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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Three Goals of the Spiritual Area of the Inheritance, #3
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. (John 5:28,29)
Some will be raised to glory. Others will be raised to punishment.
We realize from this that it is not enough just to be raised from the dead since every person will be raised from the dead. What is important is what we are raised to—the resurrection of life or the resurrection of judgment.
What we are raised to is not decided by belief, grace, or mercy. What we are raised to depends exactly on what John declares: "they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation."
"They that have done good; they that have done evil."
Notice how the Apostle Paul said the same thing:
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. (II Corinthians 5:10)
"According to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad."
The mammoth error of evangelical thinking is that the grace of God in Christ changes the statements of the Lord Jesus and the Apostle Paul, thus doing away with the day of reckoning for believers. This error has destroyed the Christian churches of today. The believers will not serve God as they should because they believe they will not answer to Christ for their conduct.
We Christians can destroy our own resurrection to eternal life by continuing in the appetites and lusts of the body and soul; or we can create for ourselves a glorious resurrection, the putting on of a body like that of Christ. We can:
Destroy our own resurrection to eternal life.
Or,
Create for ourselves a glorious resurrection, the putting on of a body like that of Christ.
We shall reap exactly what we have sown.
Think about the words of Paul:
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken [make alive] your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (Romans 8:11-13)
The above three verses mean that God's Holy Spirit is in us now and will make alive our flesh-and-blood body at the coming of the Lord. Therefore, we are not obligated to follow the desires of our flesh.
However if we do follow the desires of our flesh we will die. We will slay our own resurrection. We will reap corruption in the Day of the Lord.
This is how we destroy our resurrection to eternal life.
To be continued.