EVERLASTING LIFE! IS IT A DREAM, LIKE SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE? (Sub-title The Matrix of True Love!)

1. WHY DO SOME  THINK IT'S JUST A DREAM?

2. WHY DO SOME FEEL, "NO, I'M NOT GOOD ENOUGH, FOR EVERLASTING LIFE!"

3.  THE MATRIX OF TRUE LOVE?

            WHY DO SOME  THINK IT'S JUST A DREAM?

       Basically, it's a lack of faith!  However, millions today have very strong faith in the hope of everlasting life.  Why so?  Let's define faith first!  This is important!: Faith is the assured expectation of what is hoped for,+

 the evident demonstration* of realities that are not seen. (Hebrews 11:1)  To illustrate this; as long as we know that we have paid our light bill, and we have a working bulb in the light fixture, we know when we click the switch, the light is going to come on.  Likewise, we can't see the electrons, but we know they are there because the light glows.  Ones have made all kinds of arguments on why they don't

 believe, but when it comes down to the facts, it is always that one has not fully tasted that the lord is kind!  Notice what 1 Peter 2:1-3 states:  "So rid yourselves of all badness+

 and deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all backbiting. 2 As newborn infants,+ form a longing for the unadulterated* milk of the word, so that using it you may grow to salvation,+ 3 provided you have tasted*

 that the Lord is kind." We have all heard the amazing stories of God's Power of parting the Red Sea, and the story of Shadrack, Mashack, and Dbendego, but one story stands out above all: The resurrection of Lazarus:  At John 11:43,44

 43 When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice: “Lazʹa·rus, come out!”+ 44 The man who had been dead came out with his feet and hands bound with wrappings, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them: “Free him and let him go.”  However, in Luke's account, being that he was a Physician, noticed that his flesh was like a baby's flesh, truly an awesome display of power in all accounts.  Surely a God that can do this can easily give his servants everlasting life

  "NO, I'M NOT GOOD ENOUGH, FOR EVERLASTING LIFE!"

                The devil is behind this reasoning.  This is similar to some of the words of Job's false comforters. Romans 6:23 lets us know, that everlasting life is a free gift from God 23 For the wages sin pays is death,+ but the gift God gives is everlasting life by Christ Jesus our Lord.+     So how can anyone not be good enough, because Christ died for all.  Provided that one takes advantage of the hope provided by the value of his death. 

                     THE MATRIX OF TRUE LOVE?

               In Genesis, we find that in the beginning with the first human pair.  That is when true love began.  Everlasting life was God's purpose then, and it has always been his purpose.  He can't abandon his original purpose.(Gen 2:23, 24)  One day soon, in the future, the earth will be filled with healthy, righteous obedient mankind. (Rev. 7:9,10) States: After this, I saw, and look! a great crowd, which no man was able to number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues,*

+ standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes;+ and there were palm branches in their hands.+ 10 And they keep shouting with a loud voice, saying: “Salvation we owe to our God, who is seated on the throne,+ and to the Lamb.”+  All who heed God's warnings and learn to obey his will will be there, and soon after this event, the dead will rise to join them.

Von Bro'