Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

Col.3:1 If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. 3:2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

Human are born, and they die. According to scriptures we die from sin, some die prematurely, but all die from sin. However, what of so many Christian's who don't truly understand the subject of death from their bibles? They seem to not understand because of Adam sin we humans are dead to God even though we live a normal life upon earth for 70-80 years? So another words, dead how? Being able to associate, commune if you will, with the source of eternal life, like Adam had before sinning, and Christ always had because he was sinless.

1 John 5:18 We know that whoever is born of God doesn't sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn't touch him.

Galatians 3:22 But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

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

We are born into death, we are not born into life, that is, the life Adam lost for us. Thus, all things according to the scriptures of our old life before being made alive in Christ is dead. It was always dead because nothing within our fallen flesh is alive to God just as nothing within Adam's life after sinning was alive to God YHWH. Subsequently, for us to really understand any of the Greek scriptures including Revelation where its states; the rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand's years ended, we must first understand the condition of Death to the one saving us God YHWH.

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

Romans 6:11 Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Once we grasp this, we have a key to unlocking the context of the scriptures. In other words, the law is good, its is spiritual, and is from God. But we are dead in our sins, the walking dead if you will! God provides us blood (under the law) for atonement for certain sins, why? So we can act upon faith in the power of the blood which allows each person under the law atonement (remission removal of sins), and a standing with God in a holy nation. Without atonement we are dead in our sins (we cannot stand before God as righted). Many confuse works of law with atonement, how?

Exodus 12:7 They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.

Exodus 12:13 The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

Hebrews 10:4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

Hebrews 10:19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

Simply by thinking that a good work done by them in the name of God, atones sin. Causing a “work” to gain them merit, then they add merit to merit thinking they've gain by good works, life, but they don't, it is a lie! It is atonement in what God has provided to us that declares a person righteous, that is, not having sin before God that saves us. Hence, the law did not declare anyone righteous, it was the blood.

Hebrews 9:22 According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.

Ephesians 2:8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Now we turn to the apostle Paul's words above. Christ blood atoned once and for all times are judgment, to do that our sin had to be cleansed once for all times, but how? Simply by God declaring on Christ blood our flesh dead to his judgment any longer by his righteous law. Thus, if we are dead to sin, we are not upon this earth judgments of sin any longer, where must look to above to a new law of life administer too us by Spirit?

Titus 3:5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit.

Romans 10:9 that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 10:13 For, "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved."{Joel 2:32}

The world, and all that in it, its laws, its governments, commerce, and religion is dead to God, they are all built by death of men in death tying to avail themselves by good works to gain enough merit to have eternal life, an illusion, and the grand lie! Life comes from above the very thing Adam rebel against, his life did not come from himself, or the devil, nor his wife, he got it backwards! His life came from God, his life was sustained by God's power not his own. Christ did not get it backwards, he knew and obeyed the source of all life perfectly becoming responsible for our eternal life. The pattern we must follow, thus, the name Christian "in Christ".

Colossians 1:13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

Ephesians 3:16 that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;

Ephesians 3:20 Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.

Where is the source of our life the Christ? Not in death on earth, or the darkness of death, he is not under sins, or any of its laws which cannot give us life, because they are dead, created from death. Christ is life,and life is in him. The laws of Christ life are life. These brothers and sisters must remember they have been given a new birth from death into life. They cannot stay under the laws of death, no matter if they are righteous to the flesh or not (the flesh dead in Christ)! They must be under the laws of life found only in the life of Christ their redeemer. What is the mind of Christ, certain not death in judging what God has already stated is death throughout his written words, sin!

1Tim.1:9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 1:10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

Romans 3:20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 3:28 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

What is in Christ, is life, we must feed on that mind, but we cannot if we are feeding on death mind from below, found in the teachings of religion, or any person mind, which is not the mind of Christ. Christ mind comes to us from where? Above, through the Holy Spirit, but first we must be atone for, and than we must believe in God's power though the blood, and not in ourselves. This is how we are seated with Christ, fixing our minds on that truth of life, rejected by the whole world under death from sin. This is how one becomes a light to the world, by the oil of Christ by Holy Spirit not by intellectual understanding of the scriptures.

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

Philippians 3:9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

Galatians 6:2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Colossians 3:2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

Ephesians 4:10 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.

John 8:23 He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

John 3:31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

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