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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Three Separations of the Royal Priesthood, #10
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. (John 17:9)
Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. (James 1:18)
The descendants of Adam are the dust of the ground. They possess no eternal life. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom (I Corinthians 15:50). The race of Adam, while it is the image of God, is to a certain extent an animal creation.
God intends that the race of Adam die and be born again, receiving eternal resurrection life—the Life that His Son Christ is. Flesh-and-blood life is a very inferior form of existence. It is eternal life that is to be desired.
Eternal life is infinitely more than eternal existence. Eternal life is a quality of life, a life conducted in the Presence of God as part of God's Being and energy. Every member of the Kingdom of God possesses a portion of eternal life and is exhorted to lay hold on it, to sow to it, to have it in ever-greater abundance.
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. (I Timothy 6:12)
The goal of the Christian salvation is the fullness of eternal life.
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection [Greek, out-resurrection] of the dead. (Philippians 3:10,11)
Because of the transgression of Adam and Eve, Satan has been able to introduce spiritual death into the race of mankind. All sin leads to death. As long as we are sinning, death is abiding in us.
God has determined to release the material creation into eternal life—the Life that God Himself Is. Such release is impossible until sin has been cast out.
God has chosen a royal priesthood—people who are to be a firstfruits of mankind. God will deliver the members of the royal priesthood from their sins through Christ and fill them with His Life—eternal life. These kings and priests of God will rule and serve in the power of endless life, wearing the crown of life. They will impart God's Life to the dead creation.
The members of the royal priesthood were children of Adam. Now they are becoming life-giving spirits (I Corinthians 15:45). They are being made a part of the second Adam, the Lord from Heaven.
Ezekiel prophesied of the Day of the Lord, of the age when the Lord's holy ones, His trees of life, bring eternal life to the dead creation:
And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh. (Ezekiel 47:9)
To be continued.