We are ourselves responsible

We are ourselves responsible

Originally placed on Apr 12, '11 1:58 PMe

Dutch version / Nederlandstalige versie: Wij zijn zelf verantwoordelijk

In the magazine of the Leuven Hospital Gasthuisberg in an interview by Jan van Rompuy with elder patients I could read that an elderly couple was not pleased with God about not helping them after they prayed so much and burned so many candles. The man of the lady with cancer has lost any hope in God and had abounded Him because He clearly would or could not help him.

Every time we hear about a disaster and we are confronted with a lot of disastrous pictures on television people shout that this is because of a terrible and injustice God. Others shout that it is a punishment of God. But when they would read the Bible properly they would be able to find out that it would probably not be a penalty from God.

 Genghis Khan said: “I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.”

Many religions say that their gods send punishments to those or these.

On the occasion of the Intensity 9 earthquake and the devastating tsunami  that ravaged Japan some time ago, and the threat of toxic radioactivity emerging from the damaged nuclear reactors, friends of mine have asked me whether we could consider these calamities as punishments from God.

First of all we have to question if punishment by God is compatible with the biblical affirmation that “God is love”. It is true that we find examples in the Bible where God brings over a punishment to certain persons or even several people or even towns. In the Bible we can find how the Jewish race developed and were given laws. They could accept those laws or ignore them. We learn how they settled in ancient Israel, and how it says God sometimes punished them for disobeying his commands, which led to them changing their ways. (e.g. Read 2 Samuel chapters 12 & 13 and look what happened after the king and one of his sons became estranged: 2 Samuel chapter 15-19, 21)

Often wickedness in places are mentioned as the reason why god came to punish them. The  conservative group Repent America in the US for example claimed that the hurricane Katrina in New Orleans was an 'act of God' in judgement on the city because there was the annual event 'Southern Decadence' which brought together thousands of homosexuals, enabling them to celebrate their sexuality. The hurricane hit New Orleans and flooded up to 80% of the city, taking up more than a month just to clear the water and still now you can find debris and not restored placed yet.

If this tragedy occurred because God is angry at New Orleans, what was the point of the awful devastation and loss of life wrought in Mississippi and Alabama? Why was then the French Quarter, the district where the event was to be held, one of the least devastated parts of the city so far?
Also the disbarred lawyer Fred Waldron Phelps, Sr. (born November 13, 1929) an American pastor heading the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), an independent Baptist church based in Topeka, Kansas,  claims that many devastating events, such as September 11th, the December 2004 Tsunami, deaths in Iraq, and the horrific Hurricane Katrina are the result of God's wrath against gay people.

Also for the Indian Ocean earthquake and following tsunami in December the 24th 2004 with a magnitude of between 9.1 and 9.3, the third largest earthquake ever recorded on a seismograph in the world, people said it was God punishing the Muslims and unbelieving Hindus. but also a lot of Christians lost their life.

Some people argue that if God is the same yesterday, today and forever why are we not punished in the same ways?

God has revealed Himself in history in His Covenant and through His covenant to Abraham and his descendants as a helping, delivering, guiding sympathetic positive God with a nice design for His creation. God had given men freedom, but new he was not going to make much of it. For the misstep of the first men God set up a sacrificial system that pointed to the future in which He would redeem man back to Himself. Under the law, man was shown how God dealt with man's sin nature. Mankind was accountable to God depending upon which dispensation they lived. Was there Innocence, Conscience, Human Government, Promise, Law, Grace or shall it happen in the time of Divine Government.

With the coming of Jesus Christ and his finished work on the wooden stake we have come in the time of Grace. Jeus' offer  has liberated all humankind. Today God deals with us through the finished work of Christ. Jesus has offered his body as the ultimate Lamb and therefore God does not require any offers any more. Now, men are held accountable, not by their conscience but by their acceptance or rejection of God's grace. Grace is the unmerited favour of Almighty God. He provides through Christ, the means by which we can receive eternal life. The judgement God will send over the stubborn and bad people shall come when Jesus returns and when God will raise them up at the last day. No punishment before that time, not on this earth, not in a purgatory or in a hell.

God has not changed and for Him those who can hear the voice of those who preach the Good News, the Gospel of Good Tidings, the Liberation by Christ, and do not want to listen, repent and come to God shall have to face their punishment and destruction after Armaggedon and the resurrection, to face the second death.

God's will is that all be saved, yet He will not override the free-will of every person to accept, or reject His salvation. He is not a tyrant and does not want to force anybody in His ideas. Everybody has received a free will and can do as he or she likes. But every person shall have to be responsible for their own deeds.

What ever we fabricate we shall have to bear the consequences of our acts. We can not escape our responsibility. The only problem is what certain individuals do can affect more then one person. That is not Gods fault, but it stays the fault of human, who thought he could manage it on his own. Therefore we have to be very careful with what we do. Not only for ourselves but also for those around us.

We do have to be careful with our behaviour and reactions to others, but also with our use of natural products. We should calculate the risks of all things. Because whatever we do or use it can affect us but also our neighbour, even the whole earth.

Do you want to go on your own? Would you prefer to come under the wings of Christ Jesus and accept God as the only one God to whom belongs the earth?

What risks are you willing to take and how do you want to safeguard yourself?



Continue reading in following articles:

Japan’s nuclear disaster reason to think twice

A risk taking society

Securing risks

In Dutch you can find:

Nucleaire ramp in Japan doet mensen twee maal nadenken

Energie met vergiftigd geschenk

Nemen van Risico door de maatschappij

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Being Justified by faith

“Just, and the justifier of him which believeth.”

Romans 3:26

Being justified by faith, we have peace with God. Conscience accuses no longer. Judgment now decides for the sinner instead of against him. Memory looks back upon past sins, with deep sorrow for the sin, but yet with no dread of any penalty to come; for Christ has paid the debt of his people to the last jot and tittle, and received the divine receipt; and unless God can be so unjust as to demand double payment for one debt, no soul for whom Jesus died as a substitute can ever be cast into hell. It seems to be one of the very principles of our enlightened nature to believe that God is just; we feel that it must be so, and this gives us our terror at first; but is it not marvellous that this very same belief that God is just, becomes afterwards the pillar of our confidence and peace! If God be just, I, a sinner, alone and without a substitute, must be punished; but Jesus stands in my stead and is punished for me; and now, if God be just, I, a sinner, standing in Christ, can never be punished. God must change his nature before one soul, for whom Jesus was a substitute, can ever by any possibility suffer the lash of the law. Therefore, Jesus having taken the place of the believer—having rendered a full equivalent to divine wrath for all that his people ought to have suffered as the result of sin, the believer can shout with glorious triumph, “Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect?” Not God, for he hath justified; not Christ, for he hath died, “yea rather hath risen again.” My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, he is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is now doing for me. On the lion of justice the fair maid of hope rides like a queen.

- H.C.Spurgeon

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It is Today

It is Today

Today has come as yesterday
we said if our Lord still tarries,
then during the daylight hours
yet for some
in the darkness of night,
to His Judgement seat
we have been borne.
And in the midst of a great multitude gathered
I seem to stand alone
waiting for my name to be spoken
by the righteous Judge.
It is today.

Yet sometimes I am distracted
in this waiting,
and from the reflections of my past
as I watch as others are granted
the prize, eternal life.
Still more and more distractions and
then on seeing some
who have slept
within the earthy bowels
awaiting trumpet sound.
Was I at times reproachful
of those who'd run their race?
In the Judge's mind
they yet now have
received their immortal place.
It is today.

Another in the midst of the throng
I had not seen for years.
What was his name, I can't recall
and ponder why he left.
A lonely man who found God's truth
then oft times more alone
and 'though this pearl of great price he found
not so with those "in Christ".
And hearsay among some brethren
had I ever played a part
a destructive little past time
which human nature loves.
And those who longed to be a part
did I yet cast aside, and considered them not worthy
to be in company of the bride.
It is today.

And the brethren that offended me
did I put this in the past
and forgiven and forgotten
or harboured till this day.
Did I rejoice in things of beauty
the preaching of His word
to all the world around us
the coming of our Lord.
And on and on I go
with reflections of the past
of circumstance that may have changed
or no, it just won't be.
Pardon? My name has been called
I must stand before His seat, the righteous Judge,
probation is now past.
It is today.
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1999 Kay McGrath

Growth in character

"We are to speak the truth in love; the body is to increase unto the edifying of itself in love.

There is to be more than growth in knowledge and in numbers within ecclesial life. Our characters must increase and develop and our personality traits often must be modified.

The ecclesia, with all its component parts, is supplied that we, individually and collectively, might come "unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ" (Ephesians 4:11- 13). Love and persistence, forgiveness, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, wisdom, judgement, holiness, justice, integrity are all to improve for we are to "grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ" (v. 15).

This is a vital area of growth, for the saints of all ages are to be joint rulers of the world with Christ."
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Principles of Ecclesial Life - Growth in character
Brother Don Styles
http://www.christadelphianbooks.org/dstyles/poel/index.html

“Furthermore, he gave some people as emissaries, some as prophets, some as proclaimers of the Good News, and some as shepherds and teachers. Their task is to equip God’s people for the work of service that builds the body of the Messiah, until we all arrive at the unity implied by trusting and knowing the Son of God, at full manhood, at the standard of maturity set by the Messiah’s perfection. We will then no longer be infants tossed about by the waves and blown along by every wind of teaching, at the mercy of people clever in devising ways to deceive. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in every respect grow up into him who is the head, the Messiah.” (Eph 4:11-15 Cjb)

Dutch version / Nederlandse versie > Groei in karakter

A Living Faith #3 Faith put into action

A LIVING FAITH

Faith put into action

Previous > A living faith #2 State of your faith

It is really quite easy to express a belief in something or a love for somebody but as the saying goes ‘actions speak louder than words’.  I recall once having a patient who described her husband as saying that he cared about and loved her, but she was upset and depressed because the care and love was never shown by actions. As she once said, it’s easy to say ‘I love you, but his actions show that he really doesn’t care about me.’

Our behaviour and deeds will show our true attitudes and feelings. We can often deceive ourselves and for a while we can deceive others, but God knows the heart, we cannot deceive Him! Try to honestly answer these questions:

• Would you say that you believe, trust and love Yahweh?
• Would you say that you strive to obey His Word?
• Would you say that you put all your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ?
• Would you say that you strive to obey His commandments?
• Would you say that you desire the Kingdom of God above all things?

I am sure most of us would want to answer ‘yes’ to the above questions. Words may very well express that Yahweh’s Word is the most valuable thing in our lives. Word may express that we long for His Kingdom and that we love the Lord our God above all else.  But what do your actions say?

Now James writes these well-known words, “What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him?” James 2:14

The implied answer is no, it cannot save him. You see, faith must be something living and active in our lives. Faith is not something expressed merely by words. Our true inner feelings and the truth of our words will be demonstrated by actions or deeds.  But one may argue ‘I do believe’, ‘I do have faith’; indeed Paul writes that one is saved by faith (Eph 2:8), ‘How then can it be suggested that my faith will not save me?’  Well, James writes that faith without works is dead! Thus the reality and depth of faith is proved by its works just as James continues:

“..faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” James 2:17-18

Faith is indeed an essential ingredient of salvation. However, faith in itself is a somewhat abstract concept, it is something intangible.  Faith cannot be measured and although a person can demonstrate knowledge about a subject and express a belief in that knowledge, its value to a person cannot be measured by a mere expression of belief. For example one may know the law of the land which sets a certain speed limit on roads and may believe that the law states if a driver is caught breaking the speed limit they will pay a fine, or in the worst case a persistent offender will lose their licence.  Does this stop everybody speeding? In short the answer is no! Why? Well simply because that particular law is not considered to have any great value and people generally are more concerned about getting from A to B as fast as possible.

In a similar manner the scriptures may be learned and believed, but if it does not have a value higher than all else in ones life, then our deeds will surely reflect the little value we place upon God’s Word. On the other hand, if the Word is our greatest treasure, then we will believe and then act upon that belief. Thus faith will influence and change our way of life. However, producing the works of faith is not easy; it takes a lifetime of sustained effort.  

A time is soon coming when we all will bow the knee before the Lord Jesus and render an account of our lives. The deeds of faith will be scrutinised and the record of life reviewed.  By our works we will stand or we will fall! Thus we read:

“And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.” Rev 20:12

However, if we truly value God’s Word and if we have a genuine and sincere faith, then the thought of judgement and giving an account of our lives will be tempered by the knowledge that Yahweh is very merciful towards those who love Him.  With this in mind, the trials faced in life that He sends to refine and purify faith will not be overly burdensome. Our eye will look to the future, not focus upon the present trials.  Indeed, even though we may face death, we have the reassurance that our works of faith will not be forgotten, for John records:

“Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, "Write: ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'" Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them.” Rev 14:13

So, James sums it up by saying: “You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only” James 2:24. So then, our works or fruits as scripture also terms them, will arise from what is within the heart. Just consider these words of Jesus:

"You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.”...”Therefore by their fruits you will know them.” Matt 7:16-20

As Jesus also said, “a bad tree cannot bear good fruit, nor will a good tree bear bad fruit”. Any gardener will know that a well watered, well nourished tree will produce an abundance of fruit and careful pruning will help increase and maintain the yield.  In a similar manner, if an individual’s life is nourished and watered by the Word of life, and if they respond to the pruning action of life’s trails, then they will yield the good fruit of faith.

If you were asked the question, ‘what works of faith are you displaying in your daily life? What would you say?  Would it be the attendance at meetings, the preaching of the Word, the knowledge of the Word and the study efforts made to give exhortations or Bible class subjects  that would be cited.  Are these the works of faith by which a person may be justified?  Well, Jesus said:

"Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven.  "Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name, cast out demons in your name, and done many wonders in your name?’  "And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you who practice lawlessness!’ Matt 7:21-23

So Jesus is clearly saying that it is not merely acknowledging him as Lord and saviour that justifies a man. It is not performing great acts of service in the sense of preaching in his name; these more public works are but an outward show. Thus in the context of our day and age, one may say ‘did I not give exhortations?’ or ‘Did I not study and learn much in the Bible?’ or ‘Did I not travel extensively preaching the Truth?’  These things are in some ways the works of faith, but it is the attitude of heart and the motives behind the works that are crucial. What has driven us to do these things, for it is possible to preach and speak for selfish motives rather than the one desire of honouring Yahweh. Thus Paul notes: “Some indeed preach Christ even from envy and strife, and some also from good will” Phil 1:15 and warns “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit”. Phil 2:3

Only living our lives in accordance with the Word of Truth will provide a solid underpinning for the works of faith. There is no place for self-seeking and pride, because the works of faith will be borne out of a deep desire to know Yahweh and follow the example of Jesus who said “I do not seek my own will but the will of the Father who sent me.” John 5:30

Trying to amalgamate the shifting sands of human wisdom with the principles of scripture will only make a shipwreck of faith. The only way that faith can be developed is by wholeheartedly learning and then applying the Word to all aspects of our daily lives. Obeying what we describe as the ‘Commandments of Christ’.

The only way that faith will grow is by walking according to the Light of the Word, trusting Yahweh and shunning any who turn away from the Word of Truth. The only way that faith will be refined is by learning from the trials of life and humbly submitting to the overruling hand of Yahweh.

The works of faith will only come from striving to obey the commandments of Christ and striving to “be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2Tim 2:15 Now Jesus spoke a parable to illustrate this principle:

"Therefore whoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock:  and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.  But everyone who hears these sayings of mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand:  "and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall." Matt 7:24-27

So then in summary, faith and works go together, they are utterly inseparable. Works cannot save for we cannot earn favour, faith must come first. Non-the-less the value of faith is then in turn proved by its works.

To be continued….A Living Faith #4 Effort

Andy Peel.

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In this series:
A Living Faith #1 Substance of things hoped for
A living faith #2 State of your faith
A Living Faith #3 Faith put into action
A Living Faith #4 Effort
A Living Faith #5 Perseverance
A Living Faith #6 Sacrifice
A Living faith #7 Prayer
A Living Faith #8 Change
A Living Faith #9 Our Manner of Life
A Living Faith #10: Our manner of Life #2
A Living Faith #11 My place in the body of Christ and my ecclesia
A Living Faith #12 The Love for Jesus


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Faithful to the listening ear

“And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldst bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that thy hand might be with me, and that thou wouldst keep [me] from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.” (1Ch 4:10 Webster)

 “And said to them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.” (Lu 22:46 Webster)

 “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak.” (Mt 26:41 Webster)

 “Two [things] have I required of thee; deny [them] not to me before I die: Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who [is] the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God [in vain].” (Pr 30:7-9 Webster)

 “The LORD will preserve thee from all evil: he will preserve thy soul.” (Ps 121:7 Webster)

 “And I will deliver thee from the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee from the hand of the terrible.” (Jer 15:21 Webster)

 “And if we know that he heareth us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired from him.” (1Jo 5:15 Webster)

 “Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.” (Re 3:10 Webster)

 “The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust to the day of judgment to be punished:” (2Pe 2:9 Webster)

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Obeying the King

Rick Lower wrote on Facebook  "Exhort one another daily" on 2 january 2009

Today we had some friends over from our ecclesia. In conversation a brother brought out an excellent analogy that I thought might be handy to share.

If we were around many, many years ago then our countries may not have been under the rule of democracy. We as citizens of the country would not have had a say in the ruling of our country, our opinions would have meant nothing. Whatever the ruler of that country said was all that mattered. The King or Queen's laws were to abided by and if not then the likelihood would have been that the offender would be executed. Anyone who went against the rules would be killed. So of course we would not have even dared to go against these laws as we would not have wanted to lose our lives. We would have followed the commands without second thought.

Linking this to our King, our Lord Jesus, we can see striking similarities. Christ has shown us the way, he has laid down the laws to be abided by. His teachings were far greater than the Old Law and whatever Jesus said was to be obeyed. Now if we obey and listen to Christ (and ultimately God), then we will be greatly blessed. However, if we do not hearken to the laws then the simple answer is that we will be destroyed following Judgement. We will be killed just like the offender was for disobeying his ruler. We can in no way, shape or form take a back seat in our service and pass off certain commandments simply because we do not like them. We can not break rules simply because we can not make the effort to adhere to them. If we would obey a king of the land for the sake of our lives then why would we not obey the King of Kings? For if we do not obey then we know our punishment.

"And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." Revelation 20:15

The starkness of that is frightening but we should not be scared of this, instead we should take delight in obeying our King. And if we do fail and not obey, if we do slip up then we have the great privilege of being able to avoid eternal death. If we put to death such sins, sincerely repent and live with the more earnest desire to serve our Father and His Son, then we will through such grace and mercy be blessed with a place in the Book of Life.

I felt this was a great point made by this brother.Of course I have expanded upon it. But the main idea is that in old times, if you disobeyed the King then you would be executed. Therefore, if we disobey Christ the King, we too will be cast aside. There is no room for complacency or laid back attitudes. Every act of ours is recorded and sins will only be blotted out if we truly ask for mercy.

Let us all strive to follow the teachings of scripture, to follow the pattern laid down by Christ so that each and every one of us may have "an entrance that shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."

"AND BEING MADE PERFECT, CHRIST BECAME THE AUTHOR OF ETERNAL SALVATION UNTO ALL THEM THAT OBEY HIM." Hebrews 5:9

Preaching to an unbelieving world

We are preaching to an unbelieving world, fighting rapidly falling standards in our own community, trying to build up those scattered far and wide in the earth, caring for increasing numbers of elderly and incapacitated and those who are spiritually sick, and all the time trying to overcome our own innate personal weaknesses, problems and frustrations " So much effort, so little achieved. Sometimes it seems as if, in certain areas both at home and abroad, ecclesial life is falling apart, as it must have seemed to Paul in those early years of that ecclesia at Corinth.

... it is a day of small things.We do not have the power of the Spirit. God does not manifest Himself openly in the mighty acts of power. We have the Word of God which is quite sufficient to convince those of a right frame of mind. But these are very few in number, so few that sometimes it seems as if our preaching and our exhortation is ineffective, as if we are failing in some way. The few who do respond are those whom God has reserved, as He told Elijah. That was what God told Elijah, and Paul quotes God’s words to him in his Letter to the Romans to prove that there was in his day also a remnant according to the election of grace, and surely we trust that it is so in our own day. We believe that we are part of that remnant chosen by God by His grace, called by the gospel, responsive to that still small voice.
Yet the vast majority remains totally unmoved. Even within the community of the saints there will always be those who are not responsive. But we press on, struggling to remain part of the faithful remnant, and we are sure that in time, in God’s time, judgment will be poured out on the rebellious, the hard-hearted; not by men like Jehu, men who proved in the end to be no better than were those they destroyed, but judgment will be in the hands of One whom God raised up in righteousness.

We shall remember that this was how Paul comforted the believers in the first century who were suffering persecutions, “it is a righteous thing with God” he said, “to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; and to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
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This is the day of small things, the day for faithful service, no matter how little we seem to achieve, the day for accepting whatever difficulties and frustrations come our way as a result of that service, the day for bearing whatever burdens an all wise God sees fit to place upon His servants.

 - Bro E. T. 1986

full text > Three faithfull men

How are the dead?

Concerning the dead at the awakening on the day of judgement. “The dead shall be raised incorruptible” To be discussed in our Sunday service November the 30th.

Allon Maxwell wrote:

Hi Marcus,
I saw your post on the Christadelphian Facebook Site on this topic.

Do I assume from this that you believe that the (righteous) dead will rise immortal?

My own belief is that we will rise from the grave immortal.

Marcus Ampe wrote:

I think at the day of judgement we shall have to come in front of the chair of Christ to be judged. This would mean that still a lot could happen to the body in front of Christ. But been resurrected by God, who knows our state, we could already be given the 'body' of the group to which we shall belong to. As righteous receiving an incorruptible body and as cursed a body that can and shall die again. The approved of would perhaps not have mortality any more (or immortality), so those taken out of the grave to come in front of the judgement seat have undergone a transformation. Out from the ashes they shall receive a form that shall hold all the essences of the previous body and live. Their body shall not deteriorate or not been killed any more if they are accepted by God to live forever after.

It is true that there is also a solemn warning that fear of the judgement is something experienced by the wicked – NOT the righteous! So you could say that the righteous shall straightly become 'awake' directly in an incorruptible body and should not be afraid of what would come.
If the sins of the repentant are never to be mentioned ever again, how can it be possible that they must be put on public exhibition at the judgement, and be accounted for a second time? But perhaps there are sins been committed wherefore no repentance had been brought before dying. You also think that sins done after baptism when you feel guilty about them and repent, would not any more be accounted for. Would we not be reprimanded for it? I agree that we would not get a dead penalty for it, and that God shall forgive them. But shall He not do like a worldly father does and talk about what has gone wrong? Shall the forgiveness and cleansing not happen on the day of judgement? Christ is going to do the division and sending us to the right or the left side.
Is it not that those who thought they were doing right but did wrong or believed wrongly would be put in the right place at the day of judgement. For example when someone has lived according to his believes in his faith (catholic, protestant, etc.) or did not have the opportunity to learn God, but learns how it really is on the day of judgement, would he not be left the choice to choose right and be saved. Or would you think no Trinitarian would make a chance to be saved if there is no tri-une God, or the other way that non-Trinitarians would be damned when there is a bi- or a tri-une God? I take it that those who believe in Christ as the Saviour and live according the will of God make a change to live eternally, no matter which denomination they were in. (cfr Ezekiel 33:16)
Coming in front of the judgement throne the righteous can proof to the others that they kneel down and praise the right Lord. Showing the others how they should have behaved in front of Christ and onto God. To them it is not a judgement as such (sentence or conviction) that comes over them.
Because the verdict shall be 'not guilty' the righteous shall be free to live eternally in the form they shall have received by their awakening.
So you assumed rightly that I think that the righteous will rise immortal in a certain way because dead shall not come over them any more. (But not having the eternality of God who never can die, but if He would like to make an end to it all He can and could destroy us) (But we have the promise of eternal life) Therefore the word incorruptible is better.