You are a specially-created, physical human creature designed to live on the earth.

Physical human beings exist nowhere else but on Earth.

Without a visible physical body you cannot take up space on earth. You start becoming visible in the womb before making your entrance. You cannot come into existence any other way.

You are a walking, talking spirit inside a physical body living on the Earth.

On Earth you are of no value to God without the spirit inside your physical body.

God needs your spirit to be on the Earth and your spirit can only be on the Earth if it is inside a physical body.

When your physical body ceases to function, your spirit departs from the Earth because it no longer has a physical body within which to operate.

Jesus works through your spirit by the power of the Holy Spirit, that’s why He said we are to walk and live in the spirit.

Faith is of the human spirit and not of the human body, but you need your physical body through which to do the works of faith. If your physical body is dead, there can be no faith to do the works. “For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.” (James 2:26)

God gave dominion (custodianship) over the Earth to man. Jesus was and still is the Word of God, but He had to enter Earth as a physical human being in order to live among us. Jesus was fully human and fully God.

For the purpose of legally entering and living on Earth as a human being, Jesus put aside the attributes of His divinity. It is for this reason that He had to be anointed of God like any other human being – the difference being that He was without sin – for He was God in the flesh.

Jesus - God manifested in the flesh - had to be like us because spiritual death was instituted by man and only a man without sin could reverse spiritual death. “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” (1Cor. 15:22)

God did not redeem your life so that He could immediately transport you to heaven. God kept you bound to the earth so that He could redeem others through you.

You are of no value to God if you are apathetic concerning His desire to reach others through you. God’s work through you is known as your works. “For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.” (Matt. 16:27

 Should you have no interest in God until the day you pass away, you might as well just eat, drink and be merry – and await your fate, which will be this, “And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matt. 25:30)

Once you’ve been redeemed you no longer live by your own faith, but by His faith. Therefore, you are required to boldly step out and unashamedly share the good news of Jesus Christ. “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” (Gal. 2:20)

Having His faith means you have unshakeable, pleasing faith. “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” (Heb 11:6)

Your salvation and Christian faith is not a private matter. It is for public distribution and notification. Once you depart from the Earth you will want to hear these words, “...Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.” (Matt. 25:21)

Your human life is but a stopover on Earth. God requires you to give an account of your words and deeds while you were on stopover. “So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.” (Romans 14:12)

So, considering all of the above, “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” (2Cor. 13:5)

Now hearken to that; all those without Christ are considered to be reprobates, but are allowed to keep on breathing air in this world in the hope that they would have a change of mind before it is too late.

Life on Earth for a human creature clothed with a physical body is an existence put into place by God and for God, otherwise, “If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.” (John 15:6)

Don’t be fooled by a seemingly smoothly-tarred road ahead of you in this world without Christ. It leads to a very hot place.

If you are happy to be living on Earth without acknowledging God on a 24/7 basis, then live with the fact that God will acknowledge you only once, in this manner. “And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” (Matt. 7:23)

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” (John 3:16-18)

Now retired, Jack Vorster has a background in marketing in the field of newspaper advertising. As a result of a life-changing experience he turned his attention to the study of the human make-up and the realities connected to human behaviour based on the Word of God.