Know The Syndoxy Soon After Suffering

When you receive the Seal you will suffer some persecution and opposition, especially when you take the message of the Seal to the world. But we who are sealed and suffer together will be glorified together in syndoxy.

Your natural self is the "flesh." And your flesh wants to take over. In the beginning it wants to take over all the time. But after a while when you have put the flesh to death every day it does not return with such virility.

Your natural self or your flesh wants you to act out your instincts, your "drive to survive." This is why sexual lust is often a matter of the flesh. You have an instinct to reproduce.

And you have an instinct to eat enough food. But your flesh may want you to eat too much food. So you may overeat. And when you do you must fight yourself. You must fight your own flesh to control your appetite.

If you live by your heart and by your flesh you are ready to die. You may be dead in sin already, and if not dead yet you are soon to die. And when you die like that only your soul will remain alive. You will be spiritually dead.

If you die spiritually your soul will survive until Judgment Day. Then if you survive the Judgment of God, your soul will live ete
ally in Heaven. But your chances are better of going to Heaven if you stay alive spiritually.

If you do not survive the Judgment of God you will go to hell. Your soul will die too, and you will be forever separate from God. If you keep your spiritual Life then you have a better chance of going to Heaven.

When you become sealed you put to death the flesh and the heart. You put away all the actions of the body they cause. Then you will live spiritually. Instead of living and then dying you will die and then live.

You become sealed by putting yourself to death. That is when God writes His Name upon you--when you have sacrificed yourself enough to please Him. That is when He calls you His own.

The Spirit will lead you to fear God and to serve Him. You fear God who has the power of Life and death over you. When you are sealed the Spirit leads you to become a child of God.

As a child of God you still want to serve Him but you are not a slave to God any longer. As His child you have become His heir. And just as Jesus put His heart to death on the cross, so you put your own heart to death.

You always submit to death when you are sealed. When others want to kill you, instead you lay down your life. You can not be murdered. You lay down your own life. Jesus was murdered and yet He laid dow
His own Life.

People will persecute you when you become sealed. There are many reasons for this: the devil, their own flesh, the world and its pressures, and even their rejection by God.

You will be glorified with the other sealed people and the other children of God when you suffer persecution with them. You will be glorified in Heaven for ete
ity and you will also be glorified while yet on earth.

When we suffer together we will also be glorified together. That glorification together is the syndoxy. You will be persecuted and opposed and you will suffer but you will also be glorified when you receive the seal.