(*Translation note: you can also substitute ‘honor’ or ‘distinction.’)
- Matthew 16:27 For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.
- Revelation 22:12 “Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done.
- Romans 2:6-11 God “will give to each person according to what he has done.” To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For God does not show favoritism.
In the spiritual world, all of your contradictions show up through ‘your spirit’s body.’ Therefore, when [others] see your spirit, they can clearly see your contradictions. Some spirit has horns growing on his head like a goat or a wild ox and goes around shaking those horns. That is the spirit of an arrogant person. A certain spirit has one leg 30cm shorter than the other. So, he can’t walk straight even if he tries to.
And his hips swivel from side to side every time he takes a step. When I looked at the condition of that person’s body, he was living only physically and he was living with little or no interest in spiritual things. His spirit was formed exactly according to the way his body was living in the world. Some spirits had the form of a fox, a wolf, a hyena, or a snake.
Their spirits became those kinds of a form because their bodies were behaving like those animals, In the same way, if your body does unrighteous things but doesn’t change and repent, your spirit’s form will become dark, rough, and hideous. It is not that someone else makes you become like that. You become like that because of your own actions.
No matter who you are, you have to love God, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Son Lord and make ‘your deeds’ clean in accordance with Their Will. If you do, even if your body’s complexion is rough, your spirit’s complexion will be fair and even if your body is not beautiful, your spirit is formed into a beautiful being.
In this world, your authority, fame, and position show through your house, environment, or car. Do you know what a spirit’s the authority, fame, and positions show through in the spiritual world? Of course, you can tell by looking at whether that spirit is wearing a crown of righteousness or not. But the key way a spirit’s authority, fame and position show is through ‘the spirit’s beauty.’
‘A spirit’s beauty’ shines according to the [level of their] love and righteousness and everyone looks up to them [for that]. Therefore, when you look at ‘a spirit’s beauty,’ you can’t be deceived about their authority, fame, and position. If your body loves the Trinity and lives righteously united with the Lord, that love and righteousness forms ‘the beauty of your soul and spirit’ clearly. You can immediately tell how great a person’s ‘love and righteousness’ is by how intensely beautiful their spirit is. Therefore, from looking at ‘the spirit’s beauty,’ you can confirm a spirit’s authority, fame, and position at once with your eyes.
Secondarily, the authority, fame, and position of the spirits in the spiritual world are shown clearly through ‘the house and environment where the spirit dwells.’ As much as the body loves the Trinity, is united with the Lord, and does righteous deeds, the spirit is formed beautifully and shows its authority and fame. The more beautiful a spiritual body is, the more beautiful the house and garden that spirit dwells in is.
Your spirit’s house in Heaven gets built according to how much your body lives in this world while loving the Trinity, being united with the Lord and taking upright and proper actions.
Your spirit goes to and lives in the spiritual world that is fitting of your body’s deeds in this world. Only then are you comfortable and joyful because it fits ‘your constitution.’ It is like a person going to a restaurant, ordering and eating food that fits his taste, and saying that the food is delicious. If a spirit goes to Heaven, the kingdom of God, even though its body failed to live righteously according to God’s thoughts, it cannot live there because its constitution doesn’t fit. Balloons ultimately fly away by the wind and water ultimately flows toward lower ground. This is ‘God’s law of creation.’
In the same way, your spirit will naturally flow according to your body’s actions and constitution in accordance with God’s law of creation. Therefore, you absolutely have to fix the things that are wrong and must not go to ‘the world of unlawfulness.’ However, time will not wait for you indefinitely.
There is a time when you must fix yourself. If you fail to fix yourself at that time, the opportunity will pass by. Hell is easy to go because it is a world you go to after living in this world doing the things you like. Heaven is difficult to go to because it is a place you go to after keeping and taking action on God’s Word in the world even while experiencing suffering, and loving God and doing righteous deeds. That is why it was said that “People go to Hell after living their lives joyfully and people go to Heaven while enduring suffering.
Even if it is difficult, you must travel ‘the path of life.’ Your spiritual body is formed and the place your spirit will dwell forever is decided according to what your body has done in the world. Therefore, you have to conduct yourself really well while you are living in this world with a physical body.
If the body is ‘a tree,’ then the spirit is ‘fruit.’ No matter how beautiful and attractive a tree is, it is worth nothing if its fruit is bad. If a tree is ordinary but its fruit is great, then it is the greatest. In this way, no matter how beautiful and attractive the body is, if the spiritual body is not formed properly, it is nothing. If the body is ordinary but its spiritual body is formed beautifully, it is extremely precious. Therefore, instead of looking at only the body, you have to look at ‘the spirit that is made.’ Even though you may not know what that person’s body did and how they lived, when you look at the condition of their spirit and soul, you can pretty much tell whether their condition is good or bad.
The physical body can’t go and live in Heaven. Ultimately, the body lives out its lifetime and dies and the body’s deeds form the spirit and the spirit lives forever. If you want to form the spirit’s beauty, live forever as a spirit of life and build a dwelling in Heaven and live in Heaven forever, then during the time your body lives in this world, you must love the Trinity, take action on God’s Word, be united with the Lord and live by ‘love and righteousness.’
You must not let yourself catch a fatal disease of sin by doing unrighteous deeds and living comfortably as you wish but instead, you must keep your ‘faith, heart, thoughts, and actions’ straight and live righteously like one would keep his posture straight. 2017 is ‘the year of taking action, the year of revolution.’ All of you must make a revolution of yourself happen while acting on ‘the righteousness of love’ and getting rid of your contradictions yourself.