The
first man Adam became a living being;
The
last Adam [Christ Jesus],
a LIFE-giving Spirit.
(1
Corinthians 15:45)
Christ
Jesus is LIFE Itself, apart from Him there is no LIFE.
He is the Spirit of
LIFE—The Self-Existent One.
He has given everyone a
natural life that is mortal--that will end in death,
And without His
LIFE--His Spirit--that life will spend Eternity in Hell.
YET,
Christ Jesus offers LIFE--LIFE in His Spirit, to every person,
And EVERYONE makes a
decision to receive that LIFE or not.
The apostle Paul
teaches us that most PERISH
Because they REFUSE TO
LOVE THE TRUTH [2 Thessalonians 2:10],
And Christ is TRUTH—The
Spirit of TRUTH [John 16:13].
The
first man was of the dust of the earth,
The
Second Man from Heaven.
As
was the earthly man, and as is the Man from Heaven,
So
also are those who are OF Heaven.
And
just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man,
So
shall we bare the likeness of the Man from Heaven.
I
declare to you, brothers,
That
flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God,
Nor
does the perishable inherit the IMPERISHABLE.
Listen,
I tell you a MYSTERY:
We
will not all sleep [die],
but we will all be CHANGED--
In
a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, AT THE LAST TRUMPET.
For
the TRUMPET will sound, the dead will be raised IMPERISHABLE,
And
we will be changed.
For
the perishable must clothe itself with the IMPERISHABLE,
The
mortal with IMMORTALITY.
When
the perishable has been clothed with the IMPERISHABLE,
And
the mortal with IMMORTALITY,
Then
the saying that is written will come true:
'Death
has been swallowed up in victory.'
'Where,
O death, is your victory?
Where,
O death, is your sting?'
The
sting of death is SIN, and the power of SIN is the Law.
But
thanks be to God!
He
gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore,
my dear brothers , stand firm. Let nothing move you.
Always
give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord,
Because
you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
(1
Corinthians 15:47-58)
Christ
Jesus is a LIFE-giving Spirit.
God is Spirit, the
realm of God, the Kingdom of God is the realm of His Spirit.
It is Christ in us, the
Spirit of God in us, our hope of Glory [Colossians 1:27];
That is Christ, the
Spirit of God, living IN and THROUGH us.
In this life, we have
the Spirit of God living IN us; in jars of clay
[2 Corinthians 4:7]. We
are jars of clay.
But at the return of
Christ Jesus we will be changed in a moment;
In the twinkling of an
eye.
We will rise to meet
Him in the air and we will be like Him
Because we will see Him
as He is. (1 John 3:2)
For
the Lord Himself will come down from Heaven,
With
a loud command,
With
the voice of the archangel and with the TRUMPET call of God,
And
the dead IN Christ will rise first.
After
that, we who are still alive and are left
Will
be caught up with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
And
so we will be with the Lord FOREVER.
Therefore
encourage each other with these words. (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18)
How
great is the love the Father has lavished on us,
That
we should be called children of God!
And
that is what we are!
The
reason the World does not know us is that it did not know Him.
Dear
friends, now we are children of God,
And
what we will be has not yet been made known.
But
we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him,
For
we shall see Him as He is.
Everyone
who has this HOPE in Him purifies himself just as He is pure.
(1
John 3:1-3)
Those
who obey His commands live IN Him, and He IN them.
And
this is how we know that He lives IN us:
We
know it by the Spirit He gave us. (1 John 3:24)
And
we are IN Him who is TRUE—even IN His Son Jesus Christ.
He
is the TRUE God and Eternal LIFE. (1 John 5:20)
You are IN Christ
Jesus
IF He is your Way, your
TRUTH, and your LIFE;
Then you have been
crucified with Him to this wicked World around us;
Then you no longer live
but it is Christ Who lives in you;
Then this life that you
now live, you live by Faith in the Son of God
And His Power at work
in you.
You have set your heart
on things above;
Your life is hidden
with Christ in God;
You have clothed
yourself with the garments of Christ
And let His Word dwell
richly IN you.
I pray that this is
true of all who read this message;
That Christ Jesus is
your LIFE-giving Spirit.
Today, the world
is raging against God, rushing toward oblivion. (Psalm 2)
This
World in its present form is passing away. (1 Corinthians 7:31)
America
is being ground to powder because of her SIN against God.
Save
yourself from this Corrupt Generation! (Acts 2:40)
As
God has written, so shall it be! Hallelujah! Maranatha!
Father,
Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as in Heaven!
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