Expedition 44

Doc Ryan & Pastor Matt discuss The New Earth - Final state of Eternity - when Christ accomplishes God’s original purposes for creation, reverses Adam’s curse, culminates his fulfillment of God’s promises to Abraham, and, ultimately, provides his people a place to dwell with God for eternity.

The rapture thinking isn’t Biblical. Not only did Paul not think this way but neither did Jesus, in fact none of the Biblical Authors thought this way.     It started with an Anglo-Irish theologian, who in the 1830s invented the concept. Before John Nelson Darby imagined this scenario in the clouds, no Christian had ever heard of the rapture. the word "rapture"and even the idea of it simply  doesn't appear anywhere in the Bible.   The “rapture” is simply not part of the biblical picture. And, it often leads to problems today like a desire for escapism, and sometimes a lack of concern for this planet

• When a Christian dies, he or she enters into what theologians call the intermediate state, a transitional period between our past lives on Earth and our future resurrection to life on the New Earth. Usually when we refer to “Heaven,” we mean the place that Christians go when they die. (paradise) • By definition, an intermediate state or location is temporary. Life in the Heaven we go to when we die . . . is not our final destination. It may be a less conscious state. It’s not the place God promises to refashion for us to live in forever. • God’s children are destined for life as resurrected beings on a resurrected Earth.

Psalm 22:1—“my God, my God why have you forsaken me?” The opening line of Psalm 22 beautifully expresses the anguish of the psalmist. Shows Jesus' humanity and full trust in the victory through God on the cross.

Ryan and Matt take a look at the ideas of salvation and sanctification as part of the Good News. They discuss the idea of salvation as a momentary experience vs a journey and consider what a better method of introducing someone to the good news may be.

Pastor Matt and Dr. Ryan answer the question what is the gospel. Some look at Salvation alone as the gospel, but we will show that Salvation itself is simply described throughout the Bible as a journey of being faithful and obedient (Allegiant); giving our life (Nephesh) as Jesus gave his. A king, a kingdom, freedom from slavery, and restoration of an Edenic plan for all people the  NT and OT would affirm that the Gospel is is the journey of obedience to a complete vocational calling as a lightbearer. It is essentially Man’s free will choosing to pledge his complete heart and life to following King Jesus. Can it also be considered as a singular experience? Watch the video to help formulate your view.

Our Westernized (American church) thinking, heavily influenced by Reformational theology has left most of us confused about what the Gospel (good News) is and how Salvation and Sanctification work in the life of a Believer. We have sought to use ways to communicate God's plan of Salvation and the start of the journey of following Jesus by simple steps or something called the Romans Road. Unfortunately both models have likely caused more problems than Good. Today in part 1 we simply take a look at some of the issues that have arisen through simple Salvation thinking and why they don't really make sense in the lens of scripture.       •       idolatry (allegiance to other spiritual beings) and sin has separated us from our original calling and communion with God  • We  need reconciliation and that was made in Jesus’ sacrifice • We need to respond in faith (allegiance- not just belief or a one-time confession- nephesh, everything we are) • Romans road is problematic in that it rips these verses out of context and it doesn’t fit the thesis of Romans 1:16-17.  • it prioritized “getting saved” and “going to heaven” over our calling to participate in God’s glory • Romans is about reconciliation and the one people of God returning to their original calling through faith(fulness). This was made possible in Jesus’ faithfulness that fulfilled the covenant to Abraham (to bless the nations) in the way Israel could not under the Law.

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Works Contract: Collosians/Ephesians/Genesis/Mosaic law   Within this narrative, creation itself is understood as a kind of Temple, a heaven-and-earth duality, (body becomes a temple of the HS) where humans function as the “image-bearers” within a cosmic Temple, part of earth yet reflecting the life and love of heaven.     Humans don’t simply “keep moral standards” but “live” enjoying God’s presence here and hereafter: to celebrate, worship, procreate, and take responsibility within the rich, vivid developing life of creation.     According to Genesis, (literally reading the scripture) that is what humans were made for.   The problem we humans have gotten ourselves into, the “sin” that has exiled us from God, is that we have rejected the vocation or purpose for which we were created — to be God’s image in the world, his royal priests who reflect his glory back to him in worship and into the world in faithful stewardship — and we have turned from thus serving the living God to worship idols. This has unleashed the powers of disorder and corruption to enslave humans and the good creation and we now essentially have turned God’s good creation of earth into HELL.   - death is the intrinsic result of sin, not simply an arbitrary punishment

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