The Bible sometimes uses the sea or oceans as a metaphor for humanity, nations, peoples. The beast rises up out of the sea... a people.
As I thought about the sea this came to mind: IF somehow you could take all the water in the world and distill it completely holding it in a pure vessel it would be Clean. Perfect. Holy.
But if you took one drop of poison, filth, dirt, anything.. and dropped it in this perfect pool no matter how big, even one drop would make the whole imperfect. Unclean. Unholy.
That's what heaven is. Perfect. Holy. Clean. Not one drop of sin or uncleanness can exist in the presence of a Holy God. It is like that pool of distilled water. Clear and clean.
If God were to allow even one unclean sin to somehow survive into heaven it would pollute the whole as certainly as one drop pollutes the whole of the distilled water metaphor.
That's why Jesus came. Why he died. Why he cleanses us from all unrighteousness. Why his sin sacrifice is complete or none of us could enter heaven. We don't get to heaven by the skin of our teeth. We don't slip in. We come into the Holy of Holies pure and clean. Not by anything we did or didn't do, but by the fullness of the grace of God in Jesus.
When we do, we can walk boldly in our salvation. We do the same here, sure we still mess up, we still are in trouble a lot, we still need the blood of Jesus but we are saved here, now and when we step from time into eternity, like the perfectly distilled water we step into heaven pure, Holy, sinless, clean.
I spent time yesterday just thanking God for Jesus and his sacrifice. Sometimes I need to remember that my flesh is unclean, but my spirit is alive and holy... and will be forevermore.
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Thanks for the message. Our spirit AND our body will be holy, alive forevermore, clean and pure. That;s the wonder and miracle of resurrection unto eternal life for all who die "in the Lord". h.a.h.
Thanks for the message. Our spirit AND our body will be holy, alive forevermore, clean and pure. That;s the wonder and miracle of resurrection unto eternal life for all who die "in the Lord". h.a.h.
? 6Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them. 7The LORD said to Satan, "From where do you come?" Then Satan answered the LORD and said, "From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it." 8The LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil."…
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…46the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces, and assign him a place with the unbelievers. 47"And that slave who knew his master's will and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will receive many lashes, 48but the one who did not know it, and committed deeds worthy of a flogging, will receive but few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more.
nothing wrong with praising God. It actually amazed me to hear dereck prince teach on heresey according to the bible and art katz on how many ministers will be guilty of it. I always thought it was a lie or denial of the Word. However dereck taught on it in depth and clarified with scripture that it may be the acknowledgment of one truth while flat out denying another. Many will be guilty of this in the area of healing admitting what God does and refusing what HGod does. others will preach the osas doctrine while ignoring much of what the apostles taught and how it pertains to the foundational doctrines ,rebellion to the Holy Spirit and the cross which is as a sum wether we take our will or the devils over Gods.....
You are correct however in the fact that
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