Tuesday, August 24, 2010

World to Come- Salvation

Heb 2:5 For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.


Salvation. We are saved for a purpose, for life eternal. We are saved from this world that isn't anything like the world we need and long to be from. We are saved from eternal death, from eternal nothingness, from eternal darkness and given life in Christ from whom all love flows. We only get glimpses, tiny glimpses into the world of unconditional love, unselfish love, teeny tiny insights in our lives that are all markers pointing us to the one unconditional, unselfish love that saves us. We can look on the outside of people and some appear to be very unselfish, and very Christ-like, but the fact remains we don't know their hearts. By their fruit we shall know them and some appear to have the best fruit in the world- so Christ-like it puts us to total shame. What it comes down to is our own lives- because they are the only thing we really know. I know my heart and wish it were more Christ-like. I know my failings, my sins, my inner evils just as you all know your own. We can ask for forgiveness, we can repent, and we can be saved! We can be given the world to come. We can hope for a place in that world ruled by love in its purest form without sin marring anything. We can pray and have faith that we will be in that world to come a world that angels will be in subjection to.


1. Being in a position or in circumstances that place one under the power or authority of another or others

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Angels will be under the power and authority of God. We will share in that world with God, with angels. God's power, God's authority will always and forever be supreme! God- from whom ALL blessings flow.


Angels- spiritual beings we imagine act of their own accord but God's angels are all in subjection to God and do the bidding of the Lord. Does this mean they are enslaved to God? Some would have you believe that's exactly what is means, that God wants to make us all slaves to Him. That's not true, not true at all whatsoever. When you serve the one you love, when you put yourself into subjection of the one you love to obey them you are NOT a slave to them. Freely the love is given, freely the serving is offered. The angels consider themselves blessed to serve God. While the devil would have us twist things and make subjection to God seem like a punishment, and evil all on its own, it's a lie from the father of lies.


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Heb 2:6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Heb 2:7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands


Psa 8:4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Psa 8:5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
Psa 8:6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
Psa 8:7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
Psa 8:8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Psa 8:9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!


Man- made a little lower than the angels and yet crowned with glory and honor.


There have been movies about angels detesting humans because God made angels to be above them and yet has crowned them with glory and honor. Angels of God by their very nature minister unto man all through love, there is no animosity though Satan would have us believe there is. Satan would have us put our sinful nature onto the unfallen angels and give them traits that fallen humans have, or that evil fallen angels have. It's not like that at all.


What is man? We are God's creation. We are so important to Him that His Son took on our flesh and became human so He could save us through the sacrifice of Himself. We don't understand, we can't understand just how important we are to God, just how much He loves us. Our love towards God is unequaled to His love for us and our righteousness is filthy, unequal to Christ's pure righteousness that we so desperately need to claim while giving up our selfish need to believe we can be righteous on our own.


Praise God for His amazing LOVE! Praise God!


May we fully be immersed in the Love of God, may we live for the world to come where self is nothing compared to selflessness in Christ.


By His glory, by His grace!


Amen.

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