What Do You Live For?
Dearly beloved of God, we should live our lives as though Christ will return today. Press toward the mark for the upward calling of God in Christ Jesus. Contend in the good contest of the right way of believing until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Set your affection on things above, where Christ sits, not on earthly things. Our citizenship is in the heavenly realm; we are seated there in Christ. When Christ who is our life shall appear we will appear with him in glory!
Our citizenship is in heaven from where also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ who shall change our vile body so that it may be fashioned like his glorious body.
He will gather together the entire body of Christ, the dead in Christ and those who are living to meet him in the air. God called us to the obtaining of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ! He is coming!
Dearly beloved, we through the complete reality of the new birth spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by believing, for in Christ Jesus believing is energized by the love of God in the renewed mind in manifestation.
Stand on God’s Word until he appears, and then you will stand before him at the Bema, and everyone will receive their praise from God.
When the Lord Jesus Christ appears the second time, he will not come to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him. Rejoice!
The Lord Jesus Christ delivered us from the wrath to come.
God showed His love to us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through him. If God reconciled us when we were His enemies, then much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved from wrath by his life.
How we should now rejoice! He could come at any moment, so live in that reality.
Know you not that your life is not your own? We were bought with a price. The Lord Jesus Christ died for all so that they who live should no longer live unto themselves but for him who died for them and was raised from the dead.
Beloved, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things passed away. Behold, new things have come, and all of the new things are from God, Who reconciled us to Himself through Christ.
We have all the rights, privileges, and ability of the new birth. When Christ returns to gather us up to him more new things will come when we receive our inheritance.
Today God has rescued us from the authority of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of His beloved Son. The day is quickly approaching that we will not only be removed from Satan’s authority, we will physically, actually be transferred into the kingdom of God’s beloved Son, also.
The Lord Jesus Christ will transform us to have glorious bodies like his glorious body, and eternal life, and much more. We will be as he is!
Rejoice, dearly beloved of God, and faint not. Live in light of his coming. Our light afflictions and tribulations today are only temporary but they will produce for us an eternal, exceeding heavy weight of glory. Keep your focus on the things that are not seen; those things are eternal realities.
As citizens of heaven, stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. Keep your focus on things above, not on the things of this world.
The Lord could come at any moment. His coming is nearer than when we first believed. Live in that reality, dearly beloved of God.
Be stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. He is coming, and his reward with him.
Live for him, dearly beloved.