Return to Innocence: On Earth As It Is In Heaven

By Mitchell Gautreau Jr.

Return to Innocence - On Earth As It Is In Heaven is a scripturally based guide to inspire and motivate readers to live their lives for God.  By using the word of God, Mitchell Gautreau Jr. shows how believing in God and living His teachings can help everyone cope with the often-times tumultuous journey through life. Gautreau's lesson are simple and clear - through love and understanding of God, we can all walk in the light of His grace.

   Through scriptural references, the author shows us how to live, how to love, how to pray and how to have faith in a world conflicted and torn by temptation, a world that has been led astray from its Creator. This guide to life and love is an offering of Hope in a troubled world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 9, 2008
• ISBN: 9781468534979

Mitchell Gautreau Jr.

Mitchell Gautreau Jr. is a doctor of philosophy in religion. His strong belief in God has led him on a quest throughout his life to accumulate as much knowledge as possible about his heavenly father and to pass that knowledge on not only to his children, but to everyone he meets. His is always a message of hope and love. He is also a certified advanced practitioner of massage therapy.

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Table Of Contents

A Way to God’s Unconditional Love

CoCreators. Love. Return To Innocence. Tree of Life.

The Two Greatest Commandments. Do to others what you would have them do to you. Love your enemies and pray for them. For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Introduction.

Chapter One. Wisdom, Knowledge and Happiness

Chapter Two. Faith

Chapter Three. Eternal Life, Born Again, Repent, Prayer – The Our Father, Jesus came to save what was lost.

Chapter Four. Renewing of your mind.

Chapter Five. Watch out for false prophets. For a tree is recognized by its fruits. The fruit of his lips.

Chapter Six. The fruit of the Spirit and The sinful nature.

Chapter Seven. Clean and Unclean Spirit. What makes a man Clean and Unclean.

Chapter Eight. Do not Judge, or you too will be Judged. Love and Pray for your enemies.

Chapter Nine. Keep a tight rein on your tongue, keep it pure and faultless, and keep oneself from being polluted by the world. The Love Chapter, First Corinthians Chapter Thirteen, it says, without love we are nothing.

Chapter Ten. The Ten Commandments. God created Man for Woman and Woman for Man. Our Children -> Instruct them and teach them in the way they should go.

Chapter Eleven. Jesus teaching his disciples. He causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good. The Lord is good to all; He has compassion on all he has made. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. Love must be sincere.

Chapter Twelve. Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, received from God. Perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. Philippians 2:14-15.

Chapter Thirteen. This is how we knew what love is. Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead! Philippians 4:8-9, Think about such things.

Chapter Fourteen. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

Chapter Fifteen. About the word of God. Moreover the Father Judges no one, but has entrusted all Judgement to the Son. Jesus came to fulfill the Law or the Prophets.

Chapter Sixteen. See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to Judge everyone.

Chapter Seventeen. The Tree of life, which is in the paradise of God. River, the water of life. The tree of life bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. The Garden of Eden.

Chapter Eighteen. Genesis 1:29-30, I give you every seed – bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it, they will be yours for food.

Chapter Nineteen. Be completely humble and gentle, be patient bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. Be imitaters of God. Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Do not get drunk on wine.

Chapter Twenty. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus. Whoever claims to live in Him must walk as Jesus did. Everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure. Be Joyful always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s Will for you in Christ. Do everything in love.

Chapter Twenty-One. The Book of Life, Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith, test yourselves. Aim for perfection, listen to my appeal, be of one mind, live in peace. I, the Lord, search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve.

Chapter Twenty-Two. He who loves his fellow man has fulfilled the Law. Summed up in this one rule, Love your neighbor as yourself. Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefor Love is the fulfillment of the law.

Chapter Twenty-Three. A tree is recognized by its fruit. For by your words you will be accounted and by your words you will be condemned. Greater love, has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. This is my command. Love each other. Jesus replied, The Kingdom of God does not come visibly, nor will people say, here it is or there it is, because the kingdom of God is within you.

Chapter Twenty-Four. Think Generational. Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. He will be endure as long as the sun, as long as the moon, through all generations. Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and your dominion endures through all generations.

Chapter Twenty-Five, Do not be terrified, do not be discourage, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go. Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. Jesus said, If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. Be still, and know that I am God. Timothy 1:5-8.

Chapter Twenty-Six. I will counsel you and watch over you. Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord. The Spirit searches all things, even the deeps things of God. If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your Law, I have said you are Gods. So the man gave names to all the live stock, the binds of the air and all the beasts of the field. To Co-Create means to keep real and alive what has already been created by God. Let God’s truth return us to God’s Love – on earth as it is in heaven. Return To Innocence.

Sowing and Reaping, Law of Attraction

Meditation

Paul McCartney’s Song, Mother Nature’s Son

Creation and Reality

Joe 1:3, and Gratitude, Being Thankful, Appreciation

Imagine – Generation To Generation

The Essenes

Co-Creators

Genesis 2:18

The Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.

Genesis 2:23-24

The man said, This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, for she was taken out of man.

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife and they become one flesh.

Genesis 1:27

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

Genesis 2:19-20

Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. So man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.

We are Co-Creators with God. Man created names for all of God’s living creatures. From the beginning we have been Co-Creating with God.

Love

Love is the most precious gift of God to us. Let us use it for all good, to serve the will of God. Love is the Divine in man. Love presence the Divine in man. Love is the Divine Life in man. Love is Life. Let our Life be full of love. Love anchors us. Love is the anchor of Life. 1 Corinthians 13:2-3-8-13.

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but do not have love I gain nothing. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease, where there are tongues, they will be stilled, where there is knowledge, it will pass away. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. John 13:34-35,

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. Luke 17:20-21,

Once, having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation, nor will people say, Here it is, or There it is, because the kingdom of God is within you.

The love within you, is the kingdom of God.

Filling our lives with love is so important because love is the only true reality.

Love is God

1 John 4:8-16

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment.

Galatians 5:13

You my brothers and sisters were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh, rather serve one another humbly in love.

Return To Innocence

Matthew 18:1,2, 3, 4, 5.

At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked. Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said; Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, and whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me.

Matthew 19:13-14,

Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.

Luke 18:17,

Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child, will never enter it.

1 Corinthians 13:11,

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.

"We must humble ourselves like a child. Not childish, but innocence, like children, be childlike. The Innocence within you. The kingdom of God is within you, as it says in Luke 17:20-21, as Jesus says.

The ageless child in me, my eternal unchanging observer, knows nothing of judgment and hatred. The fullness of the child is evident in peace, love, nonjudgment, and allowing. Your body may indeed be rented by an aging being but the eternal, invisible observer, your soul, who is noticing it all will stay childlike, innocent and ready to enter the Kingdom of heaven, at all times with such an attitude firmly in place. Because it doesn’t see appearances, it only knows how to look with love on everything and everyone.

Matthew 6:21-22-23-24

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. No one can serve two masters.

Matthew 5:14

You are the light of the world. Like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden.

Philippians 4:8-9

Finally, brothers, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things.

Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me - put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

Ecclesiastes 3:12

I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live.

Romans 6:13

So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 3:18

And we all continually seeing as in a mirror the glory of the Lord are progressively being transformed into His image from glory to glory, which comes from the Lord, the spirit.

Each one of us is a tree, a tree of life.

Each tree bears fruit.

Each fruit is either a good fruit, which gives life, or a bad fruit, which gives death or destruction.

The fruit that we bear is our thinking and the words that we say.

Our thinking and the words that we say are our fruit.

We can choose good fruit, which gives us life, or we can choose bad fruit, which gives us death or destruction.

It is a choice that we make in our thinking and in the words that we say.

Jesus said you will know them by the fruit that they bear, by what they think and by what they say. That is how you will know them.

Trees of life produce good fruit, and good fruit is of the Spirit.

The fruit of the Spirit.

(Proverbs 23:7)

For as he thinketh in his heart,

so is he.

Matthew 22:36-37-38-39-40,

Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law? Jesus replied: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it. Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.

Matthew 7:12,

So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

Luke 6:27-28

But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

Hebrews 6:19,

We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.

Luke 6:41,

"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye, when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Matthew 16:26-27

For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he shall reward every man according to his works.

Introduction

As a child, my mom and dad raised me and my brothers and sisters to attend church, to discover the truth about God through Jesus. They taught us that for everyone there is a reason and a purpose for being here. They said that Jesus will teach