Faith Filled Family Magazine September 2016 | Page 61

giveness, constantly seeking out
knowledge, and always walking
in faith is an endless moving of
the gifts and the fruit of the Spirit.
This is all part of that plan. The
Lord wanted us to look to him
for answers, and he wanted us
to pray. He wanted us to walk
in faith and tell others about the
truths we know about our Father.
3 John 1:4 ~ I have no greater
joy than to hear that my children
walk in truth.
SPIRITUAL DEATH
Considering physical death may
seem like an end here in this life,
but it is spiritual death that should
be more on our minds. When
speaking of spiritual death, I am
referring to the separating yourself from the Lord, not the death
of your spiritual body. Am I talking
about committing sin? I am referring to it, but what I am talking
about is submitting to God. Most
people talk about God as if he
sits in Heaven tallying their daily
sins. You mean, you thought he
did? Let’s go back to some scripture talk about salvation. Jesus
died on the cross, and he took
the sins of the world with him.
Yours, mine, everyone’s, all of
them- he died for everyone. He
did it one time, before all of us
were here and before we committed them. God doesn’t count
our sins against us. There are no
worse sins than another. They
are all weighted the same, and
they are w iped clean.

ing the relationship of sin and
separation. Some Christians will
tell you exactly who is going to
Heaven and who is going to Hell,
as if they had some direct line to
God himself, but no one does.
It’s in the Bible though, how to
determine who these people
are?

John 16:8-16 ~ 8 And when he
comes, he will prove the world
wrong concerning sin and righteousness and judgment— 9
concerning sin, because they do
not believe in me; 10 concerning righteousness, because I
am going to the Father and you
will see me no longer; 11and
concerning judgment, because
Firstly, let’s discuss something the ruler of this world has been
very clear- Only those who condemned. 12 “I have many
submit to God and accept him as more things to say to you, but
their Lord and savior, will receive you cannot bear them now. 13
the eternal life he offers. Those But when he, the Spirit of truth,
who do not submit to receive comes, he will guide you into all
eternal life, the Bible is very clear truth. For he will not speak on
and says there is no eternal life his own authority, but will speak
for those, only eternal separa- whatever he hears, and will
tion from God; no Heaven, that tell you what is to come. 14He
means Hell. Secondly, those will glorify me, because he will
Christians who tell you who, receive from me what is mine
when and why? Not so. It is their and will tell it to you. 15 Everyjob, my job, our job to share the thing that the Father has is mine;
word, to tell about eternal life, that is why I said the Spirit will
but to not to mark a list of an indi- receive from me what is mine
vidual’s sin on earth. There’s no and will tell it to you. 16 In a little
need for anyone to keep count while you will see me no longer;
here either, for those sins have again after a little while, you will
been washed away.
see me.

It’s easy for people to remember every sin or every wrong,
whether it is a sin from the
Bible, or a man-made law being
broken. However, the forgotten
words are those spoken by such
as the Pharisees who chastised and condemned the sinful,
adulterous woman who was
not concerned about her salvation. Jesus was concerned for
her, and he spoke to the woman
“Well if that’s the case Brenda, kindly and gently, and he told
then we are all forgiven, and her to go and sin no more. He
everyone is going to Heaven.” was not as gentle with the Phari“So, what’s this about spiritual sees who were there to spread
death, committing sins and sep- his word to the unsaved. For the
aration from God you were talk- Holy Spirit convicts of sin, not
ing about?” The basis behind brothers and sisters in Christ.
spiritual death is understand-

BODY AND SPIRIT
It was God’s plan for all of his
children for the physical body to
release the spirit and all of the
memories from this life with it
into the spirit world when death
occurs. Our time here was made
for us to feel the influence of God
and to make the choice to follow
him. During that time here, we
were also able to be tempted by
Satan to choose sin over what
God offered us. This made our
salvation truly a choice of good
or evil.
1 Peter 3:13-18 ~ 13 And who
is he that will harm you, if ye be
followers of that which is good?