THE CROWN OF LIFE

The idea of salvation is beyond saving man from sin and returning him back to his original state. God demonstrated great love towards man. He replaced Adam & became our father, adopting us to have glory no longer as men but as sons of God. After man sinned, God planned to redeem him & bring him to a place where he will be able to reveal God’s glory which all of His creation have never experienced. Also, God had someone dear to him someone He does not do things without; His son. God brought him to be the redeemer of man because this glory that He wants to unveil which His angels have not seen; He wants it to come through that very one. But what will qualify this his son and other sons after him for this glory is ‘suffering’. That was one of the reasons God allowed Jesus to come to the earth.
Christians are different from other creations. They are designedly born from death. Other creations that exist came from life but God decided to bring these ones out from death. When He brought them out Jesus had already done everything through suffering. That suffering is very important. God could have made another man and send him to the world to redeem these fallen men of their sins and everything will return back to normal. Moreover, the sin was not committed by them which brought them into death. But God didn’t save them this way. Their redeemer suffered and his death brought about their salvation. God had forgiven them their sins -those who believe in him. They will have no need to remain here in this wicked world since He has forgiven them. What then is the need to remain here? His angels didn’t go through this same thing Christians are going through. Of course He’s going to test them, but is it needful to test them here? Adam was not tested in the mist of suffering. It is not difficult for God to translate them into a place like the garden of Eden where everything is OK after redemption. After their minds have been cleaned of all wrongs, then He begin to teach them things building them afresh before the devil will come to test them. But He didn’t do that to them for them to have the Adam experience or the angels -there was no suffering for these two. God left them after they came out from death to suffer, to be in the mist of the most dreadful suffering. You do not realize you are truly suffering because you are born into this world, when you come to the fullness of righteousness then you will understand what the bible says that the world has gotten darker when it comes to evil. Angels don’t experience these things. Look at how the beasts live, they eat each other to survive and this happens with men too. We see all kinds of bad news, nothing that hasn’t happened in this earth. This is where God has chosen to raise people that are pure. What is God’s plan and why would he do such a thing? He could have sent angels to preach and anyone who gives his heart to Christ is translated but he did not do that. He gave us the job to suffer the same thing that our redeemer suffered. There must be something about this suffering then. This suffering will actually qualify us for that thing He wants to create because the creation is not complete. We are in a process, so He says ‘if we suffer with Jesus we will be glorified with him’. Other creatures were made and they live, angels were created but were not glorified, they are just angels. But for these creatures, to begin their life they will be glorified. So all that is happening here is actually part of the process of the making of these people. For other creations, like Adam God breath on him and he came to life but when God came to the Christian He left him in an old body & in a terrible world suffering. Why did he do that? It is because these beings are to manifest a glory that is coming from God almighty. That is what will happen in the new earth to come. There is something God wants to show His creations that has never been seen before. A new side of God is about to be unveiled, this is the reason for all these things. God decided to make these kind of creatures, that they will be the ones displaying this new glory. That is the reason you will have to qualify for such glory because this glory cannot just be given to anyone that is just born. This glory is actually “walking with the father”. Angels don’t walk with the father this way. These ones are joint to the family of God and are called sons of God. God sent his son to suffer so that he also will receive this same glory.
What we are doing now is work, it’s not about the present. By the time we go through all these things those who overcome, He will crown them with life. Not glory or peace of mind but life. This means that life begins now. There is nothing like the crowning of life before. Normally, God creates you and gives you life. It’s not a crowning of life, but this one is a crowning of life.
These ones will not be known as new creatures with a crown but those who came into life at the resurrection glorified like the Lord Jesus. That is God’s plan. Then the bible says ears have not heard nor eyes seen what God plans for those ones. No one has seen it, but I am sure for His son that left God has started showing him the beautiful things that He has in store for us. This is not something you go to achieve, it is a life, a crown of life. In other words, the glory is the life that you will be living, that is what will be given unto us. So glory has now become life. You don’t understand what you are going through, if you understand you will not value this world that much. Your whole attention will be centered on that crown. That is the real life.
So now we understand why we are still suffering from what Adam did. Why God didn’t just cut it off from Adam, letting only him go through what he set for himself. God had a plan, and this is the plan.
When God was creating other creatures and he got to man the pattern was different. This was what God said “Let us make man in our own image”, the pattern in which God created all other things will be different from this one. That is what that statement imply. In other words, we have made all others in this manner and now we want to make something else. That’s why you can’t compare man with other creatures, he is different. And God made us in His image and likeness. We are qualified to take over the earth. By man’s nature, he is made to rule & govern because he carries the image of the governor -the God. Men are born for this purpose. Every human being that is born have their place of ruler-ship on earth whether small or big. They are in charge of the animals.
The same way God is re-creating man not just according to His Likeness. He is going to give us a life that He has prepare & preserved for us, and this life is in his son. What would heaven and earth be like after judgement? Suffer, for the suffering is for a reason. There is something God is achieving through the suffering, at the end of the day we will all know what that suffering is for. Then you will know how you are made different from other creations of God. You marvel seeing angels and their characters. But you are a kind of firstfruit of God’s creation in the making? What will it be like? It’s a surprise. What type of creation is this? The creature is already alive but have not been completed. What they will look like they don’t even know but when Jesus comes they will see him as he is and they will look like him. That is the crown of life, a different type of creation.