We should always be redeeming the time (Ephesians 5:16 and Colossians 4:5). We work or practice our occupation within the context of the time during which we are both healthy and able to work. And, so, we are able to work if we are healthy. And we are healthy generally if we eat correctly and exercise to keep the physical body in good shape and avoid catastrophic damage to our bodies (such as traffic accidents). However, all that we do physically is within the context of our lifetime. There was a book written with the title “Your In-box Will Not Be Empty When You Die” or words to that effect. The point being made by the writer was that, no matter when we die, it is usually unexpected and disruptive with lots of unfinished business left behind.
Our physical life is contained in the context of the spiritual potential. We can keep ourselves in moderately good shape and maybe even live to be over a hundred years old. But eventually the body does die. Everything that is physical has the potential to wear out.
An excellent analogy was made between physical water and living water when Christ spoke to the Samaritan woman at the well.
“Jesus answered and said to her, Whosoever drinks of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life” (John 4:13-14). Unlike the physical water we drink that keeps our chemical physical body alive, the spiritual water available through Christ carries with it the promise of eternal life.
On the Last Great Day (a feast day), Christ made the point that believers would be a conduit for the living water, the Holy Spirit, which would flow through them to others (John 7:37-39).
“If a man die, shall he live [again]? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come” (Job 14:14).
Those individuals led by the Spirit of God, which are sons of God (Romans 8:14) will be changed during the last trump into bodies that don’t die (1 Corinthians 15:51-54).
God warns his people not to forsake the fountain of living water, hewing out broken cisterns, which are unable to hold water (Jeremiah 2:13). There is no other name under heaven whereby we must be saved other than the name of Jesus Christ (Acts 4:10-12). This is the true difference between Christianity and all other religions and beliefs. Acceptance of the sacrifice of Christ is reconciliation with God, permitting us to be saved by his life (Romans 5:10). Christ was raised from the dead. He is the living Messiah. He is not simply a good teacher, a good leader, or a prophet. He is the first begotten from the dead (Revelation 1:5). There will be thousands (or millions) who will be begotten from the dead when Jesus returns. The dead in Christ will rise first (1 Thessalonians 4:16).
Bible prophecies usually center around Christ, the Lamb, who will become the absolute monarch of this planet (Revelation 19:16). And the fulfillment of the prophecies are insured by his Father, the infinite force of the universe.
“Remember the former things of old: for I [am] God, and [there is] none else; [I am] God, and [there is] none like me. Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times [the things] that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executes my counsel from a far country: yes, I have spoken [it], I will also bring it to pass. I have purposed [it]; I will also do it” (Isaiah 46:9-11).
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