Today,
reply is on continuing to express faith as the response Christian
believers are to make against the current threats of the covid-19
pandemic. Faith and the many other spirit gifts from GOD do not
influence and manipulate human circumstances, events, and conditions
so much as they interact and operate to transform the content of
human consciousness and self-will. The imbalance, infirmity and
weakness among men require responses by divinity that will build up,
edify, and nourish the spirit power and substance within the living.
Inheritance and mortality were two of the divine devices fashioned
from love and mercy that were used to circumvent immediately
executing the sentence of death for transgression (i.e., the
annihilation of mankind). By these, the process of GOD is revealed
to be one like that a smith uses when making objects of metal. The
finished product is hardened, tempered, and given its permanent
strength first by hammering, then by heating in fire, and then by
dousing in cold water. It is written: Hebrews 11: 32-40, King
James Version (KJV): 32 And what shall I more say? for the time
would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of
Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and
of the prophets: 33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms,
wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of
lions. 34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the
sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight,
turned to flight the armies of the aliens. 35 Women received their
dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting
deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: 36 And
others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea,
moreover of bonds and imprisonment: 37 They were stoned, they were
sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered
about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted,
tormented; 38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in
deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the
earth. 39 And these all, having obtained a good report through
faith, received not the promise: 40 God having provided some better
thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. One
of the fighters in the “Yahoo! Answers” public forum on Religion
& Spirituality who uses the ID “Anonymous” (no profile data
shown) posted the following:
What
would Jesus do in the current COVID-19 pandemic?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: And we know that all things work together for good to
them that love God, to them who are the called according to his
purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be
conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn
among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also
called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he
justified, them he also glorified. What shall we then say to these
things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
(Romans 8: 28-31, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: On Behalf Of Others (03/26/2020); The
Challenge of Covid-19 (03/22/2020); Leadership By The Church
(03/18/2020); Acknowledging Christ as Son (03/08/2020); Miracles and
Christian Belief (01/30/2020); Christ Displayed Authentic Humanity
(10/09/2019); You Will Receive Power? (12/28/2018)
“Anonymous”,
among Christians, our best answers to calamity, catastrophe,
uncertainty, and upheaval must continue to express the faith we
ourselves have received from GOD, and that we are to minister to
others. The current focus that death and destruction will overspread
the earth because of covid-19 expresses our human concern for the
features of life that pertain to the flesh (e.g., appetite,
sensation, emotion), and does not also address the features of life
that pertain to the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ carried out a ministry
among men on the earth that addressed the process and substance of
the Spirit from GOD that exists within comfort and forgiveness from
divinity, divine law, prophecy, unselfish service, and godly
suffering. Mankind has been in a continuing condition of mortality
since the fall of Adam. By divine dispensation, the sanction of
death against transgression that came upon mankind in the fall of
Adam is delayed and postponed to appear as the second death
that will follow final judgment. Multiple sacred operations also
have been created to continue the existence of mankind as a companion
to immortal, incorruptible, invisible divinity. Included are
adoption, glorification, justification, redemption, resurrection from
the dead, salvation, and sanctification.
Mature
Christian believers agree that divinity appeared in the earth using
human form and life process as Jesus Christ (the Son of Man) to
continue the priesthood granted to Adam that was modeled after the
sacred observances in heaven. As the Son of GOD, Jesus responded to
covenant law, divine prerogative, eternal purpose, and the sovereign
will of divine fullness. Christ prepared mankind to receive a fresh
endowment of life essence (i.e., breath; spirit; word) that
would establish his followers as the new creation. Finite
human tools of intellect, logic, carnal reason, and self-will
(willpower) can not bring about the elimination of sin. Even so, the
living can be equipped to resemble, reflect, and reveal the character
and likeness of Jesus that expresses commitment, discernment, and
reconciliation to GOD. Through the ministry of Christ as a divine
High Priest, an atonement for sin has been made, and inseparable
aspects of divine fullness are imparted to indwell humanity.
Included are faith, holiness, hope, longsuffering, lovingkindness,
oneness without sameness, personhood, righteousness, wisdom, and
wrath against sin.
Christ
has demonstrated the operations and substance of divine spirit
residing within flesh. Just as human self-will can not eliminate
sin, men on the earth who are anointed and ordained as vessels of
divine spirit can not dismiss or remove mortality. The deposits of
divine spirit that believers receive enable an uninterrupted focus on
Christ, and increases the ability to endure bereavement, conflict,
contradiction, disaster, loss, and ruin. Consider again the
following that uses language from the Bible, and a selection from the
music ministry of Douglas Miller:
(1.)
2nd Timothy 1: 7, King James Version (KJV): 7 For God
hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and
of a sound mind.
(2.)
Luke 13: 1-5, KJV: 1 There were present at that season some that
told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their
sacrifices. 2 And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that
these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they
suffered such things? 3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye
shall all likewise perish. 4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower
in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above
all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye
repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
(3.)
1st Peter 1: 3-9, KJV: 3 Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant
mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection
of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible,
and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready
to be revealed in the last time. 6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice,
though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through
manifold temptations: 7 That the trial of your faith, being much
more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with
fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the
appearing of Jesus Christ: 8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom,
though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy
unspeakable and full of glory: 9 Receiving the end of your faith,
even the salvation of your souls.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, (4.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENv7zIo_j9M.) Even
so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according
to your faith.
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