‘The Height of Life’s Expression’

What do you think would be the height of your life’s expression?

Some would say one or more of the following:

To be rich.

To be famous.

To be very intelligent.

To be well-known by the public.

To be loved by everybody.

To be the greatest of all others in (something).

To have a wonderful family.

And each of these could be broken down into millions of other things.

Now let’s ‘cut to the chase’:

Would any, or all of these, give you the deep-down satisfaction that you really want in your life?

Through the age of man, many have sought for deep and constant satisfaction. Some have had a great family. Many have been rich.

Some have developed great knowledge, through education, and studies. Many have become great champions in various things, and were very well known to almost the whole world.

And there are so many who have accomplished great things; and many are even registered for the same in the ‘Guinness World Book of Records’.

Others have made their marks in society, and have been written up in history as great leaders, musicians, artists, explorers, government officials, heroes, mountain climbers, and many feats and deeds of which they have had great acclaim in world historical records, each in their fields of endeavor, for various reasons, in many different times and places.

I have met a few of them on the street, at concerts, and other such gatherings where they might be seen, written to them in prison, seen them die at an early age, some of them under weird circumstance, and have mourned their deaths with those who followed them in their efforts to reach that height of their life’s expression.

There are also so many who have done wonderful things, but were never recorded in any known books or accounts of those things which they have done, even though we of later times have benefited so much from their gifts to society, not even knowing how those things came to be.

Even others have designed (or concocted) a religion, even if there were already all kinds of religions in their locality such as Athens, as Luke records in
Acts 17:22-23, and in Canaan, as recorded in Leviticus 18:1-30, and 20:1-27, which was the land given to Israel through the covenant God made with Abraham: Genesis 17.

So many have ‘achieved’ so many things in the about six thousand years man has lived on the earth; some good, some not so good.

But those ‘many’ felt that they had to express their lives in some great way, and make a name for themselves, as Nimrod, when he instigated the building of the tower of Babel (Babylon: recorded in Genesis 11:6-10, for the people was one race of people, and they all the one world language) which effort provoked God, so that He changed every person’s language, so that it could not be understood by any other person on earth, and God also reformulated their DNA in each of their bodies, so that all of the different ‘races’ were developed over the next few, to several, generations, as we see in the mainstream of each of those specific ‘races’ today.

And by that move of God, He made all peoples equal: each race, with their specific knowledge and skillful abilities, by which they could then make great contributions to the total success of the whole world.

What then? Was their fight to ‘finish first’, and to ‘be the best’, worth what many of them who felt they must ‘attain’ now must face in Eternity?

Or is there something else we must seriously consider, as we go through life, just to realize at the point of our demise, that our life does not end when our flesh dies? Your soul still lives on, and on, for you are not your flesh, but a living soul within a body of flesh, and blood, and bone:

Genesis 2:7:
 7) "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath (spirit, soul) of life; and man became a living soul."

So then, man alone, and no other creature which God made, had a 'living soul'; therefore, no animal, or fowl, or sea creature, or creeping thing, or any other thing which moves upon the earth, or in the air, or in the water, shall ever leave the universe, as man shall, to be in one of two places until the final judgment of the wicked: heaven, or hell, where the life of the soul shall never end, and neither shall either place go away or cease to be.

Why does our flesh die?

Our flesh must die, for that is the sentence of our flesh, because it committed sin while we (a living soul) were living in it.

Romans 5:12: The sin of Adam brought sin and death to our flesh:
12) “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world (through the door of Adam’s flesh, which every generation became heir to), and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.”

Hebrews 9:27: Paul, the apostle obviously wrote this epistle to us:
27) “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:“

Yes, we are ‘in the flesh’, and all the while we are in it, our flesh has the penalty of death to face, and our souls, an eternal fate after our death.

What is the nature of our flesh?

Galatians 5:24: For the unsaved, flesh is in control; for believers, it is not:
24) "And they that are Christ's (who have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ) have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts."

Yes, flesh draws (or drives) us away from God because it is inclined only to its own gratification through sin, and the pleasures of the world. Our flesh is not our friend, and it is not after any of the things of God. It therefore becomes the devil's battleground if untamed by its occupant: you and me.

Also, the judgment of sin is upon the earth, and the universe, for the land has been defiled by the sins of the people. Therefore, the earth, and the heaven (the universe) is also approaching its own end.

Where is that principle? Leviticus 18:1-30; Leviticus 20:1-27.

So God condemned the land which the Canaanites defiled, by their many gods, before which ‘gods’ they committed wickedness, by the sins of their flesh, in the vilest manners which any man's wayward undisciplined mind could imagine.

He then sent the army of Israel to purge the land He had promised Abraham that Israel would possess, and occupy.

And Israel did as God commanded, and purged the land, killing all its inhabitants, and all living in those specified areas, with their beasts, and then burning their cities to the ground, leaving nothing of the former inhabitants that defiled it.

What then, from this account, do you derive was the height of Israel’s expression of life was?

Of course. It was to obey the voice of the Lord; as they did: and so, they possessed the land.

Therefore, if the land is defiled (and this earth’s land certainly is), it must be destroyed.

But it will not be possessed by a ‘holy’ people, for God will make all things new; a new heaven and a new earth: and it shall be for ever, because it will be in Infinity, where the science is totally spiritual, as it was before the temporary natural science region, which is the earth and heaven (universe) as we know it.
(Revelation 21:1-7)

　
Temporary? Yes.

At the final judgment of God, all natural science, and the whole universe, and all that is in it, and every thing that pertains to it, will flee from the face of God in its judgment of ‘death’: total annihilation. Every natural thing will be dissolved, that it shall no longer exist.

Revelation 20:11: The final ‘white throne’ judgment of the wicked:
11) “And I (John) saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on it, from Whose face the earth and the heaven (universe) fled away; and there was found no place for them (any more).”

II Peter 3:10-13: Peter relates the end of the universe to believers:
10) "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night (unwarily, stealthily); in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11) "Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation (activity, thought and speech) and godliness,
12) "Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?"
　

　
Now, at this point, what would be the height of your life’s expression, as you look at it more closely, in the light of the preceeding word of truth?

I am praying that your answer will be, 'To live in that new heaven and new earth where only the sons of God will be, with God, and His Christ, our Savior.'

There is only one sure and approved way of God for us to achieve that 'life's expression’:

John 3:16: Jesus speaks to us Himself here:
16) “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son (Jesus), that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish (without hope, as the wicked, the unbelievers do, looking at the fate that awaits them in eternity), but have everlasting life.”

　
John 14:6: Also, Jesus tells us the only way to the Father:
6) “Jesus saith unto him (Thomas), ‘I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man comet unto the Father but by (believing in) Me.”
(See also John 14:1)

Acts 4:12: There is no way to be saved but by believing in Jesus:
12) “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men (but Jesus), whereby we must be saved.”

John 5:39-40: Jesus speaks to the Jews, and all non-believers:
39) “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of Me.
40) “And ye will not come to Me, that ye might have life.”

God loves you, ‘whosoever’: Love Him back.

Romans 5:8: God is sending His love to you today:
8) “But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

Believe in His Son, and become an eternal ‘son’ of God, the Father of believers in Jesus Christ; and be a 'born again' member of His own family…for ever!

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