We are called to ‘die to live…’
What a topic! How can this be saying anything good for us?
Well, if you are reading now and you are contemplating this topic in such a manner, then you truly need to keep reading.
Hebrews 9:27 says: “27 And just as it is appointed for [all] men once to die, and after that the [certain] judgment, 28 Even so it is that Christ, having been offered to take upon Himself and bear as a burden the sins of many once and [a]once for all, will appear a second time, not to carry any burden of sin nor to deal with sin, but to bring to full salvation those who are [eagerly, constantly, and patiently] waiting for and expecting Him.”
Jesus came on earth to ‘live to die’ and we, who are His followers, are called to ‘die to live’ (Matthew 16:25). This is not a contradiction by any means; this is what we must do to become like Him. Jesus didn’t just die – His death was a transaction for the life of humanity. Jesus is the only human being and will always be, who brought life for all of humanity, through His death. It was appointed unto Him, through His covenant with the Father, once to die, for our sake. Since He did it, every human being needs to do it as well. Oh really now?
This is where things become really interesting and many persons have used it to justify physical death. They say things like:
“It was God’s time to take him/her home.”
Or, “It was his time and we can’t question God.”
Many have gone off to war with the mentality to die for country
Many have gone off to war with the mentality to die for country. Husbands at their weddings making serious declarations that they would die to save their newlywed wives and vice versa. Health officials during the c19 mayhem jumped on the band wagon ordering persons –
“protect your elderly mothers and grandparents from dying from c19. Get the injections so you can save others’ lives.” Statements coming out of some traditional church organizations, using a barrage of scriptures taken out of context and without revelation by the Holy Spirit, claimed that taking the injection is the Christian thing to do. This is the reason that God had to revamp the Body of Christ during the mayhem. There had to be a distinction between Who He is, what He stands for and what the devil is and wants. God is an absolutely good God – there is no darkness or evil in Him. The only Life-Saver is God and unless we were to be jabbed with a substance that He instructed us to create, then the objective to save anyone could not have been met. Now that the whole world knows that these treatments are death bombs and viral factories, the narrative was really saying – “die so others can live to die”.
Now, to some people just reading the Bible, this might sound like what Jesus said to the believers in the scripture featured, but it is completely the opposite interpretation. God did not make us to physically die for anyone; only One person could have done that.
The death we were called to is a death to the old, ‘pre born-again’ nature which was passed down to us from first Adam. That was the nature Jesus went to the cross to kill for us, and so when we accept that He did that, we receive a new nature, by faith. That nature is life. That nature is God. So, we die first (by accepting Jesus’ death and finished work) in order to live now and hereafter (by accepting His resurrection).
God did not put that in place for humanity because we are not God.
When any human dies physically, his/her death cannot perform any good for the soul of any person. God did not put that in place for humanity because we are not God. He alone had to become a man in order to take on the sin of man; only perfection could have defeated the sin. Jesus lived to die, once and for all, never to do it again! Now we must daily die to live.
All of this is a contradiction to what the world believes. However, you need to know that God is completely contrary to the world’s system.
Now we can see that many people were fooled, particularly during the last three years, into thinking that their willingness to subject themselves to man’s unscientific and unethical experimentation and die could save someone else. They fell for a lie.
People need us to live by Christ in order for the world to live. People need the Anointing on the people of God who will pray for them, cast off devils from them, heal their bodies by laying on of hands, comfort them and most importantly, lead them to salvation. The world needs God’s masterpieces, so they can hear the truth, because it is the truth that will set them free.
All of creation groans and moans for the manifestation of the sons of God (Romans 8:19-23). Affirmatively, we confirm yet again, that all of creation is subject to humans and not the other way around.
God wants humanity to be His sons ……….His masterpiece creation.