Chapter Nine "The Power of Endless Life"

CHAPTER 9

THE POWER OF ENDLESS LIFE

The power of endless life; how can death have any part in this statement?  You can see why many say Paul could not have written the book of Hebrews.  They say, “It is not his style of writing!”  In one sense of the word they are right.  Paul expressed it in a very familiar statement, “I am crucified, nevertheless I live....Yet, it is not I.”  Paul is saying that he died via a process, and how he once expressed himself was constantly changing.  Finally, after all of Paul’s letters, what he always desired is manifested, “Christ in and through him.”  “And the life that I NOW LIVE in the flesh (not skin but way of expressing one’s self)..I live in and through the FAITH (hearing him speak to me) of the Son of God.  Beyond a single word, beyond a single sentence, beyond a single paragraph or page became a LIVING Letter written of God for those of his day.

We all go from being a parrot to LIVING BEINGS expressing and expanding God and that LIFE, LIGHT and LOVE through Spirit given words that He makes come alive, what was written in Spirit given truths to those before us.

It was his and our experience of this power of endless life that removes many of the fears of this life and its ending.  There is no end.  There was no beginning.  There has only been and always will be ENDLESS LIFE.   “Unto to him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout ALL AGES, World Without End....”

Link this phrase to its first mentioning in Isa. 45:17 and it becomes clear what Paul meant that it was a mystery hidden; something that had always been there yet waiting to be revealed.  Something hidden by this temporal world and experience and dead religion; “But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an EVERLASTING SALVATION; you shall not be ashamed nor confounded WORLD WITHOUT END.”

Link this to Paul’s statement, “I am not ashamed of this good news, (the power of endless life) the Gospel of Christ; for it “IS” THE POWER OF GOD unto salvation to everyone that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.  For therein (is where the revealing of the power of endless life comes from) is the righteousness of God (the ability, perspective to hear God and know the power of endless life because he speaks to us) revealed to us from Words of Faith, Sentences of Faith, Paragraphs of Faith and the Living Experience the Spirit given truth, “The Just shall live by faith” (Talking to, seeing and hearing the Power of Endless life) coming to us..

The “JUST” shall live by this faith, the perspective of the power of endless life.  This Spirit given truth to Paul has become dead to us.  So here it is in living form....”the just, those who have come to see the power of endless life, that power given to those who realize they are sitting, and always have been sitting, in heavenly places and are untouched of this experience, thus are those that live AS THOUGH THEY NEVER DID ANYTHING WRONG. (Justified).  It is their perspective that gives them this view of things.  They see this as only one temporal experience to be followed by another to which they participate in the ever expansion and expression of who God is and we are....ETERNAL BEINGS.   Amen

NO BEGINNING OR END

When we stop seeing a beginning or an end we get peace; a peace which passes all this beginning and ending understanding.  In other words before this beginning in the mind of God, if you could gain that mind which Jesus Christ had, there would be no beginning or end.  It was what carried Him through this experience.  He knew that one day he’d be glorified with the glory He had before this beginning or His incarnation.

What peace that brings right now just to think about this matter of endless life.  Every now and then I get a stronger glimpse of this thing of endless life and there is more and more peace to it; a peace that passes all understanding of this limited narrow minded existence.  God knows what He is doing.  He’s the alpha and omega of this experience we call life.  But His offer of the power of endless life over rides it all.

Our first parents, Adam & Eve, partook of this tree of the knowledge of good and evil, than they were forbidden to partake of the tree of life.  If we would only “put down” this tree of the knowledge of good and evil and partake of the tree of life, eternal life, we would have the power of endless life.  Yet, we life in the beginning and end, birth and death; we live in fear of that death.  There was to be no fear of death, it wasn’t even to exit.  If Adam & Eve had not fallen, this exit of death would not have been.  There would not have been this fear of death because there wouldn’t have been any death, only an endless eternal experience; one which we could leave at will and then return, something like in sleep out of sleep, gaining more and more in the process.

If you thought you would never die, what things would you do that you aren’t doing now?  You would have no fear of death knowing that this is one continuing experience.  You would grow from one degree of glory to another degree of glory through faith to faith (faith meaning hearing from God the Father for directions and instructions of this experience.)  We would be on one continuous adventure asking where do we go next?   I’m retired now from the Dept. of Corrections what do I do next?  Do I see death?  NO!  I don’t see death I see new horizons.

 

THE POWER OF ENDLESS LIFE (AS A METHOD)

Taken from “Beyond the Veil” …. By Marion Law (out of print)

Hebrews 7:16 “Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.”

But, what is the power of an endless life?  The word power in our text, says Bushnell, is the original of the word dynamic, denoting force, a causative force, cumulating and growing more impelling as it goes.  And this is exactly the power which comes to the man who believes in an endless life, who respects himself enough to believe he is immortal.

In the first place, belief in endless life gives to our present life some perspective.  Behold what an infinitely higher view it gives to all our experiences in this world.  This world becomes, not an end but a means, a means to an end.  Life becomes a school; and all its experiences are the lessons we are learning, not for time, not for this world only, but for all eternity.  With what interest as well as power does this invest our life on earth!  Nothing is of little importance any longer.  All vital things are purposed and have their meaning; they are daily lessons; they are a part of our schooling; they are helping to prepare us for the endless life.  What interest and power for daily living that gives us!  What a power to endure patiently; what a power to live highly, and serenely and strongly!  What a power to overcome and seek constantly higher planes of living is the thought that our life is not a thing of today and tomorrow, but is an endless thing of which this life is the school and this world is only the preparation!  Marion Law