All About Love part 4
I really can't think of anything else worth Ranting or preaching or talking about. What else matters? "The afterlife"? How about ETERNAL life. And if life is eternal then there really IS no "after" life. Because there's no end. There's just something different. Which is basically what 1 Corinthians 15:51 says, "Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed." And listen, I'm not saying I don't believe in heaven. I do. I simply believe that instead of spending our "whole" lives trying to "get there" when (IF) we die... we can experience the days of heaven ON earth right now! We are in the Kingdom right now because the Kingdom is in us right now! And what is the Kingdom (righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost) other than where the King rules and reigns? And where does the King rule and reign? In us! THROUGH us! WE are kings and priests equipped and empowered to reign on the earth. Equipped and empowered... with love. Equipped and empowered BY love! See, it's not the King telling me what to do and me trying to do it so as to avoid His wrath. It's the King ruling and reigning IN and THROUGH and AS me. It's me being so filled with love that it overflows out of me. It's me experiencing His abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life as He lives it (all by Himself) in me. We say, "Jesus lives in me," but it's almost like we think that means we are a cage that He sits in, and He only does things when we let Him out of His cage. Guys... to live is to love and to love is to live. Love and life aren't just connected, they are the SAME THING. If He lives in us then He loves in us. And living isn't something you do some of the time. Living is all there is. ETERNAL life. What's the alternative? There is no alternative! John said, "We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death" (1 John 3:14). We WERE dead in our trespasses and sins BEFORE the cross. Now we have passed FROM death UNTO life because we love. And we love because we ARE loved. We love because He first loved us! In Adam all died. In Christ all are made alive. The difference between believers and unbelievers is not that believers are alive and unbelievers aren't. The difference is where you abide. Where you dwell. Where you live. If you know (and BELIEVE) that you are loved... you love. Naturally. When you recieve it, you release it. Because it's too big to contain. Too good to keep to yourself. If you don't know (and believe) then you work yourself to death trying to get something you think you don't have (even though you DO already have it, you just don't know it). The difference between life and death, literally, in a Word, is love. You can't live without love. And you don't love then you can't live. Guys, that's who God IS. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. HE IS LOVE! And, because He lives in us, that's who WE are! We are dead to sin and alive unto God. Dead to unbelief and alive unto love!