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C o n g r u e n c e!
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TRUTH MANIFEST |
| Resurrection: | "For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies." |
Romans 8:20-23. |
of Paul here quoted, concerning the coming future resurrection of the physical bodies of all believers, has profound significance for our understanding of the perspective of God concerning the whole continued existence of His creation, our total universe.
beginning humanity was made "in God's image" to represent Him by what He described as –
| "fill the land and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the land" |
| Rule on God's behalf. |
when the first human couple messed up by distrusting God, although this instruction was not rescinded, something had changed.
though, as the Bible says –
| "...His invisible attributes, namely, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made" |
the human management of this physical creation to express the invisible, as originally mandated, continued to fail!
the implications of this revelation of God in nature did not affect the course of human history as it ought to have done and so it became "subjected to futility"....
it was not what God wanted! Yet God's view of the future made this subjection to 'futility' tolerable because it was – "in hope".
| The real reason for resurrection |
So the essence of the future physical resurrection of all the redeemed of the Lord, from Adam to the end of the age, is more than the provision of a never-dying body. It is the provision of a physical body which is a true and complete reflection of the inner character of the individual concerned. It is human congruence which in consequence has its ripple effect upon the whole of all that exists.
action or attitude, no matter how small, that is either at variance or in tune with the character of God, as much as this affects our own inner character/condition, has an infinitely endless implication for our future existence forever in the physical reality of our own individual resurrection body...
| Congruence Complete: |
| SO ALL WILL SEE US |
| AS WE REALLY ARE! |
| "...God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us" |
Christians' obedience of faith to their new nature received in Christ does not need a Heaven as their eternal home. No one needs a resurrection body to go to Heaven.
Instead, the completing book of Holy Scripture tells us clearly in its conclusion therefore that the community of Christian believers, from all preceding ages, as Christ's completed Bride, is to be the capital city of God's rule over all, portraying this New Jerusalem as the ultimate cubic Holy of Holies of God's presence, within which is the Throne of God's rule over all.
| "...they will reign forever and ever" |
fulfilled then the original mandate of humanity at a level and on a dimension greater than if humanity had never sinned.
So great is the wisdom of God in His grace, bearing our blame so as to turn our failure as humanity into His glory and the blessing of all that is, forever. Amen!understandable then, concerning this awesome reality, that these are –
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