12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. - 1 John 5:12.
Nothing really goes on in a person's life throughout life without the question coming up 'who am I'. In that search of an individual coming to some knowledge of who they are, the idea of having 3 different lives at one time will never be solved. When in the world a person knows they have some kind of life, be it a good life or bad doesn't matter they know they have a life. That is usually what puts an individual on a road to know more and be something more or be a better person or what not. As we have talked about prison inmates that have gone to prison as a Christian, and those that became Christian after the fact. But point being both of those scenarios or examples or any other hard situation get the attention of a person and puts them on a road of wanting to know more about themselves.
Evil has a way of bringing a human being to a conscience thought of 'why' or 'who'. The scripture always comes to mind that says 'some were created for honor and some for dishonor.
Here is the good news:
When I ministered to inmates I could talk to them based on our gospel. What is our gospel? Our gospel is for 'whosoever will" and it does not matter how you come as long as you come. Scripture says "some through the fire and some through the flood." So it doesn't matter how you get there (it will matter to you because you are doing the suffering) as long as you come. Come where? Many places such as to Christ for starters. I have always maintained the thought of "nothing like a good dose of the world to bring a person to Christ." Why would I say that? Well I feel I'm basing it on scripture but I lean alot on my own life. What I went through and the good dose of the world I recieved.
When I came to the Lord I ran to him not because I was all in love with him (I didn't even have a God conscience, I retained no knowledge of a God that created everything), but because of the world, I had had my fill. Be it the Lord or the world, you come to a place in life where nothing matters but getting help. That is how the world works on humanity in my understanding.
Kind David even said "there is none to help." Have you ever been there to where you felt like you were the only person alive and you needed something and there was none to help. So a believer that has to deal with the thought of having more than one life is going to struggle with it because trying to put one life together is just about a impossibility, so putting three lives together (human life or nature, sin life or nature, and now a God life or nature) will cause so much confusion no wonder some people throw in the towel. It is to much to handle, they have already been through hell and now it is kind of a confused hell which can be worse than the first state.
I always think about what Paul said about the gospel or the preaching of a perverted gospel. He said you would be cursed, what is our curse so to say? It is the fact you can never put life together, it is a fleating life never is put together, or as scripture says "complete, established, balanced, worth living."
How do I make that connection? I make that statement based on how our father treat's his children (we are not under a law that says I should be punished now for my actions), he corrects them but does not beat them because their bad or don't know what is written. What he will do is correct us, a major correction will be you never putting life together outside of scripture. You have to allow the scriptures (Spirit led) to teach you life, and come to see (revelation) that life is found only in Christ. You have one life and that life is Christ.
That cannot be any other good though, such as; oh it is really not Christ it is something else and I'll keep searching scripture until I find it, you will not find it. As a matter of fact you will not find yourself until you can see what is written about life, which is Christ. That one life is your only life, that is good news because you discover you do not have three lives and can go and live your life as a Christian was meant to live. The curse so to say of not knowing because of a perverted gospel is gone. Hallelujah!
Nothing really goes on in a person's life throughout life without the question coming up 'who am I'. In that search of an individual coming to some knowledge of who they are, the idea of having 3 different lives at one time will never be solved. When in the world a person knows they have some kind of life, be it a good life or bad doesn't matter they know they have a life. That is usually what puts an individual on a road to know more and be something more or be a better person or what not. As we have talked about prison inmates that have gone to prison as a Christian, and those that became Christian after the fact. But point being both of those scenarios or examples or any other hard situation get the attention of a person and puts them on a road of wanting to know more about themselves.
Evil has a way of bringing a human being to a conscience thought of 'why' or 'who'. The scripture always comes to mind that says 'some were created for honor and some for dishonor.
Here is the good news:
When I ministered to inmates I could talk to them based on our gospel. What is our gospel? Our gospel is for 'whosoever will" and it does not matter how you come as long as you come. Scripture says "some through the fire and some through the flood." So it doesn't matter how you get there (it will matter to you because you are doing the suffering) as long as you come. Come where? Many places such as to Christ for starters. I have always maintained the thought of "nothing like a good dose of the world to bring a person to Christ." Why would I say that? Well I feel I'm basing it on scripture but I lean alot on my own life. What I went through and the good dose of the world I recieved.
When I came to the Lord I ran to him not because I was all in love with him (I didn't even have a God conscience, I retained no knowledge of a God that created everything), but because of the world, I had had my fill. Be it the Lord or the world, you come to a place in life where nothing matters but getting help. That is how the world works on humanity in my understanding.
Kind David even said "there is none to help." Have you ever been there to where you felt like you were the only person alive and you needed something and there was none to help. So a believer that has to deal with the thought of having more than one life is going to struggle with it because trying to put one life together is just about a impossibility, so putting three lives together (human life or nature, sin life or nature, and now a God life or nature) will cause so much confusion no wonder some people throw in the towel. It is to much to handle, they have already been through hell and now it is kind of a confused hell which can be worse than the first state.
I always think about what Paul said about the gospel or the preaching of a perverted gospel. He said you would be cursed, what is our curse so to say? It is the fact you can never put life together, it is a fleating life never is put together, or as scripture says "complete, established, balanced, worth living."
How do I make that connection? I make that statement based on how our father treat's his children (we are not under a law that says I should be punished now for my actions), he corrects them but does not beat them because their bad or don't know what is written. What he will do is correct us, a major correction will be you never putting life together outside of scripture. You have to allow the scriptures (Spirit led) to teach you life, and come to see (revelation) that life is found only in Christ. You have one life and that life is Christ.
That cannot be any other good though, such as; oh it is really not Christ it is something else and I'll keep searching scripture until I find it, you will not find it. As a matter of fact you will not find yourself until you can see what is written about life, which is Christ. That one life is your only life, that is good news because you discover you do not have three lives and can go and live your life as a Christian was meant to live. The curse so to say of not knowing because of a perverted gospel is gone. Hallelujah!
