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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Philippians 3:11, #3
In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. (Ephesians 1:13,14)
When we first receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior, placing our faith in the blood atonement made by Him, God gives us a portion of eternal life in our Spirit. We have an earnest, a pledge, a seal, a guarantee, a foretaste of God's Spirit in us. Our sins are washed away by the blood of the cross. We are forgiven all our transgressions. We are covered by the blood of God's Lamb so that in the Day of Wrath God will pass over us. God hears us when we pray. We have access in worship and supplication to the Mercy Seat in Heaven. In the Spirit, God raises us to His right hand in Christ.
Our discipleship thereafter consists of laying hold on eternal life until every part of our personality has been filled with Divine Life.
Each day of our walk on the earth, eternal death and eternal life struggle for mastery over us. If we serve the Lord Jesus we will grow until we are filled with life. Then, when He appears from Heaven, He will fill our bodily form with eternal life. This is what Paul was striving to attain, to grasp, to arrive at, to apprehend.
If we do not serve the Lord Jesus, spiritual death will supplant the life that was given us when we accepted Jesus. The Lord will warn us and rebuke us. If we do not heed His voice but continue living in the sins of the flesh, the day will come when our spiritual life is gone. We shall not, in that case, attain the resurrection Paul was seeking.
The soul that sins shall die. The Lord Jesus did not come to waive the eternal law of fellowship with God, the law of life. Rather, the Lord Jesus came to make it possible for us to turn from our sins and enter eternal life.
Small is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to life, and few people find that path.
Current doctrine has changed the Christian Gospel from a pursuit of life to a "religious faith" that in actuality is no faith at all. It is instead a mental belief in certain theological positions that have been taken from a few "key verses" of the Scriptures.
In numerous instances the believers of today are walking in the flesh and reaping death. They are immature in the things of eternal life. They are under the impression that if they believe in their theological positions they will inherit eternal life in Heaven. But Heaven is the source, not the place, of eternal life. The distinction here is of importance.
Let us list some definitions concerning eternal life, and then we will proceed to examine the context of Philippians 3:11 and see if we can gain a clearer understanding of what Paul has set forth as the "mark" toward which every saint is to be pressing.
To be continued.