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Good News

Choose to change the sin-life for the everlasting God-life

Letta Pretorius · 11 minute read

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This good news has nothing to do with religion or church doctrines. It does not ask for the approval of any tradition or creed or theology. It is only a fact, the truth that God says to every single person on this earth. The fulfilment of every need; healing for every sickness. This is life, eternal LIFE.

Jesus answered and said to him: Amen, Amen, I say unto you, except one be born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Except one be born of water and Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. John 3:3–5

The question now arises; how can a person be born again? How can a human being enter into the kingdom of God?

LIFE. We are talking about the noun, life. Not the way or the manner of living. Look at the plants; every plant has something in it which is life; every animal has this specific kind of animal life in it, the life that makes it tick.

When God created Adam from the dust of the earth, He made him a perfect body, a perfect man, but, he was totally dead. He had absolutely no LIFE in him, until God blew His own God-life into him. Then he became a living LIFE. Then he was a human body, with God-life in him. (Life is the same word as soul.)

He didn’t have plant-life or animal-life – neither did he have human-life – he had God-life. God blew into his body the Spirit and Soul of God, so he was the likeness and image of God; Spirit, Soul and body. (Spirit and soul is spirit and life.)

Then God told him not to eat of that certain tree of Good and Evil; because he would surely die the day he would eat thereof.

Well, he did eat, and he did die spiritually; he died out of the God-life, out of the God-Soul, and it was replaced by another life; sin-LIFE. The name of the life he now had, was SIN. The SOUL was now sin.

Adam was the only man who was never born; so he was the only man who could have died out of God’s Spirit-life, the way he did, taking with him all of humanity.

Then Adam no longer had God-life, but SIN. It is another life. The God-life returned to God, sin-life took its place. This is the kind of life’s name. Grass has grass-life, an animal has animal-life, a human being has sin-life.

In the above scripture, Jesus says: “What is born of the flesh, is flesh, and what is born of Spirit, is spirit.”

Everything after its kind. When one sows wheat, there won’t grow sun flowers, there grows wheat. Every plant produces its own kind of LIFE.

Precisely the same with man; a human being brings forth another human being. Every single human who was ever born after Adam, was born with the same LIFE as Adam had after the fall; sin-life. Sin.

NOT the sins the person does, nor the works he does, but the life which he IS. The name of the human-LIFE is: SIN.

Remember, the word in the Hebrew language, as well as in Greek, which is sometimes translated as “soul” is the same word as is sometimes translated as “life” – as the translators saw fit.

This is why the Bible says a man’s “soul” must be saved – it is his LIFE, the life with the name SIN that has to be saved – his “soul.” (James 1:21). This is also why the Bible says an animal has a “soul”, for the animal’s soul is in the blood. The animal’s LIFE is in the blood. (Leviticus 17:11, 14).

Through all the ages the love-heart of God yearned to again have man back in that sinless state where Adam and Eve were before sin. Again born out of Himself, with His life in them. Sinless, without any knowledge of sin, totally innocent and pure. He longed for man to be there where He could again visit with them, where they again could be totally free and comfortable with Him, because He loves man with an eternal love.

Throughout the Old Testament God gave prophecies and promises about Jesus, till, at last, the time came where He could send Him. Then He did something so wonderful! He took a human body from the virgin, Mary, and again He put His own sinless God-life – His sinless God-soul, in that human body. So again there was on earth a man with God-life as his LIFE.

God Himself, Holy Spirit, was the Spirit in that body, with the Soul, the LIFE of God and in a human body. (1 Timothy 3:16). God was revealed in the flesh.

He didn’t have the life with the name SIN, because he wasn’t born of a man. He wasn’t born of Adam. Holy Spirit overshadowed the Virgin – Jesus was the Seed of the woman – as God had promised from the beginning. (Genesis 3:16) He was a perfect, sinless man.

Just as Adam was the only man that was never born, Jesus was the only Man that was ever born without the curse of the blood of Adam. Therefore His blood could pay for the human race.

But, this didn’t change all other human beings. When the day on God’s calendar arrived, when the world had to be judged, God made Jesus SIN, in order to punish Him instead of all human beings. (John 12:31)

Him who knew no sin He made sin on our behalf; that WE might become righteousness of God in Him. 2 Corinthians 5:21

SIN is the LIFE of man, the human-life we have from Adam. Not the sins we do, but the sin which is our LIFE, our soul. Not the deeds, not the manner of life, the KIND of life.

THIS sin did God made Jesus! He didn’t DO any sin; God made Him the sin-LIFE of every human being, from Adam, till the last person that ever will be born on earth.

The penalty for sin is death. Not only physical death, but the second death, the lake of fire. (Revelation 20:6, 15)

There God punished the sin-life of the whole human race – in Christ. Jesus took the crown of thorns, the whipping, the spitting in His face, the blasphemy, the curses, the scorn – every bitter punishment and endured it because of US.

WE deserved it, but He took it on Himself, away from us, in order that we should not bear our own deserved punishment. What love!

Every transgression of the law, every sickness and disease of every human being were scourged into His sinless body. He had the sinless blood of God His Father; therefore His blood could take away the sin of every person who ever came to Him.

With His last breath He said: “Father, in your hands I give My Spirit.” That means: “You do whatever Your will is with My Spirit, whatever You planned, for I came to do Your will.”

The disciples took the body and laid it in the grave, but the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ went into penalty. The righteousness of God, the Supreme Court, the invisible law of eternity, came into action with that Spirit of Christ. In His Spirit He carried, and paid for, all transgressions and lawbreaking that was ever done on this earth – by any human being, by all of humanity.

He became that which IS transgression; SIN. He was made SIN, and was punished for it. He carried our transgressions, and was punished with our penalty, namely; the second death, the lake of fire, hell.

Many of God’s children say Jesus never went to hell. Well, if He didn’t go to hell, then I have to go. If He didn’t go to hell, the penalty of MY sin is not yet paid! Penalty for SIN is hell – Jesus took my SIN and carried the penalty for my SIN - hell. (Isaiah 53:5)

If Jesus had only died for me with physical death it was no longer necessary for ME to die physically. It is not necessary to carry the same thing twice, to pay the same debt twice.

But, thank Jesus! He did pay my debt – therefore I need no longer go to hell! It is the second death that He died for me – He paid the punishment for MY sin! How grateful I am! (Isaiah 53:5)

Jesus came to blot out SIN-LIFE – this is devil-life. (Acts 3:19) He couldn’t grasp every person on earth and take out his sin-life. He also could not grasp the devil and blot out his life – the whole of humanity already was infested with SIN.

There Jesus dealt the devil a mean punch; something totally unexpected: He, Jesus, became sin, devil-life, and blotted that out in hell! Isn’t that something!

He says: “Nobody takes My life (soul) from Me; I have power to lay it down and to take it up again.” So, through death, Jesus brought to naught the devil that had the power over death. (Hebrews 2:14)

But, remember, I was this sin-life which He became; in truth He became ME, it was ME, sin-life, which He burnt out in hell. I was crucified with Him and I went to hell with Him. There He burnt out that sin-life that I was, till the LAW of God was satisfied; till ALL was punished and paid for.

Jesus took the death-penalty which was MY due, because I was guilty – and HE paid it! He took the blow meant for ME!

So, Christ became SIN-life, ME, and was suffering – as I – in hell, until all sin-life was burnt to ashes – even as the burnt-offerings of old – and then, out of that ashes of my burnt-out SIN, there crystallized the pure Christ-life – and I with Him! He arose and I arose with Him! Pure resurrection-life of Christ! All that was left of ME, is that pure resurrection-LIFE of Christ! Then my SOUL was saved!

Jesus became ME, SIN, in order for me to become One with Him, the righteousness of God in Him! How sweet!

Therefore the new LIFE in me is the resurrection-life, eternal LIFE. Then you and I and every human being on earth were justified before God – and the eternal Spirit, the resurrection-life went back into His body and His body arose from the grave. Then God said to Him: “You are My beloved Son, today I have begotten you.” What victory!

This resurrection-life of Jesus Christ, this Spirit-life, is everything that God ever wanted, everything He IS, the fulfilment of His master plan.

Never could there ever again be any accusation by any man or by any devil, against that pure resurrection-life of Christ, because He had fully PAID the price. But, in His death He was ME, so for that reason it was I who had fully paid the price in Christ; it was I that was resurrected in Him, it is I now living that pure resurrection-life against which there is no longer any accusation, it is I now sitting with Him in heavenly places.

Now God comes with the invitation to every human being, to receive this offer of eternal-LIFE from Jesus, eternal soul, to be born again in order to become part of that new LIFE.

The spirit can not die, but the soul died in sin, now the soul (life) is saved by Jesus and given eternal life by Him, and so the spirit with its soul is living eternal life; the resurrection life of Jesus.

Sin-life – the LIFE, the SOUL of every human being on earth – can never, ever, enter into the kingdom of God, nor even see it. (John 3:3–5)

A person must have another LIFE, another SOUL, before he can enter into God’s kingdom; he has to have God’s life. Therefore he has to be born of God, with God as his Father. With the LIFE of his earthly father he can’t enter into God’s kingdom.

Now God invites every person: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whomsoever believes unto Him perish not, but have eternal LIFE.”

All YOU need to do is to accept what Jesus already did for you. You need not earn it, Jesus already did. You need not be “good enough.” Jesus did it exactly because YOU can never be “good enough” on your own.

Because I was sin-life, I had to get another life; another soul. What am I to do?

I have to admit and confess that I am a sinner and that I can’t save myself, I have to repent. I must turn around from the way I was going, and start going to Jesus. I have to receive Jesus as my Saviour and my Lord, by saying to Him: “Jesus, I receive you as my Lord.” (John 1:12; Romans 10:10)

Then God Himself does this wonderful work of rebirth in my spirit and in my soul. The moment He sees you are serious, you really want this new LIFE, He gives you the experience of rebirth. You disown the sin-life, and you receive from Him eternal-LIFE. You die to the sin-life, and are born-again into eternal life. The exact opposite of what happened to Adam. Now the soul lives for ever—with the spirit.

If it were possible for science to take a sheep, operate on it and take its sheep-life out of it, and at the same time plant, out of a lion, the lion-life into the sheep, woke up the sheep – what is it then? It still looks just like a sheep – but what a surprise awaits the other sheep! It is no longer a sheep; it is a brand new species, something that was never before.

This is precisely what happens when one receives Jesus with all your heart, because he sees what Jesus did for him, and he longs to have that new LIFE.

What was from beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we beheld, and our hands handled, concerning the word of the LIFE – and the life was manifested, and we have seen, and witness, and declare to you the LIFE, the eternal, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us. 1 John 1:1–2

Jesus is eternal LIFE that was manifested and revealed. Thus I receive Jesus, LIFE, as my All, my Lord, my Saviour, my Boss. In one second God does that operation where He takes out my sin-LIFE and replaces it with eternal-LIFE, which is Jesus Christ.

This is wonderful! Only the Christ-life, the reborn-life can ever enter the kingdom of God.

There is no other way!

It does not depend on the good deeds you are doing; it depends on the LIFE that you ARE. It is this human-life with the name of SIN, that we have from Adam, that can’t enter into the kingdom of God.

Only Christ-life can enter - for He is the only One Who had ever deserve it.

It does not depend on what church you belong to, on how many degrees you have, on how rich or famous you are. It doesn’t depend on your being a minister or pastor – or beggar; this has absolutely nothing to do with the whole issue.

Whether you are a Jew or an Israelite, whether you are a church-goer or an infidel, it has nothing to do with entering the kingdom of God. (Galatians 6:15). Only a new creation – a new LIFE, a new SOUL can ever enter the kingdom of God.

My lineage goes back only to Jesus Christ. He is the Seed of Abraham – no other lineage is of any account – ONLY that I am born of Jesus Christ.

The born-again person does not enter under the Jewish laws; he is IN Christ – the fulfilment of the law. All born-again people are ONE in Him; we are the same spiritual body, with Jesus as Head.

Imagine the Spirit, the resurrected Life of Christ, like a big cloud – as He made Himself manifest in the Old Testament. Every person ever born-again is part of that same Spiritual cloud. It is not something else in me and something else in you, we are all the SAME, for we all are the resurrection-life of Christ.

For in one Spirit we were all baptised into ONE body. 1 Corinthians 12:13–14

It really doesn’t matter whether some born-again person is good enough in MY estimation – it has nothing to do with me or any other person, it has only to do with a person and Jesus – the Head of the body.

Most people think that eternal life is a period of time they are hoping for, still to come “one day” in heaven. No. “Eternal life” is the name of the kind of Life which Jesus Christ is. (1 John 5:20). “Jesus Christ IS the true God and everlasting LIFE.”

The same moment one is born again, he starts living eternal life; the new life. It is no hope, it is reality, it is truth. It is for NOW.

“He raised us up with Him and made us sit with Him in heavenly places.” (Ephesians 2:6) Now you are one with Christ, “we are members of His body, of His bone and of His flesh.” (Ephesians 5:30) “But who is joined to the Lord is one Spirit with Him.” (1 Corinthians 6:17)

We now even have His Name. We inherited the Name with Him, because we are His body. We are born of another Father. As we carried the name of our earthly father, we now carry the name of our heavenly Father. (Hebrews 1:4; John 5:43; Romans 8:17)

Therefore you need to be baptised into the Name of Jesus Christ, this is part of rebirth. Acts 2:38. “Repent, and let each one of you be baptised into the Name of Jesus Christ unto forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of Holy Spirit.”

With the gift of Holy Spirit, you receive power to be a witness for Jesus. (Acts 1:8). Now you go and tell others also about this Good News – Holy Spirit works with the Word that you tell to people.

You need not study to do it. Holy Spirit will teach you from the Bible. With your baptism in Holy Spirit, you received the “tools” to make disciples. You just LIVE the Word of God, and He works it for you. You tell others the Word, Jesus Christ, and every one who receives it and lives it, for him too is works.

You no longer pray for power, you give power. The gospel – the Word of God - is the power of God to save everyone who believes. (Romans 1:16) YOU give the Word, the power, to everybody to whom you tell it.

This power, the Word, is dynamite; it saves from sin and it heals from sickness; it delivers us from all evil – it is power over all the power of the enemy. It enlightens us and brings us out of the darkness of ignorance, into God’s Light.

Mind you, we don’t try to be and to live LIKE Jesus; we live and DO His word and He lives within us – we are part of His body. A lion needs not try to be like a lion, he IS a lion.

The Living Christ NOW lives in us. He’s not someone who died 2000 years ago and left for an unknown destination, while we are struggling here on earth, disputing with each other about the meaning of the Bible. Not at all. Holy Spirit, Christ lives IN us, NOW. If you want to know something in the Bible, just ask Him – He is not dead!

People think we enter into the “presence of God” on entering a church building – and on leaving, we again go out of His presence! The pastor welcomes us into His “presence” in the church building. Thus, His “presence” is not at home, so you can relax and do whatever you like – God is safely locked up in the church!

The very Good News is, we can never be out of His presence! Even every person who is not yet born again, every roughest sinner, is always in the presence of God. Everything is open and naked before His eyes. He knows! Isn’t that sweet? I needn’t go to church to “meet with God” there, I AM with Him because He is my Life! I am born into His Life, I’m staying there!

Nobody can ever grasp me away from Him – for He is my Life! Without Him, I’m dead.

I’m talking to Him twenty four hours a day, and He is open to my questions every second, I’m listening to Him talking to me, we are discussing the things of life and He leads me in all truth, through His Word. Whenever I ask Him something, immediately He reminds me of the answer in the Bible.

And this LIFE is available to every single person on this earth. Can you imagine if everyone had this life of Christ, what peace and glory life on earth would be? The reason why so few people ever receive this Christ-life is because we, the people who know about it, don’t tell it to the world.

Jesus’ last great command to His disciples was to GO tell all people, making disciples of everyone, baptising the disciples they have made, and again teach them – the disciples they have made and baptised – to GO out and DO the same. If that was done, the whole world would have been saved ages ago.

Then, why didn’t it happen like that? Because, instead of making disciples, they started holding church services! Preaching to people already born again, over and over again, week in and week out, while the outside world goes to hell. What a shame!

Everybody who reads this book has no longer any excuse for not telling people this Good News. Perhaps yesterday you didn’t know, but, NOW you DO know. You need not be a “preacher”, for we are not busy with church or religion. You only need to witness about what great things Jesus did to you. You need not convince anybody, Holy Spirit will do the convincing. All you need to do, is to sow this good seed of the Word of God, God Himself will let it grow.