Goodbye from Jesus Plus ZERO
Matthew Adams has won the battle, but not the war.
I wanted to make sure you know why I have decided to close down my Substack and community website.
Over the past year, I have been harassed ceaselessly by Matthew Adams of My Reason to Believe Substack. This man has over 15,000 subscribers on Substack and feels it is his personal mission to make sure my message of Jesus Plus ZERO is never heard. He is the typical school-yard bully.
He has gone to extraordinary lengths that can only be described as obsessive to poison anything I write, including:
1. Writing to every registered church Pastor in my local area to warn them of my “cult”.
2. Reporting me to the Australian Federal Police as a “cult” leader.
3. Commencing his own “Cult Watch” segment on his own Substack and poisoning everything I write, not just to his own subscribers, but to the wider Substack community via Notes.
4. Setting up fake Substack reader profiles under pseudonyms to make it look like there is more opposition to my writings.
5. Emailing me just about every day with his relentless taunts, even after requests to stop the emails. He sets up new free email addresses to beat my spam filters just to taunt me.
This man breaches every possible rule of decency on a free-speech platform like Substack, and he is relentless. He has proven he will stop at nothing, as if I were the only person on the planet who holds the theological views I do.
Well, I can now say that he has won. I am finished with my Substack and my community website as well.
This has been a very humbling period for me, as I have experienced first-hand what will come in the future, as anyone who opposes mainstream lukewarmness and the blending of all religions under the Papacy will be ostracised and, in many cases, martyred. I stand ready to die for Jesus if required. So bring it on!
Jesus does not need me, or any other human, to bring those to His Kingdom whom He has sovereignly chosen. I have been gifted specifically to support the remnant, and I will continue to do so, just not here.
We will all stand before our creator at the end, and He will decide.
To Matthew Adams, I publicly say I forgive you. I hold no grudges. I humbly ask you to repent and believe the real Jesus, not Jesus plus Israel, not Jesus plus the Old Covenant, not Jesus plus the rapture, not Jesus plus anything at all.
To my loyal readers, I say from the bottom of my heart, thank you. I sincerely hope I have had a positive impact on your spiritual life. It is time for me to move on and leave the Substack cesspool behind.
For my Australian subscribers, I will write to you separately and let you know how we can stay in contact.
Many blessings to you,
Geoff Stroud
JesusPlusZERO Substack
Queensland, Australia
Praying for you and about this. Stand fast and hold firm. Do not give up! Am praying heavenly father fill you with His strength, boldness and courage in Christ Jesus as you continue to abide in him. May father in heaven vindicate you in Him!
The purpose of writing to you, Geoff, is for encouragement and strengthening, not criticism.
You state that "...he has won..." Please understand that isn't what happened.
John 16:33 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” (ESV)
When I considered what you wrote, the record that came to mind was Paul's journey to Jerusalem in Acts 21 and following. During this time, Jesus appeared to Paul TWICE. Read what the Lord said to Paul in Acts 23:11. Note that the Lord never reproved Paul, he didn't get angry or anything like that.
We are living in a season of the exposure of evil. See Ephesians 5:11-14 which informs us of our involvement in this exposure - again, this is the truth of Jesus plus Zero. Idols and the evils of idolatry don't die easily. The exposure of idols by the light, their functioning and their evil, is a great disaster for them, as they MUST operate in secrecy, in a world of illusion.
Understand that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is THE END OF THE BUSINESS OF RELIGION. This is one of the many reasons why he was rejected the first time he walked in this world. When people begin to really understand who they are in Christ and begin to function in their legitimate capacity as children of light, the religious businessmen lash out, as their idols cannot survive if their enslaved congregations know their chains are broken.
But why won't these religious businessmen listen to scripture and to reason? They cannot listen and they cannot hear. They have made agreements, taken oaths that yoke them together with the idols they serve - 2 Corinthians 6:14-18. (Try to find and examine the religious ordination documents that they must sign). Jesus plus zero declares that God bought us with a price. We belong to HIM and CANNOT legally make oaths or agreements with any religious organization. These religious businessmen have sold themselves and have forgotten whose they are and who they are supposed to serve.
Isaiah 44:20 He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”
This is the state of these religious businessmen and what they minister to their enslaved congregations.
Those who function in Christ as children of light and speak the Truth in Love provide opportunities for healing deliverance from religious bondage and the illegitimate oaths and agreements with darkness.
Jesus plus zero reminds the demonic realm of the victorious position of Christ, seated on the right hand of God, and our position seated next to him. It also exposes the complete defeat of the rulers of the darkness of this world. These rulers continue to treat the believers as the rulers should and will be treated. It is part of the illusion of calling good evil and evil good. It is imperative to know your legitimate, legal position in Christ when dealing with such entities.
Geoff, you have done very well as a child of light. Jesus overcame the world and in him we join in the victory. Your mission, your walk is not over yet.
2 Corinthians 2:14–17
[14] But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. [15] For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, [16] to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? [17] For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ. (ESV)