And He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.” But He said to him, “Allow the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim everywhere the kingdom of God.” Luke 9:59-60.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Stop driving looking in the rear view mirror, and by that I do not mean remembering your past sins, that is another topic, I mean driving in that direction as if what is in your rear view mirror is what is ahead of you. Because then you are headed in the wrong direction and living under a misrepresentation or should I say an incorrect interpretation or a lack of revelation? In other words you are plagued by the fear of death, fear of judgment, fear of older age, fear of lack, and fear of the things to come your whole life long. But what you must know is that is all behind you.
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.
If you see those as looming before you in uncertainty you do not understand what I did for you in Christ and who you are now in Him and before Me. And that grieves Me and My Spirit which I have poured into your heart when you became a new creation in Christ.
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.
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.
Here, I am not talking about forgetting what lies behind, I am talking about knowing what is BEHIND you and what is before you so you too can walk in newness of life. You have passed from death to life, eternal life. Judgment has already been done for you who are in Christ. He got judged in your place and He took your condemnation and your sentence and He died.
Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. Romans 8:1-4.
He gave His eternal life in the flesh for the one that you murdered in Adam—an eternal life for an eternal life. But when the sentence was paid in full I raised Him for your justification.
He who was delivered over because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification. Romans 4:25.
Jesus died ONCE for ALL.
Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin. Romans 6:3-7.
Most people, even many believers, are looking ahead at death with fear, not knowing for sure where they will go, and see it as an end to life. But that is not the case for those who believe in My Son, for there is no death in the future of a believer. It is behind you. Once you have done the work I gave you to do in this earth and you walk across the line from the veil of the physical into the Kingdom of light, you merely shed the seed coat of your mortal body as the butterfly in metamorphosis. It is the transformation that already is in you from the day you were born again and became righteous and sanctified in Jesus. Jesus conquered death and grave by taking out the sin which is the sting of death. AND WHEN HE DIED YOU DIED IN HIM BY SUBSTITUTION AND IDENTIFICATION AND WHEN I RAISED HIM AND SEATED HIM IN HEAVEN AT MY RIGHT HAND I RAISED YOU WITH HIM AND SEATED YOU THERE WITH HIM.
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Romans 6:8-11.
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:1-7.
The question is settled, you are sealed in Christ and you are a born again citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven.
In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory. Ephesians 1:13-14.
If you believe in Jesus and have confessed Him as Lord there is no death and no fear of judgment to hell in your future.
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.
Jesus paid the ransom and redeemed you from your sins by His blood. Let the dead bury their dead, in you is resurrection life, within you is My Kingdom. I have ALREADY given you the Kingdom who are the little flock of Jesus, your great good Shepherd, whom you follow, and My gifts and call are irrevocable.
Do not be live in fear, little flock, it has pleased your Father to give you the kingdom. Luke 12:32.
Whenever you are satisfied with what you have done with the life I gave you, then you can say with Jesus: I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do. Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was. John 17:4-5.
I wrote the plan I have for your life filled with shalom and not evil, to give you an eternal future and hope in Christ, before you were conceived in your mother’s womb and brought forth for such a time as this.
What I have done for you in Christ is so amazing it is beyond all you could ask or imagine. When Adam cut you all out of the Kingdom, I had other plans and that plan was hidden in My Son but revealed to My prophets in various ways in types and shadows but now, in the fullness of time, I sent My Son born of a virgin under the law to bring you all to new birth by My Word.
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God. Galatians 4:4-7.
He is the dividing line. He is My Word living and working.
It is the Word that makes all the difference. It is the dividing line between Heaven and hell. Unless you believe you cannot see the Kingdom, but it all comes by receiving the imperishable seed of My Word so that you are born again from above. And that is why the devil goes after the Word to steal it out of your heart.
“Now the parable is this: the seed is the word of God. Those beside the road are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, so that they will not believe and be saved.” Luke 8:11-12.
In Him you have eternal life.
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. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. 1 John 5:11-13.
This is in your rear view mirror. You have eternal life. You are not trying to get it. You are not hoping to get it. You cannot lose it.
My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I GIVE ETERNAL LIFE TO THEM, AND THEY WILL NEVER PERISH; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.” John 10:27-30.
You heard His voice and opened your heart and followed Him.
Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. Revelation 3:20.
And once you have received and believed in His Name, I seal you in Him by the Holy Spirit and command Him to raise you on the last day.
This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.” John 6:39-40.
Adam and all his seed were judged and sentenced to eternal death in the Garden but in Jesus I paid that judgment and set you free.
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. Colossians 2:13-14.
That is My gift to you.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23.
But a gift is not complete until accepted by the donee. And you accept it by receiving it by faith. You must believe to receive.
No one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven: the Son of Man. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:13-16.
You who believe have passed from death to life. You will never perish. You have eternal life. Jesus paid your judgment so you will not be judged.
For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:17-18.
If you don’t believe you have not received the gift of the payment of your judgment and you are still under the judgment issued on Adam upon his sin in the Garden of Eden, and through him on his seed.
Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I AM, you will die in your sins. John 8:24.
Adam sinned in the flesh and his flesh was eternal, but the wages of sin is death. Jesus again had an eternal life in the flesh and He took all the sin off you and I accounted it to his flesh and He satisfied your sentence and won for you eternal life.
For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit. 1 Peter 3:18.
Know this, if you have opened your heart to My voice and received Jesus as Lord you have eternal life. Not maybe, not someday, not if you are good enough, but NOW and once in Christ you can never get out nor will you ever want to. Every day your greatest joy and biggest desire, once you have tasted My goodness in Jesus, will be to go deeper and stronger until you are just like Him and never sin. And that is what I have done for you in Him. You are dead to sin when alive in Him. As He is so are you in this world. And in Him, the evil one cannot touch you. There is no snatching out of My hand. You have joined yourself to Me in Christ and that Covenant is forever. Joining in the Spirit is the strongest bond of all for death has no power over the Spirit.
I love you. Death is behind you, eternal life is yours now, you are righteous with My righteousness, holy with His holiness, and beyond reproach.
And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach. Colossians 1:21-22.
You have everything you are hoping for in Jesus now. You are still upon this earth only for one reason: you are My ambassadors reconciling people back to Me. And an ambassador does not depend on the host country for his prosperity and protection but only on his homeland as his source. And an ambassador is expected to walk in integrity and in seeing him people are to see the beauty and goodness of the country he represents. Selah.
God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 2 Corinthians 5:19-21.