What I learned today, August 23, from Brother Rodney

The will of God is expressed in 1 Timothy 2:4: that all will be saved.

This does not fit with the narrative of most churches because they transform God's will into merely a desire for people to be saved. But a desire may or may not happen; a will is different.

By doing this, they place salvation in human hands, teaching that we have to do something and/or say something in order to obtain it.

But faith comes simply by hearing. By hearing, we can believe, and eventually everyone will believe.

God is omniscient. He knows everything from the beginning, and His plan has already been established. As Isaiah 46:10 says, God declares the end from the beginning.

Therefore, His will does not depend on human beings making it happen. God already knows and has declared the end.

All will be saved. This is His will, and it has been part of His plan from the beginning.

What I learned today, July 12, from Brother Rodney

Today I came to understand that the flesh perishes because it goes to the grave and returns to dust. This is how the corruptible comes to an end and turns to destruction.

The soul is the breath that God has given. Life exists because of the union of the flesh and the breath. At the resurrection, that breath returns from God.

The phrase "Return, ye children of men" is a call to the resurrection.

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Death is not the end; it is a gift from God because suffering comes to an end, and we wait in hope for what He has promised.

There is no separate rapture. The true hope is the resurrection, when the corruptible will put on incorruption, and the mortal will put on immortality. That is the true victory.

Death is no longer defeat. Death is victory. It is the hope God has given us.

And the image that touched my heart the most was this: death is sleep, and Jesus is the alarm.