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The Daily Word of Righteousness
My Reward Is With Me, #9
Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to the skies? No, you will go down to the depths. (Luke 10:13-15—NIV)
God is not pleased that the United States and England, supposedly Christian countries, are centers of immorality—misrepresentations of the Person and will of God to the Muslims, Jews, and other major groups of mankind. I think God is ready to do something about this!
Let us not be so deluded that we believe when Christ returns He will shower with Divine blessings those who have not fought the good fight of faith, who have not taken hold of the provisions He has given us and by which we are able to overcome involvement in the Antichrist world-spirit, the lusts and unrighteousness of our fleshly nature, and our self-will and rebellion against God. He shall reward us just as we have behaved in the world.
Life
The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. (Galatians 6:8—NIV)
We don't usually think of eternal life as something that must be reaped. In fact, I think we view eternal life as a legal state that accrues to us when we put our trust in Jesus Christ for salvation.
However, eternal life actually is a form of life. When Adam and Eve sinned they lost access to the Tree of Life. Mankind has continued in its spiritually dead state ever since. But God so loved the world He gave His Son that whoever believes in Him might not perish but have eternal life.
This does not mean that upon accepting Christ we go to Heaven instead of Hell. It means rather that we who are spiritually dead might, by putting our faith in Christ, have access to the Tree of Life. We can gain a measure of spiritual life now, but much more is to be had when the Lord returns.
"I tell you the truth," Jesus said to them, "no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God will fail to receive many times as much in this age and, in the age to come, eternal life." (Luke 18:29,30—NIV)
He shall receive eternal life "in the age to come." We don't usually regard eternal life as being Divine Life that will be given to us when the Lord returns. However, in terms of the New Testament, we will not be made actually alive until eternal life fills our spirit, soul, and body. Notice this fact in the following verse:
For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. (I Corinthians 15:22,23—NIV)
We shall be made alive when the Lord returns, that is, if we have placed the treasure of our life in Heaven in obedience to Jesus Christ.
To be continued.