A Believer is mature if he has found God. If you find God, we learnt earlier that you become a son of God. A son has privileges depending on who his father is. A son whose father is God, will have more privileges than a son whose father is Lucifer. If you choose to have God as your father, you are privileged to have the Holy Ghost, the Father’s Spirit in you. When you are in His service, you will need the Holy Ghost to acknowledge the Father’s approval of you. The approval of the Holy Ghost is what the scriptures call being born of the Spirit. At the time we are born again, the Lord gives us the Holy Spirit. He acknowledges the Lord’s desires in us. If you are a Christian, you do not have the Holy Spirit in you. Why? A Christian is a person that has died with the Lord but has not yet resurrected with Him. He has stagnated in the grave. If that Christian believes in the Lord, he will become born again. When a person becomes born again, that person becomes a believer. A believer is a person that believes in the Lord Jesus. After Jesus was crucified, He went to paradise to conquer death; The scriptures clearly mention that Jesus went to paradise after death. Let us study Luke’s account of scripture;
Luke 23:39 And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.
Luke 23:40 But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?
Luke 23:41 And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.
Luke 23:42 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
Luke 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
The Lord says in the scripture above that he will be in paradise that day with the criminal who believed in Him. The Lord was actually in paradise for three days after death. What was the Lord doing in paradise for those three days? He had to go and conquer a cursed spirit called death in paradise. If a person is a Christian, that person is destined for paradise. This is a place that receives people who have believed in the Lord but have not done His will while on earth. They are the ones that we know as ancestors. They have the power that the enemy had at the time he enticed Eve. When Jesus conquered death, the enemy relinquished this power back to man. This is why the Lord had to come down from heaven to die on earth and resurrect. When the Lord died, He took people with Him to paradise. Who were these people that went to paradise at the time of Jesus’ death and why? These were the people that walked with God but did not fully do His will. These people were on earth before the Lord was born. They are now among the legalistic spirits in paradise. If you want to be a legalist, then you have decided to make paradise your destiny. What is paradise? It is a heaven, it is a place that will eventually become the new earth. It is a place that has a lot of legalism. It is where the saints who walked with God but decided not to risk and do the Lord’s will are. To them, the Lord’s will was foolishness, they were wise and embarked on what they considered was righteous. This is what religion prepares Christians for without their knowledge. A Christian who has been obeying the law is the one that is destined for paradise. They are always seeking to be holy. Unfortunately, the law cannot make a person holy, if you are seeking holiness, know that holiness is as a result of your obedience to the Lord and not the law. You will understand that the law is a curse. Any person who thinks it is by works that salvation is given is deceived. It is extremely difficult for such a person to enter heaven. Such a person must obey the whole law and break none or else he will have broken all. I find it extremely difficult to understand why a person would want to be judged by the law and reject Grace. The Lord has prepared a plan where you have Grace if you abide in the Lord’s will. God is Grace, you need not attempt to bring your works to save you before the Lord’s judgement throne. The people in paradise are in hell even if it is just as handsome as heaven. It is what most people who say they have been to heaven have been to and its what people who want to narrowly escape hell aspire to. If you are in a place that you think is not taking you to be with Jesus in heaven, then do not be involved with anything called the law. It will lead you to death.
The Lord has been gracious and given to me knowledge to understand what is to come when the Lord returns to earth. The earth will be without Lucifer, the devil, and will have peace for a thousand years, after he has been thrown into the abyss. After the a thousand years are over, the enemy will be loosed from the abyss for a short time and he will deceive everyone on earth. This is what the scriptures teach us about this time from Revelations; 20:1-6.
Rev 20:1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
Rev 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
Rev 20:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
Rev 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Rev 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
If a person is a Christian, and has chosen not to resurrect with Jesus, he is a person who has chosen to reject the Lord’s will and decided to reject Jesus for eternity. Such a person has destined himself to reign with Christ for a thousand years in paradise. The Lord, however, is not in paradise at all; He is in heaven with the Father. If you decide to stay as a Christian, you will leave this earth and go to another world that is as legalistic as the kingdom of darkness. The amount of legalism in paradise is worse than the legalism that you are subjecting yourself to in the law. The body of Christ is what the church is. Understand that Jesus spoke to the Jews and told them He would destroy the temple and raise it up in three days. Let us study that scripture and understand what the Lord spoke;
John 2:18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
John 2:19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
John 2:20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
John 2:21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
John 2:22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
The Lord’s body is not with him in heaven. His body is in paradise. Every one that has stagnated as a Christian and who is looking for a way to reach God through the law has destined himself for paradise. It means that they are all looking up to the body of Christ for eternity. A person who has rejected God, is the one that will find themselves in paradise. If you want to reach God, that journey starts on earth. After that it is too late. You will either be in paradise, heaven or hell. If you want to go to heaven and be with God, it is a decision that you make on earth. If you want to go to paradise and become a cursed spirit, that decision is made on earth. If you want to go to hell and stay in the lake of fire for eternity, that decision is also made on earth. The decisions that you make on earth are what your eternal destiny is. A man who has decided to go to heaven will not stop at death with Christ. He will have to find God. If you have stagnated at the point of death with Christ, you are the one the Lord wants to resurrect. It means you have died with the Lord Jesus Christ but have not risen with Jesus who is in heaven. Let us learn what Jesus teaches us from scripture.
Matthew 12:38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
Matthew 12:39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Matthew 12:41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
The Lord was three days in the heart of the earth. At the time, the people whom the Lord was speaking to could not understand what he was talking about. The Lord was telling them about his death and resurrection. At the time of death, the Lord went to paradise and regained the power that the devil had received from Adam. He conquered death so that who so ever believes in Him shall not die. The people that are in paradise are called dead people. If you communicate with anyone who is in paradise, even if that person was your relative, the Lord will curse you. Why? It is a place of the dead, you will have practiced necromancy; an abomination before the Lord. If it were the Lord’s will for you to be a Christian, the people in paradise would be alive! When you die with Christ, you must resurrect just as Jesus resurrected and ascended to heaven after the 3rd day. Have you decided to go to heaven? There are 3 options for you to choose from; if you have chosen to be alive with Jesus, you are on your way to heaven. A person who is dead cannot experience the Holy Ghost because God is not God to the dead but to the living. You cannot have the Holy Ghost without the resurrected Jesus. If you desire the Holy Ghost as a dead man, you will find death rather than life. You will be deceived with a holy ghost from the enemy and not the Holy Ghost who is God.