ETERNITY

ETERNITY
It would seem we are all closer to the moment of impact.  The moment when this mortal must put on
immortality.  It is not what you have or who you know in this life that secures you in the life to come, but it is the salvation that comes by no other.  That other being Christ Jesus.  The promised one, the Messiah, the savior of the whole world. Jesus said, if a man lives and believes in me, he shall never die.  And if a man believes in me though he were dead, yet shall he live.  Death is certain and it is also certain that life after death is at the point of impact.  That moment one passes from death to life.

John 11
So if a man lives and believes in Jesus Christ, he shall never die.  How is that possible and relevant to you and i in these days of future past? Well let us observe that the one who makes this declaration is the one who made life itself. And being disconnected from the source of life, which is Christ, means certain death.  If a man lives and believe in me, he shall never die, why? because that man /woman, upon the moment of receiving Jesus into their hearts as Lord and savior, will at that point be ushered into eternity before it begins. It's like having the golden ticket, once you got it, your in. It has started, you now have that eternal life that Jesus says is yours because you believe in/on him.  This means that you trust your life to him, you have confessed your sins to him and repented of them. Your life is no longer yours but his.  Christ now has become Lord and king of your soul, your spirit, your will. And daily you live, holding on to that golden ticket called eternal life in Christ, that not even death can rob you of.

1 Corinthians 15:55-57
It's like holding the ticket and waiting in the cue to enter in.  To that party that Jesus is the life of.  While your waiting outside, your in the world.  When you walk through the door, you've passed from this world. Your in.  Death where is thy sting, grave, where is your victory. The sting of death is sin.  The strength of sin is the law.  But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

The reality that eternity is waiting at the gate on the lives of every human being on the face of the earth, and we are reminded with each passing day by the lives of those we knew and loved and heard of.  We are burdened with the reality and feel some pain of the loss.  Because we are all human beings and not aliens from outer space.  It is a sad thing to lose a loved one to say the least and words cannot express it enough. Jesus knows this oh so well and through him we have the victory over the grave.

The Second Death
The sting of death is sin. the only power death has over you is the is the sin in your life. That sin drives you to death, but this is not death as we know it.  This death is not just the mere expenditure of present life but the eternal separation from the giver of life. Yes we all will face death at some point and that's inevitable.  But to be separated from God for all eternity is the sting that sin puts into death.  In the garden of Eden when Satan tempted man to disobey God.  God had told man that the day he takes of the tree and eats the fruit, that he will die.  Yes indeed that was the truth as only God speaks.  On the day man disobeyed, he died.  Sin came alive and Adam and Eve died.  The separation between God and man began and the next thing that will be man's demise would be the grave. So mankind faces 2 types of death.  Like the sun and the moon.  A greater light to rule the day and a lesser light to rule the night.  Separation from God is to die in your sins and then death by physical expiration.  Romans 6

Colossians 3
But thanks be to God who gives us the victory.  The victory that even though we die physically, yet we have life in Christ.  The giver of life, the victor over sin, death and the grave.  That in Jesus Christ though you die yet shall you live.  Not just exist but having eternal life, never to die again.  To be restored to newness of life, in a new body.  An eternal body that will never again be limited to time and space. There is much promised to those who will say yes to that eternal question. We are called by our loving heavenly father who gave his all to reconcile us back to himself. Will you take the opportunity to make it right with him today? and be ready for Eternity.