Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

1John 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.

Why is there such mystery surrounding God's word, such as the apostle John's words here, as if they are coded to hid God from us in some dark mystical language? Simply put, Christ is not our reality, he is a words on paper as he was to the Jews. The Jews made their life and worship their reality, which was a shadow, not the reality.

John.5:39 "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. 5:40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
5:41 I don't receive glory from men. 5:42 But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.

Subsequently, when the reality came, and stood in their mist, talked to them, did powerful works among them they were so focused on self as reality they rejected the Word of God, Christ Jesus! Years, later the shadow once again was becoming the light to God's children the reality wasn't in them it had faded into the glory of men, they wanted the world, the ways of the world, the speech and things of the world. Yes, like the Jews religion became their reality, and Christ life in them an unreality.

1 Corinthians 15:45 So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul."{Genesis 2:7} The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

You see one cannot believe in God's love without having Christ Jesus life in us. Truth was not on paper as so many love that unreality over the reality of life in us, that is, the endless life of Christ that is the new covenant, which is love. We believed the love of God has for us, because we have the life of Christ in us. Thus, if we remain in Christ, we remain in God, and God remain in us.

Philippians 1:20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

Colossians 3:4 When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

We can't study our way into Christ, try if we will, it will not give us the reality of his living eternal life in us. We can't go to enough meeting obey enough rules to put Christ in us. No! We are not talking about putting knowledge in our mind here! No! John is stating God put his son life in us, that is, his love, the eternal life of Christ indwelling us a living truth.

1 John 2:25 This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.

1 John 5:11 The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

Philippians 3:9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

Now if we read John's word as an intellectual pursuit thinking that the Holy Spirit is going to reveal the truth to us then we find the mystery. But on the other hand if Christ is in us, the book of John and the rest of our bibles becomes a reality because having Christ in us we have the teach the promise Holy Spirit that anointed us, teaches us all things because living in someone else life does that.

Romans 15:18 For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed.

1 Corinthians 3:23 and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

1 Corinthians 6:15 Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

Its not hard at all we either have Christ in us, or we don't, we either have the truth, Christ or we don't? If the reality of Christ life indwells us, we live because he lives, if not we are in a unreality trying out of fear to get something from God's word that we did nothing to have in the first place. God is not selfish like we are, he is not withholding something good from us. All that is of us, from sin in us which is a lack of love for God.

1 Corinthians 8:6 yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

Christ is the light a simple truth, if Christ indwells us we have the light for his life lives in us. The rest is fears of our flesh which is darkness and judgment, we then lie, we try, and we do all we can for fear because we do not have the love of God indwelling us which is the Christ. The mystery is our flesh found in darkness that we used to try to earn God's love which is given freely to all those loving him.

2 Corinthians 1:21 Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;

2 Corinthians 2:17 For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

2 Corinthians 3:3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

2 Corinthians 3:4 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God;

2 Peter 3:18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

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