Bible Study starter: week three

 

week 3 verse Romans 8:6
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

So often, while in worship service, a light clicks in me and ding! I get it! Another lesson about God and His character and why He is how He is with us. I came to realize that one of the reasons God cannot be around us in sin is because of death. Oddly, it is not because of the sin so much as it is the death!

Here me out. God is alive. God is life! God is pure infinite energy and cannot be around anything that is dead. Literally, everything in and around God is alive! It is evident in His works. The universe, the earth, all its elements and everything on it and in it--it alive!

Go back a little to Romans 6:23. the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. God cannot be around dead things. So in order for you to be around God you have to be alive which means you have to be without sin! It's all connected. Everything He does is on purpose for a purpose. When we sin, we separate ourselves from God. If we separate from God, we will die.

Light bulb! Enter center stage, Jesus the Christ. God, in his infinite wisdom and love, already made a way that even dead things came come back to life, through the washing away of sins. Now is this a really awesome, layered, multidimensional play on words as such is the Bible?! Of course. Every verse, every word, every letter in the Gospel is multidimensional, multilayered. Now without turning this into a theosophical dissertation, ( too late) , it is in its own definition, the prophecy and fulfillment of Jesus as well as a direct reflection on our lives today! Do not focus on the world, it will come and go and will pass away. Focus on God, keep your eyes on Jesus and follow Him. He is the way to everlasting life.

Much simpler put, to live a life for the world, that will pass away, is to live for death. To live in sin, without regard, without repentance, without repair, is to live in death. Mentally, you are already dead if all you live for is the superficial, surface desires of the flesh. Your body wants what it wants, but did you notice that everything your body wants, eventually dies? It literally functions off of ingesting dead things. If you follow the body in the way it goes, you will follow it into the grave. And surely, just as your body withers and dies, so will you.

But the soul, the soul is the one part of you that belongs to God. It is, just like its Creator, immortal. It is finite, but immortal. (Another lesson for another day). You need to feed your soul with the Bread of Life so it can get the most crucial nutrients: hope-joy and peace. This is what it means to be spiritually minded. You are guided by the Holy Spirit to follow Jesus to I Am. This leads to life more abundant-life more fulfilled and more importantly, life with the a deepened relationship with The Elohim.

You are like a table lamp. You must be "plugged in" to the source of energy you need to illuminate your space. So focus your mind on the Living Word and stay plugged in. This is permanent. The world is temporary. If you get unplugged from the Source, surely your light; will go out.

 DeMaster 9/18/16