GOD’S Life Matters
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
In 2 Timothy 2:15c we are instructed to rightly divide the word of truth. To divide so as to know what we are speaking of when teaching the unlearned and to know why we are approved of God. That we have been taught by the Holy Spirit through His inspired Word. Not just any word but the true Word passed on as God commanded the prophets and His apostle Paul [to deliver it: Col 1:25; :to fulfill Strong’s # 4137, to fulfill the word of God].
In scripture life is spoken of in two ways, one of a physical nature and one of spiritual. We as believers of the LORD Jesus Christ must be taught by the Holy Spirit in truth. We do not know truth [Jo 17:17] apart from the Holy Spirit who is the believers teacher in spiritual things [1 Cor 2:14]. Until man believes that God is and agrees with God, what God has judged man to be, which is dead [Ro 6:23]. Man needs life [spiritual life, eternal life, God’s life] to be complete as was before the fall of man in Adam [1 Cor 15:22]. The LORD Jesus Christ came to make life possible [Ro 6:23] to all those who would believe.
Side bar: Before the fall was God’s life in Adam as is now with a new creation being in Christ Jesus. Scripture reasons: 2 Cor 5:17 and the whole on Ephesians. So then was life to Adam the same as life is now in a believer? I don’t think so, whats your opinion; Book, chapter and verse please.
What is it that must be believed? “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:” 1 Corinthians 15:1-4
Can a person just believe that and exclude this: Path way to Salvation:
[Passages from the Authorized King James Version; AKJV]
Hebrews 11:6 “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”
Hebrews 9:22 “And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.”
Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through
Jesus Christ our Lord.”
1 Corinthians 15:22 “ For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made
alive.”
2 Corinthians 5:18/21 “ And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
1 Corinthians 15:1-4 “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:”
2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
Ephesians 4:4-7 “There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” “But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.” Romans 12:3
1 Corinthians 12:12-13: “For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all themembers of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.”
Galatians 2:20-21 “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.”
Ephesians 1:13-14 “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.”
Ephesians 3:14-21 “For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.”
What makes salvation hard is man’s dead condition not being able to hear God. Until God does His convicting work in a individual, man will stay dead. But “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners;” but one first must believe that God is.
Scriptures in John that describe life, the differences and where that life is at.
John 1:4 John 3:15 John 3:16 John 3:36 John 4:14 John 4:36 John 5:24 John 5:26 John 5:29 John 5:39 John 5:40 John 6:27 John 6:33 John 6:35 John 6:40
John 8:12 John 10:10 John 10:11 John 10:15 John 10:17 John 10:28 John 11:25 John 12:25 John 12:50 John 13:37 John 13:38 John 14:6 John 15:13 John 17:2 John 17:3 John 20:31
Also see the whole of the epistle of Ephesians for more amplification of where life is at.
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