Who Am I? And What is Required to Gain and Maintain Salvation?

Who am I? Why should you listen to me? And what is required to gain and maintain salvation? These are legitimate questions and I’ll give you honest answers as briefly as I can.

Through the Holy Spirit and reading the Bible, the hidden meanings of scripture have been revealed to me, and I am passing on this knowledge to you. I have made mistakes before. There are still parts I’m not certain about and I’ll admit it when I’m speculating, but I understand most of the Bible now. I want to make it plain that the source of my knowledge is the Holy Spirit. God reveals, I just take dictation and spread the message. Anyone may receive the Holy Spirit, all you have to do is ask Jesus for it with faith. Then you will be able to verify for yourselves what I am telling you. It is that reception of the spirit that saves the soul and guarantees eternal life, not merely believing in Jesus. There is also a general expectation that once saved, you should bear good fruit. As Saint James wrote: faith without works is dead. But God does not expect you to be perfect straight away: sanctification is a gradual process, with plenty of forgiveness along the way. The saved enjoy greater efficacy in prayer. Anyone who receives the spirit of God and is born of God becomes a child of God, as the gospel of John states. Jesus said that unless you are born again in water and spirit, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. But what does it actually mean to be born again? To be born again is to drink ‘living water’, Jesus’ codeword for the eternal spirit of God, with which he is one. Then this water becomes a well in you springing up to eternal life. In other words, the spirit leaves the body, goes to heaven, and returns to its house, in a kind of resurrection. Then, just as Jesus gained an immortal body and ascended to heaven after his resurrection, all true Christians, whether dead or alive, will have their flesh transformed into a new spiritualised body that cannot die or suffer hunger and thirst. This will happen at the Second Coming or at the Last Judgement – a different topic altogether that I won’t get into here. The point is that those who rose in the spirit will rise in their glorified flesh. This will happen because we are part of the Body of Christ, a body which has already become immortal. God had to become flesh so that flesh could be divinized. The proof of Jesus’ spiritual body is that when you eat it, you feel it within your body. You don't need a communion wafer. If you want to be saved, all you must do is sincerely say, ‘Christ, I believe you are the Son of God and let you into my body and soul.’ Then when you hear him knocking, open the door. The house in this context is a metaphor for the physical body. To do this is the same as receiving the Holy Spirit, because all three persons of the Holy Trinity are one. But to let Christ in requires faith in our Lord, which can be developed by reading the gospels. The more you know about someone, the easier it is to trust them. You have to want it and be ready for it. The chosen are those who choose God, but our choices are determined by who we are, and how God made us. Character is destiny. Some of you will hear me, others won’t. That’s just the way it is.

Saint Paul also called Christians sons of God. This may sound arrogant to some, but it is actually incredibly humbling to know that the best part of you, the source of your ability, is God. As children of God, we acknowledge our childlike dependence on God, and his superiority. The terms ‘Son of God’ and ‘children of God’ are also riddles, mysteries that can be solved by anyone with spiritual hearing. All children have their father in them and live because of their father. It is important to acknowledge God, our belief in him and what he has done for us, which is not the same as boasting. So to answer the original question: who am I? I am the son of my father, Jesus Christ.