DEATH IS ABOLISHED!
"Verily verily I say unto you if a man
keep my saying, he shall never see
death! Jn.8:51. "He that believeth in
me though he were dead yet shall he
live; whosoever liveth and believeth in
me shall never die!" Jn.11:25 These few
statements of Jesus have been brushed
aside constantly by theologians to refer
only to spiritual death in lake of fire.
However considering the whole context of
the discussions taking place while those
utterances were made, it portrayed
clearly that Chist was talking about
physical death. He also came back in
the book of Revelation 2 & 3 to declare
that He has the keys of death and of
hell! It must be pointed out that it is
the devil that kills men as it is
written: "that He might destroy he that
has the power of death even the
devil".(Heb.2:14) When Christ died on
the cross and rose again "He led
captivity captive"(Ephe.4:8) He has
abolished death! (2 Timothy 1:10) In
analogy, when the slave trade was
abolished in the world by higher
authority in earlier century, some
stubborn slave masters would not let go
of their slaves. If the slaves
revolted, the slave master would have no
government agent to come to his aid but
many slaves were scared of their master
and did not. The same similar thing is
going on in the world today. Since
Christ declared that He has saved man
from sin, only few are coming forward
and claiming the salvation Jesus
purchased for us on the cross..."By His
blood we are redeemed". Since Christ
declared that He has healed our
sicknesses, even fewer are claiming the
divine healing of Jesus. "By whose
stripes ye were healed". since Christ
declared that He has abolished death,
practically none has come forward to
claim this liberty from physical death!
Only believe and profess it! The Just
shall live by faith! You ask me why
multitudes will not believe for
salvation to live above sin ....because
they live by sight, seeing the whole
world in sin, they profess "we are all
sinners" so no one can be free from sin
they said. It takes revelation from
Jesus for them to be saved -- by
preaching of the gospel of salvation.
You ask me again why multitudes, even
church folks, don't believe in divine
healing...? unbelief! They live by
sight -- seeing multitudes around them
afflicted by the slave masters with
various diseases, they get scared and
will not claim such promise of God for
their healing. It also takes revelation
from Jesus for the few believers that
believe in divine healing for them to
resist the slave masters that torment
mankind with diseases. Understand me
clearly! Believing in divine healing
does not mean the devils will not
attack, but the devils are more scared
to lay their hands on them that believe
this; because when we insisted by
confessing to the devil that Christ's
promise is forever true, God's angels
will smite the devil before long if he
did not remove his filthy hand. Since
the devils are thieves and robbers they
will still try but when we stand our
guard believing and claiming our right
that Christ has given us our peace and
our good health, the devils have to
flee.
The same principle works against death,
and this is the age during which we can
put the devil to shame as it is written
"the last enemy to be destroyed is
death!" (1 Cor.15:26) This is the age
when Christ is coming soon and we only
need to resist the enemy for few more
years till Christ come in rapture. I
strongly believe "Enoch walked with God"
and he was not for the Lord took him.
The Lord took him because it was not yet
time for immortal men to inhabit this
planet earth. Else he would have been
around till now. Elijah also got enough
power to resist every attempt of death
upon his life by calling fire upon
enemies before he left this planet.
Christ now is saying "verily verily i
say unto you if a man keep my saying he
shall never see death".Jn.8:51. This is
the faith of the end time, rapturing
faith -- the climax! Satan will resist
it just as he resisted salvation, and
healing by many means, to the extent of
even using some preachers to preach
against it, and whole denominations
kicking against it; so shall he resist
this declaration of faith against death
to the extent of killing a few to
terrify the others from believing like
that; but "the FEARFUL and unbelieving
.... and all liars shall have their part
in the lake which burneth with fire and
brimstone which is the second death!"
(Rev.21: ) Christ has defeated the devil
2000 years ago and He has given the
victory to the saints. Lo, He
saith:"Fear not, i am the first and the
last. I am He that liveth and was dead,
and behold i am alive for ever more,
amen; and have the keys of hell and of
death"(Rev.1:17). Yea, the just shall
live by faith! Christ has abolished
death! Believe it, claim it, that you
shall live till Christ comes! Don't give
in your will to death -- even on sick-
bed. Scientists know that strong will
to live has taken a lot of people off
death bed, whereas a lot of believers
just give in to death hoping to prefer
Paradise. I don't blame those whose
body has weakened so much due to old
age prefering to put away the old
tabernacle that no longer function as it
ought, but when Christ saith "if a man
KEEP my sayings", the whole package is
contained in the "sayings", to keep the
body from decaying through old age or
disease, to rejuvenate the body
constantly and keep alive from attacks
from the enemy. Only an Unbeliever will
think Christ cannot do these things!
Part of the "sayings" are holiness,
fasting, divine health which means
eating right in wisdom etc. "If a man
keep my sayings, he shall never see
death!" He is more than able! He is
coming soon! Foot-note: When Adam and
Eve sinned in the garden of Eden, we all
know that from thence sin,sickness and
death came upon human race. We also
know that When Jesus Christ died on the
cross, our sins are forgiven. If we then
have been washed by his blood, it should
follow that sickness and death should be
removed since they are the curse of
disobedience. If we believe that when
Christ said "It is finished" on the
cross our redemption is completed we
ought to believe that He abolished death
also --- to him that believeth! As we
claim our healing by confessing positive
promises of God and believing them
concerning any sickness ("By His stripes
we are healed" Isa.53) we also have to
claim our victory over death. (Christ
"has abolished death and has brought
life and immortality to light through
the gospel", 2Tim.1:10).
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