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Question 6 - October 16th, 2005
- The Purpose of Life
The purpose of life is...?
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Eternity: This is in regards to Question 5 of October 2nd, 2005. I am
answering the questions in a different order though. I have thought
about eternity. Time is marked by God's creation of the sun, by
which its concealing night comes. God lives in eternity. He's
infinite, but He became finite through the incarnation of our Lord
Jesus.
Right now, on the earth, we need to work for the building up of the
church and the Body of Christ. We need to have this vision to
produce the Body. For so long, many Christians have had the vision
of "I." "I want to go to heaven. I want to be a [so-called] good
Christian. I want...I want...I want...." No. We should stop this
concept. Instead, we should have the vision of the Body and what He
wants. He wants a corporate man to express Him and become the
perfected Bride our Lord desires. Christ's Bride is the Church. And,
we need to come to this realization. I noticed in the October 2nd
Bible Study, the city has been recognized as the church. We are the
church--all who believe into Lord Jesus. And we have much work to
do. Do you express God?
I have come to realize, by being a believer, that there are only two
kingdoms on this earth. The kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of
heaven. This is it. There is no inbetween as some think there are.
You are either in the kingdom of darkness or the kingdom of light
(heaven). No one can be in both. In order to arrive into the kingdom
of heaven one must be regenerated by beleiving into Lord Jesus and
calling upon His name. Jesus Christ is life! Praise the Lord! The
only way to walk in a manner worthy of God is not just to live for
Christ or live by Christ. We must live Christ. "How can we do this?"
you may ask. We should become like Him. Have His life and nature as
our life and nature. We do not need to be good. Good people do not
necessarily meet the requirement to enter into God's kingdom. In
order to be a Christian, we must not just be good men, we must be
God-men. I believe Athanasius brought this reality to the church,
that we must be God in life and nature but not in the Godhead. We
must die to the self daily and take on the aromatic virtues and
attributes of Christ.
Today, if you go to work, school, or etc, I do not doubt that you do
not see much life there. High school may sometimes be "the valley of
the shadow of death." Before one believes into the Lord, this one is
dead. This person may have the physical, human life, but not the
life of God, the eternal life.
In conclusion, it's not very complicated to be a Christian. We need
to have the vision of the Body. And, life is simply Jesus. So live
life.
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Posted by Crazy Lover of Lord Jesus to
RUHO - Malakara Syriac Orthodox Youth Forum
The purpose of life is to build the Body of Christ, the church,
like the Crazy Lover of Jesus said above. Not the physical building
but the people. To build up the Body does not merely include an
increase in the amount of members in the Body but also an increase
of the content of God within the Body. Once the Body, the Bride of
Christ, is perfected, then the end will come. Although, none of us
know that day yet.
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Posted by The purpose of life is... to
RUHO -
Malakara Syriac
Orthodox Youth Forum
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