Matt 16:19 “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.”

A dear person, a long time follower of Christ sent me this verse and to me, used it to denote that ‘we today’ have this ‘power and authority’ to ‘loose and bind’ in heaven in order to do ‘kingdom work.’

There is much controversy over these passages, beginning with Matt. 16:17,18 and His blessing of Peter, and whether or not in verse 18 Peter was ‘ordained’ as ‘the head of the church’ or if it was ‘the truth of Peter’s answer of Christ’s question in verse 13 – Matt 16:13 Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, He was asking His disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”

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His Resurrection is the central theme for our faith – our hope in God! Without it we have none! If He is ‘not risen’ then neither will we be resurrected for an eternal life with our Creator, our God!

Each of us should consider where we go when we die. If we believe our death ends all life – and is thus, completely over – that we are then in ‘oblivion’ and that is all there is to this life – that we are ‘not’ eternal beings, then, we ‘reject God.’ We call Him a liar!

If we then also feel that somehow we will be ‘eternal beings’ and at our deaths will be transported ‘somewhere’ – to ‘exist in some form’ – and it will ‘be a version of Heaven’ – and our ‘acceptance into this place’ is based upon our ‘good deeds or works’ – our personal performance (which all other religions except Christianity seem to have as their basis) – then, we also ‘reject God’ because if we ‘believe that – then we actually must believe He made a horrible mistake in sending His only Son, Jesus Christ, to be crucified – to pay the penalty for our sins – to provide the way of redemption – to reconcile us forever to God the Father. Because if one person could ‘attain holiness and righteousness’ by ‘their own performance’ – Christ need never have been crucified.

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