceived.
He knew that Adam was not goingto be deceived but was going to
be sort of simping andfollowing along with his wife.
He already knew that there wasa plan of salvation, that was
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going to be deceived but goingto be sort of simping and
following along with his wife.
He already knew that there wasa plan of salvation going to be
enacted.
But in order for that to happen, god did a lot of things in
between to set up the why, toset up the rule of why Jesus was
going to have to be crucified.
So no, jesus was not the eternalson.
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There is no such thing aseternal son, because if there's
eternal son, then there's aneternal father, then there's an
eternal Holy Spirit.
And while that sounds Unitarianon its face, it's clearly
Trinitarian, because themanifestation of Jesus' flesh we
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didn't know about Did not existbefore what we commonly know as
the Doctrine.
Now, did God make appearances?
Oh, yes, god made appearances.
One of the big under preachedor under discussed appearances
God made was when the threeHebrew men were in the fire
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furnace, because Nebuchadnezzar,who had never seen God we
talked about it a couple weeksago Nebuchadnezzar, who had
never seen God, recognized thatit was God inside the furnace
with them.
So we are going to talk aboutthings like that, we're going to
talk more about that.
So I know we're out of time, Iknow I've covered a lot.
I hope.
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If it's too much, just let meknow.
Send me a question.
You can send me whatabouts.
I love those because that meansI can dig some more scriptures
and we can talk about it more.
This podcast is not about megetting on here and just
spitting stuff for half an hour.
It's about learning us you andI learning how to walk towards
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salvation, walk in victory, walkin being one with God.
So that's what this is allabout.
I love each and every one ofyou.
My time is up.
My time is up.
Thank you all so much forjoining us.
Thank you so much for being apart of this.
Thank you so much for likingand sharing Some of the new
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listeners.
I appreciate you all so much.
Listen, if you go outside andyou run across a random person,
tell them that Jesus loves them.
It might be the only positivething they hear that day.
People are hurting in thisworld.
People are hurting and even ifthey look crazy, it's okay.
It's a seed.
It's a seed, okay.
God bless each and every one ofyou.
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I hope to see you all next week.
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