YOUR WAY? by Tony Alamo

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YOUR WAY? by Tony Alamo

God, who rules on the throne of Heaven in Heaven, sent His one and only elected One, along with Himself by the Spirit, to dwell among us, in the midst of us, two millenniums ago.¹ The word "among," according to the Bible and Webster's dictionary, means "in and through us; mixed or intermingled with us." The word "midst" means "in the middle point or part of our bodies" or in the center of our spirit, which is the most holy place. Our bodies, the temples of God, are to surround Christ, the Father by the Holy Spirit who is among or in the midst of us.² God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit came to this world as a man. He first lived on earth in the midst of a human body named Jesus to show us that He would, from then to the end of the world, both dwell in redeemed human flesh and do His great works to fulfill His purpose from the middle, the center, the midst of other human flesh among the redeemed, those of us who are saved.³ His purpose was and still is to gather all of His redeemed ones who were once lost in this world into His one and only divine body, which together forms the entire body of Christ. It is also called the Church or temple of God, the New Jerusalem, and the bride of Christ.⁴ Christ has gathered the members of His body together gradually for approximately two thousand years. Through Himself with the Father by the Spirit living and working in the bodies of those He has gathered through every age, He has continually gathered others, establishing the kingdom of Heaven on earth.⁵ He expands His body invisibly by continually living in human flesh in every age for two thousand years. "The kingdom of Heaven is at hand" (Matt. 4:17), and the time of His second coming is nigh.⁶ "Behold, He cometh with clouds; and every eye shall [visibly] see Him" (Rev. 1:7).

The kingdom of Heaven is Christ with the Father by the Spirit living in those of us who are saved and all others who were saved before us. Christ with His Father by the Holy Spirit, and the chosen ones whom He now lives in and all those He lived in before us are the New Jerusalem, the city in which Christ is the light for all the redeemed ones who are also His bride.⁷ They with Christ, the bride and the Groom, are the New Jerusalem wherein only righteousness dwells.⁸ This unique married couple, Christ, the Triune God and all His people, are together called the temple of God in Revelation 3:12. It is composed of only those who were faithful to Almighty God while they lived on earth with Him, the entire Triune God living in their midst among them. This kingdom of Heaven, which is now being established on earth, has been growing more rapidly because the end of time is at hand. The tremendous growth of the kingdom of Heaven on earth is hidden from the sight of the wicked, carnal man because Christ, the Triune God, is doing His work of reclamation invisibly. All of His works are divine holy.⁹ Therefore, they are not seen by the spiritually blind, wicked, or carnal men and women. "The god of this world [Satan] hath blinded the minds of them which believe not" (II Cor. 4:4). Satan has deceived them.¹⁰

"Without [holiness] no man [no carnal, wicked, spiritually blind man or woman] shall see the Lord," or see the invisible, holy works that He is invisibly doing in and through His holy ones throughout the world, His holy people (Heb. 12:14). Satan crudely attempts to imitate the peace of God. It is an insane plan, a preposterous plan, made to catch all those who live only for this present world. He can only deceive those who don't know Christ, who is the Word of God, the Father, and the Holy Spirit.¹¹ He only deceives those who don't know the Bible. The Bible exposes his insanity. He leads the spiritually ignorant and blind people of the world to believe peace will reign if they will only be contrary to God's commandments, that is, if they will completely reject God. Note, however, that the world lacks peace more than ever before. There shall be less and less peace as each day goes by. God is doing this because of the world's belief in this insane and wicked doctrine of Satan's. God is taking all peace from the earth by increasing earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, along with many other plagues called the wrath of God, as well as the many new diseases which cause much discomfort and death. As God took all peace from Egypt because they refused to let God's people go to serve Him,¹² so also shall God pepper the entire world in a much more spectacular and glorious way than He did Egypt.¹³ The blind, deceived ones continue prophesying "there shall be peace and safety." God said, "When they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape" (I Thes. 5:3).

Are you so blind you can't see that the lack of peace is on the increase? You cannot hide from God.¹⁴ You cannot run inside the house and hope He doesn't see you! Today no one in their right mind is resting peacefully day or night. God's best plagues are yet to come.¹⁵ God, who cannot lie, promises you will see all this happen very soon.¹⁶

The kingdom of Heaven is only within the saved human bodies God is using to fulfill His purpose.¹⁷ Jesus said, "The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:20-21). Unless Christ by the Spirit with the Father enters human hearts when sincere people request it, these people shall not enter the kingdom of Heaven. Nor shall the kingdom of Heaven enter them, because again, the kingdom of Heaven is within.¹⁸

The Triune God first lived in the human flesh of the babe Christ Jesus.¹⁹ He then lived in the boy Christ Jesus who grew, lived, and did His mighty works in the full grown man Jesus, the Christ who is also called the Son of man.²⁰ Even though He was a babe, a boy, then a man, the entire Triune God lived and worked in and through Him in human flesh from the cradle to the cross.²¹ This is God showing us He continues His incarnation, that is, His life and works, in the human flesh of all those who humble themselves before Him, those who engage Him by prayer so that they might become a temple for Him to live in and to continue His mighty works in.²²

The following scripture from I John 4:2-3 tells us we are antichrist if we doubt the fact that Christ lives in the world through all ages in human flesh. The Apostle John says it this way: "Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist." Christ continues His incarnation, His walk on this earth, in human flesh by the Spirit with His Father living in the midst, the center, of all those who accept Him as their Lord, Savior, and King.²³

Forty days after His death, burial, and resurrection, Jesus ascended into Heaven and became the Triune God.²⁴ He is now the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.²⁵ His translated human body ascended into Heaven, making God and man one. This is the method by which God mingles His Divinity with saved humanity.²⁶ He does this to make them eternal through their will choosing to keep His life and power working through them throughout their entire lives, enabling them to show God's mercy through them to others who have not yet been redeemed. No person with even one sin on their soul shall enter the kingdom of Heaven.²⁷

Christ, the Husband, the Triune God, is also the Comforter.²⁸ He said He would send the Comforter, His life and power, into all of us who keep His commandments.²⁹ Jesus said, "Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you" (Acts 1:8). This means you shall have God's power after you are baptized with the Holy Spirit in the same manner that Christ was baptized with the Holy Spirit at His water baptism,³⁰ and the same manner that the apostles were baptized with the baptism of the Holy Spirit, which is God's life and power living in them continuously from the day of Pentecost until the day their human bodies died.³¹ The baptism of the Holy Spirit is given to all those who keep His commandments, even to all those who are "afar off," meaning those of us both in this present time and in the future that keep His commandments daily.³²

Christ as the Triune God, the Comforter, must be baptized into us so that the ministry of the Triune God may be done in our human bodies. Christ stated, "Without Me ye can do nothing [no godly works]" (John 15:5). God the Father, Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, and the translated human body of Christ must live and work in our human bodies so that we too, at the end of our human lives and ministries, may have our human bodies translated into an eternal, ecclesiastical body, as Christ's human body was.³³ Our spirits, reunited with the Lord's Spirit, are placed again in our reassembled bodies. If we have corrupted ourselves while on earth, however, the Lord's Spirit of resurrection shall not be placed in our former bodies. But if we have kept ourselves pure and are not corrupt, the same Spirit that resurrected Christ from the dead shall be placed into us with our spirit, and we shall be transfigured into an ecclesiastical body.³⁴ This is because "flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God" (I Cor. 15:50). However, our ecclesiastical, transfigured bodies can. Then we shall "ever be with the Lord" (I Thes. 4:17). This is the sequence of resurrection. Everyone who did everything they could to get the gospel out with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength shall rise with the Lord because while they were living on earth, they regenerated theirselves by seeking the Lord regularly throughout every day, in order to never become corrupt. All of us, with the exception of Christ and God's two witnesses, who are at this time (on resurrection day) in Heaven, shall be absorbed into the eternal oneness of God, be eternally cemented into His eternal body, and forever be members of the very body of the Triune God and joint owners of everything He has.³⁵ This will happen both because of our belief in Him and because Christ with His Father by the Spirit lived and worked in us, enabling us to do everything He instructed us to do and moved us by His eternal Spirit to do while we lived on earth, including His and our dispensation of Himself into others while He and we lived in our mortal bodies.³⁶

Christ, the husband, and all of His followers, His bride, the Church of God, cannot walk together unless they first agree on every point, "every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God" (Matt. 4:4). "The Word [is] God" (John 1:1). Amos 3:3 states, "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" The answer is no! A godly marriage cannot survive unless both husband and wife totally agree on the correct interpretation of every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Jesus said, "Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me [His every Word] shall never die"(John 11:26). "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ [all of His teachings], and thou shalt be saved, and thy house"(Acts 16:31). Jesus said, "He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him" (I John 2:4). In other words, if Christ with the Father by the Spirit is not living in you, you are lost.³⁷

As the eight souls were saved from total destruction by boarding Noah's ark because they believed Noah's message from God that everyone in the world would be drowned if they were not on the ark, so also shall all those living today who believe the prophets', Christ's, the apostles', and our message from Christ be eternally saved from everlasting destruction if they are in Christ and Christ with His Father by the Holy Spirit is in them.³⁸ Noah's ark was symbolic of our life and safety in Christ. We can be saved, be safe, and be at peace only in Christ, who is the only Savior and Prince of Peace.³⁹ This is why Christ, the Triune God, is called our Savior, our Redeemer, the Ark of the Covenant, the Promise, the King of kings, the Lord of lords, the Almighty Father, the Counselor, and the Prince of our peace. When all the wrath of God is unleashed on the world's wicked ones, we who are saved shall have "perfect peace" (Isa. 26:3), and "a sound mind" (II Tim. 1:7).

When Christ, the Triune God, the Comforter is living and working in us, Jesus states, "He shall [also] teach [us] all things" (John 14:26). By Christ our Ark, our Safety, our Promise of everlasting life in everlasting safety, the Comforter, the Triune God also teaches us all things. By His life and power living in us and teaching us all things, He gives us the mightiest advantage over temptation, sin, Satan, and the satanic, magnetic pull from the things, and the lusts of the world.⁴⁰ We are given the Lord's power to keep all the commandments, especially the first and second, which the entire law hangs on.⁴¹ When we love the Lord God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength, nothing can tempt us. This is because all of our heart, all of our soul, all of our mind, and all of our strength is focused totally on Christ, His Father, and the Holy Spirit.

Christ continuously walks on earth with the Father by the Spirit in faithful humans, His tabernacles, the houses wherein He lives.⁴² We are His vessels, His containers, the instruments He works in and through.⁴³ We are those whom He has regenerated from our former, temporal lives unto His eternal, everlasting life because of our belief in His operation, His method of miraculous transformation of human, carnal souls into souls mingled with Himself, so that we might share His power and be transformed from death unto life [eternal life].⁴⁴ The instructions of this wonderful transformation is outlined in scripture in great detail. It is condensed for the general public so they can quickly assimilate and understand it in my literature, along with many references. If we receive the instructions from His Word, the Spirit of God will bear witness with our spirits that this transformation has not only taken place within us, but continues to grow into the fullness of the stature of Christ within our spirits.⁴⁵ The Apostle Paul said, "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God"(Rom 8:16). Because of this process, we now have His ability, His strength, and His nature as long as we continue on in our faith in all of His Word.⁴⁶ He commands us "always to pray, and not to faint"(Luke 18:1).

By reading His Word daily, we receive our daily bread of the Spirit.⁴⁷ His Word is our only spiritual food. It will keep His Spirit strong in ours so that we may continue to be spiritually strong and have power over our flesh.⁴⁸ Only in this way is our flesh under subjection to God's Spirit, which is mingled in ours.⁴⁹ Only in this way are we able to retain God's holy life and lifestyle, and have His power and mighty works continuously flowing through us. Only in this way are we able to retain His eternal life for us to our very end.⁵⁰ All those who pay no attention to His rule will become like dogs who are "turned to [their] own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire" (II Pet. 2:22). This verse is symbolic of those who were once saved, then fell back, first into the world, then later into Hell.

Many foolishly believe the false doctrine of once saved, always saved.⁵¹ The Lord has redeemed us, not so we will continue in sin, but to give us the power to not sin ever again.⁵² All those who believe in the false doctrine that when you are once saved, you will always be saved, whether you sin or not, and don't repent of this, you shall soon know that this doctrine is false.⁵³ Their souls shall spend an eternity in the lake of fire.⁵⁴ "For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil" and save sinners by giving them the power to not sin through He Himself, the Triune God, living in them (I John 3:8).⁵⁵ If the Triune God is truly living in you, you know for sure that my doctrine is truly from the Word of God. There is no error in my teaching, because my teaching comes directly from the Holy Spirit, from the Word of God. It is found throughout the entire Bible, which was given to holy men who were anointed by the Holy Spirit so they could write such beautiful, eternal things.⁵⁶

By the Triune God living within us or among us, we are given the strength to resist every temptation in this temporal, condemned world.⁵⁷ When Christ dwells in humans with His Father by the Spirit, the entire world sees Him in every human He dwells in.⁵⁸ In this way the world can see His unique life, power, and works. Therefore, they will know the Word of God is true.⁵⁹

When people who know us see this change or metamorphosis in us, they know a miraculous transformation has taken place. We look the same outwardly, but inwardly we are completely different. We are new creatures because of Christ and His Father abiding within our spirits.⁶⁰ Also, we do not do the things we did before.⁶¹ We begin doing the things of God rather than the things of Satan, which are the things of the world.⁶² It is important for everyone to see this tremendous change in us, to see the life and power of God living and working in us. Only then will they understand and believe that this same miracle is possible for themselves.⁶³

"God is no respecter of persons" (Acts 10:34). He will bless those who do good and He will curse those who are evil, no matter who the person is.⁶⁴ In the eyes of God, a scrubwoman, janitor, a former harlot, pimp, adulterer, adulteress, homosexual, or any other repentant sinner who believes in Him and allows Him to do His works in them is millions of times better than any pope, president, king, queen, prince, princess, wealthy person, or self-righteous person that never repents of their sins so that they might be transformed from death unto life. This is because all those who believe are saved, no matter how low their status is in the world.⁶⁵ If they are not saved and refuse to be saved, they are all damned and condemned to Hell, no matter how high their status is in the world.⁶⁶ This is because they reject God's mighty plan of salvation, which He has provided for us all.⁶⁷ They refuse to bear the cross or to go through discomfort, if necessary, which comes from carrying the cross of Christ.⁶⁸ They would rather choose a religion whereby they, through politics, can receive comfort, money, and favor with man in this present world rather than with God, who lives forever. For this they are condemned and sent to Hell.⁶⁹

Christ states, "He that is not with Me is against Me" (Matt. 12:30). "Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father" (I John 2:23). Christ the Son is also "THE WORD OF GOD" (Rev. 19:13). "Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God" (Jas. 4:4). Jesus tells the entire world, "He that taketh not his cross, and followeth after Me is not worthy of Me" (Matt. 10:38). Jesus also said, "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me" (John 10:27), "And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers" (John 10:5).

Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me" (John 14:6). Anyone attempting to enter the kingdom of Heaven by their false, man-made religions or by their doing good works without Christ with the Father by the Spirit living in them doing the works of God is like a thief or a robber. This is because they believe they don't need Christ with His Father by the Spirit, the Triune God, living in them to do the work of God.⁷⁰ They believe that their own merit shall bring about salvation, however, the Lord has provided only one way for salvation. That way is through Christ living in them with the Father by the Spirit.⁷¹ Jesus said, "Without Me ye can do nothing" (John 15:5). This means you cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven without Jesus in you with His Father by the operation of the Holy Spirit.⁷² You also cannot stay out of Hell without Him.⁷³

Won't you come unto Him, all those of you who are heavily laden because of your doing your own works, YOUR WAY rather than allowing Christ to do His works in you His way? Your way is heavy, but Christ's way is easy and light.⁷⁴ I am telling you the truth because "I am the Truth," saith the Lord (John 14:6).⁷⁵ "No one has eternal life but Me," saith the Lord. Peter agrees when he says, "To whom shall we go? Thou hast the Words of eternal life" (John 6:68).

Won't you accept the Lord Jesus, who is the Triune God with His Father by the Spirit, this very moment? Won't you humble yourself before Him by rejecting every other way, every other doctrine, and all false methods of immortality? Ask Him into your heart now. Receive the immortal, eternal, splendorous, unspeakable joy of knowing that all your former sins are forgiven and you have the immortal life and power of God living in you through Christ living in you with His Father and the Holy Spirit. Call out to Him now with all sincerity, with faith in Him and Him alone, by saying this prayer:

My Lord and my God, have mercy upon my soul, a sinner.⁷⁶ I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God.⁷⁷ I believe that He died on the cross and shed His precious blood for the forgiveness of all my sins.⁷⁸ I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit⁷⁹ and that He sits on the right hand of God at this moment, hearing my confession of sin and this prayer.⁸⁰ I open up the door of my heart and I invite You into my heart, Lord Jesus.⁸¹ Wash all of my filthy sins away in the precious blood that You shed in my place on the cross at Calvary.⁸² You will not turn me away, Lord Jesus; You will forgive my sins and save my soul. I know because Your Word, the Bible says so.⁸³ Your Word says that You will turn no one away, and that includes me.⁸⁴ Therefore, I know that You have heard me, and I know that You have answered me, and I know that I am saved.⁸⁵ And I thank You, Lord Jesus, for saving my soul, and I will show my thankfulness by doing as You command and sin no more.⁸⁶

Now that you are saved and forgiven of your sins, raise your hands and praise the Lord. Christ now lives in you through the Holy Spirit and there is a way you can receive a fuller portion of the divine nature of God in you. God the Father lives now in you also. The more of the divine nature of God that lives in you, the more you will be able to stand against the temptations that so easily have moved so many millions of Christians away from salvation. This is caused by more man in us than God in us. Mankind has become so wicked that if Satan and his impish army were abolished, we would be our own devil.

Now that you are saved, pray for the baptism in the Holy Spirit. Prayerfully study the Word and pray always for more of the divine nature. For instructions on how to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit, and to receive more of God's holy nature, ask for our literature or call. For without holiness, no man shall see God (Hebrews 12:14).

Now that you are saved, it is a commandment to be fully submerged, baptized in water in the name of the Father and in the name of the Son and in the name of the Holy Spirit. Follow all of God's commands and live.

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