July 24th - No Exceptions

"Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God" (Romans 3:19).

The whole world is guilty before God…

“For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God...The wages of sin is death.” (Romans 3:23; 6:23)

 The penalty for sin is death, that is the law of God. Thus, all of us will eventually die…no exceptions. 

However, humanity is assured in the Bible that the law of sin and death is temporary…

“The law has dominion over a man as long as he lives…But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the SPIRIT and not in the oldness of the letter." (Romans 7:1, 6)

When we die we will have “died to what we were held by" - our present flesh and blood bodies that fall short of the glory of God because we all sin. God designed us that way.

“…but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.” (Romans 7:14)

God has promised humanity that our mortal body will be saved and changed into an immortal "spiritual body" that cannot sin. Jesus will return to resurrect the dead, and in due time all will be changed from earthly to heavenly, from “natural” to “spiritual”. 

“How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”…The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body…The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. As is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly. Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.” (1 Corinthians 15)

Humanity will be remade into His image - No Exceptions!

“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."  (Romans 6:23)