{"id":70674,"date":"2025-08-14T13:06:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inchristmessage.org\/wordpress\/?p=70674"},"modified":"2025-08-14T13:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:06:23","slug":"why-truth-dont-change-your-mind-or-set-you-free-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-2-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-2-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-2-2-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-17-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inchristmessage.org\/wordpress\/?p=70674","title":{"rendered":"1 Jhn Chap 2 &#8211;  Intimacy and Fellowship With The Father With Brenda Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2025 August 17th Streaming<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1 Jhn Chap 2 -  Intimacy and Fellowship With The Father With Brenda Gray\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ca83iIGZC08?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the first epistle of John, John identifies God as \u201cFather\u201d thirteen times either directly or indirectly referencing God\u2019s fatherhood with phrases such as \u201cbegotten Son,\u201d \u201cSon\u201d and \u201cchildren of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johns\u2019 use of the verb\u00a0<strong>\u201cgin\u014dsk\u014d\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0meaning\u00a0<strong>\u201cto know\u201d<\/strong>, (especially in the sense of experiential or relational knowledge) linked with the personal pronoun \u201cwe\u201d encapsulates the intimacy and fellowship within the God-head family.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus never claimed to be God the Father, but declared He was the means and access to the Father.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus said,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cI am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me\u201d (John 14: 6)<\/em><\/strong>, but somehow men and women are stuck admiring the \u201cWay\u201d aka \u201cJesus\u201d instead of \u201centering\u201d into their New Spiritual identity as a Spiritual Son of God \u201cthrough\u201d the Way.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Jesus was engulfed in attention from both followers and those who were against Him during His earthly ministry, but He never set out to draw attention to Himself. Instead, He always pointed His listeners to the Father.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus emphasized on numerous occasions that His sole purpose for coming into the world was to do the will of the Father.\u00a0<strong>John 6: 38<\/strong>\u2014<strong><em>For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will but the will of Him (God the Father) who sent Me.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Man-made religion has built \u201creligious tabernacles\u201d around the miracles, signs and wonders Jesus did during His earthly ministry creating a false perception of the Identity of the first-born Son of God and His purpose for coming into the world.<\/p>\n<p>Through religion, the god of this world has blinded men and women to who they become Spiritually through Spiritual birth, and for those who are Spiritually born-again to their true Spiritual identity as Sons of God.\u00a0<strong>(2 Corinthians 4:4<\/strong><em>\u00a0<strong>In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>I trust the Father that our knowledge and understanding will be illuminated by the Holy Spirit, tearing down every religious tabernacle and false Spiritual identity created by the enemy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 August 17th Streaming In the first epistle of John, John identifies God as \u201cFather\u201d thirteen times either directly or indirectly referencing God\u2019s fatherhood with phrases such as \u201cbegotten Son,\u201d \u201cSon\u201d and \u201cchildren of God.\u201d Johns\u2019 use of the verb\u00a0\u201cgin\u014dsk\u014d\u201d\u00a0meaning\u00a0\u201cto know\u201d, (especially in the sense of experiential or relational knowledge) linked with the personal pronoun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brenda-gray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inchristmessage.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inchristmessage.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inchristmessage.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inchristmessage.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inchristmessage.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.inchristmessage.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70676,"href":"https:\/\/www.inchristmessage.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70674\/revisions\/70676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inchristmessage.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inchristmessage.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inchristmessage.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}