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I've got good news. I've found a way to get an implant of God's life force. It'll energize you. It'll heal you. It'll give you a stability that few humans exhibit. Maybe I shouldn't be telling you this, but I was reading this book. The book was written between 3500 and 2500 years ago. It told all about a certain group
of people from a long time ago; where they came from, who their ancestors were, and what they did for about 1500 years.
Here's the good part, it had a lot to say about what would happen to those same people over the next 2500 years. Well, that might not seem like such a big deal, but let me tell ya what happened next.
I started to do some research on the subject. I went to the libraries, I read a bunch of books, and studied with a historic theologian. That research has uncovered evidence that allowed me to trace these people in the book right up to the present day. I know where huge masses of the book-people's descendants live; at this minute. And without fail, the things predicted about those folks came true in every way I could check out. Somebody really had a line on the future to be able to say what would happen in
2500 years.
Not as if I needed more to make me believe the truth of the book, but there were a bunch of predictions about a certain man who would have something to do with those same people specifically, and with certain people from all other population groups on the earth. This book tells how, when, where and from where this man will come. It tells in detail, things that he will do, and things that will be done to him. It even showed how the very lives of the book-people would typify and point to this special man.
Now knowing those things alone is awe-inspiring, but what about the good news I mentioned? The way to get some of God's life force in our bodies? Finding out that this book had a hundred percent record of accuracy, I went on to the little bit left that I couldn't prove objectively.
There's a small section of the total volume, that says if we change our actions to include one hundred percent dependence on God for some portion of the action, in other words, if we find ways to base what we do on something God has said is true, we can receive a bit of God's life force. Get enough together and you could re-energize a dead body. That's another thing this book said. It told of that special man being killed. But after three days and three nights, God put enough of His life force in the dead body of the man to bring him back to life.
The way the man changed his actions was that, because God promised to raise him from the dead, he didn't prevent certain people from killing him, went against what seemed humanly
impossible (coming back to life after three full days) and let himself be murdered.
But where we're concerned, we can get some of that same life force, and we don't have to be killed or even hurt when we change our action. We can act on things God has said about Himself. This same book has many references to what God is like. These are again some of the things that can't be looked up in the library, but can be at least tried out based on the vast amount of the book that is true.
We do lots of different types of action every day. I know I could always use a little help or guidance to confront the obstacles that are in my way. Well, I don't throw up my hands in defeat or cower down in fear. I tell God to keep His word and let Him take charge of what might come up, while I deal with the things at hand. Once I make my move, He almost always smoothes things out. Even when I have to give up things I think are valuable to my existence, I have the confidence to continue based on God's promise to be a provider. It's the same "moving our bodies in trust", whether it be me obediently giving an acknowledgement of God's provision or Jesus obediently giving up his life, that gets God's life force in our bodies. It's good news. It's GREAT news.
And you know what else the book talks about? It says that those people who act on God's word, and get that vitalizing, energizing, dynamite (as it says in Greek), will also be treated just like that man Jesus. He didn't have to stay dead, and we don't have to die, or, if we die, we don't have to stay dead, either. There's more to that. Not dying means living longer than we can count in years. Forever.
And all that time, we'll be in direct contact with God Himself. We'll never be sick, sad or stressed, just supremely, sublimely satisfied.
The book I've been talking about calls this "moving our bodies in trust", pistis. That's a Greek primary verb which means to act in yielding persuasion; to act like you know something is true. Like moving in such a way that shows you think gravity is real. If gravity fluctuated widely on a daily
basis, people would look a lot different when walking down a flight of stairs.
The root of that Greek word pistis is used in the book to translate both the words faith and belief. Of course, we have to get over our usual definition of those words to really understand what was meant by pistis. The belief talked about in the book is an action of some kind. The person is moving
somehow, doing something that is based, in part, on something God has said in the book.
There can't be any mistake about this. Many times the book says, "by faith are ye saved." The saved part is the not dying or being brought back to life. The faith part is the acting on God's word. Many people have missed out on the good news of getting God's dynamite. This is because they haven't really understood that when they do that trusting act, they get an implantation of God's life. They either can't really believe such a thing is possible, or they still think that all they have to do is believe, according to our English definition of the word, that there's a God. They probably also define faith as
another way to say believe. People who are stuck in those definitions don't even know that they have to be depending on God. So, they believe in God as some powerful, supernatural being, but don't really take Him at His word. They never ACT in belief, they just BELIEVE in belief.
You can get in on this, if you want. Some people don't want to. I think some of them haven't found out how true the Bible is. I guess it must be very hard to accept what the Bible says if a person hasn't checked the information for accuracy. For me, I've done three or four times as much checking as I need to
believe that God is real and the Bible is true. If I hadn't, there would be no way that I'd believe some of the stuff the Bible says. Those things fly right in the very face of what my human experience tells me is true. The main example is: people die, and stay dead.
I can't really understand about this implantation of God's life force, and I have a part of me that looks at the ceiling in doubt. But that doubt is overcome by the mountain of evidence concerning the truth of the rest of the book.
Listen, it's simple. All you have to do is tell God that you're depending on Him to take care of the part of a project that you can't control, give off trying to cover your act in fear and take the first step toward you goal. But the size of the step isn't as important as the quality. With faithing, it's not what you do, but how you do it. There are two ways of getting things done: depending on God or depending on yourself. Depending on God gives a better chance for success. But it also works toward that living-forever thing, being saved from death.
Hearing me say God is real and the Bible is true is only the starting point. We work out our own saving, is what the Bible says. That work is two fold: one, the removal of ignorance and doubt about God, and two, using our new knowledge to start walking in trust. Faithing.
The good news is there for literally the whole world to hear. You could take advantage of it today. All you have to do is,
Faithe.
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