Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Heaven Home

1Pe 2:11  Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul

Fleshly lusts. What wars against your soul? What temporary pleasures do you seek? If we are STRANGERS and PILGRIMS we should comprehend that we are actively SEARCHING, actively EXPECTING a new home, a place we belong where we will no longer be strangers and pilgrims.  This new home we seek as Christ followers is in HEAVEN, and we know BIBLICALLY we will not attain heaven until our Savior returns.  When He returns the DEAD in Christ will rise to meet Him in the air along with those few living in Christ when He returns.  We must live our lives, our ENTIRE lives seeking heaven, preparing for heaven. And we are told in this verse above that we should ABSTAIN from anything (fleshly lusts) which will WAR AGAINST our souls. Anything that impedes our heaven search should be abstained from.  Easier said than done though because we find temporary pleasure in the fleshly lusts and count that worth any costs, even the cost of our heaven home.  All too often we trade away our future for temporary indulgence. Esau did it with his birthright.  You might say that he was legitimately hungry, starving even, and so it was worth it to him to live. But he regretted that decision greatly. He knew he wasn't at the point of death, just very, very hungry and wanting to sate that hunger. We need to think of and remember this as well…

Rom 8:13  For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Do you see? Do you comprehend? If we choose to live for our flesh fulfillment we will die and never have a heaven home.  We THROUGH the SPIRIT can mortify the deeds of our bodies!  THROUGH the SPIRIT. We aren't expected to do this on our own but through the SPIRIT.


More on this later tonight, by the grace of God!

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