Title: The Road to My Hometown
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The flesh longs for the homeland of the flesh, and the spirit longs for the homeland of the spirit. To go to the homeland of the flesh, one must abandon the homeland of the spirit, and to go to the homeland of the spirit, one must abandon the homeland of the flesh. This is the same as the testimony of the testimony, “The lust of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the lust of the Spirit is against the flesh.
The Bible testifies about people who leave their hometown of the flesh (sin and death) and go to the homeland of the spirit (the Spirit of life). It is the same as it is written, “The LORD said to Abram, ‘Leave your land and your relatives and your father’s house, and go to the land I will show you’ (Genesis 12:1).
The Bible says, "All these men died of faith and did not receive the promise, but seeing them from afar and welcoming them, and testifying that they were foreigners and sojourners on the earth. They would have had the opportunity to return some more time, but now they long for a better homeland, which is in heaven; therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, but has prepared for them a city” (Hebrews 11:13-16). ) proves that
According to this will, Jesus Christ, whom the Father sent into the world, told us, who belong to our flesh and blood, “Do not let your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. My Father’s house is full of mansions; otherwise I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you; if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also” (John 14:1-3), he went to the Father. Because he asked the Father and sent us the Spirit of truth in his name, he testified, “In a little while the world will see me no more, but you will see me, for I live, and you will live” (John 14:19). is.
Therefore, the one who has received the Spirit of truth testified, saying, "That way is a new and living way that he opened for us through the veil, which is his flesh" (Hebrews 10:20). In other words, it is like the evidence of “the curtain of the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom” (Mark 15:38).
Therefore, whoever believes in the way of the cross, where the veil blocking the way to Heavenly Father among the cherubim is torn together with the flesh of Christ Jesus and becomes two, will be embraced with Christ in the arms of the living Heavenly Father forever.
It is written, “We know that our old self was crucified with Jesus so that the body of sin might be put to nothing, and that we should no longer be enslaved to sin, because the dead have been set free from sin. And if he died with Christ, I also believe he will live with him, knowing that, since Christ was raised from the dead, he dies no more, and death has no more dominion over him” (Romans 6:6-9). Same thing.
Therefore, “Where I am going, you will know the way.” Thomas said, “Lord, we do not know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. I am the way, the truth, and the life, who come to the Father except through me.” There is none” (John 14:4-6).
However, it is a strange and mysterious thing to attain eternal life through faith in the only true God and in Jesus Christ whom he has sent. The faith that leads to eternal life, that is, the salvation of the soul, is the faith in the covenant of God established with the blood of His Son.
Therefore, the salvation obtained through faith in these unchanging promises and oaths is the salvation obtained through hope. It is the same as the evidence that it is written, “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8). Hope is not hope. Who can hope for what we see? If we hope for what we do not see, let us wait with patience” (Romans 8:24-25).
Thus, the message of the cross that we enter into the veil is also obtained through faith through hope. It is written, “For we have this hope, like the anchor of the soul, strong and secure, entering within the veil, through which Jesus, who went before, entered for us as a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek” (Hebrews 6:19). -20) It is the same evidence.
There is only one person who has accomplished all the things we hoped for through faith and has gone ahead for us, the firstfruits. That is, it is the same as the saying, “Jesus, who went before there, entered for us, becoming a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.” This is the same evidence as “He who has entered into his rest rests from his work, just as God rests from his work” (Hebrews 4:10). Judging from the evidence that it is not called those who have already entered his rest, but “those who have already entered his rest,” it is clear that only one has entered his rest.
For this reason, faith is the substance of things hoped for, not the substance of hopes fulfilled. Therefore, regarding the way into the house of God, the Bible says, "The Holy Spirit showed us by this, that while the first tabernacle was standing, the way into the holy place had not yet been revealed. This tabernacle is a parable up to the present day. It is impossible for a conscience to be perfect, for these things, along with eating and drinking and various washings, have become only the ordinances of the flesh, which are left until reform” (Hebrews 9:8-10).
Therefore, in this world, the children of God who belong to blood and flesh should testify, “Therefore, faith, hope, and love, these three will always exist, and the greatest of these is love” (1 Corinthians 13:13) until the day they leave this world. will do Amen, thank you Lord.