Today,
reply is on the commitment to his own existence and life that mankind
is to make in response to Jesus Christ who appears as Creator,
Redeemer, Savior, and Judge. While the process of life features
continuing conflict between the flesh and the Spirit, the living are
to acknowledge their own body as a temple home for life essence
imparted from GOD, and respect gatherings of those sharing faith as a
divinely provided habitation for the spirit. It is written:
Ephesians 2: 18-22, King James Version (KJV): 18 For through him we
both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. 19 Now therefore ye
are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the
saints, and of the household of God; 20 And are built upon the
foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being
the chief corner stone; 21 In whom all the building fitly
framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: 22 In whom
ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the
Spirit. A fighter in the “Yahoo! Answers” public forum on
Religion & Spirituality using the ID “Stop-and-frisk this,
Bloomberg!” (Level 4 with 1,530 points) posted the following:
Why
do religious people live their lives so cautiously? ?
By
that I mean, if you believe in God and afterlife wouldn't you live as
ethically reckless as possible to facilitate your early demise? I'm
an atheist and since I know this is the only life I get I tend to
want to prevent my death. If I believed in a god and heaven I would
not wear my seat belt for example since I would prefer eternal life
in heaven. Do I make any sense? 😂
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to
himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we
die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are
the Lord’s. For to this end
Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both
of the dead and living. (Romans 14: 7-9, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Disciples and “Little Christs” (11/05/2019); One
Body, Many Members (10/17/2019); Present With The Lord (08/05/2019);
The Gift Of GOD (10/15/2018); A Question On Suicide (11/30/2017);
Suddenly Absent, Suddenly Present? (03/31/2013); A Family Affair?
(04/01/2013)
“Stop-and-frisk
this, Bloomberg!”, you make sense just as the Apostle Paul, who
expressed being in conflict about continuing to serve on the earth,
or going to be with the Lord. It remains that, Christian belief is
focused on commitment and living as a companion to immortal,
incorruptible, invisible divinity, rather than death; and is focused
on performing duty and unselfish service, rather than pleasure and
self-promotion. Sinners who become part of the new creation
of GOD through Jesus Christ must become permanently changed and
transformed through operations of the Holy Spirit (we say, they must
become “born again” and “grow up again”). As developing
believers, all are to become mature/ripe while on the earth, and will
be harvested by the Lord at his coming. Christian believers are to
resemble, reflect, and reveal the image of GOD, and the likeness of
Jesus Christ through their lifestyles and daily routines. All are
granted benefits, opportunities, possibilities, and privileges on a
divine scale for they receive within their consciousness and
self-will (willpower) inseparable aspects of the divine makeup.
Included are balance, completeness, faith, holiness, longsuffering,
lovingkindness, oneness without sameness, personhood, wisdom, and
wrath against sin. As vessels of divine spirit content (sacred DNA,
so to speak), Christians are the offspring of GOD and those in
fellowship with divinity. Believers will be held accountable for the
grace and freely given gifts bestowed on them, and are to operate
acknowledging sacred law, divine prerogative, eternal purpose, and
the sovereign will of GOD. Consider again the following that uses
language from the Bible, and a selection from the music ministry of
John Michael Talbot:
(1.)
2nd Corinthians 5: 1-10, King James Version (KJV): 1
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were
dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring
to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 3 If so be
that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 4 For we that are in
this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we
would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be
swallowed up of life. 5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame
thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the
Spirit. 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that,
whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7
(For we walk by faith, not by sight:) 8 We are confident, I say,
and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with
the Lord. 9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we
may be accepted of him. 10 For we must all appear before the
judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done
in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it
be good or bad.
(2.)
Philippians 3: 7-14, KJV: 7 But what things were gain to me, those
I counted loss for Christ. 8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things
but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus
my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do
count them but dung, that I may win Christ, 9 And be found in
him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that
which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of
God by faith: 10 That I may know him, and the power of his
resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made
conformable unto his death; 11 If by any means I might attain unto
the resurrection of the dead. 12 Not as though I had already
attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I
may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this
one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and
reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward
the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
(3.)
Romans 8: 5-9, KJV: 5 For they that are after the flesh do mind
the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the
things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death;
but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the
carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to
the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But ye are
not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God
dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is
none of his.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended (for example, (4.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGbb1ry1Hoo.)
Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you
according to your faith.
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