Why Are You So Strange?

Are you a child of God? 

You are weird. Why are you so strange? Why is it people get nervous when you come around? Well? If you have accepted the Spirit of adoption, you are no longer a child of the world, but you are now a child of God. You are no longer a citizen of this world, but you are now a stranger in a strange land.

Let's start off by stating this fact. I understand some may become offended right from the start. However, that does not make it any less true. We are NOT all God's children. We are all created by God, but only by accepting God's plan for salvation can you become a child of God. Genesis 1:26-27

"Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."

Stop a second. Who? God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." Who is He talking to? The Word, or the Son, and The Holy Spirit. Don't believe me? Look here.

"The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters." Genesis 1:2

In the beginning, God. The Spirit of God hovered over the face of the deep. Or of the waters. Look at this.

"And God said,"

Over and over again, "And God said." It was the Word of God, that created all things. Turn to John 1:1-3

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was at the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made."

A little bit far we read this. Verse 14

"And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth."

Jesus. So we see, from the beginning, God the Father, Jesus the Son, and The Holy Spirit have been and are, and will always be. Three, yet one. We are made in the image of God. Our mind, intelligence, and emotions, ETC, after God the Father. Our flesh, our body that allows us to operate in this physical realm after the Son, Jesus the Christ. Lastly, our essence, our spirit, that will live on forever, after the Hold Spirit of God. We are three, yet we are one.

Then came the fall. When Adam, took all that authority, remember this.

"And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."

Adam took this authority that God gave him and gave it over to Satan. From that day on, we ceased being automatically born into the Family of God and are now born into the family of the devil. We are all God's creation. Yet we are NOT all God's children. There is only one way to be a child of God, and that is Jesus.

"If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him." Romans 8:5-17

Jesus told us this.

"Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”" John 3:3

He went on to explain it this way.

"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." John 3: 5-6

Peter put it this way

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time." 1 Peter 1:3-5

Then in 1 Peter 1:22-23

"Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God"

Jesus is the Word {John1} Jesus is the Bread of life {John 6:35}, Jesus is the Living Water {John 7:38} Jesus is the door {John 10:7}, Jesus is the Good Shepard {John 10:11} Jesus is the Way {John 14:6}

There is no other way. Jesus IS God. Without Him, you cannot possibly get to God, because Jesus is already God. That would be like someone saying they want to talk to me but do not believe I am me. In other words, they want to talk to Peter, but they do not want to talk to Peter. You get the point.

So?

"That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God hath raised him from the dead, you shall be saved." Romans 10:9.

To BE a child of God. say this Prayer. Right now. Wherever you may be. Say it in your own words, and do not doubt in your heart. God will hear you. He will send the Spirit of Life to you. Let us Pray.

"Oh heavenly Father, Lord God. I am a sinner. I know this. I know there is nothing I can do to change that. But I know you can. I accept Jesus's sacrifice for me. I believed He rose from the dead. I repent my sins. Please send the Spirit of Adoption into my life. Help me to get to know the real you. Save me. Please. In the name of Jesus,  Amen!"

That is it. You are now a child of God. Yes. It really is just that simple. Now you should find a church that God leads you to and be baptized the way Jesus said to be. You are no longer of this world. You are a new creature. You "have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him."Colossians 3:10

You are now citizens of Heaven itself.

"So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God," Ephesians 2:19

Which means you are no longer citizens of this world. Jesus said this.

"If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you." John 15:19

Now you are going to get strange. At least to many that are still of this world. Why? Because they cannot even possibly understand. They are strangers and aliens of Heaven. More on this next time. For now? Be strange. Be weird. BE the child of God He calls you to be.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. 2 Corinthians 13

Until next time, be blessed, be a blessing, and Jesus is Lord!