CLOSER TO GOD, Step by Step Empowering Provisions, Baptism: Step by Step Empowering Provisions Baptism

By Ben J. Theo

In depth directions and teachings to get closer to God through Jesus Christ.

A former atheist saved by God through Christ, Holy Spiritual author and mentor Ben J. Theo became extraordinarily empowered to draw closer to God from baptism. He shares the transformative power of believing and testimony. Learn about this super-natural empowerment and its miraculous blessings!

Using the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek manuscript words from which the common Holy Bible arose and dictionaries accessible to everyone, Seminary Professor Ben J. Theo uncovers deep definition for Biblical teaching that God's Holy Spirit provided to get closer to God through Jesus Christ.

Pastor Ben J. Theo has been a wonderful counselor and proven Holy Spirit authority for original Biblical Christianity predating Catholicism and Protestantism. He volunteers as Councilor Bishop for the Christian Church of God from Jerusalem in continuation from the Holy Bible's internal record and book of Acts. He is a Rabbinical Master of Biblical Theology, Ecclesiology, and Divinity teachings for the Lion of Judah Discipleship Journey Seminary.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Feb 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9781678171193

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CLOSER TO GOD

Step By Step Empowering Provisions

Baptism

By Ben J. Theo

CLOSER TO GOD, Step by Step Empowering Provisions

Baptism, by Ben J. Theo

Content partially from and constructed with aide of the CCGJGCC's Lion of Judah Seminary disciples, some of whom have published their testimony in this series.

Copyright ©2021 by Ben J. Theo and Divinity Dimensions Press, a publications division of the Christian Church of God from Jerusalem G.C.C., [e-mail] https://ccgj-gcc.bitrix24.site/products-services/

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Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture is taken from The NKJV Study Bible, copyright 1997, 2007 by Thomas Nelson's Inc. Used by permission. And the New King James Version. Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-6781-7119-3

The Aurora Borealis, or northern lights. A symbol of Divine luminosity and from God the paradoxical balance of Spiritual peace with vitality.

DEDICATION

To all seeking to get closer to God. To all having become unhappy about their life. To all seeking an improved life.

To God the Father of Jesus Christ, the supreme Architect of all humans, and to support any abundant life with happiness.

God tells us:

Im present Spiritually and physically to heal the ill, enlighten and liberate those in darkness and spiritually imprisoned, to impart valuable judgement to the destitute decision makers, provide direction to the lost, to exalt the humble, set right the wrong, to save souls from indefinite destruction, make wealthy the poor, and turn misery and hate to the joys and love from Heaven.----God through Jesus Christ, a paraphrased summary from the whole Holy Bible by guidance of the Holy Spirit.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you God for Jesus Christ and Your Holy Spirit, with affirmations from your Holy Bible.

Thank you Dr. Bobby Joiner for introducing me to God through Jesus in you in jail. My appreciation and love for you for it ever increases.

Thank you Edna Jean Hicks for CCGJGCC's land, legal, and financial support; Pastor Jim Palmer for practical support and wisdom; Pastor John Hill for practical support for the CCGJGCC and Lion of Judah Seminary by records keeping; Dana Adams for practical and financial support for CCGJGCC and Lion of Judah Seminary and records keeping; Jeffrey Dodd for feedback and Elizabeth's help; Elizabeth Maddux for CCGJGCC Treasury support; Michael Amsie for CCGJGCC financial and practical support; Antonio Peeler for Spiritual and Biblical support; Christopher James for feedback and practical support; Joel McGee for Spiritual, Biblical, CCGJGCC, feedback and practical support, and many others, THANK YOU! :-)

PREFACE

"...if anyone is in Christ, such is a new creation: old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new."  -- 2 Corinthians 5:17. B.V.

As an atheist I committed many cruelties and crimes, some are shared in this publication series. Eventually, in 1996, at age 20, I committed burglaries, attempt armed robberies, and later was convicted for armed robberies, aggravated assaults, hijacking a motor vehicle, and my partner unexpectedly murdered the married owners of their truck. Afterward we stole the truck to get away, I and my co-outlaws outran police across the U.S. from Georgia to Safford Arizona. Upon arrest, one of my co-outlaws fatally shot himself in the head.

I was extradited back to Georgia for trials there. While in jail bored I went to a number of church services (a volunteer evangelist came on weekends), and eventually I accepted God's grace and gift of eternal life through His Son Jesus Christ. It changed my life. Literally. And gradually. It turned my world upside down, for the better. Without a doubt, God drew me closer to Him.

How do I know God drew me closer to Him? God spoke to me and told me. He will speak to you too as you get closer to Him, and He will affirm His closeness to you also.

Why? And, How?

That is what these publications are about. I wanted to share why and how, so others can get closer to God also. This book and others I plan to write show how to connect and get closer to God step by step. They also reveal how to verify your connection and union.

Beginning with God's actions upon me, I accepted God and His Son according to His directions. Those directions came from an evangelist and as recorded in the King James Holy Bible. I spent over 24 years in high security prisons afterward praying and studying the Holy Bible. This included getting baptized and christened. I attended every large gathering of  Catholic, Protestant, and nondenominational churches. Their in-prison services gathered us in a large visitation room. Next we returned to our prison units. God's Holy Spirit moved me to minister to prisoners and gather prayer groups through the week. And that built and grew a small Biblical house church time after time.

By love for God, faith, and the Holy Bible, God helped me navigate through innumerable diverse churches' teachings that came into prison from the freeworld outside prison. From His Holy Scriptures (Holy Bible) He helped me to discern solid Christian history from dubious later traditions. Eventually I began administering the Lion of Judah Discipleship Journey Seminary curriculum to raise more elders as Biblical Pastoral and Councilor Bishops.

In 2011, a day before my birthday, although I hate being in prison, and although I'm innocent of murder-----by law I was acquitted of the murders on the same evidence I was found guilty (contradictory verdict)----I completely abandoned trying to get out of prison, I waived my rights to a direct appeal to remain in prison a minister, and never looked back the same.

Don't misunderstand me, I want out of prison, but for God not me. If He wants me out, He can make it happen. I cooperate, I still try to be released, for Him, His way, but not hardheadedly and stiff-necked for exclusively myself. I serve Him, however winding, unpredictable, Holy, loving, clean, sound, and stable that journey has led me by His leadership. I'm all His.

After repeating to others the basics for getting closer to God (now in this publication series), seeing how effective it has been to help others unite to God to change their lives for the better, I was moved and funded to write this publication.

These planned 12 series are helpful if you apply their directions, the whole of which is a detailed directive and testimony encouraging you to primarily apply the Holy Bible to your life, particularly the New Covenant. This first of 12 series is very important to attain God's Biblical first commandment to love Him with all your being.

As I and others have been blessed beyond expectations, so may you, which is my hope and prayer for you.

INTRODUCTION

"One who receives you receives me, and one who receives me receives Him (God the Father) who sent me."---Jesus Christ, Matthew 10:40. B.V.

The following questions may run through minds about me and this publication, as follows.

Who are you that qualifies you to speak on this topic?

How do you know your close to and walk with God?

What are the benefits?

The answer to these three questions follow.

What qualifies me to expound on this subject is God Himself, His Holy Spirit filled words, together those words comprise His Word, which include His promises, facts, prophecies, and other information affirmed in a Sacred and ancient Record called the Holy Scriptures (Holy Bible).

People gifted and inspired by God wrote those Sacred Records. They do not simply comprise ancient insight which existed before and spread into various later religions such as Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and the Quran or Islam. They also comprise that wisdom in previous applied ways by the individual person to collective people, even to help governments treat people better. Some people are less mindful that God favors order amid chaos, as wild life on earth is subject to the larger universal cycles of cosmic life order demonstrate.

To be subject to God's guidance and control is like the conditions of a wild and free stray dog versus one subject to a wealthy, informed, loving yet disciplined Master of a mansion and Kingdom grounds. Stray dogs may have more shorter burst of exciting adventures, near death experiences of exhilarating liveliness, but by comparison they suffer much more overall in life. They have no veterinarian to help them recover from bad decisions and experiences, they are more disease prone, scavengers, their life expectancy is shorter, they are often mangy, skinny, scabbed, itchingly irritated, unhealthy, and dissipated.

The benefits from being a dog exercising one's disciplined control in conformity to the Master's control become obvious. There is of course much freedom there too for the Master's dog, but it is at most opportune times, safer, and much more enjoyable. Should a stray sickly dog cross paths with the controlled but healthy Master's dog, the Master's dog is clearly a more advantageous and more powerful stock. And so it is with spiritual to physical sickly people not discerning God, uncontrolled, and wild versus healthy people raised and led by God into such wisdom, as angels.

I speak as a stray dog taken in by the Master. This contrast informs me that I walk with the Master daily. If I wine or bark for His attention, I get it. After I submissively and joyfully wag my tail