Peace.
For God so loved the world….THIS WORLD….that He gave His only begotten Son so that whoever shall believe in Him should NOT PERISH from this world but have His everlasting life. Believing is DOING His will so that our days shall be multiplied as the “days of heaven upon the earth.” (Deuteronomy 11:21).
This is a here-and-now thing and not a “hereafter” as universally preached by those who have no understanding of the good news. If we are dying from this earth, it is because of sin for the wages of sin is death.
The sting of death is sin….and what a sting it is when we perish from off this earth only to realize it was because of our sins. There is something very wrong in all of the “churches” of men where no flesh is being saved and all are perishing from this earth as there is a great deception going on by the MANY deceivers who are currently in the world leading MANY astray from the narrow Way that leads to life and are going down the broad way to the destruction of their flesh.
John 3:14-20 KJV
(14) And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
True believing is DOING His will. He comes to give us an understanding so that we may know Him who is true (by doing His will) and be saved….saved from our sins….and saved from the wrath of God that comes upon all men as no flesh is being saved.
We enter into His rest in this earth. We are delivered from this present evil age where the heavens are on fire for our destruction for the wrath of God IS REVEALED from Heaven upon men for their ungodliness.
(15) That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
(16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
God sent His Son into THIS WORLD not to condemn it but that this world through Him might be saved. The world is already condemned for no flesh is being saved as the world and its lusts perish under the wrath of God that comes upon ALL men for ALL men have sinned.
(17) For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
(18) He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
The world and the lust thereof IS PASSING away as we speak for no one in this world is being saved from His wrath that rises upon all men for their sins. The “passing away” of this world is a current thing as men perish from off this earth as they go about their lives “under the sun” of His wrath. Our God is a consuming fire.
BUT, whoever DOES the will of God ABIDES “forever” in this earth and will not “pass away” with the world in its sins.
1 John 2:17 KJV
(17) And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
He delivers us from this present evil age (world). He rescues us out of this hurtful age where we are destroyed …perish from this earth…under the wrath of God for our sins.
Galatians 1:1-5
(1) Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead )
(2) And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:
(3) Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
(4) Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
(5) To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
We must hear His voice and be “born again” not of the corruptible seed of the word of men who preach themselves (in their own authority) and do not have any understanding of the good news that is for the here-and-now. We are born again unto a LIVING HOPE and not a dying one by those who preach that we have to die and go to heaven. Their hope is a dying one...but we who believe have a LIVING HOPE.
1 Peter 1:23-25 KJV
(23) Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
All flesh is as grass….and it withers away under the sun of His wrath that comes upon all men for their sins.
(24) For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
BUT, the Word of the Lord endures forever and those who will DO it also shall ABIDE in this earth and not wither away to the grave….perish. Those who DO His will shall not perish (the flesh withering away to the grave) but shall have His everlasting life appear in their mortal flesh giving us His eternal, heavenly life in this earth. Our days shall be as the days of heaven upon this earth.
(25) But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
According to God’s mercy does He beget us AGAIN unto a LIVING hope (not a dying hope that all are preaching) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Jesus WAS dead and IS ALIVE! He IS RISEN NOW…and so we who believe must reckon ourselves also alive now. If all that we have in this life is just hope alone, then we are truly men most miserable.
1 Peter 1:3-5 KJV
(3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
The heavenly life of Jesus shall appear in our mortal flesh in this earth. Our days shall be like the days of heaven upon the earth as we shall have His incorruptible, undefiled heavenly life that does not fade away (like the grass that withers) in this earth. All that have this hope purifies themselves.
(4) To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
We are to have faith and hope for that which we do not see yet….the heavenly, eternal life of Jesus appearing in our mortal flesh in this earth.
(5) Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
But the scoffers will come forth towards this message of the good news for us now to mock and continue to walk after their own lusts and say “where is the promise of His coming?” For since the fathers fell asleep (died), all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. All continue to die from this earth.
Yet, the church “fathers” who started the many different churches of men did not have an understanding of the good news of Christ. We are NOT redeemed by the things of our church “fathers” who passed down their handwriting of church dogmas….the doctrines and commandments of men…that are not saving the mortal flesh of anyone that subjects themselves to them. We are not redeemed by the transmissions of men (the handed-down of their handwriting of the church scribes). They have passed away...perished in their sins...from this earth.
2 Peter 3:3-18 KJV
(3) Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
(4) And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
(5) For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
(6) Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
The heavens and the earth which are NOW are stored NOW (reserved now) with fire against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. This is a here-and-now thing.
This present age has fire stored in the heavens for our destruction because of our sins. We MUST strive to enter into His rest NOW so that we are delivered from this present evil age where the world and its lusts are passing away as we speak. The wrath of God IS REVEALED from heaven.
The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth as they exchange the truth of God for the lie and worship and serve the handwriting of church dogmas (the “elements” that burn us up) more than the Creator. Those who have built upon the foundation of Christ the doctrines and commandments of men (the "hay", wood, stubble) have suffered loss...the loss of their mortal bodies as they perished. They themselves (their spirits) have been saved but as through "fire"...the wrath of God that came upon them.
Why be subject to the church ordinances of men where they set aside the commandment of God to have love for one another in order to keep them and speak evil of others using them as a basis to do so? We are not serving God for doing such things and we perish off this earth in our sins under the present age of destruction as we are only serving sin by doing them. The elements of the earth burn us by the keeping of them. They do not deliver us from His wrath as all perish with the working of the doctrines and commandments of men that are after the rudiments (elements) of the world.
(7) But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
(8) But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
The Lord is longsuffering towards us and is not willing that any should perish from off this earth but that all should come to repentance. His patience with us is our salvation. We must awake to His righteousness and not keep company with the fleshly-minded men in their churches where NO FLESH is being saved. We must come out from among them.
(9) The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
There remains a rest to the people of God that we must labor (to DO His will) in order to enter into that rest. We are to be delivered from this present evil age where the heavens are on fire for our destruction from this earth and to enter into His rest.
Hebrews 4:9-12 KJV
(9) There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
(10) For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
(11) Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
We must use the sword of the Spirit....the Word of God.... to put to death the sins of the mortal body…ceasing from our own works.
(12) For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
If we live after the flesh, we shall die…for the wages of sin is death. Our mortal bodies perish. But, if through the sword of the Spirit do we kill (mortify) the deeds of the body, we shall LIVE in this earth as the Spirit shall make alive our mortal bodies.
Romans 8:12-14 KJV
(12) Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
(13) For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
(14) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
There is therefore NOW…NOW….NOW…no condemnation under this present evil age as those who are IN Christ Jesus do not walk after the flesh but after the Spirit. They have kill sin with the sword and have entered into His rest. He gives us the power to become the sons of God by putting to death the sins of the body through the Spirit.
Romans 8:1-2 KJV
(1) There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
(2) For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
To be carnally-minded is death. The carnal mind is hostility against God and is NOT subject to the law of God and neither can it be. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Romans 8:6-11 KJV
(6) For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
(7) Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
(8) So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
(9) But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
(10) And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
If we are led by the Spirit, then He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also make alive our MORTAL BODIES by His Spirit that dwells in us. He gives us the power to become the sons of God.
(11) But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
As believers, we MUST put to death sin in our mortal bodies. We cannot live in this earth without doing so. We must labor to enter His rest and out of the wrath that comes upon all men for their sins.
Romans 6:1-13 KJV
(1) What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
(2) God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
(3) Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
We are to die to sins daily (being “buried” with Him) thereby having the likeness of His resurrection. We must not serve sin at all or we perish.
(4) Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
(5) For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
(6) Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
(7) For he that is dead is freed from sin.
NOW if we are “dead” with Christ, we believe that we shall also LIVE now with Him for Christ is raised from the dead now and does not die anymore as death has no more dominion over Him. This is a here-and-now thing. We believe that we live with Him NOW. Let us not listen to the false prophets who are preaching their covenant with death and their agreement with the grave when Jesus IS ALIVE now so that we might have His life NOW.
(8) Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
(9) Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
We must put to death the sins of the body with the flaming sword of the Spirit…the Word of God. We are to DO His Word and enter into the Way that leads to life.
Genesis 3:22-24 KJV
(22) And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
The carnal mind that “tills the ground”….living after the flesh…cannot please God. The carnal mind that lives after the flesh and not according to the Spirit cannot please God nor is it subject to His law nor can it be.
(23) Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
(24) So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
We must DO His commandments (the “garden” that we are to work and keep). This is the place where we know God and take delight (the meaning of “Eden” is “delight, pleasure”) in doing His commandments.
Matthew 7:12-15 KJV
(12) Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
We enter in to the narrow Way by doing unto others as we would have them do to us. Narrow is the Way which leads to life (the Way of the tree of life).
MANY are going down the wrong path in the churches of fleshly-minded men who are leading many astray with their teachings and commandments of men.
(13) Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
(14) Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Beware of the many false prophets who want to lead you astray from the Way and down the broad way that leads to the destruction of our mortal body. They come to us in sheep’s clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
(15) Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
They come posing as ministers of righteousness as they preach for doctrines the teachings and commandments of men that they want you to exchange the keeping of the commandment of God (to have love for one another) for in order to keep their handwriting of church dogmas.
They glory that they are true apostles…truly sent by Christ…but they are not. They are transformed as the ministers of righteousness whose end is according to their works. Their end is destruction from off this earth as their mortal bodies perish and they take MANY down with them in their deception.
2 Corinthians 11:12-15 KJV
(12) But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
(13) For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
(14) And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
(15) Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
For God so loved the world….THIS WORLD….that He gave His only begotten Son so that whoever shall believe in Him should NOT PERISH from this world but have His everlasting life. Believing is DOING His will so that our days shall be multiplied as the “days of heaven upon the earth.” (Deuteronomy 11:21).
This is a here-and-now thing and not a “hereafter” as universally preached by those who have no understanding of the good news. If we are dying from this earth, it is because of sin for the wages of sin is death.
The sting of death is sin….and what a sting it is when we perish from off this earth only to realize it was because of our sins. There is something very wrong in all of the “churches” of men where no flesh is being saved and all are perishing from this earth as there is a great deception going on by the MANY deceivers who are currently in the world leading MANY astray from the narrow Way that leads to life and are going down the broad way to the destruction of their flesh.
John 3:14-20 KJV
(14) And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
True believing is DOING His will. He comes to give us an understanding so that we may know Him who is true (by doing His will) and be saved….saved from our sins….and saved from the wrath of God that comes upon all men as no flesh is being saved.
We enter into His rest in this earth. We are delivered from this present evil age where the heavens are on fire for our destruction for the wrath of God IS REVEALED from Heaven upon men for their ungodliness.
(15) That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
(16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
God sent His Son into THIS WORLD not to condemn it but that this world through Him might be saved. The world is already condemned for no flesh is being saved as the world and its lusts perish under the wrath of God that comes upon ALL men for ALL men have sinned.
(17) For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
(18) He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
The world and the lust thereof IS PASSING away as we speak for no one in this world is being saved from His wrath that rises upon all men for their sins. The “passing away” of this world is a current thing as men perish from off this earth as they go about their lives “under the sun” of His wrath. Our God is a consuming fire.
BUT, whoever DOES the will of God ABIDES “forever” in this earth and will not “pass away” with the world in its sins.
1 John 2:17 KJV
(17) And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
He delivers us from this present evil age (world). He rescues us out of this hurtful age where we are destroyed …perish from this earth…under the wrath of God for our sins.
Galatians 1:1-5
(1) Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead )
(2) And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:
(3) Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
(4) Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
(5) To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
We must hear His voice and be “born again” not of the corruptible seed of the word of men who preach themselves (in their own authority) and do not have any understanding of the good news that is for the here-and-now. We are born again unto a LIVING HOPE and not a dying one by those who preach that we have to die and go to heaven. Their hope is a dying one...but we who believe have a LIVING HOPE.
1 Peter 1:23-25 KJV
(23) Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
All flesh is as grass….and it withers away under the sun of His wrath that comes upon all men for their sins.
(24) For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
BUT, the Word of the Lord endures forever and those who will DO it also shall ABIDE in this earth and not wither away to the grave….perish. Those who DO His will shall not perish (the flesh withering away to the grave) but shall have His everlasting life appear in their mortal flesh giving us His eternal, heavenly life in this earth. Our days shall be as the days of heaven upon this earth.
(25) But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
According to God’s mercy does He beget us AGAIN unto a LIVING hope (not a dying hope that all are preaching) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Jesus WAS dead and IS ALIVE! He IS RISEN NOW…and so we who believe must reckon ourselves also alive now. If all that we have in this life is just hope alone, then we are truly men most miserable.
1 Peter 1:3-5 KJV
(3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
The heavenly life of Jesus shall appear in our mortal flesh in this earth. Our days shall be like the days of heaven upon the earth as we shall have His incorruptible, undefiled heavenly life that does not fade away (like the grass that withers) in this earth. All that have this hope purifies themselves.
(4) To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
We are to have faith and hope for that which we do not see yet….the heavenly, eternal life of Jesus appearing in our mortal flesh in this earth.
(5) Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
But the scoffers will come forth towards this message of the good news for us now to mock and continue to walk after their own lusts and say “where is the promise of His coming?” For since the fathers fell asleep (died), all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. All continue to die from this earth.
Yet, the church “fathers” who started the many different churches of men did not have an understanding of the good news of Christ. We are NOT redeemed by the things of our church “fathers” who passed down their handwriting of church dogmas….the doctrines and commandments of men…that are not saving the mortal flesh of anyone that subjects themselves to them. We are not redeemed by the transmissions of men (the handed-down of their handwriting of the church scribes). They have passed away...perished in their sins...from this earth.
2 Peter 3:3-18 KJV
(3) Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
(4) And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
(5) For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
(6) Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
The heavens and the earth which are NOW are stored NOW (reserved now) with fire against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. This is a here-and-now thing.
This present age has fire stored in the heavens for our destruction because of our sins. We MUST strive to enter into His rest NOW so that we are delivered from this present evil age where the world and its lusts are passing away as we speak. The wrath of God IS REVEALED from heaven.
The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth as they exchange the truth of God for the lie and worship and serve the handwriting of church dogmas (the “elements” that burn us up) more than the Creator. Those who have built upon the foundation of Christ the doctrines and commandments of men (the "hay", wood, stubble) have suffered loss...the loss of their mortal bodies as they perished. They themselves (their spirits) have been saved but as through "fire"...the wrath of God that came upon them.
Why be subject to the church ordinances of men where they set aside the commandment of God to have love for one another in order to keep them and speak evil of others using them as a basis to do so? We are not serving God for doing such things and we perish off this earth in our sins under the present age of destruction as we are only serving sin by doing them. The elements of the earth burn us by the keeping of them. They do not deliver us from His wrath as all perish with the working of the doctrines and commandments of men that are after the rudiments (elements) of the world.
(7) But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
(8) But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
The Lord is longsuffering towards us and is not willing that any should perish from off this earth but that all should come to repentance. His patience with us is our salvation. We must awake to His righteousness and not keep company with the fleshly-minded men in their churches where NO FLESH is being saved. We must come out from among them.
(9) The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
There remains a rest to the people of God that we must labor (to DO His will) in order to enter into that rest. We are to be delivered from this present evil age where the heavens are on fire for our destruction from this earth and to enter into His rest.
Hebrews 4:9-12 KJV
(9) There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
(10) For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
(11) Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
We must use the sword of the Spirit....the Word of God.... to put to death the sins of the mortal body…ceasing from our own works.
(12) For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
If we live after the flesh, we shall die…for the wages of sin is death. Our mortal bodies perish. But, if through the sword of the Spirit do we kill (mortify) the deeds of the body, we shall LIVE in this earth as the Spirit shall make alive our mortal bodies.
Romans 8:12-14 KJV
(12) Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
(13) For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
(14) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
There is therefore NOW…NOW….NOW…no condemnation under this present evil age as those who are IN Christ Jesus do not walk after the flesh but after the Spirit. They have kill sin with the sword and have entered into His rest. He gives us the power to become the sons of God by putting to death the sins of the body through the Spirit.
Romans 8:1-2 KJV
(1) There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
(2) For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
To be carnally-minded is death. The carnal mind is hostility against God and is NOT subject to the law of God and neither can it be. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Romans 8:6-11 KJV
(6) For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
(7) Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
(8) So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
(9) But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
(10) And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
If we are led by the Spirit, then He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also make alive our MORTAL BODIES by His Spirit that dwells in us. He gives us the power to become the sons of God.
(11) But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
As believers, we MUST put to death sin in our mortal bodies. We cannot live in this earth without doing so. We must labor to enter His rest and out of the wrath that comes upon all men for their sins.
Romans 6:1-13 KJV
(1) What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
(2) God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
(3) Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
We are to die to sins daily (being “buried” with Him) thereby having the likeness of His resurrection. We must not serve sin at all or we perish.
(4) Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
(5) For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
(6) Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
(7) For he that is dead is freed from sin.
NOW if we are “dead” with Christ, we believe that we shall also LIVE now with Him for Christ is raised from the dead now and does not die anymore as death has no more dominion over Him. This is a here-and-now thing. We believe that we live with Him NOW. Let us not listen to the false prophets who are preaching their covenant with death and their agreement with the grave when Jesus IS ALIVE now so that we might have His life NOW.
(8) Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
(9) Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
We must put to death the sins of the body with the flaming sword of the Spirit…the Word of God. We are to DO His Word and enter into the Way that leads to life.
Genesis 3:22-24 KJV
(22) And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
The carnal mind that “tills the ground”….living after the flesh…cannot please God. The carnal mind that lives after the flesh and not according to the Spirit cannot please God nor is it subject to His law nor can it be.
(23) Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
(24) So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
We must DO His commandments (the “garden” that we are to work and keep). This is the place where we know God and take delight (the meaning of “Eden” is “delight, pleasure”) in doing His commandments.
Matthew 7:12-15 KJV
(12) Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
We enter in to the narrow Way by doing unto others as we would have them do to us. Narrow is the Way which leads to life (the Way of the tree of life).
MANY are going down the wrong path in the churches of fleshly-minded men who are leading many astray with their teachings and commandments of men.
(13) Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
(14) Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Beware of the many false prophets who want to lead you astray from the Way and down the broad way that leads to the destruction of our mortal body. They come to us in sheep’s clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
(15) Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
They come posing as ministers of righteousness as they preach for doctrines the teachings and commandments of men that they want you to exchange the keeping of the commandment of God (to have love for one another) for in order to keep their handwriting of church dogmas.
They glory that they are true apostles…truly sent by Christ…but they are not. They are transformed as the ministers of righteousness whose end is according to their works. Their end is destruction from off this earth as their mortal bodies perish and they take MANY down with them in their deception.
2 Corinthians 11:12-15 KJV
(12) But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
(13) For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
(14) And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
(15) Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.