CHAPTER B
Does it matter to you whether you live or whether you die?
There are 3 indisputable realities concerning every person living on the face of the Earth that are absolutely true…that no individual would dispute, or question, or disagree with, or have a different opinion about. Everyone, everywhere, would agree with these 3 facts without question:
- I am alive; I exist; I have a pulse; I am living and I am breathing; I am not dead.
- Death is a certainty; my body is going to physically die and end up in a grave.
- I do not know when I am going to die. I do not know how much time remains until the death of my body…whether tomorrow, or another week, a month, a year, a decade or multiple decades. This is true no matter what my age is right now… even if I am just a child. Your real age is how much time you have from this moment until the death of your body. A child who is going to die tomorrow or a year from now is much older than a 70 year old who is going to live another decade. So no one really knows their true age.
For those of us who are born-again, Heaven is most assuredly our home!
The moment I take my last breath on Earth, I will take my first breath in Heaven! The moment I am absent from my physical body as a result of death, at that same moment I am immediately and consciously present together with the Lord in Heaven! My passage to Heaven is a direct and uninterrupted seamless route! Death of this body brings my disembodied soul/spirit immediately together with my Lord Jesus in Heaven for all eternity!
Physical death is not a state of unconscious sleep until the return of Christ. Death is merely a transition whereby my soul/spirit departs the body and no longer resides in the physical realm. It now uninterruptedly continues on living in the spiritual realm only…no longer in both realms…instantly and fully consciously together with Christ! Hallelujah! At such time when the Second Coming of Christ takes place, each of us will then at that time receive our glorified bodies!
Jesus told the repentant thief on the cross, “I tell you the truth, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”
Prior to being born-again, I existed only in the physical realm…but now I have been born a second time…born again…born into the Family of God in the Kingdom of God. I experienced a second birth…this time into the spiritual realm where prior to this I did not exist. I was born again; I became a child of the Most High God and was adopted into the Family of God by birth and by Blood!
Just as in the physical realm flesh gives birth to flesh, just so in the spiritual realm Spirit gives birth to spirit. Humans can only reproduce human life, but the Holy Spirit brings into being a new and distinct spiritual life from Heaven. Just as in the physical realm a new life is born of human parents into the physical realm, just so in the spiritual realm a new life is born of the Holy Spirit into the spiritual realm. Now I exist BOTH in the physical realm AND in the spiritual realm!
My spiritual birth is not a mental or a theological concept; it is just as literal and just as real a new birth as was my physical birth. A person is born into physical life through human parents, but is born into spiritual life in the Kingdom of God through Divine parents…by God the Father through the Power of the Holy Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. What is born of the flesh through human parents is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit through Divine Parents is spirit. The person I am now, newly born of the Spirit, is NOT the same person I was that was born of the flesh…merely re-born. A distinct and uniquely new life came into existence.
I am an entirely new creation; a fresh, new life…a spiritual life…has came into existence. I am no longer the same person I formerly was. My previous moral and spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, a fresh, new life has begun! God Himself is therefore my Father and I am His child; I bear His spiritual DNA in my soul! Hallelujah!
If anyone does not possess the Holy Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ and is not truly a child of God. Those who are led by the Spirit of God are the true sons/daughters of God.
Abba Father…Your children are continually being led by Your indwelling Holy Spirit. And You have so lovingly assured me, Your child, that I needn’t be like a cowering, fearful slave in Your Presence. Your Holy Spirit, God’s eternal gift, doesn’t make cowards out of us. He endues me with power and love and a sound mind…that I should freely abide with You as Your very Own child, adopted by birth into the bosom of Your Family, crying out unashamedly without reservation to You: “Abba, Father!” For Your indwelling Holy Spirit speaks to me deep in my heart, reassuring me and confirming within me, that indeed I really am Your child! [Rom 8:14]
Now we look forward with confidence to our new and glorious heavenly bodies, realizing that every moment we spend in these earthly bodies is time spent away from our eternal home in Heaven with Jesus. And we are not afraid but are quite content to die, for then we will be at home face to Face with the Lord. [2 Cor 5:6,8]
For to me [Paul], living is for Christ, and dying is even better. Yet if I live, that means fruitful service for Christ. I really don’t know which is better. I’m torn between two desires: sometimes I desire to remain on Earth for further fruit-bearing, and sometimes my yearning desire is to die and be free of this world to be with Christ, which is far, far better. I long to go and be with Christ. That would be far better for me, but it is better for your sake that I remain here in my physical body and live. [Phil 1:21-24]
Jesus said to her [Martha], I Myself am the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever believes in Me, although he may physically die, yet shall he live; and whoever continues to live in reliance and faith believing upon Me shall positively never actually die at all. Do you believe this? [John 11:25]
Christ Jesus emphatically declared, “I assure you, those who listen to My message and believe in God Who sent Me already possess eternal life. They will never be judged for their sins and condemned, but they have already permanently passed out of death into eternal life.”
Whoever believes in Him never comes up for judgment to be condemned, but whoever does not believe stands already tried, convicted, and condemned for not believing in the Name of God’s one and only Son. [John 5:24; 3:18]
God Himself has given this testimony concerning His Son: I have granted you eternal life, and this life is given through union with My Divine Son Jesus.
Whoever is joined together with My Son in a living union of oneness as the bride of Christ already possesses that life;
whoever is NOT joined together with My Son in a living union of oneness as His bride
does NOT possess that life.
I have written this to you so that you who place your trust in Christ My Son will know, beyond the shadow of any doubt, that you do now indeed already have eternal life.
As for me, I will continue beholding Your Face in righteousness; I shall be fully satisfied, for I will see you face to Face when I awaken in Heaven and find myself beholding Your form and having sweet communion with You. [Ps 17:15]
“When I in righteousness at last Thy glorious Face shall see;
When all the weary night has passed, and I awake with Thee;
To view the glories that abide, then and only then will I be satisfied.” [F. Bullard]
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