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Death is NOT natural!
Death is NOT normal!
Acts 2:24 (KJV) - Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
SEPARATION is not natural!
Death is SO ODD! Such an exception rather than the rule! Such a momentary condition.
From Gods perspective, Gods vantage point, in the grand scheme of things, from the viewpoint of eternity past through eternity future...
Death is only the result of a legal technicality committed by Adam and Eve!
Death is a minor problem... a manageable situation, from God's perspective.
God anticipated death and provided a plan to overcome it from eternity past, but it is a MERE TEMPORARY BLIP on the radar screen. We, suspended temporarily in this mortal life and body, tend to see death as a big deal... a huge issue to be avoided at all costs.. but NOT God! He laughs at the condition so called! God will simply click the "REFRESH" button, and all vestiges and forms of death shall be once and all forgotten! Forever! Ha!
Acts 2:24 (KJV) - Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
Likewise it is not possible that we be holden by it! Death CANNOT POSSIBLY hold us back!
Read 1 Corinthians Chapter 15.
Luke 12:4-5 (KJV) - And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Death will be SWALLOWED UP by LIFE! Only the inferior can be swallowed by the SUPERIOR!
1 Corinthians 15:54 (KJV) - So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
Inferior things get swallowed up by superior things! Black-eyed peas cannot swallow me up, but I easily swallow up black-eyed peas! Why? Because I am superior to them!
Acts 2:24 - (KJV) - Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
Ya know, sometimes I get carried over into the reality of the superior eternal world only to realize that the inferior temporary world I now live in is not worth all the attention I often give it!
When I get these glimpses into things from Gods perspective, it makes me feel so stupid for acting like the doe-doe bird! It's amazing to me how the Christian can be so SUPERNATURAL and NATURAL at the same time! Quite the oxymoron! It seems we are living THERE and HERE at once in the same time! LOL!
DEATH is INFERIOR!
LIFE is SUPERIOR and the NORM. It is the natural order of things!
Acts 2:24 (KJV) - Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
DEATH has NEVER intimidated or impressed God. It may be our nemesis, but God sees it a DEFEATED FOE by the superior work of Calvary!
DEATH can no more quench LIFE than DARKNESS can quench the LIGHT.
GODS original plan with Adam was a population explosion of eternal beings who would cover the earth and NEVER die.
Adam had an ETERNAL BODY which only after sinning became a MORTAL BODY.
Jesus could have lived ETERNALLY on earth! (Did He not say He could call on the Father and the Father would instantly dispatch a legion of angels who would immediately deliver him from the whole ordeal of the cross! But for us, He would not! Thank God! Hallelujah!)
Jesus' body only became MORTAL when He surrendered it to sin (not his, but yours)!
Three kinds of bodies: Immortal, Eternal and Mortal. Both Adam and Jesus were born with ETERNAL BODIES, capable of living sinless for eternity but also capable of sinning by choice and thus falling and becoming mortal. Jesus our Lord and Savior CHOSE OVER AND OVER AGAIN NOT TO SIN so that you and I could be included! O wonder of wonders!
Acts 2:24 (KJV) - Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
1 John 3:4 (MSG) - ...for sin is a major disruption of God's order.
Death has no defense against Life!
Death must bow before Life! Always!
LIFE completely ECLIPSES death!
Acts 2:24 (KJV) - Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
Life and Death may be opposites, BUT... there is no comparison qualitatively or quantitatively between the two! To be properly compared on two ends of a spectrum, LIFE could be seen as a large basketball on one end, and death a small green pea on the other!
LIFE is like a PAC MAN eating up death.
LIFE is all consuming!
Death is powerless in comparison.
LIFE is FOREVER permanent.
Death is so very temporary and actually so very weak. Death seems so very final to us, but to God it is so very minuscule!
We tend to see ourselves from a death perspective: 70-100 years lifespan at best! God doesn't think of us from that perspective whatsoever! It is FAR from His way of thinking (which, by the way, His way is the correct way to thinking!)
Sometimes I feel so ignorant before God the Father for having thought thoughts so contrary and small compared to God's thoughts! O Lord, please forgive me for my finite way of thinking! Let me get into YOUR MIND, Sir!
Our death problem has been solved once and for all!
Death is our past problem!
From here out, everything is Life, Life, and more Life! So let's give ourselves in reckless abandon to Gods work, since our dilemma is over once and for all time! Glory!
1 Corinthians 15:54 (KJV) - So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
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