The Mystery of the Resurrection of the Dead (Part 2)

Jan 5, 2019

Almighty God’s words explain to us what “dead person” and “living person” mean. In the beginning, God created Adam and Eve. They were living human beings with spirits, they possessed conscience and reason and they were able to manifest God and honor God. Afterward, they were seduced by Satan into eating fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. As a result, they were filled with the poison of Satan. They were no longer devoted to God nor did they obey God. They had lost any semblance to the people God had created in the beginning. Even though their flesh still lived, in God’s eyes they had already become dead people with no spirits. Presently, we are being corrupted more and more by Satan. We are full of Satan’s corrupt dispositions such as arrogance, selfishness, treachery, maliciousness and greed. It has gotten to the point where, when we encounter something that is not in accordance with our own ideas, we complain to God, judge God, resist God and betray God.In God’s eyes, we are also dead people with no spirits. From this, we can see that “dead person” refers to those who are living under Satan’s influence, those who have corrupt natures that resist God and those who are enemies of God. Alternatively, “living person” refers to those who have cast off satanic corrupt disposition, those who have restored their conscience and reason, those who have knowledge of God, those who obey God and those who love God. These people have a place for God within their hearts. In all matters they are able to seek the truth, grasp God’s will, practice in accordance with God’s words and the truth and no longer act by Satan’s life rules. They are people who have triumphed over Satan’s influence and have returned to God. These are living people with spirits and they are truly those who have been resurrected from the dead.

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After understanding the difference between “dead person” and “living person,” some brothers and sisters may ask, how will the prophecy of resurrection of the dead be fulfilled? Before answering this question, let’s take a look at an example. Even though our sins have been atoned for by Jesus and pardoned, the root of our sinning has not been resolved. We still live within our satanic corrupt dispositions. We commit sins and then confess to them day in and day out. For example, we are unable to keep God’s commandments and we are unable to put the Lord’s words into action. We are like those in the secular world who follow the tides of the world, lusting after wealth and fleshly enjoyment. We are dominated by our satanic natures, such as being arrogant and conceited, crooked and treacherous and selfish and base. We frequently rebel against God and resist God. We like to show off amongst crowds of people. We bear witness to ourselves so others will view us highly and we vie over status with God. For our own personal benefit, we are able to do treacherous things and employ underhanded means, tell lies to deceive people and fight openly and maneuver covertly with others. We are even able to pledge false oaths and give empty promises before the Lord. While our mouths say that we love the Lord, in essence, we are making bargains with the Lord. We try to exchange our external toil, the things we abandon and our expending of ourselves for the Lord’s bestowments and blessings. We believe in the Lord, yet we do not honor Him as great. We do not have a place for the Lord within our hearts. Instead, we worship celebrities, great people, pastors and elders, and so on. If we are unable to cleanse our corrupt dispositions, how can we become living people and how can we attain God’s approval and enter the kingdom of heaven? Therefore, we still need God’s more advanced salvation.

Jesus said: “I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will show you things to come” (John 16:12–13). Clearly, the Lord will return in the last days to express truth and do the final stage of His work of bestowing life upon man. Almighty God’s words say: “If people wish to become living beings, and to bear testimony to God, and to be approved of by God, they must accept God’s salvation, they must gladly submit to His judgment and chastisement, and must gladly accept the pruning and dealing of God. Only then will they be able to put all of the truths required by God into practice, and only then will they gain God’s salvation, and truly become living beings” (“Have You Come Alive?” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). In the last days, in order to save us completely from Satan’s domain, God has incarnated once again. He uses the name of Almighty God to launch His work of judgment that begins in the house of God. We have experienced the judgement and chastisement, the dealing and pruning and the trials and refinement of God’s words. We truly understand the factual truth of our own resistance and rebellion to God and our satanic nature and essence. At the same time, we have some understanding of God’s righteous and holy disposition. We see the real salvation that God has for us. Furthermore, we come to hate and forsake our own satanic dispositions. We are willing to put the truth into action, rely on God’s words to live as human beings, throw off our corrupt disposition and satisfy God’s will. We have received the truths that God expresses and made them into our lives. We have attained true obedience to God, love for God and we live out a genuine human likeness. This is how a “dead person” can change into a “living person,” which is to be resurrected from the dead. This also fulfills Jesus’ words: “And this is the Father’s will which has sent Me, that of all which He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day” (John 6:39). Clearly, being resurrected from the dead is accomplished and fulfilled through the judgement work of Almighty God in the last days, and it is not as supernatural as people imagine it to be. Brothers and sisters, what God wants are living people and not dead people. Only living people can honor God and bear witness to God. Only living people are qualified to inherit God’s promise—to enter into the kingdom of heaven. Only by accepting Almighty God’s work in the last days, experiencing the judgement and chastisement of God’s words and accepting the truth as our lives can we be resurrected from the dead!

Thank God! All the glory belongs to God!

From The Church of Almighty God

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