If we don’t believe the earthly things of Christ, how can we believe the Heavenly things?

John 3:12-13

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 “If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man.” John 3:12-13 

The earthly things Jesus shared with us is about being born again. The human spirit must be born again by the Spirit of God which happens when we come to the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of sin. That is the Gospel of Christ that we want everyone to hear and believe.

If people do not believe the testimony of Jesus about being delivered from a life of sin, then how are they going to believe the Heavenly things? The Heavenly things include that the Lord Jesus was not born of the dust like every human being in this world but was born by the Spirit of God through the virgin birth. Jesus is the Son of God sent from Heaven to atone for sin by dying on the Cross. After three days, God raised Jesus from the dead and He ascended into Heaven where He lives today in a redeemed and resurrected body. Because He lives, we will live eternally also in the New Jerusalem when the new heaven and earth are created. A day of judgment is coming in the afterlife, and those who come against Jesus Christ will be sentenced to eternal hell.

Today’s world doesn’t believe in the earthly message of being born again and even rejects the idea of sin. If they can’t admit to the presence of sin, then they certainly are not going to believe in the judgment of sin in the afterlife. What they do believe in is humanism empowered by the thing which forms what they think, feel, say, and do. It enables the image of the beast to live and speak through them. They feel that if they are living in alignment with that, then they are living a righteous and sin-free life free of all judgment. They are conformed to the anti-Christian global culture as they are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do.

Human rationale has replaced faith and belief in God and the creature human being is served while the Creator God is rejected. Humanism is the clothing worn by this world’s system to cover their sin like a fig leaf. We see them covering their sin because they cover up killing the unborn by calling it, “Reproductive Rights”, they cover up promoting the LGBQT+ lifestyles through the “Respect for Marriage Act”, and everything they do is hidden behind a fig leaf. Nothing they say can be taken at face value.

Humanism is an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems.

I know I am among the minority in this world because I believe in the need for the remission of sin through Jesus Christ. I believe that because He lives, I will live eternally with Him in the New Jerusalem. The Lord Jesus is truly the Son of God sent from Heaven and He lives there today.

I believe in the blood of Jesus that washes white as snow
I believe in the power of the Gospel, still makes the broken whole
I believe that the curse of sin was broken when they rolled away that stone
I believe, I believe, I believe
(Church Song)

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1