STUDIES FROM BRETHREN IN CHRIST

5/2/2021 ~ Life in God

🌹   LifeInGodAM.mp3 (41m 58s)   LifeInGod.pptx Darkness invokes terror in the absence of light. Each of us is dependent on God's unyielding love. ... God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. ~ Genesis 2:7 God created man so that he could experience autonomous life to choose as he would. "... for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also His offspring.' " ~ Acts 17:28 Created by God, our eventual return to His presence is our destiny. As a Father evaluates a child, so too will God judge each of our hearts. ... Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's. ~ Romans 14:7-8 Avoidance does not change the fact of what has always been, face to face with the truth. ... To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation. ~ Hebrews 9:27-28 Life with God is relying on Christ’s sacrifice for salvation Apart from sin for salvation Appear a second time Judgment ↑ Who eagerly wait for Him ↑    Appointed for men to die once    ⭦ Christ was offered once ⭧ To bear the sins of many The faithful have an eternal joy that is given upon His promise of salvation. It is God’s will that we find Him through knowing Jesus Christ as a breathless moment. "Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." ~ Acts 4:12 Jesus Christ is the name above all names that will come to confront all. Generally, men do not like to be told what to do. God’s word is a final proclamation from His justice. Men have created many facsimile religions dismissing God and catering to the whims of particular sects, wherever they may be. It is God over man, not man over man. "... who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life." ~ John 5:24 To avoid the curse of condemnation, a soul must surrender to the truth God has brought. Eternal life is the promise for those that hear and adhere to His words. The door on the other side is larger than the one we all need to squeeze through. ... your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? ... ~ 1st Corinthians 6:19-20 To forget God is to deny God Glorify God in your body   and in your spirit   To see the truth begins a journey of emancipation into His light of love and peace ahead. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. ... ~ 1st John 5:12-13 In God find joy that triumphs over the world                            Life = has the Son   Does not have life = has not the Son   Eternal life to who believe in God   Believing in God and His promise delivers a soul to know truth in all of its highest glory. "He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him." ~ John 3:36 Anger is part of that which will eventually destroy all who are mired by its infectious results. Sadness often accompanies wrath. Jesus says it succinctly, life in Him or not. ... "I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life." ~ John 8:12 To see God one has to come to the light of His truth. Just seeing God has no result unless one believes to the point of becoming a follower of His word. "He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. ..." ~ John 12:25-26 Disappointments fill each heart where death devours loved ones. To be free of material bondage, eternity has to become the target. "And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent." ~ John 17:3 Once one finds God all unfolds in Him   Eternal life          ⮡  Know the only true God                                          ↓                            and Jesus Christ   The Bible clearly states truth for all to know God, and His Son, through the Holy Spirit; a joyous union of His delivered truths. There are no facsimiles man can create to supersede this truth above all other truths or deceptions. ... but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name. ~ John 20:30-31 What a time to witness God Himself cry for our return. To carry the cross as Jesus did is the inspiration to climb on. ... "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" ... ~ Luke 10:25-26 Skeptics and power mongering fools see not His grace offered through His mercy of forgiveness. "... 'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, & with all your mind,' and 'your neighbor as yourself.'" And He said to him, "You have answered rightly; do this and you will live." ~ Luke 10:27-28 There is no greater hold than love’s purest form → Love        |   ⮡  the LORD your God        |              with all your heart        |              with all your soul        |              with all your strength          |              with all your mind        |        ⮡  Your neighbor as yourself   What is simple for some is hard for others. Surrendering to God naturally produces more than can be said or explained: life’s pure essence. ... this is the promise that He has promised us -- eternal life. ~ 1st John 2:23-25 To deny Jesus Christ, or exalt mere transitionary lying men, is to miss God’s own true message, to the follies of all that falls short. ... to righteousness. What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. ~ Romans 6:20-21 Knowing truth has one or another result. Denial or acceptance. Death or life is the plan of choices in commitment. Pity to all who cannot care for family and or associations, no matter preference or position, for assisting in the eventual cause to know the truth of God. Hate cannot guide those who lack love. ... fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. ~ Romans 6:22-23 Heaven is where the sands of time never run out. The end of the tunnel is where unending joy abounds. "I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death." ~ Revelation 1:18 The keys to life rest in the bosom of God's word through Christ Jesus. ... if One died for all, then all died; and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him ... ~ 2nd Corinthians 5:14-15 Christ died for all that He might save us from the evils we despise. His life exposed the truth God wills for the faithful to know. ... if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. ~ Romans 10:9 Confessing faith in His word is essential to hold a confident heart in Him. ... buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. ~ Colossians 2:12 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, ... ~ Ephesians 2:8 Obedience is His reasonable command with such an eternal salvation. He has risen to show us the truth ● It is God that breathed life into mankind ● Whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s ● Men die once and after appear for judgment ● God ordains Jesus only, through we must be saved ● All we have has been given to us by God ● Without Jesus, one has no life in God ● Not believing in Jesus invites the wrath of God ● Eternal life is knowing God and Jesus Christ ● Loving God with one’s all & neighbor delivers life ● God’s gift is eternal life in Christ Jesus ● Jesus holds the keys to life and death for each of us ● Believing Jesus rose from the dead is our faith ● Baptism raises us from death to life/working of God Life without God is impossible. Darkness is the truth of nothing.