REAL 41 - Are you who you want to be? Dr Paul Taylor

Are you who you want to be?

Dr Paul Taylor

I have sought the Lord since I was asked to speak at this conference.  "God, what do you want me to share?"  I am not into just preaching sermons.  I want you to be a different person.  Totally changed!  

What I want to share you cannot receive with your natural mind.  It can only be spiritually discerned, spirit to spirit!  As Paul wrote to the Romans,

"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God."  Rm. 12:2

If we do not allow God to change our minds, we will continue to do what we have always done and we will continue to get what we always have gotten!  Then we complain to God that nothing ever changes!  Tonight be the change you want to see!  Open your eyes, ears and hearts to understand what the Spirit is saying to you, the Church.

   

"So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten,

      The crawling locust,

      The consuming locust,

      And the chewing locust, ◙

      My great army which I sent among you.

26      You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied,

      And praise the name of the Lord your God,

      Who has dealt wondrously with you;

      And My people shall never be put to shame.

27      Then you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel:

      I am the Lord your God

      And there is no other.

      My people shall never be put to shame.

28      "And it shall come to pass afterward

      That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;

      Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,

      Your old men shall dream dreams,

      Your young men shall see visions.

Joel 2:25-28

This is what the Lord says, "I have restored what was lost, so that now I can pour my spirit out on all flesh and they can be what I created them to be."  The word restored in the Hebrew is Shalam.  It means to be safe (in mind, body or estate), to be complete.  Shalam is the primitive root word of Shalom.  

The familiar Jewish greeting and salutation meaning to be safe, health, prosperity, peace and favor!  God prophesied over His people in captivity, "I will restore, make complete YOU!"  You will never be ashamed again.

To restore something means that you have had to have it at one time!  He didn't say I am going to give to you something new.  He said I am going to restore what has been eaten away by the locust, the devourer, one who consumes and keeps you from increase!  The one who causes you to look at what you have lost, rather than at what you possess!

There are four things that God wants to restore to each of us.

1.  Intimacy 

Or our relationship with God.  

2 Cor. 5:17   Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.  

The word creation means the original formation, through the idea of the proprietorship of the manufacturer.  Why?  So that we might be reconciled to God through Jesus Christ and we might help others be reconciled.  

Eternal life is not simply being saved.  John 17:3  And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

2.  Identity.  

For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 

27For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. Gal. 3:26-29.  

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? 

Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."

 - Marianne Williamson

When Jesus came up from being baptized God spoke and said, "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased."  He says the same thing to you when you have been restored!  I AM MY FATHER'S SON!

3.  Inheritance.  

And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

16For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 17For a testament is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives.  Hebr. 9:15-17 

Your inheritance is all that your Father has given to you, not what others tell you, you are!

4.  Impossible!  

Nothing is impossible with God!  "With man things are impossible, with God all things are possible!" 

God has restored you, so you can fulfill your created purpose!  He wants to restore your Intimacy, Identity, Inheritance, and Impossibilities!  Through you!

ARE YOU WHO YOU WANT TO BE?

REAL 40 - CHANGE KNOCKED MY DOOR TODAY! AND I LET CHANGE TO COME IN!

We cannot generalize saying that everybody act like everybody else! If there is 10% that is different from 90%, that does not fall into the laziness, poverty mentality and the multitude sameness categories, if there is one (1) that is all God has to change your community He will do with just one! THIS IS THE POWER OF ONE SEED!

We can for the sake of facts investigate to see if those statistics that were shared are accurate! (Please read it below) However we can start by our own place, where we are. You know people around you! You know pretty much in your area if that is the way that your community fellows proceed! But more important is to see if this is your own case! 😳😳😳😀😀😀

Unfortunately when we identify a problem we have a tendency to find someone to blame for it! That is not a behavior of a SouLutionist! 

What can I do to change my own actions? What can I do immediately to change now?

People think that to change a nation they need to change the leaders, the politicians! Is that true? Is that really the only thing you need? In other words they think leaders will solve all their problems! People talk about the corruption of governors while in their daily lives they keep doing transactions with friends, families and anybody else with no honesty! What is different of the people's daily little crooked actions from their leaders big crooked actions? Remember that you will not be faithful in the big picture if you are not faithful in the small one! Who steals an orange is a thief as much as who stills a country!

We have to own our destiny! We have to own our solutions! What I want to do to change my own life and the lives of others around me? We don't just talk! We do! But do we known how to do it indeed?

Believe me, most of the people don't do better because they don't know how to do! My parents didn't teach many things because they didn't know how. They have always desired to do the best, they love me, but how can they instruct me if they don't know! 

Cultural stuff are learnt and repeated over and over and passed from a generation to another until someone says, I will think a different and efficient way to change for good!

I am not going to blame the government, my pastors, my parents, I will be the solution of our problems. I will respect my leaders, I will honor my parents, i will be an agent of transformation by being transformed myself!

One example! I will show an example to encourage you to see yourself in what you did or you did not do with the teaching about seeds!

After you have read the teaching about planting a seed did you eat any fruit after until now? If you did how many seeds have you planted yourself or have you thrown them away? 

What you have learned have you wisely PRACTICED and AFTER YOU HAVE PRACTICED have you SHARES with someone? Have you taken practical steps to change things the way you used to do?

I don't know for sure if what Jeremie shared is a fact that more than 90% of african families live in bad conditions because of reasons. He said because of a study there was a conclusion that 90% of African families live in bad conditions. Of course there are other factors and facts, but here it is what THAT PARTICULAR study says! 

Maybe this is also the reasons in other nations! But he was just mentioning the Africans. If he said Lebanese I would not be offended! Or Americans! Or even Brazilians! Do you know why I would not be offended? Because I am not stupid! I am not afraid of facts, especially if they are true about myself. 

Here is the conclusions of that study:

1.African young people don't work hard in their youth.They spend their time enjoying themselves when they are young.

2.They don't save (invest) in what will help them in the future,

3.They don't think about tomorrow and after tomorrow,

4.They believe that their parents will leave to them what it will help them in the future 

5. At the age of 18 more than 99% africans think in getting married without any conditions.

Instead of thinking of others that I cannot change I would honestly apply this information to see if in my own life this is true and accurate!

In other words, in light of what I read I would ask:

1 - Am I working hard to succeed, do I know where I want to get, do I have a clear goal, do I have a vision, a dream, a personal plan and am I working hard to accomplish my objectives?

2 - Am I investing, saving, or I eat everything that comes to my hands? If I am so poor that I had nothing to get better is this conclusion true or does God give me a seed that instead of planting I am eating it? If I have nothing why I can not invest MY TIME to learn, to excel in my studies at schools? 

Wow! I have a smartphone!!! Wow! I have a tool that I can get many seeds by using to connect with the world and get the best of the knowledge, education through you tube videos, university websites and so on instead of just using my phone for hours to play games! If I play some that is OK! I can have some entertainment but I am to be disciplined, wake up early and prepare a self education program for my life! 

3 - My son is 32 years old. For some time in his life he wanted just to have fun. I would encourage him to get education, to read good books, to save money to invest and he didn't hear me until he got it al the principles, but this way! 

He learned from me and from others, he even saw my example, he watched my mistakes, he knew everything! But only intellectually! Now he practices! He became an entrepreneur and even in his beginnings he is trying hard to practice what he knew but gave him nothing until he acted, did something practical! 

He and I must become who our Father want us to be, because doing all great stuff will not be enough for REAL success  until we reflect who we are in Jesus - being like Him. Knowledge don't change you. It puffs you up! Practicing knowledge will change you, because with practice comes challenges that will humble you! Talk is easy, acting comes with hardness, much effort and real work!

5 - So if you want to marry earlier in life much more you will need to become the owner of your life, act responsibly instead of blaming others for the things only YOU can do for you!

Be REAL! Your Heavenly Father already knows who you are! And he wants to transform you to become like His Son Jesus is. Until then! Let the change come in!

Dr. Josimar Salum

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A CULTURE OF WORK, SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT

THIS IS WHAT WE NOTICED DURING A STUDY OF HOME AND FAMILY! 

More than 90% of african families live in bad conditions because :

1.African young people don't work hard in their youth.They spend their time enjoying themselves when they are young!

2.They don't save (invest) in what will help them in the future,

3.They don't think about tomorrow and after tomorrow,

4.They believe that their parents will leave to them what it will help them in the future 

5. At the age of 18 more than 99% africans think in getting married without any conditions.

This is why many elder africans suffer in their lives. Most africans remember to work hard when they are getting old.

I always see many people who get married and after their marrige they begin to work hard. When remorses come they decide to get separated. 

But more of them get married and their families, mothers don't teach children how to prepare for the future.

Is not that accurate in Africa? Does this happen In US and another nations?

Jeremie Nitirandekura

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Comments by Dr. Paul Taylor

Much of what you have spoken above is a values and worldview problem. This is why Josimar and I have been teaching about values and worldview. The way you think.

Are you listening to what we have been sharing?  

We have been sharing that there is no difference between spiritual and secular. We have been giving u kingdom principles that work in the US or in Burundi. 

We have taught you about changing the way you think!  Look at your problem and say, "This is not a problem, but an opportunity for God and me to be the solution."

When you begin to see as God sees, you will begin to see what you have and ways to use that to be the solution to the problem. 

We have posted business principles that will help you succeed in your business. Innocent has posted a link on the Friends of Burundi site that you can read to help you start a business. 

Dr. Salum has spoken about money management and time management. 

I have spoken to you about worldview and using the abilities that you have to multiple what God has entrusted to you. 

We have confronted false religious teachings to help you break mindsets that have held your parents back from what God has promised. 

What you must do is process what has been shared and begin to implement these teachings in your life. 

We r hoping to create micro financing to assist many of you, but you cannot wait for someone to put the money in your hand. You must use what you have to do what you have dreamed of. Dreams never come to pass if you only dream. You must begin taking steps to reach those dreams. God will help you but he will not do it for you!!!!

We are here to encourage you and help in anyway we can but no one is going to do what you have been given to do. 

Believe!!!

Dr. Taylor

REAL 39 - Trading gold: teaching of Jesus about His expectations of people.

Trading gold: teaching of Jesus about His expectations of people. Dr Paul Taylor

I also encourage all of you to read Luke 19:11-27

Jesus shares this parable because the people thought the Kingdom of God would appear immediately.  So Jesus said, "So he called ten of his servants, delivered to them ten Minas

“While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once. He said: “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to have himself appointed king and then to return. 

So he called ten of his servants and gave them ten minas. ‘Put this money to work,’ he said, ‘until I come back.’ 

But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We don’t want this man to be our king.’ “He was made king, however, and returned home. 

Then he sent for the servants to whom he had given the money, in order to find out what they had gained with it. 

The first one came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has earned ten more.’ “ ‘Well done, my good servant!’ his master replied. ‘Because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter, take charge of ten cities.’ “The second came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has earned five more.’ “His master answered, ‘You take charge of five cities.’ “Then another servant came and said, ‘Sir, here is your mina; I have kept it laid away in a piece of cloth. I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take out what you did not put in and reap what you did not sow.’

“His master replied, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant! You knew, did you, that I am a hard man, taking out what I did not put in, and reaping what I did not sow? Why then didn’t you put my money on deposit, so that when I came back, I could have collected it with interest?’ 

“Then he said to those standing by, ‘Take his mina away from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.’ “ ‘Sir,’ they said, ‘he already has ten!’ “He replied, ‘I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but as for the one who has nothing, even what they have will be taken away. 

But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me.’ ””

Luke 19:11-27 NIV

A mina was worth about 3 months salary. In essence the master was giving them start up money for a business. 

"...and he said to them, Do business until I return."

The master was giving them money, but they would have to use their own gifts and talents to do something with that money to bring an increase. Every thing God does is for increase!  The word of God is very specific about the master returning and wanting to know what these servants GAINED BY TRADING!

The word for business in the Greek means to busy oneself with trade. The root word means to practice habitually or over and over again.  What were the reasons for this trading?

There must be a reason why the master would give these men money?

We need to think about this question and how the 10 men responded.

Note that Jesus never makes a difference between spiritual work and any other kind is work!  

There are three groups of people represented in this group that reflect what many people do today.

I love what Dr. Josimar has taught.

Personal economy x Personal finances 

http://kingsandchampions.blogspot.com/2016/05/personal-economy-x-personal-finances.html

You must first take care of your own personal life and family before you can run a successful business. Paul taught this to Timothy. Paul also wrote in I Corinthians 15:46

"However the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual."

Could it be that we are practicing now for eternity?  What u do at home and then in your business is critical to building the Kingdom of God now and for eternity!m

The three groups represented by the 10 servants. 

2 were obedient and worked using their God given ability to multiply what was given to them. They had to believe that if the master gave them this money then he had to believe they had the ability to multiply it to produce a gain. Why?  To feed their family and to help others. 

One man was controlled by fear!  So much so that he buried his money. I know so many people who are controlled by fear. They are afraid that God will be mad with them or they will make a mistake. The master was angry because he did nothing with what had been given to him. He took that money and gave it to the one who had gained the most. The master was not foolish. He invested that money with someone who would do something with it!

"To everyone who has will be given; and from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him."

Luke 19:26

The other 7 men He calls them enemies who did not want Him to rule over them. They were killed. 

What is Jesus trying to convey to all of us?

Let me also begin with a question. "Do you believe that God only gives gifts, talents to people who believe in Him?  Were these  men in the parable of the talents all believers?  Is this simply a spiritual parable?  Sorry, that is three questions. 

Dr. Josimar has asked previously "Why do unbelieving businessmen prosper more than believing businessmen?"

Again, the three groups of people represented are:

1.  Those who had faith. We assume faith in God. In the One who gave them the gift.  Could they also be those who believed in their abilities, their dream, their idea, their cause enough to attempt what is in their heart?  This lifestyle of faith burns in people and becomes a passion that enables them to overcome obstacles of all kinds. 

If you had to choose between the person who had a passion for something or a Christian who feared making a mistake or had no self confidence in accomplishing anything. Who would you choose?

I would choose the person who believed in his ability to achieve his dream!  

Put faith in God and in who He created you to be and there should be nothing that is impossible to that person. 

2.  The person of fear?  Well fear is the opposite of faith. Faith in God or faith in yourself. An attitude of fear will destroy and attitude of faith every time. Then we blame God that He never does anything for us. I have news for you. HE HAS ALREADY DONE EVERYTHING THAT HE NEEDS TO DO WHEN HE DIED ON THE CROSS FOR YOU!!!  IT IS FINISHED!  That says it all. Yet fear will overcome the power that rolled away the stone!  IN THE MIND OF THE PERSON WHO POSSESSES FEAR ONLY!  NOTHING IS GREATER THAN GOD UNLESS YOU SIMPLY DON'T BELIEVE IN HIM OR YOURSELF. 

Why should you not believe in who God created you to be?  God believes in you!

Some say this is sacrilegious, but you are a son of God. Created in His image, for His purposes!  If you don't believe in you, who will?

Don't let fear keep you from what your were created to be and do!  Why else has He given you that gift?

3.  The last group of people are those who simple refuse to believe in God and to allow Him to rule in their lives. So many people are in this group because of religious thinking. They think God wants to control them when in reality it is man that wants to control them through religion. True faith in God brings FREEDOM!  Freedom to pursue your dreams, But for His purposes. Purposes that are full of blessing for you and others. 

It is so sad that so many fail to understand the request of the Master. He gives to us so as we yield to Him and the gifts He has given that we prosper in all that we do in life. Not just church life or business life but LIFE!

Be blessed my friends. Believe in God and believe in who He has created you to be!  Nothing is impossible !

REAL (38) - I AM!

I AM! 

By JSalum & PTaylor

If you are among those who say that because naturaly your family is poor you feel that it's a situation that can never be changed, you will remain as you are. But let me remind you this: You didn't choose the family you are from and to be born in a poor family is not your mistake! One mistake will be not to use the talents that God has put in you so as not to die miserable. YOU BECOME WHAT YOU BELIEVE! (JM)

Let me give you a different perspective over this picture! Can I? JSalum

I did believe in Jesus and He gave me the power to become like Him. I am a child of God. When I look myself into the mirror I see Jesus! Now I know who I am. #jsalum

"He came to His own people but they did not want Him, but whoever did want Him, who believed He was who He claimed, and would do what He said, He made to be their true selves, their child of God selves.

These are the God-begotten, not blood-begotten, not flesh-begotten, not sex-begotten." John 1:12,13 The Message

In Jesus you are your true self!  BE WHO GOD CREATES YOU TO BE!  Not poor or rich, but who He created you to be from the foundation of the world. Do not allow any man define who you are by how much money you have or don't have. By the color of your skin or what nation you were born in. By how educated or uneducated you are. Look in that mirror and see a son of God!  Believe in Jesus who created you to do exploits in His name!  Believe for the impossible! (Paul Taylor)

With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible. Matthew 19:26

REAL (37) - Who a leader is: a servant of servants." By Jeremie Nitirandekura &Josimar Salum

"Who a leader is: a servant of servants." By Jeremie Nitirandekura & Josimar Salum (JSalum)

You will be totally free when you become a full servant. You will never become a true leader until you have learned to serve others.

“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.” Philippians 2:3-7

The word (hum)ility from Middle English humilite, from Old French (h)umilité, from Latin humilitas (“lowness, meanness, baseness, in Late Latin humility”), from humilis (“low, lowly, humble, earth”).

To be humble can mean to be simply who you are: human. There is nothing in me or in you that makes us different or to be considered highly above one another. Even God Himself became a man! 

Humble and humility comes from the same root of the word (hum)an. Don't elevate yourself, be just humble. On the wither hand, don't consider yourself less than anybody no matter who they are or where they came from.

Jesus said once: “He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight.” Luke 16:15

 I hope I am spelling his name rightly...  My king Jeremie Nitirandekura, a volunteer of Burundi English clubs shared with me today these thoughts:

"People don´t understand how to be a servant of servants. Yesterday during english club I asked my pupil one by one , "who do you want to become after your studies?"

Every one told me: "I want to become a boss." None of them said: I want become a servant."

I tried to make them understand a value of being a servant. After i asked them , "who wants to be a leader? "They cried out: Oooh! 

They explained to me what a leader is. According to them a leader is a high person, someone honorable."

It took me a long time in order to make them understand  who a true leader is. 

After my explanations, fortunately each of them said: I am eager to be a true leader.

"Yes, yes", I told them, "you have to think why you need to be a leader. It will asked of  you to ignore the benefits to be a servant of servants."

I believe that through my generation,  BURUNDI WILL BE A GOOD COUNTRY. Then everyone will be able to serve owing to the love."

Wow! Wow! Great thoughts! It is encouraging to read them! I think there is a Love Revolution going on in Burundi!

I will finish with these words from The Message by brother Eugene Peterson:

“In this way we are like the various parts of a human body. Each part gets its meaning from the body as a whole, not the other way around. The body we’re talking about is Christ’s body of chosen people. Each of us finds our meaning and function as a part of his body. But as a chopped-off finger or cut-off toe we wouldn’t amount to much, would we? 

So since we find ourselves fashioned into all these excellently formed and marvelously functioning parts in Christ’s body, let’s just go ahead and be what we were made to be, without enviously or pridefully comparing ourselves with each other, or trying to be something we aren’t.

If you preach, just preach God’s Message, nothing else; if you help, just help, don’t take over; if you teach, stick to your teaching; if you give encouraging guidance, be careful that you don’t get bossy; if you’re put in charge, don’t manipulate; if you’re called to give aid to people in distress, keep your eyes open and be quick to respond; if you work with the disadvantaged, don’t let yourself get irritated with them or depressed by them. Keep a smile on your face.

Love from the center of who you are; don’t fake it. Run for dear life from evil; hold on for dear life to good. Be good friends who love deeply; practice playing second fiddle.

Don’t burn out; keep yourselves fueled and aflame. Be alert servants of the Master, cheerfully expectant. Don’t quit in hard times; pray all the harder. Help the needy; be inventive in hospitality.” Romans 12:6-13 MSG

REAL (36) - WHERE JESUS DID PREPARE A PLACE FOR US?

I know what you have written is the traditional interpretation that for years and years we have heard and repeated. 

“`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe; in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you; and if I go on and prepare for you a place, again do I come, and will receive you unto myself, that where I am ye also may be; and whither I go away ye have known, and the way ye have known.'” John 14:1-4

Where Jesus was really going to?

Read chapter 13 of John!

The chapter starts telling where Jesus was going to:
"Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under
his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God." John 13:3

“Simon Peter asked him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus replied, “Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later.” Peter asked, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.” Then Jesus answered, “Will you really lay down your life for me? Very truly I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!”

John 13:36-38 NIV

Jesus asked: Will you really lay down your life for me? 

Where Jesus was going to? It is not heaven. Read all chapter 13 & 14 and all the rest of the Gospel of John if Jesus was feeling he was going to Heaven! Please read and find if the word heaven appear in the "sacred" text! 

And the main question is this: IF Jesus is still "preparing a place for us in heaven which is not true" His work on the cross was not sufficient for all salvation which is also not true! IT IS FINISHED 

“When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.”

John 19:30 NIV

It is finished means he has done everything, it is done, it is completed! There is nothing HE or anybody else needs to DO, any actions, nothing to receive eternal life! 

Jesus never promised heaven neither the Father! He promised eternal life IN HIS KINGDOM! In NEW HEAVENS AND EARTH! 

Where did Jesus go to prepare a place for us? Who are the mansions (dwellings)!of God's House? 

A sincere student send me this: "But even me personaly i am somehow confused.

If Jesus says:"in my father's house there are many mansions" if you say that he did not promise heaven,what is then what he called his father's house?

Who are the mansions of God's House?

Where in the bible says that Heaven is God's house!

Jesus say in John 13 & 14 he was going to the cross and to the Father! 

Read it carefully! In John 13 Jesus was taking about his death!

““I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill this passage of Scripture: ‘He who shared my bread has turned against me.’

After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, “Very truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.”

When he was gone, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified and God is glorified in him.

“My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come.

Simon Peter asked him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus replied, “Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later.” Peter asked, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.” Then Jesus answered, “Will you really lay down your life for me? Very truly I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!” John 13:18, 21, 31, 33, 36-38 NIV

Jesus said; Where I am going, you cannot come. Why? Jesus was going to the cross!

And to the cross Peter could not go. Actually Jesus said he was going to disown him three times.

Then Jesus said: 

“My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?”

John 14:2 

Who is the Father's house? There is not one verse in the Bible that says that the heaven is God's House. 

Salomon said: “Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he would dwell in a dark cloud; I have built a magnificent temple for you, a place for you to dwell forever.””

2 Chronicles 6:1-2 NIV

Really? Is this right? Salomon answers:

“But will God really dwell on earth with humans? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!”

2 Chronicles 6:18 NIV

“if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s house, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.”

1 Timothy 3:15 NIV

The church is the house of God!

“My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?”

John 14:2 NIV

Where God will be forever? Where He will dwell? 

“the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.”

John 14:17 NIV

“Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves kme will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.” John 14:23 NIV

“And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.” John 14:3 NIV

We know where He was going because told Peter he was going to the cross,  he was going to die.

He came back to the disciples when he was raised from the dead, he was resurrected and he said to them before ascending to heaven.

“ And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”” Matthew 28:20 NIV

Where does Jesus is? In heaven or in you? Where the Father is? Where the Holy Spirit is? In you know! You are a room of God's house. You are already prepared to live in Him and He in you? 

“You know the way to the place where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”” John 14:4-7

When there was no heavens where did God always live in eternity? Does God need the heavens? He did not wanted live in heaven forever! We are His body! We are all Him! ONE! Like Jesus and the Father is ONE, we are ONE in HIM!

““He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life.

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.

I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.”

Revelation 21:5-6, 9-10, 22 NIV

Who is the temple of God? We are not God's temples. Your body is a temple of God. Pay attention to the detail: we are not call temples of God, WE ARE GOD's TEMPLE without the letter "s" at the end.

“For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building. By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care.

Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?”

1 Corinthians 3:9-10, 16 

Jesus was going to the the Father, to meet the Father at the cross!

“that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” 2 Corinthians 5:19, 21 NIV

“The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.

and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.”

Colossians 1:15, 18, 20 NIV

Who shed the blood on cross? God did! 

“Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of GOD WHICH HE BOUGHT WITH HIS BLOOD.” Acts 20:28 

What do you want! To die and live forever in heaven (which Jesus never promised) or to be a room in the House of the Lord and live with Him forever in His body as he was before the foundation of the world? 

Now you have a lot to pray about and I am going to slow down, cause I don't want to blow your minds! 

Cheer up! Worship Jesus! Give glory to HIM!

Josimar Salum

RN - Thank Dr. Salum for details about the heaven!  But yr explanation brought new questions in my mind! What about life after death? If we are God's temple, when we die what happens? Does the temple be destroyed? Another question are we living the here and now? Do we have to wait the something else not a heaven? Thank you! God bless you for the courage to help us. 🙏🙏🏿 🙏🙏🏿🙏🙏🏿

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I know our tendency is keep Learning of what we call spiritual things 😁😳😁, but we need to give some principles of business for the group as we proposed since the beginning. 

I will just say this! And you, please, keep thinking and praying and studying the Scriptures and investigating!!! But most of all ask the Holy Spirit to reveal Himself to you! 

All things that exist in the first creation will be destroyed even the heavens "where God is now" will be destroyed by fire! 

The creation as we see it today will cease to exist! 

 “But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare. Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.”

2 Peter 3:10-13 

How can you want to live forever in a heaven that will DISAPPEAR? 😀😀 All heavens will disappear, so according to Scriptures all three heavens will cease to exist!  

“Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.”

Revelation 21:1 NIV

“And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.”

Revelation 21:3 NIV

“The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will reign for ever and ever.””

Revelation 11:15 NIV

I laugh at all these theologians because they want to explain things through common knowledge! That only God must reveal. I don't consider myself a theologian, but the most we can do is answer your questions! 🤓🤓🤓

How can I explain if I am not revealed by the Holy Spirit? How can you understand if the Holy Spirit does not reveal to you? 

“We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived” — the things God has prepared for those who love him— these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.”

1 Corinthians 2:6-10 NIV

JOSIMAR SALUM