MZTV 1432: Remember in Genesis Where Joseph Turns His Brothers Over a Pit of Flame For Eternity?
Joseph is a perfect type of Christ, as God meant him to be. Jesus Himself read the account of Joseph and took comfort from it.
Remember the part where Joseph, wishing to wreak vengeance upon his brothers for selling him into slavery so many years before, put his brothers on a spit and turned them over a fire for eternity? You don't? Hm.
The account of Joseph can be found in Genesis chapters 37 through 50.
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MZTV 1431: Satan Speaks Through Sincere People
Satan loves using "squeaky-clean" pastors and other Christian leaders to preach the most evil message to ever infect the human race.
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MZTV 1430: A God Even Better Than Your Wildest Imagination
For those of us who grew up in the institutional religious systems (which is most of us), how could we have possibly known that God was gracious and loving and that His Son successfully completed His mission on earth: to take away the sins of the world? I was raised in the Catholic church and had to pray my way out of my sins every month with repetitious performances of "Our Father," "Hail Mary," and "Glory Be." How COULD I have known that the Jesus Christ we all supposedly worshipped had done all the work for me? I didn't know how that could be, seeing as how I was pressed into finishing everything that Jesus Christ apparently only started.
Other branches of Christianity are no better. Every division of the Christian religion has its own list of feats you must perform to stay in God's good graces.
In this video, I compare the Christian God to Santa Claus: he's made a list, checked it twice, found out who's naughty and who is nice. Santa Claus gave bad kids a lump of coal to find in their stockings on Christmas morning. The Christian God is far more diabolical, turning people INTO lumps of coal—to be eternally tormented in the fires of his inglorious wrath.
One has to wonder just what God's Son Jesus actually accomplished on the cross after all that suffering. Short answer from the halls of orthodoxy: absolutely nothing.
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MZTV 1429: Who Is Worse Off—An Occultist or a Christian?
While it seems incredible at first, the Christian world is worse than the world of the occult because, in the occult world the demons generally identify themselves. The occultist knows what he/she is working with. In the Christian religion, however, where the name of God is defamed through the teaching of Eternal Torment, and where the human becomes his/her own savior through the teaching of Human Free Will, the malevolent spirits disguise themselves as messengers of light. God is not generally defamed in the world of the occult, but His essence is warped beyond repair in the Christian assembly.
When a person enters the Christian world, he or she is thought to be safe from demonic influence. Such people receive positive reinforcement from the entire community, from their friends, their family, and certainly from the church leaders and attendees. Yet here they are in worse danger of honoring and worshipping Satan than in the world of the occult. But this is understating it. They are not only in danger of it but, simply by attending, are DOING IT. Because, again, Satan worship here is hidden behind appealing systems, an agreeable environment, and professional clergymen.
MZ/IB Archive - WCCD Grace Café: Christian Doctrines Turn The World From God (Day 9, Hour 2): https://youtu.be/iNOvvAUaKnE?si=MCg4gNjpaNTqlauU
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MZTV 1428: Christians Would Rob Us of Grace to Make Themselves Feel Better
Misery loves company, but we're not having it. Though Christians—trapped in their fleshly self-improvement programs—might be secretly jealous over our worry-free walk with Christ, they would rather that WE be like THEM. And so they set traps for us, hoping to rob us of our grace and freedom.
If this gaggle of religionists think that we're going to fall for their institutional seductions anytime soon, well, we've outgrown holy-roller rock bands and wall-sized lyric screens. We'll stick with sitting quietly at Christ's feet and basking in justification, thank you very much.
MZTV 943: Have I Ever Told Anyone to Sin?: https://youtu.be/r_boQQAwtIE?si=MnDVCOI2IPBsLpac
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MZTV 1427: Paul's Brilliant Boxing Word Gets Wasted in Every Translation
In 1 Corinthians 9:27, Paul employs a very colorful and precise Greek word that perfectly fits the boxing analogy he’s employing to describe how he brings his body into slavery to Christ. What does every single translation do, including the Concordant Literal New Testament? They ignore the hard work this beautiful Greek word does (hupopiazo) to help us grasp Paul’s boxing analogy (Paul loved that such a perfect boxing term existed for him), and translate with an English word that has absolutely nothing to do with the meaning of hupopiazo.
Translator#1: Paul is using a boxing analogy here to describe a walk in Christ.
Translator #2: Okay, then what?
Translator#1: Well, next he uses a word that, apparently, has specifically to do with boxing.
Translator #2: There is such a Greek word?
Translator#1: Yes. It’s hupopiazo.
Translator #2: Wow. What does it mean?
Translator#1: “To blacken with a blow that part of the face under the eye."
Translator #2: Right after a boxing analogy?
Translator#1: Yep.
Translator #2: Now let me see if I have this straight. We have a boxing analogy.
Translator#1: Yes.
Translator #2: Followed by a word that means, basically, “to strike under the eye.”
Translator#1: Correct.
Translator #2: Hm. Boxing, and then “to strike under the eye.”
Translator#1: Right. Boxing, and then “to strike under the eye.”
Translator #2: So...once more now...Boxing...and then a word that means, “to strike under the eye.”
Translator#1: Yes. That’s our situation.
Translator #2: I’ve got it! Let’s make it “belabor!”
Translator #1: Brilliant!
MZTV 943: Have I Ever Told Anyone to Sin?: https://youtu.be/r_boQQAwtIE?si=CswGl_eLsOH0rgZe
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MZTV 1426: This is Why There Are Exhortations Even in the Gospel of "Saved No Matter What"
Some believers lose their beans when Paul lists various sins and then tells people what they stand to lose should they chronically commit them. These believers who now have fewer beans can’t understand why Paul would do this after declaring believers justified, conciliated to God, and telling them to present themselves to God as if alive from among the dead.
I can understand this confusion and why people might tend to accuse Paul of reverting to the law of Moses—but in a sneaky way. And yet this is not at all what is happening. The bean-losers say to me, “We’re just going to ignore those verses. We don’t like them. There is no way we’re going back to ‘Do this’ and ‘Don’t do that.’”
I say to these folks, “Good! Because these verses are not FOR you. They are for the people with the potential to be helped by these exhortations, for whom these exhortations are a goad dissuading them from doing things that, although they could never imperil their salvation, could nevertheless screw up their lives, hurt those around them, and cause them a loss of certain wages at the dais of Christ.
I have noticed one thing in common with the complainers (or those, perhaps, who are merely confused about this—until this video, of course): These people are, to a man, leading mild and quiet lives. That is, they are not committing those categories of sins that could cause forfeiture of special blessings (above and beyond salvation) at the dais of Christ.
“I can’t read these verses!” say these people. To which I answer, “Then don’t! They're not for you! But don’t deny these verses to those whom they were designed to help.”
God has built into the evangel what I call “safety valves”—exhortations that serve as nudges to keep certain people away from worldly trouble for their own eonian benefit.
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MZTV 1425: Paul Puts the Sinner from Corinth in the Fast Lane of Deliverance
In 1 Corinthians 5:5 Paul delivers up a believer to Satan “for the extermination of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.” Why did Paul think this was necessary? Wasn’t the “set-your-affections-on-things-above” method good enough for this man? Or was there some compelling reason to take care of the problem immediately for the benefit of the afflicted saint?
Note: Paul is exercising an apostolic gift here, a gift akin to the power required to resurrect the dead. We do not have this “emergency option” available to us today.
So please do not attempt to deliver your spouse up to Satan.
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MZTV 1424: Employing Reverse Psychology Against Passions and Lusts
In Galatians 5:24, Paul says to "crucify your passions and lusts." How does this fit with ignoring the flesh? Perfectly.
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MZTV 1423: Lay Giant Sheets of Thick Pink Insulation Between You and the Accusing Voice of Flesh
After Paul tells the Colossians in chapter three, verse 2 to "be disposed to that which is above, not to that on the earth," he tells them a mere three verses later to "deaden, then, your members that are on the earth." Don't you find it strange that a man who just told people not to mind things of earth tells them now to deaden their members that are on the earth?
It would be strange and, in fact, contradictory—unless the second use of "the earth" was the location of their members, and not where the Colossians, themselves, were to be disposed. In other words, the Colossians were to deaden these members on the earth WHILE setting their affections above the earth. But how can that be?
Does anyone imagine that Paul is saying here, "I know Jesus Christ put the old humanity to death, but now I want YOU to put it to death." Absurd.
This passage can only be a confirmation of what we've been discovering in Romans, chapter six: We deal with our flesh by ignoring it, not fighting it. It is BY tending to realms above earth that these troubling things ON earth lose their insistency. It is this loss of insistency that inspired Paul's use of the word "deaden." The flesh is deadened by a thorough and complete lack of attention to it. It dies by attrition, not demolition.
Why do you stuff large amounts of pink insulation into the walls of your house? To keep it warm? Certainly. But also to dampen (deaden) the noise without. Thus do our members on the earth become barely audible as we pack our "pink insulation" (the revelation of Christ Jesus' victory over Sin) between us and the constant nagging of our soon-to-be-disappearing flesh.
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MZTV 1422: No Longer Captives to the War Within
Even after his conversion, Paul admits that his flesh still warred against his spirit. And yet, at the end of Romans 7, he declares himself to have been delivered from captivity. If he was delivered from captivity and yet this war still waged within, just what exactly was he delivered from?
Caring about the war.
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MZTV 1421: You Can't Effing Conquer Your Flesh
Any attempts to conquer the flesh directly end in failure. All of them. The Sin making its home in us is too powerful. Only One was able to battle it, and successfully conquer it. Anyone else thinking they can do it—or that they NEED to do it subsequent to the cross—is a fool.
That Sin still makes its home in us in spite of what God says about it is a gift of God providing us opportunity to recognize Christ's victory BY FAITH. If Sin were not in us, where the recognition of Christ? If we could successfully conquer Sin on our own, where the reliance on Christ?
Confidence in one's ability to conquer the flesh is the ultimate example of confidence IN flesh. But as Paul says in Philippians 3:3, we are those "having no confidence in flesh."
The apostle Paul is the perfect example of someone attempting for years to conquer his flesh. The more he was able to "polish the outside of the cup," the more his insides seethed with anger and disgust against those who were not trying as hard as he. The man at last realized that his battle against flesh would alway be a losing one. When did this happen? When he at last contemplated the MEANING of the Son of God's six hours struggle on the cross.
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MZTV 1420: Even While Sinning, We Were Transferred From Condemnation to Justification
Paul's inspired analogy in Romans chapter 7 PROVES that our transference from condemnation to justification was never about what WE did, but about what Someone ELSE did.
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MZTV 1419: What Happens When You Contemplate Eternal Torment Vs. Contemplating the Salvation of All?
Paul writes in Romans 6:19 to "present your bodies as slaves to Righteousness." How does one do that? By contemplating the most righteous thing (the salvation of all), accomplished by the most righteous Being (God). Conversely, what is "present[ing] your members to Uncleanness and to Lawlessness"? Hm. Well, I would say that it's considering and staring at the most Unclean and Lawless thing that exists is the world today, and that would be Christianity's beloved teaching of Eternal Torment.
MZ/IB Archive: WCCD Grace Café Series: The Truth Found in the Original Languages (June 9: Hour 1):
https://youtu.be/4aK5_qy84Fk?si=C3y-B6d10FT-NXlT
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MZTV 1418: Teaching, Not Willpower, Delivers From Sin
In Paul’s gospel, our peace depends not upon what we do but what we believe about ourselves. And what we believe about ourselves depends on what we are told about ourselves. In Romans chapter 6, there are only two sources of information along this line: 1) Sin, and 2) Righteousness. Whichever one we listen to, to that one we become slaves.
Nowhere in Romans 6, 7, or 8 are the recipients of this letter told to do anything besides hear and believe the right teaching. Righteousness does not come by doing righteousness, but by hearing and believing the gospel OF righteousness. (The good news—the gospel of Righteousness—is that Christ’s righteousness is now ours via faith.)
Righteous acts will follow in the wake of believing a righteous message. Thus, Christianity has everything backwards. According to this religion’s warped “gospel,” one must behave oneself in order to hear a good report concerning oneself. In Paul’s gospel, the good report comes first—in spite of one’s behavior. This is so counterintuitive to how humanity generally operates that this gospel is generally not believed. Christians want good news—as long as it's not TOO good.
In the Christian “gospel,” there must be room for individual performance (uninfluenced individual performance) and thus the opportunity to out-perform others. Without an opportunity for the flesh, Christians are simply not interested. They do not see the point of a gospel that is not behavior oriented. They cannot fathom that the gospel of grace is about Christ and not them. It is presently beyond their ability to grasp.
God loves us, not because we first loved Him, but because His essence is love. Paul’s gospel is the greatest expression of this—in words—to ever land upon the earth.
MZTV 98: Condemned and Redeemed Without Consent: https://youtu.be/6A2ga-hsOJE?si=xopmHmL4NUxvJsAg
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MZTV 1417: Sin Disguises Itself as a Path to Righteousness
One of the most startling passages of Scripture is when our Lord told His disciples: "Coming is the hour that everyone who is killing you should suppose he is offering divine service to God." How is it possible for a human being to be so screwed up in the head to suppose that by killing God's people they are actually doing a service to God? Paul explains it in Romans 6:13. Why shouldn't he be able to explain it? He was once one of these people.
Paul explains it most succinctly to the Romans when he tells them to not be "presenting your members, as implements (weapons) of injustice, to Sin" (Romans 6:13).
The preoccupation of religious people is their attempt to become righteous by their own works. Saul the Pharisee worshipped this path, describing the phenomenon to the Philippians in 3:6 as "becoming blameless." This "becoming blameless" in the flesh was in fact a dire sin. And yet this sin disguised itself as an act of righteousness. (By this subterfuge, Sin deceives hundreds of millions.) This phenomenon is more easily understood by recognizing that Satan poses as a messenger of light (2 Corinthians 11:14).
The religious person, therefore, assuming that he or she is on a shining path to blamelessness (a path to eliminate sin from his or her life), is in fact presenting him or herself to Sin. What does Sin then do with such a person? Sin hijacks these individuals and uses them as weapons ("implements") of injustice. How so? The self-righteous person, unwittingly becoming a slave of Sin, persecutes those who recognize themselves as delivered from Sin via the death of Christ on the cross.
By such an ingenious method does God use religious people to persecute the truly righteous, who thereby obtain a better resurrection as "it is graciously granted you, not only to be believing on Him, but to be suffering for His sake also" (Philippians 1:29).
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MZTV 1416: Romans 6 is About SIN'S Lusts, Not Yours
Paul writes in Romans 6:12, "Let not Sin, then, be reigning in your mortal body, for you to be obeying its lusts." We were taught in our church days that—CERTAINLY—this verse is warning us not to sin. But do you notice how, in the Concordant Literal New Testament, Sin is capitalized? This is because, here and through Romans 8, Paul is personifying sin. He is personifying it as the power that once condemned us. This section, then, is not about sinning, or even sins. It's about Sin itself.
Sin is REIGNING in our mortal bodies when we listen to its voice and let it accuse and condemn us. Thus, the people like us who are ignoring Sin and basically telling it to go screw itself—we are the ones who are not letting it reign, whereas those who fight Sin as a vocation (speaking of Christians now, that strange gaggle of religionists who live as though Jesus Christ on the cross did NOTHING about Sin), THESE are the ones who are actually letting Sin reign.
Christians bow down to Sin's "power" every day. Moment by moment, they give Sin the megaphone of their lives; they give it right to boss them around, to make them think they can't look God in the eye, to make them doubt that Jesus Christ did anything at all against it, and to even cause them to doubt their salvation. Wow, talk about Sin being on the throne of a life. Can a person possibly bow down lower to the supposed power of Sin?
And then notice how Paul says, "...for you to be obeying its lusts." As you will hear in this video, the Greek word translated "obey" here means "to hear and to heed." Whose lusts are we talking about? Whose lusts are the topic of conversation? Were were taught that this passage is all about OUR lusts. And we believed it! But wait---didn't we read the passage? Paul can't say it any more clearly here that he's talking about SIN'S lusts. Sin has lusts? Oh yes it does. And it demonstrates these lusts through the manipulation of Satan, the Father of Lies.
Sin LUSTS to condemn you.
Sin LUSTS to talk you out of your justification.
Sin LUSTS for you to take your eyes off Christ.
Sin LUSTS for you to pay attention to it at all costs.
Remember, the personification of Sin is a figure of speech. Sin is not literally an animated personality. Thus, the lust is figurative also. The THING, Sin, cannot lust. But the Adversary, manipulating the SPECTER of Sin, manifests HIS lusts through It to scare you out of your justification and into doubting your very salvation.
Don't let Sin be reigning. Don't listen to Sin's sickly desires.
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MZTV 1415: Shocking Advice From Paul: Pretend You're Already Perfect
Just when you thought God's acceptance of you could not get any more radical...
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MZTV 1414: The Practical Effect of Having Died With Christ
When Christ was on the cross, He struggled against Sin. He was not struggling not to sin, but struggling against the thing Itself. Can we all agree that the moment Christ died was the moment at which this struggle ceased?
"In that He died, He died to Sin once for all time, yet in that He is living, He is living to God. Thus you also be reckoning yourselves to be dead, indeed, to Sin" (Romans 6:10-11).
At Christ's death, it was no longer possible for Him to be vexed by or wrestle against Sin. By reckoning that death to ourselves, NOW, we can live lives free of the vexations and struggles against Sin. This does not mean that we no longer sin, but that we are no longer vexed by or struggling against it. Being free of the struggle, what now is to be our occupation? We are free now to live to God.
MZ/IB Archive - WCCD Grace Cafe Series: The Last Enemy To Be Destroyed is Death (June 8 - Hour 2): https://youtu.be/0l_w8UP5DDY?si=myyohuKdIAuckhCk
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MZTV 1413: Christians Are Convinced That Flesh is Still a Problem
Can you imagine a bigger insult to Christ than believing that flesh still stands in the way of one's peace with God? And this is AFTER God sent Christ to die on the cross for the purpose of condemning Sin in the flesh (Romans 8:3).
It's as though the Christians are saying, "Thanks for condemning Sin in the flesh, Jesus, but we don't really trust it, so we've decided to condemn Sin in the flesh ourselves. We're sure You won't take it personally. It will probably work better when WE do it because, well, You supposedly did it 2,000 years ago, but we didn't actually SEE that, and of course You are aware that we just can't believe anything we don't see, and so we hope You don't mind if we just fight this flesh thing ourselves, because at least our own sweat is something tangible to us."
Romans chapters 6-8 is NOT about how not to sin. These chapters are about what to do about sin ONCE IT OCCURS. (It is vital to understand this.) Because once Sin occurs, that's when Satan moves in, using the Sin to make you doubt your justification, doubt Christ, doubt God, doubt everything. Christians doubt every one of these things (they still think flesh is a problem; the don't believe Christ actually did anything against it), even while fancying themselves the greatest champions of God and Christ. What a joke These people are the greatest INSULTERS of God and Christ.
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MZTV 1412: NO MORE CONDEMNATION; Is It Really True?
Christians believe that "nothing, consequently, is now condemnation to those in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:1) applies only to people who aren't sinning. But the truth is that this can only apply to people who ARE sinning. If no one were sinning the possibility of condemnation could not even enter the conversation. The "nothing" of Romans 8:1 can be only one thing: Sin.
The marvel of "No Condemnation" is based on being "in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:1). It is NOT based on "those who are no longer sinning." Otherwise, Paul would have said, "Nothing, consequently, is now condemnation to those who are no longer sinning." If no one is sinning, then Paul's use of "nothing" is moot.
There has to be something existent in this context that could POSSIBLY bring one into condemnation, else Paul could not say that "NOTHING is now condemnation. That something is Sin.
This truth REQUIRES that people still be sinning. The key, again, is not the cessation of sin, but being "in Christ Jesus," Who condemned Sin in the flesh (Romans 8:3).
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MZTV 1411: I Think I Know the Names of the Two Witnesses
Once you realize what a big, fat, hairy, glorious predictable rut God is in (this is an ultimately comforting revelation), you will understand just who the two witnesses of Revelation 11 will be.
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MZTV 1410: The Art of Shutting Down Religious Agitators
Religious people hate to see others claiming to be sons and daughters of God but who, at the same time, don't work, aren't fretting over their flesh, and are visibly relaxed in the freedom they have in Christ. The principle is real, especially among the religious set: Misery Loves Company.
Even worse when these non-workers explain that God gives them the HIGHEST place in the universe, at God's right hand. This sends the religionists into fits of rock-throwing. Where rock-throwing is illegal, they resort to maligning the character of the freedom people, and shunning them.
In Galatians 5, the apostle claims that anyone truly heralding grace and freedom in Christ will be persecuted. By whom? By religious people, of course. But anyone heralding any type of law, works, or cooperative salvation ("Christ gets you started but you have to finish it") will escape this trauma. Well, the entire earth grasps the law-ish concept of "Behave or else." But the grace concept of "behavior has absolutely nothing to do with salvation" can only be grasped by a supernatural dose of spiritual insight.
Welcome to the supernatural dose of spiritual insight.
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MZTV 1409: What is "Falling Out Of Grace"?
Most people think that "falling out of grace" happens when you sin too much. But this is ridiculous (and impossible), as sin only inspires grace to increase (Romans 5:20). Grace was MADE for sin. Sin is the petrie dish where grace flourishes. So what's the deal?
The deal is right in the context. Those who fall out of grace do so by attempting to justify themselves through law. Isn't THAT ironic? It's not sinning that causes one to fall out of grace, but rather the fleshly/religious effort required to STOP sinning.
Will this gospel of ours ever cease to amaze us?
MZ/IB Archive - WCCD Grace Café Series: Satan Loves Religion: Christianity's Bondage: June 8, Hour 1: https://youtu.be/I-yi1oN-6xg?si=f4GBPFjADsER9GUp
MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1409_What_is_Falling_Out_Of_Grace.mp3
Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com
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MZTV 1408: Paul Has a Sin Problem, But It's Not What You Think
I don't know if it's just me, but put today's show in the Top Ten, All-Time.
MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1408_Paul_Has_a_Sin_Problem_But_It's_Not_What_You_Think.mp3
Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com
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