We have supposed it is our belief in correct doctrine that will lift us to meet the Lord in the air. It is not. It is the Life of Christ, His body and blood living in us through the Holy Spirit, that will lift the saints.

We see, therefore, that God cannot be mocked. Those who have sowed to the Spirit of God throughout their discipleship will be called to the Lord at that time. But the believers who have lived mostly in their fleshly mind and appetites will not have enough life to draw them up to Christ.

We Evangelicals put entirely too much emphasis on correct doctrine and not nearly enough on the daily life of being crucified with Jesus and being raised with Jesus. We already have ascended to the right hand of God with Jesus, according to the Apostle Paul. Now we have to turn away from our adamic life and nourish our new born-again nature that resides in Christ with God in Heaven.

It is time for a great change in Christian thinking, in the way we regard salvation. We limit salvation to a statement of belief in Christ, water baptism, and then eternal residence in Heaven when we die. This is not the Christian salvation.

The Christian salvation, the new covenant, is a gradual change from an adamic personality to a life-giving spirit in the image of the Lord Jesus Christ. The purpose of such salvation is that we might appear with Him and install the Kingdom of God on the earth, thus bringing justice to the nations.

Let us encourage each believer in Christ to turn away from the pull of the world and begin to pray, meditate each day in the Scriptures, meet continually with fervent believers as possible, and seek God until he knows what his place of service is in the Body of Christ. Whoever is called to be a saint, a holy one of God, has no other calling in life. We work hard in the world to support ourselves and those who depend on us, but the main part of our life is to be occupied with our calling as a servant of Christ.

Today's Evangelical doctrine is incorrect. We need to thrust aside the grace-rapture-Heaven error and begin to focus on what God has for us as we enter the age of moral horrors.

And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. (II Corinthians 3:18—NIV)

For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. (Romans 8:29—NIV)

It does not help God solve the problem of rebellion as long as we do a few things to adorn our religious life and then hope to have fun in our mansion in Heaven. God has a sinning world on His hands. God's problem is not solved until we decide to turn away from our own life and do His will without question. Only then are we fit to be one of the future rulers of the creation. (from Two Parables)