WHAT WAS CREATION? IT WAS THE BRINGING OF THE WORLD, AND ALL THAT IS IN THE WORLD, INTO EXISTANCE. I BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD, WAS THE BEGINNING OF CREATION. I BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST AS THE WORD OF GOD HAS BEEN IN GOD THE FATHER FROM EVERLASTING BECAUSE THE BIBLE, THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD, SAYS THAT HIS GOING FORTH HAS BEEN FROM EVERLASTING.

Mi:5:2: But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. (KJV)

BUT, IN THE BEGINNING, BEFORE THE SUN, AND THE MOON WERE CREATED ; GOD THE FATHER SPOKE.

Jn:1:1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (KJV)

IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, THEN GOD SHAPED, AND FORMED THE WORD IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE WORD OF GOD BECAME THE SON OF GOD. JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY GOD EVER FORMED, OR EVER SHALL BE FORMED.

Is: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.

Is:43:11: I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour.

WHEN GOD, THE FATHER, CREATED THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, HE WAS THE FIRST BORN OF EVERY CREATURE. WHAT IS A CREATURE? A CREATURE IS SOMETHING CREATED.

Col:1:15: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: (KJV)

WE, AS CHILDREN OF GOD WERE CREATED IN THE IMAGE OF GOD. BUT, JESUS CHRIST WAS CREATED IN GOD THE FATHER'S EXPRESS IMAGE. WHEN YOU SEE JESUS CHRIST, HE WILL LOOK IDENTICAL TO GOD THE FATHER.

Heb:1:3: Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; (KJV)

WAS THERE ANYTHING CREATED BEFORE JESUS? NO, HE WAS THE BEGINNING OF CREATION.

Rv:3:14: And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; (KJV)

WHEN GOD THE FATHER CREATED THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, HIS BLESSED SON, HE CREATED HIM EQUAL TO HIMSELF. FOR ANY TWO THINGS TO BE EQUAL THEY MUCH BE IDENTICAL. THEREFORE, WAS JESUS CHRIST CREATED OF THE SAME SUBSTANCE AS GOD THE FATHER, DOES HE HAVE THE SAME POWER AS THE FATHER, DOES HE HAVE THE SAME APPEARANCE AS THE FATHER? YES, JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD, IS IDENTICAL TO GOD THE FATHER.

Phil:2:6: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: (KJV)

GOD THE FATHER, BY JESUS CHRIST HIS SON, CREATED ALL THINGS.

Eph:3:9: And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: (KJV)

GOD THE FATHER, CREATED ALL THINGS BY JESUS CHRIST VISIBLE, OR INVISIBLE.

Col:1:16: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

Col:1:17: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

TO GIVE YOU SOME IDEA OF THE POWER OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, HE CREATED THE SUN, THE MOON, AND THE STARS, AND PLACED THEM IN SPACE IN ONE DAY.

Gn:1:14: And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

Gn:1:15: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

Gn:1:16: And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

Gn:1:17: And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

Gn:1:18: And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

Gn:1:19: And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

GOD, IS A TRINITY IN UNITY, GOD THE FATHER, GOD JESUS CHRIST THE SON, AND GOD THE HOLY GHOST. WHEN JESUS CHRIST CREATED MAN, HE CREATED MAN A TRINITY IN UNITY, BODY, SOUL, AND SPIRIT. THE BODY CAN DIE, AND THE SOUL LIVE ON, OR THE SOUL CAN DIE, AND THE BODY LIVE ON. LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT. IF AFTER A MAN HAS RECEIVED THE WASHING OF REGENERATION, AND THE RENEWING OF THE HOLY GHOST, THE MAN GOES INTO A WOMAN, AND COMMITS THE SIN OF ADULTERY, THE OUTWARD MAN OF FLESH, AND BLOOD WILL GET UP, AND WALK OFF. BUT THE INWARD MAN, THE SOUL WILL BE DESTROYED.

Prv:6:32: But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. (KJV)

WHEN THE SPIRIT LEAVES THE BODY, THE BODY DIES.

Jms:2:26: For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

LISTEN CAREFULLY, SAINTS OF GOD, THIS OUTWARD MAN, THE BODY OF FLESH, AND BLOOD, SHALL PERISH. IT IS THE INWARD MAN, THE SOUL THAT SHALL LIVE IN ETERNITY. FOR THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY.

2Cor:4:16: For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. (KJV)

THERE ARE MEN THAT PREACH THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL. I BELIEVE THAT WHEN IT COMES UNTO A PERSON'S RIGHTS, I BELIEVE THAT ALL MEN WERE CREATED EQUAL AND ARE ENTITLED TO LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE RIGHT TO PURSUE HAPPINESS. BUT WHEN IT COMES TO SALVATION, ALL MEN WERE NOT CREATED EQUAL. GOD CREATED HIS CHILDREN, THE ELECT, IN SUCH A WAY THAT WE HAVE ABILITY TO BELIEVE WITH OUT SEEING. THE REASON THE CHILDREN OF SATAN CANNOT RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST IS BECAUSE THEY CANNOT SEE HIM.

Jn:14:15: If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Jn:14:16: And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

Jn:14:17: 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 DID NOT HAVE TO CLIMB MOUNT SINAI WITH MOSES TO SEE GOD GIVE HIM THE LAW, BECAUSE I BELIEVE HIS REPORT. I DID NOT HAVE TO GO INTO ARABIA WITH THE APOSTLE PAUL, AND SEE GOD GIVE HIM THE EPISTLES THAT HE RECORDED, BECAUSE I BELIEVE HIS REPORT. GOD ELECTED, SELECTED, HAND PICKED HIS CHILDREN BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. AND, PREDESTINATED US, TO BE ADOPTED INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD.

Eph:1:1: Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

Eph:1:2: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Eph:1:3: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

Eph:1:4: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

Eph:1:5: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

Eph:1:6: To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

THERE ARE MEN THAT PREACH THAT MEN CHOOSE GOD, BUT THAT IS HERESY, IT IS GOD THAT HAS CHOSEN THOSE THAT WILL SPEND ETERNITY WITH HIM FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.

Jn:15:16: Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

CHILDREN OF LIGHT, ONLY THE PREDESTINATED, ONLY THOSE ORDAINED TO ETERNAL LIFE SHALL BELIEVE.

Acts:13:48: And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed. (KJV)

SAINTS OF GOD, BEFORE A CHILD IS BORN, GOD EITHER LOVES THEM OR HATES THEM. GOD LOVES HIS CHILDREN, BUT HATES THE CHILDREN OF SATAN.

Rom:9:10: And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;

Rom:9:11: (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

Rom:9:12: It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

Rom:9:13: As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

Rom:9:14: What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

Rom:9:15: For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

Rom:9:16: So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

BELOVED OF GOD, THERE IS A WAY THAT YOU CAN MAKE YOUR CALL AND ELECTION SURE, IF YOU WILL TAKE FAITH, AND ADD TO FAITH, VIRTUE, AND ADD TO VIRTUE, KNOWLEDGE. LET ME READ THESE SCRIPTURES TO YOU CONCERNING THIS MATTER, READING FROM

2Pt:1:4: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

2Pt:1:5: And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

2Pt:1:6: And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

2Pt:1:7: And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

2Pt:1:8: For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2Pt:1:9: But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

2Pt:1:10: Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

2Pt:1:11: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

HOLY CHILDREN, ONLY THE PREDESTINATED SHALL BE SAVED. GOD CALLS THE ELECT TO REPENTANCE, JUSTIFIES US, GLORIFIES US, TRANSLATES US OUT OF THE WORLD, AND INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST. ALL THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES WE ARE BLESSED, FOR GOD HAS PLANNED IN LOVE FOR US SO THAT ALL THINGS, ALL THE EVENTS OF THE WORLD, WORK TOGETHER FOR OUR GOOD.

Rom: 8:28: And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Rom: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.

Rom:8:30: Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

Rom:8:31: What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

Rom:8:32: He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

BELOVED OF GOD, WHEN JESUS CHRIST, THE ANOINTED ONE, CREATED THE MAN ADAM, AND BREATHED INTO HIS NOSTILS THE BREATH OF LIFE, HE BECAME A LIVING SOUL. HE WAS WHOLE OR HOLY, HE HAD A LIVING BODY, SOUL, AND SPIRIT. WHEN ADAM TRANSGRESS THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD, SIN WAS IMPUTED TO ADAM, BUT NOT ONLY TO ADAM, BUT TO ALL MANKIND. FOR ALL MANKIND WAS IN ADAM AT THE TIME THAT HE TRANSGRESSED THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD. AND WHEN THE SPIRIT OF GOD DEPARTED FROM ADAM, WE ALL DIED THE SPIRITUAL DEATH.

1Cor:15:22: For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. (KJV)

NOW WHEN A CHILD IS BORN INTO THE WORLD, HE IS ALIVE PHYSICALLY, BUT DEAD SPIRITUALLY. THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL MUST BE BORN AGAIN. EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN OF WATER, BAPTIZED, AND BORN OF THE SPIRIT, RECEIVING THE WASHING OF REGENERATION, AND THE RENEWING OF THE HOLY GHOST HE CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

Jn:3:5: Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

Jn:3:6: That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

WHEN THE ELECT OF GOD RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST, THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL COMES TO LIFE. THAT WHICH IS BORN OF FLESH, IS FLESH, AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF SPIRIT IS SPIRIT. WHEN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST CAME INTO THE WORLD BEING BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY HIS BODY WAS NOT OTHER MEN IT WAS A SPECIAL BODY PREPARED WITHOUT THE ORIGINAL SIN. THE BODY PREPARED WAS NOT IN ADAM AT THE TIME THAT HE TRANSGRESSED THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD.

Heb:10:5: Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: (KJV)

WHEN CHRIST JESUS WAS BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY WAS HE GOD, OR WAS HE MAN, OR WAS HE BOTH GOD, AND MAN. I BELIEVE THAT HE WAS BOTH GOD, AND MAN. I BELIEVE THAT HE WAS GOD. I BASE MY OPINION ON THESE VERSES OF SCRIPTURE.

Mt:1:23: Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

I BELIEVE THAT HE WAS A MAN BECAUSE OF THIS SCRIPTURE

Heb:2:16: For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.