Jesus Has Revealed the Secrets of the Spiritual World

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DALLIED KIEN

JESUS HAS

REVEALED THE

SECRETS OF THE

SPIRITUAL WORLD OR GOD’S PRINCIPLES

FIRST Edition


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ContentsIntroduction.................................................................................................................................5

1. A Natural Man Must Know Jesus, the Truth.......................................................................6

2. Faith In God Creates Justice.............................................................................................10

3. Man ’s Perfection Is the Result of Faith in God through Acceptance of Our EarthlySufferings..................................................................................................................................15

4. Faith and God ’s Law Are the Mirrors of Our Lives.........................................................175. The Word of God, Man ’s Light and Freedom Provider ...................................................20

6. Obedience To God's Word as Salvation...........................................................................21

7. Man Does Not Feed on Bread Alone................................................................................22

8. Mastering our Language, Signs of Our Perfection............................................................24

9. The Thoughts and Desires in Our Heart reflect in Our Words AndBehavior....................................................................................................................................25

10 . Accepting Sufferings By Faith In Jesus Produces Divine Virtues in Us..........................29

11. Being Aware of God ’s Presence Gives us Success in All Life Even.............................. 34

12. Our Conversion the Deepest and Utmost Desire Of God.................................................35

13. The purpose of this book...................................................................................................63

14. Conceptual Theory of Human Happiness and Success . .................................................. 82

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR dallied KIEN............................................................101

DEDICATION........................................................................................................................102PRAYER BASED ON THE BOOK.......................................................................................102


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Throughout the book, all Bible quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are from the

Jerusalem Bible.


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Introduction

Jesus, in other words the Spirit of my Lord Jesus Christ revealed to me the

fundamental principles and secrets of the spiritual life and how to easily put them into

practice.

I will share them in the following pages.

Problem:

Can we be holy on earth? Or

Can we become perfect on earth? Or even

Do we really get rest or the glory of God in heaven only after our physical death?

Here is the nagging question that gnawed at me and for which I did not have clear

answers. But God who is not responsible for our misfortunes or sufferings, will use the

most painful experience of my life to show me these fundamental truths. What is

paradoxical is that God had made me know some of these truths which I dealt with in my

first book entitled "Ethical Approach or the Keys of Happiness Human" but I did not pay

attention. My third book, "Faith according to Jesus Christ, How to Grow in the True

Knowledge of Our Lord and Savior "discusses in more depth these vital truths. But I had

not yet grasped the deep understanding that is essential for man to be already perfect on

this earth before meeting the Lord Jesus Christ in heaven.

1. A Natural Man Must Know Jesus, the Truth

Let's begin our journey in search of the hidden treasures of God in the Bible.


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It is written in Hebrews 1.1-9: " At various times in the past and in various different ways,

God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets; but ·in our own time, the last days, he has

spoken to us through his Son, the Son that he has appointed to inherit everything and through

whom he made everything there is. ·He is the radiant light of God's glory and the perfect

copy of his nature, sustaining the universe by his powerful command ; and now that he

has destroyed the defilement of sin, he has gone to take his place in heaven at the right

hand of divine Majesty. So he is now as far above the angels as the title which he has

inherited is higher than their own name. God as never said to any angel : You are my Son,

today I have become your father ; or: I will be a father to him and he a son to me. ·Again,

when he brings the First-born into the world, he says : Let all the angels of God worship

him . About the angels, he says : He makes his angels winds and his servants flames of fire,

·but to his Son he says : God, your throne shall last for ever and ever; and : his royal scepter is

the scepter of virtue; · virtue you love as much as you hate wickedness. This is why God,

your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness, above all your rivals. "

Two important facts are mentioned in Hebrews 1.1-9 : it is about angels who praise

God for the birth of Jesus Christ and the inauguration of the new world, the kingdom of God

during the baptism of Jesus Christ. The first fact was attested at the birth of Christ and is

narrated by Luke 2.8-14: "In the countryside close by there were shepherds who lived in the

fields and took it in turns to watch their flocks during the night. ·The angel of the Lord

appeared to them and the glory of the Lord shone around them. They were terrified, ·but the

angel said, "Do not be afraid. Listen, I bring you news of great joy, a joy to be shared by the

whole people. ·Today in the town of David a savior has been born to you; he is Christ the

Lord. ·And here is a sign for you: you will find a baby

wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger." ·And suddenly with the

angel there was a great throng of the heavenly host, praising God and singing:


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"Glory to God in the highest heaven, and peace to men who enjoy his favor." "

The second fact, the inauguration of the world to come, or kingdom of God, occurred at the

baptism of our Lord Jesus Christ and is reported in Luke 3.21-22: "Now when all the people

had been baptized and while Jesus after his own baptism was at prayer, heaven opened ·and

the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily shape, like a dove. And a voice came from

heaven, "You are my Son, the Beloved; my favor rests on you.". '"

Jesus inaugurated the kingdom of God or messianic times by his baptism in the Jordan. But

look closely at verse 9, namely Hebrews 1.9: "virtue you love as much as you hate

wickedness. "

This is why God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness, above all your rivals.

"So Jesus received the anointing of the Holy Spirit because he loved righteousness and hated

wickedness . What is the meaning of loving righteousness and hating wickedness? In other

words what does walking in the light mean? Now Jesus is the light of the world as he stated in

John 8:12, saying, "" I am the light of the world; anyone who follows me will not be

walking in the dark; he will have the light of life . ""

In the Jordan, that day, many people were baptized like Christ but he alone received

the Holy Spirit. Therefore from that important fact in the life of our Lord comes the first

principle of God or the kingdom of God: love for justice and hated for wickedness are

prerequisites to the baptism of every follower of Christ Jesus. It is therefore not surprising that

the first principle is our conversion because it is written in Mark 1.14-15: "After John had

been arrested, Jesus went into Galilee. There he proclaimed the Good News from God. · "The

time has come," he said, "and the kingdom of God is close at hand. Repent, and believe the

Good News."

Let ’s analyze this together. How can we repent without hating ungodliness and how can we

love justice without hearing the gospel of Jesus Christ? We already learned in my third book:


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"Faith According to Jesus Christ, How to Grow in the True Knowledge of Our Lord and

Savior" that Jesus is Our Righteousness. We will discuss this later in this book.

Hence the preaching of the Gospel is based on the first principle of the kingdom of God, it is about bringing a natural man to know the truth which is Christ Jesus, which is

loving the righteousness of God for the salvation of man. And what does changing our

thoughts which are naturally bad to adopt God' s thoughts which are good in nature mean to

you? If it is not simply conversion. Is it possible to be converted without hearing the

preaching of the gospel? The answer is definitely and absolutely NO! Why? Because Jesus

himself tells us: repent , and believe the gospel. Only the Gospel has the power to transform

our thoughts and beliefs. And besides, the Scriptures attest to this truth in Romans 10:17:

" So faith comes from what is preached, and what is preached comes from the word of Christ"

The second principle of God or the Kingdom of God is included the first

principle: When God realizes that we have met these two conditions, namely love of

righteousness and hatred of wickedness, He gives us the Holy Spirit with the power of God. It

is this commitment to God with a right conscience that pleases God as stated by St. Peter in

his first letter in chapter 3, verses 18-22: "Why, Christ himself, innocent though he was, had

died once for sins, died for the guilty, to lead us to God. In the body he was put to death, in

the spirit he was raised to life, ·and, in the spirit, he went to preach to the spirits in prison.

Now it was long ago, when Noah was still building that ark which saved only a small group of

eight people "by water," and when God was still waiting patiently, that these spirits refused to

believe. ·That water is a type of the baptism which saves you now, and which is not the

washing off of physical dirt but a pledge made to God from a good conscience, through the

resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has entered heaven and is at God's right hand, now that he

has made the angels and Dominations and Powers his subjects. "


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Now let ’s go to the Hebrews 2.5-18 to know the Justice of God: "He did not appoint angels to

be rulers of the world to come, and that world is what we are talking about. Somewhere there

is a passage that shows us this. It runs : What is man that you should spare a thought for him,

the son of man that you should care for him? ·For a short while you made him lower than the

angels; you crowned him with glory and splendor. · You have put him in command of

everything. Well then, if he has put him in command of everything, he has left nothing which

is not under his command. At present, it is true, we are not able to see that everything has

been put under his command, ·but we do see in Jesus one who was for a short while made

lower than the angels and is now crowned with glory and splendor because he submitted to

death; by God's grace he had to experience death for all mankind. As it was his purpose to

bring a great many of his sons into glory, it was appropriate that God, for whom everything

exists and through whom everything exists, should make perfect, through suffering, the leader

who would take them to their salvation. ·For the one who sanctifies, and the ones who are

sanctified, are of the same stock; that is why he openly calls them brothers : I shall announce

your name to my brothers, praise you in full assembly; In him I hope; or the text : Here I am

with the children whom God has given me. Since all the children share the same blood and

flesh, he too shared equally in it, so that by his death he could take away all the power of the

devil, who had power over death, ·and set free all those who had been held in slavery all their

lives by the fear of death. ·For it was not the angels that he took to himself; he took to

himself descent from Abraham. It was essential that he should in this way become completely

like his brothers so that he could be a compassionate and trustworthy high priest of God's

religion, able to atone for human sins. ·That is, because he has himself been through

temptation he is able to help others who are tempted.. "

This passage of Scripture explains some basic truths that we must understand about the

righteousness of God. First of all let ’s specify that Ezekiel 18.4, 20 says, "The man who has


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sinned, he is the one who shall die.." Therefore, before the advent of Jesus Christ on the

scene, every man or woman had to undergo the salary of his or her sin which is death as also

emphasized in Romans 6:23 "For the wage paid by sin is death; the present given by God is

eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. "

2. Faith In God Creates Justice

Back to Hebrews 2.14 which states: " Since all the children share the same blood and

flesh, he too shared equally in it, so that by his death he could take away all the power of the

devil, who had power over death, " The understanding of this verse is that what dies in man is

flesh and blood, in other words the body. And since Jesus had to die for the salvation of men,

it was absolutely important for him to have a human body. The same verse states that Jesus

took a human body in order to die for us and pay the ransom or the salary of God ’s justice

which the sinner ’s death. Therefore, Jesus had to identify himself to every human being. The

same way , for the death of Christ to be effective in our life, we must identify ourselves in

Christ by loving the justice he inaugurated and by hating sin or in other words by walking in

Jesus ’ light.

From Hebrews 2. 14 we can deduce the third principle of God or the kingdom of

God: Jesus took our human nature (flesh and blood) in order to die for the sins of every man

to set him free and deliver from the fear of death.

For this reason , the Bible says in Romans 3 .21 – 26 : “ God's justice that was made

known through the Law and the Prophets has now been revealed outside the Law, ·since it is

the same justice of God that comes through faith to everyone, Jew and pagan alike, who

believes in Jesus Christ. ·Both Jew and pagan sinned and forfeited God's glory, ·and both are

justified through the free gift of his grace by being redeemed in Christ Jesus who was

appointed by God to sacrifice his life so as to win reconciliation through faith. In this way

God makes his justice known; first, for the past, when sins went unpunished because he held


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his hand, ·then, for the present age, by showing positively that he is just, and that he justifies

everyone who believes in Jesus.

The forth principle of God or the kingdom of God is included in the third, that is :

Having faith in Jesus, God ’s Justice delivers us from death and its fear, and makes us

righteous before God. First of all let ’s look at how God perceives the King David. This is

what the Prophet Samuel reports to Saul after his conversation with God, in I Samuel 13.14 :

But

now your sovereignty will not last; Yahweh has searched out a man for himself after his own

heart and designated him leader of his people, since you have not carried out what Yahweh

ordered you. Now let ’s consider what David says about himself or in other words what he

says about his heart or the person who trusts in God; he mentions that in Psalm 37. 7-8 ( New

Kin g James Version):

Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of

him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass. Cease

from anger, and forsake wrath; Do not fret-it only causes harm. So man after God s heart

stays calm in all circumstances and patiently waits for God s response, he does not

worry about anything , nor about the success of those who live according to their own

ways , nor about those who have evil thoughts and desires and put them into practice.

This man after God s heart never expresses his anger, he avoids fury, he never worries

because worries only bring about prejudices. We will learn in the chapter

Our Conversion the Deepest and Ultimate Desire Of God that fear, doubt, worries,

guilt without any confession, frustrations, refusing to forgive our neighbor for his

offenses or discouragement can lead us to darkness , or hinder God ’s light in us which is


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our spirit. When our light is dead , we die spiritually, therefore it is extremely important

to focus on God or to be a man according to God ’s heart in order to do away with fear,

doubt worries, guilt (without confession), frustrations, refusing to forgive our neighbor

for his offense or discouragement.

The passage narrating the meeting of the disciples from Emmaus with Jesus after

his resurrection illustrates the fact that sadness, discouragement, and doubt are not

compatible with faith in our Lord Jesus Christ; they rather lead us to darkness. In other

words , sadness , distress, worries, discouragement, addiction, jealousy, hopelessness, or

anxieties can damage our senses (sight, earring, smell, taste, touch and the understanding of

everyday life). This means that our senses are tarnished by factors such as fear, doubt,

discouragement, hopelessness and sadness. That passage is found in Luke 24. 13-35

(Christian Community Bible) : “That same day, two of them were going to Emmaus, a

village seven miles from Jerusalem, and they talked about what had happened. While they

were talking and wondering, Jesus came up and walked with them, but their eyes were

held and they did not recognize him. He asked, "What is this you are talking about?" The

two stood still, looking sad . Then one named Cleophas answered, "Why, it seems you are

the only traveller in Jerusalem who doesn't know what has happened there these past few

days." And he asked, "What is it?" They replied, "It is about Jesus of Nazareth. He was a

prophet, you know, mighty in word and deed before God and the people. But the chief

priests and our rulers sentenced him to death. They handed him over to be crucified. We

had hoped that he would redeem Israel. It is now the third day since all this took

place . It is true that some women of our group have disturbed us. When they went to the

tomb at dawn, they did not find his body; they came to tell us that they had seen a vision

of angels who told them that Jesus was alive. Some friends of our group went to the tomb

and found everything just as the women had said, but they did not see him." He said to


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them, " How dull you are, how slow of understanding! You fail to believe the message

of the prophets. Is it not written that the Christ should suffer all this and then enter his

glory?" Then starting with Moses and going through the prophets, he explained to them

everything in the Scriptures concerning himself. As they drew near the village they were

heading for, Jesus made as if to go farther. But they prevailed upon him, "Stay with us,

for night comes quickly. The day is now almost over." So he went in to stay with them.

When they were at table, he took the bread, said a blessing, broke it and gave each a piece.

Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him ; but he vanished out of their

sight. And they said to each other, " Were not our hearts filled with ardent yearning

when he was talking to us on the road and explaining the Scriptures?" They

immediately set out and returned to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and their

companions gathered together.

They were greeted by these words: "Yes, it is true, the Lord is risen! He has appeared to

Simon!" Then the two told what had happened on the road and how Jesus made himself

known when he broke bread with them.

This passage of the Bible allows us to understand how faith or God ’s light works in

us. Christ died three days ago; he had predicted that he would resurrect after three days. The

disciples of Emmaus were looking forward to seeing the resurrection of Christ because they

believed Jesus was the expected Redeemer and Messiah of Israel. Three days after his death

some women went to his tomb but his body was nowhere to be found. The women reported to

the disciples of Emmaus that some angels told them that Jesus was alive. However , the

disciples were still sad and upset by the news. Based on the French dictionary le petit

Larousse “bouleverser”(upset) means “ mettre en complet désordre, sans dessus dessous ou


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provoquer une émotion violente. ”(to disorder completely or to cause a violent emotion). So

instead of bringing life or light to the disciples, the good news about Christ ’s resurrection

rather confused them totally. Therefore it is not surprising they have no hope as they confess

that they believed that Jesus of Nazareth was the Deliverer of Israel, the Messiah. This means

that when they explained to him what had happened in Jerusalem, they had lost faith in Jesus,

Jesus of Nazareth was not the one they expected. Having lost hope, sad and upset, their eyes

could not recognize Jesus Christ as but their eyes were held and they did not recognize

him. [Luke 24:16]. They began to understand what Jesus meant by interpreting them things

concerning himself on the basis of Moses and all the prophets. They will recognize later on

their return to Jerusalem that their heart burned within them while Jesus spoke to them on

the way, when he opened the Scriptures to them [Luke 24:32]. As you listen to the Word

of God, the first sign that lets you know that you understand what you are being announced, is

to feel a fire in your heart, that is to say, that the Jesus ’ lamp in you begins to light, in other

words, joy is reborn, sadness goes away, there is hope, discouragement disappears . The

darkness in which they were plunged began vanishing. An evidence is that they urged him to

stay with them while he pretended to go further [Luke 24.28-29]. But during the breaking of

bread, their eyes were opened and they recognized Jesus [Luke 24:31] . Faith or God's light is

simply the understanding of the revealed Word and the implementation of the Word of God.

When Jesus said "I am the Light of the world. " It just means that he gives us the real

understanding of all sciences. Pupils, Students, workers and people of good will, this is the

key to your success. If you have Jesus in you, in other words, if you understand the scriptures

and practise them, whatever your field you will be the best in your business.

Let’s r ecall that Jesus said in John 8:12: " I am the light of the world; anyone

who follows me will not be walking in the dark; he will have the light of life," and in John

14.6 "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one can come to the Father except through


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me. "So in the consciousness of our Lord Jesus Christ the terms 'Light', 'Justice', 'Way',

'Truth', Life and even Love that we will discuss later in the chapter "The Conceptual Theory

of Human Happiness and Achievement" all refer to the same reality which is faith, our

victory as stated in the Scriptures in I John 5.4: " and his commandments are not difficult,

because anyone who has been begotten by God has already overcome the world; this is

the victory over the world our faith. "

Everything is summarized in Revelation 3.17 that says exactly this: " You say to

yourself, "I am rich, I have made a fortune, and have everything I want," never realizing that

you are wretchedly and pitiably poor, and blind and naked too ". When we do not have faith

in Christ, we believe that the illusion of our possessions or scientific knowledge are real, and

the passage of Revelation 3.7 shows that our obscured senses do not allow us to see the true

reality of things. Only the Light brought by faith in Christ sharpens our senses and makes

them perfect to see the life of this world in its true perspective. The first part of the book

"Faith According to Jesus Christ, How to Grow in the True Knowledge of Our Lord and

Savior," and the second part of the same book entitled "Wisdom Principles" thoroughly deal

with this crucial issue.

3. Man ’s Perfection Is the Result of Faith in God through Acceptance of Our EarthlySufferings

Back to a passage of the Bible previously seen to discover the fifth principle of God

or the Kingdom of God: Hebrews 2.10: "As it was his purpose to bring a great many of his

sons into glory, it was appropriate that God, for whom everything exists and through whom

everything exists, should make perfect, through suffering, the leader who would take them to

their salvation. "


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So the fifth principle is deduced: man becomes perfect by accepting the sufferings on

hearth through faith in Jesus Christ. If Jesus was made perfect by accepting earthly sufferings,

every man can be made perfect by accepting them too. It is therefore not surprising that

Hebrews 2.11 certifies stating: "For the one who sanctifies, and the ones who are sanctified,

are of the same stock ; that is why he openly calls them brothers. "

So as disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ, we need to follow the same path as our

King, Savior and Lord Jesus Christ, during our earthly life:

- First step: To love justice and hate wickedness; for us, this represents conversion by

listening to the Gospel of Christ

- Second step: To receive the Holy Spirit during baptism, being anointed with God's

power to accomplish our specific mission on men ’s earth

- Third step: To accept all sufferings that we face during our earthly pilgrimage; always

reacting like Jesus, without anger, with love, forgiveness and seeking peace. The goal is to

reach perfection on earth.

The Christians who will meet these three requirements, will receive the crown of

glory, God ’s resting place at the end of their life on earth as it is mentioned in Hebrews 3. 7 –

11 “ The Holy Spirit says: If only you would listen to him today; do not harden your hearts, as

happened in the Rebellion, on the Day of Temptation in the wilderness, ·when your ancestors

challenged me and tested me, though they had seen what I could do ·for forty years. That was

why I was angry with that generation and said: How unreliable these people who refuse to

grasp my ways! ·And so, in anger, I swore that not one would reach the place of rest I had for

them.”

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Let ’s summarize what we discovered so far , identify the real current challenges and

what to do practically to reach the crown of glory promised by Jesus Christ.

First of all I Corinthians 15. 56 declares: “ Now the sting of death is sin, and sin gets

its power from the Law. To understand this verse let ’s try to know what the law does. The

law can only show me who I am, my sins, but it cannot take them away: so I am in a

deadlock. I need help because I do not want to suffer and die in hell with Satan. What should I

do?

This is when God ’s justice steps in as it is said in Roman 3. 19-24: “Now all this that the Law

says is said, as we know, for the benefit of those who are subject to the Law, but it is meant to

silence everyone and to lay the whole world open to God's judgment; ·and this is because no

one can be justified in the sight of'1 God by keeping the Law: all that law does is to tell us

what is sinful. God's justice that was made known through the Law and the Prophets has now

been revealed outside the Law, ·since it is the same justice of God that comes through faith to

everyone, Jew and pagan alike, who believes in Jesus Christ. Both Jew and pagan sinned and

forfeited God's glory, ·and both are justified through the free gift of his grace by being

redeemed in Christ Jesus “

So this sublime words of Scripture tells us that the Law only gives us the knowledge

of sin but faith in Jesus Christ justifies us, in other words, faith is our transaction currency to

become righteous before God; giving God our faith in Christ and He God in return makes us

righteous before Him. Faith in Christ is the most powerful transaction currency in the world

for our journey on earth . So the sixth principle of God says that God's law is a mirror that

shows us our sins whereas faith in Christ is not only a mirror that shows us our righteousness

before God but also has the virtue or power to make us righteous before God.

In a language that more accessible by everyone, I would summarize what I have said

in the following terms:


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- If we look at the Law of God, we receive in our conscience and our heart that we are

sinners;

- if we look into the mirror of Faith in Christ Jesus and believe in him, we receive inour conscience and our heart that we are righteous before Go because Jesus Christ has

already paid for all our past, present and future sins.

In conclusion, the law shows us who we are naturally but faith changes us to become

children of God. So faith is the condition for the change of the spiritual state of a person. Faith

is the currency which in exchange with our faith in Jesus Christ changes us from sinner torighteous before God: The sacrifice being the blood of Jesus poured for our sins.

After becoming righteous before God , we should keep our faith in Jesus, who has

the power to maintain us in this position. What is loyalty according to God then? Hebrews 3.

12-19 answers this question: “Take care, brothers, that there is not in any one of your

community a wicked mind, so unbelieving as to turn away from the living God. ·Every day,

as long as this "today" lasts, keep encouraging one another so that none of you is hardened by

the lure of sin, ·because we shall remain co-heirs with Christ only if we keep a grasp on our

first confidence right to the end. ·In this saying: If only you would listen to him

today; do not harden your hearts, as happened in the Rebellion, ·those who rebelled after they

had listened were all the people who were brought out of Egypt by Moses. ·And those who

made God angry for forty years were the ones who sinned and whose dead bodies were left

lying in the wilderness. Those that he swore would never reach the place of rest he had for

them were those who had been disobedient. We see, then, that it was because they were

unfaithful that they were not able to reach it.”

So loyalty is to maintain our faith in Christ Jesus, in fact the Gospel and the above

verses teache that Christ took our humanity (flesh and blood) to die in our place to satisfy the


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law of God. That faith in this divine truth means that we love God and hate wickedness. That

is why the Scriptures say in Romans 10.9-10: " If your lips confess that Jesus is Lord and if

you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, then you will be saved. By

believing from the heart you are made righteous; by confessing with your lips you are

saved . "

So stay loyal to the faith in this truth or in Christ is to continue our constant love of

God's righteousness and hate wickedness throughout our earthly life, accepting the suffering

that mark this life imitating Christ Jesus. And you probably guessed, our loyalty to faith in

Christ (Love of God's righteousness and hatred of wickedness and aceptance of suffering of

earthly life) allow us to enter the bliss or God's Rest as confirmed by Hebrews 4: 1-10: " Be

careful, then : the promise of reaching the place of rest he had for them still holds good, and

none of you must think that he has come too late for it. ·We received the Good News exactly

as they did; but hearing the message did them no good because they did not share the faith of

those who listened. ·We, however, who have faith, shall reach a place of rest, as in the text :

And so, in anger, I swore that not one would reach the place of rest I had for them. God's

work was undoubtedly all finished at the beginning of the world; ·as one text says, referring to

the seventh day : After all his work God rested on the seventh day. The text we are

considering says : They shall not reach the place of rest I had for them. · It is established,

then, that there would be some people who would reach it, and since those who first heard the

Good News failed to reach it through their disobedience, ·God fixed another day when, much

later, he said "today" through David in the text already quoted : If only you would listen to

him today; do not harden your hearts. If Joshua had led them into this place of rest, God

would not later on have spoken so much of ano ther day. ·There must still be, therefore, a

place of rest reserved for God's people, the seventh-day rest, ·since to reach the place of rest is

to rest after your work, as God did after his."


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The last portion of Hebrews 4. 1-10 speaks of hope of the Christian. What is this

hope of the Christian?

The hope of God's children is, to keep all their lives long, their gaze fixed on Christ (inthe meditation of the Bible, on the cross, in the tabernacle in the Blessed Sacrament on his

throne in heaven ) and at the same time to accept the sufferings of this present life for the sole

purpose of obtaining the crown of glory of the winners of Satan, the rest of God, the day of

their departure from this earth of men. Some manage to achieve this goal while still on this

earth of men. We shall see the telltale signs of this state of holiness or rest in such a man.

5. The Word of God, Man ’s Light and Freedom Provider

It is written in Hebrews 4.12-16: "The word of God is something alive and active: it cuts like

any double-edged sword but more finely: it can slip through the place where the soul is

divided from the spirit, or joints from the marrow; it can judge the secret emotions and

thoughts. No created thing can hide from him; everything is uncovered and open to the eyes

of the one to whom we must give account of ourselves. Since in Jesus, the Son of God, we

have the supreme high priest who has gone through to the highest heaven, we must never let

go of the faith that we have professed. For it is not as if we had a high priest who was

incapable of feeling our weaknesses with us; but we have one who has been tempted in every

way that we are, though he is without sin. · Let us be confident, then, in approaching the

throne of grace, that we shall have mercy from him and find grace when we are in need of

help ."

The passage of the Scriptures that we just mentioned explicitly deals with the seventh

principle of God or the kingdom of God. It says that, no creature is invisible to Jesus, the

word of God. This means that the Word of God sees everything, understands everything and


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throws light on what is obscure. So we have to meditate on the word of God to understand all

things, to have the light of God and the power of the Holy Spirit to free us from all iniquity or

sin, to do only good and remain loyal to faith (belief in the Gospel: God's Justice and

Acceptance of earthly suffering with the assistance of the Spirit of Christ Jesus) in the view of

entering God's Rest. In other words to obtain Christ ’s crown of glory with whom we have the

same origin (ABBA, God the Father), and destiny (God's Rest).

6. Obedience To God's Word as salvation

It is written in Hebrews 5.7-10: "During his life on earth, he offered up prayer and

entreaty, aloud and in silent tears, to the one who had the power to save him out of death, and

he submitted so humbly that his prayer was heard. Although he was Son, he learned to obey

through suffering; ·but having been made perfect, he became for all who obey him the source

of eternal salvation and was acclaimed by God with the title of high priest of the order of

Melchizedek.." The eighth principle of God or the Kingdom of God can be deduced from this

text of the scriptures: Sufferings lead to obedience on one condition: we being previously

made perfect through sufferings. What actually produces eternal salvation is obedience.

Therefore, the eighth principle of God or the Kingdom of God can only be achieved if the

fifth principle has occurred. Let ’s recall the fifth principle: The earthly sufferings accepted by

faith in Jesus Christ, produce human perfection.

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Hebrews 5.11-14 defines the two types of Christians and the corresponding food for each

category : " On this subject we have many things to say, and they are difficult to explain

because you have grown so slow at understanding. Really, when you should by this time have

become masters, you need someone to teach you all over again the elementary principles of

interpreting God's oracles; you have gone back to needing milk and not solid food. Truly,

anyone who is still living on milk cannot digest the doctrine of righteousness because he is

still a baby. Solid food is for mature men with minds trained by practice to distinguish

between good and bad. "

The ninth principle of God or the Kingdom of God says that an immature Christian

must feed on milk, not solid food because he cannot understand the doctrine of righteousness,

which is the solid food reserved for the perfect ones.

What the author of the Book of Hebrews means by the doctrine is the gospel of

Christ. And in the Gospel of Christ, there are the first rudiments such as repentance, faith in

God, teaching about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead and eternal

judgment. Lessons based on these basics are the milk given to small children as we will see

below in Hebrews 6.1-15. But solid food is what we have started giving in this book that you

are holding. This doctrine of law or the gospel of Christ called solid food, tells us that Jesus

Christ took our flesh and blood, took our death sentence in order to pay the wages of sin

which is the death of the sinner. Therefore, Christ having paid for us, we died with him and

thus freed from death. We have no fear of death or suffering which is the antechamber of

death. This allows us to keep the necessary lucidity to have exercised moral discernment of

good and evil. Therefore, the perfect or the Christian who has reached perfection through the

sufferings of this life must continue to enjoy this solid food that is the doctrine of justice. This

means that the perfect or the one aspiring to perfection must look forward to Christ, our

Redeemer and Lord, Savior and King, and accept everything in terms of suffering, quick to


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hear, slow to speak and slow to anger thus imitating our Lord Jesus, our Priest and Sanctifier

who gives us his Spirit to stay perfect. Remember that God has established Jesus as our

Eternal Priest as it is written in Hebrews 7.21-28: "but he with an oath sworn by the one who

declared to him : The Lord has sworn an oath which he will never retract: you are a priest, and

for ever." And it follows that it is a greater covenant for which Jesus has become our

guarantee. Then there used to be a great number of those other priests, because death put an

end to each one of them; but this one, because he remains for ever, can never lose his

priesthood. It follows, then, that his power to save is utterly certain, since he is living for ever

to intercede for all who come to God through him. To suit us, the ideal high priest would have

to be holy, innocent and uncontaminated, beyond the influence of sinners, and raised up above

the heavens; ·one who would not need to offer sacrifices every day, as the other high

priests do for their own sins and then for those of the people, because he has done this once

and for all by offering himself. · The Law appoints high priests who are men subject to

weakness; but the promise on oath, which came after the Law, appointed the Son who is made

perfect for ever."

We have to stay perfect to enjoy the promises of God. Indeed Hebrews 6.1-15

points out that we do not obtain God's promises by faith alone but with faith and perseverance

(despite our suffering) we still get God's promises on earth: " Let us leave behind us then all

the elementary teaching about Christ and concentrate on its completion, without going over

the fundamental doctrines again: the turning away from dead actions and toward faith in God;

the teaching about baptisms and the laying on of hands; the teaching about the resurrection

of the dead and eternal judgment. ·This, God willing, is what we propose to do. As for those

people who were once brought into the light, and tasted the gift from heaven, and received a

share of the Holy Spirit, ·and appreciated the good message of God and the powers of the


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world to come ·and yet in spite of this have fallen away-it is impossible for them to be

renewed a second time. They cannot be repentant if they have willfully crucified the Son of

God and openly mocked him. ·A field that has been well watered by frequent rain, and gives

the crops that are wanted by the owners who grew them, is given God's blessing; but one that

grows brambles and thistles is abandoned, and practically cursed. It will end by being burned.

But you, my dear people, in spite of what we have just said, we are sure you are in a better

state and on the way to salvation. ·God would not be so unjust as to forget all you have done,

the love that you have for his name or the services you have done, and are still doing, for the

saints. Our one desire is that every one of you should go on showing the same earnestness to

the end, to the perfect fulfillment of our hopes, ·never growing careless, but imitating those

who have the faith and the perseverance to inherit the promises . When God made the

promise to Abraham, he swore by his own self, since it was impossible for him to swear by

anyone greater: I will shower blessings on you and give you many descendants. Because of

that, Abraham persevered and saw the promise fulfilled. "

8. Mastering our Language, Signs of Our Perfection

We now turn to the central theme of this book. This is the tenth principle. Indeed, it

is written in James 3.1-2: "Only a few of you, my brothers, should be teachers, bearing in

mind that those of us who teach can expect a stricter judgment. After all, every one of us does

something wrong, over and over again; the only man who could reach perfection would be

someone who never said anything wrong - he would be able to control every part of himself."

So the tenth principle of God or the Kingdom of God says that whoever does not say

offensive words is a perfect man who can curb his body. To know what a perfect man is, we

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cannot be tempted to do anything wrong, and he does not tempt anybody. Everyone who is

tempted is attracted and seduced by his own wrong desire. Then the desire conceives and

gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it too has a child, and the child is death. "

Before any comment, let ’s define the word lust according to www.larousse.fr:

Désir extrême ou immodéré de posséder quelque chose; cupidité: De telles

richesses exaspèrent les convoitises.

Littéraire. Désir de posséder charnellement quelqu'un; concupiscence.

Which means in English:

Extreme and immoderate desire to possess something; cupidity : such riches

exasperate lust

To have sexual desire for someone

From the above, we deduce the twelfth principle of God or the Kingdom of God

which is: The immoderate desire to possess a property or to have a sexual desire for someone,

is the source or seed of sin. But sin or the seed of sin only grows if we refuse the suffering of

not meeting our desire. And this growing suffering eventually kills the one who has the desire

to possess or makes him commit murder. What has just been said shows the importance of

the theme of suffering in the life of a Christian. Accepting or not accepting determines our

destiny or races :

- Suffering Accepted + Constance in the acceptance of suffering leads to holiness and human

perfection.

- Suffering Declined + Constance in the refusal of suffering lead to the death of the person or

leads him to commit murder.


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It is therefore not surprising that the Scriptures say in James 4.1-3: " Where do these wars

and battles between yourselves first start? Isn't it precisely in the desires fighting inside your

own selves? ·You want something and you haven't got it; so you are prepared to kill. You

have an ambition that you cannot satisfy; so you fight to get your way by force. Why you

don't have what you want is because you don't pray for it; ·when you do pray and don't get it,

it is because you have not prayed properly, you have prayed for something to indulge

your own desires. "

Let ’s Illustrate the vital importance of the eleventh and twelfth principle of God or the

Kingdom of God by an event in the life of our Lord Jesus Christ related in Matthew 15.1-20 "

Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem then came to Jesus and said, •"Why do your disciples

break away from the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they eat

food." ·"And why do you," he answered, "break away from the commandment of God for the

sake of your tradition? ·For God said : Do your duty fob your father and mother and : Anyone

who curses father or mother must be put to death." ·But you say, 'If anyone says to his father

or mother : Anything I have that I might have used to help you is dedicated to God,' ·he

is rid of his duty to father or mother. In this way you have made God's word null and void by

means of your tradition. ·Hypocrites! It was you Isaiah meant when he so rightly prophesied:

This people honors me only with lip service, while their hearts are far from me.

The worship they offer me is worthless; the doctrines they teach are only human regulations."

He called the people to him and said, "Listen, and understand. ·What goes into the mouth

does not make a man unclean; it is what comes out of the mouth that makes him unclean."

Then the disciples came to him and said, "Do you know that the Pharisees were shocked

when they heard what you said?" ·He replied, "Any plant my heavenly Father has not planted

will be pulled up by the roots. ·Leave them alone. They are blind men leading blind men; and

if one blind man leads another, both will fall into a pit." At this, Peter said to him, "Explain


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the parable for us." ·Jesus replied, "Do even you not yet understand? ·Can you not see that

whatever goes into the mouth passes through the stomach and is discharged into the sewer?

·But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and it is these that make

a man unclean. ·For from the heart come evil intentions: murder, adultery, fornication, theft,

perjury, slander. ·These are the things that make a man unclean. But to eat with unwashed

hands does not make a man unclean."

You see, our unfulfilled and unaccepted desires in our heart and mind turn into evil

thoughts, murder, jealousy, adultery, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders which then

reflect in our actions and words.

What can we say in conclusion?

To control our words and our bodies, we need to feed our consciousness with God's

thoughts and not greed (immoderate desires), jealousy, pride, but rather fill our heart with the

Word of God and not the words of the world that contradict the Bible.

Second solution, using the name of Jesus to chase away evil desires that are the

seeds of sin when they come in our mind.

Both solutions are extensively discussed in my second book "Faith According to

Jesus Christ, How to Grow in the True Knowledge of Our Lord and Savior."

Here is an overview given by the Bible in James 5.13-20: " If any one of you is in

trouble. he should pray; if anyone is feeling happy, he should sing a psalm. ·If one of you is

ill, he should send for the elders of the church, and they must anoint him with oil in the name

of the Lord and pray over him. ·The prayer of faith will save the sick man and the Lord will

raise him up again; and if he has committed any sins, he will be forgiven. ·So confess your

sins to one another, and pray for one another, and this will cure you; the heartfelt prayer of a

good man works very powerfully. ·Elijah was a human being like ourselves-he prayed hard


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for it not to rain, and no rain fell for three and a half years; ·then he prayed again and the sky

gave rain and the earth gave crops. M y brothers, if o n e of you strays away from the truth,

and another brings him back to it, ·he may be sure that anyone who can bring back a sinner

from the wrong way that he has taken will be saving a soul from death and covering

up a great number of sins. "

10. Accepting Sufferings By Faith In Jesus Produces Divine Virtues in Us

But this time, the Holy Spirit taught me a procedure to always remain in communion

with God the Father and Christ Jesus; our Lord. I am giving you now this simple procedure

which is easier to put into practice.

1. Having immoderate desires is to sow the seed of sin. So when an immoderate desire

comes to our mind; it must be deleted immediately. To do so, we have to bring in our

mind the image of Jesus on the cross. Thus by faith, we become righteous before God,

and from that moment, the Holy Spirit begins to guide us. This activity is based on

Christ's words in John 3.14-15 where he states: " The Son of Man must be lifted up as

Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so that everyone who believes may have

eternal life in him. "and the third principle of God or the Kingdom of God, namely:

Having faith in Jesus, God ’s Justice delivers us from death and its fear, and makes us

righteous before God. Thus we must always seek to have a clear conscience when we

are tempted and we will always get the help of God as emphasized by the second

principle of God or the Kingdom of God: When God realizes that we meet these two

conditions, namely the love of righteousness and hatred of wickedness and right

conscience, he grants us or gives the Holy Spirit with the power of God to help us

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2. Listening to the voice of the Holy Spirit and being diligent to follow and apply his

advices.

3. Monitoring our own words to detect any offensive language.

4. Upon detection of an language, do some soul searching to discover the immoderate

desire which is the cause and the plants produced by this desire (jealousy, evil plans,

pride, murder, jealousy, adultery, debauchery, thefts, lies, slander).

5. Using the Name of Jesus to uproot this spiritual plant saying, "In the Name of the

Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, plant of pride or jealousy (for example) uproot and

throw yourself into the sea and never come back to disturb me "This activity is based

on the word of our Lord Jesus Christ in Mark 11.21-23: “And Peter, recollecting,

said," Rabbi, look. The fig tree you cursed has withered " In response, Jesus said, "

Peter remembered. "Look, Rabbi," he said to Jesus, "the fig tree you cursed has is

withered away." ·Jesus answered, "Have faith in God. · I tell you solemnly, if anyone

says to this mountain, 'Get up and throw yourself into the sea,' with no hesitation in his

heart but believing that what he says will happen, it will be done for him . ” in John

14.11-14:" You must believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in

me; believe it on the evidence of this work, if for no other reason. I tell you most

solemnly, whoever believes in me will perform the same works as I do myself, he will

perform even greater works, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask for in

my name I will do, so that the Father may be glorified i n the Son. If you ask for

anything i n my name,"and in James 4.7: " Give in to God, then; resist the devil, and

he will run away from you. "

6. Whenever a suffering arises, let ’s think about Christ on the cross by faith to wash

our clothes in the blood of the Lamb as it is written in Revelation 7.13-17: "One of the


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elders then spoke, and asked me, "Do you know who these people are, dressed in

white robes, and where they have come from?" ·I answered him,"You can tell me, my

lord." Then he said, "These are the people who have been through the great

persecution and because they have washed their robes white again in the blood of the

Lamb, ·they now stand in front of God's throne and serve him day and night in his

sanctuary; and the One who sits on the throne will

spread his tent over them. ·They will never hunger or thirst again; neither the sun nor

scorching? wind will ever plague them, ·because the Lamb who is at the throne will be

their shepherd and will lead them to springs of living water•; and God will wipe away

all tears from their eyes." To better understand the theme of suffering in the Bible and

the absolute necessity of experiencing it as part of our decision to be disciples of

Christ, we will study two passages of Scripture. These are Galatians 5.22-23 and 2

Peter 1.3-11. Galatians 5.22-23 says: "What the Spirit brings is very different: love,

joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness, ·gentleness and self-control.

There can be no law against things like that, of course. . "It is written in 2 Peter 1.3-

11:" By his divine power, he has given us all the things that we need for life and for

true devotion, bringing us to know God himself, who has called us by his own glory

and goodness. ·In making these gifts, he has given us the guarantee of

something very great and wonderful to come: through them you will be able to share

the divine nature and to escape corruption in a world that is sunk in vice. But to attain

this, you will have to do your utmost yourselves, adding goodness to the faith that you

have, understanding to your goodness, ·self-control to your understanding, patience to

your self-control, true devotion to your patience, kindness toward your fellow men to

your devotion, and, to this kindness, love. If you have a generous supply of these, they

will not leave you ineffectual or unproductive: they will bring you to a real knowledge


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of our Lord Jesus Christ. But without them a man is blind or else short sighted; he has

forgotten how his past sins were washed away. ·Brothers, you have been called and

chosen : work all the harder to justify it. If you do all these things there is no danger

that you will ever fall away. ·In this way you will be granted admittance into the

eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."

2 Peter 1.3-11 Galatians 5.22-23

Virtue Peace and joy

Knowledge

Temperance Self-restraint

consistency(firmness of character, moralstrength toendure thetrials)

Enduring suffering,

gentleness

Piety Helpfulness

Brotherly love Goodness, trust in

others

Charity Charity

A comparative study of the two passages of Scripture shows us that Paul and

Peter refer to the same concepts. But while St. Peter recommends to add to

faith the elements at the left of the table, Saint Paul tells us that the elements at

the right side of the table are the fruits of the Spirit. We know that God can not

contradict himself. We wonder if it is through our own effort that we practice


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what St. Pierre suggests adding ... or if they are simply gifts God gives us

without any contribution from us. But Paul wrote in Romans 5.3-4: " ·But that

is not all we can boast about; we can boast about our sufferings. These

sufferings bring patience, as we know, and patience brings perseverance,

and perseverance brings hope " So Paul and St. Peter consider that

tribulations, trials and sufferings have power to produce in us the virtues listed

in the table above when they are accepted in the name of Jesus Christ.

Remember the fifth principle: Man becomes perfect by accepting the sufferings

on hearth through faith in Jesus Christ. So we deduce from the fifth principle of

God or the Kingdom of God, Romans 5.3-4 Romans, Galatians 5.22-23 and

from 2 Peter 1.3-11 the thirteenth principle of God or the Kingdom of God

which is: Experiencing suffering by faith in Christ produces one of the virtues ,

powers, abilities or skills listed by Galatians 5.22-23 and 2 Peter1.3-11

depending on the type of pain we accept in the mighty name of our Lord, King,

Savior and Eternal PriestJesus Christ.

In conclusion, to be perfect means to have the manifestation of the

fruits of the Holy Spirit in our daily life. And when we accept to suffer or in

other words give a part of our life, drop by drop with suffering; like Jesus did

with his blood , God grants us the virtues explained in Galatians 5.22-23 and 2

Peter 1.3-11 or table above. This is what Jesus himself told us when he says in

Luke 14. 27: "Anyone who does not carry his cross and come after me cannot

be my disciple." In short; Christ tells us that if anyone refuses to suffer every

day of his life, he is not worthy to be called his disciple or to be perfect.

7. Meditating the Word of God brings us into communion with Christ and God

the Father and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from our sins as it is written in


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1 John 1.5-7: "This is what we have heard from him, and the message that we

are announcing to you :God is light; there is no darkness in him at all. If we say

that we are in union with God while we are living in darkness, we are lying

because we are not living the truth. But if we live our lives in the light, as he is

in the light, we are in union with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son,

purifies us from all sin."And 2 John verses 9 and 10" If anybody does not keep

within the teaching of Christ but goes beyond it, he cannot have God with him:

only those who keep to what he taught can have the Father and the Son with

them. ·If anyone comes to you bringing a different doctrine, you must not

receive him in your house or even give him a greeting. "

11. Being Aware of God ’s Presence Gives us Success in All Life Events.

From the above we can deduce the fourteenth principle of God or the Kingdom of

God: in any situation be it planned or unplanned, constantly listening to the Holy Spirit and

being diligent to act according to his inspirations and tips: Not trusting our own reasoning to

the detriment of the guidance of the Holy Spirit. When you reach this stage then suffering

though present in our life, has no objective reality for us: We live then beyond the things of

this world. We are truly free and we can live what Christ said in John 8.31-32: " To the Jews

who believed in him Jesus said: " If you make my word your home you will indeed be my

disciples, you will learn the truth and the truth shall make you free. " and proclaim like St.

Paul in Galatians 2.19-20:" In other words, through the Law I am dead to the Law, so that

now I can live for God. I have been crucified with Christ, ·and I live now not with my own

life but with the life of Christ who lives in me . The life I now live in this body I live in

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12 Our Conversion the Deepest and Utmost Desire Of God

Man's conversion is the ultimate desire of God. To understand the immeasurable

dimension of man's conversion, let ’s read together two wonderful passages of the Holy

Scriptures.

The first passage is Ezekiel 18.21-32 where God defines what Justice is: "But if

the wicked man renounces all the sins he has committed, respects my laws and is law-abiding

and honest, he will certainly live; he will not die. All the sins he committed will be forgotten

from then on; he shall live because of the integrity he has practiced. ·What! Am I likely to

take pleasure in the death of a wicked man-it is the Lord Yahweh who speaks-and not prefer

to see him renounce his wickedness and live? "But if the upright man renounces his

integrity, commits sin, copies the wicked man and practices every kind of filth, is he to live?

All the integrity he has practiced shall be forgotten from then on; but this is because he

himself has broken faith and committed sin, and for this he shall die. ·But you object, ‘Wha t

the Lord does is unjust.' Listen, you House of Israel: is what I do unjust? Is it not what you do

that is unjust? ·When the upright man renounces his integrity to commit sin and dies because

of ·this, he dies because of the evil that he himself has committed. · When the sinner

renounces sin to become law-abiding and honest, he deserves to live. ·He has chosen to

renounce all his previous sins; he shall certainly live; he shall not die. ·And yet the House of

Israel objects,

'What the Lord does is unjust.' Is what I do unjust, you House of Israel? Is it not what you do

that is unjust? ·House of Israel, in future I mean to judge each of you by what he does-it is the

Lord Yahweh who speaks. Repent, renounce all your sins, avoid all occasions of sin! ·Shake


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off all the sins you have committed against me, and make yourselves a new heart and a new

spirit! Why are you so anxious to die, House of Israel? · I take no pleasure in the death

of anyone-it is the Lord Yahweh who speaks. Repent and live! "

As you can see, the only thing that matters to God is the conversion of man since all

his righteousness is geared towards achieving this goal because our conversion gives us

access to eternal life as stated by God in Ezekiel 18:27: " When the sinner renounces sin to

become law-abiding and honest, he deserves to live. " in other words he guarantees his life.

This explains why God sent His beloved Son Jesus Christ on earth to die for us and

facilitate our conversion by means of faith in Christ in order to obtain eternal life promised by

God and revealed in John 3, 16: " Yes God loved the world so much that he gave his only

Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost but may have eternal life" and in

Matthew 9.13 [News Kings James Version]: ""But go and learn what this means: 'I desire

mercy and not sacrifice.' For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to

repentance ." Here I chose the New King James Version of the Bible because the expression

“to repentance” was omitted in the Jerusalem Bible. As you can notice with me that Jesus

came to earth for our conversion so the sinner's conversion is priceless as Jesus himself tells

us in Mark 8.36-37: "What gain, then, is it for a man to win the whole world and ruin his life?

·And indeed what can a man offer in exchange for his life? "And in Luke 15.7:" In the same

way, I tell you, there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one repentant sinner than over

ninety-nine virtuous men who have no need of repentance. "

From Ezekiel 18.21-32 and John 3:16, we can immediately understand why Jesus

urges his disciples to remain vigilant in Matthew 26:41: " You should be awake, and praying

not to be put to the test . The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.''. If we fail to remain

vigilant, we take the risk to die at a time when we have succumbed to the temptation, despite

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blessing on the man who puts his trust in Yahweh , with Yahweh for his hope . He is like a

tree by the waterside that thrusts its roots to the stream: when the heat comes it feels no alarm,

its foliage stays green; it has no worries in a year of drought, and never ceases to bear fruit. "

Before analyzing the passage of the Scriptures, let's take a close look at the verse

7 in the New King James Version: "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD , And whose

hope is the LORD. " So actually , God tells us: Blessed is he who trusts in him and waits for

him while the French version, la Bible de Jerusalem can be confusing when it says ‘Yahvé

est la foi’ au lieu de ‘espère en Yahvé’. : ' Yahweh is faith 'instead of ' hope in the Lord.'

But let us remember that faith contains two attitudes towards God : Trust and Hope in God.

Indeed in Hebrews 11.1, faith is the assurance of things hoped for represents the Hope part of

faith in God and faith is the evidence of things not seen is the Trust part of faith in God .

Now back to Jeremiah 17.8 to find out what God produces in the person who has

faith in him, that is to say; has trust and hope in him: "He is like a tree by the waterside that

thrusts its roots to the stream: when the heat comes it feels no alarm, its foliage stays green;

it has no worries in a year of drought, and never ceases to bear fruit." You notice with me that

what is said in Jeremiah 17.8 is the same thing explained in Proverbs 12.12 17.8, though

Jeremiah 17.8 provides further clarification of the term 'But the root of the righteous yields

fruit. ' ( New King James Version). In Proverbs 12.12 it says' But the root of the righteous

yields fruit. 'but God himself highlights in Jeremiah 17.8 the meaning of ' the root of the

righteous yields fruit.' by stating that the roots of the righteous stretch towards the powerful

stream of the resources needed to:

- First, resist the trials of life symbolized by heat

- Second, have the peace of God, that is to say, no more worries symbolized by

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- Third, be always cheerful, symbolized by its green foliage

- And finally, do good by loving God and the neighbor symbolized by the

phrase 'never ceases to bear fruit. "

To conclude, the real conversion or faith in God is to trust in God and having

hope in Him or in other words walk in the light of Christ.

For those who have not yet understood what God means by 'Trusting in Him and

Having Hope in Him', we will illustrate it by a passage of the Scriptures that gives more

details about that expression which God keeps repeating through all the prophets and even his

son Jesus Christ. This is Joshua 1.1-9: " When Moses the servant of Yahweh was dead,

Yahweh spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Moses' adjutant. He said, ·"Moses my servant is dead;

rise-it is time-and cross the Jordan here, you and all this people with you, into the land which

I am giving the sons of Israel. ·Every place you tread with the soles of your feet I shall give

you as I declared to Moses that I would. ·From the wilderness and Lebanon to the great river

Euphrates and to the Great Sea westward, this shall be your territory. As long as you live, no

one shall be able to stand in your way: I will be with you as I was with Moses; I will not

leave you or desert you. "Be strong and stand firm, for you are the man to give this people

possession of the land that I swore to their fathers I should give to them. · Only be strong and

stand firm and be careful to keep all the Law which my servant Moses laid on you. Never

swerve from this to right or left, and then you will be happy in all you do. ·Have the book of

this Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may carefully keep

everything that is written in it. Then you will prosper in your dealings, then you will have

success. ·Have I not told you : Be strong and stand firm? Be fearless then, be confident,

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This is because we do not know how great God's love is for us, he who loved us so much that

he gave His Son Jesus to cleanse us of our sins and save us from death that we refuse to

forgive our neighbor. Yet when we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior God puts his love in

our heart as we have discovered in the chapter " The Sufferings Accepted In Jesus Produce

The Divine Virtues in Us". And if we realize that God filled our heart with his love, that He

put His Holy Spirit in our heart and He gave us eternal life, our responsibility is to show this

love. And showing love to our neighbor is the only thing God asks us. What allows you to

know whether you have God ’s love is your ability to forgive your neighbor which is

expressed by the absence of anger when you get offended , your patience in accepting the

weaknesses of people living around you without judging them and your willingness to

continuously show goodness around you. God gave you the ability to forgive but the decision

is yours. When a person slanders you , you are not comfortable until you respond. When a

person insults you , you are not comfortable until you respond. No, no and no. you behaved

this way up to now because you did not know the truth. Now you know your identity in Christ

so show Love or Justice God put in your heart. You have the qualities of Jesus in you , you

have the love of Jesus Christ in you , but you must decide to forgive and love your neighbor.

And it is through showing this love that we can really know whether we are saved. While on

earth we can be as sure as the Apostle Paul or Jesus ’ disciple that if we die one day we will be

with our Lord Jesus. By showing around you the love of God in your heart, you get the

conviction and the fear of death disappear from your heart as we discussed in the third

principle of God or the kingdom of God which stipulates that Jesus took our human nature

(flesh and blood) in order to die for the sins of every man to free him and take away his fear

of death.

This is what the Scriptures say in 1 John 4.18- 5.8 ( New King James Version): "

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he who fears has not been made perfect in love. We love Him because He first loved us .

If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his

brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this

commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who

begot also loves him who is begotten of Him. By this we know that we love the children of

God, when we love God and keep His commandments. For this is the love of God, that we

keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome. For whatever is

born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world --

our faith . Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of

God? This is He who came by water and blood--Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water

and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth. For there are

three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three

are one. And there are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood;

and these three agree as one. "So we have to decide every day to show this love around us. By

accepting Jesus Christ we have God's love in us. The love of God is like food that must occur

to mature, it is the secret to living a holy life; which is developed with more details in my

book "Faith Acoording Jesus Christ, 1st Edition, How to grow in the true knowledge of our

Lord and Savior," and that our Lord reveals in John 15.5: "I am the vine, you are the

branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit ; for without Me you can do

nothing. "To allow us to better understand how to show his love and bear fruit, God increases

his love in us. I recommend you read the Chapter entitled " Our Conversion the Deepest and

Utmost Desire Of God " You will understand the essence of this concept without having to

read my book "Faith According to Jesus Christ, 1st Edition, How to grow in the true


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deduce from the above the fifteenth principle of God or the kingdom of God: Fear, doubt,

worry, guilt without desire for penance (confession of sins), frustration, refusing to forgive

our neighbor for his offense or discouragement are the factors that have the ability to put out

our lamp or mind and immerse us in darkness and therefore we cease to walk in the light of

Christ. Therefore, we must keep a happy heart, regardless of the challenges, circumstances or

situations that we face in life. How can we do that? We focus (Trust and Hope in Him) on

Jesus, He is our medicine. Sooner or later He will get us out of trouble if we remain aware

that he (Jesus) is in us by his Spirit, the Holy Spirit of God the Father. And this is the kind of

state of mind that Abraham , our father in faith had.

The solution is described in Proverbs 12:25 (New King James Version): " Anxiety in

the heart of man causes depression, But a good word makes it glad. " We know that Jesus is

the Good News of God, listening to the Gospel produces joy and life in our heart and our

spirit; in other words turns on or turns on again the lamp of our body prerequisite for

walking in the light of Christ. The good word does not only rejoice our heart, it also heals us

from all physical, mental, psychic and spiritual illnesses as it is written in Proverbs 17:22

(New King James Version): " A merry heart does good, like medicine, But a broken spirit

dries the bones. " From the above, we deduce that the word of God, Jesus Christ, produces joy

in our heart which heals us from all our wounds as the Scriptures reveal in Isaiah 53.5 (New

King James Version): " And by His stripes we are healed. " and reaffirmed by Saint Peter in 1

Peter 2:24 (New King James Version):" who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the

tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness--by whose stripes you were

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and your descendants forever. "And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so

that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be

numbered. "Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you."

When Abraham meets a priest of The Most High God, in this case, Melchizedek, he

offers him the tithe of everything he owns.

Genesis 14.17-20 (New King James Version): "And the king of Sodom went out to

meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley), after his return from the defeat

of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him. Then Melchizedek king of Salem broughtout bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High. And he blessed him and said:

"Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; And blessed be God

Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand." And he gave him a tithe of all. "

Do you know who is the priest Melchizedek, king of Salem? The Bible reveals to us

in Hebrews 7.1-3 (New King James Version): "For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of

the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed

him, to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being translated "king of

righteousness," and then also king of Salem, meaning "king of peace," without father, without

mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the

Son of God, remains a priest continually. "and Hebrews 5.1-10:" For every high priest taken

from among men is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both

gifts and sacrifices for sins. He can have compassion on those who are ignorant and going

astray, since he himself is also subject to weakness. Because of this he is required as for the

people, so also for himself, to offer sacrifices for sins. And no man takes this honor to

himself, but he who is called by God, just as Aaron was. So also Christ did not glorify

Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him: "You are My Son, Today I


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have begotten You." As He also says in another place: "You are a priest forever According to

the order of Melchizedek"; who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and

supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death,

and was heard because of His godly fear, though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by

the things which He suffered. And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal

salvation to all who obey Him, called by God as High Priest "according to the order of

Melchizedek," So Melchizedek is Christ, our Lord Jesus Christ. Just as our father in faith

gave him tithes, so must we do.

Later Abraham tells God his concern about not having any child. God sent him

outside, made him see his offspring , Abraham believed and it was credited to him as

righteousness, that is, he became right before God. Here is the story reported in Genesis 15.1-

6 (New King James Version): "After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a

vision, saying, "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."

But Abram said, "Lord GOD, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my

house is Eliezer of Damascus?" Then Abram said, "Look, You have given me no offspring;

indeed one born in my house is my heir!" And behold, the word of the LORD came to him,

saying, "This one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be

your heir." Then He brought him outside and said, "Look now toward heaven, and count the

stars if you are able to number them." And He said to him, "So shall your descendants be."

And he believed in the LORD, and He accounted it to him for righteousness. "

As you can notice with me though Abraham had left everything for the land that God

would show him he was not yet right before God. Looking at the sky to count the stars

Abraham saw the faces of his descendants. So Abraham had to act by faith about God ’s

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24 years after he left Haran; God renews again his promise to Abraham but he

believes that God talks about his son Ishmael, he had, meanwhile, after an affair with the maid

of Sarah, his wife. But God tells him that the child of promise will be born from the union

between he and Sarah and therefore he is not Ishmael. But Abraham has doubts because he

thinks " Can a son be born from a hundred years old man, and will Sarah who is 90 give

birth ?" And God confirms that the son of promise will be born the following year from Sarah

and his name will be Isaac. The confirmation and determination of the exact date of the birth

of Isaac takes away any doubt from the mind of Abraham as confirmed by St. Paul in Romans

4.15-20 (New King James Version): "because the law brings about wrath; for where there is

no law there is no transgression. Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so

that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to

those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all (as it is written, "I have

made you a father of many nations") in the presence of Him whom he believed--God, who

gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; who,

contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according

to what was spoken, "So shall your descendants be ." And not being weak in faith, he did

not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and

the deadness of Sarah's womb. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief,

but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, "

Genesis 17.1-27 (New King James Version): " When Abram was ninety-nine

years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am Almighty God; walk before

Me and be blameless. "And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply

you exceedingly." Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying: "As for Me,

behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations. "No longer shall

your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I ha

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