Faith in God took Enoch into another realm of reality. Enoch agreed and walked with God. His mind was so transformed by the presence of God, that Enoch was no longer recognizable, he was not found. He became a new being by the renewing of his mind. Enoch was no more. God took Enoch up into the heights of heaven because he was found pleasing in God's sight. Enoch was able to avoid our last enemy, death. Enoch learned the ways of eternal life by walking in God's shadow. When we come to God, we must first believe that He is God! To seek and find God, we must do so with all our heart. Without a heart full of faith it is not possible to please God. Once we find God we must continue to pursue and desire to know the vast depths within Him.
Jesus shed His blood on Calvary so our sins could be forever removed. But if we refuse to ask for forgiveness and repent of our sin, the blood Jesus shed does not profit us. When we turn our faces away from God and ignore such a great salvation, we choose death. God has never sent anyone to hell. In His great love, God sent His only Son, Jesus, to die on a cruel cross so we could choose forgiveness from sin and obtain eternal life. Eternal life is knowing and loving the only true God. People of their own free will choose sin, death and hell. What would happen if God granted permission for the vilest of sinners to enter heaven without being born again? Could that person tolerate God's living light in his dead, perverted, dark state? Could his dull, sin-hardened conscience turn towards God and repent?
God beckons us to love Him so the fear of the Lord will keep us clean, enduring forever. God is love but it is only one of His many attributes, so it doesn't limit or completely define Him. God is also holy, just, faithful, truthful, kind, immutable. God's love will cover a multitude of sin, until we are able to recognize it as sin and repent. God is infinite, sovereign, and self-existent, eternal and incomprehensible. His love for us disposes Him to desire our best. God's dominion empowers Him to secure the utmost and highest for us. If we keep God's pure commandments, our eyes will be enlightened. His statutes and true judgments enable us to walk in righteous, godly ways, even in our imagination.
What is imagination? Can our imagination be used for good and for evil? What is the difference between a self-centered, vain imagination, and a positive, productive, renewed or sanctified, godly imagination? Albert Einstein said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Imagination is the visionary power of the mind to form mental images or concepts of something that is not really present at that particular time. It is the ability to think, imagine, or create something new that has never been seen or done before.
God loved Jesus from before the foundation of the world. God sent Jesus to this perishing world. Jesus, the Living Word through the Holy Spirit, to speak God's Words of deliverance and healing. Jesus was manifested in the flesh. The Holy Spirit draws people so they may be saved and have the fullness of God's joy in them. Today Jesus still manifests in the flesh but it is through individuals who have sanctified themselves and learned to meet Jesus in the Spirit of Truth.
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