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God’s Thoughts Are Different From Our Thoughts | Acknowledge Jehovah God

Isaiah 55:8-9

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.

“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

Romans 10:9-10

If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.

Salvation Is a Must: The Spirit Is Eternal

It is truly saddening to think about those who failed to receive God’s salvation and are suffering in the spiritual world and the physical world because of their improper conduct. One may wonder whether the spirits who have gone to Hell could suffer only as much as they deserve and then cease to exist altogether.

However, God cannot erase spirits any more than He can destroy the earth because of human sin. If God were to destroy the earth He created because of evil, then both the wicked and the righteous would perish alike, since the good also live on Earth.

God does not eliminate what He has created. He created the spirits to be one way: eternal. Just as the earth remains for both the good and the wicked, the spirit also remains forever. Therefore, even if one cannot accomplish anything else, they absolutely must acquire salvation.

God created every spirit with the purpose of eternal life and salvation. Therefore, each person must save their own spirit, even if they gain no honor or success in this world. Gaining worldly glory while losing one’s spirit is profound foolishness that leads to eternal suffering.

Human beings were created to live forever through saved bodies and spirits. Those who fall into death and darkness do so because they reject the eternal Creator and live contrary to His Will. Ultimately, everyone walks one of two paths: the path of life or the path of death.

There Is Only One Law of Existence

God is one. He is one being, and He created all laws of existence in one way. There is absolutely no creation that reverts. The spirit was created to exist eternally. Therefore, God cannot apply one rule to spirits in Heaven and a different rule to spirits in Hell. If He allowed some spirits to cease to exist, He would be operating by two principles, which is impossible for one God.

You must stand on one Will. God stands on the side of good, not evil. There is one outcome for those who believe in God, serve and give glory to Him: Heaven. Those who do not believe become sinners, resulting in two final destinations: Heaven and Hell.

If all people had followed God, they would have ended with one outcome, the path of salvation as originally created by God. There would only have been righteous people. However, in the course of people not following God, practicing “their own faith,” and taking paths of centering on themselves, they became sinners and thus, the path split up into thousands of paths to the good spiritual world, to the evil spiritual world, to the swamps of darkness, to Hades, and to the sulfuric ocean of fire in Hell. 

If the sheep follow the shepherd, there is only one path. But when the sheep did not follow, the shepherd went to see what was happening and saw that they had gone to thousands of different places of suffering. Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life,” took only God’s path, and led His followers to God (John 14:6. Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me”).

So, we must not change in our faith and love toward God, but only believe in the eternal God and the Lord and act according to the Holy Spirit. 

Acknowledgement Is Important

Those who acknowledge Jesus as the Lord, believe in Him, and follow Him receive salvation in both body and spirit (Romans 10:9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved).

Jesus took with Him only those who acknowledged Him as the Lord, and His disciples also said that without acknowledging Him as the Lord, you cannot call Him Lord (1 Corinthians 12:3 Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit).

If you believe with your heart, you achieve “righteousness” in that domain. You must go further and acknowledge it with your lips. Only then will you take action and thus become a person who achieves salvation, a true “righteous person” of that domain (Romans 10:10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved).


To acknowledge means to say, “I acknowledge. This is true,” and follow. As you follow, you must take action accordingly. Only then will you gain the reward for your hard work. However, even if you acknowledge, if you stop while following, you will return to death.

As for the Samaritan woman, even after meeting Jesus only briefly by the well, she acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah, testified, and followed him. Jesus answered all the questions the Samaritan woman had regarding religion and various things. Then, when the Samaritan woman said, “‘I know that Messiah’ (called Christ) is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” Jesus replied, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.” Upon hearing this, the Samaritan woman immediately acknowledged Jesus as the Lord, testified for Him, and followed Him (Reference scriptures: John 4:1-42).

Only if you acknowledge Jesus as the Lord do you have something to do with Jesus. If you do not acknowledge him, you will have nothing to do with Jesus. Only when you acknowledge and affirm will you believe and follow. Therefore, acknowledgement is “life.” To acknowledge is to “affirm.” It is saying, “I also believe.” Only when you acknowledge will God’s heart and the Holy Spirit come upon you. 

The Power of Acknowledging

At Jesus’ time, he asked the sick if they wanted to be healed and whether they believed and acknowledged that he was able to heal them. When they said they did, Jesus said for them to be healed according to their faith. They were healed of their sickness in reality and through this, they came to know the power of acknowledgement (Matthew 9:28-30 When he had gone indoors, the blind men came to him, and he asked them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” “Yes, Lord,” they replied. Then he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith let it be done to you”; and their sight was restored…”).

Only if you acknowledge will you take action and so receive salvation and live. No matter how much you like God, unless you listen to the Word and acknowledge Jesus who will save you, you are like a tree that only produces flowers but fails to produce fruit. No matter what time period it is, you must acknowledge the work that God does. Only then will you become someone who pertains to that time period, a person who resurrected and came out to the domain of life. 

– Only if you acknowledge will you go to the end. 

– Only if you acknowledge will the Word of life, the Will, the purpose, God’s thoughts, and the Holy Spirit’s mighty work all flow through your heart, thoughts, and brain. 

– Only if you acknowledge will you be recorded in the book of life. 

– Only if you acknowledge and follow will you become His. 

– A person who acknowledges will grow and change. 

– Only if you acknowledge will you receive the power of God, the Holy Spirit, and the Lord and exercise your authority in the history of life.