It has been several years now since I started this website and it was years before that I began to study the scriptures for myself. My testimony is that I was born a Christian but of course that’s not altogether true. Although I’ve been a student of God’s Word since my earliest days the thing I’ve learned is we really only look for scriptures that confirm what we believe. It is a frustrating move for all of us because all scripture does not fit within the parameters of what we believe and these other verses make us uncomfortable.
There came a time in my own life when I decided to put everything I thought I knew aside and start fresh with God’s Word and look for answers. It was very hard to do and took a great deal of courage on my part to embrace the truth I found. What I began to see is the scripture was not near as straight forward as I believed. For instance, John 3:16 does not hold the promise of eternal life I thought it did. It actually says those who believe in Jesus should not perish, though some later translations use the word, would. Should, is not a promise of eternal life; should is a possibility of eternal life.
There are many other scriptures that contain the same nuance. The King James Version of the scripture, which is my primary study version, actually uses two different words when it comes to belief. I did not realize this until, being a stickler for God’s Word, I quoted one verse, believe on, in one of my books and my editor corrected it to read, believe in. Of course the word, on, has a very different meaning than the word, in, a meaning I had overlooked for some 55 years.
This caused me to go back to study further and it soon became apparent the King James translators had seen something in the scriptures that was not readably apparent. Ephesians 2:8-9 tells us salvation is gained by grace through faith; it is a gift we cannot earn. Hebrews 5:9 however, tells us salvation is gained by obedience. In order for both of these statements to be true, there has to be two salvations available to mankind.
This makes perfect sense when you think about it because Jesus died on the cross under the authority of the old covenant law, a law His Father had established with the Jewish Nation. But just as soon as He had arisen from the dead, Jesus established a new covenant. The old covenant offers a salvation to mankind but the new covenant also offers a salvation. As I thought back over my own life, the only salvation I had ever been taught was the old covenant salvation and as I continued to study, I realized what I had always heard as the truth, was not true at all.
You see, Galatians 4:4-5 tells us that mankind is redeemed from the law. That would be the Ten Commandments. I was always taught I needed to keep the Ten Commandments, meaning, I was not redeemed from them. Jesus said, “Whom the Son sets free is free indeed,” but I always wondered, “What is it I’m free from?” The thing is the old covenant law carries shame and guilt for disobedience. Those who attempt to keep the Ten Commandments are slaves; they are not free men. I was always taught Jesus’ blood would wash away my sin but Jesus died 2,000 years before I was born, so why wasn’t I born free from sin? And the truth is; I was.
As I began to see this dual salvation, I began to think I’ve got to get this message out. None of my friends understood the old covenant offered salvation from the ravages and guilt and shame of sin because of Jesus’ death on the cross but eternal life was only found in the new covenant. I began to tell the Lord, “I need you to help me preach this message,” but no avenues opened up to me. I said, “I need you to confirm my words with signs following like you did with Paul,” but no signs appeared. He kept taking me back to His Word to teach me and I wrote out the teaching He shared. The teachings I’ve shared on this website are only about a third of the ones I received from the Lord. Some felt too holy to post; sometimes it took multiple times for me to get the truth He was trying to share. In the end, I posted the ones He instructed me to post.
A couple of months ago now, I was in the grocery store when I ran into a dear friend. I had shared this truth with her once or twice before and she had been intrigued but just a bit skeptical. This time she implored me to preach. I explained to her that I had no outlet to preach and that I was doing all I could but that the Lord kept taking me back to the scriptures to teach me. It was not time yet for me to share this truth with a larger audience.
Of course I had been blistering heaven with my begging the Lord to help me get this message out. I knew there were many precious souls who thought they were going to heaven when they died because they believed in Jesus without realizing it also took a belief on Jesus to make heaven their eternal home. They were deceived into believing a lie right out of the pit of hell.
Then, after a couple more weeks of teaching, the Lord gave me this:
Did you ever notice how Jesus commanded His followers in Acts 1, to wait for a baptism with the Holy Spirit? Now Jesus said, “If you love me, keep my commandments,” but Christians routinely ignore this commandment. I have a mandate from Jesus. He has asked me to find 120 believers that will commit to saturating themselves with the Holy Spirit daily by allowing the gift of tongues to pour forth from their bellies. Can you help me fulfill this mandate? If so call:
Allen Haywood, tonguesfriendorfoe.weebly.com
I got up the next morning and started contacting churches with it.
The next morning I heard this and started using it:
Jesus said, “If you love me, keep my commandments,” but in Acts 1 Jesus stands before His Church and as Lord of Lords and King of Kings; as He who wields all power in heaven and earth; as He who has been given the name above all other names; the blessed only Potentate and only wise God; the one at whose name every knee shall bow, commands the Church to wait for a baptism with the Holy Spirit, but today His Church refuses to bow the knee to this commandment. I have a mandate from Jesus. He has asked me to find 120 believers that will commit to saturating themselves with the Holy Spirit daily by allowing the gift of tongues to pour forth from their bellies. Can you help me fulfill this mandate? If so call:
Allen Haywood, tonguesfriendorfoe.weebly.com
Two weeks later I wrote this out and it became my contact information:
In John 15:10 Jesus said, “If you keep my commandments you will abide in my love.” Why is Acts 1:4 not one of Jesus’ commandments? It says, “He commanded them.” Why are Christians not required to keep this commandment to abide in Jesus’ love? Those who baptize (saturate) themselves with the Holy Spirit, baptize themselves with love. The word, keep, means, to continue in a specified condition, the condition of being baptized, or saturated, with the Holy Spirit, saturated with love. I have a mandate from Jesus. He has asked me to find 120 believers that will commit to saturating themselves with the Holy Spirit daily by allowing the gift of tongues to pour forth from their bellies. Can you help me fulfill this mandate? If so call:
Allen Haywood, tonguesfriendorfoe.weebly.com
Then I added this to what I was sending out to churches:
The gospel preached today is the creation of Jewish Christians of the first century, who saw Jesus’ death as a completion of the old covenant law, not a fulfillment. They saw Jesus’ death on the cross as the perfect sacrifice for sin; His blood the perfect cleansing for sin, and the Father as Almighty God. They did not recognize a handoff of all power to Jesus at the resurrection. Thus the Church of today honors the old covenant commandments with obedience and preaches a gospel of the old covenant and disciples converts in old covenant law.
The thing you have to consider is that when God made Adam he put him in the Garden of Eden and created a covenant with Adam that stated as long as Adam would not eat from one tree of the garden, he could remain in the garden under God’s protection and provision forever. The day Adam failed to obey, the contract was destroyed. Fast forward four thousand years and Jesus has just fulfilled His Father’s covenant with the Jews, and establishes a new covenant with the whole human race. The commandments Jesus issues are to wait for a baptism with the Holy Spirit, preach the gospel of the new covenant, and disciple converts in new covenant theology. The new covenant, like every other covenant, is founded on obedience of its commandments.
The problem is the first Christians were Jewish Christians, who only knew the old covenant and saw Jesus’ death on the cross as the perfect completion of the old covenant. They applied the blood of Jesus to sin according to old covenant law. Since they did not recognize a fulfillment of the old covenant, they did not recognize a new covenant and saw no need to keep the first commandment of Jesus and went out preaching the old covenant with Jesus’ blood substituting the blood of animals. Slowly Christians quit keeping the foundational commandment of the new covenant, to wait for a baptism with the Holy Spirit, and the new covenant ceased to be. We can get it back if we reestablish obedience.
What we have today is a Church trying to access the blessings of the new covenant while keeping old covenant commandments. It is very frustrating and hundreds of people have offered reasons why the Church is not what was promised and Christians are not living the lives promised by Jesus or the New Testament. It seems that nobody has offered the simple truth that to receive new covenant blessings; we must keep new covenant commandments. The Jewish interpretation of Acts 1 was so complete, so thorough; it has not entered into the heart of man that the first commandment Jesus issued as Lord should be obeyed daily.
Jesus said, “If you love me, keep my commandments,” but in Acts 1 Jesus stands before His Church and as Lord of Lords and King of Kings; as He who wields all power in heaven and earth; as He who has been given the name above all other names; the blessed only Potentate and only wise God; the one at whose name every knee shall bow, He commands the Church to wait for a baptism with the Holy Spirit, but today His Church refuses to bow the knee to this commandment. The word, keep, means, to continue in a specified condition, the condition of being baptized, or saturated, with the Holy Spirit. I have a mandate from Jesus. He has asked me to find 120 believers that will commit to saturating themselves with the Holy Spirit daily by allowing the gift of tongues to pour forth from their bellies. Can you help me fulfill this mandate? If so call: Allen Haywood, tonguesfriendorfoe.weebly.com
Then I added this:
That there are two salvations available to mankind should be self evident as there are two covenants. When Jesus died on the cross, He fulfilled the old covenant for all men. Those who believe in Jesus' death for sin should be able to receive all the provisions of Deuteronomy 28. This salvation is a free gift from the Father, according to Ephesians 2:8, who was Lord of the old covenant according to Isaiah 53:6, "The Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all." Why then, are Christians, those redeemed from the curse of the law, dying under the curse of the old covenant?
This is one of the questions that has bothered me for 40 years as I have watched godly men and women, and innocent children, die under a curse. Let's be honest, Cancer and Alzheimer are curses. For some reason Christians are not living in the blessings Jesus' death provided.
When I began to study to find the answer to this question, I was directed to Philippians 2. Paul says Jesus was highly exalted when He was raised from the dead; Jesus says all power in heaven and earth were given to him, and Jesus is Lord over the new covenant. The title and authority of Lord changed hands but more than that, Jesus does not just wield the power of Lord, He wields all power, which means, the Father and Holy Spirit relinquished their power to make Jesus the blessed only Potentate, the only wise God.
The Father was Lord of the old covenant but Jesus is Lord of the new covenant. Mankind cannot receive the blessings of the old covenant while disrespecting the one who provided those blessings. Consider the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. When Jesus died on the cross He was the Christ, the Saviour of the world, He was not Lord. He did not become Lord until He was raised from the dead. Why then is the sacrament called the Lord's Supper? Paul told the Corinthians, many of you are sick and some have died because you fail to discern the Lord. The Lord expressed His authority by issuing commandments to His Church, commandments His Church ignores. This sin disrespects Jesus.
Jesus said, “If you love me, keep my commandments,” but in Acts 1, Jesus stands before His Church and as Lord of Lords and King of Kings; as He who wields all power in heaven and earth; as He who has been given the name above all other names; the blessed only Potentate and only wise God; the one at whose name every knee shall bow, and commands the Church to wait for a baptism with the Holy Spirit. Today His Church refuses to bow the knee to this commandment. The word, keep, means, to continue in a specified condition, the condition of being baptized, or saturated, with the Holy Spirit. I have a mandate from Jesus. He has asked me to find 120 believers that will commit to saturating themselves with the Holy Spirit daily by allowing the gift of tongues to pour forth from their bellies. Can you help me fulfill this mandate? If so call: Allen Haywood, tonguesfriendorfoe.weebly.com
This week I added this:
The authority with which Jesus issued the commandment in Acts 1:4-5, demands obedience by the Church. Those who fail to obey it are failing to discern the Lord. He stands before His Church with all power in heaven and earth, and as lord of lords and king of kings, as the blessed only Potentate and only wise God, as He who has the name above all other names, the name at which every knee shall bow; He commands it to wait for a baptism with the Holy Spirit.
The Church judges the commandment to be personal to eleven men even though these eleven men were the seed bed of the Church, its founding members. The Church judges the commandment to be temporal for the time is was issued though Jesus existed outside time when He issued it. The Church judges it to be fulfilled though no man’s obedience can fulfill a commandment for all men. Jesus said, “If you keep my commandments you will abide in my love,” but the Church says, “We are exempted from obedience,” though Jesus is explicitly Lord of the Church age over all the Church.
In Joshua 1:8, God tells Joshua, “Those who observe to do these commandments will eat the good of the land.” The inference is those who do not observe to do the commandments will eat the bad. The Church today disobeys the first commandment of our Lord Jesus Christ and dines at Satan’s table and eats of every evil thing he can conjure, yet calls itself richly blessed and highly favored. This is insanity.
In 1Corinthians 11, Paul tells the Corinthians many of them are sick and quite a few have died because they have failed to discern the Lord but the Church of today is busy discerning the Christ and judges itself by the standard of old covenant law and repents of sins against a law it has been redeemed from. No one discerns it was the Lord of All that issued the first commandment of the new covenant or repents of disobedience and pays the consequences of disobedience and calls itself blessed.
To disobey this commandment is to disrespect the one who issued it. To judge it inapplicable to Christians, who must receive their salvation from Him who issued it, is asinine. One day we will all stand before Jesus and He will ask, “Did you keep my commandments; because if you didn’t, you cannot abide in my love.”
Jesus has asked me to find 120 believers who will commit themselves to saturating themselves with the Holy Spirit daily by allowing the gift of tongues to flow out of their hearts. Can you help me? If so, call, Allen Haywood, tonguesfriendorfoe.weebly.com.
To date I have contacted perhaps 1/3 of the Spirit filled churches in my state. You see; Christians set themselves up for failure when they disobey one of Jesus’ commandments. Christians cannot expect to prosper when they fail to keep one of Jesus’ commandments. We must see the commandment of Acts 1:4-5 as a commandment of our Lord and King and obey it. The problem has been that a long, long time ago, men decided the commandment was personal to eleven apostles, instead of universal to the Church and for 2,000 years that has been the message that was preached.
Jesus, however, said, “If you want to abide in my love (and compassion and provision for your life), you’re going to have to keep my commandments.” Acts 1:4 states: “And being assembled together with them, He commanded them.” The question is not whether Jesus was assembled together with the apostles or was He assembled together with His Church, the question is, “Is this a commandment of Jesus?” The answer is emphatically, “Yes!”
So the question is, “What does obedience look like?” Jesus said, “Do not depart from Jerusalem but wait for a baptism with the Holy Spirit.” So the commandment is to remain where you are, (the apostles were in Jerusalem) and wait for a baptism with the Holy Spirit but what is a baptism with the Holy Spirit? We have to allow the scripture to define this term for us.
In Acts 2:4, when the baptism with the Spirit occurred, the gift of tongues was pouring out of the hearts of those who had gathered. Therefore the definition of a baptism with the Holy Spirit is the gift of tongues pouring out of your mouth. A baptism with the Spirit takes time as illustrated by the 120 telling of the wonderful works of God. It was not an instantaneous event. Therefore you must wait for it to occur.
Now Jesus said, “If you love me, keep my commandments.” The word, keep, means to maintain a prescribed condition, in this case, the condition of being baptized with the Spirit. This means that in order to keep this commandment of Jesus, believers must daily wait while the gift of tongues flows out of their hearts. The commandment is to maintain the condition of baptism.
Think saturation. The word saturation is a synonym of baptism. To be baptized with the Spirit is to be saturated with Him. Indeed, in John 7:37-39, Jesus said, “All those who believe on me will have rivers of Living Water flowing out of their bellies. And John adds, Living water is the Holy Spirit.” Now as we have already seen, to believe on Jesus is a radically different faith than a belief in Jesus. To believe on Jesus is to Act as if Jesus is Lord; it is to obey His commandments.
The only pertinent question is did Jesus issue a commandment in Acts 1:4-5? The answer is a resounding yes! So in order for Christians to prosper, they must keep it!! Can you help me get this message out? As long as Christians disobey this most critical commandment, Christians will fail to obtain the promises of the scripture. The only way for Christians to abide in the love and provision of the Saviour is to keep the commandments of the Lord.