toy boat, toy boat, toy boat

Picture in your mind a boat.  A boat to be a boat needs to be in the water.  To function as a

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boat it must be in the water.  A boat should be in the water, but the water should not be in the boat.  But the more the water is in the boat, it runs the risk of sinking and no longer being a boat!

Jesus said it this way.  “Be in the world, but not of the world.”  In other words, we should be in the world, but the world should not be in us.

James captured this ethic in saying, “He who is a friend of the world is an enemy of God.”  He spoke of an intimacy, for the NT Greek word “friend” was also used for the word “kiss.”

Do not kiss the world.  Be in the world, but don’t let it sink your boat!

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“I’m Not Dead Yet!” “Yes you are,” answers Quine

Adam and Eve by Peter Paul Rubens

Rubens understood the inheritance of "Death" post by Quine

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men… death reigned from Adam until Moses (and even now!)” Romans 5:12, 14

Who has not had the misfortune of a computer crash? One day my computer died.  Its usefulness came to an end.  Fortunately I had backed up my files, or I might have died! 

The Bible uses the word Death as not the end.  It is not annihilation but “death” refers to the concept of separation.  When Adam and Eve disobeyed God they became spiritually separated from God.  Physical death is separation from this body, but not the end.  Spiritual Death is separation from God, but not the end.  And eternal death is separation from God forever, but is not the end of existence. 

This is Dr. Jay Quine.  Rather than be separated when you die, be connected to God forever through faith in Jesus Christ. “In Christ, all shall be made alive!”

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