1 Thessalonians 3:13
13 To the end [eis] he may stablish [sterizo] your [humon] hearts [kardia] unblameable
[amemptos] in [en] holiness [hagiosune] before [emprosthen] God, [theos] even [kai] our [hemon] Father, [pater] at [en] the coming [parousia] of our [hemon] Lord [kurios] Jesus [Iesous] Christ [Christos] with [meta] all [pas] his [autos] saints. [hagios] KJV-Interlinear
13 so that He may establish your
hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our
Lord Jesus with all His saints. NASB
The objective of your
spiritual life, is to establish, to complete, to open up your eyes to truth, to
make you, your soul finished as it is intended to be.
When you were
conceived, you were not a completed person.
When you were born, you were not a competed person. As a child you were not a completed person,
and even with all the experience and academic learning in the world, you will
still not be a completed person.
The temporal side of
your life, the physical side, is only a small part of your life. The larger side is your spiritual side, and
that begins only with salvation which is obtained by faith in Christ. But even then your life is not complete. With study and learning and experience, you
begin to grow up in your spiritual life, and still your life is not
complete.Once you advance to spiritual
maturity, then you begin to near the point of completion, but not yet.
Maturity is your first
objective in this life which prepares you, which establishes you, which readies
you for your evaluation before Christ, at the Judgment Seat of Christ.
An unblamable heart is
one in which doctrine resides and virtually controls the thought processes of
the soul.Truth is doctrine, and all
that is fair and good and decent and more, are its productions.
In holiness is another
way of saying a life that is not unholy.
Holiness is the combination of righteousness and justice. Rightness is Gods perfect essence. Justice is Gods perfect cleansing process of
all evil, filth, dirt, etc.Therefore
the holy life is the person who resides in fellowship, with wisdom at the helm
of their soul.
Jesus Christ is the
living word.It is He, who resides
inside of your soul in the form of the written scriptures which you learn. Since doctrine comes from God, since doctrine
is God, then it is God who forms your spiritual life, not you. Your spiritual transformation is the artwork
of His fingers, not the result of your efforts.
And one day, Jesus will
come to execute the Rapture.He will be
attended by all the angels in heaven.
They will descend in to
the clouds only, and will not be observed by anyone on this earth. But when He shouts for those who belong to
Him, all believers at that time, then all believers who have already died
during our dispensation and all who remain alive at that moment in time, will
be instantly caught up off of the planet into the air, and assembled before
Him.
We will all be
transformed instantly from our physical bodies or present condition if
previously deceased, into resurrection bodies, and there before Christ every
knee will bend, every head will bow, before the presence of His glory.
And then the second
greatest victory parade will begin as we all head off to heaven, for the next
great event in our lives, the Judgment Seat of Christ and each of our personal
evaluations.
While back on the
earth, confusion and chaos will begin to unfold, as the planet will head into
its last seven years of satanic and human rule, and near extinction of
humanity.
Meanwhile, each one of
us will stand before Christ and receive our just reward. For those who have ignored their spiritual
life, there will be no additional reward.
For those who have had some semblance of spiritual growth, there will be
some reward.
But for those who have
established their lives in doctrine, have grown to spiritual maturity, have
lived a productive spiritual life, then there will be vast beyond-imagination rewards.
This is the result of
your persistence in an open minded and genuine pursuit of Bible doctrine,
regardless of the circumstances, good or bad, that you might encounter in this
life.
And while you are
advancing in your spiritual life in preparation for the next appearance of
Christ, and the greatest destiny beyond your imagination, the rest of the world
is deeply involved in the debate over who will receive health care, and who
will not.Who will make the decisions
for your life and where you will fit in, to the statistics of government policy.
Mans good intentions
never end up that way.Why? Because humanity does not have the wherewithal
to carry out his own plans.And in the
midst of failure, rationing, inclusion and exclusion, random choosing, and
private preference always enter into the equation.
The usual historical targets
for exclusion, the blacks, the Jews, the disabled, the odd, the homosexuals,
and add to that group, the Christians, will all be treated with contempt and
suffer accordingly.
So if you are a mentally
disturbed Christian black Jew with a handicap and homosexual preferences, then
your life is how does that proverbial saying go .. ?
The world will try to
run your life, but you need to turn to doctrine and allow God to take charge of
your life.Alone you cannot defeat the
world, but through Christ, the world cannot defeat you.
We seem to be at
another major crossroads in history, as Christ allows man to maneuver himself
into position for what God has had planned for a very long time. And whether that maneuvering occurs in the next
few months or not for several decades, makes no difference if you are in
pursuit of your spiritual life.
Jesus Christ controls
history, not you, and certainly not any government. Stick with your Bible studies and focus on
establishing your life in preparation for Christs appearance, whenever that will
be.
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