Over 6,700 times the Hebrew name of the Creator is mentioned in the scriptures of truth. But the translators of the King James Version of the Bible chose not to transliterate His name from the original Hebrew into English. They chose instead to replace it with the title “the LORD.” They should have written down those 6,700 times “Yahweh” and the shortened form “Yah,” for that is the sound of His name, written out into English.

Better make that 6,699 times, for only one time did the translators leave in the KJV God’s original Hebrew name. It is found in Psalms 68:4. “Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH.” Praise Him by His name JAH. And since the letter “J” did not come into the English alphabet until medieval times, the spelling came from “IAH” with the “i” coming from the “Y” in yod, the Phoenician letter for “i”. So YAH would be a more correct transliteration of His name.

In fact, that is exactly how it is spelled in the New King James Version. “Extol Him,” it says, “who rides on the clouds, by His name YAH.”

Quoting the editors on page iv of the Preface to the New King James Version of the Holy Bible: “The covenant name of God was usually translated from the Hebrew as “LORD” (using capital letters as shown) in the King James Old Testament. This tradition is maintained.” Maintained except in Psalms 68:4.

Furthermore, the Son of God’s name was the same as the patriarch Joshua. It was not Iesus or Jesus. It was very close to the name Joshua, or Ioshua, or Yehoshua or Yahshua. The name means “Yah is Savior” or “Yah is Salvation.” The Son did say that He came in His Father’s name. Somewhere in the Son’s name must be the Father’s name.

For the above reasons among many others (please see the author’s previous book Yah Is Savior: The Road to Immortality—ordering information is found in the back of this book) I will use the names Yahweh, Yah, and Yahshua in place of “the LORD” and “Jesus.”

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Introduction

The thoughts expressed in this book explore the deep things of God—things that can only be spiritually discerned. These things pertain unto our perfection and how we get to that perfected state. These deep things of God explore what He desires to do with us, His sons and daughters, after He takes us to where he wants us to be. And all of this will be done right here on earth.

This book has been written as a tool for the future manifested sons and daughters of God. Its subject matter is of a mature spiritual nature. It is not for children who are “tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine.” This book is for those who have been called to partake of the strong meat of the word. It is for those who are tired of “playing church” and want the real plan of God operating in their lives.

The inspired author of the book of Hebrews had much to say concerning perfection, but it was difficult to teach his readers, for they were “dull of hearing” and “slow to learn.” What he had to say was not what they thought in their own wisdom to be true. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food…Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God…Hebrews 5:12; 6:1. NKJV.

And so it is today. As long as the first principles of Christ’s teachings are not solid as a rock in a person’s life, the deeper things will not be understood by them. The foundation of any house must be solid, built upon the Rock.

This book is for those who have a solid foundation in the first principles of Christ’s teachings: repentance from dead works and faith toward God. It is for those who are “going on unto perfection.”

I can already hear the cries coming forth. Perfection? Did you say perfection? Wait a minute. You are talking about perfection, and I am still grappling with sin in my life? No way. No one can be perfect.

A typical response, and yet, the Savior Himself told us to “be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.” The apostle Paul says that God’s gifts to us were the apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. And they are for the “perfecting of the saints…till we all come…unto a perfect man…and no more children, tossed to and fro” (Ephesians 4:11-14).

Many sincere Christians earnestly desire to walk with their Master like this, yet they cannot even think about their own perfection while still grappling with the sin question in their lives. They will justify their circling Mt. Sinai by saying, “Nobody can be perfect. You can’t be like Jesus!” To which I will reply, “Okay, but will you let me be like Paul or Peter or John?” They are the ones that taught that we are to go on to perfection and not be children anymore in the word.

Yet, many questions abound in many hearts concerning sin. What is sin? What do we do about it in our lives? Can we overcome it in our lives? Is it possible to have the victory over sin while still here on earth? How do these questions relate to “repentance from dead works and faith toward God”?

What is Sin?

What is sin? Sin is the breaking of the law. Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. I John 3:4. “But which law?” someone will ask. There are hundreds of laws in the Bible and hundreds more made by man. Which law is John talking about? It is the ten command-ment law of God. How can we be sure? Paul clears up the matter irrefutably. I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. Romans 7:7. “Thou shalt not covet” is one of the Ten Commandments. Coveting or desiring your neighbor’s possessions is prohibited in the Ten Commandments, given to Moses on Mt. Sinai. So sin is the breaking of these ten commandments.

And we have all broken them. All have sinned and have come short of the glory of God. Our old carnal fleshly nature is corrupt and sinful and depraved. A person cannot please God if they are led around by its selfish ways. Paul flashes back to this sordid state in Romans 7, letting the reader know that someone out there does understand what it means to be in bondage to the sinful nature. When we were in the flesh…You mean when you were in that old carnal nature? You mean, Paul, that you are not now in the flesh? …the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. Romans 7:5. For when we were controlled by the sinful nature, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death. Romans 7:5, NIV. He goes on in that chapter to relate the utter confusion and frustration that a sinner feels when they want to do good, but the sin within them prevents them from being the righteous person they really desire to be.

Preachers for ages have erroneously taught that Paul was talking about his sinful present state at the time of the writing of the letter to the Romans. No! The apostle Paul had seen the risen Savior, had been on at least two missionary journeys over the space of twenty-four years, had raised the dead, healed the sick, and cleansed the lepers—no, we had better get this right—Paul in Romans 7 was not speaking about himself in 57 A.D! He was flashing back to that time when he was a slave to sin. He was sharing in the sinner’s sad plight, with great empathy. He was feeling a sinner’s seemingly hopeless condition without the Savior. He is explaining in Romans 7:14-24 just how hellish it was to be in the bondage to sin. He has flashed back and writes in the present tense in order for the reader to feel the immediacy of the horrendous bondage the sinner is in. He mentions being in bondage to sin, a slave to sin and sinning. The thing that he hates to do (sin) is the thing he does. In this sinful state he has no power in and of himself to stop sinning, even though he knows that it is wrong and wants to stop it. That is bondage; that is a slave to the sinful nature.

But just before Paul’s description of a sinner caught in the bondage to sin, he contrasts two states of being. When we were in the flesh, the motions of sins which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law…Romans 7:5-6. He contrasts the two states. “When we were” in bondage to sin, and “now we are delivered”—these are the two contrasting conditions of a human being. One is before the Spirit of God comes into a life, and the other is after.

Our Old Nature Must Die on the Cross

So how does one get out of the bondage of sin and sinning? How do we deal with this sin problem in our lives? The scriptures say that “He shall save His people from their sins.” How does this happen? Can we ever get in a “right” state with God? What must we do? There is only one thing to do with the carnal sinful self and that is to confess our depraved state, identify it with Christ on the cross, and let it die. There is only one way for the body of sin to be destroyed for the old sinful Adamic nature; it must be crucified. But we cannot really do anything to bring this on. It is a total work of God that has already been done—at the cross. We cannot do anything to deserve this wonderful deliverance from this death caused by sin and sinning. All He wants us to do is believe what He has already done to deliver us from the bondage of sin.

First, we must know this one thing: our old man, our old ego, our old self, our old nature, our old heart, our old carnal nature, the flesh, the depraved body of sin within us—it is put to death with the sacrificial Lamb. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. Romans 6:6.

Paul did not say that our old sinful nature was going to be taken care of some day when we all get to heaven. No! He said that it is dead, already put to death on the cross! That is not a misprint or a mistranslation. The sacrificial Lamb of God took our sins upon Him at the time of His death. He was our scapegoat, as when the Levitical priest laid hands on the goat transferring the sins of the people onto it. Christ died as a sinful lost man that day, for He “was made to be sin for us, who knew no sin that we may be made the righteousness of God in Him” (II Cor. 5:21).

He wants us to believe this—that our sinful nature died with Him on the cross, and that we were buried with Him, and that we were raised up with Him as well. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. Romans 6:5.

Is this hard for us to believe? Is it hard to have faith in this teaching? Yet the elect will believe this word. The others will fall as the children of Israel did through unbelief. For you see that God is not asking us to do anything except believe what He has already done for us. He first believed in His work in us long before we got here on this earth.

Entering the State of Being Right with God

And if we believe His word on this, then He will reckon a righteous status unto us. He will lay to our account that we are righteous in His eyes. For it is God who makes the dead-in-sin come to life and imputes righteousness unto them because they believe Him. Even God, who quic-keneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. Romans 4:17.

Our part is to surrender our old sinful selves unto the cross. Because of our faith in His redemptive sacrifice by surrendering unto death our own sinful heart, then He says, “You are now my child, and you are now righteous in My sight. You are welcome into my arms of love and mercy. Just walk in it by forgiving others and doing my words. For it is not you that are doing it, for you are dead now, my sons and daughters. It is the Spirit of the living God that I have dispatched into your hearts. It is the Spirit of Christ within you who I recognize as the one motivating spirit of your life. And soon you will be able to truthfully say what Paul said to the Galatians.” I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Gal. 2:20.

When we simply believe His apostle’s word and identify our depraved carnal nature with the Lamb that

day, and surrender to the punishment of death to that old selfish way of life, then He is pleased. That faith pleases Him very much, for we believe the report that He has given us concerning the Savior.

“Righteousness” is the upright walk in God’s ways and laws. If one is righteous in God’s eyes, then He approves of their walk of faith. Our old carnal Adamic nature can never please God, for it cannot keep the ten commandment law. But there was one who did, even the Savior Himself. Our part is to just believe that He is living within, for He is the Spirit, and His Spirit within keeps us in that righteous condition in God’s eyes. Remember that He is the one who “calls those things that be not as though they were.” He believes in His own sacrificial power; He can’t go back on it. If we believe what He believes about us in our redeemed position with Him within, then we are walking in faith.

But, oh, some are so afraid that they are going to sin, or that someone will use this precious truth as cheap grace and as a license to sin. Some think that if they believe this, that they can do anything and it will be all right with Him—that we can continue sinning since His grace will pick up the tab. No! That is not what God is saying at all. Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Romans 6:1-2.

The true delivered ones believe that their old carnal nature has been crucified with Christ, and that they have been buried with him, and are now risen with Him to walk in a newness of life.

How He Rids Sin from Our Lives

How do we get rid of sin in our lives? Get rid of the “we” in the question and we will get rid of the sin. For the

Answer to the sin problem is the knowledge that we have everything we need to completely overcome it in Him. He is the head of all powers in heaven and in earth. He has power over evil spirits and wicked intents. He is totally in control of Satan, who is the prince and power of the air. Satan could only do what God allowed him to do in the first chapter of the book of Job. When His Spirit lives within us, then we have everything needed to completely overcome sin in our life. And you are complete in Him, which is the head of all principality and power. Colossians 2:10.

He conquers sin in us when we just believe by faith that He has taken out our old hearts and given us new hearts. When we believe the word of His apostle that He has performed a spiritual operation on us, we are de-livered from sin. For through the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, God has performed an invisible spiritual operation on our old carnal heart and has gotten rid of our old sinful nature thereby. The operation is a spiritual circumcision. “Circumcision” means “cutting all the way around.” First, He cuts our old sinful heart out, all the way around. Then we are buried with Him in the baptism into His death. In God’s eyes He buries you with Christ, interring our old carnal nature with the sacrificial Lamb. Then, we believe that we are raised up with Him to walk in a brand new life with His Spirit as our life within.

This is all by faith. We cannot see Christ literally dying and being buried, and we cannot see our old carnal, sinful self die, either. We must simply believe having not seen these things, receiving this truth by faith. When we do this, God looks on us with approval, for faith pleases God. In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. And you…hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses. Colossians 2:11-13.

Belief in the Resurrection is the Key

Our victory hinges on our faith in the resurrection of the Savior—not that the resurrection historically happened, but that along with Him we were raised up from the dead as well. Then we can believe that we, too, can “walk in a newness of life.” We can then believe in His resurrection in us! His resurrection is our resurrection, for it is now Him living in us. All we have to do is believe it.

Our belief in this truth puts us right with God. He looks down on us and says, “Well done,” and then He imputes our belief as righteousness onto our account with Him. He “reckons” us as righteous. He counts us righteous in His sight, apart from our clamoring around trying to keep the law. Only Christ can keep the law. Therefore, when we believe that it is Him living in us, we then in God’s eyes are right with Him. We believe having not seen with our eyes, and this pleases God.

We can never please Him by trying to clean up our old carnal nature and thereby trying to keep the ten commandments on our own strength. This does not please Him, for it cuts Him out of the action and does not acknowledge Him for our deliverance. It is an attempt to clean up our lives without Him and His way of doing it. After realizing that we cannot keep the law successfully, we must confess our sins and surrender to our own deaths. We must put our old lives on the cross with Christ.

We then believe in God’s word when He says He will give us a “newness of life” where old things are passed away and where all things are become new. How can we fulfill that if we are still in the bondage to sin? This newness of life comes as we believe that it is in us. All we have to do is believe what has already been done. We cannot “do” anything for this new life. It is a gift from Him. We can do nothing for this new life, except believe in what Christ has done for us, and now in us.

For the culminating spiritual feat of Christ is Him coming down into our inner being, giving us a new heart, a new spirit. This is what God wants for us—a new life. But it won’t come by us working for it. It will not come as a reward but as an undeserved gift. All of our striving here on earth to “do this” and “don’t do that” in order to please Him will never work. For our deeds of the old man cannot please Him. It is our walk of faith as Christ in us doing this or that—that is what pleases God. We must die to bring the life of Christ to life within us. This is what God looks down on and is pleased. In His eyes, this is what really counts.

And yet, this is only the beginning. This right state with Him is just the first step on the road to completeness in Him—on the road to perfection.

Since we are now risen with Him, we are in a position to seek those things that are above. If we listen carefully, we just may be able to hear Him say, Come, let me show you a more perfect way…

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Section One—

The Need

What the World Needs—

The Sons of God Revealed

This world has one major need right now at the beginning of the 21^st Century. The world doesn’t need another politician telling the people what they want to hear. The world doesn’t need a steady robust economy to help it through the hard times that have been prophesied upon it. No. The world needs the sons of God to arrive on the scene. They must come forth for these last days.

The whole creation, the apostle Paul wrote, (whether it knows it or not), is anxiously awaiting the sons of God to come upon the world stage. For the sons of God will have something that all mortals walking the face of the earth must have. They will have the key that will set the whole creation free from the chains of a certain physical death. These children of the Most High are God’s elect, His sons made in His image, and they are what this world needs. They are the ones who will have cut through all of the deception and vice in this world system. They alone will see the Spirit and walk in the Spirit and be filled with the Spirit of the living Yahweh. They will build the old waste places and build the spiritual walls to the heavenly city.

Why the World Needs the Sons of God

The creation has purposely been subjected to mortality by its Creator God. The impending gloom of a certain death is no accident or aberration of God’s original plan. It has been His will all along for death to come to all living. And then, a few mortals will be brought by Him to an awareness of the abiding power of His spiritual presence and will become His actual spiritual children. He will change them and will engulf them with immortality one day soon. And it is through them that the whole creation will finally come to know this glorious liberty from a certain physical death. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. Romans 8:19-21, NIV.

Every living thing on this planet will die; the whole creation will decay and go back to dust. And we, this earthly creation, are “in bondage of corruption,” as it says in the King James Version.

The word “corruption” is translated from the Greek word phthora, #5356 in Strong’s. It means “decay.” Its root comes from #5351 phthio, to waste, shrivel, or wither. We, the creation, are bound to become decaying matter someday. And all of us, be we religious or not, are groaning under the impending physical doom that awaits us.

All of us have a built in desire to live forever. Every ancient culture, without exception, was concerned with this impending gloom of an early exit from life. All the ancient religions were concerned about how to secure immortality for the mortal. And so it is with religions today. Man keeps on waiting, waiting, waiting for something real that will happen in order to deliver them from a certain death.

The creation is like the wife of the Creator, who is in the deep pains of childbirth. She is struggling to deliver her children, the sons of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. Romans 8: 22-23, KJV.

The whole creation is anxiously awaiting the arrival of the sons of God because they are the first ones who will be released from mortality’s chains. They will be the first ones who will not have to taste death. And then after they are made known, the creation can look forward to its redemption. That is how important the sons of God are. When they are adopted or placed as sons, then a new era begins—an era where immortals will stride the earth, showing forth God’s way.

We Who Have Some Truth Also Desperately Need the Sons of God

Just look around us. What do we see in every corner? We see lurid trash in political high places, filthy-minded movies and TV. There is no shame to the world system. And it is not getting any better. So we try to lock in on the word of God. We endeavor to glimpse a truth here, a truth there. Some of us are trying to lead a holy life.

But even if some of us have some of the truth, we can’t seem to agree with other groups who have some truth. Many of us have been blessed to have the true Sabbath day revealed to us (Friday evening to Saturday evening). Some of us know about His covenant to us, the lost sheep of the House of Israel. Some have the feast days, the commandments, and yet…we can’t get it together to agree.

As a large body of people, we can’t see eye to eye enough to get together. Divisions abound. We, if we are blessed, have a place to meet with a few other people who share some of our own beliefs, but something is dras-tically missing. The unity of the Spirit is only a dream, for one group does not see eye to eye with another. We are to be in one mind and one accord, and yet, who is to say just what that one mind is? Who has the authority to say for sure anything? Who has a sure word? There are several thousand “Christian” denominations, and they are growing exponentially daily. There is probably a different concept of God and His plan for every one of His professing followers.

And it appears that the enemy is gaining ground, and we, the body of Christ, because of our disagreements and lack of unity, are seemingly losing ground as far as any “great move of truth” is concerned.

So what is the answer to this dilemma? It is as if Yahweh Himself is needed to come down and just flat appear to His select few, whoever they are! That would clear up the dim vision of those He has chosen. They would definitely “get on the same page” after that shared glorious experience. In the light of His own countenance and glow filling the room each would be in, He would straighten out off-concepts, purge out old leaven, old hypocrisies, and false concepts of Himself. There would be no self-delusion if the King Himself came down to a handful!

Then a fire would well up from out of their bones! Then they would cry to His people in His stead. They would be His voice with his word welling up and out as springs gush out making rivers where dry land once was.

That is what we all need. We need a sure word. We need the Captain of our faith Himself to get a cadre of His brothers to catch on fire and, in turn, ignite the world. We need a group of people baptized with the Spirit and with fire. We need them! We groan within ourselves, longing for someone to stand in the gap between God and the world.

I was sickened to see how thousands turned out in a football stadium to see a comatose eleven-year-old girl whose “statues were oozing oil.” They took this as some sign from God. People brought their sick and afflicted in hopes that their faith in this would be honored! What would they do if a true apostle of God Almighty with the power of the Savior Himself were to come in their midst? You talk about people clamoring to be healed! They would be bringing the blind-from-the-womb, the palsied, the lepers, the impossible ones to the disciples for healing.

That is the only thing that will ever turn this world upside down—if the people of the world were ready and knew they had a need for God in human form, had a need for the sons of the living God.

This whole creation is crying and groaning looking for someone sincere and true to believe in. The heroes are gone; the people run to their idols of music and movies. Those are their gods—gods who cannot see or hear them and their longings and needs, for their gods can see no one but themselves. The whole creation does not know it, but they are groaning and longing for the manifestation of the sons of God. And these sons will walk with the Lamb wherever He goes, for they shall be like Him. These are they who will do the greater works that the Master spoke of.

It All Hinges on the Sons, But Do They Know Who They Are?

Yes, the manifestation of the sons of God is of extreme importance in God’s plan, but do they know who they are? Do they realize their calling that He has placed on them? Do they know that He knew them long before

their earthly sojourn began? Do they at present realize that He has already given them a glorious destiny—a destiny that has them justified from sin, set apart for this special work, and also glorified from heaven? Does God’s elect, His chosen ones, know these things?

Have they called on His name and restored their heart back to Him? But if they haven’t believed on Him, then how are they to call on Him? And how can they believe on this God if they have never heard Him, never heard His Spirit, never heard Him who is the Word? They are going to have to hear Him being spoken out of the mouth of another son in order to believe on Him. And how shall these prospective sons hear unless there be a preacher? And who is really going to be effective as a preacher? The world is full of preachers. Anyone who thinks they have heard from God calls himself a preacher. The future sons will be reached by those who proclaim the truth. And these proclaimers will be sent. For whosoever shall call upon the name of Yahweh shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent?

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Section Two—

The Purpose

Chapter 2

The Eternal Purpose

The thoughts and intents of the Father’s heart are without beginning and end. His purpose has existed through all time and has never wavered, has never changed. His intention toward His creation is everlasting.

It is forever the same and will always be true and valid. His purpose will always go on; it will never stop. It will come to pass; nothing can prevent His eternal purpose from finding full fruition in this earth and in the heavens. His purpose is, of course, the perfect example of the definition of “eternal” (Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language, 2^nd College Edition).

God not only has, but is the definitive word on what will transpire here on earth and in the entire universe. “In the beginning was the Word…and the Word was God” John 1:1. “Word” is translated from the Greek word Logos, meaning “(1) a thought or concept; (2) the expression or utterance of that thought” (note, Scofield Reference Bible, p. 1114). Therefore, in the beginning was the thought or concept, and that thought or concept was the Supreme Being. And that thought, that Word, became an utterance of that thinking. And that Word, that Thought, would unfold into a living reality through-out the universe.

Those thoughts, expressed in words, comprise the purpose of God. His purpose is the road His creation will travel. His thoughts are His counsel, and they shall stand forever and will come to pass. The counsel of Yahweh standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. Psalms 33:11.

Both “purpose” and “thoughts” are words in English translated from the same Hebrew word machashabah, #4284 in Strong’s Concordance. His thoughts are His purpose. They express His intentions, His plan, His purpose. And these thoughts, this purpose, are an intention directed personally and deliberately by God toward His people. It is a plan that involves people right here on earth. David knew this intimate truth that God hovers in thought abundantly over his people. Many, O Yahweh, my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward; they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee; if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. Psalms 40:5. David was well aware of God’s purpose, which definitely concerned him and all of Israel.

And the Word, the Purpose, the Thoughts of God “became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth” John 1:14. The Word/Purpose/Thoughts of God was made flesh; He is called the Son of God, and He is full of grace and truth. If we can tap into the truth of God’s purpose, if we can conceive of His plan, then we will know the thoughts and intents of His heart. And when we think those thoughts, and have the same intention and purpose that He is and has, then we are well on the way of pleasing the Father.

Knowing of God’s eternal purpose, which is the grace and truth that the Word-made-flesh was full of, will bring light to us. For the Word-made-flesh is Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. John 1:9-11.

The Purpose Incarnate was walking around on the earth He created with the people He had chosen to reveal Himself through, and the majority rejected Him. But some will receive Him, and they will receive power to become like Him. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. John 1:12.

Received Him? Who is He? He is the Word, the Thought, the Purpose of God from the beginning put into earthen vessels. Receive His thoughts and intention and purpose and you are receiving Him. And you will then receive power to become His sons. And the sons will have believed on His name. The sons will not only know His real Hebrew name Yahshua, but they will believe what His name means. More on that later.

His Purpose Is Sharing Himself with His Offspring

Yes, Yahweh has a purpose. He has thoughts toward certain chosen vessels, His sons and daughters to be. To get them into His camp, He deliberately contacts them or calls them. He lets them know He is real in some way. He puts a desire and a hunger in their hearts to know the truth as to why they are here. He feeds their hunger with small portions of the truth, and they grow. And soon they begin to realize that everything seems to work out for them. Even through the bad times, the times of suffering, both of their making and through no fault of their own, God seems to bring some good out of it. They realize that they are maturing and becoming less selfish. They begin to love this invisible God who has provided a plan to deliver them from their sinful selves. Where once they were destroying themselves and their families, they now are enjoying more peace and harmony in their lives. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28.

At first, his offspring may not realize that they are a special creation descended from Adam, who was created some 6,000 years ago in God’s image. Other men had been created by God earlier. We know this because Cain was cast out to the east of Eden after murdering his brother Abel, and there he took a wife from those people. But the descendants of Adam had a special destiny in God’s heart. God had His eye on a few of these Adamites before they ever were born on earth. Unknown to them at first, He would call and choose out a few whom He knew beforehand. And He gave them a destiny before their entry into a mortal earthly fleshly existence. He pre-destinated them to be made into the exact image of the Son of God, the Word-Thought-Purpose of God. They are to be His siblings, his brothers. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be con-formed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 8:29. For God knew his own before ever they were, and also ordained that they should be shaped to the likeness of his Son. 8:29. NEB.

And those that He predestinated to be exactly like Himself, those are the ones that He first contacts or calls. And, as far as He is concerned, it is a done deal. It is His Thought toward them that they should be like Himself. What He has purposed, who can prevent it from coming to pass? To those that He called, He gave them a new heart that does not sin against Him. He justified them. They are in His sight justified from all of their despicable past actions. They, of course, must witness this on earth by believing the word of God about His Son, who is the sacrifice for our sins, whose shed blood slays the sin within us. It is already done and over with in God’s mind before it ever happens here on earth to His children! And to those called ones who He has justified, He in His thinking, in His heart, has already glorified! More-over, whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 8:30. He chose them long ago; when the time came he called them, he made them righteous in his sight, and then lifted them to the splendour of life as his own sons. 8:30. Phillips.

This is God’s Doing and Not Ours

God the Word has thought it all out and has purposed it and planned it to happen according to His predetermined counsel. Nothing accidentally happens. He is calling, justifying, and glorifying His elect, the chosen few. They will be “conformed to the image of His Son.” They will shortly be glorified and have their mortality swallowed up by His miraculous eternal life! God is for them! He helps them to do His plan, and this personally pleases Him. He gives them what they need and when they need it to become what He has pre-determined for them to become. In the face of all this, what is there left to say? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not grudge his own Son but gave him up for us all—can we not trust such a God to give us, with him, everything else that we can need? Romans 8:31, Phillips.

Not According to Us, But to His Own Purpose

We cannot do anything to become a part of His purpose and plan. God is saving some and calling some with a holy calling, but it is not because of anything “good” or “evil” that they have done. You cannot work at it in order to be accepted as a son or daughter. You cannot give enough offerings or go to church tirelessly and endlessly and expect to be one of the chosen ones by your efforts. To be called to be like Him, to be chosen as one of his sons is not according to our own works. It has nothing to do with what we have done, do, or ever will do. He calls us to be His immortal sons and daughters in accordance with His own purpose that was given to us in Yahshua His Son before the world began. Who has saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Yahshua the Messiah before the world began. II Timothy 1:9.

Our perfection and sonship in Him was given to us before the creation of the world. Therefore, we were in existence before the world began! We had to have spiritually been with Him in the beginning in order to have received the holy calling of sonship from Him. It is he who brought us salvation and called us to a dedicated life, not for any merit of ours but of his own purpose and his own grace, which was granted to us in Yahshua from all eternity. 1:9. NEB.

The Inheritance

The sons and daughters of God have obtained an inheritance. Our destiny is to inherit all things and to reign with the King of the Universe. Now this inheritance that some are to receive is a destiny that He has prearranged for that elect few. He has predestined them for greatness. He has selected these chosen few before the world ever was, to be like Him. And their lives—their destiny as His sons and daughters—have been predestinated in accordance with His own purpose. He thought it through before the world ever was, and He purposed and planned it all out to the finest detail. He then began to work all things after the counsel of His own will and purpose. For God has allowed us to know the secret of his plan, and it is this: He purposes in his sovereign will that all human history shall be consummated in Christ, that everything that exists in Heaven or earth shall find its perfection and fulfillment in him. And here is the staggering thing—that in all which will one day belong to him, we have been promised a share (since we were long ago destined for this by the one who achieves his purposes by his sovereign will), so that we, as the first to put our confidence in Christ, may bring praise to his glory! Ephesians 1:9-12, Phillips.

Summary

The great Creator, the Giver of life, has a definite plan and purpose in creating all things. He has revealed His purpose over the last 6,000 years to only a few human beings. We call them apostles and prophets, and they by inspiration of the Spirit of God have left us some writings that tell of His purpose.

They tell of His promise to humankind of a life everlasting—an eternal life where our frail, flimsy earthen bodies will be replaced by a glorious spiritual body in which those blessed ones will live with the Heavenly Father as His spiritual sons and daughters, His heirs of His kingdom.

The apostles and prophets speak of the following concepts that are a part of the perfecting of His sons and daughters:

Purpose—No accidents. He has an eternal purpose in reproducing Himself in His children.
Predestination—He has given a royal destiny to a few human beings before they were ever born here on earth.
Foreknowledge—He knew who they would be before they were born into this earth.
Election—Same word as “chosen.” He chooses or elects certain human beings to fulfill His will.
Grace or Favor—He favors the ones He has chosen. They are predisposed to respond to Him, and He showers great grace on them, or He favors them with a depth of knowledge about His purpose and how He is going to perform his plan.
Kings and Priests—The elect or the chosen ones will acquire immortality according to His will and become like Him. They will do the “greater works” as His ruling royal family. They will be His immortal offspring, able to mediate the glorious blessings of His Spirit to the rest of creation. They will be His inner circle, His cadre, His round table of rulers in His exact image, able to love mankind in the same powerful way that He did.
Sovereignty—He is sovereign and can do whatever He desires to do and whenever He decides to do it, in order to accomplish His purpose, plan, intention and thoughts.

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