Key Verse: For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so through Jesus, God will bring with him, those who have died (1 Thessalonians 4:14).
The central work the Godhead sent Jesus Christ, the Son of Man as Messiah to do on earth was to teach, reveal, prepare and guide all mankind into reclaiming our lost divine heritage of kingdom living, in and through repentance, faith and the incarnation of Christ (Genesis 1:26-31, Matthew 18:10-14, Mark 1:14-15). Through his temptation in the wilderness, works, passion and death here on earth, Jesus Christ claimed victory over life on earth in slavery to sin, in the mind of the flesh (Matthew 4:1-11, John 11:25-26). Through his resurrection and ascension Jesus Christ entered into a new and glorified life with the Godhead, thus revealing, proclaiming and reclaiming mankind's lost divine heritage in Christ, in the mind of the spirit (John 14:5-7).
By following Jesus Christ in living the Paschal Mystery, Christ-centered believers in all traditions, religions, cultures, ethnic and secular groups, in the mind of the spirit, have the blessed hope and assurance of the same new and glorified life in the Godhead, here on earth that Jesus lived (Matthew 16:24). In this present earthly life, in the mind of the spirit, spiritually awake believers are being delivered from slavery to sin, in the mind of the flesh. They are experiencing the mysterious resurrection of the indwelling Christ, God's image and likeness (ADONAI), in and through their spiritual bodies (Colossians 1:26-29). Through faith and repentance, in the mind of the spirit, they are passing over into the freedom, truth, grace and glory of God's love in Christ (1 Thessalonians 4:13).
Christ-centered, spiritually awake believers actually base their faith in their experience of rebirth from spiritual death, and their new life in Christ, in the actual life, passion, death, resurrection, ascension and promise of the second coming of Jesus Christ, as Messiah. The believer's eternal assurance and experience in this present life, of deliverance from hopelessness and slavery to sin in the mind of the flesh, is greater realized as believers progressively awake from spiritual sleep, spiritual blindness, spiritual deafness and hard heartedness. In the mind of the spirit, believers gradually discern and experience what Jesus explained to Nicodemus about being born from above (John 3:1-12, 1 Thessalonians 4:14).
Through repentance, faith in Christ (ADONAI) and following Jesus Christ in living the Paschal Mystery, spiritually awake believers realize they now have eternal and abundant life in Christ. They discern and actually enter into the spiritual kingdom of heaven, which Jesus declared is in our midst, among us and within every person (Luke 17:20-21). Spiritually awake believers experience the descent of Christ (ADONAI) from heaven, with a loud cry and summons. They hear the shout of their archangel and the trumpet sound of God, in and through their spiritual bodies (1 Thessalonians 4:15-16).
In the mind of the spirit, spiritual awake believers in all tradition, religions, cultures, ethnic and secular groups discern and experience their total dependance on and unity with the Godhead, Jesus Christ and one another in Christ (ADONAI) (John 5:19, 30; John 10:30). They know that spiritual awake believers who have died physically, continue to share and continue to take their appropriate place in kingdom living on earth and in heaven. Paul therefore urges all believers to encourage, comfort and support each other with these words of truth (1 Thessalonians 4:17-18).
Do you believe that Jesus Christ is Messiah, sent by the Godhead, to seek and save that which was lost (Matthew 18:11)? Do you believe Jesus Christ has taught and revealed the way, the truth and the life of kingdom living here on earth (Matthew 6:9-10, John 14:6)? Is Christ (ADONAI) now reigning as Lord, Master and Owner in your life? Are you, in the mind of the spirit, following Jesus Christ in living the Paschal Mystery (Romans 8:1-11)?
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