DEATH 2:

 Death 2: Mankinds Accountability/God's Mediator  

The Bible makes it very plain that all the evil things in this world are a result of mankinds disobedience to the one who gave them life. Some protest "I didn't disobey God so why would I be held accountable.?" Simply put you have inherited that fallen state. You are by being born human progeney of the orginal transgressors of God. You  have inherited that same fallen--sinful nature. Sin defined as "missing the mark." That mark...."you must be perfect, as your Father in Heaven is perfect." So said Jesus the Christ.  Only one is because only the Son of God is that word who was in the beginning with God and was God. Only Jesus Christ is capable of making you perfect in the sight of God that Father, who on the mount of transfiguration, when James, John and Peter saw Christ Jesus in His glory, said to them, and thus to us, "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him."                                                            

Jesus made it plain to his Apostles and  Disciples  that He indeed was/is the only mediator between God and men.  That His purpose for leaving His eternal heavenly home, where God the Father and God the Holy Spirit reside. Only Jesus the second person of the triuine Godhead was born a human being.  Fully man yet fully God. Two natures in one person. The God/man.  Jesus willingly, in eternity past, was ordained by the Father to take on  the responsibility of His mission. To save His people from their sins. To save all those who were  given by the Father to His Son. Who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.                                                                                                                                   

42 And when He was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast. When they had finished the days, as they returned, the Boy Jesus lingered behind in Jerusalem. And Joseph and His mother did not know it; but supposing Him to have been in the company, they went a day's journey, and sought Him among their relatives and acquaintances.

So when they did not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking Him. Now so it was that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.

And all who heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers.

 So when they saw Him, they were amazed; and His mother said to Him, "Son, why have You done this to us? Look, Your father and I have sought You anxiously."                                                                                                             And He said to them, "Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father's business?"

Jesus said "I always do the Father's will."   He lived a perfect life, that no human being could do  of and by themselves. Sin has corrupted us thoughly. We are tainted through every sinew of our being by it's miserable stain and only Jesus, the Christ can remove the blight of this inherited addiction. For Jesus never sinned. Yet Scripture tells us  "He was tempted in every way."  His birth, his life, the miracles, the signs he performed, his suffering, his crucifixion, His death and buriel the foreunner of His victorious and glorious resurrection on the third day. Proof that He indeed was and is "The Savior of the world."   .  

Every person ever born dies. And we die because the first created humans made a choice to disbelieve what God had told them and believe the lie of  satan the adversary who said, "You won't die but will be like God." And thus God subjected the entire creation to futility. And thus entrophy and death was creations end result.                                                                                    

God is Holy,  Righteous and absolutely  pure and good. God can not change His nature. That is who God is....Was....and Forever will be. God is unchanging. He always was God: always will be God. He is the creator and sustainer of all things ever created. Every planetary system, star cluster, nebula and galaxy. Every asteroid, moon, planet and star. Every cell, proton, neutron, electron. Every quark and lepton we now know as the smallest participles of matter. All spoken out by God and continue to exist today.  God maintaining and preserving their existence by His Word. God created everything good. Mankind created in the imagine of God given the ability to create, reason and communicate like God. And given dominion over creation, reflecting God's authority fell hard and all of creation with it. That is the sad legacy of this reality we now inhabit. 

                                                         

Yet Death is not the end. It may be the cessation of the body that you now inhabit. For from the dust it was taken and to the dust it will return. But your soul continues on after death. Where you spend eternity depends on who you know or rather who knows you.  There is Hope. A blessed Hope. Through Jesus Christ the Lord.   

                                       
                                                                                     

For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.(literally all things hold together Col. 1:16-17).                                         

                                                                                                                                               

God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets,  has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;(Heb. 1:1-2)                                                                                                               

                                           
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.  (John 1:1-2)                                                                                                                                  

 Jesus said to the people, "You just be perfect as the Father in heaven is perfect." (Matt. 5:48)                   

  Him we preach warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom,                   That we may  present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. (Col. 1:28).                                                                                                       

If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.  For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.  For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”  For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him.  For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Romans 10:9-13)                                                                                                                                                                                      

Jesus The Christ said, "whoever hears my word and believes in Him who sent me has eternal life.... (John 5:24)                                                                                                                                                    

He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”(John 3:36)   

                                                     

                                                                                    

Jesus said to Martha, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.  And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”                      She said to Him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.”

                                                                                   

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