A friend of mine once said. Tell others about your problem and there will be two kinds of responses. Your friends will say, “I will pray for you.” “Don’t worry! God knows that you can bear the trouble.” “Have faith in God!” “With God, all things are possible.” But your brother or sister will immediately send you money to ease you out of trouble. The Bible says, “A true friend is always loyal, and a brother is born to help in time of need.” (Proverb 17:17, TLB).

“A true, hearty, faithful friend loves in times of adversity, as well as in times of prosperity. There are many that are friends to persons, while they are in affluent circumstances. But when there is a change in their condition, and they are stripped of all riches and substance, then their friends forsake them, and stand at a distance from them, as was the case of Job. It is a very rare thing to find a friend that is a constant lover to sympathize with his brother in distress, to relieve him, comfort and support him. And if he does not do this, when it is in his power to do it, he does not answer the end of his being born into the world.”

“A brother is more than friend. He stands to one nearer than a friend does. And there is no name of friend that sounds dearer than David and Jonathan. A friend always loves, but a brother is born to share trouble.”

There is a friend who remains to be a friend, and there is a friend who becomes your brother or sister. On the other hand, a relative can just be a friend, and there is also another who is really close to the heart.

“So, it is not the multitude of so called friends that helps us. They may only embarrass and perplex. What we treasure is the one whose love is stronger and purer even than all ties of kindred (Proverb 18:24).”

By David Bernard, Chapter XV, pp. 261-263

“Love not, the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him” (I John 2:15). “Abstain from all appearance of evil” (I Thessalonians 5:22).

We want to find some basic guidelines and then apply them to modern day situations that did not confront Christians in Bible days. There are a number of activities that fundamental and conservative Christians have classified as worldly. We want to take a close look at these beliefs with a view toward provoking thought and discussion. Are they merely traditions or are there important principles of holiness involved?

For some of the specific issues, there are no scriptures that speak directly to the point in question. In these cases we must follow basic principles of holiness as given by the Bible, and we must be led by the Spirit in us. We must decide
as a fellowship, as pastors, and as individuals where to take a stand and where to draw a line.

We have the urgent need for personal convictions. As taught in I Corinthians 8:1-13; 10:23-33; and Romans 14:1-23, we have Christian liberty but also Christian responsibility. These scriptures give instructions on how to deal with doubtful
things that are not otherwise covered in the Word of God. First, we must follow the convictions that God gives us personally. At the same time, we should not do anything that might cause someone else to misunderstand, to stumble, or to fall. This means we should not judge one another, or belittle the convictions of others, or take our Christian liberty too far. From the discussion of eating food offered to idols, we discover that there are some things which are harmless in themselves but are nevertheless unwise because of their effect or impression on a weaker brother or an unbeliever. Appearances and associations are important both in the sight of man and of God.

There are many things that God’s Word clearly teaches against and designates as sin. Of course, there are also many activities in which Christians can and do participate. The problem comes in borderline areas. Our guiding philosophy in these areas will be “When in doubt, don’t do it.” “Whatsoever is not of faith is sin” (Romans 14:23). The question we want to ask is, “What would Jesus do in this case?” “What would we do if Jesus was physically accompanying us or visiting us?” Our objective is not to see how close we can get to the world and still be saved, or how many worldly things we can do and still not be considered a backslider. Rather, we want to be sure that we are doing God’s will at all times and that we are always identified with God in the eyes of others. Where there is temptation and a possibility of sin, “it is better to be safe than sorry.” Besides, as we draw closer to God in prayer, dedication, and holy living, we will not want to do anything that might identify us with the world or that would be unpleasant to Him.

In order to get to specifics, we must find out what it means to be worldly or to love the world. When the Bible says, “Love not the world,” it is speaking of the world system—the attitudes, desires, loves, cares, and priorities of sinful, unregenerated man. It is difficult to give a more precise definition, but all those who have the Spirit in their lives should
be able to recognize the feeling of worldliness in many things. We will try to examine this concept in terms of worldly amusements, worldly atmosphere, and worldly appearance.

(from 07-Aug-2013 to 31-Dec-2013)

"Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless" (2 Peter 3:14). Let us redeem the time, because the days are evil (Eph. 5:16).

While unlawful things ruin, “lawful” things, which are unlawfully used, ruin more. Just because something is lawful doesn’t mean that it’s spiritually appropriate. Looking at it one way, you could say, “Anything goes; God is generous and full of grace.” But Christian liberty is not a license to do anything. We must look at different angles to get the real picture, the real meaning, agreeing to the sound words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness. In this regard, there are two guidelines to ponder when dealing doubtful things:

1. Refraining ourselves in doing anything which threatens to become our master (1 Corinthians 6:12; 9:27)
2. Abstaining from anything which threatens to make other Christians have doubts or lose their faith (1 Corinthians 10:23; 8:9; Romans 14:13).

Remember this: There are some terrible times coming in the last days (1 Timothy 3:1) when people say good is bad and bad is good; light is dark and dark is light; sour is sweet and sweet is sour. They think that modern times and modern activities are not specifically and directly mentioned in the Bible. Let me give you a practical example of a question nowadays: “Should a Christian be in Facebook?” This must bring us back to the two guidelines mentioned above. You could ask, “What’s wrong with Facebook?” There’s no question about the use of social networking as a tool to spread the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, and its moderate and healthy use to communicate privately with distant relatives and friends (anyhow, it’s still an opportunity to bring them close to Jesus). When dealing doubtful things, here are two tests to conduct:

• Test 1: Is it uneasy to abstain from? If so, you are under the power of it.
• Test 2: Is it true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report? Is there any virtue? Is there any praise? If so, think on these things (Philippians 4:8). Are we becoming an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in  spirit, in faith, in purity? (1 Timothy 4:12)

Read the verses below very closely.

They prove there is only one God the Father and He is the same one God the Father who was on earth and who is coming back again and His name is Jesus.

• Isaiah 43:10: “Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me (God the Father).”

• John 1:10: “He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not (God the Father).”

• 1 John 3:1-2: “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is (God the Father).”

• 1 Timothy 6:14-15: “That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.”

• Revelation 11:17: “We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come (God the Father).”

• John 14:8-9: “Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?”

Read the rest of this book for full explanation.
Be honest and open-hearted for truth.
False doctrine won’t be in rapture: Matthew 15:9.
Jesus is coming very, very soon!

Dear reader, the subject that we deal with mostly is the GODHEAD and the true CHURCH. Jude 1:3 says, “ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.” Jesus knew all these false doctrine of men would come so that is the reason He warns us about false doctrine so strongly.

Let us just look at a few scriptures about doctrine before we go into subject of the GODHEAD and the true CHURCH. God is very strict about His doctrine so my warning to you is to take heed to what you read here.

• Matthew 15:9, God says, “But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”

• Romans 16:16, God says, “Mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.”

• 1 Timothy 4:16, “Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.”

• Romans 6:17, God says, “Ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.”

Yes, dear reader, God has His form of doctrine and He wants you and me to follow that form. Men have changed the form but God is not going to accept their old man-made doctrine as is proven in Matthew 15:9.

Now let us start into our subject with an honest heart and a willing mind. Let us pray: “Oh God, if this is truth, I want it and if it is not truth, destroy this doctrine by Your Word.”

To understand the GODHEAD, we must get started off on the right track or we will never be able to make the scriptures harmonize and agree. The scriptures must agree and harmonize or else we are putting the wrong meaning on them or we are twisting them up in order to fit our doctrine. Jesus said men would do that very thing, so please let us be very careful not to take the wrong meaning out of His word (2 Peter 3:16).

First of all, God started with a THOUGH or a BLUEPRINT or a PLAN. And in His thought or plan, He saw everything the way it was going to be and He actually counted the things as though they had already happened. John 1:1, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” In the original Greek, it says this, “In the beginning was the LOGOS, and the LOGOS was with God, and the LOGOS was God.” Here is a great secret about the word Logos that every few people know; the word LOGOS means THOUGHT.

Now, we shall prove our doctrine by the Word of God.

• Acts 15:18, “Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.” How did God know all His works before He ever started them? By THOUGHTS, of course.

• Isaiah 42:9, “Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.” Yes, God knew everything before it happened, but only in THOUGHT or PLAN. Webster’s Dictionary says the word LOGOS means THOUGHT. You and I were with God before He ever made us, but only in thought.

• Ephesians 1:4, “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world.”

• Psalm (139:16), “Thine eyes did see my substance (meaning body), yet being unperfect; and in thy book (meaning plan or blueprint) all my members were written (meaning hands, feet, legs, etc.), which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.” Praise our God for those verses because we can commence to see a great mystery start to open up.

• Jeremiah 1:5, “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee.”

Yes, God knew us by His LOGOS, which means THOUGHT. False teachers try to tell us that there was another god with the Father in the beginning and they say the Word has reference to that another god. The word LOGOS never means another god. Please look it up in the Greek language. Never does the word LOGOS mean another person.

We shall now use our key verse of scripture which will help us greatly to understand the great GODHEAD mystery.

• Romans 4:17, “(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.”

Dear reader, the thought we want you to get you from that scripture is that God counted things that did not exist as though they did exist. The things that God did not have as yet in the beginning He counted them as though He did actually have them.

My friend, you must agree with me that we were with the Father before the world was, but only in His THOUGHT or LOGOS. Ephesians 1:4 and Romans 8:29 prove that.

• Ephesians 1:4, “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world.”

Romans 8:29, “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.”

Yes, God the Father counted His flesh, body, as though He already had it when it did not exist as yet.

• Zechariah 12:10, “And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced.”

• Isaiah 26:19, God the Father says, “Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise.” See Matthew 27:52-53 for the fulfillment of that prophecy in Isaiah 26:19. Yes, many dead men arose when Jesus arose.

My friend, God the Father did all the speaking in the Old Testament as far as God was concerned, and you can see by the scriptures we have used that He was already counting His flesh body when He did not actually have it yet in the Old Testament.

False teachers try to tell us that God the Father had another God or Spirit with Him by using such scriptures as John 17:5. Jesus said, “And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.” But these false teachers fail to search out in God’s word how the man Christ Jesus was with the Father before the world was. They think that John 17:5 proves He was actually there. But if you turn to God’s Word (Isaiah 44:8; Isaiah 46:9; Deuteronomy 32:39), you will find how false their interpretation of John 17:5 is. Let us read what it says in those verses.

• Isaiah 44:8, “Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.”

• Isaiah 44:6, “Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.”

• Isaiah 46:9, “Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me.”

• Deuteronomy 32:39, “See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me.”

Those verses we have just quoted are proof enough that God was not hiding two more gods and would produce them later. But these false teachers seem to be very full of wisdom and knowledge because they know of two more distinct gods besides Jesus.

Sure God the Father had a son and that son was in God’s thought or plan of action. No one can make these two scriptures agree and harmonize unless they put the right interpretation on them. Try to harmonize these two verses, Isaiah 44:8 and John 17:5.

• Isaiah 44:8, “Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.”

• 17:5. Jesus said, “And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.”

If you say that the Son was actually with the Father in the beginning, then you make the word of God contradict itself. But if you say the Son was with the Father only in His Thought, which means LOGOS, then the scriptures will agree and harmonize.

God warns us to be sure and rightly divide His word (2 Timothy 2:15). Since God warns us that there was no God with Him or beside Him or like Him, let us believe God and not get side tracked by the doctrines of men.

In order to try to prove your false doctrine of the trinity, you may say Jesus became another God later. But you are wrong once again because God said in Isaiah 43:10, “before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.”

Then who else was Jesus but the one and only God Himself. These scriptures prove Jesus was the one and only God.

• Jude 1:25, “To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever.”

• Revelation 4:8, “And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.”

Just because God the Father put on a robe of flesh and called that robe His Son, that did not make three gods out of Him.

• 1 Timothy 3:16, “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.”

• Luke 1:35, “And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.”

In other words, God the Father became human but He did not die as a Divine Spirit. Yes, God died as a man or human being as is proven in the scriptures.

• 1 John 3:16, “Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.”

• Acts 20:28, “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.”

God was and is eternal and it was absolutely impossible for Him to die but He made it possible by putting on human life and become one of us. Hebrews 2:14 says, “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same.”

Did you know that the Son or Lamb was slain before the foundation of the world? Yes, indeed He was. But how? In God’s thought or LOGOS. Revelation 13:8 says, “And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” He was slain when it was time in God’s plan or thought.

He did not come from heaven. There is not one verse of scripture in the Bible where God said He would send His Son from heaven. That teaching that the Son was sent from heaven is a false doctrine of man and the reason they teach such things is because they do not understand the Godhead.

The Bible plainly tells you where the Son came from if you will only believe what the Bible says. Galatians 4:4 says, “But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law.” Yes friend, the Son was made and He came from a woman.

What does it mean when it says this, “when the fulness of the time was come?” My friend, it shows once again that God had a plan and when it was time in that plan for God to actually have a Son, He begat Him a Son and made this Son of a woman.

God never set His Son from heaven. But since He has a Son now, which is His body of glorified flesh, He can send Him from heaven but He Himself will be in that Son or flesh.

• 2 Corinthians 5:19, “To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.”

• 1 John 3:1-2, “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”

Trinity friend, when you are dealing with the Godhead, if you only keep this in mind, you will never get mixed up in any way and no one will be able to catch you twisting the scriptures. Here is the thing to remember:

• When you think of the Son, always think of the human side or man part of the Godhead.

• When you think of the Father, always think of the divine side or invisible part.

• When we see the Father, we shall see Him as the Lord Jesus Christ and we will never see any other God beside Him (1 John 3:1-2).

• The Father is a Spirit and is invisible.

• The Son is a man and is visible.

Jesus was both man and that Spirit. He was both man and God. He was the only God in the Godhead and He also is the only man in the Godhead.

• 1 Timothy 2:5, “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”

• Titus 2:13, “Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.”

• Revelation 4:8, “And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.”

• Jude 1:25, “To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever.”

• Revelation 1:7-8, “Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”

Listen, trinity friend, you are not doing so well because in James 2:19 it says this, “Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well.”

You trinity people say by the mouth you believe in only one God but by heart you actually believe in three Gods. You say three persons to make it sound easier. Every preacher tries to prove his doctrine by the Bible, but when he runs up against truth, his doctrine fails and he either accepts truth or is hardened against it. It is dangerous to reject the truth; so take heed to what this teaches you. My scriptures harmonize and agree, so it has to be the truth.

It is dangerous to reject knowledge. Hosea 4:6, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”

Here is another verse that these false teachers use to try to prove that God is three persons, which means three gods but they won’t admit it.

Genesis 1:26, “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” As soon as they see the word “us”, they think that God had another God or spirit with Him, but their doctrine will not agree with the rest of God’s word. How would you or any one else make these four verses of scriptures agree and harmonize? Genesis 1:26 and John 17:5 with Isaiah 44:8 and Isaiah 43:10.

• Genesis 1:26, “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”

• John 17:5, “And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.”

• Isaiah 44:8, “Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.”

• Isaiah 43:10: “Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.”

The only way those verses will harmonize and agree is to understand that God was counting that Son as though He already had Him. Romans 4:17 says, “calleth those things which be not as though they were.” In Zechariah 12:10, God the Father says, “And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced.” That prophecy was given 487 years before Christ or 487 years before the body or flesh ever existed. So dear reader, we can see from that prophecy that God the Father saw His own flesh crucified long before He ever had one, but counted it as though He did have it. Not one of those false teachers can produce one little scripture where the Son did any of the talking in the Old Testament.

Why try to make people believe that there was some one else or some other God who put on that robe of flesh in order to be visible? Let us compare these two scriptures and see how many gods did the creating.

• Genesis 1:26, “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” The way that verse is written sounds as though God actually has another God helping Him do the creating, but when we get over into another verse we find that no other god helped Him.

• Isaiah 44:24, “Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself.”

We must accept the truth in order to make the word of God agree and that is this: God had His Son with Him in thought or plan only and He spoke as though that Son was actually there. Yes, God counted things that be not as though they were (Romans 4:17).

Is it not wonderful when God opens truth to us and lets us in on some of the deep mysteries of God? I just praise Him for this great truth about His eternal Godhead.

How did God make man in His own image? Here is the secret of that mystery. God in His LOGOS or THOUGHT knew what He was going to look like when He would put on a robe of flesh in the future and so He made the first man, Adam, in that likeness or figure of the body that He knew He would have. Figure means shape or form. In Romans 5:14, we find this statement, “even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.” “Was to come” shows that Adam was made first and the other one was to come later. Yes, Adam was made actually before the Son of God was made, but he Son of God was made before Adam in God’s thought or plan first. Adam was created 4000 years before the Son Jesus was born. Therefore, Adam actually existed before the Son Jesus did. But in the plan or thought of God, the Son was before Adam or anyone else.

In Revelation 3:14, we find this statement, “These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God.”

• Jesus the Son was the true witness.

• Jesus the Son was faithful.

• Jesus the Son was the beginning of God’s creation.

Yes, Jesus the Son or body was the first thing that God the Father put in His blueprint or plan when it came time for God to make man. He made man in the likeness of His Son, which was God’s own form or shape or image He knew he would have in the future.

To prove that God the Father made man in the image of His Son, which was God’s own body or flesh that He knew He was going to have in the future, let us turn to the following verse:

• Romans 8:29, “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.”

The word “conformed” means to be like or similar form. Romans 8:29 proves God knew what He Himself would look like when He made man in the exact form or shape or figure of the thought He had in His plan (Romans 5:14).

You trinity people are just fooling yourself when you say you believe in just one God because you get cornered on the subject of the Godhead. You soon start to get back tracking or twisting up the scriptures in order to fit your doctrine of three gods.

We, Jesus Name people, believe Jesus is God and the only God. Therefore, He is the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost Himself.

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD (Isaiah 1:18).

• Was Jesus a man? Yes, “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:5).

• Was Jesus a Spirit? Yes, “But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness” (Romans 8:9-10).

• As a man, Jesus was the Son of God (Luke 1:35).

• As a man, Jesus was person.

• As a man, Jesus suffered and died.

• As a man, Jesus was visible.

• As a man or human, Jesus prayed.

• As a man, Jesus ate.

• But Jesus, being God Himself, walked on waters (Job 9:8; Matthew 14:25).

• Jesus, being God Himself, was an invisible Spirit (1 Timothy 6:14-16).

• Jesus, being God Himself, healed the sick (Isaiah 35:4-5; Matthew 11:5; Luke 7:19-23).

• Jesus, being God Himself, was the Creator (Colossians 1:15-18).

• Jesus, being God Himself, raised His own body (John 2:19).

Why did Jesus pray if He was God? Because He was human as we are. Both the human nature and the divine nature of the Godhead. Therefore, the human nature prayed to the divine nature. Jesus was both human and divine, both man and God. He never prayed as God but He prayed as man. He never died as God but He died as man (1 John 3:16). Yet Jesus did all by Himself and for Himself (Colossians 1:16-17; Isaiah 44:24).

Just because God put on a robe of flesh and called that flesh His Son, that did not make three gods out of Him as you trinity people try to teach. You deny the Father’s name to be Jesus. You only apply the name Jesus to the Son. So your priests and preachers are fulfilling this scripture everyday and are ignorant of what you are doing. You may be honest in your doctrine but that does not make your doctrine correct by any means. Proverb 14:12 says, “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”

Here are the scriptures you priests and preachers are fulfilling ignorantly. Notice that God the Father is doing the speaking:

• Malachi 1:6 and 11, “A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.”

We will ask you preachers, “What name is it that is great among the Gentiles?” Praise God the Father that we, Jesus Name people, know that name and that name is Jesus. 

Yes, trinity friend, Jesus is the name of God the Father and that is the name that was to be preached to the Gentiles. Acts 9:4-16 shows that the Lord God’s name is Jesus and Paul was commanded to preach that name to the Gentiles.

• And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? 5  And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. 6  And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. 7  And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man. 8  And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus. 9  And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink. 10  And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord. 11  And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth, 12  And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight. 13  Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem: 14  And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name. 15  But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: 16  For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
  

We will use some more scriptures that will prove Jesus is both the Father as well as the Son and as well as the Holy Ghost.

Ephesians 4:6 says, “the Father is in us.” The word “Father” is not a proper name. 1 Corinthians 6:19 says, “the Holy Ghost is in us.” “Holy Ghost” is not a proper name. 1 John 4:12 says, “God is in us.” “God” is not a proper name. The words “Father”, “Son”, “God” and “Holy Ghost” are title names but not proper names. Now, let us go to the scriptures where we can find out the proper name of the one that is in us. 2 Corinthians 13:5 says, “Jesus Christ is in us.”  Trinity friend, does that not prove that Jesus is the one and only God the Father that is in us? Therefore, He is the Holy Ghost also.

You, trinity people, try to make three persons or three spirits out of God but let us see what thus saith the Lord.

• Ephesians 4:4 says, “There is one Spirit.”

• 2 Corinthians 3: 17 says, “The Lord is that Spirit.”

• Acts 4:24 says, “Lord, Thou art God.”

Now, trinity friend, since there is only one Spirit and the one Spirit is the Lord ad the Lord is God, is not His name Jesus?

“Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him” (Deuteronomy 4:35). There is none before Jesus and none after Jesus (Isaiah 43:10; Jude 1:25). Jehovah was God’s name in the Old Testament, but in the New Testament, it is Jesus.

The word “elohim” is plural word, which means plural of His attributes, such as, all mighty, all knowing, all seeing. I challenge any preacher to prove that the word “elohim” means more than one god. No! It does not mean a plurality of gods as these false teachers try to tell us about.

When these false teachers see in the Word of God where it says the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, they think there is a family of three gods in the heaven and they cannot understand how God the Father could speak from heaven as well as from His flesh while He was standing right here on earth. Don’t let your carnal mind fool you.

• Jeremiah 23:23-24, “Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.”

• Deuteronomy 4:39, “Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.”

My friend, God as a Spirit fills all space but God as a man was in one place and was visible. Jesus was both that Father in heaven and that man on earth. Jesus said He was in heaven right at the very time He was standing on earth. John 3:13, “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.”

Jesus also said the Father was in Him. The Son was the flesh and the Father was the Spirit but Jesus is both of them. “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works” (John 14:10).

Jesus said, “before Abraham was, I am” (John 8:58).

Phillip said, “Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?” (John 14:8-9).

But the poor trinity preachers are preaching that there is another Father somewhere beside Jesus, not knowing what thus saith the Lord.

Trinity friend, do you think God was fooling when He put these three verses in His Word (Isaiah 43:10; Isaiah 44:8; Isaiah 46:9)? Why won’t you believe God and let the old false doctrine of the trinity go?

Remember, we must understand His, not their, Godhead. “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse” (Romans 1:20). Jesus is the name of the Godhead.

False teachers never quote such verses as Isaiah 44:6 and Isaiah 43:10 because they destroy their doctrine of the three gods or three persons.

Trinity friend, if you knew where that old false teaching of the trinity came from, you would certainly quit believing and teaching such doctrine.

If you are honest, you will look into this matter of the Godhead and trinity doctrine, but if you are not honest, you will remain ignorant and willingly so.

I challenge you to o to the library in Salem, Oregon on State Street, the City Library, and if you will look in these books I quote you will certainly get your eyes open like you never have before. I challenge you to go.

• Jesus said, “few there be which would find the truth” (Matthew 7:14).

• Jesus said “men loved darkness rather than light” (John 3:19).

• Jesus said, “Men are willingly ignorant” (2 Peter 3:5).

Are you one of those kinds He spoke of?

You will find out where your trinity doctrine came from in these books. I challenge a trinity person to deny the truth of these books.

• New International Encyclopedia, Volume 22, Pages 476-477, “Trinity Doctrine”

• World Book Encyclopedia, Volume T, Page 7270, “Trinity Doctrine”

• World Book Encyclopedia, Volume R, Page 6171, “Rome Sits on 7 Hills”

• Encyclopedia Britannica, Volume 22, Page 479, “Trinity Doctrine”

• Canney Encyclopedia of Religions, page 53, “Water Baptism Was Done in Jesus Name until the Development of the Doctrine of the Trinity”

• Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2, Page 263, “Argument Over Baptism in Jesus Name Started between Pope Stephen and St. Cyripian”

When you go to the library for the information, compare these books especially, The New International Encyclopedia, Volume 22, Pages 476-477 with Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2, Page 33, Subject “Athanasian Creed” and you will soon see that the Catholic church was the one that started that doctrine and Rome warns you, protestant people, “not to dare say there are three gods but you must believe that these three persons are all separate distinct gods.” Rome sits on seven hills.

God wants you to consider this thing in your heart and to know this, “that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him… that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else” (Deuteronomy 4:35-39).

• A person has flesh and bones. A Spirit has neither flesh nor bones (Luke 24:39).

• A person has male or female sex. A Spirit is neither male nor female.

• The Son was a man. God the Father was not a man in the beginning (Hosea 11:9).

• The Son had male sex. God the Spirit has neither sex because Spirit is neuter gender, meaning it has no sex. How could God then be three persons?
• The Son was visible. The Father is invisible.

Jesus was both man and God. Jesus was both human and divine both God and man, both Father and Son.

So friend, don’t let the big educated preachers and priests fool you any longer with their doctrines of men. Jesus said beware of that very thing:

• Colossians 2:8 “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”

• Matthew 15:9, “But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”

• 1 Corinthians 1:21, “For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.”

Sure these priests and preachers are well educated by this world but God says “by the wisdom of this world they know not God”. People fall from their smooth words. “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them” (Romans 16:17).

Then, how in the world can the Catholic church and all these daughters of hers say God is three persons when there is no likeness of a person and a spirit?

My friend, the Bible plainly tells us that God took on Him flesh and blood and became like one of us:

• Hebrews 2:14 says, “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same.”
• 1 Timothy 3:16, “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.”
  

God is a Spirit and never has been seen nor even will be seen. The only way you and I will ever see God will be as a glorified Man Christ Jesus.

• 1 John 3:1-2: “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”

Yes, my friend, you will never see any other god beside Jesus. So, why not preach the truth now and quit helping Rome spread her filthy doctrine?

God the Father said in Isaiah 42:8, “My glory will I not give to another.” In 2 Corinthians 4:6, God tells us where we will see that glory of His. He said “in the face of Jesus Christ.”

I am so glad that God has given me that knowledge that When I see God, it will be in the face of Jesus Christ.

Here are some more verses that you, trinity people, us to try to prove your doctrine but I am going to use more verses to go with them in order to prove you are wrong in your interpretation of them. We shall quote the verses exactly as is written in God’s Word.

• Acts 7:55-59, “But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Yes, my friend, Stephen saw his God in the face of Jesus Christ and he was talking directly to his God and he called his God by His proper name, which is Jesus.

When it says “he saw the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God”, the trinity preachers right away think that there were two gods up there beside each other. But let us look up in God’s word what He means when He says “right hand.”

• Mark 14:62, “And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.”

• Psalm 138:7, “Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.”

• Psalm 139:10, “Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.”

Right hand means power. Why don’t it ever say “left hand…”? Yes, Stephen saw the Mighty God Jesus Christ having all power in heaven and earth. God the Father, which is a divine Spirit, invested all His power in that Son of flesh body.

The same glory of God that Stephen saw in Acts 7:55 will be the same glory of God which will light up that heavenly Jerusalem. “And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.”

Remember God said He would not give His glory to another (Isaiah 42:8). So, the Lamb is God Himself in glorified flesh (Revelation 21:23).

In Colossians 2:9 it says, “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” That means all of God you will ever see is in that body of flesh. Yet God will still fill all space as a Spirit.

Has any man ever seen Jesus Christ? Absolutely not! Why? Because He is God and no man has ever seen God at any time. John 1:18 says, “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.” When it say “the Son hath declared him”, it means the Son has told us who the Father was and is.

Before we prove to you that no one has ever seen Jesus, let us see where the Son tells us who the Father is. Please read these three verses of scripture in rotation and you will easily see who the Father is.

• John 8:19, “Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.”

• John 8:24, “I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.”

• John 8:27, “They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.”

That certainly is plain enough language that unless we believe He (Jesus) is the Father, we shall die in our sins. I have had people tell me that Jesus was “a Father” but not “the Father”. But Jesus said, “he that hath seen me hath seen the Father” (John 14:9).

In Malachi 2:10, God says, “Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?” Here are some scriptures of both Old and New Testaments that just completely destroy that trinity teaching of the Roman Catholic church and all her daughters. The daughters or harlots are all the churches that preach the Rome’s doctrine. Please read the one in the Old Testament and read the one in the New.

Old Testament   Compare   New Testament
Isaiah 43:10        With        Revelation 4:8
Isaiah 44:6          With       Revelation 1:17-18
Isaiah 42:8          With       Revelation 21:23
Isaiah 35:4-5       With       Luke 8:38-39
Exodus 3:14        With       John 8:58
Genesis 17:1       With       Revelation 1:7-8
Jeremiah 2:13     With      John 7:37-39
Malachi 2:10        With      John 14:6-10
2 Samuel 22:32    With      1 Corinthians 10:1-4

Trinity people, are you still going to believe the Pope of Rome’s doctrine after looking up those verses? God says in Revelation 18:4, “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.”

Yes, God has many good people in these different churches and He is pleading with them to get straightened out in doctrine. He will not accept false doctrine.

Why has God given some of these trinity people the Holy Ghost if they are wrong in doctrine? Here is you answer:

• John 16:13, “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.”

• John 14:26, “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”

The Holy Ghost is given to lead us in all truth.

Now, trinity friend, will you let Jesus reveal Himself to you as the only Mighty God and the Everlasting Father? “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9:6).

You, trinity people (in order to get around the truth of Isaiah 9:6 where it says “his name shall be called” all those title names) will say that He would just be called that, but you would say that would not mean that He would be all of those.

Let us go to Luke 1:35, “And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.”

That “holy thing” was not only the Son of God but He was God Himself and the only God there ever was or ever will be (Jude 1:25; Titus 2:13; Isaiah 34:10).

Now, we shall prove that Jesus is the invisible God that never has been seen or ever will be seen.

1 Timothy 6:14-16, “That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting.”

Now, friend, you should be able to see from that reference that Jesus is the One and Only invisible God. Yes, His Son is the glorified body.

Did you know that Jesus said that He was both the Father and the Son? Jesus said, “I am the root and the offspring of David.”

• Offspring means flesh or body or son.

• Root means Spirit or Father.

He was David’s son after the flesh but David’s father and creator by the Spirit.

Trinity friend, here are two verses of scripture that will really make you see how false your doctrine is.

• Luke 10:22 says, “All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.”

Just thinking that there are three persons in the Godhead is not a revelation. So, now, we are going to use the verse that will make you stop and think.

First, did Jesus ascend or descend? Did Jesus control the wind and the waters (Luke 8:24-25)? Did Jesus create all things (Colossians 1:15-18)? Did Jesus have a Son and what was that son’s name if thou canst tell?

• Proverbs 30:4, “Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?”

I would like to hear you, trinity people, explain those verses with you doctrine. The only way you can understand those verses is to admit that the Father’s name is Jesus as well as the Son.

Now we will take up another doctrine that is also one of the most vital in the Word of God and that is “baptism.” Jesus said in John 3:3-7, “that no man can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and of the Spirit.”

Yes, church member, that means you also. Don’t forget you may believe that you are right with all your heart because you might have had experience with God but that is no sign that you will be ready to meet Jesus or be in the perfect church that will leave this earth to miss the great tribulation. God warns you about that in His Word.

• Proverb 14:12, ““There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Yes, you can think you are right and still be wrong.

The only way you can absolutely know that you are right is to compare your doctrine with what the apostles taught. If you cannot find in the Bible where the apostles ever preached your doctrine and get the true doctrine of God, you are wrong in your doctrine.

Yes, water baptism is a doctrine and you either obey it the way the apostles taught it or you are wrong in your doctrine. The apostles preached water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ or in the name of the Lord, which is Jesus.

• Acts 2:38, “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”

• Acts 8:16, “For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.”

• Acts 10:48, “And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord.”

• Acts 19:5, “When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.”

Nowhere in the New Testament can you, trinity preachers and priests, find where an apostle ever commanded the people to be baptized by just saying, “Father and Son and Holy Ghost. No, my trinity friends, you cannot prove your Roman Catholic doctrine of baptism was ever preached by the apostles.

When the apostles preached baptism, they always preached in the name of Jesus Christ or in the name of the Lord, which is Jesus Christ.

The reason these trinity preachers and priests baptize their converts in the group of titles, such as Father and Son and Holy Ghost, is because they believe in the Roman Catholic doctrine of the trinity. Therefore, they want to make sure that they mention all of their three Gods.

Did you know that the Roman Catholic church is guilty of changing the true apostolic doctrine of baptism in Jesus name to just repeating what Jesus said in Matthew 28:19?

In Matthew 28:19, Jesus did not say to repeat the common title name of Father and Son and Holy Ghost over the convert but He said to “baptize them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.”

Now, trinity preachers and priests, we will ask you this question. What is the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost? If you say Jesus is the name, then you doctrine of three gods is shot into pieces.

If you say the one god is Father and the other god is Son and the third god is Holy Ghost, then God Himself makes you out a liar because He does not know those two other gods that you know (Isaiah 44:6; Isaiah 44:8; Isaiah 46:9; Jude 1:25). My, oh my, it must be wonderful to know more than God.

The reason you, trinity preachers and priests, don’t know the name of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost is because you believe in three Gods. Therefore, you cannot correctly interpret Matthew 28:19 and you cannot understand why the apostles always preached baptism in that one and only name, Jesus Christ.

You, trinity preachers and priests, have not one verse of scripture to use to prove the apostles preached your baptism doctrine. That is a real strong statement but it is true. Produce the scripture and then we can say you have the truth.

But until you can produce the scripture whether the apostles ever commanded the people to be baptized in those common title names of Father and Son and Holy Ghost, we will have to confess you belong to your Mother Rome because you are following Rome’s interpretation of Matthew 28:19.

The only reason in the world why these priests and preachers baptize in that group of title names is because they believe in three Gods. If they only believe in one God, they would know His name and would baptize in that one name just like the apostles did. Any school teacher or professor will tell you that the word “Father” is a title name but not a proper name of any one. They will tell the same thing about the words “Son” and “Holy Ghost.”

Did Jesus say in Matthew 28:19 to just repeat the word “Son” over any one? No, indeed He did not. He said to baptize in the name of the Son. Well, what is the proper name of the Son if the Son is not the Son’s name? Jesus Christ, of course, is His proper name.

Then if we must interpret to find out the name of the Son, don’t you suppose we must also find out the name of the Father and of the Holy Ghost?

Jesus said in Matthew 28:19 “to baptize in the name,” not names, but singular name.

We shall now use a verse of scripture that will tell us what the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost is.

• Ephesians 3:15, “the whole family in heaven and earth is named.”

When it says the whole family in heaven is named in that name, it does not mean that there is a family of gods up there. No, indeed it means God and all His angels bear that name and His true people on earth bear that same name. That name is Jesus.

Did you ever hear of those Jesus Name people? Did you know these trinity churches, which are daughters of Rome, have cast us, Jesus Name people, out because we preach that the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is Jesus? And we baptize in that name and you don’t.

Did you know that God said these other churches would do that very thing on account of His name? But He said that He will appear to those people that have been cast out for His name’s sake and those false churches would be ashamed.

Trinity preachers and priests, what other kind of lie will you hatch up when you find out you are left to go though the great tribulation along with the ones you have taught false doctrine to? Here is our proof about the true church and the false. One will be taken and the other left.

• Isaiah 66:5, “Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.”

Trinity friend, why do you want to miss being the bride of Jesus Christ? Because you are not willing to accept the truth on account of the persecutions or what some people might say?

God warns that the devil’s ministers would come as angel of light and as the preachers of righteousness. So why be fooled by the old devil and miss the bride when you can have the truth if you want it?

Read 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 and you will that the devil uses God’s own word to fool the people. He uses the same verses of scripture that the apostles used but he puts a different meaning on them.

• 2 Corinthians 11:13-15, “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.”

When Jesus said in Matthew 28:19 to baptize in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, the apostle obeyed Him exactly because Jesus is the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Let us see how the apostles obeyed Matthew 28:19:

• Peter preached baptism in Jesus Name (Acts 2:38).

• Paul preached baptism in Jesus name (Acts 19:1-5).

• Phillip preached baptism in Jesus name (Acts 8:16).

Preacher friends, don’t you suppose, if the apostles would have understood Matthew 28:19 like you do, we would have found baptism preached somewhere in the word of God in that form by the apostles. There is only one verse of scripture in the entire Bible where you can find such a command, and that is Matthew 28:19.

To find obedience to that command, we must go to other scriptures in the word of God. Therefore, we go to the apostles’ doctrine found in the following verses:

• Acts 2:38, “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”

• Acts 8:16, “For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.”

• Acts 19:5, “When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.”

• Galatians 3:27, “For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.”

• Romans 6:3-6, “Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.”

• 1 Corinthians 6:11, “And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.”

• Colossians 2:12, “Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.”

And above all, we must be baptized in Jesus name to be obedient to this scripture. “And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him” (Colossians 3:17). Baptism is both word and deed. But be sure you use the right word.

Baptism must be done by immersion and not sprinkle. Sprinkling was not taught by the apostles. That sprinkling system is also a man-made doctrine. Baby baptism is another man-made doctrine.

Remember, God has His form of doctrine and it also includes His form of baptism an we must obey that form in order not to be mixed up in the doctrines of men. Here is our proof that God has a certain form of doctrine.

• Romans 6:17, “Ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.”

Which form of doctrine have you obeyed? The form that the apostles used, which was immersion in Jesus name, or you just sprinkled in a group of common titles instead of in a proper name?

No, my friend, God will not change His form of doctrine to please you. But you better obey His form of doctrine in order to please Him.

Trinity friend, you may have received the baptism of the Holy Ghost as well as us, Jesus Name people, by speaking in other tongues and still be wrong in some of your doctrine. That is why I am writing this so it will help you to see greater truth.

As we said before, the Holy Ghost is given to us to lead us in all truth. Every church has some truth, and every church tries to prove their doctrine by the Bible, but the only way you can tell for sure whether that church has the truth or not is to compare their doctrine with what the apostles taught.

Here is the difference between the true church and the false churches. Yes, my friend, there is only one church because Jesus started only one. So you either belong to that true church or you are in one of the false ones.

The true church teaches these things for its doctrine:

• One God, which is a Spirit and is invisible, but became visible by putting on a robe of flesh (1 Timothy 3:16; 1 John 3:16; Acts 20:28; Isaiah 43:10)

• Baptism by immersion in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins (Acts 2:38; Acts 8:16; Acts 19:5; Colossians 3:17; Romans 6:3-5; 1 Corinthians 6:11; Luke 24:47; Galatians 3:27; Matthew 28:19)

• Baptism of the Spirit with evidence of speaking in other tongues (John 15:26; Acts 2:4; Acts 1:1-6; Acts 10:43-48; Isaiah 28:9-12)

The false churches teach these things for their doctrine:

• Three persons in the Godhead, such as, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, each one of these persons is separate and distinct from each other, and each one is God. Scripture reference: they have none.

• Water baptism in a group of titles such as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, instead of the proper name of Jesus. Scripture reference: they twist Matthew 28:19. They have no other scripture, not even one, because they don’t know the name.

• Birth of the Spirit. Some teach the truth of this doctrine but others teach it false and cannot tell any one when they received it. They say, “Take it by faith and you have it.” Others deny. It is for us now in our time; read Acts 2:39 and see it is for us.

So, the Trinity Pentecostal people are closer to the truth than those other churches because they have received the Holy Ghost just as well as us, Jesus Name people, but where these Trinity Pentecostal people are wrong is in their doctrine of the Godhead and their water baptism.

Now, if we, Jesus Name people, can just preach old Rome out of them, then they will see that we are right about the Godhead and they will get baptized in Jesus name.

Do you know, trinity friend, that history proves that the Protestant Church got doctrine of the trinity from the Catholic Church? Yes, indeed, so I urge you once more to go to the library in Salem and get wised up on this Godhead matter. New International Encyclopedia, Volume 22, Pages 476-477.

God says we must understand His Godhead or we are without excuse (Romans 1:20). Just because you have the Holy Ghost won’t excuse you. Read through these verses in rotation and get your eyes open to the truth (Acts 2:38; Romans 6:17; Romans 16:17-18).

• Acts 2:38, “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”

• Romans 6:17, “But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.”

• Romans 16:17-18, “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.”

Please don’t let the devil make you believe because you have received the baptism of the Holy Ghost that you are all set to be in the bride of Christ. No, indeed, trinity friend, you will never be in that number that will be caught up to meet Jesus unless you take His name in water baptism. I am going to show you a good man in the Bible that was loved of God so much that God sent an angel to tell him how he could get saved. This man was a devout man and had his whole house under subjection but he was still unsaved yet. Let us see how he got saved.

• Acts 11:13-14, “And he shewed us how he had seen an angel in his house, which stood and said unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter; Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved.”

This man had already received the baptism of the Spirit before he went to the water to be baptized, but the apostle Peter commanded him to be baptized in the name of the Lord, which is Jesus Christ, of course.

Read Acts 10:43-48. Yes, Cornelius received the Holy Ghost and when he got it, he spoke with tongue, the same as you trinity people do. But Cornelius was not born of the water yet and Peter knew it was absolutely necessary, that is why he commanded water baptism to be done in Jesus name.

Now, trinity friend, why did Cornelius have to be baptized in water in Jesus name after he had already received the Spirit? Why? Because Jesus said no man can get in unless he is born of the water and of the Spirit.

Sure, trinity friend, if you have spoken in other tongues, you have been born of the Spirit. But God wants to use His Spirit to guide you in all truth. So why not throw over that false water baptism form you have been fooled in and get it done the right way by being baptized by immersion in Jesus name. Remember Romans 6:17.

Do you think God will accept old doctrine that has been hatched up by the Pope of Rome and his helpers? I should say not. That is why God says in Matthew 15:9, “But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”

The Canney Encyclopedia of Religion, page 53, in the City Library at Salem, Oregon, says this, “The early church always baptized in the name of Jesus Christ until the development of the doctrine of the trinity, afterwards they baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2, Page 263, shows plainly that it was the two big Catholic leaders, hundreds of years ago, that got into an argument over water baptism, whether its should be done in Jesus name or whether it should be done in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Pope Stephen and St. Cyripian were those two big leaders.

Better come out of Rome and follow the apostles’ doctrine because they never preached God was three persons (Revelation 18:4; Revelation 17:5-9).

You, trinity people, may think God looks like a man in the Old Testament because we find where God speaks of His hands and feet, etc., but if you put that understanding on those scriptures, I can prove to you that God also has feathers and wings. Psalm 91:4 says, “He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.” You know and I know that God don’t look like a chicken, but, when He makes such statements He means His power of protection.

I want to use some verses that I surely wish you, trinity people, would consider with all your heart.

When God catches away His people, you will find they will be the Jesus Name people.

• Acts 15:14, “Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.” We, Jesus Name people, are the only people that are called by His name. We know who our Father is; it’s Jesus.

• Malachi 3:16-17, “Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

• Psalm 91:14, “Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.”

Here is the scripture that you, trinity people, will understand after the Lord catches away His bride. Zechariah 14:9, “And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.” Isaiah 29:24 shows you are erring in spirit and doctrine. Read it but you learn truth later.

Trinity friend, God knew the doctrine of God being three persons would spread over the earth and that is why He put that kind of scripture in the Bible as Zechariah 14:9.

Therefore, you, trinity people, have been fooled by the old devil’s doctrine; will be left to go through the great tribulation; and then you will learn doctrine and you will quit erring in spirit. Did you know that you cannot err in Spirit until you have the Spirit? So you can see from this reference that God is talking to a Spirit filled people. Isaiah 29:24 says, “They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.”

Why not learn true doctrine now and save yourself a lot of grief and sorrow later. Did you know that God’s people will be fewest of all people?

Where in the Bible does God say He is three persons or three personalities or three Spirits? The Roman Catholic church claims that, and all these other churches over the earth agree with her and are her daughters because they got their doctrine from her. God says, “Come out of her, my people” (Revelation 18:4).

Some churches have come out of her farther than others, such as this, for example, some see water baptism must be done by immersion or burial and they are correct but others want to hold on Rome’s form of sprinkling, which is contrary to God’s word. Proof: Colossians 2:12; Romans 6:3-6; Acts 8:38-39

The trinity pentecost people are still out of Rome farther, yet because some of them have accepted the birth of the Spirit by speaking in other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance, but the rest of the daughters fight against the speaking in other tongues as the evidence of the birth of the Spirit. Let us see what God says about that doctrine: Mark 16:15-20; Acts 2:4; Acts 19:1-6; Acts 10:43-48.

So, you can see that some of the Rome’s daughters are less like their mother than others because some have gotten their eyes open farther than others.

Now, if we can just get you, trinity pentecost people to throw away that old trinity doctrine of three persons, which means three gods and also throw away Rome’s interpretation of Matthew 28:19, then you will no longer be called harlot any more. But until you come out of Rome the entire way, you are still a harlot and a daughter of your mother Rome (Revelation 17:5-9; Revelation 18:4).

Remember, God is going to have a church without spot or wrinkle, not churches but a church. You are either in that true church or you are going to miss being in that church when Jesus catches it away. Will ignorance excuse you or me? No, indeed, it will not as is proven in these scriptures.

• Hosea 4:6, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”

• Romans 1:20, “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.”

Trinity friend, my name is Wilbur King and I am a father and a son and a husband and an uncle and a neighbor and if I live long enough I can be a grandfather. But does that make six persons out of me because I myself fill all of these offices? Of course, not! Then, why fight so hard against believing that Jesus Himself is the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost? Jesus is the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Jesus is our God and He is our Maker and He is going to be our Husband.

• Isaiah 54:5, “For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.”

• 2 Corinthians 11:2, “For I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.”

So, friend, you can easily see that Jesus Himself fills all of the offices such as the Father and the Son and the Husband and the Holy Ghost, etc.

The Holy Ghost office will soon close. The Sonship office will close at the end of the thousand year millennium. And still God will be the same God and His name will still be Jesus.

• Ephesians 1:21, “Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.”

Trinity friend, don’t forget the thought when you are dealing with the Father, you are dealing with a Spirit and the only Spirit in the Godhead. And when you are dealing with the Son, you are dealing with a man or the human side of the Godhead, which has now been glorified. But the name Jesus applies to both the Spirit, which is God the Father, and to the Son, which is a glorified man now. Jesus is both man and God. The one is inside the other. 2 Corinthians 5:19 says, “To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.” Therefore, God the Father was in Christ (the Son or flesh) when He walked on this earth. And God the Father will still be in that Son when we see Him. That Son is also called His Tabernacle or Temple.

Revelation 21:3, “And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.”

Revelation 22:3-4, “And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.”

You mean these two, the Lamb and God, only have one face and one name? Yes, my friend, God is the invisible Spirit that will only be seen in the face of Jesus.

2 Corinthians 4:6 proves the above statement. 1 John 3:1-2 proves it again.

• 2 Corinthians 4:6, “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”

• 1 John 3:1-2, “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”

Therefore, my friend, to make all scripture harmonize and agree, we must put this interpretation on the scripture.

• The Son part of the Godhead is the flesh or man or human or visible part.

• The Father part of the Godhead is the Spirit or the invisible part.

• The Holy Ghost part is the portion of God’s spirit that gives us into all truth. It is not the blessed third person of the Godhead that you, poor blind trinity priests and preachers, tell your people about.

I will prove that the Holy Ghost is a portion of God the Father’s Spirit that He gives us and His name is Jesus. Here is your proof as this saith the Lord.

• 1 John 4:13, “Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.”

• Acts 2:17, “And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh.”

• 2 Corinthians 13:5, “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?”

• Colossians 1:27, “To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”

• John 14:15-18, “If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.”

That last statement of John 14:15-18 surely proves beyond a shadow of doubt that Jesus was not only their comforter right then but it proves He was also the other Comforter that was going to come back. Yes, the Holy Ghost, which is the Father and His name is Jesus, was already present with them in His own body of flesh but He was not in their body yet. So He took His body, which was His Son, to heaven and returned and was in them by Spirit.

Glory to our God because we know His great name! Therefore, He is going to set us on high because we obeyed Him and know His name (Revelation 3:7-10; Psalm 91:14; Malachi 3:16-17).

When you, trinity people, see in the Word of God where it speaks of the Spirit as “He” or “Him”, right away you think that the Spirit must be a person. But let me help you on that thought. Let us turn to Acts 12:10 where it calls a gate a “his”. In Proverbs 8:1-2, it speaks of wisdom of being a “she”. Is a “gate” a man or a person? Is “wisdom” a female? James 1:4 says, “But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.” Is “patience” a female because it spoke of patience as “her”. In Psalm 34:2, David called hi soul a “her”. Was David’s soul a female and his body a male?

Trinity friend, don’t you see how easy it is to get the wrong understanding of God’s Word if we are not very careful?

Don’t let the Pope of Rome make you swallow that doctrine any longer that God is three persons. Prove all things by what thus saith the Lord.

In closing, I want to urge you once more to go to your library and look up every one of those encyclopedias and you surely will then agree with me about the things written here about the Godhead and the true church.

When the devil tries to put your mind that God must be three persons, always turn to these references and they will keep you straightened out.

God says He is the First One and the Last One (Isaiah 44:6). So how can you, trinity people, get two more? Jesus said he is the First and the Last (Revelation 1:7-8). So, He is the only God.

God said He doesn’t know any other beside Himself (Isaiah 44:8). How can you, trinity people, know more than God then, because you say you know of two more than God Himself. God said He does not know any more gods that are like Him. Your trinity doctrine teaches that there are three Gods and that these three Gods are all equal and coeternal, meaning they all have the same power and glory.

These scriptures prove how far wrong your doctrine is.

• Isaiah 46:9, God said there is none like Him.

• Isaiah 42:8, God said He would not give His glory to any other.

You, trinity people, take the glory away from one God and give it to another according to the teaching of your doctrine, because you do not claim that Jesus is God the Father Himself. You claim Jesus is just the Son.

Here is a reference that you, trinity people, use to try to prove your doctrine that God is three persons, which makes three Gods out of Him.

• Matthew 3:16-17, “And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

You, trinity people, say the Son was standing in the water and He was a person. You are absolutely right that the Son was a person because He was a male sex man. The first person and the last person in the Godhead was standing in the water. A person was flesh and bones. Therefore, that Son was God Himself as a person. That Son or body of flesh was God’s person and you won’t see God any other way except by His person. His person is His visible part; His Spirit is invisible.

Then you, trinity people, say the blessed third person was that bird that lit upon Him. Since when is a bird a person? Why did your blessed third person have to put on feathers and wings in order to fly? Don’t try to tell any one that a person looks like a bird. Luke 3:22 says it was the Holy Ghost in the form of a dove.

Then you, trinity people, say that the first person or God spoke from heaven was the voice of the Spirit and you or any one else cannot tell what the Spirit is, neither can you describe a Spirit. So, how can you say it was the blessed firs person from heaven while the other two persons were down here on earth?

Let us be reasonable now and see if I am not right when I say that the Son was the only person of the Godhead and He was God Himself in the form of man.

God the Father Himself put on flesh or took upon Himself the form of man and dwelt among us. Therefore, He was not only in heaven as Spirit but He was on earth as man, but He still remained the only true God. Please read 1 John 5:20-21.

• 1 John 5:20-21, “And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. Little children, keep yourselves from idols.”

God was not only n earth in the form of a man but He took Himself the form of a dove. So God was in heaven above and upon the earth beneath, in heaven as a Spirit but on earth as a man and bird. That dove was just another way our great God had of manifesting or showing Himself. He can do anything for there is nothing impossible with our God but His name is Jesus. Read these verses and see if I am right (2 Corinthians 5:19; 1 Timothy 3:16; 1 John 3:16; Acts 20:28; Deuteronomy 4:39; John 20:27-29).

• 2 Corinthian 5:19, “To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.”

• 1 Timothy 3:16, “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.”

• 1 John 3:16, “Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.”

• Acts 20:28, “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.”

• Deuteronomy 4:39, “Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.”

• John 20:27-29, “Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.”

May God help you to see the truth about this subject of the Godhead and that will help you worship God in Spirit and in truth (John 4:24). You must do it!

Here, friend, is the only plan of salvation, which will put it the perfect church or bride of Christ. You must believe that God is a Spirit. You must repent unto God. You must believe in the shedding of His blood for your sins (Acts 20:28). You must be baptized in His name, which is Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins (Acts 2:38; Acts 4:12). You must be filed with or born of the Spirit (John 3:3-7).

No other plan can be used (1 Corinthians 3:10-12; Romans 16:17-18; 2 John 1:9-11).

• 1 Corinthians 3:10-12, “According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble.”

• Romans 6:17-18, “But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.”

• 2 John 1:9-11, “Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.”

Here are some things you musk know if you expect to be ready to meet Jesus when He comes for His perfect church, which He says will be without spot or wrinkle.

• Ephesians 5:27, “That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.” 

We find in Galatians 4:9-11 that Apostle Paul was warning those backslidden saints that they are on the very dangerous ground and under bondage once again, after they had been made free from those certain days and feasts that were given under the law of the old Testament. The Sabbath included! Paul was warning them not to be bound up any longer now that they were set free from those things by the cross of Christ.

• Galatians 4:9-11, “But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.”

Here is more proof: Romans 10:4; Colossians 2:13-18, 2 Corinthians 3:1-16. These few references prove the law of commandments and the sacrificial law were absolutely finished at the cross and now we live under the New Testament covenant. So from the cross on, no man can judge us about what we eat or drink or we keep a certain holy day or the Sabbath because those things are finished and done away with as is proven here: Hose 2:11; Colossians 2:13-16; 2 Corinthians 3:1-16.

Now here are some things you better take heed to because if those people in Paul’s day were not allowed any longer to keep those feast days and Sabbath according to the Old Testament, why do you think you can start to keep some new days and times of the year, which old Rome started hundreds of years ago, after the apostles age?

Yes, old Rome, which claims she is your mother church, started the old pagan holiday of New Years.

Old Rome also started the so-called Sunday Worship because she is the one who set that day aside and most of all churches fall in line with her because they are her offspring and got their doctrines and holidays from her. We now have the Roman calendar and we go by Roman days and time.

New Years or January first got its name from the old pagan god called Janus!

Easter got its name from the goddess of spring called Estara, a pagan goddess.

Christmas is a Catholic word made up of two words such as Christ-Mass and so called Christmas Day was taken from the heathen pagans of December 25th and called the birthday of Christ. Why did Rome take this old pagan heathen feast day of December 25th and call it Christ’s birthday?

Because old Mother Rome wanted to win these old heathen pagans over to her Catholicism and so she taught by taking their big feast day of December 25th and calling it Christ’s birthday that would make them feel good and celebrate together.

Look Christmas and Easter and January and Sunday in the Catholic Encyclopedia and get your eyes open as to how old Rome has the church world following her and her doctrines and holidays, which God never started and neither did one apostle ever preach such a thing nor observe any of such days or doctrines.

No wonder we cannot observe any day of old Rome’s holidays nor Sunday after we read Galatians 4:9-11, Hose 2:11, and Colossians 2:13-16.

We must be completely free from all doctrines and holidays of old Rome and not observe nor believe any of them. If we do, we are spotted up by Rome and we disobey this scripture here: Revelation 18:4.

God is commanding you to come out of old Rome and give up her old doctrines and holidays that she has made the church world drunk with. Notice Revelation 18:1-11. The day is coming soon when men no longer will buy and sell her old Christmas merchandise and the merchants shall weep because they will lose a great profit. Read it and see Revelation 18:11 and 234.

Please remember old Rome does not own all this so-called Christmas merchandise that is bought and sold during the Christmas time but she is the mother of it. All spiritually speaking because she started that Devil Day called December 25th, the so-called Christmas Day.

Did you ever find where an apostle ever observed Christmas of Easter of New Year or Sunday? No man knows what day it is, because our God destroyed the old time law and Sabbaths. Rome made all these others and we now go by Roman calendar time. Read Hose 2:11; Galatians 4:9-11; Colossians 2:13-18.

But now we dare not observe any of old Rome’s holidays or doctrines or we will never be ready to go with Jesus when He comes for His perfect church without spot or wrinkle.

God says come out of her, my people (Revelation 18:4). If you do not come out of her completely, and ignore her holidays and doctrines, you will be left for the greatest tribulation and hell on earth this world will ever experience. Only a few will be ready (Matthew 7:14; Matthew 15:9).

So, I beg you to come out slick and clean and take your stand with the little few who shall be ready to be caught up to glory to miss the great tribulation.

• Here are the perfect ones (Revelation 14:1-5).

• Here you are if you don’t obey (Revelation 14:6-13).

Get busy handing out this information, and be a soul winner for Jesus. Dead heads won’t make it either. We must be on fire for God.

Written by Wilbur King
The Church of Jesus Christ Apostolic
2065 University St., Salem, Oregon

Every church has some truth, and every church tries to prove its doctrine by the Bible, but the only way you can tell for sure whether that church has the truth or not is to compare their doctrine with what the apostles taught. There is only one church because Jesus started only one. So, you either belong to that true church or in one of the false ones.

The TRUE CHURCH teaches that God is an invisible Spirit but became visible by putting on a robe of flesh; that water baptism is by immersion in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and that the baptism of the Holy Ghost is with evidence of speaking in other tongues.

I doesn't matter if you already have a church to attend to or you already have a Home Bible Study, as some people say. It is vital to be in the TRUE CHURCH because Jesus wants to present Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish, a chaste virgin and bride adorned for her Husband.

Jesus is inviting you. He is standing at the door, knocking, and waiting for you to hear Him and to open the door. Your investment is faith and obedience, and the payoff is eternal life. It''s free and within your reach!

"Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day; and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things. And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high" (Luke 24:46-49).

"But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you; and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth" (Acts 1:8).

"Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost" (Acts 2:38).

"Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved" (Acts 4:12)

"As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed" (Galatians 1:9).

"And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone" (Ephesians 2:20).

"As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine" (I Timothy 1:3).

"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" (II Timothy 3:16).

This is being printed and distributed with a sincere prayer that it may strengthen and establish the believer and that it may enlighten the thousands of perplexed and bewildered souls who are earnestly seeking, amid the maze of men's traditions to find the true doctrine of our Lord Jesus Christ.

With sincerity we pray that God will grant the reader grace to accept the truth as it is in Christ Jesus.

We certainly do not want to miss heaven. Let us therefore heed the prophet's words: "Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls" (Jeremiah 6:16).

The Bible is the inspired Word of God, giving a true history of the creation of heaven, earth, and humanity and containing a correct prophecy of the ages to come regarding heaven, earth, and the destiny of humanity. Moreover, there is no salvation outside of what is taught in its pages.

There is only one God (Deuteronomy 6:4). He is the creator of heaven and earth, and of all living beings. He has revealed Himself to humanity as the Father (Creator), in the son (Savior), and as the Holy Ghost (indwelling Spirit).

God is a Spirit (John 4:24). He is the Eternal One, the Creator of all things, and the Father of all humanity by creation.

He is the First and the Last, and beside Him there is no God (Isaiah 44:6).

There was no God formed before Him; neither shall be there any after Him (Isaiah 43:10).

Jesus is the Son of God according to the flesh (Romans 1:3) and the very God Himself according to the Spirit (Matthew 1:23). Jesus is the Christ (Matthew 16:16); the creator of all things (Colossians 1:16-17); God with us (Matthew 1:23); God made flesh (John 1:1-14); God manifested in the flesh (I Timothy 3:16); He which was, which is, and which is to come, the Almighty (Revelation 1:8); the mighty God, everlasting Father, and Prince of peace (Isaiah 9:6).

Jesus Himself testified of His identity as God when He said, "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father" (John 14:7-11) and "I and my Father are one" (John 10:30).

It took shedding of blood for the remission of the sins of the world (Hebrews 9:22), but God the Father was a Spirit and had no blood to shed. Thus He prepared a body of flesh and blood (Hebrews 10:5) and came to earth as a man in order to save us, for in Isaiah 43:11 He said, "Beside me there is no Saviour." When He came in flesh the angels sang, "For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord" (Luke 2:11).

The Holy Ghost is not a third person in the Godhead, but rather the Spirit of God (the Creator), the Spirit of the resurrected Christ. The Holy Ghost comes to dwell in the hearts and lives of everyone who believes and obeys the gospel, as the comforter, Sustainer, and keeper (John 14:16-26; Romans 8:9-11).

Sin is the transgression of the law, or commandments of God (I John 3:4). The guilt of sin has fallen upon all humanity from Adam until now (Romans 3:23). The wages of sin is eternal death (Romans 6:23; Revelation 20:14) to all those who refuse to accept salvation as set forth in the Word of God.

Salvation consists of deliverance from all sin and unrighteousness through the blood of Jesus Christ. The New Testament experience of salvation consists of repentance from sin, water baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost, after which the Christian is to live a godly life (Acts 2:36-41).

Water baptism is an essential part of New Testament salvation and not merely a symbolic ritual. It is part of entering into the kingdom of God (God's church, the bride of Christ), and therefore, it is not merely a part of local church membership. (See John 3:5; Galatians 3:27).

Water baptism is to be administered only by immersion. Paul said, "We are buried with him [Jesus Christ] by baptism (Romans 6:4; see Colossians 2:12), Jesus came up "out of the water" (Mark 1:10), and Philip and the eunuch went down "into the water" and came up "out of the water" (Acts 8:38-39).

Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection are applied to our lives when we experience New Testament salvation: "Repent [death to sin], and be baptized [burial] every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost [resurrection]." (See Acts 2:38; Romans 6:1-7; 8:2).

The name in which baptism is administered is vitally important, and this name is Jesus.

Jesus' last command to His disciples was, "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost" (Matthew 28:19). We should notice that He said name (singular) not names. As previously explained, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are not names of separate persons, but titles of positions held by God. An angelic announcement revealed God's saving name in the New Testament: "She shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins" (Matthew 1:21).

The apostles understood that Jesus was the name to use at baptism, and from the day that the church of God was established (the Day of Pentecost) until the end of their ministry, they baptized all nations (Jews--Acts 8:16; Gentiles--Acts 19:5) in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

In fact, Jesus is the only name given for our salvation. "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved" (Acts 4:12).

The baptism of the Holy Ghost is the birth of the Spirit (John 3:5). This spiritual baptism is necessary to put someone into the kingdom of God (God's church, the bride of Christ) and is evidenced by speaking in other tongues (other languages) as the Spirit of God give utterance.

It was prophesied by Joel (Joel 2:28-29) and Isaiah (Isaiah 28:11), foretold by John the Baptist (Matthew 3:11), purchased by the blood of Jesus, and promised by Him to His disciples (John 14:26; 15:16). The Holy Ghost was first poured out on the Day of Pentecost upon the Jews (Acts 2:1-4), then upon the Samaritans (Acts 8:17), and later upon the Gentiles (Acts 10:44-46; 19:6). "The promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call" (Acts 2:39).

Speaking in tongues means speaking miraculously in a language unknown to the speaker, as the Spirit gives utterance. Tongues can be classified in two ways, according to function: (1)speaking in other tongues as the initial evidence of the baptism of the Holy Ghost and (2)the gift of tongues as mentioned in I Corinthians.

1. Speaking in other tongues as the Spirit of God gives utterance is the manifestation God has given as the definite, indisputable, supernatural witness or sign of the baptism of the Holy Ghost (Acts 2:4; 10:46; 19:6).
   
   It was prophesied by the prophet Isaiah as the rest and the refreshing (Isaiah 28:11-12), foretold by Jesus as a sign that would follow believers of the gospel (Mark 16:17), and experienced by Jews and Gentiles alike.
   
   
2. The gift of "divers kinds of tongues," mentioned by Paul in I Corinthians 12:1-12 and concerning which he gave regulations in I Corinthians 14:1-40, is given by both for self-edification (I Corinthians 14:4) and for the edification of the church (I Corinthians 14:27-28).
   
   

In church meetings the gift of tongues is used to give a public message, and it is to be interpreted. Since this gift can be misused in public, it needs proper regulation (I Corinthians 14:23-28). Not all believers exercise the gift of tongues, which is different in function from tongues given by God as the initial witness of the baptism of the Holy Ghost.

Paul said, "Forbid not to speak with tongues" (I Corinthians 14:39) and "I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all" (I Corinthians 14:8). Who dares to teach or preach to the contrary?

After we are saved from sin, we are commanded, "Go, and sin no more" (John 8:11).

We are commanded to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world (Titus 2:12) and warned that without holiness no one shall see the Lord (Hebrews 12:14).

We must present ourselves as holy unto God (Romans 12:1), cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit (II Corinthians 7:1), and separate ourselves from all worldliness (James 4:4).
If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? (I Peter 4:18).

No one can live a holy life by his own power, but only through the Holy Spirit. "Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you" (Acts 1:8).

God has made Himself known through the ages by miraculous healings and has made special provisions in the age of grace to heal all who will come to Him in faith and obedience. Divine healing was purchased for us by the blood of Jesus Christ, especially by His stripes (Isaiah 53:5; Matthew 8:16-17; I Peter 2:24).

Jesus went everywhere healing those who were sick (Matthew 4:23-24), and He commanded His disciples to do the same (Matthew 10:8). He said concerning those who believe the gospel, "They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover" (Mark 16:18). Mighty healings and miracles followed the disciples wherever the gospel was preached.
There is no sickness or disease too hard for God. Any of us, our children, or our friends can be healed by the power of God.

"Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him , anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord shall raise him up: and if he have committed sins they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed" (James 5:14-16).

Jesus Christ is coming back to earth in bodily form, just as He went away (Acts 1:11). He will catch away a holy people (His bride, His church) who have accepted redemption through His blood, by birth of water and of the Spirit, and who are found faithful when He comes.

"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord" (I Thessalonians 4:16-17).

"One shall be taken and the other left" (Luke 17:36). Will we be ready?

The signs of His coming are everywhere. The days of peril are here indeed, with forms of godliness void of the power of God; society and politics corrupted; and people's hearts filled with pride, blasphemies, unholiness, love of evil, and love of pleasures (II Timothy 3:1-13). These things, together with multitudes running to and fro, the increase of knowledge (Daniel 12:4), the persecution of the Jews and their return to Palestine (Luke 21:24), and scores of other things are starting signs that Jesus' coming is drawing near.

Wars, rumors of wars, famines, earthquakes, storms, floods, distress of nations, perplexity, and people's hearts failing them for fear are sounding the solemn alarm that Jesus' coming is at hand (Matthew 24:6; Luke 21:25-28).

"Prepare to meet thy God" (Amos 4:12).

There will be a resurrection of all the dead, both just and unjust.

"Marvel not this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation" (John 5:28-29).

"And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God . . . and the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them" (Revelation 20:12-13)> (See also Daniel 12:2; I Corinthians 15:13-23.)

"It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" (Hebrews 9:27). For this reason there will be a resurrection for everyone. "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad" (II Corinthians 5:10).

The eternal destiny of every soul shall be determined by a just God who knows the secrets of everyone's heart. "And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. . . .Then shall he also say unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. . . . And these shall go away into everlasting punishment; but the righteous into life eternal" (Matthew 25:32-34, 41, 46).

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The law-the Word of God
The judge-the righteous God
To be judged-our souls
What will the sentence be?

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Life's opportunities past!
Reaping day at last!
Two verdicts pend:
Life or death!

The following references show plainly that speaking in tongues as the evidence of the Holy Ghost has been given by God to earnest, God-fearing people down through the years.

Scaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, vol. 3, page 2369, "Tongues, Gift of": "A phenomenon of the Apostolic age, technically known as the 'glossolalia.' In later time analogies have been found for it in the 'speaking in tongues' of the Camisards, Prophets of the Cevennes, Early Quakers and Methodists, 'Lasare' in Sweden (1841-1843), converts in the Irish revival of 1859, and particularly in the Catholic Apostolic (Irvingite) Church."

Scaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, vol. 2, page 1119, "Irving, Edward": "In 1830 the news was spread abroad of the strange speaking with tongues which occurred in widely separated parts of Scotland. In 1831 prophecy and tongues appeared in Irving's church and Irving fell in with the movement, heartily convinced of its spiritual basis and divine authority."

Scaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, vol. 1, page 422, "Catholic Apostolic Church": "Pious Presbyterian men and women believed that their organs of speech were used by the Holy Spirit for the utterance of His thoughts and attentions."

Encyclopaedia Britannica, New Werner Edition, vol. 4, page 749, "Camisards": "Speaking in tongues, accompanied by all kinds of miracles, was common among the Camisards and Cevennes of Southern France in the 18th century. Children, under the influence of supernatural power, spoke and prophesied in languages unknown to them."

Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, edited by James Hastings, vol. 7, page 424: "In 1831 the gift of tongues and prophecy appeared, it was believed in answer to fervent prayer, among the members of Irving's congregation."

Butler, Christian Denominations of the World, "Edward Irving (1792-1834)": "He proclaimed his conviction that the gifts of the Holy Ghost, such as tongues, healing, etc., were withheld only because of the want of faith, and ere long there were several persons in his church who claimed the gift of tongues."

Abingdon Bible Commentary, page 1190: "Scottish peasants spoke in tongues."

Webster's New International Dictionary, 2nd edition, page 1056, "Gift of Tongues": "A phenomenon experienced by some of the Christian of New Testament times, the nature of which seems to have been a kind of ecstatic utterance usually unintelligible to the hearers and even to the speakers, therefore requiring interpretation; glossolalia. Similar phenomena have in modern times been experienced by some of the early Friends, Jansenists, Methodists, etc."

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Taken from the Word Aflame Press Tract "The Apostles' Doctrine" #6103