The Daily Word of Righteousness

Treasures in Heaven, #2

And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory. (Exodus 29:43)

The Glory on the Tabernacle and inside the Most Holy Place was eternal life.

Eternal life is given to the conqueror, God's warrior, in the form of "hidden manna" and he then is able to overcome every adversary, every obstacle, every sin, every aspect of his own rebellious, self-willed nature.

Eternal life created the earth, the other planets, the sun and moon, the stars.

Eternal life raised the Lord Jesus from the dead.

Eternal life is righteousness, joy, love, peace, the ability to perform God's will.

Satan and the demons have energy but it is not the energy of God. It is a dark, proud, lustful violence, devoid of righteousness, without joy, love, or peace.

Human beings have physical energy proceeding from the burning of oxygen. But physical energy is negligible compared to the energies in the spirit realm. All that physical energy accomplishes is to hold us upright, as it were, while we choose between Divine life and satanic life. Physical life is inconsequential and soon leaves the body, with the result that the body returns to the dust from which it was formed.

All we truly desire is found in the eternal Life of God.

The energy of sin corrupts every human being. When we receive the Lord Jesus He gives us of the Holy Spirit, not in abundance but as a guarantee of the future filling of our body with Divine Life.

The goal of redemption is to be filled with eternal life in our spirit, soul, and body.

The earthly counterpart of incorruptible resurrection life is the life of flesh and blood. Flesh and blood are our treasure on the earth. Life in the flesh consists of eating, sleeping, working, playing, and reproducing. This is the existence of an animal, such as a horse. Because of the pressure from unclean spirits these five actions of the flesh often are carried to excess in human beings.

We have a choice to make. If we live in our fleshly desires we will not grow in resurrection life. If we choose to allow the Spirit of God to crucify our fleshly life, if we present our body a living sacrifice to the Lord, then, at the coming of Christ from Heaven, we will receive a glorious body fashioned from eternal resurrection life.

We shall live forever in the immediate Presence of God and the Lamb. We shall possess love, strength, righteousness, peace, and joy that never will diminish—not throughout the ages of ages. We shall be wonderfully, marvelously, alive.

To be continued.