Intro

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Discussion

2 Corinthians 5:1-9 NKJV – For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.  For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.

I start with these verses for a reason. For this is how all who call themselves “Christian” should think and believe. Yet, how many do? The answer is written in tears. For most shed tears when someone moves on from mortality to life.

Most fear this earthly death. They cower from it. They dread its embrace. Within recent months more and more has been transpiring to show that a line has been drawn. A line that shows the entire world has returned to a mentality that matches how things were when Christ walked in this temporal plain of existence two thousand years ago. A prime example of this was shown in Hawaii where 2000 plus people died in what could be called “a horrible death.”

How many though left this mortality for the true life that is to come? That left this extremely short mortal existence to the beginning of the eternal life that will last billions upon billions of years.

Since none can count upon other humans any longer. They must find another source of comfort. Since Christ left this world, He gave those that followed Him a command.

Matthew 28:18-20 NKJV – And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in My name teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

We are now in “the end of the age.” Death will increase when the Great White Throne Judgement transpires. Suffering will increase. There is only one refuge. That is Christ Jesus.

John 14:6 NKJV – Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

True repentance is required. True commitment to the Word of God is required. True downsizing is required. For the more you depend upon the world the more you will fear leaving this mortality for the True Life that is found in His presence. For those that fear death do so because of who they are enemies with.

James 4:4-8 NKJV – Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”? But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “GOD RESISTS THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE.” Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Too many live a life of the double mindedness. Claiming comradery with God through Christ, yet they cling to their earthly rewards and wealth. Christ clearing states where our love is bound to.

Matthew 6:19-21 NKJV – “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

There is one thing people need to come to understand and come to accept. We only have one life. I am not referring just to this temporal existence of around one hundred years. I am referring to all of it. Yes, this corrupted body we live within stops functioning. The heart stops beating. Air no longer enters and exits the lungs. Blood no longer circulates throughout the veins and arteries. This corruption was never meant to continue. It was designed to fail.

This body we now inhabit is a waystation within our true journey. Our souls, our spirit that lodge within this decaying body does not end. This is one thing those that embrace Atheism do not wish to hear. For it would mean they must accept that they could face punishment. Yet this is something they don’t wish to accept for it would mean that our life will continue beyond this body. That is why it is called a “tent.”

This is the truth. It will. It is made clear within the Bible that our lives are to be immortal. Our souls, our spirit is to move on into an immortal body.

1 Corinthians 15:53 NKJV – For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

What I have said so far is borne out in the verses that are before this verse that I just said.

1 Corinthians 15:35-44 NKJV – But someone will say, “How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?” Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies. And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain—perhaps wheat or some other grain. But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body. All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

“The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

Our spiritual body will be our immortal body. All our body is, is a vessel to contain our souls, our spirit.

It is this misunderstanding that causes so many to fear death. To hang on to this body that was designed to shut down. They wear masks to cover their faces. They cling onto this body, this tent, excuse the cliché, for dear life. Not realizing that they are not only denying but delaying true life.

However, maybe that is the point. They fear leaving this corruption, because deep inside they know their fate.

Revelation 20:11-15 NKJV – Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.

It is this that causes people to hold onto to their corruption and fight tooth and nail to keep within it.

They refuse to do what is required to end their fears.

Why?

Because when they are young, they would rather enjoy the feeling and sensations they relish and cling to. Not understanding that they are lusting after corruption.

They must abandon their earthly for eternal. Their love not for what can be found here, but what can be found when we dawn the immortal. This can only be found one way and in one way alone. Accepting Jesus Christ as our Savior then to learn the Bible and to live by what is taught within it.

John 14:6 NKJV – Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Let us return to some of the verses that started this podcast:

2 Corinthians 5:1-3 NLT – For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands. We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing. For we will put on heavenly bodies; we will not be spirits without bodies.

This means we continue in life. Just in a new form. We do not end. Yet most believe they will end. Why this is, is because those that expect their lives to end have not accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior. Most that profess to being “Christian” fear leaving this corruption as well.

Why?

Because they have turned their backs upon their salvation. They have become adulterers in the sight of God and have become His enemy. As was stated earlier in the verses from the book of James. This is why they fear leaving the corruption of this body they now inhabit. For they know that it will be worse for them because they have tasted true salvation through knowing their Savior, but they have returned to their vomit and mud.

2 Peter 2:20-22 NKJV – For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: “A DOG RETURNS TO HIS OWN VOMIT,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”

The story of the prodigal son is a story for all that have accepted Christ as their Savior and then become adulterers. God will welcome you back. For God’s love will never abandon us. It is us humans that abandon Him to seek after and embrace what is in this earthly life that is nothing but corruption. That will rust and decay as it should.

Repent. Downsize. And if you are holding on to this temporal existence. Just let go and embrace your mansion that is your immortal form that we will dawn when He returns very shortly in the skies above at the second blast of the trumpet.

God Bless