Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

Matt.8:21 Another of his disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father." 8:22 But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."

God is a God of living and not the dead, but how does a dead person bury another dead person? Jesus words here are a basic principal that we have seemed to have loss in our times? Death to God are those remaining in their sins (Alinated from his Spirit).

Matthew 22:32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living.

John 4:10 In answer Jesus said, If you had knowledge of what God gives freely and who it is who says to you, Give me water, you would make your prayer to him, and he would give you living water.

When Adam and Eve sinned they were dead to God, not some what alive, or just dying from sin, but dead to association with God by The Spirit of life. This is an important distinction for all Christian's to understand, and what is that distinction? Death is in our flesh, life comes too us from outside ourselves from God's Spirit.

John 6:57 As the living Father has sent me, and I have life because of the Father, even so he who takes me for his food will have life because of me.

John 11:26 And no one who is living and has faith in me will ever see death. Is this your faith?
Romans 8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:

Christ came from above, he was indwelt with God's Spirit he was called life, and he gave us life, by bring us the life of the Father that Adam and Eve lost my their sinning, and than passing death on too us the human race. But how did Christ bring us life?

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

John 4:23 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.

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.

He gave us his righteous perfect life, one without sin. Hence, one without death indwelling it from sin. Christ gave us the merit of a perfect life that we could never get once being a sinner. It not as if a person can be a sinner, and than work their way out of being a sinner by good works done in their life time. No! We must be given someone else good works, and/or merit (redeemed purchased).

Ephesians 2:9 not of works, that no one would boast.

God sent us life, the Son of God, now humans accepting Christ would be anointed, reborn into his life, accounted sinless, and received life, from the Spirit. When we read the scriptures let us remember when Christ was here on earth in the flesh, he was completing the law, and preparing his disciple for the main event, and what was the main event? The outpouring of the Holy Spirit making them son's of God, accounted sinless, and in life (Christ Jesus).

John 14:17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

John 14:26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Jesus impressed upon their yet fleshly minds statements that were shocking to the flesh, so that later when they received the Holy Spirit it would make perfect sence by the life in them. “In life”, is far different than being in death. When his followers received Christ life by Holy Spirit experiencing it, than they understood the death they had lived in from child birth (they would know good and evil).

2 Corinthians 5:4 For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Titus.3:3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. 3:4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared, 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, 3:6 whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;

Death can only bring death, it takes life to bring life, if one is dead to God (Spirit) than when they bury their own, it is the dead burying the dead. But those alive in Christ (Spirit) don't die at all they don't bury the dead, and mourn as the rest do. God is a God of the living, not the dead! Let us also remember facts, that is, truth are not based upon emotions one cannot change the truth by strong feelings, Christ is not judging us by stating the truth about the condition of death, or the dead. He is stating a fact that life must come from him and through him as God's channel, we can chose life or death.

Gen.2:16 Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."

Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;

John 6:53 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.

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