II Corinthians 5:1-10
As human beings, all of us are carriers of God’s DNA. All humans have some kind of god. As you study the human civilization, you will see that the human family knows that we need a god to worship. One can fill pages of a book with gods that human beings have selected to worship: a rock, a rock pile, a cow, a dung beetle, the sun, the moon, a star, an animal of some kind, some human person, self, a government, a tree, our unbelief, our property, house, land, car or whatever. This list could go on and on.
One common thing we have is free will to make the choices of the god we worship. But all of us carry the DNA of the one God that created us and made us to be his family. Life was created by the God we meet in his love for us and his judgment upon us. We know that the God that made us with his DNA will also be the judge of what we do with the gifts he has given us to use on his earth.
God became one of us in Jesus Christ and in this life, God gave us the community of the church formed by belief in his life’s plan. God knew that in our free will we would lay wreckage to the wonderful gift of life and choose other gods. Any other god that we may choose will not get us through the hard times of pain and misery. The God that gave us his DNA offers us grace, love and forgiveness that heals our broken lives from the sin and evil of rejecting this Holy Living God that made us and all things. We can’t create anything from nothing, but we can take what God gave us with our DNA and use it for good or evil. We humans spend a lot of time trying to push God aside. Look at the mess we have made of the beautiful gift of life by pushing God aside in our daily journey. Look at what happens to us when drugs, booze, and sex become our gods. Look at what happens to a nation that tries to kick God out of our business, out of our schools, out of government, and out of our personal choices of what we do with his beautiful gift of life.
In the fifth chapter of Romans, Paul wrote about the new bodies that in faith God’s family will have when we receive his Holy Spirit to free us from our sin of rejecting the only true Father God of all of us.
“For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands. We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing. For we will put on heavenly bodies. We will not be a spirit without bodies. While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it’s not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us, rather, we want to put on our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by life. God himself has prepared us for this, and as a guarantee he has given us his Holy Spirit.”
In God’s DNA, he has given to each of us the Holy Spirit. If in faith you choose Him as the Savior God, you receive this gift and power of life. That gift is His Holy Spirit.
Paul also wrote about those of us that choose to accept the gift of the Holy Spirit. This means life now and forever for us.
“So we are always confident, even though we know that as long as we live in these bodies we are not at home with the Lord. For we live by believing and not seeing. Yes, we are fully confident and we would rather be away from these earthly bodies, for then we will be at home with the Lord. So whether we are here in this body or away from this body, our goal is to please him. For we must all stand before Christ to be judged. We will each receive whatever we deserve for the good or evil we have done in this earthly body.”
We have many people, and this includes professors, ministers, bishops, and others, telling us that with their universalist ideas that with God’s love and DNA we all are going to heaven and have new bodies. But this phony teaching is just another way we push aside the God we meet in Jesus Christ. Just go to any complete Concordance of the Bible and you will discover that these people in universalism are lying to you about the DNA of God. In His DNA we find love and judgment. You are free to accept both love and judgment, or in our free will to accept one or neither.
The truth is found in the tenth verse of chapter five of the Book of II Corinthians. “For we must all stand before Christ to be judged. We will each receive whatever we deserve for the good or evil we have done in this earthly body.”
Even if we use our free will to reject the God who gave us our DNA, we can’t run, we can’t hide from the God that gave us life. We will stand before the one that made us and He will be the final judge on what we have done with His DNA. Paul is right when he says we will receive whatever we deserve for the good or evil we have done in this earthly body. We write the record of life we have each day and God will judge our record. Have you filled your life with evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander? Will your daily record be filled with your love for God, others, self? Will your daily record be filled with concern and care for the people you have encountered? It is the acceptance of God’s Holy Spirit that gives us the power of life that overcomes evil and gives us a new life forever. Don’t try pushing God aside if you want true lasting joy for your life.
We can blame others for our bad choices in life, but God will hold each of us accountable for how we have used the gift of His DNA that has given us life.
