Whatever is true of you and I the moment we die will be true of us as we enter the spirit realm. Death is an enemy, not a redeemer. The only difference will be that we do not have a physical body. If we have followed Jesus afar off while living on the earth, we still will follow Jesus afar off when we die.

When the Day of the Lord arrives and we are raised from the dead, there still will be no change in what we are. The only difference will be that now we have received back our physical body.

What then? We are given back what we have done in the body, whether good or bad. This is what the Bible teaches clearly and consistently. To depart from this is to leave the Scriptures and enter delusion—a delusion that will be shattered when we face the reality of the Judgment Seat of Christ.

Try and set aside your traditional teaching and reread the New Testament. See if what we have taught here follows the tenor of the words of the Apostles of Christ. Numerous American Christians are going to be terribly upset when they die and discover the Lord Jesus does not come rushing to meet them. Instead they find themselves in some area of the spirit realm inhabited by people of the same spiritual growth of themselves. God does not like mixtures, as He pointed out in the Old Testament. Let the holy remain that way and the filthy remain that way. This is what the Lord says. He wants His way to be made straight.

We have not made the Lord's way straight. We have fed the people several unscriptural traditions that make the Word of God of no effect. We have said as long as they profess belief in Christ their sins will be overlooked. Thus we are leading them straight to punishment and loss of inheritance.

We have been warned in almost all of Paul's epistles, in the Book of Hebrews, in the Book of James, in First and Second Peter, in First John, in Jude, and in the Book of Revelation, about the peril of not behaving righteously.

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 8:13)

Do you not know the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders Nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. (I Corinthians 6:9,10)

"Therefore come out from them and be separate," says the Lord. "Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you. I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters," says the Lord Almighty. (II Corinthians 6:17,18)

The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; Idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions (Galatians 5:19,20)

To be continued.