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What does it mean to be based on Christ? Who will be saved? "It's like walking through a fire"]
Deep-rooted evil thoughts sink us, and God's grace saves us from sin. This happens in the future world where everything is updated. Just like this, "the burden of work is on us, from the day we are born to the day we return to Mother Earth." However, even this evil is magical, because it teaches us to live cautiously, and it wants us to understand that life has become our punishment since people committed the first most tragic crime in heaven, and the whole promise of the New Testament is that we have new inheritance rights in the future world. At that time, we got the guarantee of this inheritance right, in which we inherited it on time. So, let's move forward in expectation and rely on the evil deeds of the gods to kill the body, and make progress every day. (1) "The Lord knows who his people are" and (2) "Because all who are guided by God are sons of God." However, this is not because of nature, but because of grace. Because in essence, God has only one son. Because of God's mercy, he became the son of man for us. We were originally human sons, but through him, we have the grace of God and become the sons of God. Although God's nature can't be changed, God took away our nature and imposed it on his son so that he could accept us and let us be with him through this nature. When his divinity is still firm, he even shares our weakness, and we can become better by sharing his immortality and righteousness. We can get rid of our sins and decay and keep any excellent qualities in his nature. His nature is the best and can fulfill our nature. Just as we fall into sin because of a person's sin, we will also enter a state of good because of the justification of a person who is also God. (4) But people should not be too confident, thinking that they can enter another state from one state until they come to a place where there is no longer temptation, until they get the peace they seek in various struggles of "lust and the holy spirit, and the holy spirit and lust". If human nature continues to be just when it is created according to its own free will, then such a war will never begin. But now, human nature refuses to be with God because of its own misfortune, and refuses the happiness brought by this peace, so it struggles with itself. Although this situation is unfortunate, it is still better than our life before the arrival of Christ, because fighting against evil is definitely better than giving in to evil without resistance. I want to say that it is better to fight with the hope of permanent peace than to be a prisoner without hope of release. We are really looking forward to the end of this battle. We are ignited by the flame of God's love and long for peace. In this good peaceful order, the despicable elements in us will obey the elements above it. Even without this expectation of great goodness-this is God's command-we should endure the suffering of this conflict anyway, instead of stopping fighting and letting our evil dominate us. The law of grace extends to all stages of regeneration. However, God has great mercy on those vessels that have been pitied and prepared for glory. (2) In the first stage of a person, that is, infancy, a person succumbs to the push of the body without resistance. In the second stage, the so-called childhood, people don't have enough reasons to fight against the body, so people will become happy prey of all kinds of evils. In this period, although people have language ability and seem to have passed infancy, their hearts are still too fragile to master teaching. However, if the child accepts the sacrament of the mediator, thus getting rid of the power of darkness and entering the kingdom of Christ, then even if his life ends in this period, he will not only be exempted from eternal punishment, but also need not bear the torture of cleanliness after death. Because spiritual regeneration itself is enough to prevent injuries caused by contact with physical death. However, if a child is old enough to understand what he is taught and understand the authority to obey the law, then he must fight against his sins and try to avoid those that will be condemned. If these crimes are not too great to overcome, it will be easier to overcome at this time. However, if these sins have become habits or rules, it will be difficult to overcome them. In fact, only by loving true justice and believing in Christ can we do this. Because if the commandments of the law are put forward without the help of the Holy Spirit, then any prohibition will only increase the desire to commit crimes and aggravate people's sins. Sometimes, it is true that some very obvious evils are overcome by other hidden evils, but these evils are regarded as virtues, which shows that these evil people are ruled by arrogance because of some destructive complacency. However, only when evil is conquered through God's love can it be considered conquered. No one can give this love except God himself. Only through Christ Jesus, the mediator between God and man, can he share our immortality and make us his God. But it is true that few people are lucky enough not to commit any reprehensible crimes when they are young. They have done all kinds of bad things, or made all kinds of shameful ungodly mistakes. Few young people successfully dominate their physical happiness with spiritual conquest. However, after being defeated by their own evil forces for the first time and violating the laws they accepted, many young people seek the help of grace, so that they can endure more persistent and fierce struggles, so that their hearts can obey God for the first time and their hearts can dominate their bodies. However, for us, the Christians of the Archdiocese are based on Christ, and they are not divorced from Christ. No matter how evil their lives are, they are all built on this basis, as if they were built with grass and straw. Therefore, they say that the correct belief that Christ is their foundation will save them from eternal fire, although they will lose some money, because what they built on this foundation will be burned. Let the apostle James answer them correctly: "If someone says he has faith but has no deeds, can this faith save him?"? "They asked the apostles," Although he was saved, he passed through the fire. "Who did they mean? So, we also have to ask who this sentence refers to. One thing is certain, the person referred to in this sentence is not the person James said, otherwise the two apostles' statements would be contradictory. As one apostle said, "Although a person's behavior is evil, his faith will save him, just like walking through fire", while another apostle said, "If he doesn't have good behavior, can this faith save him?" Therefore, if we first understand who is based on Christ, then we can understand who can be saved, "as if through fire." If we pay attention to metaphor itself, we will understand it much easier. Building a house is no earlier than laying the foundation. Therefore, no matter who has Christ in his heart and is based on Christ, there will be no territory or temporary things before Christ, even if these things are legal and allowed. If he puts these things before Christ, then even if he seems to have faith in Christ, Christ is not his foundation, because for him, everything else comes before Christ. If he flouts the commandment of redemption and commits an illegal crime, it is all the more proof that he has not put Christ before other things. When he refused the warning and permission of Christ, he put other things before Christ; In order to satisfy his evil desires, he despised the warning and permission of Christ. In this way, if a Christian loves a prostitute, attaches himself to her and becomes one with her, then he is not based on Christ. But if someone follows Christ's warning and loves his wife, who will doubt that he is based on Christ? (2) But if he loves her according to the appearance of the world, that is, he loves her body in lust, just like those who don't know God, (3) Then this is indeed a mistake, but the apostles say it one by one, or Christ says it through the apostles, it's just a small mistake. Therefore, even such a person can have Christ as the foundation. As long as he doesn't put such passion and happiness before Christ, Christ is his foundation, even if he builds it with grass and straw. Therefore, he will be saved, "as if he had experienced a fire". Because the fire of pain will burn all such happiness and territorial love, although such marital behavior will not be convicted. This kind of "fire" is related to loss, and eliminating these happy fires will also drive away other disasters. In this way, the house he built will lose money, he can't continue to have what he built on this basis, and he will feel pain because of losing what he loves. However, it is precisely because of this foundation that he will be saved "as if through a fire", because if a persecutor forces him to choose between Christ and these things, he will not put them before Christ. Look at what the apostles said about those who built on this foundation with gold, silver and precious stones. He said, "He who does not marry is worried about the Lord's affairs and wants to please him." Let's see what he says about people who are built with grass and straw. "Those who get married worry about things in the world and want to please their wives." (4) He said, "Every man's work should be revealed, because in that day it will be revealed and fire will be found." The "days" mentioned here are of course days of suffering. Here, he called "pain" "fire", as we read elsewhere, "Pottery blanks can expose cracks when fired in a fire kiln, and torture can exercise the righteous." (3) Also, "This fire will test how everyone's project is going. If the project built by human beings on that foundation can survive, "If human beings care about God's affairs, that is, make God happy, then he can survive." If the human project is burned, he will suffer losses "because he no longer has what he likes" but he will be saved "because there will be no pain for him to leave that solid foundation". Although saved, it is like crossing a fire. So, you see, we see that this kind of fire will not destroy two kinds of people, but make one kind of people rich and bring losses to the other, but both kinds of people will be tested. But maybe we can understand this fire as the fire in the sentence that the Lord said to the people on his left, "You cursed people, leave me! Go to the eternal fire According to this view, we think that among the "cursed people", there are those who are built with plants and straw, but because they have a good foundation, they will be released from the fire in a given time, which is the retribution for their evil deeds. However, in this case, how should we treat those who stand on the right side of the Lord? Scripture says, "Come, you blessed by my Father, and inherit the kingdom prepared for you since the foundation of the world. Didn't they build the foundation with gold, silver and precious stones? But if the fire mentioned by the Lord is the same as the fire mentioned by the apostles, "it goes through the fire", then both sides → one on his right hand side and the other on his left hand side will be thrown into the fire. This fire exercises both sides, because the scripture says, "Every man's work will be revealed, because in that day it will be revealed and fire will be found. "However, because this kind of fire tests both sides, if some people's projects are preserved-that is, if their projects are not destroyed by fire-then they can get rewards, and if their projects are destroyed, then they will suffer losses, so this kind of fire is obviously not the eternal fire itself. Because only those who are on the left hand side of the Lord will be thrown into eternal fire and finally condemned forever. Other fires are also testing those who are on the hand of the Lord. After such a test, some people's things based on Christ will not be burned. But some people have different results. The fire will burn down the projects they built and they will suffer losses. However, they will still be saved because they are attached to Christ with strong love, and Christ is their solid foundation. Therefore, if they are saved, they will obviously stand at the right hand of Christ and keep company with others. They will hear the voice of Christ: "You blessed by my Father, come and inherit the kingdom prepared for you since the foundation of the world. "They will not stand on his left hand side, and those who stand on this side will not be saved, so those who stand on this side will hear the voice of Christ," Leave me, you cursed people! "Go to the eternal fire!" None of these people can be released from the eternal fire, because they will all enter the eternal punishment, where their worms will not die, where the fire will not go out, and they will be tortured forever and ever. However, there is a gap between the current physical death and the doomsday conviction and reward immediately after the physical resurrection. Some people say that during this period, the spirit leaving the body will suffer from fire. They say that this kind of fire is not felt by those who live in this world with morality and love, and it is not built with plants and straws that can be burned by fire. On the contrary, only the people who built it can feel it. Because such projects can be forgiven and will not be convicted, but they were built in this world, and they will be burned in this transitional painful fire, either in the future world, in the present world and the future world, or only in this world and not in the future world. I don't want to argue about this, because this view may be true. The death of our body itself-which exists when people commit crimes for the first time-can be a part of this pain. It can also be that in this gap after death, everyone has an experience suitable for his construction. The same evaluation can also be used to persecute martyrs. All Christians have been persecuted. This persecution is like a fire to test two projects. Some projects have been destroyed, and if Christ is not the foundation, then the architects of these projects will also be destroyed. Some projects were destroyed, but their architects didn't, because Christ was their foundation. Even if he suffers losses, the architect himself will be saved. There are still some projects that will not be destroyed, because they are made of some durable materials and will exist forever. At the end of the world, in the anti-Christ era, there will be such unprecedented suffering. How many projects will be tested in that fire! Some are made of gold, others are made of vegetation, but they are all built on the strongest foundation, that is, Christ Jesus. The fire will test two kinds of projects. It will bring joy to some people and losses to others, but it will not be destroyed because of a solid foundation. But some people only love his family, so I won't say that he loves his wife only for physical happiness. Whoever puts these things in front of Christ and loves according to human fashion, instead of taking Christ as the foundation, then he will not have such happiness. Therefore, such people will not be saved in the fire. Indeed, he will never be saved, because he can't be with the savior. On this matter, the Savior once told us clearly, "People who love their parents and me too much are not worthy to be my disciples; Those who love my children too much are not worthy to be my disciples. " (1) On the contrary, a person who loves his family but doesn't put them before Christ at the same time, if tested, will choose Christ before his family, and such a person will be saved, "like crossing a fire", because the pain he suffered because of losing them is in direct proportion to his love for them. As for those who love their parents and children, according to Christ, he can help them inherit the kingdom of Christ, make them rely on Christ, or let Christ love them because they are members of Christ.