The Problem

The battle of good and evil is a battle between life and death. If goodness brings life, then evil brings death, and Sin is the instrument of death. If God is a CEO, then His work for the church is to do Righteousness and to be Holy. Through faith by grace in Jesus Christ, we gain access to the work of the Lord. And His reward is everlasting life, which is all goodness in itself. If Satan is a CEO, his work is the works of the flesh (listed in Galatians Chapter 5) and a poisonous tongue, which is evil because it puts a veil over your eyes leading you to darkness and blindness and putting you to death. A psalm of King David says this, “I said, “I will guard my ways, Lest I sin with my tongue; I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle, While the wicked are before me.”” The Battle of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is won by being in the Spirit of God. This is why the Apostle Paul gives us the Armor of God in detail in the book of Ephesians. We have access to that spirit of God through Grace operating by our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, we wait on the Lord by praying, by fasting, by believing, by righteousness which is faith and doing your neighbor well, by perseverance, by admonishment, by persecution and by exhortation in the body of Christ.

The number one problem that we have here on earth is not a lack of resources, or a lack of people, or a lack of money, or even a lack of our own pleasures. (Whoever tells you those things are deceiving you.) Our number one problem here on Earth is death, because we were created to live forever. The time that we lose here on Earth, we cannot get back, but if we manage our time wisely, we can sow abundantly or sparingly and reap abundantly or sparingly. One seed can create seven times more seeds than itself, and therefore God did not lack the abundance of resources in all of His creation (this is an example of goodness). From one seed many things can be created, and there is no waste of anything that God has created which is good. The Apostle Peter says that, “…having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,” and the incorruptible seed is Christ Jesus, the Son of Man, King of Glory. However, if the seed (which is the word of God, who is the Lord Christ himself) has landed on solid ground, then that seed cannot multiply on that land. (Does this mean that Jesus Christ has ended? God forbid, for the Alpha and Omega lives on and on. But He ceases his grace and separates himself from the one who does not receive Him or believes in Him or follow His commands.)

And where there is a lack of resources there is also a lack of food and water which promotes death overtime. Yes, it is true that a seed grows in darkness, but the life of the seed is sprung up by the light of the sun which makes it grow and plentiful. John the Baptist reveals to us that God sent His only begotten Son for us to believe in Him so we can have access to everlasting life. But how can you want to live life, but work death? Sin is the instrument of all evil and “the wages of sin is death”. An instrument is also a tool, and with tools we work hand in hand to complete a work. I was always taught that nothing in life is for free. Every action you take or every thought you make is a work in itself. And if you choose to use your body to do the works of the flesh, you have paid sin with the blood of yourself or somebody else. This is like paying your own assassin to kill you.

So, we have examined the problem here on earth which is that we all do not want to die, but yet we live to meet our death by living in sin with no repentance of it. But there is a solution. And the solution is this; for it is better to die in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, than it is to live for the world. For in his death there is resurrection of life (which the apostles call “quickening of the spirit”).