Many churches say we must obey the Ten Commandments and moral laws. They say we must strive to keep ourselves righteous after Jesus forgives us, by striving to obey God’s written Law according to their church’s interpretations, according to the way the intellects of their scholars’ minds of flesh have interpreted that Law. Then they like to make their flesh look as clean as possible, while their spirits remain as dark as hell itself. And they look down on those whose flesh may not seem quite as outwardly shiny and clean as their own, or as white, even though the spirits in some of those “dirty” bodies of flesh may intensely radiate the blinding brightness of Jesus Christ Himself. As noble as the concept of brave human gods exerting their own “free will” may seem, we must realize that literally all those souls do their outward works of “righteousness” to make themselves more highly esteemed, to selfishly exalt themselves above those whom they dehumanize. So their “obedience” to the Law is a filthy, ugly and irrational lie, a dark and vile delusion of selfish, pathetic fools. This pagan Greek and Roman belief is pure evil, taught by their demon masters to mock them. Their demon masters manipulate every thought in their spirits and flesh, then laugh at those “gods.” Just look at how the ruthless, oppressive, hypocritical, back-stabbing, war-mongering, unjust, immoral, bigoted, arrogant, enslaving Greek and Roman empires employed these same false doctrines, how they “obeyed” their man-made moral code through “free will.” This delusion, with its man-made, self-serving morality, is the very antithesis of the Gospel’s salvation message. For real righteousness is God’s work in us.
Many churches pretend that God created His Law to be just like a Greek or Roman moral code, and which must be “obeyed” through “free will.” But this delusion reduces all the spiritual principles of God’s Law into very fleshy commands which can then be manipulated by the elite of their churches, according to the wills of their flesh. In the hands of the human gods that created and own those false churches, and by the authority of all those who strive to usurp Jesus as the heads of the true church, God’s spiritual laws become the primary tool used to effectively control, manipulate and delude the other souls in their false churches. They use false interpretations of God’s Law to manipulate all the others into serving them, and tricking them into giving them money. By getting the people to believe they can actually obey God, and earn a place in heaven by their own human efforts, as those efforts are directed by those human gods, the false church can make their people believe it is their duty to tithe and provide these human gods with everything they desire. Then these human gods even cause their people to unjustly oppress and even kill those who oppose their lies, including true servants of God. So those fake “pastors” and their people sin by deliberately adding to and subtracting from God's Word, by denying the honest, literal and intended meaning of God's Word, and by breaking literally all ten orders of God’s laws. Yet their greatest sin is causing the people to think God said what He did not really say, which is a form of slandering God. Then their false interpretations of God’s Word cause the people to think that God’s attributes align with those false teachings. Thus, the people develop an extremely false perception of God through those false doctrines. As a result, the people begin to worship a false image of a false god who does not even resemble the real God at all.
When the New Covenant Scriptures proclaim that we are “not under the Law,” it refers to the whole of the Old Covenant Law. But false gods of those humanistic churches like to lie about that. They like to teach that we are not under the ceremonial laws of God, but remain under the moral laws of God. However, Jesus and the apostles all taught that we no longer live by the obedience of the flesh to any of the written laws. We not under the moral code of the Decalogue, which includes literally all the moral laws of God. Nor are we under any of the other ceremonial laws of the Old Covenant. For all these written laws are subject to manipulations of man’s mind of flesh. Instead, each individual elect believer’s spirit is to be personally taught, trained, guided, admonished and judged by only one
ultimate Authority, by the one and only true High Priest presiding over literally all matters of life and faith forever, that is, by Jesus, by the only Head and only God of each and every man in the church.
We are under Jesus, not the Law. We live by His words spoken directly to our spirits. But the false churches still believe our righteousness (sanctification) can only be achieved through human efforts to obey a humanly manipulated Decalogue and moral Law from the Old Testament, and the only laws that Christ’s New Covenant salvation exempts us from are the Old Covenant ceremonial laws. Thus, they nullify the Gospel of the New Covenant salvation, which sanctifies us through faith in the love, wisdom and power of Jesus. When they see how God said, “we are not under the Law,” they automatically add the word “ceremonial” in front of the word “law,” even though there is absolutely no logical or contextual reason to do this. And it is only through this kind of blatant dishonesty that they can twist the Scriptures enough to make God artificially seem to say that the New Covenant made only the ceremonial laws obsolete, but not the Old Covenant’s Decalogue and the moral laws.
When these false churches strive to obey the moral laws through their minds of flesh, they think they are actually sanctifying themselves enough to justify themselves before God, so God will then allow them to enter heaven. But, of course, Scriptures say that both sanctification and justification must come from God, and cannot come from man or any other source. Of course, as I said, most false churches see their efforts to sanctify themselves as the means by which they justify themselves in the eyes of God. However, they deny that they do this. They say they sanctify themselves, but it is Jesus who forensically justifies them by His works on the cross. That is, they only accept a crediting or an imputing of Christ’s righteousness, along with the forgiveness of sins, but do not accept the actual cleansing done by Jesus through His teaching and training of their spirits. For they see sanctification and justification as two very different things. In a way, God’s Word also defines sanctification and justification as two different things, but not in the way they do. The Scriptures define sanctification as a process of being made truly loving, just, righteous, holy and pure, able to what is truly good in God’s eyes, after one receives a life that is set apart from the mundane and profane, so one’s life is wholly dedicated to serving God’s purposes, as a gift granted by Jesus according to God’s will. Then the Bible defines justification as the right to be freed from the bondage of sin and condemnation, the right to approach the utterly holy God and walk within the utter holiness of heaven. However, God’s Word never says that either our sanctification or our justification are worked by anyone other than Jesus. And it never implies that justification is earned through sanctification. In fact, God’s Word teaches that Christ’s justification and sanctification are two processes worked by Jesus Christ for our salvation, and that both occurred together in the beginning, at the foundation of the world. In other words, both our justification and sanctification are predestined acts of God for the elect. Therefore, sanctification and justification cannot be separated from each other, certainly not in the way they do.
Justification may resemble being granted a driver’s license, the permission granted by a governing authority (God) to drive a car in the streets of the land (to enter and freely move about in heaven). Then sanctification resembles the acquisition of the knowledge and ability to safely drive—which involves actually driving a real car at times, safely and according to the rules of the road. Now, to get the license to drive, one must first have a need and desire to drive. So one must first see the places where one needs to drive (heaven) and be willing to drive there. (And only the elect see, desire and feel the need to enter heaven.) Then one needs a vehicle (a body), a place to learn and practice (life on earth), as well as a qualified instructor (Jesus). Only if one has all this, can one actually learn to drive well enough (be sanctified enough) to be granted the license to drive by the government (to be justified, allowed to enter heaven). One must first prove that one possesses an adequate knowledge of the driving laws, as well as the ability to effectively control the vehicle on the public streets, in obedience to all the laws, before the governing authority will grant one the license to drive freely.
Now, to legally and freely drive a vehicle on the streets of our land, both the license to drive and the actual ability to drive are integrally related to each other, where both involve the ability and will to obey the laws. You cannot receive a license without having the ability and will to drive according to the laws. In the same way, you cannot receive justification without sanctification. God grants both or neither. God only grants justification to those whom Jesus will perfectly sanctify by the end of the judgment day. And the processes of getting a license and receiving justification are similar. Just as getting a driver’s license first requires one to develop a desire and need to drive, the elect must also first desire and feel the need to be justified. So Jesus grants elect spirits the ability to see heaven, where God’s ways and laws function for the good of all. Then elect spirits realize that heaven is the place they desire, and feel the need to travel upon its streets. But, just as a governing authority does not grant anyone a license to drive until one proves able to drive adeptly and in obedience to the law, God does not grant justification until He is certain one will be fully sanctified by Jesus, made able to adeptly and perfectly fulfill His just and loving intentions of His laws. So justification is precluded for a spirit not being taught and trained by Jesus, for a spirit not being sanctified by Jesus’ infallible power and wisdom, for a spirit that relies on human interpretations and applications of God’s Law. Yet justification is “pre-concluded” by God the Father for the elect who will be sanctified by Jesus.
Many false churches say we receive a forensic justification, an imputing of justification without any sanctification being worked by Jesus. And they say we receive this justification through a magic act done by the hands or mouths of human beings, blindly, without actually seeing heaven. This is like saying we are granted a driver’s license, a right to drive on public streets, simply because Jesus has a driver’s license, solely because Jesus grants us the ability to be qualified for entrance into heaven although we have never seen heaven, have no real desire for heaven, and feel no need to enter into heaven. They expect us to believe them when they say we need heaven, even though they obviously and frequently contradict their own words, the words of others and the words of God, which proves that they are habitual liars and not to be believed about anything. They insist that we freely receive this justification although we have no idea what it does for us. And they want us to sanctify our own lives, so we will make ourselves worthy of this justification, or earn it. But they do not allow Jesus to drive with us, to teach and train us as our qualified Driving Instructor, working with us every day of our lives, so we might become increasingly sanctified. Then the most these human gods of the false churches will do for us is pass on a few tips on how to be holy according to their personal and selfserving opinions about God’s Law, although these human gods know absolutely nothing about that Law and have never truly fulfilled any of it during their entire lives. So their tips are totally useless and their people are left to sanctify themselves in any way they choose, usually in destructive ways.
We insist that the resurrected and currently living Jesus Christ is the only one whom our heavenly Father has ever granted the authorization to be the Teacher of our elect spirits, pertaining to literally all matters of life and faith. And this is because Jesus is the only one who is qualified to teach us. None but Jesus can be so effective in His teaching and training of elect spirits that absolutely all of them definitely will be completely and perfectly sanctified by the end of the judgment day. Thus, since our total sanctification is inevitable, God grants us justification even now, while we still live in these bodies of unruly flesh, while we are still sinners. Because the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross paid the full price for all our sins, even more than all our accusers could possibly demand, we are now forgiven our entire lifetime of sins, but also because Jesus guarantees our full sanctification. And, because we will be fully sanctified, His work on the cross earns our forgiveness and our atonement, even our imputed righteousness and justification, where our Father considers us to be fit and counted worthy to enter heaven even now, while we are still sinners in bodies of flesh. And we need this justification now, so Jesus can begin the process of our sanctification. That is, we need our sanctification to be fully guaranteed by Jesus, through His daily works upon our spirits, so that our relationship with our utterly holy Teacher and our heavenly Father can be restored. For the utterly holy God cannot help sinners unless those sinners are justified, unless there is a guarantee that those sinners will soon become utterly holy. And, apart from Jesus, it is simply impossible for any of us to sanctify ourselves. Therefore, if Jesus is not sanctifying someone, that one is guaranteed to remain sinful. Then, if God freed a sinner who is guaranteed to sin forever, God would then be guilty of aiding and abetting sin. Thus, God would become a sinner, and would no longer be a holy, just God. The point is that justification and sanctification are so deeply interwoven that the two cannot be separated from one another, where both justification and sanctification are entirely the works of God.
We are justified, and imputed with the righteousness of Jesus, because Jesus is teaching and training us to be righteous and utterly holy, because Jesus is sanctifying us, and because Jesus can never fail in His work of sanctifying us. If there was even the remotest possibility that Jesus could ever fail in this process of sanctifying us, we would never be justified or imputed with His righteousness. Now suppose a friend of a serial murderer told a judge that he wanted custody of the murderer, and he was willing to let that murderer live in his house. Then this friend told the judge that this would be a good idea because, according to his hypothesis, there was a remote possibility that the murderer may be able to make himself into a good citizen, in spite of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. So he wanted to test that hypothesis by leaving a law book hidden somewhere in that house, so the murderer might search for it, find it and teach himself to be good. However, in the meantime, that friend also admitted that he was not able to live in that house with the murderer, nor personally teach and train that murderer to do what is right, since he wanted to live in another house far from the house he would lend to the murderer. Now, do you think the judge would release that serial murderer into the custody of that friend? No! Not unless the judge was totally incompetent or insane! For that serial murderer definitely would continue to commit crimes if he was left to himself, including more murders. Yet false churches claims that this is what God does with us. Now suppose a murderer had an infallibly wise friend who possessed unlimited power and resources, a friend who never made a wrong choice in his entire life, a friend who had always been able to reform every criminal he chose to take into his house, since he always dwelt with each and every criminal he took in, so he could personally teach and train each criminal to do what is just and right. If this kind of friend asked a judge to receive custody of the murderer, then the judge might release the criminal to that friend.
When humanistic churches say we must sanctify ourselves by obeying our own interpretations of God’s Law—either as Calvinists through a “slavish will” or as semi-Pelagians through our own “free will”—they reveal their inability to comprehend reality. It is clear that they do not understand how God is God, nor how human beings are not gods. They trust what their flesh hears, touches, tastes and smells, and their strength to manipulate what they perceive, but never grasp exactly how their flesh does all this. They esteem themselves as gods because they can perceive and manipulate their flesh and material things, through decisions based on the perceptions of their physical senses. But they forget that true science and God’s Word clearly declares that all material reality is simply the power of God’s Spirit transformed into material energy which “defines” time and space, relative to the thoughts and will of God. And God is only doing this temporarily, so all material energy will soon revert back into His eternal spiritual power, making all material existence to cease to exist.
Think about this. If all material reality is simply God’s power at work according to His will, there is actually nothing truly visible, nothing able to be heard, nothing that can be felt by our fingers, and nothing that our noses and mouths can actually smell or taste. For all power is colourless, completely invisible, imperceptible by any of our senses, since our senses are also mere units of power. A unit of power has no mind and, therefore, no senses that detect anything from other units of power, in order to communicate that data to the mind of flesh. Absolutely nothing inherent to any unit of material energy can enable it to see, hear, touch, taste or smell any other unit of energy in material existence. And nothing inherent to a unit of energy, which is a unit of God’s power, enables that unit to think, to categorize, store and manipulate data for its own purposes, according to its own will. For a unit of power has no will of its own, no thoughts of its own. A unit of God’s power always does God’s will.
Since a body and a mind of flesh are just units of God’s power manifesting as units of material energy, neither has any inherent ability to see, hear, touch, taste, smell or think anything at all—no inherent ability to detect or process data about any other existing unit of power manifesting as energy in this material space-time continuum. Yet we see shapes and vivid colours. We even see well enough to identify those we love or sights that please us immensely. We hear all kinds of sounds, even sounds of birds and music that we deem to be beautiful. And we love the voices of our loved ones. We feel material bodies and things, and sometimes rejoice at the feeling of a touch. We taste good food, and its smell draws us to it when we are hungry. Then bad flavours and smells will warn us not to eat bad food. A mere unit of power is incapable of possessing any such senses or resulting thoughts. The one and only way any of our thoughts can be thought, or any of our senses can sense anything, is if our units of power are quickened, made alive, made able to think and sense other units of power. And, since material energy is actually God’s spiritual power transformed to manifest as this material space-time, whatever is quickening us must be spiritual. God grants us spirits. It is our living spirits that translate the messages God communicates through the ways He manipulates His power, when He temporarily transforms His spiritual power into physical energy. Our spirits give life to our flesh, cause our flesh to think and sense other units of power, as well as the ability to work with other units of physical energy. Every living plant or animal has a spirit, even mindless singlecelled organisms, since all living things rearrange molecules, units of power, according to individual preferences, and some also possess minds with senses. We are only able to see, hear, touch, taste, smell and think through our minds of flesh because: (1) God transforms His spiritual power into the physical energy that defines this space-time continuum; (2) God communicates concepts through a manipulation of that physical energy; (3) God created our spirits, each with a mind and will of its own; (4) God placed our spirits in our bodies of flesh, in a way where our spirits enable our flesh to possess a mind and will too, as well as in a way where the spirit of life in the flesh allows the flesh to perceive the communicating manipulations that God performs with His temporary physical energy.
Literally everything depends on God, everything physical and spiritual. And man controls nothing. In Jesus, we are not only granted a forensic, imputed righteousness of Christ, for a justification that allows us to approach God and enter heaven, but Jesus also teaches and trains our spirits, with the goal of developing a full subjective righteousness in us, an actual ability to always do God’s will, in a way that is always pleasing to our heavenly Father. And this subjective righteousness is part of our sanctification. We are not only set apart for God’s purposes, but are actually being taught and trained to fulfill God’s will and purposes. Jesus sanctifies us through the teaching and training of our spirits, so we will fulfill the intent of literally all God’s spiritual principles outlined by the Decalogue and revealed in His Old Covenant Law. And no human being can ever make oneself truly good, just and loving, genuinely subjectively righteous, never through their own “free will” and their own strength, nor by any other means. God does not “help” us do our own wills. Rather, God is the Father of all elect spirits. God created all elect spirits in His image and from His own Spirit, with the very same inherent attributes, with the same propensities and desires, as His children. Then our Father sent Himself to us in a body like ours, in the relationship of our oldest Brother, Jesus. And the point of this was to teach and train our spirits until we become like Him, like Jesus, subjectively righteous, able to justly and wisely love in the same way He loves. So, clearly, there is no such thing as a real “free will,” not for anyone living in flesh on this earth, not until we enter heaven. And, if one does “teach oneself” to be a little righteous, if one develops a some true and effective love, it is through Christ’s “secret” teaching of one’s spirit, in ways where the mind of flesh was not fully aware that one’s Teacher was Jesus. But this certainly does not mean that one will be allowed to enter heaven. First one must possess a much greater ability, a perfect righteousness from the one and only qualified Teacher, Jesus, in obedience to all laws, and must fulfill literally all His requirements of justification.
Jesus begins the salvation process in all the elect, works both their sanctification and justification by stirring up a desire in their spirits for heaven and His just, loving ways. His Spirit whispers His Law to their spirits, informing them about what is right and what is wrong, even illustrating why and how certain actions are wrong and other actions are right. He reveals the bad effects and results of evil deeds and lies, as well as the beneficial effects and results of good deeds and truth. Once a spirit is awakened enough to begin the process of developing a firm and adequate realization of such matters, Jesus might choose to call that one into His priesthood, the church. This is like an apprenticeship, since one then learns to do the kinds of works that one will do for all eternity in heaven, as God’s representative to His creation, and as a representative of His creation to Him. When one enters His service, one begins an apprenticeship by actually doing works for God. But our first works are often faulty, and may even do more harm than good. Yet Jesus is a perfectly capable instructor of the spirit. Therefore, by the end of the judgment day, literally all the elect will be complete and perfect in all they do. Then all will enter heaven with a full and total justification and sanctification through Jesus.
God’s Word says that all the elect in history were justified at the very moment Jesus rose from the dead. At that very moment, all the elect were justified through the forgiveness and atonement which Jesus purchased on the cross. Both their forgiveness and atonement were formally and permanently ratified when Jesus Christ’s resurrected life began to fulfill the New Covenant promise, as the means by which they would be completely guaranteed to become thoroughly sanctified for heaven. But His justification, worked on the cross and through His resurrection, simply started the earthly process of their sanctification by His Holy Spirit’s continuous teaching and training of their elect spirits, a long process that would only be completed to perfection on the final judgment day. Thus, justification and sanctification are both deeply intertwined works of our God, Jesus. And neither are ever completed, not while we live in flesh on earth, although both are complete in the sense that both will be fully completed, and have a zero chance of failure, since Jesus can never fail to perfectly complete them.
Our sanctification process—our being made pure and holy by Christ’s works of teaching and training our spirits, so we can be used for God’s just and holy purposes—could not begin until Jesus first justified us. For Jesus first had to prove two things: (1) that the just penalty for our sins was paid in full, and (2) that He would absolutely guarantee to make us utterly holy through the same power that raised His body of flesh from the dead, then transformed His flesh into an eternal spiritual body in heaven. Since our utterly holy God cannot allow Himself to welcome the company of deliberate sinners, and cannot allow even the least sinful of sinners into heaven, He must completely and perfectly sanctify literally all His elect children. So He labours day and night upon their spirits, for their sanctification, and will not rest until all elect sinners are perfect. Thus, all are justly forgiven, through a genuine repentance into the real truth, since the price of their entire earthly lifetimes of sins through the flesh has been paid in full by the death of Christ’s body of flesh, and because all are absolutely guaranteed to be made fully holy and righteous, entirely fit for heaven. So the justification worked by Jesus on the cross came first, before the sanctification through the inner works by His resurrected life. But His sanctifying works also came first, since He began to work in us from the moment we were created, before we repented due to our prior justification, before being justified through our spirits’ repentance and sanctification, which are the preconditions for our justification.
Our justification could never be granted until Jesus first began to infallibly sanctify us, by teaching us truth. For, if we did not know the truth, we would not be able to repent into the truth. But our utterly holy God could not begin to sanctify us with His truth, could not even begin this work of teaching the truth to our spirits, unless there was first an absolute guarantee that we would indeed become perfectly holy and righteous, able to truly fulfill the intent of all His laws of love at the end of this sanctification process, that is, unless it was absolutely certain that we would never sin again once we entered our Father’s utterly holy heaven. Still, the attributes He created in our elect spirits, when He created our elect spirits in His loving image, as well as the unstoppable and almighty power and wisdom of Jesus Christ’s Holy Spirit, provided that absolute guarantee. Therefore, because our heavenly Father is absolutely certain that Jesus is well-able to fully sanctify us, He also justifies us, through the cross. And, since our sanctification depends only upon our utterly holy Jesus, who cannot fail, His righteousness is imputed to us. That is, because the Father knows that Jesus will surely sanctify us to full perfection, we are credited with the righteousness of He who sanctifies us. Since our Sponsor cannot fail to sanctify us, God justifies us through His guarantee that His power and wisdom will surely make us entirely sanctified by the time He has finished His works in us.
Thus, it is evident that, although sanctification and justification are two different things, they are both granted together and work in perfect harmony, as one process for our salvation. One cannot be separated from the other. And it is also very clear that both our justification and our sanctification are entirely worked by God, by Jesus. Man cannot even begin to work neither his own justification nor his own sanctification, not in the least. God's Word never says that our sanctification comes through our human efforts to obey the moral laws. And God’s Word never says that we can justify ourselves. If we could, there would be no need for Christ’s bodily death and resurrection. It is only through Jesus Christ’s works of sanctification that we shall fulfill all of God’s laws. This is an effect of His workmanship in us. So our sanctification is not a separate human work, not by our own efforts to obey the moral Law. Both our justification and our sanctification are entirely the works of Jesus.
We can also see this through the many “theological passives” used in the Scriptures, through many verbs in the passive voice, indicating that God is the subject performing the actions of those verbs. For instance, notice all the theological passives in this Scripture: “But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God” (I Cor. 6:11, ESV). Obviously, we are both sanctified and justified “by the Spirit of our God.” And here the word “sanctified” does not mean that we were merely separated unto God at one time, then left to complete the work of sanctifying ourselves by obeying His moral laws. Yes, God did separate our elect spirits unto Himself, even before He created them. But this cannot mean that this separation is the only part of our sanctification that we receive from God. For one cannot be separated unto God for His purposes unless one is able to fulfill those purposes. So Christ’s Holy Spirit cannot separate us unto God unless He also guarantees that He will also teach and train us until we truly possess the ability to fulfill God’s purposes. And when it says we “were washed,” that is, made clean in heart, as spirits sanctified by His Spirit, it refers to our guarantee of our sanctification in the future, on the last day, which is achieved by the continuous and ongoing works of Christ that are as good as already done. We are being daily washed of the guilt of our daily sins, as soon as our spirits repent into the truth. And we are daily bein