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While man is lost in
attempting to find an answer to the deteriorating and ageing state
of man, not knowing how to resolve issues concerning terminal
sickness, disease and corruption, there is an answer in Christ that
is deliberately overlooked and disregarded. As believers, we have
that very resurrection life given to us now. Our dying bodies can be
quickened by the divine Spirit to fulfil a work of God here on this
earth, contrary to all human possibilities. When we ought to have
died a good many times over, we have not died, because there is a
life in us which triumphs over all things, until our work here is
completed and God’s purpose in our times is fulfilled. The Word of
God says that the corruptible shall put on incorruption! God’s
thought for man is life and not death. God created man to give him
life. God is the life and length of our days (Deuteronomy 30:20).
He is the source of our life. He provides life and not death. God
is against death. He is for life, but death came because of sin.
We must go to the beginning to examine the original purpose of God.
Once some clever
Pharisees came to the Lord to talk to Him about divorce. The Lord
said that Moses had permitted men and women to divorce because of
the hardness of men’s hearts. However, He said that from the
beginning, God’s thought for man and woman was to be of one flesh
in marriage! “He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness
of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the
beginning it was not so.” (Matthew 19:8). Similarly, God’s
thought for man from the beginning is not death but life and life
and life! It is the entrance of sin that brought disease, sickness
and death.
In
Genesis, we read of a man who found God’s original thought and the
secret to life! His name was Enoch. When we glance through chapter
five, verses five to twenty, of the book of Genesis, we come across
a long list of those who died. In verse 24 we read “and Enoch
walked with God; and he was not; for God took him”! Enoch broke
that long story of death. The course of the fallen man was offset
by Enoch, thereby showing us God’s thought for the man who comes
into real fellowship with God. Yes, Enoch discovered that God’s
thought for man was life and abundance of life in every sphere.
Enoch came into an intimate relationship and fellowship with God.
As he began to walk with God, he realised that God’s original
intention was for man to live and not die, that man should have life
and not death. God’s thought towards man has not changed. Even
today, God’s thought remains the same. He shall ultimately have a
company of people who will gloriously express this life (of Christ)
on the earth! We see Enoch, who walked with God continuously, as a
shadow and a type of the things to come! So we need to understand
that in Christ, God has provided an answer to man’s perennial
predicament. God will have a people in whom the power of
resurrection shall be manifested.
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