you should Love your Life, if you Love Christ, for He is the Author and Finisher of our faith'...
I love my life in Christ, but I do not love my life on earth at this present time.
Ecclesiastes 2:17Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Luke 14:26If any man come to me, and
hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and
his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
The above verse is to avoid the snare to not want to leave this life when the Bridegroom comes at the pre trib rapture event. It is not a call to how one lives one life down here, hating people because of this verse below.
1 John 3:15Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
So it is about loving Jesus more than anyone on earth and more than the pleasures of this life has to provide for us.
John 12:25He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
So there is just cause to love the life with the Bridegroom above rather than the temporary but yet vexing life on earth that will be passing away when that fire comes on the earth that will burn up one third of the earth after the pre trib rapture event which will set the stage for the new world order and the coming great tribulation of the mark of the beast system to survive.
See Luke 12:40-49 for warning to be found abiding in Him and not just be willing to go by the reference below.
Luke 21:[SUP]33 [/SUP]Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.[SUP]
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And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and
cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.[SUP] 35 [/SUP]For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.[SUP] 36 [/SUP]Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
AND..
Luke 17:[SUP]28 [/SUP]Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;[SUP]
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But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.[SUP] 30 [/SUP]Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. 31In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
[SUP]32 [/SUP]Remember Lot's wife. [SUP]33 [/SUP]Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. [SUP]34 [/SUP]I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
I pray that He will keep me from any foolishness of wanting something from this life to bring with me to Heaven and as for any loved ones that may be left behind, I trust Him in the keeping of their souls while they suffer the coming fire on the earth and the subsequent great tribulation as a result.
1 Peter 4:[SUP]17 [/SUP]For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?[SUP] 18 [/SUP]And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?[SUP] 19 [/SUP]Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
So that is why by the grace of God, I hate this life of mine on earth, but I love my life in Christ to take me Home above.
