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The meaning of church

 8. Church (1) The meaning of church 『Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.』(John4:20-23) In the Old Testament times, the Israelites worshiped in the temple in Jerusalem, In the New Testament, Saints worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Spirit means the Holy Spirit and the truth means Jesus Christ who was died on the cross. The Saint who was died with Jesus and was born again by the Spirit, is Church. The spiritual body of the Saints become church. The Saints become one with God in Christ. This is worship. Worship is mind to confi...

The separation of the spirit and the soul

 18) The separation of the spirit and the soul The spirit is the image from God. The soul is the emotion from from the parents. These two can not be combined like water and oil. One will be die. The spirit is died in the flesh from the parents, and the soul is died in the body from God. So spirits of all human beings are dead because the soul surrounds the spirit like a snake. The spirit is trapped in clay. The spirit can not alive unless it is born again as a spiritual body. We must deny the soul to be born with a spiritual body. I will crucify me on Jesus'cross because there is a seed of a snake in my mind. The veil of the temple was divided just as Jesus was died. The spirit and the soul are separated when we are died with Jesus. 『For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any c...

Idolatry and spiritual adultery

 17) Idolatry and spiritual adultery 『Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.』 (James4:4) An adulterer is a person who has fallen spiritually. These are the Israelites, Those who destroyed the covenant made with God and suffered spiritual corruption. There are many spiritual adulterers in the church today. The Old Testament, God spoke to the Israelites who worshiped idols as a woman who committed adultery through the prophet Hosea.『Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.』 (Hosea 2...

The original sin

 (16) The original sin Original sin includes spiritual and freshical original sin. Spiritual original sin is the the form of the being that imprisoned in clay because it wants to become like God in the kingdom of God. For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; (2 Peter 2:4) So human beings are born as clay, and they return to soil again when they was died. God waits for the exiled spirits to return as repentance, as in the parable of the prodigal son.  God brought Adam, who was born in this world as being soul, into the garden of Eden and saved the spirit on the sixth day God created Adam. Eve was separated from Adam. But humans sinned in the garden of Eden. They ate the fruit of the tree to know good and evil because they wanted to be like God after hearing Satan's words.『For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as g...

Adam and Eve

 (15) Adam and Eve Adam was born by the clay in the earth, was a living soul.『And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.』(Genesis 2:7) Adam represents the representation of angels who have sinned in the kingdom of God. It was the first living being by clay that crime angels would enter into. Adam lived in the world, was died. God put Adam in the garden of Eden. Adam was showed such as the symbol of the angel who sinned in the kingdom of God through the garden of Eden. He was a spiritual being in the kingdom of God, but also became human being in the material world. Jesus was also the Lord God in the kingdom of God, but he came to this world in the form of a sinner to save the spirit. 『Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.』(Romans 5:14) God took one of Adam...

Sin and evil

 (14) Sin and evil  Sin includes original sin and world sin. The reason of living in this world is caused original sin. It is sin for human being to escape from God because evil angels wanted to be like God by the temptation of Satan. And the sin of the world is the sin that human being make in the world. A sinner must repent, then can only return to the kingdom of God because God forgive a repentant. Repentance is the thing to return mind for the original location. The thought of greed must die to return mind. This is repentance. The reason for sin in this world is because of Satan who is the master in thought.  Human being must be free from Satan in order not to sin. Jesus has to pay value of blood Satan for buying a repentant. God forgives the sins of those who come into Jesus' cross. Those who come into Jesus' cross was died on the cross also. Those who was died with Christ become servants of Christ. God resurrects the servant of Christ. This is salvation. In the past...

The body of the flesh and the body of the spirit

 (13) The body of the flesh and the body of the spirit 『Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus』(Ephesians 2:5-6) Although the flesh from the parents exiest on earth, He who is in Christ sits on the right hand of God with the spiritual body.  This corresponds to the person being born again. To born again is not a change of mind but a spiritual body.『Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.』(John 1:13) Those who are born of God do not respond to the world, only respond to God's word.『It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.』(1 Corinthians 15:44) In Christ, the spiritual body is seated in heaven, and the flesh from parents is staying in this land. This can not be understood by human reason and experience. ...

The oldself

 (12) The oldself 『Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin.』(Romans 6:6-7) The oldself (soul) is an attribute that appears from the body. The oldself (soul) thinks as the master of the body. Even though there is a word of God's promise, the oldself does accoding to what he thinks. The oldself is the root of sin. The oldself is the mind of the greed that wants to be like God. So the Bible says that the oldself must be die. The Saint informs to God the death of the oldself through baptism. And Saint believes that when the oldself is died, he revives as a spiritual body. Althought the saint exiests in the world, but his status changes to the people of the kingdom of God. The flesh exiests by the law of the world, but the mind exiests by the law of the Spirit. 『For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the...