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“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. John 5:24.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
A sanctified life is one that has passed from death to life in Christ and thus death no longer has any hold on you. Because He lives you live and because He died you have escaped the passageway of death.
Jesus died the death for you. Please understand what I am telling you for this is a matter of life or death for everyone, for you are all descended from Adam. There is only one place you will find eternal life again and that is in Jesus.
And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life. 1 John 1:5:11-12.
In Adam you inherited a sentence of eternal death. I told him that if he chose to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he would die THE DEATH. The second death. He would go with the master he chose.
Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world . . . Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels.” Matthew 25:34,41.
He chose to know evil for that is what results if you do not live according to My Word. Apart from Me you have no good because all goodness resides and generates from within Me.
Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has passed the test, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust. Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death. Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow. In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures. James 1:12-18.
And My expression of who I AM is in My Word.
Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls. But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. James 1:20-21.
Upon the first man and woman was the sentence of death and there was no way out of that sentence for no one could pay back what was owed—an eternal life in the flesh or the eternal life they had lost in the flesh. Someone like you with an eternal life in the flesh, as Adam had and murdered by sin, could take that sentence of eternal death and die the death for you to release you from your sins by his blood. For the life of the flesh is in the blood. That is why your glorified body has no blood, it is not of earthly flesh.
It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 1 Corinthians 15:42-44.
Jesus really died according to the flesh and to do it He put His Spirit into My hands. You are held in My hands and I raise you up in Jesus and seat you with Him at My right hand.
But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone. Hebrews 2:9.
You who have passed from death to life are already seated on that throne that Satan fought so hard to take. Adam abdicated it to the devil, but Jesus got it back, not for Himself but for you.
Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:3-11.
He came to undo the work of the devil and his power over you. But He had to take all your sins and your sentence into His own flesh to atone for you.
Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives. Hebrews 2:14-15.
He gave His life as a ransom for all. He went through that dark passageway of the second death for you so that you will never have to go. And once your sentence was paid in full, I raised Him up as the firstfruits and as your live. In Him you too have died the death and risen to the life.
Now I want you to listen with new understanding to what My glorious Son said to John when he was about to raise him up to the Third Heaven to see things beyond compare.
When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. And He placed His right hand on me, saying, “Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last, and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.” Revelation 1:17-18.
When He died, your sentence was paid in full, when I raised Him with all sins gone, your were justified too. And He took the power of death, which is the wages of sin, away from Satan and rendered him powerless to take any soul to hell that has passed from death to life by believing in My Son and what He has done for you. For My Son has released you from your sins by His blood. You are bought at a price and the devil cannot have you back.
Having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him. Colossians 2:12-15.
Your debt is paid and you are free, sanctified by the blood and born again by imperishable seed. Death has no place in you.
I have made you a promise before the world began to give you eternal life, and even though you threw the gift aside as cheap, My Son paid all, His life and blood in the flesh, to buy you back for Me. He died the death that you might live the life that is life indeed.
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax; it is melted within me. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; and You lay me in the dust of death. For dogs have surrounded me; a band of evildoers has encompassed me; they pierced my hands and my feet. I can count all my bones. They look, they stare at me; they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots. Psalm 22:14-18.
And because He lives so do you, if He had not been raised your sins would still keep you in the grave. But the good news is that I raised Him and gave the release to you as paid in full!
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?” John 11:25-26.
He took your sentence—dust you are and to dust you shall return. I laid Him in the dust of death so you will never go there. From the ash heap I have raised you up to seat with with the Prince of Peace.
Do you believe? If you do, you have passed from death to life. You are a new creation in Christ, not the old dead you, old things are gone, and the joyful celebration is on! The wedding feast of the Lamb. I have already seated you there in Him. And how can you fast when the bridegroom is with you? Rejoice. And that is the sanctified life. Joy unspeakable filled with glory.
I love you. I make all things new, especially you.
Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer. Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 2 Corinthians 5:16-17.