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We Do Not Have to Die

One thing I like to do is examine Scripture as New Wine. Of course, to receive New Wine, you must have New Wineskins.

For years we've read Scripture through an Old Wineskin mentality. We believed what we were taught by well-meaning people who also had Old Wineskin mentalities. This Old Wineskin mentality is religion.

Religion is all well and good... except that it keeps you from receiving the full Promise of Yahweh because it keeps you one step removed from total relationship with Him. Guilt, condemnation, and the idea that you have to make yourself good enough to relate to Him will never bring you the New Wine that Yahshua Promised when He gave us Himself.

There can be no vestiges of Old Wineskin mentalities left in our minds as we pursue the full relationship with Yahweh that Yahshua Promised us in the New Covenant. It is for this reason that I like to examine Scriptures with Holy Spirit's New Wineskin... the Mind of Christ.

These verses all pertain to one particular Promise that has been on my heart lately, that of literally living forever.

 Most assuredly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he shall never see death. ~John 8:51

 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. ~John 10:28

 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. ~1 Corinthians 15:51-52 

 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. ~John 3:16

  Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.  And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?” ~John 11:25-26

 Ask Holy Spirit to help you read these verses and filter out the old religious explanation that this means you shall live after you die. Christians have  long explained things this way in order to reconcile what they see with their eyes--people dying all round them--with the Promises of Yahweh. To be sure, Yahshua Promises that those who die in Him shall have their full resurrection to eternal life (indeed, you might say they're not really dead, but in a different layer of the planes of existence), but the verses in 1 Corinthians and John 11 clearly make a distinction between those who die in Him and those who are alive now and live in Him. 

 We do not have to die. In fact, when we allowed the Illusion of Death to die with Yahshua on the cross (we are crucified with Christ), we have fully experienced the "death" that was appointed to us (Hebrews 9:27). Any time we let go of the way we have once thought, we "die." And when Yahshua calls us to "lay down our lives," He is simply telling us to trust Him. Let go of everything you think you have to hold on to--both Real and Illusory--and let Him be. He will hand you back Reality every time. 

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