Today OUr Daily Bread (from Rock Church's Daily Reading Schedlue) Rom 16:19-20, Acts 17:6 & 2 Corinthians 5

Please, dare to read this today!
Romans 16:19-20 19 For your obedience has become known to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf; but I want you to be wise in what is good, and simple concerning evil. 20 And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
Acts 17:6 But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here too.
I see the word "be" here. I love the word "be". It takes religion out of relationship. It cancels out, "putting on the face or mask or act". It stands me up against God’s enemy to win the fight. It reminds me of God and His magnificent and powerful words- "Light BE". Stop trying to "be" good or right or gracious, just DO it, BE it, no more trying. Decide today to have God crush His enemy under foot in your life by Being Christ in the earth, through obedience from faith, through knowing (un an intimate "being" way) good (who is good but God?), and shunning evil.
Listen, this is SO important.
We cannot shun any evil in anyone else’s life that we ourselves have not dealt with in our own personal lives.
Religion wants to say- shun evil! They define that thought by thinking that that means we should point evil out to everyone else showing them their sin, and to make sure no one else around them sins.
Dear God! That is deafness and blindness. The blind leading the blind! NO, it is saying. Do NOT any longer tolerate evil in your own life! Don’t allow yourself to compromise. Don’t allow wrong and ungodly thinking and action in your own soul. If you are offended by God’s word, make an adjustment. If you’ve not thought this way, you have not yet tasted of the power of a changed life in Christ. Religious thinking says we can do all kinds of sin and hide behind it by pointing out others sin. Relationship takes the word of God personally, discerns evil works inwardly and takes the blood of Jesus, applying it personally for forgiveness of that new revelation (which should be occurring almost daily.) A person like this is so powerful in God’s kingdom. So powerful. They have power because they faced their own enemies and won. David slew lions and bears in his own life before he went out and slew giants!
2 Corinthians 5:1-21
Assurance of the Resurrection
Paul's Hope of Eternal Glory
1 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, 3if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. 5Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. 6So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. 7For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
The Judgment Seat of Christ
9 Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. 10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. 11Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences. 12 For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give you opportunity to boast on our behalf, that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart. 13For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; or if we are of sound mind, it is for you. 14For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; 15and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. 16Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. 20Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. 21For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
~Lena’s Journalin’~
Which part of our being is eternal, when our physical bodies die, yet the scripture is saying we live, even after we die naturally? It is our spirit being that is eternal and enters eternal life (or eternal death, which is being alive in darkness and torment forever). If we are spiritually alive unto God now, we’ve been born again by God’s Spirit through acceptance and practice of Christ death burial and resurrection, we will also be spiritually alive unto God in that eternal state of being in the "afterlife". If our spirit being is activated unto God now, we have entered eternal life now and will move into another dimension of spiritual life when we pass from this life to the next. We have communion with God now, our communion with Him leads us into a closer and closer relationship with Him, here. That closeness causes us to want to be as Him here and with Him there. We know Him and so know why we are here and that it is only for a time period. We, as Paul was, are "torn" wanting more and more of Him, which can only really be had in the heavenly realm, just because this flesh seems to keep us from that holy, pure, unfiltered communion with Him. Yet, we know we only have a brief time to fulfill His earthly mission, which will bring His desire about, which is, taking more and more into that holy communion with Him there. So we groan, knowing there’s more, both here and there. Here there is so much more of Him that could be seen, and there we will see so much more, yet because we know of Him in that place, we so desire to reveal Him in this place, because we know others can see Him as he is also. If we leave here, before our time, not as many may have the opportunity to see Him as we will and God is not selfish, so as we become as he is this desire grows more and more and more and we want to stay longer, yet we also want to GO!
Do you understand that the "original sin" was done before the garden and was bred in the garden? The root of the original sin was pride, but the original sin was rebellion. Pride led to rebellion. The rebellion was divisive and so division came into the universe! It could NOT stand in the presence of ONE God who is whole, completely full of love, all light etc. That rebellion separated everything rebellious from God and His wholeness and love. Hell was created for the fallen angles who separated themselves from God. It was their doom and punishment. Remember satan was their leader and in the choice of their will they followed the rebellion against God. The ONLY way to cancel this mess out and nullify it and bring love into its full operation was for a freewill being to say yes to God and no to the rebellion in all of its forms. Be Reconciled to God. This is where man came into the picture, a freewill being, who had the ability to say, yes and no, to God, the earth, all of the atmosphere etc. God has been informing man of spiritual things, principles of and leading to life etc since He created him. Satan has been perverting the instructions and teachings since the beginning of man. Man has the ability to bring division to unity, rebellion to obedience, as Jesus so well displayed, when He came as a demonstration of the will of God on earth. Please get this- GOD did not cause or do this! Rebellion, division, pride, caused this mess and all other messes after it. We are here to clean up the mess. Our freewill’s are the only tool we have to do this with God’s DIVINE help. We are here on a mission with God. He wants peace, love joy etc, Do we? How much? GET this please- God IS NOT any of our enemy, God’s enemy has lied to us and wants us to think so. If we think so we will not bring unity between the universe and God and instead of being going to hell, freewills will, are and have. Satan got 1/3 rd of the heavenly host to join him there in his future torment. He’s after recruits. His lies have given him more than a few. Don’t be in that number. Don’t lead other there by believing lies and please rescue others from that place! I beg you to repent of listening to lies, of cursing God, of thinking wrongly. I beg you…… It’s the time to live for the ONE who gave ALL for us, the ONE who paid an extreme price for the saving of your soul, all of your household’s and any of your friends and acquaintances you’d dare to influence.
The Lord gave me something with yesterday’s word and it has stayed with me. It is about reputation. Am I trying to uphold mine as a nice person who does not stir up any discomfort among souls who may be separated from God and their Divine purpose to lie for Christ here and now? Do I not receive the Holy Spirit in its offer to me for earthly power and display of the fullness of God because I care more about my reputation than I do God’s will? Do I hold back at all from being a Christian in behavior because the church has messed a few things up, and in pride I don’t want to be associated with the church who has messed things up, so I compromise and don’t do what I could, because of my reputation?
This is how God spoke to me- Jesus was a man, who could have had a good reputation, yet layed it down for my salvation. He died naked in front of people, He was stripped down, He was on display. All eyes of mockery were on Him. Some misunderstood and spoke against the work of God, yet He did that anyway, for them. What do I hold back in doing for God? Do I live for myself, or for Him who died for me? For Him who said there was a promise I must receive, the Holy Spirit, so I could effectively be here and look more and more like Him, or do I "serve" Him on my own terms, the way I want to?
Can I go ahead and risk my reputation here?
I want to boldly tell you your purpose.
You are a reconciler of man to Christ and to God, a restorer of truth in a world full of lies. Get on board. God has been waiting for you to awaken- YES, I’m talking to you. Arise O, sleeper, wake UP! It is past time to do and be the word of God in the earth. Don’t waste another moment of time. Earthly life is way too short! This is quite the urgent matter for you.