Teachings
HOW TO LIVE NOW BETWEEN THE TWO RESURRECTIONS?
There’s another Resurrection to come, the Resurrection of our Bodies.
Glory to God! I trust you’re well and enjoying your Inheritance in Christ Jesus.
We’re still in our Unleavened Bread Season which is part of the Passover Celebration.
Yesterday we discussed the two-phase nature our Inheritance of the Kingdom of God. We touched on our Spiritual Bodies which we’ll receive at the Coming Resurrection when the Lord Jesus Christ returns.
Today I want to discuss how we should live between now and then. We’ve been raised up together with Christ now, which is the Resurrection of our Spirit. But there’s yet another Resurrection to come, the Resurrection of our Bodies.
Today we’ll discuss how to live between the two Resurrections as we await the Return of the Lord.
Romans 1:17b says, ‘As it is written, the just shall live by faith.’ God expects us to live by Faith.’ To understand what I mean by that I want you consider the life of Abraham, the Father of Faith.
Hebrews 11:9 says, ‘By faith he (Abraham) sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.’
Firstly, God had promised Abraham the Land of Canaan, and God delivered on His Promise. In other words, Abraham lived in the Promised Land, as did Isaac and Jacob.
But when they got to the Promised Land, they didn’t build houses, rather they lived in tabernacles or tents. In other words, they didn’t get to the Promised Land and believed they had arrived. This is so important to understand.
They sojourned in the Promised Land. To sojourn is to stay in a place temporarily. It’s to stay in a place knowing that you’ll one day move on. But why did Abraham and his Seed live that way? The next verse explains why.
Hebrews 11:10 say, ‘For he (Abraham) looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.’ Abraham knew that there will one Day be a New Heaven and a New Earth. He also knew that in that New Reality, there will be a New Jerusalem, the City we read about in the Book of Revelation. Abraham was looking forward to that City.
Abraham knew about that? Yes, he did. So did all his Seed. Abraham lived in tents, which have no foundations because tents are temporary structures. He did so because he was looking forward to the New Jerusalem, a City with Foundations and built by God Himself.
Abraham therefore lived by Faith between two Realities, Time and Eternity, with the full understanding that Time is temporal but Eternity is eternal.
Even though God promised Abraham certain things in this life, God also promised Abraham things in the Life to come. Abraham therefore had to live by Faith and believe God for both.
Abraham didn’t just believe God for the birth of Isaac but he also believed God for the Return of the Lord Jesus Christ. But He knew that the Return of the Lord Jesus Christ was greater than the birth of Isaac. This is how the Old Testament Saints lived.
Hebrews 11:13b-14,16 says, ‘…and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country…But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared a city for them.’
Like them, God has prepared a Country for us. He has prepared a City for us, and we should be looking forward to that City which is to come. We should live like aliens and strangers in this World. We should live in Time like those who’re passing through it because we know we don’t belong here but in Eternity.
Like Abraham, it’s important to believe God for our own Promised Land in this life, but we should also believe Him for the Country to come, the City to come. We should however also understand that the material things we believe Him for in this life are not eternal like the New Jerusalem, they’re only temporal.
We should most certainly believe Him for our Inheritance which is the Kingdom, in this life. We should believe Him for Prosperity, Healing, Deliverance, Peace, Joy and everything to do with our Inheritance in this life. However, we should do so with the full Knowledge that something greater is coming.
But we should also believe Him for the Return of the Lord Jesus Christ when He will establish His Kingdom on the earth when He returns. This is greater than believing Him for temporal things.
Having said that, believing one without the other will cause us to be out of balance. We shouldn’t just believe God for Healing, Deliverance, Prosperity, Peace, etc., otherwise we won’t have a proper relationship with Him, we’ll only have dealings with Him when we need a Miracle, and when we get it, we’ll go back to the World and lose what God has for us in Eternity.
But we shouldn’t also just focus on Eternity, otherwise we’ll accept sickness, disease, demonisation, and many other things that God has already delivered us from in this life. The danger with that is, we may become so frustrated that we’ll go back to the World because our lives are so miserable.
Either way, we need to be balanced Believers who live by Faith for both today and tomorrow. We should not only believe God for the birth of Isaac, but we should also believe Him for the Return of the Lord Jesus Christ with the full Knowledge that Eternity is greater than Time.
We should understand that the cars, the houses, the clothes and the jobs we must believe Him for in this life are temporary but the New Jerusalem, the Mansions, the Robes of Righteousness and the Crowns of Glory are Eternal. We should live in Time as aliens and strangers in this World because we know we’re Citizens of the Eternal Kingdom of God.
Glory to God.
What God has promised you in His Word He is able to perform. His Word is His covenant. When God speaks, He covenants.
God will never break His covenant or change what He has already declared concerning you.
God is not a man. He’s not fickle and unpredictable. Through His Word you can know exactly what He’ll do.
However, you have a role to play. You must exercise faith in His Word.
There are times when God requires that you obey a commandment for your faith to work.
Hebrews 11:8 says, ‘By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.’
Abraham would not have received what God promised him if he didn’t act on God’s Word. Faith without works is dead.
At other times, God wants you to say something.
2 Corinthians 4:13 says, ‘We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak.’
God gave us His Word for us to say it. God says something to us so that we may say the same thing as Him. When we say what God says, we get whatsoever we say.
So step out in faith today, and believe God’s Word. He has not changed. Whatever He said about you before, He’s still saying today.
He will never break His covenant nor alter the words of His lips.
Glory to God!
For the people of the world, the return of the Lord Jesus Christ will be a dreadful day of the Lord. But for us, it will a glorious day of the Lord.
Luke 21:28 says, ‘And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.’ When we see all the signs around us, we’re not distressed. We rejoice because we know it’s time to look up for our redemption is near. The Lord Jesus Christ is coming back very soon. And when He arrives, He’ll set up His kingdom on the earth and we’ll rule and reign with Him forever.
Therefore, continue to live for Him, because behold He comes quickly and His reward is with Him. And He will reward us according to what our works deserve.
What you’re doing for the Lord is not in vain. No matter what you do, don’t be faint in well-doing because in due time you will reap eternal life.
Glory to God!
Ye are of God. He’s talking about your identity. You are not of man, you are not of the devil, you are of God.
You’re born of God. And anyone born of God overcomes the world.
Ye are of God and have overcome them because greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.
Who is in you? The Lord Jesus Christ is in you.
In the Lord Jesus Christ resides the fulness of the Godhead in bodily form.
The Godhead is the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit. That’s the totality of God.
The Lord Jesus Christ is greater than Satan and He lives in you.
Christ is your life. He has brought eternal life to you. He has brought His life to you.
That’s why you’re of God. You’re no longer born of blood, human effort or a husband’s will. You’re born again, but this time, you’re born of God with the very life of God in you.
Through the life of Christ, you’re born again. You’re a child of God. You’re a son of God.
By virtue of your heritage, your origin, and your identity, the devil can’t overcome you. He’s inferior to you.
The life inside you is superior to the life in him. That’s why he can’t defeat you.
Because the One who dwells in you is greater than the one in the world, the one in the world cannot overcome you.
By virtue of the Lord Jesus Christ having overcome and destroyed Satan on the cross, you have also overcome him.
The victory of the Lord Jesus Christ has been given to you.
Thanks be unto God who always leads us in triumph in Christ. Glory to God!
That’s why what’s coming will not destroy you.
No matter what the kingdom of darkness coughs up, you have already overcome them.
No matter the amount of evil they dish out, you have already overcome them.
No matter how extreme their schemes, you have already overcome them.
Why? Because you are of God, therefore, greater is He that is in your than he that is in the world.
Glory to God!
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Buli Joja
14th March 2020 at 5:09 AM
I was really blessed by this Word. Thank you Pastor for being faithful in your calling. Now I know how to live between now and when the Lord Jesus Christ returns.