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God Created the World and Us

Jason Cazes · April 2023 · 10 min read · Download the Word file

God created us with instincts to survive in the flesh—to kill or be killed.

Those instincts, which are part of our flesh, make us selfish, unloving, conditionally giving, and unforgiving.

Our flesh is our sinful nature.

God is unconditionally loving and forgiving.

When we are loving and forgiving, that is God’s spirit flowing through us.

When we give to others without being united with God, our giving is conditional, with strings attached.

A conditional giver wants money, sex, or control in return for the giving.

God’s spirit is unconditional loving, which is unconditional giving with no strings attached.

If we do not unite with God to express unconditional love, we remain in pain and emptiness.

Life is a tug of war between flesh, which is our sinful nature, and God’s loving spirit.

Life moves back-and-forth between fear and faith, until we attain complete surrender and obedience to God’s loving spirit.

Jesus said, “Why do you call me good? Only God is truly good” (Luke 18: 18-19, NLT).

Jesus said he overcame the world (John 16: 33), which meant that He overcame His sinful nature as a man, and was a complete expression of God’s loving spirit through a man.

Jesus said, “The Father and I are One” (John 10:30, NLT).

Jesus showed us what God looks like in a man completely surrendered to Him.

In this completely surrendered state, Jesus was and is God.

Jesus was showing us that uniting with and completely expressing God here is possible by overcoming our sinful nature and fear.

He was teaching us how to do it, so we could do it, too.

In John 14:12, Jesus says, “I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father” (NLT).

The goal is to ask yourself what Jesus would do in any situation, to affirm that the Father and you are One, and to express God’s love and forgiveness to others, while suppressing your sinful nature and fears.

Your goal is to spend more time in faith, and less in fear.

Satan is our flesh, our sinful nature, our selfish, instinctually driven, fear-based nature, which operates separately from God’s loving spirit.

We are directed by our sinful natures, our flesh, apart from the guidance and expression of God’s loving spirit.

Satan is our sinful nature and our fears.

Satan is all human beings who focus only on satisfying their selfish instincts, who give to others with conditions (if at all), who refuse to forgive others, and who seek revenge.

Satan is all human beings who rely on fear to protect them, rather than on God.

Our fears tell us that there is no God to protect us, so we must protect ourselves.

Satan is the part of human beings that allows fear to guide our lives, which is to live according to self-will, trying to control outcomes.

That only generates pain and suffering.

When we patiently follow God’s loving spirit to guide us, that always leads us to the most satisfying outcomes.

Satan is the selfish survival instinct in people that is controlled by their fear, which tells them that they don’t have enough to give to help others.

Satan is not of the spirit, but of the mind and flesh.

Our sinful nature seeks pleasure, distraction, and bad drugs to attempt to treat the pain and suffering we feel.

Our sinful, selfish nature, which includes fear, is part of our design so that we survive in the flesh, but our task is to overcome it.

The Antichrist is all human beings who hate and reject God.

No person, no matter how evil or selfish, is unredeemable.

Unconditionally loving and forgiving evil or selfish people can redeem and heal them.

Killing evil is a never-ending cycle.

Love is the only thing that will eradicate it.

When the word demons is used in the New Testament, it refers to neurological disorders and mental illness.

For example, in Matthew 17:15-18 a man says to Jesus: “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water…. And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour” (New King James Version).

Illnesses can be caused by human beings upsetting the balance of nature in various ways that interfere with our cells and DNA.

For example, we can expose ourselves to chemicals that are toxic to our bodies and minds, or even create such chemicals.

We do like to play victim and blame our problems on something or someone else, such as Satan, demons, or even God.

But our problems stem from our selfish, instinct-driven, fear-based sinful nature.

The power of faithful prayer with loving intentions can heal physical and mental illnesses.

Anger, hate, and violence are reactions to fear.

Anger, hate, and violence are the opposite of love.

God is love.

When we unite with God’s love, we overcome our fears, which is to overcome anger, hate, and violence.

God’s unconditional love through us is kind, peaceful, patient, tolerant, and nonviolent.

God’s love liberates us and frees us from the bondage of our fear-based suffering.

To be rid of the anger that blocks our ability to love others, we need to forgive those we dislike, hate, or resent.

That enables God’s loving spirit to flow through us.

People connected with God’s loving spirit forgive others unconditionally, with no strings attached.

Once people are connected with God’s loving spirit, they have a new superpower.

That superpower comes from surrendering their human free will to God’s will and direction.

That surrender involves giving up planning and controlling outcomes based on fear.

God created human beings with fear so the fear would protect us in the flesh before we united with Him.

Once human beings are united with God, He protects them, and they no longer need their fear to protect them, but they still have to continually overcome the hardwired fear in their minds.

When we forgive others unconditionally, that enables us to love others unconditionally.

You don’t have to forgive everyone in your past all at once.

It is a process that happens over time.

God will put thoughts in your head of people whom you disliked, hated, or resented in the past.

How do we forgive others and ourselves?

The only thing we need is the willingness to do it.

The greatest first step is to become open to forgiving others.

Then, when a thought comes into your head about individuals whom you dislike, hate, or resent, say to them in your mind, “I completely forgive you (mention their name); I break the chain of hate that links me to you; may peace and love be with you; you are free; and I am free.”

When thoughts of those people come up again, say in your mind, “I have forgiven you; bless you; and may peace and love be with you.”

If you repeat that last sentence every time the people come up in your mind in the future, you will find that all your hatred, resentment, and dislike have disappeared completely, and your forgiveness of them is total.

Next, forgive yourself for harming yourself in any way.

Repeat to yourself, “I forgive you (say your full name); may peace and love be with me; I am free.”

Afterward, if thoughts of past guilt come up again, say, “I have forgiven myself for that; may peace and love be with me; I am free.”

You will find that you have forgiven yourself, and no longer sabotage or punish yourself, or create limitations in your life.

You have set others and yourself free.

The truth has set you free.

God will not give you more than you can handle.

As you forgive each person you have disliked, hated, or resented in the past, you will notice that your ability to love unconditionally is growing.

Forgiveness increases your ability to have God’s unconditional love flow through you, which opens the doors to Heaven on Earth.

You can then pause, so God can direct your thoughts about what actions to take next.

The goal is to stay in the present moment.

That’s where God is, and where He will give you intuitive thoughts and directions.

Follow His directions.

When you imagine the future with fear, you are trying to control things, and God is not there.

Let go of control by surrendering your will to God.

Come back to the present moment.

Give God control again.

Trust Him, listen, and follow.

All this takes practice.

Whenever fear comes up, say, “God is with me,” or “God guides, protects, and provides.”

That will bring you back to the present moment, expel your fearful thoughts, and allow you to give control back to God.

God is in the present moment, from which He will direct your thoughts, protect you, and give you resources when you are working toward His goals of unconditional love and forgiveness.

Being in the present with God is where you will find a peace, happiness, and joy that you have never known before.

God knows what is best for you and gives you outcomes that will completely satisfy you.

You just have to trust the process, stay in the present moment, follow His directions, and experience a beautifully satisfying happiness, peace, and joy.

Before my recent revelations, I never imagined that I could have an ongoing personal and direct relationship with our Father, the Creator of the universe.

Prisons are full of people who grew up without the love and direction of a father.

90 percent of all homeless and runaway children come from fatherless homes.1

85 percent of youths in prisons come from fatherless homes.

71 percent of high school dropouts come from fatherless homes.

60 percent of youth suicides come from fatherless homes.

Many women who grow up without the love of a father seek that love through unhealthy relationships, and often end up in the sex industry.

Adults and children act out because they are seeking love that they are not getting.

We all want love, whether we get it or not.

Your Heavenly Father Creator loves you and wants a relationship with you now.

Human beings are revengeful, violent, unforgiving, and conditionally loving, with expectations of money, sex, or control in return.

God is peaceful and nonviolent, forgiving and loving unconditionally.

God our Creator loves and forgives unconditionally.

Jesus showed the true nature of God coming through Him, expressing unconditional love and forgiveness.

Jesus’ example showed a peaceful, loving, and forgiving God, thereby creating the New Testament.

God wants battles to be fought and won with love, forgiveness, kindness, patience, tolerance, and nonviolence.

Once we connect with our loving Creator, He protects us.

Then we don’t have to rely on our fears to protect us anymore.

Accidents and acts of nature are not God punishing us, although many people mistakenly blame God for their pain and suffering.

Actually, aside from accidents and acts of nature, our troubles come from our own free-will choices, which are not directed by God.

When we surrender our will to God’s, He only directs us to be unconditionally loving and forgiving.

In Galatians 5:16-17, Paul wrote:

So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves. The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is the opposite of what the Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. The two forces are constantly fighting each other, so you are not free to carry out your good intentions. (NLT)

In Galatians 5:19-21, Paul wrote:

When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. (NLT)

In Galatians 5:22-23, Paul wrote:

The Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. (NLT)

In Galatians 6:7-10, Paul wrote:

You will always harvest what you plant. Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit. So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap the harvest of blessing if we don’t give up. Therefore, whenever we have the opportunity, we should do good to everyone. (NLT)

In Matthew 20: 18-19, Jesus says to keep the commandments of the Old Testament:

You must not murder. You must not commit adultery. You must not steal. You must not testify falsely. Honor your mother and your father. Love your neighbor as yourself. (NLT).

In Matthew 22: 37-40, Jesus indicated which two commandments are most important:

You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments. (NLT).

If you have a desire to read the Bible and seek the truth contained within it for yourself, the passages in the Old Testament that I recommend reading before turning to the New Testament include: Genesis 1:1-31, 2:1-25 (NLT); Psalms 23:1-6, 91:1-16 (NLT); and Proverbs 3:1-35, 4:1-27 (NLT).

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