The Lord's Porter™ opens the door to the Spirit!

This module introduces the Almighty God according to what He says about Himself. In order for anyone to come to know God’s will and more importantly to do it, they must accept God is supreme and Almighty, otherwise He is not God, so, what's the point?  ..for he that cometh to God must believe that he is… Hebrews 11:6.

This module provides the basic understanding we all must have in order to appreciate who we are as mankind and the relationships between God, mankind, and the enemy often called the devil. Here, we begin to understand the significance of body, soul, and spirit.

By now we know or at least can comprehend, that  mankind is naturally of the flesh (temporal), but God is naturally of  the Spirit (eternal).  We should also presume God is “Holy”–meaning  without “sin” or transgression of His own will; He lives by His own Word.  But what is “sin” and “transgression”? This module helps us understand the importance of pleasing God by receiving His Word.

Because of the transgression of God’s Word and His will by Adam in disobedience (unbelief),  all of mankind was disconnected from the will of God and “lost.”  This “lost” condition continued for all until the “Law” was given to mankind. 

The flesh and bones part of Jesus (i.e., His body) is human. As a human, he had a human soul as we do. But what about His father? God the Father is of the Spirit, and He is also the father of the man Jesus. So, what  did Jesus get from God as a parent? Because His father is God and all  Spirit, Jesus must also be born of the Spirit of God just as His Father is of the Spirit. Stated another way, some aspect of Jesus must be the "spiritual" offspring (progeny) of the Spirit as sired (conceived). 

Because the Romans did the killing, the Jews did not break the letter of the Law, but they did violate the spirit of it–God’s  will!  Simply stated, when God said, “Thou shalt not kill”, He did not  mean it was okay to have others kill for you.  By their own actions, the Jews rendered their own Law moot as being disconnected from the will of  God, and yet God by His own mercy brought us a better way through the sacrificial death of Jesus–the New  Covenant for all mankind.  

The death of Jesus fulfilled the letter of the Old Testament Law and the writings of the prophets.  In the context of atonement for sin, the death of Jesus left nothing undone. Therefore, why don’t all people everywhere get to go to heaven no matter what they believe? Either He died for the sins of mankind or not. 

Jesus died for the sins of mankind starting a New Covenant of the Spirit by the eternal LIFE in Christ-the everlasting Word!

God made a really big deal about laying the foundation in the Old Testament  for getting His will known in the context of sin and repentance from it. For example, even before the atonement sacrifice could take place, all of the priests had to be cleansed with pure water. The significance of their cleansing helps establish the basis for being “born of water” and the “baptism of  water” for repentance, prior to receiving the Holy Ghost. 

For an understanding of the “Spirit”, we must be consistent in our use of the terminology within the Bible in order to reconcile the Bible by what  the Bible says. The King James Bible (the “Bible”’) recognizes the use of both terms, “Holy Ghost” and “Holy Spirit”. Unfortunately, most all of the newer “versions” of the Bible universally change “Holy Ghost” to “Holy Spirit” when rendering their interpretation even though doing so is wrong. 

Jesus said we would be better off if He would go, because the another comforter the Holy Ghost (spirit of the Father) would come to replace Him!  Remember, the Holy Ghost is the Spirit of Truth and an enabler. The  Holy Ghost quickens the mortal body of a human and raises it from the dead by the truth of the promise God made in, and proved with, His Word. The Holy Ghost quickens our mortal bodies enabling us to effectively obey (do) the Father’s will and glorify Him while living in this world.

The family members of our “old man” may chastise or persecute us for rejecting the lives and lifestyles we once had–the same ones they cling to and continually defend. We fully understand the difference between the “lives” of our “old man" and our “new man”. In their persecutions of us they seem to forget: 1.) We voluntarily of our own free will left  behind the lives of our old man for the life in Christ we now have, and 2.) We now repudiate those old lifestyles we left behind, and they prefer.

 When He was on earth, we know the body of Jesus–the begotten son of God the Father was considered the “body” of the Father. By the Holy Ghost, we are part of the body of Christ and members in particular. If our body and spirit (will of man) are owned by God as His purchased possessions, we then MUST serve Him as our Lord and master. 

Jesus is referred to as Emmanuel, meaning God with us (Matthew 1:23). It is His “glorified body” in which we must live, simply because we died with  him for us to live in Him as explained previously in the context of our old man. We know His “spirit” is that of the Word and not the letter of it which is the Law. When we live in Him, our own spirit/will of man receives the Word, and the Holy Ghost bears witness to this fact.

Our faith in Him is evidenced by our “first works” of repentance and an amendment of life out of human love in our hearts for Him. Through repentance and proving our desire to please God, we receive the Holy Ghost and accede to the faith of Christ–HIS faith, assuming we know about it. When we live in Christ by the Holy Ghost, the faith of Christ is familiar to us, and we demonstrate our life in Him by our sacrificial love for the brethren (believers) and doing the works He (Jesus) did.