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The Daily Word of Righteousness
An Examination of Current Teaching, #32
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)
The purpose of being pleasing to God is not that we might go to Heaven but that we might have fellowship with God wherever we are. Where we are has little to do with salvation. It is our fellowship with God that is all important.
Until we understand this we do not view salvation correctly.
There are numerous believers who are looking forward to living in Paradise, but they care little for God. They really wouldn't be too concerned if God left Paradise, just as long as they had their mansion and their backyard full of diamonds.
The fruit of today's preaching is people who are seeking the comforts of Paradise rather than fellowship with God.
The true Christian would rather be in Hell with Jesus Christ than in Heaven without Him.
We are not trying to escape Hell, we are trying to escape the worship of Satan and our idols. There is a vast difference here.
To be a new creation means very much more than accepting Christ initially. It means to follow Christ each day until all of our adamic nature has died in Christ and been raised in Christ. God is making all things new and all things of Christ. This is a long, sometimes painful, sometimes boring process. But this is the nature of the program of salvation.
There are no shortcuts to becoming a new creation.
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2:10)
Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, (Philippians 2:12)
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13,14)
Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. (Hebrews 4:1)
To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne. (Revelation 3:21)
To be continued.