New Birth… Conversion… Salvation?

Posted: October 29, 2013 | Author: Marcus McCord | Filed under: Bible, Faith, Religion | Tags: Adam, Adam and Eve, Christ, Death, God, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Lord | Leave a comment

Mark 10:45

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

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2000 plus years ago a man named Jesus hung on a cross and died. He did not die a natural death, He was not murdered nor was He a martyr. He was God, willingly releasing His life to us, into this world we live in… He was delivering New Life to, into a world governed by sin, death and the grave.. He was pouring out His eternal divine Life into the land of mortality, death, destruction and pain.

Jesus did not pour this Life out into sinful humanity to be partaken of by any who choose it. He poured this Life out for all to be taken into it… He filled all, the known and the unknown of this universe with His Glory, His Life, the Eternal Life of Almighty God. The whole world from beginning to end received the Life and the knowledge of God.

So what went wrong? Why are we still in the condition we are in today? Why are we still dying and destroying, being destroyed and living in chaos and confusion..?

Because this Life must apply to all, before any can realize it fully. We cannot receive this Life and immortality until we have been prepared to receive it… Jesus did not commit His Spirit into the hands of men, but into the hands of God Himself..

“Father into THY hands I commit MY Spirit.” Luke 23:46

Mankind as well as men in general and individually must be prepared to live immortal, sinless and Overcoming Life!

The Bible tell us very plainly that the LAST ENEMY to be defeated is Death. This ‘Death’ is not something we do… This Death is someone who destroys us by causing us to believe we are destined to die… This Death is the lie that was told in the Garden of Eden that has worked it’s way down through human history. This Death is the DEATH that Jesus proved could not hold Him in the Grave and will not hold HIS in the Grave either…

Jesus has ALREADY defeated this Death… This Death has lost his sting (power) and is, has been and always will be defeated. His only weapon left is his lies and deceptions… These too are slowly but surely being destroyed as more and more men are being brought into the knowledge of God and the power of LIFE which exist in the Kingdom of God in this world!!! (the gates of hell will not prevail against the Church, God’s People.)

We have the promise of God Almighty Himself that ONE DAY SOON the power of Satan (Death) will be crushed under OUR FEET. [Romans 16:20] Satan has ALREADY been crushed under the feet of Jesus; Jesus sits far above the rulers and principalities of this world and WE are ALREADY seated with Him in heavenly places… the problem HAS been and STILL is getting us to believe God; getting us to understand what His Word reveals; getting us to HEAR HIM above all the noise of this life and this world…

Jesus Christ Has Poured Out His LIFE For All Of Us… We just all have not believed Him yet. He DID NOT DIE, He shared HIS OVERCOMING LIFE with you and with me.

Salvation has come to the World.

Jesus is the Salvation of God…

TODAY if you hear His Voice…. PRAISE HIM

Love in Him!

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The Resurrection Body

1 Corinthians 15

³⁵But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?” ³⁶How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. ³⁷When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. ³⁸But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. ³⁹Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. ⁴⁰There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. ⁴¹The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.

⁴²So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; ⁴³it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; ⁴⁴it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.

If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. ⁴⁵So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. ⁴⁶The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. ⁴⁷The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. ⁴⁸As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven. ⁴⁹And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man.

⁵⁰I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. ⁵¹Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— ⁵²in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. ⁵³For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. ⁵⁴When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

⁵⁵“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”

⁵⁶The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. ⁵⁷But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵⁸Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.