Friday, August 13, 2021

BLESSINGS EVEN IN TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS

My Dear Precious Child,
     Paul had revealed to the people in the church at Corinth the trials and tribulations of himself and other apostles in the whole scheme of ministry of the gospel of Jesus Christ.  He revealed in his second letter to them his occasional desire to be with Me in My heaven.  He wrote to them that they must also realize that when the earthly body, or tent as he called it, is destroyed that all humans have a dwelling already prepared by Me, a dwelling place in the heavens that will last forever because its not made with human hands.  He admitted that, as humans, all people groan while in human bodies even as they desire that their heavenly home would envelop them, which eventually it will if they continue to put on Christ and are not found naked of the spiritual clothing of Love.  He admitted that while still in the flesh that certainly all of the apostles had occasionally groaned, weighed down because they did not wish to be stripped naked of the covering of Christ but instead to have the heaven dwelling envelop them, which means that the mortal body may be absorbed by Life Itself.  He assured the people to whom he was writing that I had fashioned all men for that very thing and that I had given to them the Holy Spirit as a pledge of it. (II Corinthians 5:1-5)
     Therefore, as Paul wrote, there is reason to be confident, knowing that while humans are still dwelling in human bodies that they are away from Me and so they walk in faith, not by human sight.  He assured the Corinthians that he and the rest of the apostles were confident that they would rather be with Christ instead of continuing on in human flesh and so they made it their desire to please Him whether they are with Him or away from Him.  He assured the Corinthians that all of their lives would be revealed before the court of Christ so that each one would receive his or her just recompense, whether good or bad, according to his or her life while still in the body.  (II Corinthians 5:6-10)
     It was the ministry of the apostles, as revealed by Paul, that they live to persuade people to believe in Christ, but what they are is only known to Me.  He assured the Corinthians that their consciences already know what will be revealed.  He told them in the letter that he would not try to recommend himself to them again about his going into the heavens so that they may have something to say to the people who take pride in outward appearances and not what lies in the recesses of the heart.  He assured them that if he was ever caught up out of himself again, that it would be again for the sake of the people and that it is My works, not his.  And, he wrote, that if it were to happen to others, that they would also be brought back to their senses in human bodies but it was still for their sakes.  (II Corinthians 5:11-13) 
    Another confession of faith in Christ was written by Paul when he wrote that My love had convinced them that since One person, the Christ, died for all, then all people had died, his having died so that those who live might never again live for themselves but instead that they would live for Christ who, for their sake, had died and was raised up.  (II Corinthians 5:15)  Paul wrote that, because of that, they could no longer judge anyone.  He said that if they had one day also regarded Christ as such, that they no longer knew Him by that past standard.  It means that if anyone is in Christ that he or she is a new creation, things of the old order of old commandments are passed away and all things have become new.  All of those new standards are of Me, changed by Me who has reconciled the world to Myself and I have given to people the ministry of reconciliation through the power of the Holy Spirit. (II Corinthians 5:16-17)
    In the second letter to the Corinthians Paul made it clear that I, in Christ, had reconciled the world to Myself, NOT COUNTING MEN'S TRANSGRESSIONS AGAINST THEM, but instead I gave to humans the message of reconciliation, making them ambassadors of Christ, with My pouring out the newness of Life through the Holy Spirit in them. (II Corinthians 5:18-19)
    He implored the Corinthians that if they were not already reconciled to Me, then He implored them, in Christ's name, to be reconciled to Me.  He assured them that it was for the sake of everyone that I made Jesus the Christ, who did not know sin, to become sin, so that in Him they might become My holiness.  (II Corinthians 5:20)  That miracle is only possible through the blood of Christ and the baptism in the Holy Spirit.  It is called the New Covenant of God, the promised Kingdom of God having come into their lives.
    Your Father of Miraculous Transformations
              
            

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