God is Life

We think of life and death as we see them in the visible realm. The life and death talked about in the Bible is different. This is in the invisible realm.

I've been doing a lot of thinking and studying, both inside and outside the Bible. I've thought about things like sacrifices and the shedding of blood for atonement of sins, and about water, and about fire. I started thinking, God created us; He's bound to have a good reason for it all. I think that at the time He gave His word to mankind, through Moses and the Prophets, it couldn't be understood fully.  God is likened to fire. The Holy Spirit is somehow linked to God the Father as is Jesus. They are all three linked together as one but if you are like I, you might not be able to see this or understand this with detail. He gave us the living example of sacrifice through His Son, Jesus Christ. Why was it necessary to do it this way, by shedding blood? Why water; why fire?

We humans have learned so many things, especially over the last 100 years or so. We know more about our brain, and about our heart, and about our blood, and about our bodies; the things talked about in the Bible. God is the Creator. As I study and learn about what we now know, I'm beginning to understand God's plan a little clearer. Why it was necessary for Jesus to enter this world born of a human mother but not of a human father. There is so much I've discovered and would like to talk about but think it best to break things down in future posts.

Think about this for a moment. We have things like TVs, radios, cell phones, and such. These all deal with the unseen realm. There are transmitters and there are receivers. We see the results on the receivers but we don't see how it gets there.

When it comes to the things of God, we mostly have to take the words given by God to humans by faith. However, just as we see results or information on our TVs and cell phones, if we take these words to heart and act upon them we can experience a change within us and those around us can also see something different about us. It is a mystical change but it is quite evident.

Titus 3:3-7New American Standard Bible (NASB)

3 For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived,enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. 4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, 5 He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs[a]according to the hope of eternal life.

Hebrews 10:19-22New American Standard Bible (NASB)

A New and Living Way

19 Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a [a]sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Ephesians 2:1-10New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Made Alive in Christ

2 And you [a]were dead [b]in your trespasses and sins, 2 in which you formerly walked according to the [c]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. 3 Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, [d]indulging the desires of the flesh and of the [e]mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead [f]in our transgressions, made us alive together [g]with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and [h]that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.