09/27/2026 – Day 316 – “Your Present Afterlife” / Romans 6: 4-11; 8: 10-14; Galatians 2:20; Colossians 3:1-9 (see below)
“We were sitting on the top of a high mountain, a vantage point from which we could see a multitude of other high mountain peaks far into the distance, into the increasingly orange horizon of the sunset.
“How do you enter heaven?” he asked.
“You get saved,” I replied, “You were born again.”
“Yes,” said the teacher, “but assuming you are saved, how do you actually enter heaven?”
“You die,” I said. “You die and go to heaven.”
“So, that’s the only way?” he asked. “You have to die to get into heaven?”
“No, It’s the only way?”
“It is the only way,” he said, “but there’s more to it. In the New Testament the kingdom of haven is spoken of as that which is beyond and not yet, and yet also as that which is here and now and in our midst.”
“But heaven is the afterlife,” I said.
“Heaven is the afterlife,” he said. “It has to be. One must leave the old world to enter the new, and that which is of the flesh, to enter that which is of the Sprit. One must leave the imperfect of the earthly to enter the perfect of the heavenly. So heaven must be the afterlife. But…”
“But there’s a but?”
“For the child of God, the heavenly life cannot be limited to the afterlife. It is too great to be contained in that which is not yet and not here. For the child of God, heaven has to be known and lived in this life as well.”
“Then how do you enter it?”
“You have to die to get to heaven.”
“But I thought you just said…”
“You have to die to go to heaven,” he said again, “So the key is to die. But the secret is, don’t wait until you die in order to die. If you do, you’ll never know the heavenly life until this life is over. But there’s a way to die now even while you live. In Messiah you have that power … to depart from this realm, for the old and the earthly, even now. Die to your old life, and you will enter the new. Die to the flesh, and you’ll live in the Spirit. Die to the earthly, and you’ll enter the heavenly. Learn the secret of living in your afterlife now. It’s as simple as dying and going to heaven.”
The Mission: Today live as if your life was over. Then enter your afterlife, beyond the flesh and the earthly, to live in the Spirit, in the heavenly.”
Romans 6: 4-11; 8: 10-14; Galatians 2:20; Colossians 3: 1-9
How to Enter Your Afterlife Now
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Soli Deo Gloria!
“Now if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, then He who raised Christ from the dead will also bring your mortal bodies to life through the Spirit who lives in you. So then, brothers, we are not obligated to the flesh to live according to the flesh, for if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. Romans 8: 10-14
“For through the law I have died to the law, that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” Galatians 2: 19 – 20
Under the section titled: “The Life of the New Man”:
“So if you have been raised with the Messiah, seek what is above, where the Messiah is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on what is above, not on what is on the earth. For if you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God. When the Messiah , who is your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. Therefore, put to death whatever is worldly: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, God’s wrath comes on the disobedient, and you once walked in these things when you were living in them. But now you must also put away all the following: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his practices and put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of his Creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision, and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all.” Colossians 3: 1-11
Under the section titled: “The New Life in Christ”:
“… Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in a new way of life. For if we have been joined with Him in the likeness of His death, we will certainly also be in the likeness of His resurrection. For we know that our old self was crucified With Him in order that sin’s dominion over the body may be abolished, so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin, since a person who has died is freed from sin’s claims. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him, because we know that Christ having been raised from the dead, no longer dies. Death no longer rules over Him. For in that He died, He died to sin once for all; but in that He lives, He lives to God. So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to in Christ Jesus.” Romans 6: 1-14
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See the post for 09/01/2026: “Ye shall be holy; for I am holy.” 1 Peter 1:16. Peter is connecting back to Leviticus 11:44.
Note, from duckduckgo search assist:
In the Targums, “holy” is often translated as “set apart” to convey the idea of being distinct or separated for a sacred purpose. bibleinayear.online. Once again , we are “in the world” but not “of the world”, or : “Our Present Afterlife”
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Thoughts? / Reflections?