Proof of Godliness I: John 12:8 Revelation 2:24 Mark 1:15 John 6:40,54 John 17:6

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Proof of Godliness I
What is Godliness? The term itself is a shortened word for God-likeness, that is, in the likeness of God or
like God, or the image of God. Godliness is the image of God. Now, what do you think of what you
consider the virtues that are demanded of you to be godly?
Does Godliness mean that you have to love as God is love, be holy as God is holy, merciful as He is
merciful, perfect as He is perfect, powerful as He is powerful, with all knowledge and wisdom and
understand, being of slowness to anger and compassionate, generous, peaceable and probably a million
other attributes that you could list of God as you get to know Him more and more? You could hold huge
debates and teaching seminars concerning what are the most important attributes of God. Holiness?
Sinlessness? His love and compassion? Whatever you consider, and whatever more you can add to this
list, you are probably right. Indeed, you are right, for they are all the attributes of God. All of them form
part of His image and we should have all of these in varying degrees.
That is what God is like, all power, loving, kind, gentle, just, merciful, slow to anger, compassionate, a
hater of evil, generous, wise, all knowing, understanding, a peace loving warrior, good, a Father, a Son,
patient and gracious, and the list goes on… even that of a servant’s attitude…
But what do you think is the most important of all of God’s own attributes in His eyes? What do you
think God expects the most from His image, the one thing that He must see in His image, so important is
this one attribute that without it, all the repentance and faith in Jesus’ Name counts for nothing?
To many, having power to do signs, wonders and miracles is the sign of godliness, but not to God, for the
false prophet can do false signs and wonders to deceive the very elect if that were possible. To others,
having love and compassion for the poor is the sign of godliness, but not to God, for Jesus said, “You will
always have the poor among you, but you will not always have Me.”1 To others still, being able to preach
and annunciate deep spiritual truth is the sign of godliness; but to Jesus it is not, for Satan’s so called
deep secrets2 can give what appears to be deep spiritual truths. To some, a life of an abundance of strict
rules of moralities of do’s and don’ts is a sign of godliness, but God prefers as few rules as possible, one
to Adam and one to the disciples of Jesus, whereas to those who are stiff-necked and do not want to
listen to Him, He added 608 rules, decrees and commands to the original ten commandments.
So, what is the one quality of godliness that God wants to see in His image, in you and me, before He
would accept you as the finished work of Jesus and not reject you?
Repentance and faith in the gospel begins the process, the process of salvation and sanctification, which
ultimately ends up with what God wants for Himself, which is a people that He can call His own to live
with Him in New Jerusalem without the need for a temple, whereby He and the Lamb will be its Temple.
Jesus said, “Repent and believe in the good news,”3 and those who believe in Him, He will raise to life on
the last day.4 We know God so loved the world that He sent Jesus, His One and Only Son to save the
world, but now know also that out of those who believe and are saved, God will raise up through the
Spirit of Sonship, the Holy Spirit, sons and daughters for Himself, who will be brought up to the fullness
of the stature of Christ. Now Jesus said, “I have revealed You (Your Name) to those whom You gave Me
out of the world.”5 And Jesus revealed much, all and more than the attributes of God I have listed, that
through Jesus, we have come to know His power, grace, mercy, love and so on… But what is the most
important authenticator of the perfect image of God? What is the ‘proof of Godliness’ that must be
present in every believer and disciple, every apostle, every prophet, every evangelist, every pastor,
every teacher, and even the elect of the Lord? Otherwise nothing they do, nothing they have believed in,
and nothing they have worked for will endure God’s fire of judgement.
The clue to the ultimate ‘proof of Godliness’ is held in two words of the gospel of Jesus, “For God so loved
the world, He gave His One and Only Son…” The first word indicating the reason and the action
prompted by the reason, a reason that is designated to be the only reason by that first word of the
sentence, “For” and the action, “gave”. It is because God forgave us that He saved us, and He saved us
in order that the one aspect of His Image, of His Person, that He wanted to be made known to all
creation and through all creation is that God forgives.
1
John 12:8
2
Revelation 2:24
3
Mark 1:15
4
John 6:40,54
5
John 17:6
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So important is forgiveness to God that Jesus said, “But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father
will not forgive your sins.”6 Notice that Jesus did not say, “If you do not forgive men their sins, God will
not forgive you,” but rather He said, “…your Father…” That means forgiveness of sins is of paramount
importance if you want to be in the family, because it doesn’t matter if you are a son of God and can do
miracles greater than Jesus and can reveal the highest and deepest secrets of God yet if you do not
forgive you are not forgiven, which makes you a son of God who is still subject to judgement. The fallen
angels were also sons of God, as they were called in the Old Testament,7 yet they are subject to
judgement. Likewise, anyone of us who has taken up the right to be a child of God through faith in Jesus
Christ and has grown up to be a son or daughter; if you do not forgive, God who has become your Father
because of your faith in Jesus, will still not forgive you. If you remain unforgiven by God, nothing you
have ever done counts for reward, and you will be like those who are snatched from the fire because God
is merciful.
God withheld the most precious attribute of His Being, forgiveness, from Satan and his cohorts, the
Beast, Death and the False Prophet. By withholding forgiveness from them, they could never possess
that one attribute God so values about Himself that He sent Jesus to reveal it to us.
Indeed, the first authority He gave Jesus before Jesus could say after the resurrection that He had
received all authority in Heaven and on Earth, was the authority to forgive sins. Jesus displayed His
possession of this authority when He said, “But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority
on Earth to forgive sins…” Then He said to the paraplegic, “Get up, take your mat and go home.”8 And it
is written: The Pharisees and the teachers of the Law began thinking to themselves, “Who is this fellow
who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”9 They were correct that God alone could
forgive sins, so Jesus, God on Earth, the Son of God, could forgive sins.
Through Jesus’ words, it is evident that God did not want to keep the privilege to forgive sins to Himself,
but rather He made it known that we who are made in His likeness, were to do likewise. So important is
this ability to forgive to be in us, His image, to make us truly godly, that Jesus told us clearly that it is
what we should pray for. “Father, forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors.”10 And He
warned us of the consequence of not doing it: “But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will
not forgive your sins.” And then after His resurrection, He gave the power to forgive sins in His Name to
the disciples: “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not
forgive them, they are not forgiven.”11
He gave us the power to enforce the authority He had, the same authority that He first had, which was to
authenticate and validate the purpose of His mission to save this world because the Father loved the
world, and the Father wanted to be known above all else that He is God who forgives sins.
When He revealed Himself to Moses, He introduced God to Moses saying, “The Lord, the Lord, the
compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to
thousands and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.”12 Forgiveness is so important in God’s eyes
concerning Himself, and therefore His image or likeness, that Jesus does not warn us that if we are not
compassionate to others, God would not be compassionate to us; or if we are not gracious to others, God
would not be gracious to us; or if we are not slow in anger to others, God would not be slow in anger to
us; or if we do not abound in love and faithfulness, God would not abound in love and faithfulness to us;
or if we do not maintain love to others, God would not maintain love to us; but if we “do not forgive men
their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.”
In forgiveness and unforgiveness alone is there tit for tat from God to us. So, if that does not tell you
that forgiveness is the all important ingredient that God wants in His likeness or image, then you have
missed the mark. Without forgiveness, Godliness is marred, and fearful judgment awaits all in order to
teach them how much God values forgiveness.
Everything that happened to Jesus, everything that Jesus did, was like a background prop to show off
FORGIVENESS.
Luke records for us Jesus’ forgiveness for those who crucified Him and reviled Him: “Father, forgive
them for they do not know what they are doing,”13 so that in the same way we could and should forgive
6
Matthew 6:15
7
Genesis 6:2; Job 1:6
8
Matthew 9:6
9
Luke 5:21
10
Matthew 6:12
11
John 20:22-23
12
Exodus 34:6-7
13
Luke 23:34

those who persecute us because they do not know what they are doing. That is, Jesus Himself putting
into practice that which He taught in Matthew 6:14, in a situation that few of us would find ourselves in,
that is forgiving those who are killing us even though we are innocent. He took the worst possible
scenario that men could do to another man, and He displayed forgiveness. The perfect Image of God’s
glory in the moment of His greatest suffering did not display power, not even grace, knowledge or
wisdom, and neither vengeance, but forgiveness. Having done that to those who did not know what they
were doing, He then took forgiveness to a place where few of us want to go, but He went there to show
us what going the extra mile means in forgiveness.
You can forgive those who do not know what they are doing, but what about those who know what they
are doing? How do you forgive them and say that you forgive them? And what if that person is God
Himself? Both Matthew and Mark rend only one saying from the cross: “Eloi, Eloi, Lama sabachthani?”14
What is so important about this saying that of the seven this is repeated in two Gospels, and in these
Gospels they are the only verses from the cross that are recorded, whereas Luke and John recorded three
each? When you look at it in this light, twice God wanted this verse, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” to
capture the attention of the reader concerning what Jesus spoke from the cross.
Firstly, before you get into an argument whether God did forsake Jesus or not, remember, Jesus does not
lie. If He said, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” it means that from Jesus’ perspective, God had forsaken
Him, even let Him down. And He was forsaken through no fault of His own. He, Jesus, was on that cross
as a sin offering by God’s will, and whatever Jesus said and did to end up pinned on that cross and
cursed was because of the Father’s will, not His own. Yet now, Jesus feels and genuinely without lying,
tells us and asks God, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?”
God commands us to forgive so that He could forgive us, yet God has already forgiven us, which is why
Jesus came to save the world. But how do you forgive God, especially if you are Jesus, because He has
forsaken You? You can just see Satan smiling with glee when he heard those words from our Lord’s
broken heart, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” Jesus had to experience the forsaking because we have felt
being forsaken by God from Adam till now; and we have always felt that it was not our fault. He didn’t
have to put that tree in the garden, and why did God make the devil in the first place? Why did God
allow the devil to tempt us? Why doesn’t God put a stop to this? Why do babies die? Why this, why
that? There are those who do not know God, but who feel forsaken by God, but worst of all is when you
do know God, you know all there is to know of God and you have done everything according to His
command, and still—God forsakes you! How bad does that make you feel?
The knowledge that God had forsaken Him would have made those nails seem like a walk in the park for
Jesus. Not once did Jesus say, “I am hurting,” because of the nails, for He knew the greatest hurt He
would ever feel was to experience the forsaking by God of a Man who had done God’s will. Listen again…
the greatest pain Jesus was to endure was the pain of a Man who had done God’s will to be forsaken by
God, not the pain of a man forsaken by God because he had not done God’s will, no, not Adam’s pain,
but the pain of the Son of God. Adam may have felt the pain of God’s forsaking when he was cast out of
the garden, but Adam did not do God’s will. Whatever our pain may be when we feel God has forsaken
us, it is nothing compared to the pain Jesus had to feel for us to receive God’s forgiveness, the pain of a
righteous Man, forsaken by God. In that darkness, it is as if Jesus could not look to God to give Him
justice and to give Him relief, which is a state of mind we cannot comprehend unless we have truly
become like Him.
What did Jesus do? Cry out, “Father, I forgive You!”? That would be an insult to His Father for that
would have meant that God had sinned against Jesus and had wronged Jesus. No, those were not the
words to be uttered, but Jesus showed us the way to go, the way a righteous Man forsaken by God even
though He had only done God’s will, should go. Jesus did not come off that cross, nor did He humiliate
His Father in the sight of His enemies by forgiving Him by speech, but by action. Jesus continued His
work on the cross, work that made Him thirsty, and even from the cross He gave salvation to those who
faced imminent death and could offer no wish of atonement except a confession of faith, like the thief
who said, “Jesus, remember me when You come into Your Kingdom with Your kingly power.”15 He
worked as a God-forsaken Man, doing and finishing God’s work until it was finished. When it was
finished, He declared it by saying, “It is finished.” John recorded: With that, He bowed His head and
gave up His spirit.16 But Luke recorded for us the final words, which were shouted, shouted in triumph,
the triumph of a God-forsaken righteous Man who had finished the work God had given Him, to show
once and for all, no matter what had happened, it did not change how Jesus felt about God, His Father.
Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit.”17
14
Mark 15:34; Matthew 27:46
15
Luke 23:42
16
John 19:30
17
Luke 23:46

God, You may have forsaken Me, but I still trust You. Jesus took forgiveness of sins to a height that
those who do not love or trust God can never go. He didn’t just mouth it, for so many of us say it yet we
betray our hearts with our actions. We forgive those who sinned against us and then we stay away from
them forever. Jesus took forgiveness into eternity, and through Him eternity is bathed… robed…
flooded… covered… with forgiveness, forgiveness that needs no words, for it was finished by action and
never made mention of again. So complete was the forgiveness that to speak of it is to insult it, but if
you understand what these words mean, “Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit,” then you would
have begun to understand the permanence and completeness of God’s forgiveness.
Not only has He forgiven us, He has committed Himself to be with us forever. Those words completed
the process of salvation and sanctification for Christ. God would have a people to Himself in New
Jerusalem where no temple is needed for the ritualistic washing away of sin, but where Jesus and He
would be its Temple. Forgiveness reigns supreme through a God-forsaken righteous Man who committed
His eternity to God.
Satan could no longer accuse God or God… neither the Father nor the Son… about his own treatment.
For if Satan had sinned, and no amount of complaining about God’s injustice to him, for after all God
made Satan, would amount to anything for it was drowned out. But the shout that drowned out all who
complained, were complaining and will complain, that God had forsaken them, was drowned out by Jesus
when He shouted in a voice, louder than any archangel’s, with words that outlast Heaven and Earth, “It is
finished. Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit.” That power to complete the task and to shout… no
whisper… to shout as only God could shout from a roman cross came from the Holy Spirit, the Unseen
One, the One who was with Him from the beginning to the end. It is no wonder; blasphemy of the Holy
Spirit, Jesus will not forgive.
So, elect, the power you have received is not to make you God-like through signs, wonders and miracles,
not through works of compassion and love, not through rituals of holiness and self-abasement, not even
holiness in the exclusivity of your love and loyalty for Jesus, no, not just that, it is for all of that and
more. That more is displayed in your ability to finish the race and complete the task that God has
appointed you even when you feel God-forsaken; to finish the task even when it seems that only the
Lake of Sulphur awaits you, yet to be able to say, “Father, into Your hands I commit my spirit,” just like
He did.
Thus, the practice of forgiveness of those who have sinned against you is merely ground work to learn to
forgive as Jesus forgave. The power of God that heals is the same power of God that kills. We are not
judges of the world of men but merely workmen to bring this world to repentance to receive the
forgiveness that God has for them, so that all from the least to the greatest will know God forgives, which
is why He is to be feared.
The Holy Spirit is given to disciples so that they have the power to forgive sins in the authority of Jesus’
Name. By pronouncing forgiveness, they loose on Earth what has been loosed in Heaven, but to ensure
that the precious forgiveness of God is not wasted, by that same power we heal the sick, shut up the
skies while we prophesy and strike the Earth with plagues as often as we wish.18 We let the blind see
and make those who claim to see blind with God’s terror. All this and more will we do so that every knee
will bow and every tongue confess as we have, that Jesus is Lord, so that all may enjoy the wonders of
New Earth and New Jerusalem together, forever with God.
Do not just forgive those who have sinned against you, but go the extra mile and create by the word of
faith in prayer, the circumstance of their lives that would bring them to the place where they too are co-
heirs with you. And, in the days to come, when you feel God-forsaken, remember you are in the
company of the only truly righteous Man who was God-forsaken, yet He said, “Father, into Your hands I
commit My spirit.”
If you think the going has been hard and the teachings are getting harder, you have yet to learn the
hardest lesson of all that only the Son of God can teach you from a roman cross. AMEN
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Revelation 11:6

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Proof of Godliness II
Proof of Brotherly Love
When you have spent some time in the Kingdom of God, you will learn to discern those who are empty
vessels making a lot of noise but have not love. There is love and then there is love. There is love that
is boisterous and boastful, always the first to speak, first to tell God what to do and the first to confess,
“Never, Lord…”1 and to promise the Lord that you will do this and that for the Lord. Even a love that is
ready to remind God what He is supposed to do for you as if He is your servant.
Just because Jesus came to serve because His Father showed Him that He is to serve, does not mean we
should treat Him as our servant. Nevertheless, I am, you are, we all are guilty of this form of love, love
that rejoices when the things are going well, and love that prompts us to open our mouths to make
promises to God and to remind God of all His promises to us. It is love, but not a love that you should
live in forever. It is the love of the immature and the young for the Father and God who they do not fully
understand or appreciate. A love that does not bring peace, but rather a love that creates obligations
rather than a love that sets free from obligations.
Peter had such a love at one time in his walk with the Lord, a love that caused him to call out to the Lord,
“Lord, if it’s You, tell me to come to You on the water,” only to then cry out, “Lord, save me!”2 A love
that when challenged face to face by the Lord’s question to Simon Peter: “Simon, Son of John do you
truly love Me more than these?” could only muster a reply like, “Yes, Lord, You know that I love (phileo)
You.”3 A love that brought him no peace; a love that made him ask the Lord, “Lord, what about him?”4
In the same way, Martha had a love and respect for Jesus, which was why she was busy preparing food
for Him, but it was a love that caused her to say, “Lord, don’t You care that my sister has left me to do
the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”5 It was a comment that must certainly have broken the peace
that Mary was experiencing when she was listening to Jesus, and indeed may even have distracted the
Lord as He had to stop teaching and turn to Martha, saying, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset
about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be
taken from her.”6
The distress, which is increasing upon the Earth that is now here and will be multiplying, will take away
from you and me the one thing that this world seeks more than love… peace. There are two types of
peace. A peace that is dependant on quietness and the environment, which surrounds you, or mood
setting, or friendship and love from those you hold dear, and a peace that cannot be broken even by the
insults of an accusing crowd, the silence of Your Father and the screams of pain from Your flesh as it is
torn apart on a roman cross.
We are all familiar with the first type of peace that is brought about by the noisy clanging of love, most
limited and shallow, a love that will not reciprocate agape with anything more than phileo. I have lived it
and given it as you have, for that was the peace and love that Jesus was experiencing as He moved His
ministry ever onwards to the cross. He had perfect peace and perfect love with the Father, but now His
suffering on the cross was going to perfect it for all of us to see and know. Perfect love and peace made
more perfect by suffering. In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through
whom everything exists, should make the Author of their salvation perfect through suffering.7
If everything exists for God and through God, then love and peace exist through God and for God, and it
was His intention to make Jesus’ love and peace for Him and with Him, go from perfection to perfection
through suffering.
So, before we start, learn this: it is not wrong or sinful to offer Jesus phileo love, just disappointing. It is
not wrong to love with the type that is boisterous, like a clanging cymbal, to be first to speak, first to
volunteer, and first to say, “Never, Lord,” just wearisome if that love does not learn to grow to the
fullness of what love is when it is perfected… PEACE.
Nowhere did Jesus ever say, “I love you,” not to His Father, not to His disciples, and not even to Mary.
Yet we know He loved them all. Indeed, His command to His disciples is, “Love each other as I have
1
Matthew 16:22
2
Matthew 14:28-30
3
John 21:15
4
John 21:21
5
Luke 10:40
6
Luke 10:41-42
7
Hebrews 2:10
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loved you.”8 Yet we go around telling each other and saying to each other, “I love you,” as brothers and
sisters, but we have forgotten our Master never said it… never.
Those of you who are in tune will say, no, but He lived it, and that is true, and likewise we must live it.
However, neither did Jesus ever say, “I give you My love. My love I give to you, not as the world gives.”
Now perhaps you are seeing what the true ‘proof of brotherly love’ is, for Jesus never said He would give
us His love because His love was only for the Father. But what Jesus gave to His brothers and sisters
was His peace. “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give you. I do not give as the world gives. Do not
let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”9
True brotherly love, the love of mature sons and daughters for each other and not as children, carries
with it peace. Peace, not as the world gives, which is conditional on treaties, promises, covenants even,
and conditions met in inspired settings and quiet circumstances. No, for such peace is fragile and can be
shattered by the first word that comes out of your mouth or someone else’s mouth when they cry out,
“Lord, don’t You care…” or, “Lord, save me!”
The world we are facing is not a world of quiet sunsets and peaceful sunrises, but a world lit up by the
fires of men and of the Earth, as men make war with each other and the Earth vomits the nations that
have defiled it out of itself. No, the world we are facing will be like the world Jesus faced when He was
on the cross; it will be screaming at you and your flesh will be screaming at you and you will feel like
screaming at God because of the silence of God that screams back at you. Indeed, there is every
likelihood that all of us will have to come to the place where we too will say, “Eloi, Eloi, lama
sabachthani,” even though we could never feel it the way it affected Jesus, for we are sinners made holy
by His grace and Jesus was the Holy One made sin through that same grace. As such, whether you do or
do not is irrelevant.
But what is relevant is for you to know what true brotherly love is, the love that gives peace, not the
peace of the world, but the peace of Jesus. As such, you will have to understand what that peace is.
It is the peace that Jesus forged for us upon the cross, the peace of a righteous Man, forsaken by
God because He obeyed God. The peace came by not passively submitting to the will of God, no; the
peace that is made, was made by a Man determined to finish His work, even if God had
forsaken Him. It is the peace Jesus made for all men with God between the time He cried out, “Eloi,
Eloi, lama sabachthani,” to when He shouted, “It is finished. Father, into Your hands I commit My
spirit.”10 It is the peace of the Man who determined to Himself that He would finish the race assigned to
Him regardless of whether God was for Him or not for Him. In those hours, Jesus made a peace with
God that could never be broken, for it was a peace forged without conditions, without treaty, without
covenant and without the promised circumstances and prerequisites. It is the peace that only a God-
forsaken Man can make with God, even when He had done no wrong. It is a peace not even God could
break, and if it is a peace that not even God could break, then no one else, no angel, no demon, no devil,
no man and no woman could break it.
Jesus made that peace, for from His mouth there never came a cry, “Lord, don’t You care?” or, “Lord,
save Me!” …nor a word holding God to His promise, but just a question that wanted to probe an
unthinkable truth, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”11 If Jesus was not addressing that to
the Father alone, the ramifications of the despair He felt is unspeakable and unthinkable. Having
received no answer to His question, Jesus made no further attempts of enquiry or entreaty, but forged
ahead and fulfilled Isaiah 59:16: He saw that there was no One, He was appalled that there was no One
to intervene; so His own arm worked salvation for Him, and His own righteousness sustained Him.
Lifting Himself up by His own nail-fixed hands and arms, the Lord fought for every breath as if to suck in
every bit of air in the world into His holy lungs and breathe them out again, holy, purified by the blood of
His lungs so that the power of the prince of the air would be broken, even as His blood would trickle to
the ground to pay for the blood of the lamb His Father had killed to cover up His naked image.12
All alone on that cross in the darkness, the Prince of Peace worked, and with every breath He inhaled and
exhaled, He broke the power of the prince of the air until it was finished. For the air He exhaled was
coated with His blood. It was not air that entered and exited the body through a veil of flesh as it does in
the lungs of a man, but it was air that bubbled through the blood that broke through the veil of flesh that
was in His lungs, as His straining efforts to breath on that cross burst the tissue of His lungs, and blood
and air mixed without the veil of flesh. Truly, blood-sanctified air emerged from His nostrils and lips, all
8
John 15:12
9
John 14:27
10
John 19:30; Luke 23:46
11
Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34
12
Genesis 3:21

coated with that blood spilt by the night’s torture, but by the Law of the Temple, holy air was released,
His, made holy by His blood that broke the power of the prince of this world, air breathed out by the
Prince of Peace.
The sound of unbreakable peace, a peace that even God cannot break is the sound of a righteous Man
dying on a roman cross. It is not a sound of sweet melody and chimes, of wind blowing through the
willow trees gently, or of birds singing, nor the sound of peace that comes from the world, but the sound
of peace from Jesus.
That is the peace He made. A peace He forged by finishing the task without another word to the One
who should have not forsaken Him, for after all, it was His will that pinned Him there. Not another word
to Him until it was finished, and then when it was finished, He committed Himself to the One who had
forsaken Him. Peace unbreakable, because not even God could break it, a peace that can only be made
from agape love, love that quietly fulfils the requirements without a word of demand.
We cannot begin to appreciate the true peace forged by Jesus Christ unless we understand what it is to
suffer for doing the right things in God’s eyes. That is why if you should read the apostles’ letters in
ignorance of the Lord’s command to listen to Jesus,13 you will distort them like those who are ignorant
and unstable, as Peter wrote in 2 Peter 3:16. Unstable because their love is based on phileo at most,
and their peace is maintained only by the keeping of treaties, promises and conditions under the right
circumstances. Ignorant because they do not know Him for they have not listened to Him. They know of
Him and His Name, but they can barely see the surface of Him because they do not really believe Him,
which is why they take no pleasure in listening to Him. They search the scriptures for life and the power
of life, or rather for a powerful life, but they do not go to Him. Perhaps they are not permitted.
But, the understanding of the peace of Christ begins as Peter wrote to the church: But if you suffer for
doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. To this you were called, because Christ
suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His steps.14 When they hurled their
insults at Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats. Instead, He entrusted
Himself to Him who judges justly.15
He who loved the disciples so much that He gave His life for them (and for us), yet never said to them
that He loved them, though He showed them by His sacrifice, had this to say as soon as He was in their
midst again: “Peace be with you!”16 …and later when Thomas was also there, He said, “Peace be with
you.”17 The first word from Him who loved them was not “love” or “I” as “I love you” begins with, but the
first word was, “Peace…” Not the peace as the world gives, which is a breakable peace, a peace that
even men could break, no, but a peace that not even God could break.
With that first word, He gave us the firstfruit of His labour on the cross, the unbreakable peace of the
Prince of Peace, so that through Him and in Him we would always have peace with God. The proof of His
love for His brothers was the peace offering of unbreakable peace, unbreakable not even by God.
So, if we are to love one another as He loved us, then we must begin to make a peace that even God
cannot break. It is the peace made by a forsaken righteous Man, a Man who suffered for doing good. If
brothers and sisters forsake you, take the example of Jesus and continue working for them as Jesus
continued working for the Father without retaliation and threats, even without recourse, until the work is
finished and then into their hands commit yourself. For in so doing, you have committed yourself already
to God long before your brothers and sisters began to forsake you and hate you, or began to betray you.
The days that are coming are days when the insincere will join us, when brothers will betray brothers and
when antichrists are amongst us (those who make themselves to be liars by denying their own testimony
of Jesus Christ that they have professed to us), and days of war when peacemakers are those who make
the unbreakable peace. A peace not even God can break is the ‘proof of brotherly love’ worthy of the
Prince of Peace. AMEN
13
Matthew 17:5; Mark 9:7; Luke 9:35
14
1 Peter 2:20-21
15
1 Peter 2:23
16
Luke 24:36
17
John 20:26

Proof of Manliness I – Behold the Man
“My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”1
Jesus came knowing that He would have to fulfil all that was written in the Law and the Prophets, and
this He did, as He declared, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have
not come to abolish them but to fulfil them.”2 The words of the Law and the Prophets are the words of
God spoken by God either directly to Moses or in the case of the prophets, through those prophets as
they declared, “This is what the Lord says, ‘…’ ” or, “Thus says the Lord.”
As the Son of God, it is therefore not a surprise that He should fulfil the Law and the Prophets and not
destroy them, for God cannot destroy His word. Fulfilling them perfectly in a way that men had never
been able to so that for those who put their faith in Him, the righteousness that comes by fulfilment of
the Law and the Prophets would be credited to those who believe. In order to prove that the fulfilment of
the Law and the Prophets is so perfect, so complete, He commanded those who believe in Him to break
the Law and have themselves cut off from God according to the Law and rely on nothing but faith in Him
for their righteousness. It is no different to walking on water physically.
That which was written in the Psalms, which is from the mouth of God, gave no hint of the price He would
have to pay in order to fulfil the Psalms. Indeed, none of the promises of God in the Psalms would point
to the darkness He would have to face, for the words of a psalmist are the words of a sinful man, a son of
Adam. Now on the cross, the process of His fulfilment of the words of man that had been uttered to God
began, so that He would be truly the Son of Man as well as the Son of God, descending Him to the depths
of fulfilling for the psalmist David’s cry, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”3
How often had those words been uttered by men who had sinned and wronged God, and how often had
these men rebelled against God? The ancestors of David were notorious in this crime, complaining to
God time and again in the desert that He had led them out of Egypt to die. Each time, God in His
graciousness had turned up and delivered them from starvation, from thirst, from their enemies and from
death. Each time in the weakness of men, God heard their cry, their accusatory cry and God had
delivered them by His grace, for in truth, God had never forsaken men, but it was men who sinned and
rebelled against God and so it was men who had forsaken God. Indeed, Psalm 22:1 made and makes all
men and women to be liars.
Like Job, all men have felt unrighteously punished by God when sudden disasters befall them, disasters
they feel that their piety should have earned them the right to be protected from, and like Job, they have
sat and demanded an answer from God. Sinful men wanting to know why a righteous and holy God
would even think of forsaking them, never realising that it is to the glory of God that God did not forsake
sinful men, but sent His One and Only Son to save them when He made the promise to Satan, “And I will
put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will crush your head,
and you will strike His heel.”4 Until Jesus, there had never been a man who did not deserve to be
forsaken by God, for all have sinned.
Now through Jesus Christ, He who is without sin but was made a sin offering for us, God’s forsaking of
Him upon the cross would permit man to attain a righteousness with God that cannot never by declared
null or rejected by God. A standard of righteousness that, as it was, exceeded even that of God’s, for
God had forsaken a Man of no sin, but who was made sin by His will. God had forsaken a Man who had
obeyed every command given to Him, not just the one to Adam, or the ten to Moses or the six hundred
and eight to Israel, but all of them, even the ones of loving your enemies and forgiving those who sinned
against you and not turning away those who came to Him, as well as the one about leaving your mother
and father for the sake of the Gospel.
When Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing,”5 He fulfilled the
commands of loving His enemies and of forgiving those who sinned against Him, and as such, the Father
had to forgive Him even though He, Jesus, was now made sin. When He said, “I tell you the truth, today
you will be with Me in Paradise,”6 He put into practice not just the word of forgiveness, but the act of
forgiveness, “Do good to those who hate you.”7 For the thief who confessed Him had been heaping
1
2
Matthew 5:17
3
Psalm 22:1
4
Genesis 3:15
5
Luke 23:34
6
Luke 23:43
7
Luke 6:27,35
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insults on Him as well, as it is written: In the same way the robbers who were crucified with Him also
heaped insults on Him.8 And when He said, “Dear woman, here is your son,”9 He fulfilled the command
to leave our father and mother for the sake of the Gospel. Notice, He did not call her “mother”, not once,
not at Cana at the wedding, and not now. There was no pleading from His heart to His mother. Up to
this point, Jesus was fulfilling the Law and the Prophets, including the New Covenant Laws and the words
of the New Covenant Prophet, the words He Himself had uttered as the Father showed Him what to say.
So the Son of God fulfilled the Law and the Prophets of Israel, showing Himself truly to be the Son of
David, the true heir to the throne of David, and also the Law and the Prophet of the New Covenant,
showing Himself indeed to be the Lamb of God, the Son of God with whom God is well pleased.
But now, from the sixth hour to the ninth hour, darkness came over all the land; 10 darkness so thick that
it was as if the Light of God’s Face had been veiled. It was as if the words of Isaiah were being fulfilled
before Him. And if One looks at the land, He will see darkness and distress; even the light will be
darkened by the clouds.11 And the promise of God would bear fruit: “I will give You the treasures of
darkness, riches stored in secret places so that You may know that I am the Lord, the God of Israel who
summons You by Name.”12 And so Jesus waited… in silence… in darkness from the sixth hour to the
ninth hour, for as He had said, “Night is coming when no one can work…”13 So He too rested from His
work on that cross in the hours of light from the third to the sixth hour, waited as the Lord had
commanded, “Sit in silence, go into darkness…”14 though His bent position on the cross was a very cruel
exaggeration of a seated position. Nevertheless, He waited for deliverance until He could bear it no
more… until the words of David that had been churning in His soul and heart burst forth from His mouth
and He said, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” Except now, these words are coming not from a sinful man
that God had a right to forsake, but from the only sinless Man who had earned the right to be forgiven
even of His state of being made sin (the sin offering), for He had forgiven His enemies. When those
words came bursting forth from Him there at that instant, like the instant when God said, “Let there be
light,” and there was, there existed a Man whose righteousness exceeded God’s. For this was a Man God
had no right to forsake, not a man God had a right to forsake because He had disobeyed God, no, but a
Man who had fulfilled the Law and the Prophets for His forefathers and then fulfilled all the commands
given Him by God to teach, a Son of Adam, a Son of Man who should never have been thrown out of
Eden.
At that moment, Jesus Christ became the only righteous Man forsaken by God and crucified by men, fully
God and fully Man, dying on the cross for a crime and sin He did not commit, a sin originated by Satan
and committed by Adam, a sin that God would not forgive without the shedding of blood, blood that He
had been shedding from the moment the first blow landed on His body. He had been making the peace
with God as He waited in the silence of the darkness, with not a word of complaint, sitting as it was in
silence in the darkness.
But now, at the ninth hour, He became a Person unlike any other amongst men or ‘gods’, for amongst
the ‘gods’, there were those who had obeyed and had never been forsaken, and those who disobeyed and
are now locked up in Hell [Tartarus] in gloomy dungeons [into chains of darkness],15 the same darkness
that had been laid on Him for three hours.
Except, He is God who obeyed God yet was forsaken by God; and as for man, not since Adam had there
been a Man so complete in obedience that the only way for sin to enter Him was for Him to be made sin.
For all men had sinned except Jesus Christ. So, as He entered that last hour on the cross, by His words,
“Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” He became Himself the firstfruit of the New Creation, Righteous God and
Righteous Man, forsaken by God, truly a Person, who being fully God and fully Man, with a righteousness
that exceeded even that of God, thus even the perfect righteousness of God had become perfected in His
suffering.
Against Him, all words of Satan and his angels would carry no weight at all in their accusations. Against,
Him, not even the judgment of God would carry any weight, for He exceeded the measure required when
He righteously said these words of Man to God, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
Now at that moment, He could, if He wanted, raise Himself even above the throne of God, for He now
had a righteousness that exceeded that of the throne. Indeed, He became the Man who fulfilled Satan’s
ambitions when Satan said in his heart, “I will ascend to Heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of
8
Matthew 27:44
9
John 19:26
10
Matthew 27:45
11
Isaiah 5:30
12
Isaiah 45:3
13
John 9:4
14
Isaiah 47:5
15
2 Peter 2:4

God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. I will
ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”16 Indeed, Jesus became a
self-made Man at that moment, a Man whose righteousness exceeded God’s, for He had been forsaken
by God for obeying God perfectly. For a moment, Satan might have thought at least he had succeeded in
destroying the Oneness of God, and so in fact destroyed God. However, as always, Satan
underestimated God, and in horror, he watched God the Son become the New Man, and as a Man, fulfil
the Law of the New Covenant that He had uttered Himself: “If someone forces you to go one mile, go
with him two miles.”17 And He continued to now fulfil not just that which is written about Him in the Law
and the Prophets, but that which is written about Him, the Man, in the Psalms.
Knowing that He had been forsaken by God, He chose not to take up the power that was still His as God
the Son, to come off that cross and ascend into Heaven to confront the Father, but continued to labour as
the Man that He is, labouring until all was now completed.18 And to show that He finished it, not as the
Son of God but as the Son of Man, He said, “I am thirsty.”19 And when His own kind gave Him only wine
vinegar soaked in a sponge instead of water, He received it and said, “It is finished.”20 Then, with a last
effort… with a shout… He finished the extra mile and fulfilled David’s promise as a righteous Man forsaken
by God, not as a sinful man delivered by God: “From You comes the theme of My praise in the great
assembly; before those who fear You will I fulfil My vows,”21 and with a shout He cried out in a loud
voice, “Father, into Your hands, I commit My spirit.” When He had said this, He breathed His last.22
With that last breath, He tore apart forever the veil of flesh that separated the blood of God from the
power of the air, and forever cleansed the air that gave the prince of this world the power through sin.
For the first breath of God on this Earth went into the lungs of a man who became sinful, now the last
breath of a forever righteous Man would negate forever the power of the prince of the air. In showing all
creation the absolute completion of His work, the curtain in the temple separating the Holy Place from the
Holies of Holies was torn, and men could see for themselves there was no Ark of the Covenant in the
temple made by sinful men anymore.
Once and for all, in Him all sin was washed away. Indeed, for those who abide in Him, there would never
be, could never be any accusation from Satan or men that could kill, or judgment from God that could
destroy. In Him, all men and women would be kept safe from all accusations and judgment, and from
that moment on, men only needed to abide in Him by faith, and they would become just like Him, a new
creation. A new creation… one that had never existed before, not amongst the gods or men.
He started the work as Son of God and He finished it as Son of Man, going the way of all men, dying
because of sin, yet because He was forsaken by God for obeying God, not even death had power over
Him, the Man. To fulfil His vow, He did not take up the right that He had to take up His life again, but
having committed His spirit to the Father, with forbearance on the Holy Spirit to vindicate Him, He sealed
the Oneness of God forever so that even God forsaking God could not break the unity and peace of God.
And just as He sealed it, He brought into that unbreakable unity and peace, a unity and peace that even
God cannot and could not break, all those who are and will be in Him. So that those who abide in Him
would also be sealed in a bond of peace and unity that no one, not even God can break.
He fulfilled to God and for God the words of Moses when Moses said to Israel, “Do not be afraid or
terrified because of them; He will never leave you or forsake you.”23 Yet on that cross, even Moses was
proved a liar, for God did forsake Jesus Christ, fully God and fully righteous Man, on that roman cross so
that through Jesus, God would raise up for us One who not only will not forsake us, but would not forsake
God. Indeed, raising up for us a Saviour, superior to any other, so that when the writer of the Hebrew
was to write his letter, Deuteronomy 31:6 did become: …because God has said, “Never will I leave you;
never will I forsake you.”24 Jesus Christ, Son of Man and Son of God, though forsaken by men and God,
has forsaken no one. In this is our confidence in Him when He said, “And surely I am with you always, to
the very end of the age.”25 By faith in Him we live in the Man and the Man lives in us, the Man who did
not forsake God even when God forsook Him.
Now - to aspire to be a man like Jesus Christ without ever considering the God He is, to befriend and to
love Him and to behold Him the Man. Yet, unless one has the full power and trust of God that He does,
16
Isaiah 14:13-14
17
Matthew 5:41
18
John 19:28
19
John 19:28
20
John 19:30
21
Psalm 22:25
22
Luke 23:46
23
Deuteronomy 31:6
24
Hebrews 13:5
25
Matthew 28:20

as fully God-like, and then choose to be fully man, never will anyone understand what it is to be fully
man, man in the fullness of the image of God. An image so dear to God that He would not destroy it with
a flash of His anger as He will this present Earth and Heavens. An image so precious that He would stoop
once more, not to fashion it, but to kill to cover it, shedding blood He did not have, blood that the Word
made Flesh would have to atone for the injustice to all the lambs that were slain.
That is why to bring true justice to Jesus, those whom He gave His flesh and blood (His life) for, must do
the things He had been doing and even the greater things so that He is proven to be at the right hand of
God in submission to God who forsook Him. Us doing the greater things is the proof of the unbreakable
peace and unity that Jesus Christ has wrought with His own hands and life.
And in the days to come, we will understand more of Him who is God who became Man, so that those
who are men might become ‘gods’ like Him. To those who valued not their lives as men or women for
the sake of their testimony of Him and His word, He is about to give the privilege of living as a god
amongst men. The millennial reign of Christ that is hurtling towards us at more than 1000 kph, will see
men and women who died for Him and His Gospel, return to reign with Him with the same power He has
to fulfil His promise to all overcomers. For 1000 years, those who return and those who remain alive to
see Him arrive, will live as gods among men, fulfilling the fantasy and the mythology of the fallen Greek
gods in a way they could only dream of as they gnash their teeth in the darkness of Tartarus.
Doxology: As our brother has said, “Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable His judgments, and His paths beyond tracing out! Who has known the mind of the
Lord? Or who has been His counsellor? Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him? For
from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.26
And indeed, He is the Amen, the Great Amen. He who alone knows the mind of God, He who is at the
right hand of God to counsel Him, He who has given more to God than God can repay Him… Jesus Christ
the Man.
So why do men not listen to Him? How foolish are those who use His Name and believe in Him not to
listen to Him, for I tell you, if you would but be still and sit in silence in the darkness, the sounds made
by Him from the cross that no words can express, will show you the depth of the riches of the wisdom
and knowledge of God, who is Jesus Christ, the Son of God, God Almighty Himself, who now holds the
Unity of God and the Peace of God in Him by His word. If God trusts Him so, how foolish are men who
will not trust in Him?
The Man of men, the God of gods, King of kings and Lord of lords, Jesus Christ as much Man as He is
God.
26
Romans 11:33-36

Proof of Manliness is Not a Matter of Power II
I have often taught you and others that it is not a matter of whether you trust God, but rather whether
God can trust you. The degree to which God can trust you is the degree to which He will show you not
His power, but rather His softness, patience, compassion, love and the truth that God can be hurt by
rejection and disobedience.
Miraculous power that a man or a woman can be trusted with is merely the edge of the circle of privacy
that God has built around His sanctuary. To Abraham, or rather concerning Abraham, God asked this
question, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?"1 God trusted Abraham enough to reveal
to Abraham what His plans were concerning Sodom and Gomorrah, and Abraham bargained with God,
saying, "Will You sweep away the righteous with the wicked? What if there are fifty righteous people in
the city?"2 And we have the famous bargaining session of Abraham with God, with Abraham stopping too
soon at ten, not realising that with men, there may only be one righteous man in a whole city.
A lesson to learn from Abraham: when God announces to you His plans to sweep away the wicked
because of their sin, have no doubt that God would also sweep the righteous away, but rather, enquire of
God what His plans of deliverance for the righteous are, for indeed God had a plan for the deliverance of
Lot even before Abraham began his bargaining.
Two men who are probably better men than any of us were trusted with the miraculous power of God.
Elijah, who when he was afraid and angry, called fire down from Heaven and killed 100 men.3 And
Elisha, who when taunted by youths for being bald, called curses down on them so that the bears mauled
the youths.4 Moses alone, of the men of true power of the Old Testament, never used the power that
was his to use against those who opposed him, but rather, he let God decide the fate of Korah and his
followers. From amongst the kings of Israel who were not gifted with miraculous power but temporal
power of military, financial, political and intellectual, not one of them succeeded in not succumbing to the
power entrusted to them, not even David.
In this light then, what sort of a man can be trusted with full miraculous power and temporal power
except Jesus Christ the Man? Satan’s temptation of the Lord to change stones to bread was to tempt
Him to use His miraculous powers to relieve Himself of His temporal suffering. The temptation to use
miraculous powers to relieve ourselves of the sufferings that we must undergo for the sake of obeying
God, is the greatest temptation a man needs to overcome.
It is not a temptation ordinary men and miraculously powerless men would face. Indeed, when they
succumb to the temptations of the flesh without power, they have not qualified to be entrusted with
miraculous power. Those, who seek the power of God without understanding what a temptation it is to a
man, are always sorely disappointed when they find that for all their sacrifices they receive no power.
It is a basic fact that no one would trust you who do not listen to instructions in the first place. And if
you do not pass the initial tests of due diligence and the requisites of character, you will not be trusted
further with anything. It is to be noted that even if you give up fields, father, mother, brothers, sisters,
wife, sons, daughters and houses for the sake of Jesus and His gospel, all you get back is persecution
and a 100-fold of what you gave up, and in the age to come you get eternal life,5 whereas eternal life
according to Jesus begins now.6 Eternal life as Jesus defined it is: "that they may know You, the only
true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent." Notice that for all the sacrifices of Mark 10:29, a
disciple does not get miraculous power, just more temporal blessings to keep them happy until the next
age.
Remember that the power of God will always deliver those who trust in Him, but is only delivered by
those whom He trusts. God trusted Jesus Christ impeccably. He trusted Him to finish the work even if
He forsook Him at the ninth hour on the cross. If God trusts Him that much, then are we not insulting
God if we do not trust Jesus, and if we do not trust Jesus, how can God trust us? When I speak of
trusting Jesus, I am not speaking of trusting as a child would trust, for the trust of a child is blind,
blinded by love. No, the trust of the mature must be with the eyes of the mature. Eyes well seasoned
with failures and successes. Eyes that are cynical with wisdom and not with disbelief. Eyes that have
seen the miracles of God deliver them again and again, and yet if God was to forsake them at the ninth
1
Genesis 18:17
2
Genesis 18:23-24
3
2 Kings 1:10,12
4
2 Kings 2:23-24
5
Mark 10:29-30
6
John 17:3
Harder Teachings XXIV – Book of Hours IV – 1 of 3

hour, it was fine with them, for into His hands they would commit their spirit. That is what Jesus showed
us of what God expects from the Man who is truly His image.
Imagine the temptations of these words: "You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three
days, save Yourself! Come down from the cross, if You are the Son of God!"7 and, "He saved others, but
He can't save Himself! He's the King of Israel! Let Him come down now from the cross, and we will
believe in Him."8 At the early hours on the cross, such cries were taunts that though tempting, were not
really that tempting, for after all, God was still with Him. But you and I know that we have been blessed
with memory to remember what was said about us and against us, so that at the ninth hour, after Jesus
said, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"9 those taunts would have been the greatest source of temptation.
Now see the Lord at the ninth hour and God has forsaken Him. From God, it would appear that there is
no vindication for His sacrifice, yet at the same time, He is God and in Him was still the power to come
off that cross and show those who taunted Him as well as His disciples John and Mary and the other
women, that He is indeed who He said He is. You see, if God had not forsaken Him, then Jesus Christ the
Man would not have faced the greatest temptation of all, a temptation so great that not even the devil
could do it. For the greatest temptation a man can face is to take the full power of God that he is
entrusted with and become Satan, who is one who does not have in mind the things of God but of man.
How often have you been tempted and succumbed to roar against the injustices that you face when
people slander you, accuse you, persecute you and so on, when you are probably guilty of at least half of
what they accuse you of? I know I have. And in those times, if you had the power to do so, wouldn’t
you have just wanted to do a display of something to show them that you are right and they are wrong?
Fortunately, none of us have full power entrusted to us, otherwise imagine the harm we would do.
Because we fail such temptations, Jesus had to experience it and overcome it.
If you thought Jesus never experienced the temptation to come off that cross after the Father forsook
Him because He is the Son of God who obeys the Father all the time, then you have denied that Jesus
Christ is the Son of Man who He says He is, and you have disbelieved Him.
You see, when they asked Him, "Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?"10 Jesus did not only
answer their question, saying, "I am," that is, "I am the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One," but added,
"And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of
Heaven."11 But in that last hour, forsaken by God, Jesus overcame the greatest temptation that a Son of
Man could face, a Man with the full power of God to vindicate Himself, because after all, God had
forsaken Him despite His obedience. You see, if Jesus had come off that cross, He would have proved
before all His enemies and His disciples that He is the Messiah, the Son of God, but He would have
destroyed forever God’s plan, God’s plan that salvation should come to man by the grace of God through
faith. If Jesus succumbed, He would still be able to bless those who believed Him, but He would have
destroyed His Father’s plans and become Himself Satan, a man who had not in mind the things of God
but of man.
But when He said, "Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit,"12 He truly became the Author of our
salvation, for He committed His own salvation to the grace of God by faith. He became the first
Fruit of God’s salvation through faith, for Jesus Himself now committed His spirit into His Father’s keeping
by faith and trusting in His faith. Why is this significant even for Jesus? Because God does not change
and He has said, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I
will have compassion,"13 and likewise, it also means that without it having been spoken, He will forsake
whom He chooses to forsake. Jesus knows the Father better than all of creation does, and He knows
fully why God who has compassion on whom He will have compassion, has also received the right to
forsake whom He chooses to forsake. As such, if God has forsaken Him, Jesus knows that He is
displaying the unspoken side of His Father, "I will forsake whom I choose to forsake, and I will withhold
mercy from whom I choose to withhold mercy."
Now all men have no power to change God’s destiny for them, or to change their present situation
instantly, only the man who has the full power of God does. Jesus did in the darkness of the last hour on
the cross, and with those taunts rattling in His mind, He fought the greatest battle man has ever fought
with Satan, the man who does not have in mind the things of God. Those taunts were not of God, for if
Jesus displayed full power on the cross, salvation would not be by faith through the grace of God, but by
7
Matthew 27:40
8
Matthew 27:42
9
10
Mark 14:61
11
Mark 14:62
12
Luke 23:46
13
Exodus 33:19

knowledge of the power of God. The knowledge of the full power of God causes no salvation, only
judgment, for to those who have been given much, much is demanded. Had Jesus come off that cross in
that last hour, then judgment for all men had come, and there would be no man, not even Jesus Christ,
who would not and has not become Satan, one who does not have in mind the things of God but of man.
Had Jesus failed that test, there would be no church age. There would be no one saved through faith in
Him, but all would be subject to judgment only, for it would have proved that God could not trust man to
be truly the fullness of His image, and man cannot be the fullness of the image of God without having the
full power of God at his disposal as God does. And if man cannot ever be the image of God that God
made him to be, then Satan the devil has proved himself correct and God to be wrong in making man
and then killing to cover his nakedness exposed by sin. Indeed, if Jesus had come off that cross to
vindicate Himself because God had forsaken Him, then Satan the devil could rightly raise himself above
God, for after all he is the model of perfection. God was no longer perfect if Jesus came off that cross,
for the image of God at full power was imperfect. Now, the only one left would be the model of
perfection himself who was perfect.
The momentous battle within Jesus Himself, the Man at full power, not to take up His right of vindication
but to lay it in trust to God’s grace by faith, flung open forever the door of salvation for all men who
would follow Him.
Hebrew 2:10 says that He is the Author of our salvation, and indeed He is because He laid down the full
power of God as a Man to trust in God’s grace to save Him. Because of this, all who believe in Him, all
who listen to Him, all who practise His word, have the right to be just like Him.
Thus, the privilege of being a man at full power is the proof that Jesus Christ is truly the Author of
salvation of all men because He overcame the temptation of full power as a Man and not as God. The
failure to identify with Jesus, the righteous Man at full power on the cross forsaken by God, is what
prevents any of us to be trusted with full power. Trust is not proven by word but by action. So, it should
be no wonder that you are faced with little trials of persecution to see how you would pray. Would you
call down fire from Heaven to consume your enemies or curses on those who taunt you? If you do, you
belong to the Old Covenant, not the New Covenant.
However, through your persecutions you will receive discipline to be trusted with full power, so that from
any of us God can raise up witnesses who can shut up the skies while they are prophesying, change
water to blood, strike and consume their enemies with fire from their mouths, and strike the cities with
plagues as often as they wish. Any of us can be those witnesses of the power in Revelation 11 if you
have learned to submit to God your spirit like Jesus, and when the time comes, to allow the Beast from
the Abyss to attack you and overpower you and kill you.
It is not those who are prepared to die for God who are trusted with full power. No, it is those who are
prepared not to defend themselves and vindicate themselves by their own power, who are trusted with
the all of God. And Jesus Christ the Man did just that as a Man full of the power of God and yet did not
vindicate Himself before man or God.
You have been given a taste of power beginning with God’s power delivering you when you prayed and a
little bit more as you stretched out your hand, and as persecution came, you were tempted to vindicate
yourself with the available power you had, like all men, but the Man of men did not. That is the attitude
we must learn and acquire and have before full power is given, or else it will destroy us. For any of us
who fall into the temptation of vindicating ourselves when we have full power, have done what Jesus did
not do to bring salvation through faith in God, and as such, have dropped ourselves out of Christ. And at
what level did we drop out of Christ? Full power… what sacrifice then is left for us?
No, our juvenile attitudes have correctly exposed us. We have not been fit for full power because we had
no understanding of the true Man who is Jesus Christ and what He overcame.
Let him who has ears hear. Amen.

Proof of Manliness III
Jesus begged the Father three times in the Garden of Gethsemane, “Father, if You are willing, take this
cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done.” Such was the anguish that an angel appeared from
Heaven to strengthen Him, and as Luke recorded for us: He prayed more earnestly and His sweat was
like drops of blood falling to the ground.1 PT
If you were only reading Luke, you would think Jesus only asked once, but Matthew and Mark record that
He asked three times, saying, “Abba, Father, everything is possible for You. Take this cup from Me. Yet
not what I will, but what You will.” 2 In the darkness of Gethsemane, the Manliness of Jesus began to
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shine… shine not as the Son of God with power that He could face the coming crucifixion without anxiety
and anguish, but with the weakness of a man, the frailty of man when faced with a challenge that seems
beyond overcoming. He pleaded for Himself as any man would plead. He put Himself to such weakness
that when an angel appeared from Heaven, the angel actually strengthened Him. An angel, one of His
servants, one of His creation, actually strengthened the Lord of lords, the God of all angels, the God who
made all angels and sustains them by His powerful word was now in such anguish as a Man that He was
being strengthened by one.
Perhaps this was the same angel who provided the food for Elijah when he was running away from
Jezebel’s threats in 1 Kings 19:5-7. For men like Elijah, and like us, to walk in faith with God and
experience great miraculous triumphs like the sacrifice on Mount Carmel and then to charge forward to
the next encounter only to flee in fear at the first whiff of opposition is normal. That is the nature of men
of faith, and if men with miraculous power would flee from threats to their lives, do not for a moment
think that the manifestation of full power in you will stop you from running from the battlefield.
It is written: As the time approached for Him to be taken up to Heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for
Jerusalem.3 And when He was warned by Pharisees that Herod wanted to have Him killed, Jesus replied,
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“Go tell that fox, 'I will drive out demons and heal people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will
reach My goal.' In any case, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day—for surely no
prophet can die outside Jerusalem!” 4 Note that He thought He would die in Jerusalem, when in truth, He
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died outside Jerusalem. The Son of God who He is, was setting out in full determination to have His day
in Jerusalem, and no threat of Herod would stop Him. He did not believe He would die in going to
Jerusalem, He knew He would. And in this reply before His enemies and disciples, He showed no sign of
the weakness of man.
So, we think and discount the Man who is Jesus Christ, and consider Him as being Son of God that He
could not understand us. To man, God was merely and has always been watching from a distance, not
realising God had become fully Man through Jesus Christ so that He would experience and know all that is
in man and overcome them being a Man, in order that He could truly be our Advocate before the Judge.
In fulfilling the Law and the Prophets as the Son of Man and Son of God, He showed that the Law and the
Prophets could only be fulfilled by a Man who is the Son of God, therefore by the Law, no man could be
justified, and since the Law could justify no one and served no other purpose than to point to the sin, He
annulled the Law after He fulfilled it as Son of Man and Son of God. As such, for man to be justified
before God, he must first be set free from the Law and then placed into a place superior to the Law, a
place where justification comes entirely through faith in the intercession of Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
the only Man who could fulfil that Law because He is the Son of God. Having done that, He now had to
prove that He is fully Man; otherwise justification by faith in Him was not valid. He could not be the
Champion of men as Son of God… He had to be our Champion as Son of Man.
Now, before the assembled throngs of Heaven and Hell, before angels and demons and all powers and
authorities in the garden, the Son of God would begin His journey to validate His fullness of
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Manliness in the likeness of man . It was by His will that Jesus was now in Jerusalem, for He had
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said, “…and on the third day I will reach My goal.” But was that the will of God or was that will the will of
a Man? If that was the will of the Son of God, then it provided no validity or benefit to man. The will
that took Him to Jerusalem on the third day must be the will of a Man for it to have validity as a will for
all His descendants and beneficiaries, all those who would forsake the Law—no—even break the Law in
eating His flesh and drinking His blood as He commanded them. He had set the stage for man to be set
free from the curse of the Law, that if they put their faith in Him, He would raise them up. However, to
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Luke 22:42-44
2
Mark 14:36,39,41; Matthew 26:39,42,44
3
Luke 9:51
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Luke 13:32-33
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verify that will legally, He had to be fully Man, for the will of God for man does not carry with it the
fullness of freedom that fulfils the Law and the Prophets, for Jesus said, “So in everything, do to others
what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.”5 PT
If that was true, and for the Lord to annul the Law after He had fulfilled it, He could not just remove it
and declare it obsolete, otherwise Satan would have a field day accusing His Father that the Law was no
good to begin with. That is why it took a Man who is the Son of God to fulfil it. If that was the case,
then how could Jesus claim God alone is good and how can God be good if the Law was no good?
No, in order to preserve the unquestionable goodness of God, Jesus had to fulfil the Law of God as the
Son of God so that He could bring men to a superior covenant, the Covenant of Faith in Him , where
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righteousness was by faith in God, not by the obsessive observance of a set of rules where tithing was
exaggerated to a tenth of dill and cummin!
It was not enough for Jesus to fulfil the Law as the Son of God and then to set it aside so that men who
put their faith in Him could access God by a superior Covenant. When Jesus opened the door to the
fulfilment of the Law and the Prophets as Son of God, He also had to shut that door on others, the other
sons of God, sons who were not obedient to the Father, sons of God who had rebelled as far back as
Genesis 6, who saw that the daughters of men were beautiful and they married any of them they chose.
In that unholy copulation, these sons of God produced a race as it is written: The Nephilim were on the
Earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had
children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.6
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For if He fulfilled the Law as the Son of God and obeyed the Father in all His commands in the power and
superiority as Son of God, then those fallen angels could accuse the Father that their sons, the Nephilim,
would have been able to do what Jesus did anyway, for they were heroes of old, men of renown. Those
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fallen angels could have negated the uniqueness of God’s Son now made flesh, for there had been gods
who had sons who were men, men who were wiped out by the flood and then again in Canaan by Joshua
and Caleb until the last of them was killed in David’s time—the Nephilim and their descendants, the
Anakites and the Rephaites. Not only that, had Jesus gone on the cross in the fullness of the power of
the Son of God, then those angels held in Tartarus could accuse the Father of genocidal slaughter of their
offspring in an unjust fashion. That their offspring were slaughtered so that the so-called honour of
redeeming man would be reserved for Jesus Christ, God would have been accused of despotism of the
worst kind.
No, having fulfilled the Law and the Prophets in the power of the Son of God so that men who put their
faith in Him would not rely on justification by faith in Him alone, He had to set aside the will of God for
men and bring man into the will of the righteous Man for man. Thus, by His will as He said, “…and …I will
reach My goal,” He was now at Gethsemane on the eve of the battle of all times.
In order now to validate His will that brought Him there for all men, He now had to be fully Man, laying
down all His powers and status as Son of God and take on the fullness of Man. Sure, He had been a Man
of miraculous power on whom the Holy Spirit had rested, but there was a son of man not born of
copulation between an angel and a woman but a man and a woman, who also had such power and on
whom the Holy Spirit rested—Elijah.
Elijah had his victories, but when he picked up his clothes and outran Ahab, he did not reach his goal.
Elijah, the man of power, the elect of the Holy Sprit for his time, ran, and an angel had to strengthen
him.
In order to prove that He is fully Man and was willing to validate His will for man as a Man, thus proving
authenticity of kinship, Jesus began to face the cross as Jesus the Man, weak enough to plead three
times for God to remove the cup, so weak that an angel had to appear to strengthen Him, just as he did
His kinsman, Elijah.
Like a man, He suffered anguish and sweated drops like blood. As He arose from that threshing floor at
Gethsemane, He would from that moment on walk only as a Man except for that exceptional moment
when He healed the ear of the soldier that Peter had cut off. From that instant, Jesus gave a foretaste of
His future ministry. He would be the Peacemaker between man and man, between men who thought
that they were the ones who were truly serving God as they understood Him. For the soldier who came
to arrest Him was serving the God of Moses, and Peter who cut that soldier’s ear off, was serving the God
of Jesus, never realising They were One and the same. In that last demonstration of power, the Son of
Man showed us what He would be and who He would be when He is seated at the right hand of God, not
5
Matthew 7:12
6
Genesis 6:2,4

only reconciling all men to God through Him, but reconciling all men to their manliness. Through Him,
there would no longer be man or woman, for woman was a word of man, but in Him they would be male
and female, the way God made man in His Image as well. Judgment would no longer be based on how a
man served God, but how a man served another man.
As He took the insults as a Man, the beating and flaying as a Man, the crucifixion as a Man, and the
forsaking by God as a Man, saying, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” 7 …then as a Man, He
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completed the work on that cross, a righteous Man forsaken by God, completing the impossible work as a
Son of Man, not as the Son of God. For if He had continued the work as the Son of God, then His cry
would have been, “My Father, My Father, why have You forsaken Me?” No, at that moment with His
echoing of the words of David the Psalmist, He confirmed His status as a Man. As a Man for whom God
was merely watching from a distance, God who had now truly forsaken a righteous Man, not a self-
righteous man, nor sinful men who were foolish enough to ask God to judge them by their own
righteousness. Foolish men who could not even fulfil half the Law and thought they had kept it all.
Foolish men who thought if they added more laws of morality, that the heavier the burden, the more
righteous they would become.
“My God, My God…” was His testimony to those angels in Tartarus, and to Satan as well, that He is now
fulfilling the requisites of the superior Covenant not as Son of God as He did the Law, but as Son of Man.
In order for their sons, that is, the sons of those imprisoned angels, the Nephilims, to do what Jesus is
about to do, those Nephilims would have had to fulfil the New Covenant demand of faith in God as men,
not as heroes. The Covenant of Faith excluded all angelic beings from its benefit of forgiveness of sins
through faith in Jesus by repentance, for all angelic beings have been in the presence of God. As such,
they do not believe there is God and shudder, no; they know there is God and shudder. For their
offspring, the Nephilims, Jesus proved to them that they could never do what He had done even though
they were also sons of gods, heroes of old, men of renown, because the last of their kind, when he had
the chance to redeem his own kinsmen, did not enter the field of battle in the weakness of a man with
faith in God, but in full battle armour with a coat of scale armour of bronze weighing five thousand
shekels; on his legs he wore bronze greaves, and a bronze javelin was slung on his back. His spear shaft
was like a weaver's rod, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels. His shield bearer went ahead of
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him.8 He was fully armoured to face an unarmed boy save his sling, five smooth stones, a staff and his
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faith in God… and lost. Goliath couldn’t even face David as a man even though he was nine feet tall and
David was the small runt of his family. No… no sons of angels could ever do what He was about to do…
enter the battlefield against Death and all His allies as a Man, naked without armour, hands and feet
pinned, carrying not a javelin on His back but a cross too heavy for One Man to carry, and weakened by a
night of cruel bashing and flogging. In such a state, did Jesus enter the arena of life and death, a state
no men of renown, heroes of old could enter, and so, shut out of the equation the possibility that one of
those sons of angels could have done what Jesus did.
It is His hour on the cross as the Son of Man that is the greatest triumph of Jesus Christ the Man,
forsaken by God, naked, thirsty, bleeding, weak, insulted, rejected, with His loved ones weeping and
travailing in mourning, overcoming the temptation to reject His Manliness to take up His Godliness and
end the suffering, His suffering, Jesus Christ established that His will is the will of a Man and as such, it is
the will for all men who would follow Him. “I will reach My goal.” And the Man reached His goal and
finished the work God gave Him in peace with God, without an excuse or seeking to blame Eve or an
angel, in silence, asking only for a drink when He was thirsty so that He could finish the task. Then the
Man God forsook adopted God who forsook Him, and said, “Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit.”9 P T
God had forsaken Him, He was no longer the Son but a Man; and this Man Jesus Christ, did not forsake
God and not only did not forsake Him, but gave Him back the Son He had lost when He cried out,
“Father…”
Now truly through faith in Him, and by that faith, accepting His, that is, Jesus’ will, man could call God
Father. It is no wonder that the writer of the Hebrews wrote: In bringing many sons to glory, it was
fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists should make the Author of their salvation
perfect through suffering. Both the One who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the
same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.10 …For it was a Man who finished the work
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of redemption on that Roman cross, a righteous yet God-forsaken Man, a Man made sin by perfect
obedience to God. It was a Man who also called God His Father from that cross, not a Son of God, not a
hero of old, but a Man who breathed, who bled, who hurt, who knew anguish, who thirst, the Man called
Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
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8
1 Samuel 17:5-7
9
Luke 23:46
10
Hebrews 2:10-11

It was His will that finished the work in peace, and it was His will that He became fully Man, and it was
His will that He would submit His spirit to God whom He called, “Father.” It is that same will that now
holds and carries all the benefits to those who are His kinsmen, male and female, who have chosen to be
cut off from God by the Law, but to be sons and daughters of God through faith in Jesus Christ the Man,
who dared to say to God who forsook Him, “Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit.”
As such, be in no doubt of the qualifications of Jesus Christ, to have all sons of the devil to be weeded out
of His Kingdom for the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is for man, male and female, not for sons of spiritual and
angelic beings or sons of those who have not in mind the things of God but of men. The Man Jesus Christ
had in mind always the things of God and not of man, otherwise in His pain as a Man on the cross, He
would not have finished His work and become an accuser of God forsaking Him, even as He died.
It is no wonder therefore, that God has put all judgment in His hands. “For as the Father has life in
Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself. And He has granted Him authority to judge
because He is the Son of Man.”11 It is no wonder that when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all
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the angels with Him…12 as it is written, He will separate the nations of men as a shepherd separates
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sheep from goats and reward them or condemn them by what they have done to His brothers. And who
are His brothers or sisters or mothers other than those who hear God’s words and obey them. And what
are God’s words to men since the Man Jesus Christ stood on the surface of this Earth, other than: “This
is My Son, whom I love; with Him I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”13 PT
It is no wonder demons tremble and shudder and that saints will judge angels, for it was a Man who
fulfilled the better Covenant, the Covenant of Faith in God; faith in the God who forsook Him and faith
in the God they had not known. For no angel was forsaken by God, but God permitted them to appear
before Him. Even Satan and all angels have seen God.
It is no wonder that the words and works of Jesus Christ will bring all the works of men to nothing, for He
alone finished the task and confessed God who forsook Him as “Father.”
Foolish then are all men, male and female, who having heard of Jesus Christ have refused to believe in
Him; foolish because they are not hurting Jesus by their lack of faith, but merely harming themselves.
The work of Jesus is complete and perfect once for all. It cannot be duplicated by any sons of gods or
any sons of man, for He did what no other sons of gods would do; that is to come in the weakness of a
Man, and what no other sons of man could be, forsaken by God for being righteous in perfect obedience.
Thus through Him alone and in His Name alone can man approach the throne of God boldly and find
grace and receive mercy, for by the grace of Jesus Christ the Man, God received back His Son when He
cried out, “Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit.”
AMEN
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John 5:26-27
12
Matthew 25:31
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Matthew 17:5

The Son of Man, Son of God
When you finally understand Jesus Christ the Man, then you will find that living with Him is not as difficult
as religious people would make it out to be, for after all, you are living with a fellow Human Being who
has all your traits within Him. Realising that He is fully a Man, who is also the Son of God trying to help
us, man, male and female, to become sons of God just like Him, is what helps you and me to drop the
religious trappings and the trials that encase all of us. Failing to realise the fullness of His Man-likeness
and an idolisation of His God-likeness is one of the greatest, if not the greatest hindrance of all believers
of Jesus Christ to come to know Him.
This failure, the ignorance of His Man-likeness and the idolisation of His God-likeness, is what gives rise
to error, the error that Jesus said the Sadducees were guilty of because they did not know the Scriptures
or the power of God. For the Scriptures declare the Man that He is in Isaiah 53, and the power of God
testifies to the Son of God, the God that He is. The proper relationship with Jesus Christ must begin with
the knowledge of Him as the Man, for He said to Phillip, “Don’t you know Me, Phillip, even after I have
been among you such a long time?”1 And to worship Him for the God He is, as the disciples did when He
came to them walking on the water, as it is written: Then those who were in the boat worshiped Him,
saying, "Truly You are the Son of God."2 Though they worshipped Him that night as the Son of God, later
at the feeding of the 4000, only one chapter later, they had forgotten and had reverted back to talking to
Him as a Man, saying, “Where could we get enough bread in this remote place to feed such a crowd?"3
Herein lies a check for ourselves, each of us individually, and in a way, this is a breather, a rest on a
ledge if you like, on our climb up the Mountain of God.
Just what are we like now, what do we now know of Jesus? Are we still ignorant of His humanity while
still idolising His divinity, for any love of Him without coming to know Him is both ignorance and idolatry?
The words of the Lord: “…and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and
to the ends of the Earth,”4 as we have taught earlier, demands that we be experts and accurate
witnesses of Him. The fullness of that witness does not come unless we come to know Him as both the
Son of God and the Son of Man. It is this understanding of the integration of the dual nature of Jesus
Christ, the Son of God and the Son of Man into One that makes the complete witness and the complete
witness is what the power of the Holy Spirit has been given for.
In Peter’s first preach on the day of Pentecost, he stated, “Jesus of Nazareth was a Man accredited by
God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves
know. This Man was handed over to you by God's set purpose and foreknowledge; and you, with the
help of wicked men, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.”5 As such, the witness statement of
Peter testified to the Man and the Son of God, and power flowed by the Holy Spirit to add 3000 to their
number that day.
The second great addition to the church was of course at the Beautiful Gate, after the raising of the
cripple. Again, Peter’s testimony included the humanity of Jesus as he said, “The God of Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His Servant Jesus. You handed Him over to be killed, and
you disowned Him before Pilate, though he had decided to let Him go.”6
In both the early preaches of Peter, the Man Jesus Christ was very much preached as the Son of God who
He was. In fact, in those days, Peter had little trouble reminding the people that Jesus walked amongst
them as a Man—for they, the Jews of Jerusalem, saw Him die. The raising of the cripple and the
manifestation of the gift of tongues in Acts 2 were more for the proving of Jesus Christ the Son of God
than for Jesus Christ the Son of Man.
Now, flash forward 2000 years to an age when no one knows Him as a Man and those who believe,
believe Him to be the Son of God, and we have the familiar problem of ignorance coated with religiosity
blurring the whole truth about Jesus Christ.
As part of the resurrection of power to the church, we must now come to know Him as the Man and the
Son of God, as the first eleven came to know Him because they walked, talked and ate with Him and
1
John 14:9
2
Matthew 14:33
3
Matthew 15:33
4
Acts 1:8
5
Acts 2:22-23
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Acts 3:13
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were firsthand witnesses of His resurrection. Some even touched His wounds. If we, who have not seen
Him nor touched His wounds, not only believe in Him but come to know Him better than they did, then
how much more can the power of the Lord flow through us? Indeed, then we can say that the power of
the Holy Spirit for the disciples to be His witnesses has been resurrected, not restored. For resurrection
is greater than restoration, and what is resurrected can never die again. So the timing is perfect.
Resurrection of full power to the disciples, not the church, to be His witnesses in time to prepare this
Earth for His arrival and ensure that the resurrected power to witness will not and cannot die again;
otherwise this is only a restoration.
As such, it is vitally important that all disciples who are worthy of receiving the resurrected power to be
witnesses of Jesus must also be prepared to live and never die7 until He arrives whenever He chooses to
arrive. As such, it calls for patient endurance from the disciples. As an aside at this point, it is clear that
full power is not meant to be resurrected to the church but only to the disciples, as the church is made up
of followers, believers8 and disciples. There will inevitably be an overflow of the power to the believers,
so that even to them there will be a restoration of the power. It is vital for you and me to understand
that the power of the Holy Spirit will be restored to some and be resurrected to others. It would be safe
to say at this stage that only the restored power will be given to the False Prophet and the Beast to
permit them to perform their signs and wonders, and even the Beast will be able to overcome the two
witnesses of Revelation 11 because the witnesses choose to lay down their lives just like Jesus did, as
part of the fulfilment of John 14:12.
We have some power restored to us now, but it is painfully obvious that it is not resurrected. So what is
missing? It remains this one factor that Paul wrote: For everyone looks out for his own interests, not
those of Jesus Christ. That is true for me and for you for it is always, “God bless me in Jesus’ Name,”
because we boldly approach the throne in the Name of the Son of God to get the grace, mercy and
whatever desires we have in our hearts for our own edification. And when Jesus grants it to us, we love
Him, and when the consequence of what we receive comes upon us, we hate Him. This is the sad truth.
So why does everyone look out for their own interests and not those of Jesus Christ? One reason is
because we do not see Jesus in His humanity. We do not see Him as the One who is thirsty and needs us
to give Him a drink, like the twelve who went off to buy food and didn’t ask Him if He needed a drink of
water first, but left Him so that He had to ask a Samaritan woman for a drink. And that night at
Gethsemane, none of them considered that the Man, Jesus, would have loved some human company as
He prayed to the Father, that even perhaps, just perhaps, Jesus was hoping that there would be another
who might stay awake to agree with what He prayed so that it might be done by the Father in Heaven as
He had said, “Again I tell you that if two of you on Earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done
for you by My Father in Heaven.”9 Mercifully for us, but not for Him, there was no one there that night to
agree with Him, so Jesus made His submission to the Father’s will. We see Him as the Son of God, the
Rabbi or the Teacher, but not as the Man in need of our consideration and help. Seeing Him as the Man
is what Mary Magdalene saw, a Man determined to do what He had set out to do and a Man who
deserved the attention of His companions, a Man who deserved to be listened to and believed for what
He said without judgment or suspicion. And if that which He said is too incredible for you to believe and
you consider Him mad, then should you not show a mad Man some kindness and just humour Him awhile
without crucifying Him?
The judgment of Jesus Christ against all men is not just that they refused to believe that He is the Son of
God, but that they have refused to treat Him with the decency due to a fellow human being. They did
not believe Him at His word even though He confirmed His word by signs, wonders and miracles. Then,
not only have men not believed His word, worst of all, they have twisted His word to make it mean what
He never intended it to mean. Not only do they not believe in what He said, but they are not interested
in how He said it and why He said it. Worse still, men have then taken to using His Name to justify their
actions and words.
As long as the early disciples remembered the Man and testified to His humanity, the power that testified
of His divinity flowed, but when they forgot about His humanity, the power stopped. Look now again at
James’ statement: When they finished, James spoke up: "Brothers, listen to me. Simon [Peter] has
described to us how God at first showed His concern by taking from the Gentiles a people for Himself.
The words of the prophets are in agreement with this, as it is written: ‘After this I will return and rebuild
David's fallen tent. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it, that the remnant of men may seek the
Lord, and all the Gentiles who bear My Name, says the Lord, who does these things' that have been
known for ages. It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who
are turning to God. Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols,
7
John 11:26
8
http://www.holyspiritsworkshop.com/word2006/13.05.2006_HarderTeachingsI.pdf
9
Matthew 18:19

from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood. For Moses has been
preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath."10 It was
a great theological speech, devoid of any reference to Jesus Christ as the Son of God, and worst of all, as
Jesus the Man who had been his own Brother for many years. There is not a word or a hint from James
that he would address the assembly as the half-brother of Jesus the Man they all knew, and he better
than any of them, yet it is clear that he used his position as the so-called brother of Jesus Christ to have
his say that day. The insipid teaching of James the Younger that drains power lays in the fact that he,
who should have known Jesus the Boy, Jesus the Teenager, Jesus the young Adult better than any of the
others in his address, denied the humanity of Jesus and did not acknowledge His divinity. There is no
reference at all in Acts 15:13-21 about Jesus Christ, his half-Brother, the Man.
Yet the Holy Spirit has clearly inspired the writers of the Gospels to include the human side of Jesus. We
know He drank the cup of God’s wrath on our behalf because He is the Son of God who God gave to save
the world. Now, look at the Man who drank the cup.
When James and John, the sons of Zebedee, asked Jesus, "Let one of us sit at Your right and the other at
Your left in Your glory," Jesus asked them, “Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptised with the baptism
I am baptised with?” "We can," they answered. Jesus said to them, "You will drink the cup I drink…”11
However, the cup Jesus was to receive from the Father was the very cup He prayed three times to the
Father, “Take this cup from Me.”12 It must hold something none of us would have wanted to drink either.
How often we pipe up like James and John with utter ignorance and overwhelming self-seeking pride and
confidence and say, “We can”? Too often, and that is the sad truth.
Now look at the Man who He is, who not only drinks the cup the Father gives Him, but He drains it all, for
that is the work that God gave Him to do on the cross. He finished it so that there would be NO MORE
work on a Roman cross needed ever again to satisfy and obey God. He figuratively and literally drank
the whole cup of God’s wrath so that there would be nothing left for James and John to drink. He is the
Man who drank all the poison so that there would be none left for His friends. That is how He loved His
friends, a Man who took the worst of the situation so that only the good would be left for His friends.
On them there would be no wrath of God to contend with, only the wrath of man and Satan. The only
cup they would have to drink from would be the cup of the New Covenant with His blood, which
contained only the forgiveness of sins, and the only baptism that awaited them was the baptism of gentle
fire from the Holy Spirit and His power, and not the baptism—that is—not the immersion into total
darkness to experience being forsaken by God utterly. He is the Man who takes the worst so His friends
can have the best. And since His word cannot be broken, then, He surely did for His friends what He
would have wanted done unto Him, fulfilling His own words when He said, “So in everything, do to others
what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.”13
So, when He said, “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must
love one another,”14 …His love for us as a Friend and a Man is the love of a Man who would take the
worst so His friends would have the best. Now, do you see the Man who He is; not the Son of God with
glory and power and majesty? No, the Man who is our Friend, who would take the worst for us that we
may have the best, even if He was just a Man, just a Man who hungers and thirsts, who would like some
food or a cold drink. Just a Man who wants to tell the truth, the whole truth of what He knows. A Man
who just wants people to listen to Him to what He has to say about what He knows. It matters little in
His humanity as to what He knows, but it is what He knows. All He wants is the courtesy to be heard
without ridicule, without mockery and the courtesy to be proved right or wrong, but at least to be proved
before He is discounted and condemned.
If He is wrong and a liar, at least prove Him so and confront Him with the facts, so that we at least do
Him the human courtesy to give Him a chance to repent. If He is right and telling the truth, at least
prove it to be true and right and vindicate Him, yes, vindicate Him and not use His truth to vindicate
ourselves. That is what we owe a fellow Man.
So, take a rest, a breather, because the rest of the journey involves coming to know the Man as much as
knowing the God, and when we come to see the fullness of the Man and God in Jesus Christ, we will truly
see how far short we fall of the glory of God. Then perhaps, disciples worthy of resurrected power will be
found. AMEN
10
Acts 15:13-21
11
Mark 10:37-39
12
Matthew 26:36-45; Mark 14:32-41
13
Matthew 7:12
14
John 13:34

A New Creation – The New Man or Just Another Man
Jesus Christ of Nazareth died on a Roman cross about 2000 years ago an innocent Man. He was brought
to trial for blaspheming God, that is, saying or doing something against God that was punishable by
death. However, at His trial, it is recorded: The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for
false evidence against Jesus so that they could put Him to death. But they did not find any, though many
false witnesses came forward. Finally two came forward and declared, "This Fellow said, 'I am able to
destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.' "1
Jesus never said that. He said something like that as recorded by John: “Destroy this Temple, and I will
raise it again in three days.”2 When He said this, the Jews thought He was talking about the temple of
Herod, but as John tells us, He was speaking of His Body. However, look at the wording of Jesus’
statement and the false witnesses’ statement, they look similar but they are totally different. In fact, the
truth of Jesus’ statement is this, “You destroy this Temple and I will rebuild it…” He never said He was
going to destroy the temple. And when the high priest said to Him, "I charge You under oath by the
living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God," Jesus only answered it as He knew it: "Yes, it is
as you say."3 Jesus never said, “I am the Christ, the Son of God…” but rather, “Yes, it is as you say.”
What did the chief priest expect Him to answer? If Jesus said, “No,” could the chief priest prove Jesus
was lying? You see, there was never any proof that Jesus was in fact not the Son of God and therefore
the charge of blasphemy was false.
Who do you really need to verify that Jesus is the Son of God? …His followers? …His mother? …His
brothers? …Some angels? Surely only God can verify that He is the Son of God. The most crucial
witness they needed to verify the truth of His word, the inquisitors did not ask. They did not even invoke
God to judge, for they could have asked God to confirm the word of Jesus, that if Jesus was indeed
claiming to be someone He is not and was merely raising up trouble for them, the priesthood, like Korah,
Dathan and Abiram did, they could have easily invoked Moses’ stand. “If these men die a natural death
and experience only what usually happens to men, then the Lord has not sent me.”4 Moses did not kill
Korah, Dathan and Abiram, but stepped back to allow God to do it.
The high priests did not, for surely, Jesus falsely claiming Himself to be God’s Son would be more
offensive to God than to the priests. As such, if Jesus was not the Son of God that He claimed of Himself,
then God would surely have struck Him down long before, for God needs no human instrument to
disperse His wrath or His blessings unless it suits Him.
The high priests had no personal contact with God. They didn’t even have the Ark of the Covenant or any
of the furnishings of the temple as these were removed in the Macabee’s time. Whatever articles they
did have were not the original items returned from Babylon from the first temple, but merely copies of
them. In His day, no one recognised the voice of God except Jesus Christ and those Jesus chose. This
was why when God said, “I have glorified it and will glorify it again,” some of the crowd thought it had
thundered; others said an angel had spoken to Him.5 They couldn’t even recognise God’s voice even if
He spoke to them and they do not recognise it now. What they thought and now think is God’s voice, is
what they have found in Scripture. That is, at best, they know what is written and what is said, but they
do not know how it is said.
Indeed, if the trial was conducted to exonerate the truth about Jesus, they merely had to ask Jesus to
prove His word to destroy the temple as the witnesses said, then see if He can firstly destroy it and then
rebuild it. If Jesus could neither destroy it nor then rebuild it, then they had the proof they needed. This
Man is just a boastful liar; therefore His talk about being the Son of God is nothing but a boastful lie.
However, the priests stupidly proved Jesus’ own words to be true. “(You) destroy this Temple, and I will
raise it up in three days.” As such, Jesus Christ went to the cross because He told the truth and because
His words proved to be true, even the part that said, “Destroy this Temple…”
Right now, not one of those high priests and witnesses at the trial can say Jesus was lying for they are all
dead. Because of that, they have received that which they had hoped for from their service to God, to be
greeted by God before His throne. Imagine the look of Caphais and the other members of the
Sanhedrin’s faces when they see God on His throne, and… who is that Man at the right hand, even now
interceding for them saying, “Father, forgive them, they know not what they are doing,” as their minds
flash back to that night and day all those years ago when they heard this Man from Nazareth say, “But I
1
Matthew 26:59-61
2
John 2:19
3
Matthew 26:63-64
4
Numbers 16:29
5
John 12:28-29
Harder Teachings XXVII – Book of Hours VII – 1 of 4

say to all of you: In the future you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One
and coming on the clouds of Heaven”6 …and that prayer of His from the cross, those same words,
“Father, forgive them…”?
So you see, you need not be ashamed of the Manliness or Man-likeness of Jesus, and dress it up with
pseudo Godliness that religious people so love to do. For even if Jesus was merely a Man, only a Man, He
still died an innocent Man, falsely accused without even being given the opportunity to prove His
innocence. They accused Him of an intent to destroy the temple, but He had not, and neither did they
give Him the opportunity to do it that He may prove that He is the Son of God.
Recognising the fullness of Man and the fullness of God that Jesus is, allows you and I to begin to conduct
ourselves in the pursuit of the fullness of His stature, fully Man and fully God. However, we all begin this
journey as fully man only, male and female, and sinful ones at that. Thus our behaviour as man must
first be altered to mimic and to copy the behaviour of Jesus Christ the Man.
When you look at Him the Man, He was not always polite as some would idolise Him to be. Never did He
call His mother Mary, “Mother,” but at the wedding at Cana and from the cross, He called her, “Woman…”
And when He remained at the temple for three days while Joseph and Mary searched for Him in a panic,
His reply to Mary’s sentence, “Son, why have You treated us like this? Your father and I have been
anxiously searching for You,” was, “Why are you searching for Me? Didn’t you know I had to be in My
Father’s house?”7 And with that, Jesus disowned Joseph as His father. Certainly, we know He was not
always behaving in a manner acceptable to the ‘holy’ people of His day with His hanging around sinners
and drunkards. And as to referring to the Phoenician woman as a dog, He was not a Man who pandered
to the delicate feelings of others. He did not get up and go to Mary and Martha as soon as He heard the
news that Lazarus was sick but waited, leaving them to suffer as it were. Certainly, to those who
opposed Him and who were hypocrites, He did not counsel them, but openly and sternly warned them.
Indeed, even to the woman caught in adultery who was spared from stoning, He did not sit down and
counsel her, but merely said, “Go now and leave your life of sin.”8 And when His family turned up to see
Him, He disowned them, saying, “Who are My mother and My brothers? Here are My mother and My
brothers! Whoever does God’s will is My brother and sister and mother.”9
In truth, as a Man, His speech and actions were often bordering on offensive, even disrespectful to the
traditional values of what men consider to be polite, respectful and a speech and behaviour that should
show love. See Him as a Man, only a Man, and you will not have any idolatry on what holiness, love and
religious life that is acceptable to God is.
He was not a Man who went around with kind words, no, only truthful words, nor a Man who pandered to
people’s feelings. Indeed, when a well-meaning apostle who He had just complemented, said, "[May God
be merciful to You, Lord!] This shall never happen to You,”10 He turned around and rebuked Peter,
calling him Satan. And again when this same Peter said that he would never leave Jesus, as if to
reassure Peter, Jesus told him that he would deny Jesus three times.
After these years of listening to Him, by the careful highlighting of His word, the writing of His word and
even the singing and eating of His word, some of you are ready to see the Man who is Jesus Christ and
behold Him. Those who are just joining us now will benefit from your efforts if you now learn to
appreciate Him, the Man, for Jesus Christ the Man showed all men to live as man was intended to live by
God, to live as Adam should have and would have if Adam never sinned. So He is truly the last Adam,
the Man who is God’s exact Image. Forget for a moment that He is the Son of God and just see the Man.
Then what you see is the behaviour of a Man who was completely focused on the work that God had for
Him to do and all else was secondary to that focus. If it did not distract from that focus, it was tolerated,
even enjoyed, as He enjoyed the meals with the Pharisees and in Mary and Martha’s house. If it
distracted from the focus, He would have nothing to do with it, just as He hid Himself after the feeding of
the 5000 when He knew that they wanted to make Him King. He was focussed enough to disown His
stepfather, to never address Mary as His mother in public and even to denying her and His half-brothers
and sisters in order to set up the extended family that God wanted Him to establish. If eating and
drinking did not interfere with His primary focus, He ate and drank, but when it did not suit His focus, He
did not eat, saying to His disciples, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”11
6
Matthew 26:64
7
Luke 2:48-49
8
John 8:11
9
Mark 3:33-35
10
Matthew 16:22 [or] ESV
11
John 4:32

His focus on God’s purposes and business was why the Father said to the disciples, “This is My Son,
whom I love. With Him I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”12 Had the first Adam been just as focussed
on God’s purpose, he would have saved himself and all his children from death had he only just said to
Eve, “Let us just wait for God and ask Him again about eating this fruit.” Adam did not wait for God to
reply. Indeed, Adam did not enquire of God, whereas Jesus, though in His heart did not want to go the
to cross for He asked the Father to take the cup away from Him, refused to agree with Peter’s soothing
words when He said, "Never, Lord! This shall never happen to You!"13 And in the English Standard
Version’s sub-text: “May God be merciful to You, Lord!” But rather, as good as Peter’s words sounded,
Jesus waited for the Father’s personal reply.
However, unless you and I can recognise the Father’s voice, it is pointless to wait for a reply. And since
we do not listen to Jesus, why should God reply us except for His extraordinary grace and mercy. As
long as we live on grace and mercy only, we will never grow and learn the hard lessons of Sonship that
are hidden in Jesus Christ.
Those lessons surely began for Him as a young Boy, born out of wedlock to a mother, parented by a man
who did not father him in a household of four step-brothers and other sisters; lessons learned as a
Brother whose own brothers did not believe Him. The temptation to take up His own agenda cannot be
understood by us unless we also live as men with the full power of God at our disposal. Thus, eternal
life, which is to come to know God and Jesus Christ whom He sent,14 demands that we come to know Him
as the Man and the Son of God, as well as to live as men, male and female, who have the same power of
God at their disposal. Then our testimony on His behalf will surely be worthy of the justice and
vindication due Him.
Religious men live with their idolatry of who God is, presuming to make decisions on behalf of God
without ever recognising that God needs no man to counsel Him. Without any trace of miraculous power
that should testify that God has any trust in them, they presume to speak and act as ones trusted by
God, not realising that God has only trusted them to act and speak on behalf of Him as men without
power. To Jesus Christ, God entrusted full power. The Man who had enough power to destroy the world
and create a new one, chose to submit to God’s power so that before those who did not believe in Him,
He was portrayed in weakness, but to those who believed him, He would return with power.
When any man, male or female, learns to be focussed on God’s purpose for Jesus, not God’s purpose
for them, but God’s purpose for Jesus, and learn to conduct their humanity in that fashion, then can they
be trusted with God’s divinity to manifest the power to do as Jesus did and also the greater things.
That little twelve year old Boy shows us the real Man who would emerge from Him. Before there was any
hint or mention of the miraculous power that would manifest from Him as the Son of God, the twelve
year old Jesus was already completely focussed on the Father’s business. “Didn’t you know I had to be in
My Father’s house?” was His reply to a worried mother and stepfather, worried because both of them
knew Him then only as the Boy who is Jesus, not the anointed Son of God with power to provide for
Himself or to protect Himself. In truth, the Man, Jesus Christ, is the Man who would have finished the
exact work set out for Him by God, even if He never received any miraculous power to do so. It is this
singular truth which made the Man God trusted completely.
For the disciples, power was given so that they could be His witnesses. However, even with the power,
they did not remain truthful witnesses of Him, but rather, watered down and diluted their witness so that
the Jews who were zealous for the Law would not be offended. And how can we be truthful witnesses if
we do not know exactly what He said and how He said it? We would be at best witnesses like those who
said that they heard Him say, “I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.” And
at worst, we would be like those who betray their Friend and deny that which He said is true and excuse
it away, saying, “He didn’t really mean it that way.” So often, what Jesus really said, in fact is denied or
forgotten in the same way as James the Younger ‘forgot’ that Jesus commanded His disciples to drink His
blood whilst telling us, the Gentiles, not to drink blood.
We use His Name as the Son of God to give us our righteousness and our careers in ministry. I wonder if
we would still use His Name if He was merely the Son of Man? For the Name, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, is
not the Name of the Son of God only, but the Name of an innocent Man killed for telling the truth of what
He knew by those who were acting in the Name of God. It is no wonder that to many who called Him,
“Lord, Lord,” and drove out demons and did miracles in His Name, He would say, “I never knew you.
12
Matthew 17:5
13
Matthew 16:22 NIV
14
John 17:3

Away from Me, you evildoers.”15 …Men who use the Name of Jesus because He is the Son of God, but
would never give Him the time of day if He were just a Man… He knows you not.
It is also clear now why He says to those who did not know Him or had not heard of Him but showed
kindness and mercy to His brothers when they were hungry, thirsty, naked, sick, imprisoned and lonely,
to come into the Kingdom prepared for them from the beginning,16 the Kingdom of the Son of Man.
You see, Jesus Christ is not coming back as the Son of God, no, He is coming back as the Son of Man.
He stated this clearly when He said, “At that time, men will see the Son of Man coming in clouds…”17 So
if you only see Jesus Christ as the Son of God, you will not live to see Him arrive, for He is coming as the
Son of Man. So, are you prepared to meet with the Man, who is Jesus Christ, for that is who is coming
back, that innocent Man they crucified for telling the truth?
You have been given a sample of the power and the knowledge of the truth of Jesus Christ, the Son of
God and the Son of Man. To you, the commandment is restored, “Listen to Him!”18 And you have
listened as a man would listen to the Son of God. But now, if He were to come to you as a Man, would
you still listen to Him? If He were to submit to capture and torture, crucifixion and death, would you
desert Him? If He were to associate with sinners and drunkards, would you be ashamed of Him? If He
were to tell you to break a Law of Moses for His sake, would He still be your Rabbi? If He were to tell you
to go to Bethsaida, a village, would you go to Capernaum, the city, instead? If He were to call you a dog,
would you be offended or would you humble yourself? If He were near you, would you expect Him to
come to your house to heal your servant or would His word be sufficient? If He were just a Man, would
you still love Him, obey and seek after Him?
When you can love the Man Jesus Christ for who He is as a fellow Man, then perhaps you are ready to be
a son of God like Him. The degree to which power will flow out of each of you will depend upon the
degree you are prepared to be His true witnesses of His Manliness. For the power of God is given to us
not to testify that Jesus is the Son of God, the Holy Spirit has already done that by raising Him from the
dead, but rather, the power of God is given to us to testify that He is the Son of Man, the last Adam.
AMEN
15
Matthew 7:22-23
16
Matthew 25:37-40
17
Mark 13:26
18
Matthew 17:5; Mark 9:7; Luke 9:35

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Harder Teachings XXI – Book of Hours I – 1 of 4

Harder Teachings XXI – Book of Hours I – 2 of 4

Harder Teachings XXI – Book of Hours I – 3 of 4

Harder Teachings XXI – Book of Hours I – 4 of 4

Harder Teachings XXII – Book of Hours II – 1 of 3

Harder Teachings XXII – Book of Hours II – 2 of 3

Harder Teachings XXII – Book of Hours II – 3 of 3

Proof of Manliness I – Behold the Man

“My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”1

Harder Teachings XXIII – Book of Hours III – 1 of 4

Harder Teachings XXIII – Book of Hours III – 2 of 4

Harder Teachings XXIII – Book of Hours III – 3 of 4

Harder Teachings XXIII – Book of Hours III – 4 of 4

Proof of Manliness is Not a Matter of Power II

Harder Teachings XXIV – Book of Hours IV – 1 of 3

Harder Teachings XXIV – Book of Hours IV – 2 of 3

Let him who has ears hear. Amen.

Harder Teachings XXIV – Book of Hours IV – 3 of 3

Proof of Manliness III

Harder Teachings XXV – Book of Hours V – 1 of 4

Harder Teachings XXV – Book of Hours V – 2 of 4

Harder Teachings XXV – Book of Hours V – 3 of 4

Harder Teachings XXV – Book of Hours V – 4 of 4

The Son of Man, Son of God

Harder Teachings XXVI – Book of Hours VI - 1 of 3

Harder Teachings XXVI – Book of Hours VI - 2 of 3

Harder Teachings XXVI – Book of Hours VI - 3 of 3

A New Creation – The New Man or Just Another Man

Harder Teachings XXVII – Book of Hours VII – 1 of 4

Harder Teachings XXVII – Book of Hours VII – 2 of 4

Harder Teachings XXVII – Book of Hours VII – 3 of 4

Harder Teachings XXVII – Book of Hours VII – 4 of 4

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