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CHAPTER 2Fulness of Godhead dwells in Christ—Beware of deceit by traditions of men—The handwriting against us was nailed to cross of Christ. |
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1 FOR I would that ye
knew what great aconflict I have for you, and for
them at bLaodicea, and for as many as have not seen
my face in the flesh;
2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of aunderstanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of Goda, band of the Father, and of Christ; 3 In whom are hid all the atreasures of bwisdom and cknowledge. |
2a the mystery of God Now let
it be stated plainly, there is the Father separate and corporal in nature, a
distinct being in and of himself. And there is the Son, also a separate and
distinct being, and also separate and corporal in nature in both body and
spirit. They are two separate entities and beings. And there is the thrid,
who is separate and distinct in his spirit corporal nature which is the Holy
Ghost. These three separate and distinct beings consitute the Godhead acting
in unison as being one in faith and purpose as God. Yet their is a further
mystery of the Godhead to be understood and which if misunderstood can lead
men into false doctrine as lead by the inovation and philosophies of decietful
men. Now the full power of God was bestowed by the Father Elohim upon the Son
Jehovah before the foundation of the world. And in this Lucifer attempted to
usurp the right of the Firstborn Jehovah, for in such bestowal of power lies
a prideful ambition of Satan to make himself great above all else, even God
the Father, for such is the power of bestowing all power and glory in the Son.
Yet in Jehovah the Father was asured that no such selfish ambition was held
and Jehovah vowed that all such prideful power and glory would be returned
unto the Father, the giver of them to him. Now with this asurance and in light
of Lucifer's usurption, we may consider this further mystery, that when the
Father gave all power and glory unto the Son in order to fulfill the Plan of
Salvation, the 'whole of the power of the Godhead was bestowed in him'. He
was to act in, for and as the Father in all things unto this Second Estate,
for only those who pertain unto it were enabled to minister unto it, the
Father being further advanced than it in his complete perfection of Celestial
Existence. This Divine Investiture of the power of God given to Jehovah was
necessary for the Son to be and act in the Father's name in all things and
in all names and in all titles except that of the Father being the Father
of Spirits which he alone did retain and hold unto himself. Satan would have
taken it as a divestiture of power not to be returned to the Father, whereas
Jehovah's intent was always in the Father's interest and to the Father's
glory, subjecting himself to the will of the Father in all things.
Therefore a completeness of power had to rest in but one, Jehovah who is the same as Jesus Christ. And thus as the Christ, the one and only in and through whom man may be redeemed and saved, is a completeness of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This was necessary to the effecting the mission of the plan. Now if one would take this mystery and apply it but to the one as Lucifer would have one believe, then they would come to the conclusion of which the designing of men inspired of Lucifer have come to in the false doctrine of the Holy Trinity, that there is but one entity and God of the Godhead and not three separate and distinct. This was and is Lucifer's design in surplanting God the Father of Spirits, Elohim, Jehovah the Firstborn in the Spirit and Only Begotten in the flesh Son of God, even Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost, a separate being of spirit only; surplanting the three with but one, who Lucifer intended to be but himself. True there is in only one in whom all power of this Second Estate is invested, and that is in Jehovah who is Jesus Christ. But Jehovah the Son honors the Father Elohim and returns all glory to his name unlike the design of Satan. And the Holy Ghost bares witness of the Father and the Son as two separate and distinct beings. Yet only in and throguh Jesus Christ is salvation to be had, in him and him only is all necessary power given to effect that result. And that is the mystery of the relationship of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. |
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4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your aorder, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ. 6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so awalk ye in him: 7 aRooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with bthanksgiving. |
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8 Bewarea
lest any man aspoil
you through bphilosophy and vain cdeceit,
after the dtradition of men, after the rudiments of the
eworld, and not after Christ [the anointed of God].
9 For in him dwelleth all the afulness of the Godhead bodilya.
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8a Beware
This warning is given specifically to guard against exactly what did happen
to the 'true doctire' during that occasion and event termed as the 'Nicene
Creed'. According to the writings of Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea it was the
inovative philosophies of men which did work to frustrate the true religion.
And it was clearly stated by Bishop Eusebius as to what did occur at the
Nicene Council and immediatley following which did violate and so corrupt the
true understanding of the Godhead.
9a in him [Jesus Christ/Jehovah] dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily This true concept is perhaps in part the basis for the inovative interpretation of men in association with false philosophies and corrupt religion of the false conception of the 'universal' or 'Catholic' false Doctrine of the Trinity of the Godhead under the denoted appellation, title or name of the 'Nicene Creed'. Wherein all must be in and through Jehovah who is Jesus Christ as the only one true Intercessor, Mediator, Advocate, Redeemer, Savoir and Messiah (the one and only anointed representative 'Administrating God' of God the Father, so authorized by God the Father, of this temporal estate) of the world;—there being no other being, means or way but by Christ Jesus—and the erroneous concept of God the Father of Spirits being one and the same as His Son Jehovah in the spirit and His Only Begotten in the flesh, Jesus Christ; is in the false concept of the 'Doctrine of the Trinity', which proposes that there is but one and the same God, that there in one essense physically, one Entity and Being as Father, Son and Holy Ghost to the extent that God the Father of Spirits and the third member of the Godhead, the Holy Ghost is all bound up in one corporally. Because there needs be only 'One Way', in Christ can be found the 'administration of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, that being the Spirit of Christ, but in no way does that fact deny the separate entities and beings of God the Father of Spirit and that being who is the Holy Ghost. They are in deed three separate and distinct beings, Gods and entities. Yet the truth of the 'mystery' of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, is that in the authority and administration of Jesus Christ alone, who is the same as Jehovah of the Old testament, is designated the 'priesthood keys' of administering to the Second Temporal Estate in for authorization as the Father, acting in the stead of the Father in all things (Leviticus 16:32) as only those who do pertain unto this mortality do administer unto it (D&C 130:5), and is but one God, Jesus Christ, is the fulness of the keys of the Godhead endowed, that the Father works solely through and in the Son, Jesus Chirst/Jehovah and none other, and that in the Son Jesus Christ/Jehovah is confirmed the administrative keys of control over even the administration of the Holy Ghost, though the Holy Ghost is a separate entity in and of 'HIM' self. That is God the Father directs and only works in and through Jehovah who is Jehoshua/Jesus the Christ, and in His single and only administrating God, Jehovah/Jehoshua, is all that is done done, from the temporal creation to the eventual temporal redemption unto the Kingdom of the Father, and there is no other way, God, or mean whereby men may come unto God but by the one single being Jehovah who is known by his name given him of the Father, Jehoshua, which means that only in Jehovah is Deliverance and Salvation to be found; implying that only by that administration of His Son does the Father work for the benefit of all mankind. There is no other way but by Christ Jesus and thus in him must reside the fulness of the Godhead, the fulness of that power, authority and means in bringing to pass the work and glory of the Plan of God, which is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man (Moses 1:39). |
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Betwix Heaven and EarthThe realms of the Celestial Eternal Heaven and the Mortal Temporal Earth
or the Second Estate may be conceptualized by considering an hourglass which
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10 And ye are acomplete in
him, which is the head of all bprincipality and power:
11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the acircumcision made without hands, in putting off the bbody of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: 12 aBuried with him in bbaptism, wherein also ye are crisen with him through the faith of the doperation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. |
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13 And you, being dead in your sins and the
uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he aquickened together
with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
14 aBlotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. |
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16 Let no man therefore
ajudge you in bmeat, or in drink, or in
respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the
csabbath days:
17 Which are a ashadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. |
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18 Let no man abeguile you
of your reward in a voluntary bhumility and worshipping of
angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up
by his fleshly mind,
19 And not holding the aHead, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. |
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20 Wherefore if ye be adead
with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the
world, are ye subject to bordinances,
21 a(Touch not; taste not; handle not; 22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the acommandments and bdoctrines of men? 23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh. |
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has but a narrow funnel passage between Heaven and such Second Estate through
which man must pass in order to obtain Heaven, now being in that Second
mortal estate. Place at the very threshold of the narrow funnel through which
man must pass stands Jesus Christ who is the same as Jehovah. Since God the
Father of Spirits is a Celestial Eternal Being of Glorified Flesh and Bone, he
does not 'pertain' unto the realm of the Second Estate, this fallen world of
mortality. And there is a law or decree which states that 'only those who do
pertain unto the world are to minister unto it.' (D&C 130:5) Thus we are to
understand that God the Father of Spirit did so select, anoint, ordain and
empower one of us, His spirit children who would come to this Second Estate
to so minister unto it in the stead of the Father of Spirits. God the Father
so selected His Firstborn Son, Jehovah, His heir, to so administer the affairs
of this world, the Second Estate in the stead of the Father (Lev. 16:32). And
since Jehovah as Jesus Christ the Savior and Redeemer of the world which he
would create under the direction of the Father was the one and only one so
positioned to bring about this Redemption, there being no other way given;
it was critical that the fulness of the functions of the Godhead were vested
in this appointed and anoited Mediator, Advocate, Intercessor, Redeemer,
Savior and Deliver. Jehovah would act in the stead of the Father, he would
perform the necessary atonement as the Only Begotten Son of the Father, and
by and through the Spirit or Christ, or the Light of Christ, would the world
be ministered unto and so redeemed. Now this investiture of the fulness of
the Godhead bodily in Jesus Christ, Jehovah, does not mean that God the Father
of Spirits nor the Holy Ghost does or did not ever not exist separate and
apart from the being of the Savior and Redeemer Jehovah who was and is the
same as Jesus Christ. In attempting to understand Jesus Christ's position as
Jehovah the God of the Old Testament and the Only Begotten Son of God the
Father of the New Testament, men of the fourth century A.D. did endeavor to
define the nature of Christ, the Ministering God of this creation. And they
did assign unto the functions as well as the being of the Father, Son and
Holy Spirit, contriving in error that there were three 'person' in but one God.
And this to the elimination of God the Father of Spirits and the Holy Ghost
as being corporally separate and disctint beings from the God of Israel, the
one and only true God in which man may rely for his redemption as pertaining
to this Second Estate.