Jay Scott

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Put God First

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On August 31, 2022

In Bible & Doctrine

Martin Luther said that it is impossible to break one of the Ten Commandments without first breaking the first commandment:

Exo 20:3  Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Today, we do not go explicitly by the Ten Commandments because we are under the new covenant (which Jesus brought into being). Nine of the Ten Commandments are still applicable today, because they are repeated in the New Testament. Only “remember the Sabbath” is done away with under the new covenant.

Still, Martin Luther’s point holds a great deal of value and truth. If one were to take a shady business deal in order to gain a great deal of money – then they would be placing money as an idol above God. If one were to go out on their wife, they would be placing their own lust and desire above the will of God (and God’s design for marriage).

As you go about this week think about the “gods” you might be placing above the One True God. Remember, idolatry does not have to be the worship of icons made of wood or metal. An idol is anything you put above the will of God for your life.

We know God’s will through his Word and the commandments he has given us therein. Let us not place anything above his divine and holy will, for nothing is comparable in value to our eternal destiny.

Mar 8:36  For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

What will we be like in Heaven?

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On February 25, 2022

In Bible & Doctrine

When we die we will (obviously) give up our mortal bodies, but what will we receive in return? The Bible tells us that we will be changed, but what exactly will we be changed into? In this article I want to briefly cover what we know (from God’s Word) about this subject. I will be using the ESV for this article, as it provides somewhat easier reading.

  1. We will be changed.
  2. We will receive another (better) body.
  3. We will become like Jesus (spiritual and eternal instead of earthly and mortal).
  4. We can’t know everything about what we will become (but it will be far superior to what we have here).

First, let’s look at number one, we will be changed:

1Co 15:52  in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.

Second, that we will receive another (better) spiritual body:

1Co 15:40  There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another.

1Co 15:42  So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.

Third, we will become as Jesus is now – not as he was when he died (perishable) on the cross:

Php 3:21  who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

Finally, we are incapable of knowing exactly what glory awaits us, but we are assured that it is far superior to what we have here on earth. In fact, I would venture to say that what we have here in this material world is a mere echo of what awaits us in the heavenly realm:

1Jn 3:2  Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

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