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This attack the fellow Pilgrims meeting as we roll number 231.
Our welding is again.
Every day of the day. So hustlers nowhere to us aside, what a word we are speaking.
No.
That's true. That was.
To sing together.
We are not far from home.
And when we learned our lesson, our work is our training time.
Well, well, well, well, well.
I'll never see me before.
With Angel Host.
Attending.
In here it's true.
As I'm all about all the beginnings.
About taking up from above verse.
51 to the end, but you know, there's a few verses before that.
I thought we got about as far as what, around 35 or so?
Going to be with the Lord and sort of discussed a little bit. Can we put it that way in the verses between 35 and 50?
I I wonder if it'd be good to to talk about that a little bit, but not to get what to way late and not so that we can.
Get into those last verses of the chapter, perhaps a few comments on the verses for about 35 on down to verse 50.
Would that be in order?
Yeah. I was wondering, David, when we should start reading at verse 45 and in this commentary of the previous verses, that's fine, but 40-5 really gives us the connection with the nurses following on 51.
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1St 1915 and verse 45.
The first man, an adult made a living soul and Arthur was made equivalent strip healthy. That was not the first which is true that genetic and of course that is spirit.
The first place is that the earth. Earth, the 2nd man is the north.
As is the earth and as is the energy. Such a way also the market.
And as we form the image of the, we should also bear the image.
Now this.
I don't think you do it now. The corruption is very interruption.
We shall not all sleep.
We should all be challenged.
In the 20th of July.
For the trumpet shutdown and the debt should be raised in the number and waiting to be changed.
This corrupt.
And this is all immortality.
So we're just corrupt what should have put on interruption and there's more control of put on immortality. Then she'll be drawn past the same equipped death swallowed up again.
OK, results.
Right, the Stinger daddy said the strength of the sins is rewarded, but thanks to his daughter, which giveth us the victory for our Lord Jesus Christ.
These verses are comparing the family of Adam and the family of the Lord Jesus, the first Adam and the second Adam. Remember when I was growing up, I was in my father's house.
I was the son of my father and I acted according to the conduct required in the household and.
I I perhaps look like my parents. Perhaps I act like my parents in some ways.
We resemble our parents, while everyone born in this world resembles Adam.
For children, Nevada, we're of the household, if you want to put it that way, of Adam. But then when we're saved.
We change. We're now from the first, from the 2nd man, the last man, that's the Lord Jesus. We're in a new household.
When I graduated from high school, I moved in, I moved to another country and I lived with another family and I was in their household. I had to conduct myself accordingly to that new household and.
When we're saved.
We move into a different household. Now we're in the household of God and we need to conduct ourselves in a different way, and we do conduct ourselves in a different way because of the very nature that we have. We're a new creature. And so these verses are comparing those two a little bit.
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Always enjoyed the expression of this change in the book of Colossians.
Chapter one. It's a part of the prayer that Paul gives.
Colossians chapter one verse 12 giving thanks unto the Father which has made us meet.
To be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in life who have delivered us from the power of darkness and have translated us into the Kingdom of his dear Son. He's made it possible for us to enter heaven by a translation of ourselves in that way. And I believe that's what's brought out here in this chapter, changing from, I guess, one glory to another. It's interesting.
In verse 48.
It says as is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy, and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. It's a bit what Tim was talking about, but it's interesting that it's described as earthy, not earthly.
There's one letter missing that little Ellen makes a little bit of difference because if you're earthly, that means where your heart and mind is because it's your choice. But if you're earthy, that's your nature. You have no choice in what your nature is. So in essence, that's just the whole change that we see, that we've been changed from being earthy to heavenly. God has given us a whole new nature that appreciates the things of heaven that we couldn't have before because we were earthy. Our old nature was all we had was the one nature nature of Adam, but he was the second nature now.
The nature of heaven.
He added the creation any longer.
We we long, we didn't belong to this creation under Adam.
Who was formed by God but.
Now the crisis come and die for us and.
Has purchased us. God didn't form the Lord Jesus like he did Adam. Adam was made. God made Adam with the Lord Jesus is inflicting spirit.
And he is the one that we are joined to and belong to. We're all done with the atom race. As far as God sees us. That's our standing. Their standing is in Christ, the new man, who is a quickening spirit.
So.
Received life from God. It was imparted to Him.
But when we talk about the last Adam, as you say.
He is truly life itself. He is the one that imparts the life.
And we learned from Colossians 3 that Christ is our life.
Colossians 31 If you then be risen with Christ, see those things which are above where Christ sits on the right hand of God. Set your affection for your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
We are dead and their life is hid. It's Christ in God, when Christ, who is our life shall appear themselves. He also appeared with Him in glory.
Perhaps you have an analogy in John chapter 20.
What we are speaking about here, John 20.
This was.
Prior to the.
Giving of the Holy Ghost as a person to indwell a believer who's 21 Then said Jesus to them again, peace be unto you, as the Father had sent me, Even so send I you. When he had said this, he breathed on them and set on them, received either Holy Ghost and so on. So there was the impartation of a.
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The light of the resurrection light. The Lord was in resurrection at this point. He was imparting life to them by the Spirit. This is not the indwelling of the Spirit. I think it has an analogy to what we are reading about here.
Award as the Quickening Spirit.
He has given to us a.
Divine life. Nature.
Belong to a different race Belong to a race characterized by reward as the as the head of the second Adam, and we are connected with him in resurrection and.
We are to here to manifest that new life that has given to us.
1St man added it says of the earth earthly. The 2nd man is support from heaven. We know that the earthly man failed and brought down the whole creation.
But the second man not from the earth, says he's from heaven, and he's a quickening spirit and.
So we're tied to him through new birth, and our faith and resurrection is in the new man, in the Lord Jesus. And so it's in him that we are. The body is his body, the church, and we are joined by Spirit to Him, the head of that body in heaven.
And we're waiting now as the body of Christ to be with Him, rejoined to Him by spirit. But we're going to be with him and like him for all eternity, His resurrection truth that we have.
I was looking at.
Bob and me brother may give a comment on. We didn't comment on verses 31 and 32.
Speaking there of baptism.
You know, today if somebody gets baptized here in Canada and you go out to a river, they're baptized and they put on Christ outwardly that way.
Having it baptized in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and.
They're baptized to the Lord. Outwardly they put them on. Outwardly they're probably not going to be.
Persecution here in this country attached to that, you're probably going to go out and have a peaceful baptism and.
Want to go on from there, but I think there's a few here that might be able to explain to us that what it means in this verse that at the time there were those that were being baptized and they were coming under persecution because they were going to one set of circumstances to another.
And they were being rejected, oftentimes by their families, by the heathen religions that they were attached to. And sometimes that persecution might even lead to death.
And the apostle Paul is making the example here. There wasn't any resurrection. Why would there be any need to fill up those rags for those that have that died in that way? If, if that was the end of things, why would we bother risking our lives?
Well, I believe that today in some land, brother, probably Brother Tim mentioned something to us and John Kemp, that there's real persecution attached to baptism. And in some cases lives are taken because they have that understanding of it that they're leaving behind that religion or whatever they were attached to when they go to Christianity. And there's real persecution attached to that.
We don't see it in this land, but you know, we might live long enough to see it. I just wonder, maybe your brother could come in on that a little bit.
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Or baptism in India certainly marks the personnel very definitely.
As connected with the Christians professionally.
The sign of the retudiation of the Hindu system and.
Certainly.
You know, so it brings often persecution, bit of persecution and even threats on the life.
So as you say, it's much more evident that the meaning of baptism in these these.
Other lands, even Delaware, taking the name of Christ in baptism, identifies the person with.
With the Christian profession, at least.
One of the apostle says I die daily.
I don't think we need. We need to consider that as.
Putting keeping the old nature into the place of death is something that we we should do. I don't think that's the thought there. The persecutions were so severe.
Apostle Paul and both working with him that.
He was facing perils and.
Death on a daily basis, he says there in every city longs an afflictions abide him. He was bearing the scars of persecution I bear in my body as scars of the Lord Jesus.
His wife and says in jeopardy everyone. We don't see that character of things here in that same measure.
Will all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution, But the apostle is is referring here to actually the danger of losing his life.
He lived in Eminent.
Prospective losing his life for for the name, for his testimony for Christ and the beasts of Ephesus fear when you read in Acts the way they acted in their opposition to the apostles message. They had just acted like beasts.
We were ready to tear them apart.
The Lord delivered him until we find him. Second Corinthians, chapter one by two. It was a very severe test for the ocelot and the other workers with it.
Maybe someone could make a comment, I'm just not clear on the 1St atom I don't think.
We consider the first item as sinful. Naturally, there are certain things that go along with natural life that are not actually sinful. There are certain abilities.
Collins characters that a person has naturally that I don't think we would connect with the old man the old man is.
It's an abstract term. It's a character description.
The old man is not really something within us, but.
Brother can maybe add something here. The 1St man is the natural man and there are certain things in the first man that are commendable. We don't put them all in the category of sin, but now we are connected with.
A divine light in resurrection.
And those natural things now aren't to govern and control our lives.
There may be nothing sinful in them, but now we have.
A new object.
Above those natural things.
To walk in the power of that new life. Maybe some brotherhood had something to that.
Perhaps what is not a faith is sin. You might look at it that way, but that's the old man. The natural man doesn't lift my face.
The new man would live by faith.
Would be connected to the.
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The 50th verse I wonder.
Where it says.
Say brother of flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God.
And So what comes from first Adam is flesh and blood. That's how we came. Adam was the natural man. He became a living soul. And every descendant from Adam in this world became living souls. We have flesh and blood, and flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. It's a spiritual realm. And so neither this.
Last Adam spirit will be.
And so it is.
In order to, we'll say, access, the new creation had to be new bird, spiritual bird.
And follow the Lord's example and he said you know, and only in see flesh and bone. It's a different it's a different flesh as it were that could in there could enable the the spiritual life.
That's the only time I have on it. Like there's something else.
Did not tie into the.
Previous verses in connection with the seed.
God is talking about and take for example verse 38. God giveth it a body, Speaking of the seeds as it has pleased him.
And to every seed his own body.
The seed you put in the ground for wheat or for corn, or for whatever the.
Size and the shape and all these things are determined by the seed itself.
And so.
That's the natural side of things. That seems to me the comparison that is being given here.
For Bob Tony saying one time, God loves variety.
Different flowers and worship corn, you have wheat, you have barley, etcetera.
So in the resurrection, so in with humans, there's various characteristics that belong to each of us. I wonder if all of that is kind of included. God has given each of His characteristics as it has pleased him. I don't know if that commends itself here.
Mentions in James that every good gift and every perfect gift coming down, coming down from the Father of lights, whom there is no variable in this, neither shadow of turning. I believe God gives gifts to every man good gifts.
It's the corruption came in and how man uses them.
Uses of herself and that's really what describes fallen man is self will. That was what the sin was in the Garden of Eden.
They were told not to do something, and they did it, and that sin brought the whole creation down.
Until we speak of the old man, that's really looked at as the failure.
Of man and his responsibilities before God. He became corrupted because he exercises his own will against the will of God.
I think it might be worthwhile going back to Genesis 1.
And she won't go on the lady 1St 2026 of all.
And God said, let us make many of their lives.
Those 26, so 120 then she disclosed image. In the image God played with the male and female, frightened of this. Now there's two words there that he used. One is invited and the other one is an image. And I think it's important that this goes through because especially users are very different.
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Like this, this implies some kind of physical violence. You might say a football is you have my other picture of somebody, you know the person to tell you that's a good practice.
Shall I say more characteristics and you might have, there might be a young guy and you look at him. If you say this is the image of his father doesn't mean to say you wouldn't be able to distinguish between him and his father and get together, but it needs he bears the characteristics of the father, but some of the characteristics of the father and evidence in it.
So Adam was created in the image of God, but I believe he lost that image. In those days, if you'd be on the earth and you want to know what life was like, you could have looked at him and he was created in the image of God. But in the fall, when Satan came in, he lost and then he had that weakness. He was of the earth by his character.
Even though he was created in the image of God, there was that weakness of character.
He was up here.
It wasn't divine in that way that God is divided. And so we have here in the.
Verse 48 As is the earthen, so are they.
So are they the heavens and as we have formed the image of the earth, we form the image of the earth. We've had the amount of moral Christians that of his rice by 90. That's what we are. As we have formed the image of the earth, we should also bear the image of the heaven. In other words, we're going to be performed to the image of these sons. We're getting Romans 98. I think that is and so.
The the the contrast is, I believe, between Adam.
He failed to sustain the enemy of God. When he fell, we fell with him. We were born in sin and shaken in liberty because their connection to heaven, but.
We are going to have and here is the future we shall, we shall also bear the image in the heavens. But of course there's a practical slide that we should demonstrate it even now in our lives. But oppressive gap that the hindrance shall I say as the old nature and that's going to be removed. So in the future we shall bear the image of the heavenly in its fullest. We shall be a complete reflection.
Of the first of the Lord Jesus Christ.
1992.
Come back to Newfoundland.
Brother from Kentucky.
Daniel Floor, I believe his name was.
He gave me a palm and it goes like this. I've given it to many Christians before and even there's some newborns and they seem to get the connection right away because.
They they don't really know what's going on.
You know, they just they know they have this battle and they know that there's something wrong with the the old painter. But anyway, closing this two natures meet within my breast. One is cursed, the other is blessed. One I adore, the other I hate and the one I see will dominate. So I think it's a very.
Simple little thing that gives a lot of Christians.
Comfort I've mentioned to many Christians and they say, say that again, say that again. I want to hear that again and they want to write it down as I wrote it down and.
But it's there's so much truth and just that little statement. And then of course.
We have the Spirit of God and we have no need that any man should teach us. And so it's such a wonderful thing to know that in this world we have a new nature.
That cannot sin and I just thinking the last verse of Romans Chapter 7. It's it's the first I'd like to read even still today.
I went through Romans 7 for quite a while and you know the last verse says so that with the mind I myself, that's the real me, the new me serves the law of God, but with the the flesh, the law of sin.
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You can do nothing else but sin old nature.
Wicked, wicked thing.
It's interesting that structure refers to the Lord Jesus Christ as coming in the likeness of simple flesh. In other words, there was a physical life, but the the image of the invisible God. The careful scripture is in the use of those words. It was a physical life.
Physically different, shall I say, in any other than any other ones that you have raised.
Pictures and they put a highlight. Well, that was like that. He didn't wear a Halo. He was in the likeness of simple fresh that he was the gimmick he was.
Reflect all the excellences of the Lord himself were found personalities trust.
The difference was that that he, Adam, was created, God created Adam from the dust of the earth, and the Lord was born of Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost.
He was born a man he had.
Looked like man. He. He was a man every way except for sin. But he wasn't formed in the same way you and I are. He was. He was formed by the Spirit of God.
And back in.
Genesis chapter 6.
Speaking about.
The old man or question that we have.
Verse 12 There chapter 6 it says God looked upon the earth and behold it was corrupt for all flesh, it corrupted his way upon the earth.
God is a spirit. Here we have man who is flesh, and it says he had corrupted his way on the earth. So man is a corruptible person.
Like because of sin and self will the body itself.
Didn't sin, but the but the nature of the Senate causes the body to do bad things.
It's essential we'll see that what you're referring to Venus and Luther chapter one that's very important that we.
To the burden of Christ.
135 I think.
Unusual answered and said unto her, The old vote shall come upon thee.
There were also that only thing which shall be worn indeed shall be called the Son of God. We partook of human nature.
He was perfectly a man, body, soul and spirit.
But he wasn't born of our bone, in the flesh of our flex.
He did not partake of a sinful nature, of course, blasphemy for those who teach that the Lord.
Could have sinned.
Although he did not.
Are really holding a blasphemous doctor because if that was the case then the Lord had an evil nature in the particular the same nature that we have no he was holy from birth. He could not say he was the eternal Son of God, but he was also a perfect man in every sense of the word, all the sentiments of the man. But you need to be careful about those things because evangelical Christendom today.
It's almost universal. Price could have sinned, but did not. It's very serious doctrine. It's.
Really fundamental error worse than error. It is really lots of because.
It supposes the Lord had an evil nature.
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I feel that.
Perhaps I should say one of the thoughts that is.
That God is seeking to bring out for us here is there is a distinctness of personalities I know I.
I think my comments before suggest that with seed there's a difference. There's a variety, and so there is a variety in connection with you and me. You are distinct in your personality and that's the way God made you in the resurrection. You will retain that distinctness of your personality. In that notice in verse 41 it says there.
There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, another glory of the stars. For one star different from another in glory, so also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.
The question has been asked, will I know?
My loved ones in heaven.
Well, I think that this verse helps us in connection with that, am I right? One star different from another in glory. And then there's the on the Mount of Transfiguration, we have brought out about the Lord with Moses and Elias, and they knew Moses and Elijah immediately.
And.
Again, this verse has been used that way across, rightfully so. One star different from another in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead. And you will, can I save you, will still be you in glory.
That part of what is being brought out here.
Possible in writing the testimonials.
He says First Thessalonians 219 For what is our hope or joy? For a crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ that is coming.
So I believe he passed with Paul. He was looking forward.
Seeing those Saints that had been the result of his effort in the Gospel, in the glory. And if he couldn't recognize who they are, why would he be writing like this?
As to seeing them in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ?
I was just thinking too what you mentioned there.
Every star is not two stars the same and.
He calls all by name, but I'm thinking in the new creation, I think he's going to create as many stars as there are now. But our our star is 866,000 miles in diameter. There's one star in a small Milky Way of 400 billion stars. There's one that's 2.3 trillion miles in diameter. But I'm thinking when the new creation happens or when he creeps the universe.
The earth and the heavens. There won't be one flaw in all those stars. I wonder, will they all have a different name than they have now?
You know so.
In respect of the 49th, 1St.
We're going into the earth and the 51St flesh and blood. God's judgment on treasure cloud was to Adam. He says, Dost thou lost, and to dust thou shalt return. That's when we guide Corruption comes in, death and corruption comes in and death and corruption came in as a result of it, Adam said. And so we see that for us to have.
Fair, the image of the Lord in his fullness.
There has to be a change, but that changes.
I have eternal life.
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But I still, I do not yet have been corruption. And in order for me to live in the Polish sense of the word, to be the image of God, I've not had that property and the Lord will deal with it at the rest of the country all the time itself.
We see a parallel with Israel.
Follow a little bit and Isaiah 5.
We have this about Israel's failure and the Lord's fulfillment. We won't read it, but in that Isaiah 5 we have divine Israel being the.
Flying in a fruitful hill and must be a blessing to all the nations.
And so they failed miserably in that and so in John 15 need to turn to it. The Lord says I and the true Bible. I am the true volume. Yet if you turn to Malachi 4 and many other places to a Malati 4, I'll read this. It's a day coming and that blind is each Israel.
Will yet be a blessing. They will get over the wall and be a blessing to the nation, so it says.
Verse 11, chapter 3 And I will rebuke the developer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground either shall your blind cast your fruit before the time in the fields have a lot of votes, and all nations shall call you blessed, and we shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord that can't future.
And so in the parallel we have what we just love. In Genesis, one man was made, he says, all mankind made in the image of God. We were to be represent God in every way in this world.
And and morally especially and of course man became corrupted. He fell from that. And so when you go into Hebrews chapter one, when you have there in Hebrews one, just like Israel.
Where he said I am the true vine and Hebrews one you have.
To bring the brightness of His glory.
Verse three and the express ending of this person, the Lord Jesus was he expressing we were the image, but he, the man from heaven was the express image expressing God in totality perfectly and so.
In our chapter here, what he's saying is that look at the 15th verse again, but the 50th verse it says at the end of 50th corruption.
Needed a corruption and there an incorruption. In other words, man failed. He could not represent God in that corrupted state, so he fell. And so there has to be a change. In other words, for Israel to be a blessing, there has to be a change in coming. There will be a delightful land. They will be changed. And so he's saying here, we need to be changed too. And this period in order to again be in that place we can represent God.
He is image again and that is a change of nature we have to be born in. We have to put opposite word the old Adam and put on the new is not the thought that's here so that now it's only because we are in Christ, but the last at a part of the last atom and now we can again.
As Risen stands up, as Risen believers, we can.
So forth the image of government, and we lost.
In the first step through corruption.
Just enjoyed it this way Derek.
Verse 50 Again, flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
Our present body in its present form is not suitable for our heavenly home.
So we get verse 50, and because it is not suited, this body that you and I have right now is not suited, God tells us what He's going to do about it. We go on with verse 51.
There is a secret that the that God gave to the apostle Paul here to be revealed that it never been revealed before verse 51 I show you a secret, a mystery.
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We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible.
We shall be changed for this this corruptible.
Must put on incorruption.
And this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass as saying that is written.
Death is swallowed up in victory.
Corruptible is something that corrupts the dies incorruptible.
Is indestructible.
God is going to give you and I or He's going to change our bodies. As you mentioned before that it's not a new body, it is a changed body.
So that I take it that should be as part of the change, so that you and I will know each other in the glory.
And but in the body that is changed it will be incorruptible on the structure.
Who shall fashion our bodies in that our bodies making fashion like unto his body of glory, which takes us back to the 20th chapter of John, when he was raised from the dead.
So that is the truth that is being brought out here.
Body being this was not revealed in the Old Testament.
That which happens in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.
Credible to think about it.
We're going to make a difference. See what Lauren said before and when we look at that verse date and verse 53 for this corruptible must put on corrupted corruption. There's no choice. It must be back. If it doesn't do that, no heaven for it. It doesn't fit heaven unless it's incorruptible. It must put on that. And how do we do that? We can't do it. It's not up to me to do it. It's entirely the work of God.
To fit us for the heaven that he's designed for us.
We cannot go asleep. That's an interesting word actually. It's applied to the Christian. The death of the leader is we thought is almost called sleep.
Is interesting word for his passive. It's put.
And.
What the structure that gets us off when you have a family that's.
It frankly, well, it's time he had enough and so.
The Lord doesn't come in the next few years make you say to me, maybe it's time question.
And you might say to the child and put them down and say put some prospects before all of them, so.
After your nap, we'll go to the park and they go to the United States.
When you wake up.
Just like person of the Lord Jesus Christ, there is in his birth throughout the ages of His birth.
Well, for the Christian.
I believe that death has lost its state because of the work of Christ. We rest.
In.
The value of the precious blood of Christ, knowing that.
Our sins, so great and so many, have in His blood been washed away.
I remember a dear brother, he was about to depart this life and the verse that was such a comfort to his soul was first John one and seven. The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us, cleanseth me from all sin. He'd like to hear that repeated. Well, it tells us here that the sting of death.
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Is.
Sin.
We might have thought that the sting of sin is death, but it's not put that way. The wages of sin is death, but I believe for the unbeliever.
To depart this life.
Is a leap in the dark.
Death has been referred to as the King of Terror. And why is that? Because.
Every saw is going to have to do with the Holy God.
And the Word in Amos 4:00 and 12:00 is prepared to meet thy God.
Well, if we're under the shelter of the precious blood of Christ, we are prepared. But if not?
I believe there is a sting to death, and it's because sin is on the conscience and on the heart.
And the strength of sin is the law. The law is that which exposes sin.
There's no power in the law to do anything about it, but it does convict.
And I believe that's why it's holy. It's just. But it's good because it convicts.
But if one goes on in their sins.
And does not accept Christ. They're going to die in their sins.
And they're going to stand before that great white throne and meet Jesus Christ as their judge, and there'll be no salvation available.
The Lord Jesus said if you believe not that I am He, you're going to die in your sins.
But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, we learned from Second Timothy one.
That.
Through the Lord Jesus, death has been abolished and life and incorruptibility had been brought to light. It's through the Gospel.
It's also wonderful for the believer.
The room is 13 was then that which is good. They definitely got to live but seeing that it might appear sin working death in me by that which is good.
It's seen by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. So the 1St 1600 years of man's history, there was no law.
That was the period of conscience, we say.
There was no law given. What man?
Was still a Sinner and it culminated in the flood. But when the law was given, now there was a standard that God had given to me.
It was laid out plainly to him what was according to his nature, and what was disobedience. He had no excuse now, because there was the law of God, and the apostle says that.
Then a man became a transgressor. He.
He was convicted of open transgression, disobedience to the law of God after it had been comulated. That was all that we have in our chapter here.
The strength of sin is the law it incited the old nature to to act.
Verse 15 Deliver them through the fear of death for all their lifetime stuff used to *******.
Speaking of the law there, I believe that they were under the law for righteousness.
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And they feared death.
Or Satan today has many people under a system of works. They fear death too, and they think that they're going to gain eternal life through their own efforts or what they can do themselves. We have many cults that go around and they work very hard to try to gain themselves favor with God or a life after death. But there's only one way.
That God has provided for man and that's through Christ, through the work he has finished at Calvary, and that's the only way that we can have. The victory is in him.
But Lord Jesus, when he died on the cross, he, he defeated Satan, He took the keys of death all away. He yelled them. And there's no more judgment for the believer. There's only glory to follow after we leave this scene to be with our Lord forever. All is passed, judgment is passed. We owe all things to Christ. He got the victory for us.
And.
It's sad to see today that there are so many that still are under that ******* of works.
The victory has already been won. The victory has already been won when Christ was raised from among the dead.
And then it says Christ the first fruits afterward, they that are Christ that is coming the resurrection of the Saints is really the the.
Outworking of the victory that Christ want and it is yet to take place. Thanks be to God that giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
So his going to the glory.
Was the first part.
That's the resurrection, the power of the resurrection, that will take us there, too.
And based on that, we have the last verse of the chapter that tells us that. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, unmovable.
Always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
I've heard it said in connection with the 1St man being earthy and the 2nd man being heavenly is that the world that I might be brought into was made to receive them. We read of Genesis one what the Lord created the animals for man and plant life for man.
Heard about chapter 3 for the first world was made for the first man who seen them.
The world that our second hand into it needs to reject.
Isaiah 53 it says he's despised ejected event.
1St man came into a world ready to receive them. The 2nd man came into a world prepared to reject him. I know that as a believer, believers with that new man have been us with.
We also will face some of that projection we get in John 15. The worst people do is disciples said the first time either of the world, the world would love his own. But because you're not in this world and I chose you out of this world, Therefore the world hated you. So it is nice to see that final verse in our chapter that although we may consider next with that second man, he can dwell in the Holy Spirit as Christian. You may see trials and tribulations unconcerned. Not only do we have victory over death in the end, but.
We'll have a new labor here on Earth. Your labor is not in pain before.
Verse 32.
Your pastor says, well, if the dead don't rise, we might as well just eat, drink.
And take it easy and relax. But that's just the opposite of what we have in verse 58. Because the fact is the dead do rise. And so the apostle, he says, be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.
For as much as you know, your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
If you have a compass, you have two arms to accomplish. Every boy and girl knows how a compass works, and it only works when one arm is firmly implanted on the base, on the on the desk, then the other the other arm is able to circulate around. First of all, you have to have that one arm firmly.
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Implanted on the desk with the paper, then the other arm can move out. Well, it's been often used as a picture of the evangelist.
But I think it can apply to any service for the Lord. You need to be steadfast.
Established in the cruise that we have in other scriptures, we established in the present truth, steadfast, unmovable, and then.
Reaching out.
In activity of whatever nature it might be, in the gospel, in the ministry to the Saints, in activity abounding in the work of the Lord, it may take different forms. We each have a a place to fulfill in the body.
But the energy that is put forth abounding as the thought of energy, doesn't it? We?
Tend to be like the basically lazy but the Lord says.
Your work will be rewarded.
And labor on, not as a motive, but certainly it is an incentive that what we do for the Lord, however small it might appear, is going to be rewarded and acknowledged in that coming day, the judgment seat of Christ.
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