JUDGE AND MEASURE

Matthew 7:2

"For with what judgement you judge and with whatever measure you measure, you will be judged and measured."

- Jesus

Freewill has a function. Freewill gives us the ability to decide what life is like for us as an individual, and this is why our individual perspective judgements and measures of the world are our individual experience of it, not all that is; which we know is true because we individuals can experience many different perpective experiences of a single happening in reality, and as a society we do all the time! These different experiences are on purpose so, we do not have to judge and measure each other in them. Indeed, our only job in life is to judge and measure and decide for our own individal self (you know, the life you are actually living.) When we judge, we recieve that same judgement.

God designed it, then Jesus told us about it, and showed us proof by living the Good News he was speaking. 

OFFENSE AND DISBELIEF

Matthew 13:57-58

"And they were offended, and Jesus said to them 'A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country and in his own house.' and he didn't do many mighty works there because of their unbelief." 

-Matthew (Levi)

Jesus never changed the heart and mind of someone who didn't want to change, and neither will any of us; Freewill.

You have your Freewill, I have my Freewill, and everyone else has their Freewill, same as Jesus Christ and every other person who ever was, is, or will be (in our linear perspective of existence.) We did not give each other Freewill, we were each born with it when we were created into existence. Accept it. Respect it. Move on with your Freewill.

Jesus didn't tell them not to be offended, it was their Freewill to be offended. Jesus told them that he understood that they did not believe in what he was doing and teaching, and that is why they weren't experiencing Jesus the way others were. Remember, their disbelief didn't stop him from meeting with those who did believe among them.

INTELLECT AND

EXPERIENCE

Matthew 7:24

"Therefore WHOSOEVER hears what I say and does it, I will see them as a wise person who built their house on a rock." 

-Jesus

Knowing the Grand Canyon is big, and experiencing how big the Grand Canyon is, are two very different things. 

Reading and repeating scripture isn't enough, we have to live it to truly understand it.

Jesus never said to memorize scripture and quote it to each other. Jesus never said to worship him nor idolize him nor make trinkets in his name. What Jesus did say was to hear him, and to practice his teachings in our own lives, to build a solid foundation for experiencing our best Freewill lives within the greater design of our Infinite Creator, and then share what we've learned with more people. It is entirely our choice to do so, or not.

SPIRIT AND

SERVICE

1 Corinthians 12:4-7

"There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit is the source of them all. There are different kinds of service, but we serve the same Lord. God works in different ways, but it is the same God who does the work in all of us. A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other." 

-Paul the Apostle

Why do we have Freewill?

We are one with the Infinite Creator so, technically, anything we imagine and decide with our Freewill is an expression of the Infinite Creator's will, even to forget or ignore itself and it's own wisdom. Therefore, on the individual level, Paul said it the best:

We have Freewill so that our own specific unqiueness can help others! 

We each exist as uniquely ourselves and no one else for a reason that only we can provide, AS OURSELVES! 

Whatever it is that inspires and excites us to do, that thing we feel at home in, even when it challenges us, that thing we naturally excel at, that is the gift we were given to share with others. We each have the freewill to cultivate, grow, and share our naturally given gifts and talents, or not, but we are each uniquely us, making our individual Freewill choices on purpose, even and especially the ones we repent. It is all in the greater service of the whole of infinite creation.

GOOD

over EVIL

Matthew 5:44-45

"But I say love your enemies! (Bless those who curse you! Do good to those who hate you!) Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he [God] gives sunlight to both good and evil, and he sends rain on the just and unjust alike."

- Jesus

GOOD  and EVIL are fruit of the same tree that God has made. 

If you have the conscience to recognize good from evil, do you not also feel responsible to choose good?

Jesus tells us that good chooses to love evil, not for it's evilness, but because of our goodness.

We love our enemies not for what has made them our enemies, but because they exist in this greater design of the Infinite Creator, the one consciousness from which all things in the known universe come. We love God so, we choose to love God's creation even when we do not love what God's creation is doing, i.e. our enemies, those who hate us and curse us and persecute us. 

When we are truely walking a path that is one with the Infinite Creator, we choose to love, and bless, and be kind and help, even if it is not returned.

DO

WHAT IS RIGHT

Genesis 4:7

"You will be accepted if you do what is right. But if you refuse to do what is right, then watch out! Sin is crouching at the door, eager to control you, but you must subdue it and be it's master." 

-God, thru Moses

With Freewill and the knowledge of Good and Evil, we don't just get to choose how to live in whatever way we want, we are aware of benefits and consequences too.

Sin existed before it was called sin (Romans 5:13-14), but the knowledge of good and evil, of contrasts, is what gives us the perspective to understand that we have a choice between what is right and good (one with the Infinite Creator) and what is sin and evil (a known deviation from the Infintite Creator, as allowed by the Infinite Creator.)

Knowlege is only power when we use it, and God tells us how to use the knowledge of good and evil wisely, by choosing good and learning to master our own sins and evils when we fail. We're human so, we learn not by accepting failure, but through our failures being re-tested into successes.

LOOK

GET SHOOK

Genesis 11:6-7

"Look!' He (God) said, "the people are united, and they all speak the same language. After this, nothing they set out to do will be impossible for them! Come, lets go down and confuse the people with different languages. Then they wont be able to understand each other."

-God, thru Moses

With Freewill and the knowledge of Good and Evil, we don't just choose to live benefits over consequences, we choose to overcome adversity too.

Even if one of us (like, say, Jesus) chose the good life 100% of the time, no sinning, no deviating from the Infinite Creator, we still face contrast. We face others who did not make the same choices, and we face God expanding with us, also making choices, and we decide to do our part, or go against, sin. The cycle is unending.

The knoweldge of good and evil itself is the knowledge of polarities, of contrasts, of this and that differences that we do and absolutely don't agree with. Our job is not to be one, God has that covered; our collective job is to be harmoneous in our many differences and changes. As life evolves with our every individual and collective choices, we are each constantly presented with new choices, because anything new to focus our consciousness upon IS a choice, and focusing on it IS choosing!

JESUS

IS US

Matthew 25:45

"And he will answer, 'I tell you the truth, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me." 

-Jesus

Why do we have good and evil?

We gave ourselves the knowledge, and therfore the oppertunity to experience, by eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The polarity of good and evil itself exists because consciousness, will, needs a choice to be freewill, free to choose of our own conscious willingness.

As we human beings of Earth get used to choosing good over evil, benefits more than consequences, and to overcome adversity for ourselves as individals, we're then presented with helping others on their journey, and eventually collectives like community groups, to entire societies like political and religious leaders. 

THE

COMMANDMENTS

Dueteronomy 5:1

"Moses called all the people of Isreal together and said, 'Listen carefully, Isreal. Hear the decrees and regulations I am giving you today, so you may learn them and obey them.'" 

-Moses

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

1. You must not have any other God but me.

2. You must not make idols or worship them.

3. You must not misuse the Lord's name.

4. You must remember the Sabbath and keep it Holy.

5. You must honor your Father and Mother.

6. You must not kill.

7. You must not commit adultry.

8. You must not steal.

9. You must not be a false witness or testify falsely.

10. You must not covet other people's lives or stuff.

[ Exodus 20:3-17, and Dueteronomy 5:6-21 ]

LOVE

EACH OTHER

Romans 13:9-10

"...'Love your neighbor as yourself.' Love does no wrong to others, so love fulfills the requirements of God's law."

- Paul the Apostle

Jesus showed us that living in unconditional love is the path to living God's laws in all their nuances. 

For those struggling to love themselves, others, or the world, begin from the beginning and discover within yourself a way to feel genuine gratitude, awe, or appreciation for any part of creation. When you're feeling grateful, appreciative, or in awe of any part of creation, make the effort to appreciate more and more of creation.

Allow that momentum of gratitude, awe, and appreciation to bloom into good feels for ALL of creation in general. Basking in that awesomeness of what we know of creation, remember YOU are a part of ALL of creation. You are as worthy as a super nova, as unique as planet Earth, and as on-purpose as elergomagnatism. As are all of us. Love doesn't just allow us to connect with and respect each other, love allows us to connect with and better understand the Infinite Creator too!

GOD

IS GOOD

Matthew 5:18

"I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not even the smallest detail of God's law will disappear until it's purpose is achieved." 

-Jesus

Why do we have commandments?

When God banished Adam and Eve to live with the knowledge of good and evil on Earth, offerings to God kept us in touch with God and let us know if we were doing right. Ten (10) generations (1,056 years) after Adam, most of humanity didn't walk with God, whether or not they were still making their offerings to God (Cain, the second generation into the knowledge of good and evil, was the first example of what I am talking about; Genesis 3:4-6) So, "The flood" killed most of humanity, and those who were left were those who walked most closely with God in creation.

Twenty (20) generation after Noah and "The Flood," God gives Moses the commandments to help humanity understand what it means to walk with God, to do what is good when evil is an option. The Commandments were an upgrade to our conscious efforts as a whole to do good and walk with God as individuals, even and especially when we wobble, or when other individuals may wobble away from God and do evil. 

The Commandments gave us clear-cut goals to live by in order to be good people walking with God in creation.

YES,
AND LOVE

Matthew 7:11

"So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him." 

-Jesus

Seventy-Seven (77) generations after Adam, Jesus walks as one with God in creation, and he gave humanity another update in our effort to consciously grasp being with God in creation while we have the knowledge of Good and Evil.

1. Love knows the Infinite Creator by any other name is still the Infinite Creator.

2. Love recognizes the Infinite Creator in all of creation.

3. Love uses the name of the Infinite Creator respectfully.

4. Love honors true isness, easily keeping the Sabbath Holy.

5. Love appreciates, respects, and honors those who came before.

6. Love appreciates, respects, and honors life.

7. Love appreciates, respects, and honors all agreements.

8. Love appreciates, respects, and honors faith in God.

9. Love appreciates, respects, and honors the truth.

10. Love appreciates, respects, and honors ALL.

SIN EXISTED BEFORE "SIN"

Romans 5:13

"Yes, the people sinned before the law was given. But it was not counted as sin because there was not yet any law to break." 

-Paul the Apostle

Sin is basically KNOWINGLY deviating from walking with God in creation.

God said don't eat or touch the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil or you are sure to die, and we did it anyway, so now we die because we (via Adam and Eve) started a pattern of KNOWINGLY deviating from walking with God; sin.

Sin doesn't have to be scary, but it is our individual responsibility to maintain our own quality control as instruments of the Infinite Creator.

Just as we forgive the baby for not knowing any better (sin before it was law), once the laws are laid down, choices have benefits and/or consequences.

SIN SERVES

A PURPOSE

Romans 5:20

"God's law was given so that all people could see how sinful they were. But as people sinned more and more, God's wonderful grace became more abundant."

- Paul the Apostle

Luke 15:7

"In the same way, there is more joy in heaven over one ( 1 ) lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over ninty-nine ( 99 ) others who are righteous and haven't strayed away."

- Jesus

Sin is anything we live (notion, thought, intent, speech, and deed, etc.,) that we KNOW is not aligned with the Infinite Creator, which the Infinite Creator has allowed with Freewill.

We, as individuals, know that we know our choice is misaligned with the Infinite Creator because the choice feels bad, uncomfortable, and when made consistently, results in actual misery and death.

Yet, heaven rejoices more when we wobble into sin, catch ourselves, learn from it, and come back to walking with God in creation, than when we never stray from our walk with God in creation. 

Let that sink in.

Sin is a creation engine!

We sin, reflect, repent, re-align, and are better for having the experience. Heaven is better for it because God's love expands to forgive our sin when the we seek God's forgiveness, you see? 

Sin holds less power over us when we understand it.

As human beings we will always sin, but the point is that we recognize it and re-align to walk with God in creation.

LIVING IN SIN?

LIVING IN SPIRIT?

Romans 7:5-6

"When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires which produced a harvest of sinful deed, resulting in death. But now we have been released from the law, for we are dead to it and no longer captive to its power. Now we can serve God, not in the old way of obeying the law, but the new way of living in the Spirit." 

-Paul the Apostle

Why does sin exist?

Sin exists to let us know as individuals, when we're knowingly deviating from walking with God in creation, because we human beings have a tendency to not be consciously aware that we are making choices with our conscious focus. lol Yes, anything we consciously focus upon is a choice!

With the entire spectrum of good and evil available to us with the knowledge of good and evil, we even have the freewill to believe there is no God, no greater power, to feel totally and absolutely separate from all things, AND to be aware of it.

However, it is just a perspective, and nothing is actually separate from anything so, Sin exists as a line in the perspective sand to make our choices clearly with God or not with (deviating from, but not actually separate of) God.

The commandments gave us clear examples and goals of living with God in creation, and then Jesus came and called out many religious leaders for quoting scriptures but not living the word. So Jesus taught us how to live the word by living in the Spirit of God with love and devotion to what is true, and just, and right.

FORGIVE

AND LIVE

John 8:7-11

"...They kept demanding an answer so he stood up again and said 'Alright, but let the one who has never sinned cast the first stone.' ...Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, 'where are your accusers, did even one of them condemn you?'

'No Lord' she said.

And Jesus said, 'Neither do I. Go and sin no more.'" 

-Jesus

[ Mark 11:24-25 ]

"I tell you, you can pray for anything,

and if you believe that you have recieved it,

it will be yours. 

But when you are praying,

first forgive anyone you are holding a grudge against,

so that your Father in heaven will forgive your sins too."

-Jesus

Forgiveness cleans our filters.

God tells us even before we do wrong that we will be forgiven as soon as we recognize our wrong and repent, thereby putting our own forgiveness in our own conscious hands.

We can extend that same grace to others by forgiving them even before they seek forgiveness, so that when and if they do seek forgiveness, they know immediately that they already have it! THIS is what it is to walk in the Spirit with God in creation, with the knowledge of good and evil. 

ENERGY PHYSICS

& FAITH

Matthew 9:28-29

"...Jesus asked them 'Do you believe I can make you see?

'Yes, Lord,' they told him, 'we do.'

Then he touched their eyes and said, 'Because of your faith, it will happen.'" 

-Jesus

(recounted by Matthew (Levi))

E=mc2

Matter = Energy

Energy Physics teaches us that Energy = Consciousness.

Therefore, Matter is also Consciousness.

Now, what Jesus was saying makes more sense. 

Faith is the act of using energy physics on purpose.

Jesus never healed anyone against their own freewill. Indeed, it was their freewill belief that Jesus could heal them, if he would heal them, that even gave Jesus the apparent physical ability to undo physical and mental illnesses. I say "apparent" because Jesus explained that he held no power himself (John 5:30), but rather the power of the Infinite Creator worked through him like an instrument.

Mind over matter is reality because reality is consciousness.

Faith is consciously acting on that knowledge, on purpose, before experiencing the result.

PERSISTENCE

AND MOMENTUM

Luke 11:5-8

"Suppose you went to a friend's house at midnight, wanting to borrow three loaves of bread. You say to them 'A friend of mine has just arrived for a visit and I have nothing for them to eat.' And suppose your friend calls out from the bedroom 'Don't bother me. The door is locked for the night, and my family and I are all in bed. I can't help you.'

But I tell you this- though they won't do it for friendship's sake, if you keep knocking long enough, they will get up and give you whatever you need because of your shameless persistence, or in order to avoid shame, or so their reputation won't be damaged."

- Jesus

Remember: 

"So the creation of the heavens and the earth and everything in them was completed."

-God, thru Moses ( Genesis 2:1)

This is where we humans learn about Infinity, and technically, infinite infinities. Basically, God created everything. God is the Consciousness, the Intelligent Infinity from which all consciousness, energy, matter in the known and unknown cosmos comes from, right? 

So, all of our choices already exist, and this is where we get the ideas of destiny and not having freewill. That all of our choices already exists doesn't determine our own freewill experience of them, that is why we exist, to choose and expand all of creation (because creation is complete and unending; chew on that.)

We have the freewill to choose which choices we want to experience and how to experience them. And like a ball rolling downhill, the more we choose in any direction of the spectrum of good and evil, the easier it is to understand faith as complete trust in the existence of the results of those choices before we experience them. So, with the knowledge of Good and Evil, do we have faith in what is good, or faith in what is bad?

This is why Jesus teaches us about persistence and consistency, for persistence and consistency are the momentums of consciousness that creates the momentums of matter.

The longer we have operated in fear, woe, anger and so on, the longer it takes to discover and re-write all the nuances of those beliefs, to change momentum, but the success has already been created. The question is:

what is your mind mattering?

FAITH

COMPASS

Luke 11:36

"If you are filled with light, with no dark corners, then your whole life will be radiant, as though a floodlight were filling you with light." 

-Jesus

Why do we have faith?

Faith is like a compass that tells you what your mind is mattering.

Whatever is our conscious focus and belief as individuals and a collective, is how we experience reality as individuals and a collective. So, this function already exists and is working perfectly.

It is we human beings, as individuals, who are attempting to learn to have faith on purpose, to direct our conscious focus upon that which God has spelled out for us, and to genuinely believe the Infinite Creator. We can choose anything, but God tells us God is the light (1 John 1:5).

So, faith in God is choosing to believe in the light, in what is true, and right, and just, and good before we experience it, something God has been trying to help us learn since we went for the wisdom of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. We know when we are succeeding in putting our faith in God because we see even the darkness and evil through a lens of what good we can do in the face of it, or because of it, or inspiring it to join us in the light.

YES,
AND...

Matthew 6:33

"Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need." 

-Jesus

There are infinite ways to re-align with God and get what you need from where-ever and however you are, and you only need to choose one.

God told us, and Jesus showed us, the path to re-align with God is through choosing love. Jesus expressed love and forgiveness even for those who tortured and killed him, and this is the ultimate expression of love, when we do not retaliate for being wronged, but forgive instead and choose love.

Faith in God is about believing and trusting that God won't ever give you anything in your life that you cannot handle so, there is nothing to fear about doing what is right, and true, and just, and good.

Faith in God is about believing and trusting that just as God made you as you are on purpose, God made everyone else as they are on purpose too. We are all sinners, and perfectly imperfect.

What is your mind mattering?