Duty, family, human nature, and worship in heaven come into view, today. A “Yahoo! Answers” fighter using the ID “The Green Machine” (Level 5 with 6,162 points, a member since November 09, 2013) posted the following:
How would Christians like to spend eternity worshipping God?
Because that's what heaven is like. Its not a place where you meet your family and friends and be free. Its a place of worship.
THE BATTLE AXE: Why Were We Sent Here? (07/20/2014)—(5.) Mankind was not “sent” to earth as an accident or an experiment; and the earth was not created to serve as a battlefield, a hospital, a practice area, a “proving ground,” a test lab, or a form of punishment by separation from GOD (such as was brought against those who lost their first estate in heaven). The earth was specifically created as the sphere of life having conditions that would support the continued existence of mankind. Because many conceive their existence as independent both from GOD and from the earth, the world has been created by mankind to maintain communication, exchange, and survival. The world system provides beliefs, meanings and values for the living, and deals with the earth as a disposable object, not as ones origin, ones home, or any organic aspect of oneself. Through the operations of sin, mankind now abuses and misapplies the devices and mechanisms that were intended by divinity as benefit. Included are authority, divine law, dominion, hierarchy, judgment, the Tree of Life, and truth. Apart from GOD, created beings and living creatures must be deprived of various blessings, gifts, possibilities, and tools. As a result, mankind is often challenged, confused, destroyed, and frustrated. The many sacred purposes of salvation include preparing mankind to be immortal and incorruptible, and to live forever upon the earth. See Isaiah 45: 18, Jude 1: 6, 1st Timothy 2: 13-15, Galatians 6: 7-8, Psalms 37: 8-10, Jeremiah 27: 4-5 and Isaiah 65: 17-23, KJV.
THE GOLDEN ARROW: And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever. (Revelation 5: 13-14, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: The Meaning of Worship? (07/09/2014); To Serve GOD Acceptably (07/10/2014); Attending Church? (11/12/2012); Unwelcome Gifts? (09/17/2012); Does Believing Make It Happen? (09/18/2012); What is Worship? (10/18/2010); No Free Will (10/19/2010)
“The Green Machine”, here are a few points to consider that you may have overlooked:
(1.) Worship and operating in accordance with ones own spirit content from GOD are contrary to dependence upon ones animal nature and regularly operating after the flesh. Human awareness and self-will may be dominated and driven by such aspects as appetite (e.g., hunger, sexual cravings, thirst), sensation (e.g., hearing, seeing, tasting, touching), emotional/mental functioning (e.g., anxiety, desire, fear, imagination, recall) as well as by contact, exchange and social process.
(2.) Sin does not appear as contrary and foreign to ones own spirit content. Yet, sin opposes the continued existence of divine law, of GOD as Law Giver, and of all Creation that operates on the basis of divine order. Sin may control and generate attitudes, behavior and conduct. Lacking the various provisions of GOD, created beings and living creatures do not detect, recognize or correctly resist the action and presence of sin within their consciousness, and upon their self-will.
(3.) Those who will worship in heaven first will have undergone a transformation that fits and suits them for an environment of spiritual purity. They will have been born again, and will have received an endowment of divinity that includes such inseparable features as faith, holiness, joy, longsuffering, peace, wisdom, and wrath against sin. They will have been nourished upon the earth through fellowship with other believers, sacred knowledge by study of the holy writings, and discipline through practice of holy sacraments.
There is far more to be said, correctly understood, and spiritually apprehended. (For example, (4.) At the appearing of Jesus Christ, the transformation that has already begun, and is continuing to happen right now, whereby believers become immortal and incorruptible will be completed. Such beggarly elements as ambition, contradiction, dullness, human error, idleness, indecision, misery, monotony, and mortality will all become a “thing of the past” that will never exist again.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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