Unless a person die and come back to life, it would be impossible to prove that this person's life was indeed eternal. For without the resurrection, it would take an eternity to prove that his life was eternal. Even if He could survive in the heart of the sun, that wouldn't prove that he could eventually die of some sore of other destruction or that the sun wouldn't eventually kill him. But if he should die and come back to life of his own accord, then you know that death can't destroy Him. And if death can't destroy Him, then you know that his life is eternal. For there is either life or death; you cannot have both. So if you cannot remain dead, then you will always live.
Repaired the relationship between man and god
FOR MORE THAN forty years I have kept a record of answers to prayer. Looking back over the years since I first came to know the Lord, I think I have learned certain principles in the matter of praying which throw light on why our prayers tend to become less and less specific as we mature, especially those prayer requests which relate to our personal needs.
Though it sometimes surprised my friends when they first learned about it, I had many answers to prayer before I became a Christian. Moreover, these answers were exceedingly specific. After I had become a Christian but while I was still very young in the faith, my answers to prayer were less dramatic than they had been previously, yet they were still more specific than when I had grown somewhat older in the faith. In some ways one might have expected the opposite to be the case.
It seems to me that in the time of youth we have more concrete decisions to make, even though most of these decisions (not all of them) are probably less crucial to the rest of our lives--contrary to our own impressions at the time! As we grow older we have fewer decisions to make but they are apt to be more critical, partly because there is less time to make corrections. Thus at first, like the prayers themselves, our answers to prayer are more concrete and specific, often the simple yes or no kind of thing. Later on, the prayer life of a child of God tends to become more diffuse, more like a conversation with God than an appointment arranged in time of emergency for the presentation of some request.
For this reason, any record of answers that we may have kept in the earlier days is likely to be more event-centered, the need-and supply kind of thing. It will be journalistic, a record dealing with the works of God. Later on with the passage of years, the record tends to become more reminiscent, more private as it were, not written for public consumption, often difficult to put into words and frequently best expressed simply in the form of an actual quotation from Scripture. We find we have begun to be more aware of the principles which govern God's dealings with us, the ways of God rather than His works. The lesson is learned by an unconscious process of assimilation. We learn to prove His Word until it comes to reflect our own experience in a wonderfully personal way, as though passage after passage were written with us in mind.
Took Burden Of sin
Do trips to the doctor exasperate you as much as they do me? It seems like there is something wrong when you pay a guy fifty dollars to tell you that you are too fat! Even though it is the truth, it seems to me that I should not have to pay fifty dollars to hear a doctor tell me what I could have told him by looking in the mirror.
During my last doctor visit, the nurse was somewhat more kind in breaking the news. Her way of expressing it made me consider the problem from another angle. She looked very surprised when she had to adjust the balance weights upward and then said, "You hide your weight well." I had never heard that before, nor do I believe she looked very closely or she would have discovered where I was hiding it. But it did make me think about something. Let us suppose that one could "hide the weight" from others, would it change the weight total? Would it change the effects of the added weight? No, the effects remain the same whether hidden or obvious. There is no relief from the effects of the physical burden by hiding the problem. Whether the nurse, the doctor or the patient think the burden is hidden, it still exists and the effects remain.
Anyone who shares my problem of being overweight can understand how you can bear a burden everyday, but fail to think about it in that light until forced to do so. The extra weight has its effect upon one every day, but we just fail to think about it until we look in a mirror, step on scales or face reality due to some other factor. Whether conscious of the problem or not, the need for relief from the ill effects remains.
There is a parallel to be drawn between a burden often present on the spiritual man. Just like the physical body can be quietly burdened by a load, so can our soul. The effects of a burdened soul, however, are far worse than the increased risk and fatigue associated with a physical burden of added weight. The burden associated with the spiritual man may have eternal consequences.
The burden associated with the spiritual man may have eternal consequences. David spoke of such saying, "For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me" (Psalm 38:4). Other passages refer to sin in the same way. Sin is a burden too heavy for any person to lift from the soul.
But the burden of sin is not always apparent to the sinner or those surrounding the sinner. Sometimes the sinner is deceived by sin (Hebrews 3:13). Some sins are kept secret (Psalm 19:12; 90:8). Some people conceal their sins from others (Proverbs 28:13; Isaiah 29:15). Does that change the effect of the sins? No, the wages of sin is still death (Romans 6:23; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10).
However, the Word of God also makes plain the means by which we can find rest from the heavy burden of sin. When we look to Jesus, we find the needed help in taking our sins away. Notice His promise of help:
"Come to Me, all you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light" (Matthew 11:28-30).
Paul told the Christians to whom he wrote that they were dead spiritually as a result of their sins, but were made alive by the grace of Christ (Ephesians 2:1-10). Salvation is not earned by man. Regardless of what one does, he does not merit forgiveness. Man is not strong enough to lift the load of sin himself, but Christ can and will.
The fact that Christ promises to lift our burden of sin by His grace does not free us from meeting the conditions He commands. Grace may well be extended conditionally.
If a speaker offered a $1000 to each person in the audience who got out of his seat, walked to the front, and took the money from the speaker's hand, would the recipients have earned the $1000 by meeting those conditions? Obviously not, it was still a gift! That gift was conditional, but it was no less a gift.
So it is with Christ and the gift of salvation. He says, "Come to Me" and "Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me." Those are conditions for us to meet in order for Jesus to lift our burden of sin, but His cleansing is still by grace. In order for us to understand what is entailed in those conditions, we must see what else the Bible says about the subject.
Immediately before He ascended to heaven, Jesus spoke of the conditions upon which He would save us. At that time, He laid down in plain terms how we "come," "learn," and take His "yoke" upon us in obedience. Christ says it this way:
"And He said to them, Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned" (Mark 16:15-16).
When we come and learn of Christ through the Gospel and take His yoke in obeying that Gospel, we meet the conditions of Christ and we receive the gift of salvation from our sins. We do not merit salvation by meeting those conditions any more than the people earned $1000 by meeting the speaker's conditions. It is still a gift of grace!
Some today question the conditions of faith and/or baptism set by Jesus as being essential. When one teaches that both conditions are essential to receive salvation, some accuse that one of teaching that we merit salvation by works. Why would they so misrepresent simple, plain, Bible teaching?
If Jesus had said, "He who believes and is baptized will receive $1000," I doubt that anyone would question either condition as essential to receive the $1000. Why do some reject the conditions when something far more valuable, salvation, is at stake?
Jesus' offer still continues as it was originally given. He will lift the load of our sins and give us salvation if we will but respond to Him in obedience to His will, meeting His conditions for gracious pardon.
For every soul burdened down with sin, there is rest in Christ. The dreadful toll of sin can be exchanged for the joy of salvation in all who will obey Him. Though some may doubt it, the conditional offer of rest from the burden of our sins constitutes the only way to salvation offered by the grace of God. Failure to realize that our burden of sin is the root problem for our spiritual ills does not change the effect. Whether we, a nurse, our friends, a loved one or anyone else think we hide our burden well, the problem and its effect remain until we receive the gracious gift of forgiveness and rest for the soul found in Christ
Conclude
Without these events no chance of eternal life so explain why there’s no point in being a Christian then.
Without these events Jesus would have not been the chosen one ( Messiah) come to pace man kind.
The world. I believe that this God made this physical reality that we enjoy, and us. Does God love the world? He enjoys His creation, but this should really be personalize to read, "For God so loves Me." He loves each and every person that has every existed. How much does He love us? Continue on. His only Son? This is where Jesus comes in. Jesus is the Son of God. Not that the life of the human Jesus was the beginning and end of the person but that this human was really God come to Earth in human form. Jesus was part of God before anything else was created. There is no one or nothing else like Jesus.
So why would God allow His only Son come here? What is it about Jesus' life that represents God's love. To understand this I had to look into God's instruction manual, the . The Bible shows us that humans, men and women, were first created to shared their existence with the Living God. But something happened that drove a wedge between us and God. It was and is called Sin.
Sin is doing things that are contrary to God's desire for us. Sin broke God's heart. If someone would hurt us that way we would never have anything to do with them again. But because God LOVES us, He allowed His Son to provide a way to make things right between us.
"Well, I never sinned", you say. Sorry, man, but "All have sinned" it says in the Bible. There is no one that has not sinned. We all need Jesus.
Ok. What did Jesus do. God had set up a way with the Jews that they could make an animal sacrifice to cover over their sins with the animal's blood. What Jesus had to do was follow that same pattern. He was a sacrifice. He had to shed His blood. He did that on the . BUT that was not the end.
Whosoever means like anyone. God's love is poured out to anyone no matter where they are, no matter what their situation, no matter what they may have done. People are more judgemental than God is of us.
Whosoever, that means You, too!
Here's the catch. I knew you were waiting. You have to send me $1,000. JUST KIDDING.
Listen carefully. All I had to do was believe in Him. Believe that this supreme enity's Son, Jesus, is who he says He is. Knowing it in my head and believing it in my heart. Jesus isn't kidding.
So what?
Well, I believe that what I really am will continue on after I shed this flesh and bone house. My consciousness, my spirit, will continue on forever. I will not just become part of the cosmos. I know I do not want to go through THIS again.(Yuck)! God tells us, throught the Bible, that there are two places that we can end up. If I do not believe in Jesus I will perish. Not cease to exist but not be where God is. I would be in Hell. Hell will be a place where all the goodness of God will not exist. It will be pure evil, pure torment (and not with men dressed up in red suits carrying pitch forks).
What's the alternative.
Heaven is God's house that He has prepared for me, if I only believe. I want to be with my God. By believing in Jesus, I will live for ever in a really neat place with God. Sound too easy? Well this is what I have found in the Bible.
This is what I believe. You can choose to believe what you want. God grants you that freedom. He does not force anyone to believe in Him.
What did he want to achieve?
"Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, 'So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, come down from the cross and save yourself!'"
Jesus had a hard time being who he was supposed to be. It went against the grain of the world. In the world's eyes he was a failure! He said he was the Messiah, and yet he had no armies to shrug off the Roman rule. The Jews had their preconceived ideas about what a Messiah should be: he should save the Jews, but he couldn't even save himself!
They presumed that the Kingdom of God would assert control over the environment. They couldn't believe that the Messiah wouldn't zap them all with lightning for being so disrespectful. He had made a promise that the temple would be broken down and rebuilt. Little did they know that he intended to break down what had been built by human hands when Adam and Eve had set out to build their own little self-image which led to the Fall.
They didn't understand that Jesus was showing them a new way; their minds were controlled by the world system where the motto was survival of the fittest, and dog eat dog. They didn't know Darwin, but they might as well!
So Jesus still being on the cross didn't make sense! "Come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe." For them the evidence of the Messiah was determined by their worldview. If he would conform to their (our) standards, and they (we) would believe in him. For them (us) the evidence of Godhood is that he is not vulnerable. We would rather create God in our image. As long as he is like us, we will believe in him.
BUT
I Cor 1:17 says: "For Christ did not send me to baptise, but to preach the gospel--not with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power."
We would dearly love to skip over the tragic events of the cross, and cut right to the resurrection, because we automatically know what the understood of the cross are for our lives!
Human wisdom is bound to fail in its understanding of the meaning of the cross. In our human wisdom the Pharisees see the refusal of Jesus to come off the cross as a failure, when in truth it was no such thing.
The weakness of the cross is its greatest power. It symbolises the death of human systems which Adam and Eve were responsible for. It represents the death of power and control. It represents the death of human "wisdom"; It represents the death of "SELF-actualisation".
