The Devotional

Papa “J” says

History is made by people who God places in time; Poor, Promising, Peaceful and Persevering. Their influence on the world is Providentially Predestined. Romans 8:29

Have you ever turned down a five dollar bill for a nickel? I would guess that all of have more times than we would like to think. Ever heard the expression; “If I had a nickel for every time I said that, I'd be a millionaire!” Shucks! It only takes 20,000,000 nickels to make a million dollars. In reality, that is a lot of hard work, just to obtain the status of being a millionaire. Many of us ask God to provide for us somewhat like a hymn that I love to sing. “I'm satisfied with just a cottage below, a little silver and a little gold...” Well it is wonderful to be waiting for our eternal home and the blessings that follow. What is not so wonderful is that many of us are hard at work, scraping together those 20,000,000 nickels of hard labor, when it is always God's intended purpose to give us 200,000 five dollar bills to reach the same goal. Ephesians 2:10. If we walk in the LORD, we will not produce the feeble deeds of the flesh. Ephesians 4:1-6 and Matthew 11:28-29.

1 Corinthians

1 Corinthians 15:35-40 I thought that when I got to these passages in 1 Corinthians 15 that it would be a simple walk through some passages that I love to read. However, there is more to this resurrection of the dead than just a casual reading will reveal. So, does the apostle give us the information asked by this; “someone” who is lovingly called, foolish one? God has given us many examples of resurrection life through the natural reproduction of plant life. Each time a seed is planted in the soil, with a little water and sunlight the seed will explode with new life. Same plant, but different day and it is God who provides.

Also there are a variety of living animals in the world, all of which have differing types of flesh, yet these always reproduce in the same species. In other words, frogs reproduce more frogs. We have never seen a frog reproduce a billy goat. So the things of earth are common to earth and the heavenly things are common to heaven. Those freaky things that people read about in rags like the Enquirer are generally lies, but there are those who seek to alter the genetic code of creation and this is a lie as well since it is a denial and perversion of the order of creation.

The celestial will always be heavenly and the terrestrial will always be earthly. For any human to try and combine the two is demonic, James 3:13-18. Many cult leaders have destroyed the lives of many. By confusing and misguiding people because they purpose in their heart to destroy the truth of God's power to raise the dead. We will see that while one may talk of the resurrection and life after death, that in reality they are denying it rather than affirming it.