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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Eternal Life and Bodily Immortality
And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you. Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation—but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it. For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, (Romans 8:11-13—NIV)
Eternal life and bodily immortality!
Without trying to start a new doctrine or denomination, let us think for a moment about life and immortality, viewing them, for the sake of discussion, as two different aspects of Divine grace.
Eternal life is a quality of life. There is biologic life and there is eternal life. Eternal life is the Life of God, the Presence of God in the Lord Jesus Christ.
The word eternal is not referring to duration of time.
We have eternal life now in our inward nature. We have a deposit on that which one day will fill our spirit, soul, and body—the incorruptible resurrection life of the Lord Jesus.
However, our body remains dead because of the sin dwelling in it.
But God has promised both life and immortality. Immortality refers principally to the body, I believe. Immortality does have to do with duration of time.
Of all the utopian dreams of mankind, the greatest has been immortality in the body. This is precisely what we have through Jesus Christ. God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him would be able to gain immortality in his body.
If we are living as a victorious saint in Christ, then in the Day of the Lord the resurrection life that dwells now in our inward nature will increase until our body has been redeemed. The redeemed physical body is without sin and made immortal by the influx of Divine Life.
Several times in his epistles Paul warns us that if we continue to live in the appetites of our flesh we will die. Paul means that we will lose the deposit of Divine Life that was given us when we received Christ as our Savior.
If we insist on living in the flesh, not laying hold on eternal life, then when the Lord appears we will not gain an immortal body. There will be no "oil," no life in us that can respond to the Life that has appeared from Heaven.
Of all the poisonous ideas that prevail in today's Evangelical teaching, the most destructive by far is the concept that once we receive Christ we never can be lost to the purposes of God. The serpent has been at it again: "You shall not surely die!"
I tell you, along with Christ and His Apostles in the New Testament, that if you as a Christian neglect your salvation by not learning to live in the Spirit of God through prayer and strict obedience to the Lord, not keeping the commandments of Christ and His Apostles, you (according to the Scriptures) stand in clear danger of reaping corruption in the Day of the Lord. This may mean lashes on your resurrected flesh and bones, dismissal to outer darkness, or eternal residence in the Lake of Fire.
Before you discard my statements check them out in the Scriptures.
We have lost the fear of God in America and it needs to be brought back to the Christian churches.
We need to prepare ourselves for the tribulations that lie before us. There will be no secret coming before the return of the Lord to set up His Kingdom on the earth. A secret coming is precisely what the Lord warned us about!