Matthew 5: 43-48

(Matthew 5: 43-48)

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.  But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;  That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Jesus' intention is to save a lost soul. 『Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.』 How can I be perfect? If you are not born again as a spirit body, you cannot be perfect, and if you are not perfect, you will not be able to have love for your enemies. This is not to say that "I must love the enemy" but to change to a body that was born again.

The born again becomes the son of God. So, those who are born again can pray fully to those who persecute God because of the salvation of the lost spirit. In Hebrews 12: 4 『Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. Rebirth is not done by my own power, but only by the power of God. As long as you live on this earth, you are only going to be crucified with Jesus Christ. And you win by fighting sin and bleeding. Only those who died with Jesus who died on the cross can love the enemy and pray for him for the salvation of the Spirit.

God poured out spirits who wanted to follow Satan's temptations to become like God. 『And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. (Jude 1: 6), 『For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; (2 Peter 2: 4)

It was the soil that confined the spirit. So, the spirit became human. The spirit trapped in the soil has died, and the heart that originates in the body becomes the master of the body, forgetting God, and living until death. The Bible explains the events in the kingdom of God through human crime in the Garden of Eden.
However, God wants the Spirit to come back to life. In John 6:63, Jesus explains to the disciples about the Spirit.『 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. 』 However, all the spirit in the body is dead. For the Spirit cannot survive in the soil. How should it be done? God told people how to do it, saying, "You must be born again." When Jesus talks to a man named Nicodemus, in John 3: 5, Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God . Water symbolizes the death of the body, and the Holy Spirit represents God who makes the body reborn.

God says, "The spirit cannot survive if we are born again with a spiritual body, not with soil." Anyone who realizes the word of God knows that "Man is a trapped being contaminated with evil." So, humans confess to God that they are evil and pray for forgiveness. Those who confess to God that they are wicked believe that God will forgive all sins. And believe the word of God's promise. The promise is "If you believe that the present sinful body dies with Jesus crucified 2000 years ago, God will make you reborn as a spiritual body." This is the rite of baptism.

『 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 』(Romans 6: 4)
When you look through your physical eyes, nothing seems to have changed, but you believe it. When you are born with a spiritual body, the spirit will rise, and you will be able to return to the kingdom of God. So again, your spirit will put on the clothes of the kingdom of God again. The Apostle Paul expressed his clothes as a body. 『It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. (1 Corinthians 15:44) He expressed his body at home.

『For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. "(2 Corinthians 5: 1), when the body dies, the spirit enters the kingdom of God and becomes like an angel." For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. ”(Matthew 22:30) But if you cannot return to the kingdom of God, you will be judged.

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