Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

1John.4:12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
4:13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

For us humans the criteria for worshiping God was at first not seeing him. Adam was created without sight worship of God, Adam lacked nothing in his worship of God, his worship was perfect because he was in God's love, and as long as he remained in God's love, he would remain perfect.

1 John 4:16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

The idea, and the practice of sight worship came into the human existence when Adam sinned, in that sin he lacked what was good in God - love. He became incomplete lacking the very power of eternal life found in God's love. He found himself in want of heart, in spirit, mind, and soul, such want is the criteria, and the foundation stones of sight worship.

1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

The alienation of us from the source of life causes in us an error where we feel incomplete without seeing God, a popular form of false religion that Adam and Christ never practice while on earth in their flesh. Both being created in God's image and glory having no sin in them.

1 John 5:18 We know that whoever is born of God doesn't sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn't touch him.

John now addresses the same erroneous error that was moving like gangrene into the Christian's congregation of God anointed son's, worship by sight, first in men, and later, their teaching would be spawn into a host of false teachings that one cannot be complete in pure worship without seeing God. Such error was to dismiss the whole idea that people could live on earth in God's love, exchanged for a lie that without the constant sight seeing of God or of a man representing God in religion mankind could not no God in pure worship.

1 John 3:22 and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

2 Corinthians 5:7 for we walk by faith, not by sight.

Subsequently, teaching that all on earth was an experiment of God when God fully planned to have every one in heaven with him in the first place. John speaks to those created in Christ as son's of God like Adam, without sin. Their worship was like Adam's and Christ in remaining in God's love, while under the evil test of flesh, which flesh is alienated from God in darkness opposed to, and lust against God Spirit.

Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

That test of being in death, the flesh, while having the living life of Christ indwell them proved beyond any legal doubt that Adam created in perfect love, could have remain in God's love, as so many angels did and have who will never leave God's love for self pride.

That case is closed at the death of Christ and his resurrection into God's own incorruptibility. Case law established for eternity, Adam was complete upon his creation, nothing in him was lacking in God's love for him as a perfect man, which made Adam complete. Adam chose to leave God's love for the darkness of his wife love.

So too the creation under the power of Christ and his body members will be set free, there will be a new heavens, and a new earth where righteousness will dwell, within that new creation all in both heaven and earth will remain in God's love.

Luke 5:37 No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

Revelation 21:5 He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true."

The flesh is the lie, the first lie created flesh without the Spirit of God. That lie created a lack, a lost of God, the Spirit which if we remain in it, we are in God's love, the two are inseparable. God is love, what comes from God to us is love felt by the Spirit of tender mercy and kindness.

Gal.5:1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

God gives all his children the Spirit, it is the Spirit that is pure worship, not us, not the bible, not what a teacher has, but the Spirit. Once the Spirit is gone, so goes pure worship. So without love, that is, the Spirit, knowledge is pointless, feeding the poor is pointless, prophecy is pointless, faith is pointless, none of which is from remaining in God's love, the Spirit.

1Cor. 13:1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
13:2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.
13:3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.

If one does not commune in love, in God, life eternal does not exist, if one does not walk in God's Spirit, which is love, there is no brotherhood no matter how much powerful doctrine one possess it without point, we will lack in false worship. Our master the Lord Jesus Christ told us, and those back at his time on earth, that it is, the Spirit that is life the flesh profits us nothing. Amen!

1 John 5:6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

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