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Alright. The Systematic Theology 2025 is now here. As of now it is a free PDF (with a bookmark table and hyperlinks). I will decided later if I wish to publish it in more formats. osheadavis.org/books/

81. You called me for the Spirit and power Father, Peter stood up on Pentecost and tagged Your election to the gift of Spirit for power. He said to repent. Be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of sins. And then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise is for the children and for the ones far off, for all whom the Lord our God will call. Forgiveness is the doorway. It is a stepping stone. It is not the house. You called me to Yourself, and the call aims at power from the Spirit. A son who gets adopted and then sleeps on the porch has misunderstood the papers. I am not sleeping on the porch. Forgiveness is the stepping stone You laid so I would not trip and fall away on the way to the Spirit. I step on forgiveness. You made forgiveness as a stepping stone for a goal to reach something else. You are correct in this, and I agree with You. I thank You for the step and the goal. And so, I keep walking. Peter did not preach forgiveness as the finish line and the Spirit as a rumor for later heroes. The same sermon held both. The call of the Lord is the gift of the Spirit; that is the promise. The Spirit for power is the proof You called someone to Yourself. I receive the forgiveness, and I receive the power it was aimed toward. The promise Peter named was the Spirit, and the Spirit comes as power, not as a souvenir of a meeting I was not alive to attend. Miracles sit inside that promise because You did not call a people just to clear their file and send them home unchanged. I agree. I am one of the called. The far-off line reached me. I receive the Spirit for power, and I ask for more. More tongues and interpretation, more miracles, more healings, more dreams and visions. Holy Spirit, I receive You for power by faith. Boldness, gifts, healings, the kind of witness that does not negotiate with fear. Thank You for putting my name on a promise that wide. I put my Amen on the call. Any teaching that baptizes me into forgiveness and then locks the power in a century I do not live in, get out of my ears. Father, You called me for this gift. Jesus, the promise is for all whom You call. I am called. I receive the Spirit. --- SCRIPTURE Acts 2:38-39 Peter replied, “Each of you must repent of your sins and turn to God, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. Then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself." (38-NLT, 39-LSB) Acts 2:33 Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear. Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

*55 The Watching God of No Help. Before I read Vincent's essay, "A Matter of Public Health" (see comments for link), one of my first thoughts about this pandemic and the quarantine, was that God is forcing the cessationism to stop their wickedness, like God did by sending Israel to Babylon. I watched a minister from a local Presbyterian church, and all he could say was that God was not asleep, but is awake and ‘watching’. There was no certain hope given for healing. It felt more like a horror story from the twilight zone. A God who watches your every pain, squirm, shout of agony, and sigh of aches, yet provides no relief or healing. He watches! Rather than the Romans watching gladiators fight, their God ‘watches’ people vs sickness; and that is all He does, ‘watches’. Pagans have more compassion than this. Thus, the gospel was not preached. I remember watching some old movie about the Greek god’s with Zeus and the others ‘watching’ mankind through a cloud, almost laughing at their misery, or at least not helping. The ones who tried, did not really help that much. Seriously, one would be more likely to receive help from the Greek god’s than the God of the cessationist. But that wouldn’t be a fair comparison, to the Greek god’s, whose kindness far exceeds the cessationist deity.

*13 Firsthand POV People say that if God is absolutely and directly sovereign, then we are robots, and robots are meaningless. This has to be one of the dumbest objections I come across. The first mistake is calling us robots, thinking the analogy is too strong, when in fact it is too weak. Vincent Cheung is right: if you take the analogy up, then as much as a man is more than dirt, God is infinitely more than a potter. A twelve-string puppet is a joke: God writes the atoms, the thoughts, the history, AND the firsthand POV camera you live behind. Calling you a robot because God wrote every frame is like calling a novel blank because the author typed every word—the pages are packed, you’re just mad you didn’t get to be the publisher. The problem with “robot” is that it undersells how sovereign He is...

Everyone is a Dogmaticist. Olivia Wilde floated a public decree on Instagram that she wishes Taylor Swift was in love with a climate scientist. Not a quiet preference. Not a private daydream. A full-throated ethical demand issued from the high priestess of the climate cathedral, complete with the expectation that the rest of us should treat the wish as obvious moral progress. Cute. The post is not about romance. It is a perfect little exhibit of the fact that everybody is a dogmaticist about their worldview, even the people who swear they have escaped dogma, rules, and zealots. Skeptics who claim they hold no worldview are simply dogmatically asserting that their empty starting point counts as knowledge. Denying that everyone is dogmatic is itself a dogmatic claim; the only way to argue you have no doctrine is to treat that argument as a doctrine that applies to everyone. There is no non-dogmatist. There are only people whose starting points give knowledge and people whose starting points produce polished delusions. The issue has always been truth. Does your starting point of knowledge, your doctrine of metaphysics, and your doctrine of logic actually deliver knowledge? Scripture is the self-authenticating public starting point because it comes from the Mind that is the Logos itself, the Law of Non-Contradiction in divine personhood, the one who creates propositions out of nothing and causes His elect to know them. It does not need external validation; to deny it while using logic, identity, and intelligibility is to use the very thing you reject. Empiricism, human speculation, feelings, “science as authority,” and inductive leaps do none of that. They begin with sensations or private hunches that cannot license the categories of logic, self, causation, or universals without category jumps and infinite regress. They collapse into skepticism, which then denies the law of contradiction it needs in order to speak. When your epistemology fails, every ethical decree you issue is just another way of being dogmatic about a mirage. You can still march, still rebuke, still demand that Taylor date the climate guy instead of the football guy. You simply have no knowledge to back the demand. You are a zealot for a void. People leave Christianity hoping to escape doctrines, rules, and the dogmatic zealots who keep quoting Scripture at them about ethics. They are lying to themselves. There will always be extremists telling you what ethics to follow. The progressive who fled the church simply traded one set of bars for another set made of thinner air. Olivia and the climate-scientist romance crowd are doing exactly what they accuse Christians of doing: enforcing a universal moral standard from a starting point that cannot produce knowledge. The difference is not that one side is dogmatic and the other is free. Both sides are dogmatic. One side has a starting point that actually works; the other side is dogmatic about delusions while pretending the delusion is liberation. The question is never whether someone will tell you what to do. Someone always will. The question is whether the doctrine they are zealous about is true or whether it is just another polished hallucination standing in for the knowledge they never had.

The blood of the sick and the lost rests upon them, and their judgment will exceed that of pagans who never heard the gospel. God has revealed how he repays such conduct. With the measure a man uses, it will be measured to him. The measure of bitterness poured upon the saints will return upon the heads of their persecutors. The contempt shown to faith will rebound as contempt from God himself. Those who mocked healing will face the memory of every sufferer they forbade to believe. Every tear prolonged by their unbelief will rise up against them. The judgment of Christ is strict because the principle is unbending. To those given much, much is required. Those who knew and suppressed knowledge will suffer worse than those who never knew... Vincent cheung. Knowledge and Judgment.

75. Remember Me, forsaken so I am given people Jesus, I am at Your table to remember You. The betrayer's hand was on that table with Yours. Then they all ran. Faces hid. No friend stayed to hold You. You were despised and rejected, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Thanks that hour after long hour You endured being abandoned. And the result is that the loneliness died on You, and I am accepted, set in a family, and given people. You remembered me in Your abandonment. The least I can do is remember You. You did this for me with a goal intended to bless me. So I remember the pain You went through, and I receive the good relationships it gives. Abraham's blessing includes a house that is not a war. You gave Rebekah to Isaac, and she comforted him after his mother died. That was covenant, not a lucky week. A child of Abraham must be loosed. The bent woman had been bound eighteen long years, and You called the loosing necessary because she was a daughter of Abraham. I am that heir. What bound her had to go. What binds my house has to go. Satan isolates, then calls the empty room a lesson. The lesson already happened. It was called forsaken, and You finished it. I agree. Thanks for the good relationships promised me. Where I have wronged someone, I forgive as in Christ You forgave me, and I will ask where asking is still possible. Bitterness hands Satan more rope. I will not hand him the coil and then act shocked when he yanks. Forgiveness releases the debt. It does not reissue a house key to an abuser. I will not keep an abuser at my table and call the bruise fellowship. Restoration is for the bond You mean to heal. I stand before You, already seated with Christ, and I call that bond healed. Isolation, you are not the inheritance. Leave this house. Satan, take your hands off my family, my friends, and the people the Father has given me. I eat this bread accepted. I drink this cup with a family. Jesus, hour after long hour You endured that forsaking for me. I remember You. I receive the people. --- SCRIPTURE Luke 22:21 But the hand of him who is going to betray me is with mine on the table. Matthew 26:56 "But this has all taken place that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples deserted him and fled. Isaiah 53:3 He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Genesis 24:67 Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death. Psalm 68:6 God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.

Isaiah 53:4-5 says that Jesus carried our sickness away from us as a substitute. The word for carried is the Levitical word for the escape goat on the day of atonement in Leviticus 16. The sins of the people were transferred off the people onto the goat and then the goat carried the sins with it outside the camp. This is the word used in Isaiah 53 for Jesus carrying off our sicknesses. Then in the next verse it says that by Jesus’ stripes we are healed. This is again substitution. Thus, here are 2 different ways in which our sicknesses were removed from us in the atonement. However, there is a 3rd way. In Galatians 3 Paul tells us that Jesus became a curse for us in our place so that in substitutionary exchange we receive the blessing of Abrham. The curses of the law, as stated in Deut. 28, includes all sicknesses. And so we have 3 different ways that Jesus removed sickness off of us, in the atonement, so that we are healed and healthy. This is like Jesus and the feeding of the 4 and 5 thousand. Why was there so many extra baskets left over? God is an extravagant giver. Paul says in Ephesians that He answers our prayers exceedingly, abundantly and beyond all that we ask and think. This is how God is. God overengineered our healing in the atonement excessively and beyond what was needed, to help our faith to be absolute and unwavering. With 3 ways to ask for healing based on the atonement, even if one way seemed iffy, there are still 2 others for your faith to grab on to, allowing you to receive healing by faith. This is healing on the demand of faith that our sicknesses were already removed from us in Jesus’ atonement. This is by faith in a promise, not a “gift.” As a side note, this is why Churches and pastors who do not heal the sick and who teach against healing on the demand of faith, are false teachers. With this one heresy they trample the blood of Jesus 3 times. There is no excuse for not teaching and being regular practitioners of healing. There is also a 4th way that healing is in the atonement that is the “gift of healing,” that comes from gifts of the Spirit, when one is empowered by the baptism of the Spirit. Peter in Acts two says this outpouring of power was a promise of Father given to the Son when He sat at His right hand. Thus, it is tied into the gospel of Jesus. The bible gives this aspect the least amount of time and attention. Most of the attention the bible gives for healing, is faith in a simple promise or understanding in God’s word.

Yahweh: "I AM that I AM" Me: "I am what I am" . . . . . . by the unmerited favor of God. What am I? I am what I am; I am, the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ. I am, a son of God; I am, joint heir with Christ. I am, he who the corrupted world will experience "my" liberty. I am he who owns the world. I am, he who owns the past and the future. I am, he who is owned by Jesus.

They Wanted to Kill Lazarus Too “So the chief priests made plans to put Lazarus to death as well, because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.” (John 12:10–11) After Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, the miracle could not be hidden. Crowds gathered, and many believed in him because the evidence stood before them in flesh and blood. But the same sign that drew faith also provoked malice. The chief priests, already resolved to destroy Jesus, now also turned their hatred toward Lazarus. His life had become an unanswerable testimony, and for this reason they plotted to erase him. The Faithless will oppose not only the one who ministers the miracle, but also those who receive from God. Vincent cheung. vincentcheung.com/2025/11/05…

When we have faith, we can move forward and obtain victory. Faith is the beginning of action. You say, “God can bless me even if I sit here. I can pray with faith and welcome God’s blessing.” This is true. Never let anyone tell you that this is impossible or that God never operates this way. God can act before you act. But it is also true that you can take action and reach for miracles. God will stand with you and support you. God will go in front of you to arrange your success. God will multiply your efforts. When you do something, God will do something. And when God acts, miracles will happen... Vincent Cheung. Reach For A miracle. vincentcheung.com/2025/07/16…

72. Remember Me, the sickness You bore Jesus, I am at Your table to remember You and to announce Your death. The body I announce was beaten until it looked stricken, as with leprosy, and that body was Yours. Thirty-nine stripes. I want to pause and think about how much pain that caused You, because You did that for me. You took on my sickness, so that You experienced my sickness for me, in my place. In the Father's mind every stripe was a sickness leaving me and landing on You, the way the scapegoat carried sin out of the camp. Thank You that hour after long hour You endured my diseases. And the result is that the sickness died on You. Truly, by Your wounds I have been healed. You remembered me in Your suffering. The least I can do is remember You. You did this for me with a goal intended to heal me today. So I remember the pain You went through, and honor You by receiving the healing it gave. Father, if I have seen the Son, I have seen You. You healed them all, and the question on the way in was, Do you want to be healed, and not, only if it is God’s Will. Healing is not a paycheck I earn with a cleaner week. The priest examined the lamb, not the man who brought it. You examine Jesus, and You count me in Him. Healing is Your glory; and I seek to glorify You. Sickness is Satan's glory. You deny sending the attacks and hurt. If anyone attacks me, it is not Your doing. And these weapons formed against me must surrender to me, who has become Your righteousness. I agree with Your denial in sending me harm. I will not attribute to You what You refused to attribute to Yourself. Hedging is doubt in a tuxedo. I leave all doubt at the door. Asking You to heal me, as if the stripes were still ahead, is asking You to whip Your Son again. That is not faith, that is unbelief. That is like Adam standing in Eden, begging for food, when he was surrounded by fruit. I will not do that with this bread in my hand. I open my mouth and agree that You are correct. The health is already mine. I put my Amen on the stripes that already happened. Sickness, you are late. Your time has gone. You must leave. You have no choice. You had your day on His body, and that day is over. Get out of this flesh in the name of Jesus. Satan, pack up your evil priesthood and leave, because Jesus is my High Priest. My only Contract is with Him. I eat this bread and drink this cup with joy. Thank You Jesus, I remember You. I remember the pain you endured. And I honor Your suffering, by receiving the healing and health it produced. SCRIPTURE Isaiah 53:4 Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. Matthew 8:17 This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: "He took up our infirmities and bore our diseases." 1 Peter 2:24 "He himself bore our sins" in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; "by his wounds you have been healed." Isaiah 54:15 If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing; whoever attacks you will surrender to you.

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