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Mourning

1Thess.4:13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.

Matthew 8:22 But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."

We are as Christian's to honor all humans, not just the ones that are popular and that we like. That is a fundamental biblical truth of all bibles.

Titus.3:2 to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

Of late there has been a number of very powerful people that have died we see no limits of money, attention lavished upon them in death as was there in life.

This national attention causes people to weep and mourn and heap up in greater glory in death than sometimes in life. This spirit is almost a worshipful spirit for people that have had profound power and glory on earth.

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Christian's above all should take these times and judge what is righteous so they themselves are not caught up in the spirit of the world, which they are no part of. When we humans put so much emphasis on those that are great, while almost callous toward the poor and unfortunate among us.

Proverbs 19:4 Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.

Proverbs 19:7 All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

Proverbs 19:17 He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Proverbs 28:11 The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

This subject is not so easy to understand when quoted above are verses taken from our bibles that conflict that actions of many Christian's who mourn greatly when a famous person dies, but give little or no attention to those dying daily that are not famous people!

Luke 18:22 When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me."

Matt.6:2 Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

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In other words, if being no part of the world is the world then how are we no part of the world? Is there light and darkness on this subject or rather shadows of gray where we are basing our thinking on our emotions?

Matt.6:19 "Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
6:20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don't break through and steal; 6:21 for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

James. 2:1 My brothers, don't hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. 2:2 For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue{or, meeting}, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in; 2:3 and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, "Sit here in a good place;" and you tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool;"
2:4 haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

Christ No Part of The World

Did Christ seek the glory of men? No he did not, but that isn't good enough, we must ask ourselves why did he not seek glory of humans?

John 8:50 But I don't seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.

John 2:25 and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

What was in humans that Christ knew so that he flatly rejected glory coming from men and woman? Why was Christ no part of world thinking in this matter, can we answer that question honestly from our bibles?
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Did Christ mourn the world leaders at his time in death, did he glorify them? Moreover, did the world leader mourn the Son of God in his death?

Isa.53:3 He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn't respect him. 53:4 Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. 53:5 But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

Now let us not reason that the nations were not practicing national mourning for their great men and woman at Christ time because Israel was under Roman domination while Christ was on earth and any reasonable person knows the great praise and glory given to their leaders and heroes in life and in death.

Luke 21:12 But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name's sake.

Luke 22:25 He said to them, "The kings of the nations lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called 'benefactors.'

In fact Christ rebuked the leaders of Israel that decorated the memorial tombs of kings and prophets that they were actually the ones that had the same spirit as their forefathers who killed them in the first place.

Matthew 23:34 Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

Matthew 23:29 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous, 23:30 and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn't have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.' 23:31 Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

Did Christ and his disciples decorated the tombs of the prophets and of the kings? Furthermore, how did Christ react when John the Baptist was behead by king Herod? Did he and his disciples mourn like the nations do to honor John? Where did Christ give a long glowing eulogy for John? In fact, where did Christ or his disciples ever give eulogies for the dead?

Matthew 8:22 But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."

Matthew 22:32 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?'{Exodus 3:6} God is not the God of the dead, but of the living."

Why was Christ thinking and action so unlike the world of his time, which world is like the world of our time? Did Christ mourn as the rest do for the world? In other words, if there was a demarcation between light and darkness Christ certainly never blurred that line at all he was the light and no darkness was found in him.

1 John 1:5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Has Christ changed has he mellowed into an easy chair religion and is now found in governments of our world? Most Christian's think so, most believe if its done in Christ name dedicated to God then God and Christ are in mankind kingdoms, and/or as we call them today governments.

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

John 16:33 I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."

No part of the world has become a meaningless statement when mixed into world goverments accept to say a Christian's do not act like the world, they do less evil than the world because they believe in Christ Jesus.

John 17:14 I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

But is that what Christ was teaching when he said: “they are no part of the world, as I am no part of the world”? Is Christ the same today as he was yesterday?

James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

God's People No Part of The World

God's people have always been separated from the world, i.e, no part of the world.

1 John 5:4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

1 John 5:5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

God's kingdom on earth in the nation of Israel under his laws was implicitly instructed not to commingle into the nations politics, worship, and commerce of the nations surrounding them. They were to put no faith and hope into their gods, and/or the power of their armies to protect Israel.

They were not to have marriage alliance with the nations, learn their languages, eat their foods, dress like them, and/or think like they did. In other words, was God just having a bad day or was there a divine point? But do we consider now days that such standards of pure worship to be extreme thinking, that is, of being no part of the world?

1 John 2:15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him. 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.2:17 The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.

How could such an extreme view that a little leaven from the world corrupt all of Israel into false worship of God, is God an extremist?

Exodus 12:19 Seven days shall there be no yeast found in your houses, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.

Matthew 13:33 He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures{literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 litres or a bit more than a bushel} of meal, until it was all leavened."

1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

James 4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Did Christ so love the world that he became part of it?

Why did Christ reject the power to rule over all the nations of our world that Satan offered him, if being part of the world is no big thing? Could Christ be the light to the world if he became a part of the world?

James.3:11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water? 3:12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.
3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you?

Did Christ come from this world, or was he sent from another world to live in our world? Why did God transfer the life of his only begotten son into the womb of Marry?

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Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

Why would God do that if he could have taken anyone of his prophets, kings, or judges to be the light of the world, can light come from darkness? No one else was called the light of the world, but Christ, he didn't come of his own initiative, but by the will of his Father YHWH.

Luke 11:34 The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.

Matthew 19:16 Behold, one came to him and said, "Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?"19:17 He said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."

Romans 7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Does not the message resonate that Christ was no part of this world in God's very actions in sending us his Son Christ Jesus? Christ was without sin, he was separate from sinners, he was unblemished from the corruption of this world, he was the perfect pass-over lamb of God!
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Hebrews 7:26 For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
Connecting the dots of sin to the World

Sin is the “key” it is not knowledge of God, its not doing good works, its not position of power and honor among humans on earth it is sin that alienates us from God in religion, in government, in commerce.

Ecclesiastes 7:20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

One could be the king of Israel and be a worldly even if the people considered them no part of the world. Why? Because they were not separated from their sins by the blood of God's pass-over lamb, and/or the atonement of national sins by the blood for the entire nations. In other words, it was not a outward showing up, or preaching it, or teaching it, it was an acted of faith in the power of blood that made a person no part of this world in the physical Israel.
That is, something only God knew and seen by reading the heart, not the acts of the flesh in false humility!

Hebrews 10:6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.

Hebrews 10:8 Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law).

Col.2:18 Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind.
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The power of God's law was without power if it was not instituted with blood. God does not associate with corruption of sin. He does not become darkness so we can become light. God is the light and he never changes from all eternity into eternity.

James.1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. 1:14 But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. 1:15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.
1:16 Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers. 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

To stop our alienation of being of the world as sinner must come from the power of God after, and only after, someone pays the price to God for our sins. In other words, there could be no works, and/or self-goodness, that is, self righteousness under God's law and the law of Christ that thinking alienates us from God forgiveness of our debt of sin.

Did Christ pay for our sins so we can be part of this world?

Christ stated his kingdom was no part of this world, was he lying? What good work of any nation now or then redeems a person from sin? Was that not the entire point and structure of Israel's temple to removed sins judgment temporarily until God gave us the everlasting permanent solution to sin once for all time the reality the prophets longed for?

Hebrews 4:15 For we don't have a high priest who can't be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

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Hebrews 9:26 or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Hebrews 9:28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

Hebrews 10:18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

Hebrews 7:27 who doesn't need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

Was Christ not the light, the reality of God's finished works for mankind in the once for all times forgiving of our sins by the superior blood of Christ?

Where is Christ today, is he at the top of world governments, is he at the top of world renown religion with their renowned leaders? Is he at the top of massive corporationd having wealth beyond human imaginations?

1Cor. 1:26 For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;
1:27 but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;
1:28 and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:
1:29 that no flesh should boast before God.

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Where is Christ today? Is he found in the flesh, is he even alive? Good questions are they not? You see, if that were true that he is in the world in the things of this world, from government, religion, and commerce, why didn't the message not change for his disciples after he died in his flesh and was raised into the Spirit of God?

1 John 2:15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

1 John 4:5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

Revelation 3:10 Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

Why were his disciples all them and those to come delivered out of darkness, i.e., the world into the light that is, being made no part of this world? The message is the same from Adam to Christ God is the light and no darkness is in him.

James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

1 Timothy 6:17 Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

Colossians 2:8 Be careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

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Galatians 4:3 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

Being no part of the word at its core concept is being in Christ who is not part of this world. No lets not take that and throw it out into the fleshly yeast teachings of all false religion. The bible is saying being in Christ is done by the power of God's will, not mankind, or by knowledge, or our goodness, or power, or position and/or anything else under the son.

1 Corinthians 2:4 My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

1 Corinthians 2:5 that your faith wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

2 Corinthians 13:4 For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.

Ephesians 1:19 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

Ephesians 1:21 far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

Ephesians 2:2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

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No! But by the power of God's own will to do or not to do as he pleased as King of all kings. The transfer of Christ life into ours lives is because we are created new by God's power making us belong to Christ life not our own.

1 Peter 2:21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you{TR reads "us" instead of "you"} an example, that you should follow his steps.

1 Peter 4:11 If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

In other words, we do not make ourselves no part of the world because we mentally ascent to a bible teaching or associate with some group whom has coined itself no part to the world.

Romans 4:25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

Romans 6:4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Romans 8:11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Ephesians 1:20 which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places.

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Ephesians 2:6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

Colossians 2:12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

No! We are no part of this world by the power of living incorruptible life Christ Jesus. Christ kingdom is the new heavens that can't be shaken by the power of sin in mankind. Those in Christ have no sin. Listen to what the Spirit said to the congregation of God.

1 John 3:5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

1 John 3:6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

1 John 3:9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.

Christ is sinless, we are not, not unless are made into Christ our life. No! Not that we bring our life to Christ by the power of our own will. No! The bible teaches Christ is our life by the power of God will not ours, we are a new creation without sin because we are in him Christ life and that is what take us out of this world by removing our sins. The world is the yeast we are to be separate from by the power of Christ life not to fornicate with and mourn with.

1 Corinthians 10:17 Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.

1 Corinthians 10:21 You can't both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can't both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.
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John 16:28 I came out from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father."

John 16:33 I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."

John 17:15 I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

John 17:16 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

In Christ our life we have the works of the body of Christ and his will, the Spirit, which Christ is our life. Is Christ incorporating his life, that is, his body, the temple of God into our world, the old creation? Is he mixing light into darkness, and/or corruption of sin into his new heavens, the new creation of God without corruption of sin? And/or is he commanding us not to be part of this world and deceive ourselves into thinking that a corrupt tree can produce good fruit?

John 18:36 Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here."

Hebrews 11:7 By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Hebrews 11:38 (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.

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Not Mourning As The Mankind Does

God is the God of the living, not the dead! But the question begs when do Christian's come alive, at death, and/or when they receive the life of Christ in them? Why would God mourn the dead when he is nothing but life, without death? Yes, God is incorruptible so death can't known him or corrupt him.

Romans 8:10 If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

Ephesians 2:1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

Ephesians 2:5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

Colossians 2:13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

Death is defeated without a chance of coming close to God whom is incorruptible life. Life cannot mourn, life does not know death, only those in death, know death, not those in Christ.

Revelation 1:18 and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades{or, Hell}.

John 5:21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
Romans 1:4 who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,

Romans 4:17 As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations."{Genesis 17:5} This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

Why would the resurrected life mourn the world leaders or any other important person as if they earned some merit into heaven because of fame and good works?

Why would the person of Christ having power over death and Hades propagate such a weak things as death into his own body? How could Christ mourn death when he is the very life giving us life?

Romans 6:9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!

Romans 6:13 Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Romans 8:34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

Romans 14:9 For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

Is not the celebration of life Christ Jesus in us? Haven't we received all things belonging to Christ in his life, by being a member therein? Do we not comprehend that we gained life when we were put to death in our flesh in Christ and was raised with Christ in heavenly places, or were we? Are we stilling mourning those dead who bury the dead?

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1Thess. 4:13 But we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, who have no hope. 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

Here we must take noted very carefully, where is the mourning for Christ brothers on earth when the sheep and goats didn't even know who they were?

Matt. 25:34 Then the King will tell those on his right hand, 'Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; 25:35 for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in. 25:36 I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.'
25:37 "Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?
25:38 When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you? 25:39 When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?' 25:40 "The King will answer them, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers

Are the angels mourning the death of Christ brothers? Where in the written Word of God after the Holy Spirit birthed Christ apostles out of their flesh into the Spirit do we find a place we must go and worship at, in, or where did those in Christ mourn with great mourning the apostles death? Where was dignity and honor bestowed upon them as the foundation stone of Christ?

Romans 4:4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as debt.

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Hebrews 11:26 accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

Revelation 11:18 The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth."

Revelation 22:12 "Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.

Like it or not they were citizen of a new world, not of this world, their recognition and glory was Christ not their own their glory was God's glory rightfully were its belongs that glory makes a silent witness to power of God in our creation each day, but God is not mourn death or boasting in his works so we remember not to forget him.

Philippians 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

We have the very simple memorial of Christ death, nothing elaborate, nothing bespeaking greatness in power and wealth. God didn't enshrined Christ body, or his memories in any human made temple, religion, government, hardly a mention not even in the book of Revelations.

1 John 3:1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

1 John 3:13 Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

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Why are Christian's trying to have a legacy isn't that a worship of dead, as if the dead can benefit those living in Christ. How is that possible when they have received all things in Christ. How is that possible to leave and after-birth to be read about in the living life of Christ?

1Cor.3:20 And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless."{Psalm 94:11} 3:21 Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, 3:22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours, 3:23 and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

Are we trying to extend our power and legacy after we die, or giving glory to life, Christ Jesus in his new heavens?

The first kingdom, that is, the domain of man's will was founded when Adam sinned. Adam's kingdom of being a god to do as he chose to judge good and evil for his life, God did not become a part of as if God condoned Adam's sin as a little things. He did not say: “Do your own will because that is my will.” No that is of the world and false region laden with yeast from a corrupt heart stealing the truth of Christ own life.

Without God's kingdom Adam died, and everyone of his works die with him, none of them had life in them. Adam never got back into God's works by his motives, his think, and/or works put him back into God's kingdom he died in his sins the ones he chose as a god over the will of God's will and works for him.

God rejected Adam in sin casting him out of his works, his kingdom works for mankind. He barred the door, letting no one in since, not until the last Adam, Christ.

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In Christ the door, our going through that one opening we are made fit, sinless by his life to do the works of God for his kingdom, not for these kingdoms of this earth which are opposed to God's Son Christ Jesus. That is the message from the beginning there is no darkness in light and we must be in the light to do God's works, that is, his will for the body of Christ, not the body of Satan, and wicked spirit force that end in everlasting death.

1 John 1:5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Hebrews 11:33 who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,{Daniel 6:22-23}

Matthew 4:8 Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory. 4:9 He said to him, "I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me."
4:10 Then Jesus said to him, "Get behind me,{TR and NU read "Go away" instead of "Get behind me"} Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.'"{Deuteronomy 6:13}

Completed: December 09, 2018

by: Daniel a Slave of Christ Jesus