I do not know the day, week, month, or year Mary gave birth to Jesus
Part 7
But I know Jesus is the instant Eternally quickening Spirit of the Soul
And tries to change the way of life a soul lives in flesh after he saves It
With a view to reward the saved soul at Jesus’ Heaven Judgment Seat!
December 17, 2014
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CHANGE NUMBER 1
Instantaneous Change – From Spiritually Dead to Spiritually Alive Forever in Christ – A Spiritual Resurrection of the Soul in Christ that seals the soul forever.
John 3:6,7 – That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. [7] Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
John 5:24 – Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, HATH everlasting life, and SHALL NOT come into condemnation; but IS PASSED from death unto life.
A person’s soul is saved eternally the instant it repents of its sinful condition and put its faith in Jesus alone to save it. It is eternally heaven bound totally by grace through faith. But it still has a life in the flesh to live until its separation from the body of sin in which it finds itself, and it is to let Christ redeem that life for heavenly rewards by submission to his will that lives in the soul.
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. [21] I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
The soul has everlasting life by grace through faith the second it trusts in Christ to save it. It is a spiritual workmanship of God called the new birth. It is a gift that will never be withdrawn by God. But God created you eternally by the new birth in Christ Jesus so you could perform good works by submitting to his spirit that indwells the believer. It was God’s foreordained plan that all believers perform good works by the action of his Son working in them. The good works are for rewards in heaven, not to help Christ save you. You cannot perform good works in God’s sight unless they are performed by the leadership of his Son’s Spirit alive in you.
Ephesians 2:8-10 – For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: [9] Not of works, lest any man should boast. [10] For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
One doesn’t have to help Christ to save their soul. He did it once for all, and it did it all by himself. He alone has the righteousness which is of faith to impute to us.
Romans 10:6-13 – But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) [7] Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) [8] But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; [9] That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. [10] For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. [11] For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. [12] For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. [13] For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
CHANGE NUMBER 2
The Saving of Life’s Heavenly Rewards by the Saved Soul’s Letting the Mind of Christ Function in the Life It Lives in the Flesh After it has been Born Again!
This individual in Luke 8:14 lost the heavenly rewards he could have obtained because he failed to let the seed bring his life to Christian maturity.
Luke 8:11,14 – Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. [14] And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
Matthew 6:32-34 – (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. [33] But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. [34] Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Luke 17:32,33 – Remember Lot’s wife. [33] Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
She lost the rewards she could have obtained in heaven because she lost the remainder of the physical life she could have lived to earn them. She would not forget the things that she loved in Sodom, which were behind her. She was in a race for safety in Zoar, but she longed for the things she was not willing to leave behind in Sodom, and she lost the physical life she could have lived for rewards.
Genesis 19:26 – But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Philippians 3:13,14 – Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, [14] I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. (This is about a race of life for rewards)
The two Scriptures which follow, Luke 9:23-25 and I Corinthians 9:25-27, do not refer to the soul being cast away from salvation, but rather to being cast way from the race of life for rewards. Many do not follow Christ after he comes to live in them, casting themselves away from heavenly rewards by dropping out of the race for a variety of reasons. Even Paul was aware he could become cast away from “the” faith that is lived by a person that stays in the race. Many “fall away” from following Christ because of being tested, as did the man in Luke 8:13.
Luke 9:23-25 – And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. [24] For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. [25] For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
I Corinthians 9:25-27 – And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. [26] I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: [27] But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Luke 8:13 – They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
The following four Scriptures make it abundantly clear that our letting Christ work in us to perform good works will be extremely beneficial forever in heaven, and that we will be judged by Christ as to the degree we let him work his good works in us.
I Corinthians 15:57,58 – But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. [58] Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Galatians 6:7 – Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
II Corinthians 5:10 – For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Revelation 22:12 – And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
CHANGE NUMBER 3
The Changing of the Old Man, the Old Nature in the Flesh, at the First Resurrection!
I Corinthians 15:50-52 – Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. [51] Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, [52] In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
I Corinthians 15:38 – But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
I Corinthians 15:41,42 – There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. [42] So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
I John 3:2 – Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
The rapture will occur on the last trump in a series of seven, and for the first time all the saved of all the ages will stand before Christ’s judgment seat in heaven. The mystery of Paul in I Corinthians 15:51 will be finished as John indicated in Revelation 10:7.
I Corinthians 15:51 – Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
Revelation 10:7 – But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
Revelation 11:15,18 – And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. [18] And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
I Thessalonians 4:16-18 –For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: [17] Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. [18] Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
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