I truly believe, as a creation of the Almighty God, He, in His everlasting benevolence, would not leave us without a clue to our composition, our purpose or our reason for existence.

He has shown it all to us through the Epistles to the Church in the Person and Work of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His Death - His Burial - His Resurrection and His Ascension!

That is the importance of the New Testament Epistles, the culmination of all things IN CHRIST. That is where we receive our new instructions, revelation of our New Life, as a part of the New Covenant. That is why it is important to understand the Word as progressive revelation. It is a divine flow from one end of the spectrum of God to another.

In the Epistles, we see God has given to Apostles the definition of Man as God Himself sees him and has made him. In the Epistles, we gain an understanding, from inside our hearts, of who our Creator is. What His true purpose is, and was, from before the very foundation of the world. We learn God in His ultimate wisdom and knowledge has had a purpose and a plan, a goal to achieve.

It is in the goal of God we find out what we are, who we are, and why we are. So doesn't it make perfect sense that the answers cannot be found without the One who has created us? He made us, let Him explain us, to ourselves and we will find that perfect place of rest and peace, a creation of harmony and balance once lost, but now found in the ever-loving arms of the one who Himself is Love, God The Father! Ever flowing, flowing from the inside, a constant deluge of pure spiritual life as God unfolds His master plan to us all. We flow with the same energy and power He used to raise Christ from the dead. We flow into becoming a whole Man In Christ, every part of us working together from the inside out transforming our very being into the likeness of Him who is the seed.

O.K., so you say what does all this goal and goal stuff have to do with Soul Salvation? In understanding the goal and plan of God, we can jump into the middle of the stream where the flow is the strongest. Then we are no longer depending on our own ability to walk down the stream, but rather the current of the stream itself is carrying us on to its intended purpose or release.

Out of the spirit of God into the spirit of man, a step-by-step living process of the ever-loving God who will see that all things work together for good to them that love Him. It is God who is at work within us, both to will and to do of His good pleasure. It is nothing less than a pure growth process, first the seed, then the root, then the shoot, then the branches, then the tree, then the fruit. One does not pull fruit out of the ground from the seed does one?

If we try to do this upstream stuff, we grow deformed, not in the natural order God has intended for us. We force growth in certain areas and we are weak in other areas. We are still sense dominated running to meet every need we think we have or is presented in this physical world.