DEATH IS AN ENEMY
11Cor.5:1-5 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest (guarantee) of the Spirit.
11 Peter 1:3-5 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
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And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
1Cor. 15:51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
“O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?”
Rev.1:18 I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death
Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Every-day we face the reign of death. No matter what our financial status is, you’re back-ground,
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Education. No matter what rank in life, death reigns. It is seen as sickness, disease, mental trauma, anxiety, hopelessness, emotional fatigue and instability. Death has reigned without mercy.
Death has reigned in terror, wars, rapes, murders. It has reigned thru men, horrific tragedy and in the vile brutal acts of humanity.
The entire order of creation is ruled by and through death.
Death is the reason for all our suffering in our lives.
Death is the reason for lying, addictions, violence, murder fear, revenge, hate, jealousy, foolishness.
Death working in us can be the reason our mental state. State of depression or stressed with doubt, hate, anger. You can be imprisoned within a state of worthlessness and bitter wounds.
There is nothing pretty about death. It is an enemy.
Rom. 7:24 O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
What is death? Death is an end to this life in this world.
To die is to cease to exist.
We are in this world where Adam the old man, the old nature of our carnal mind lives. He is
generating death for and he is still reigning in our life.
11 Cor. 1:9-10 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
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Rom. 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
1Cor. 15: 21-22 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
Heb.2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
1John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
11Tim. 1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
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Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
The whole purpose of the Fathers plan is to bring an end to DEATH.
The mystery of immortality. This mystery can only be made clear by the wisdom of the gospel.
1Cor. 15:51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
Rev.20: 4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
The mystery of God is not in heaven, God is the word and the word is God.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
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All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Rev.19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
This is His coming, by His blood, it is the only way back, and by His name (his nature) it is the Word of God. He has come again to His people and resurrecting us up in His word. The power of the Holy Spirit, the anointing of God is the WORD of God.