FOR GOD SO LOVED THE 7,021,836,029 (aka the world)...Why don't you?

Greetings human beings...

In this island that we live...called planet Earth...the 3rd Rock from the Sun...we are not alone (although sometimes we feel like it).  Currently the world population is 7,021,836,029. That would be 7,021,836,029 individual people that have the same make up of (1) spirit (2) soul (3) body.

"And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you through and through--that is separate you from profane things, make you pure and wholly consecrated to God--and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved sound and complete [and found] blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah." (I Thessalonians 5:23 The Amplified Bible)

Man was not the thought of man...but the thought of God. "Then God said, Let Us make man in OUR IMAGE according to OUR LIKENESS..."
(Genesis 1:26) We started out as a thought in the mind of God (imagination) and the blueprint was God Himself.  "God is Spirit (Big S)...and those who worship Him must worship in spirit (little s) and truth." (John 4:24)  Again, we are a three part being...that moves as one unit.  We are a spirit (pneuma) who has a soul (psyche) housed in a body (soma).  And again, there are 7,021,836,029 of these humanoid units living in this world (give or take a few as people, live, die, are born or aborted).

There was a shift of relationship between man/wo-man and God...Creator and the created...in the Garden (of Eden) when Eve and Adam choose to disobey God...and begin walking in high treason.  As a result of this disobedience...death was instituted and spread throughout the world...which no includes the 7,021,836,029 human beings (spirits, souls, & bodies).  "Therefore, just as through one man SIN entered into he world, and DEATH through SIN and so DEATH spread to ALL MEN, because ALL SINNED." (Romans 5:12)  "As it is written, there is NONE righteous...no not one." (Romans 3:10)  "For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23)

God loved the world.  "For God so loved the WORLD that He gave His only begotten Son (Jesus), that WHOSOEVER believes in Him (Jesus) should not PERISH (death/die)...BUT (in contrast to dying) have EVERLASTING/ETERNAL LIFE." (John 3:16)  God does NOT love the "world system (ruled by the devil/death)...but the 7,021,836,029...spirits/souls/bodies within the world.  "For God so loved the 7,021,836,029...that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever (of the 7,021,836,029) believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life?" (John 3:16)

If God love all of these humanoids comprised of spirit/soul/body...what should our response be to them.  Sadly, we bicker, fight, hate, accuse, berate, manipulate them if they don't fit into our patterns of living. We will love them IF they clean up their lives.  Of course God demonstrates how we should express our love towards them. If we followed His example we would treat humans differently...Christian or non-Christian.alike  "God demonstrates (shows us how) His own love toward us...in that while we were YET sinners...Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)

We (as humans) are shaped by our experiences (good, bad, ugly).  When God saved us...our human spirits...who are now IN CHRIST...are NEW...the OLD things past away...behold...NEW things have come...and are constantly coming in our new lives. (II Corinthians 5:17).  If we looked into a mirror...for the most part...we look the same in our body(soma)...and we still have residual thought and emotions of our previous life.  We begin to RENEW OUR MINDS with the washing of the water of the Word of God.  (Romans 12:1-2; Ephesian 4:23). 

Our souls...our psych...our minds/free will/emotions have been affected by the environment that we have lived in for years...the good, the bad and the ugly.  This is why we act and respond to things the way that we do.  That is why we as Christians...need to understand that an unrenewed mind cannot understand the things of God.  When you expect a non-Christian to act like you...you will become disappointed and angry with the world...the one that God so loved and then demonstrate how we are to love them.  Die and lay down your life...BEFORE they change. 

FINAL THOUGHTS...FINALLY

Here is how God speaks to us...filtered through the spirit and a renewed mind...giving us the MIND OF CHRIST.  Remember there are many of the 7,021,836,029 spirits, souls and bodies...but all do not have the spiritual reconnection that the D.B.R. can give them.  It is when we realize this...that maybe we can begin to LOVE THE WORLD.

"Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love Him.  For to us God revealed them through the Spirit (Big S), for the Spirit (Big S) searches all tings, even the depths of God.  For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit (little s) of the man, which is in him (location of the human spirit)?  Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit (Big S) of God.  Now we have received no the spirit of the world (or the world system), but the Spirit (Big S) who is from God, tht we might KNOW the things freely give to us by God...which things we also SPEAK, not in WORDS taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit (Big S, combining spiritual THOUGHTS with spiritual WORDS.  But a natural man (one of the 7,021,836,029 who has not received him or walk in the flesh with an unrenewed mind)...does not ACCEPT the things of the Spirit (Big S) of Gd, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot UNDERSTAND them, because they are spiritually appraised by no man.  For who has know the MIND OF THE LORD...the he should instruct Him?  but we have THE MIND OF CHRIST." (II Corinthians 2:9-16)

Love and 7,021,836,029 Kisses
Rodney "spirt, soul & body" Boyd