How far are you willing to go to prove Jesus rose from the dead? All His disciples are witnesses of this. Those who believe in the resurrection of the dead without seeing it are blessed. We are more blessed than the apostles if we believe and live that Jesus rose from the dead. We believe the apostle’s teachings from Jesus that are declared to us. We get to prove through our lives that Jesus is alive and active, sharper than any two-edged sword. Most religious people then and today, still believe that God is of the dead and not of the living. A sinner saved by grace teaching is teaching death, as sin is death. This is why these people are GREATLY mistaken, God is not the god of the dead, but of the living, all live to Him. Jesus came to give life and it more abundantly. How far are willing to go with this?
John 20:29 Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
Mark 12:24 Jesus answered and said to them, “Are you not therefore mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures nor the power of God? 25 For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. 26 But concerning the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the burning bush passage, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? 27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. You are therefore greatly mistaken.”
People are all talk and no action. This is true in many congregations. They confess that Jesus is Lord, and yet, they don’t live Jesus is Lord. How you live proves what you believe. All Christians will all sit on the judgment seat of Christ, not for what they confessed, but for what they have done. This is why faith without works is dead. You can’t have faith in Jesus without living it. In the early church, they were called Christians. They lived what they believed. Do you see the evidence today of this? How far are you willing to go with this?
2 Corinthians 3:2 You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; 3 clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.
2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
Romans 1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written: “But the righteous one will live by faith.”
This blog is not to condemn you, but to give you a start. If you believe Jesus is Lord, then live as He is. You carry His Name. Most use His Name in prayer, but don’t exercise His Name in all avenues of life. Those who are baptized are already married to Him and carry His Name. Don’t be surprised by great circumstances coming against you. It’s not against you, but the Kingdom in you. If you lived what the scriptures say, then you will have opposition. Two kingdoms are at war against each other. The enemy doesn’t want people to live what they believe, they are freaked out about Jesus. We get the great opportunity to represent Jesus as ambassadors. We get to do greater works than He did if you live Jesus is Lord. How far are you willing to go with this?
Romans 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Matthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has been treated violently, and violent men take it by force.
2 Corinthians 5:20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.