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Retirement From Work – What Does the Bible Say?
Blog – 5/6/22

Jas 1:27
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Jn 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

Jn 1:12-13
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

Jn 3:16
“For God so loved the world [without distinction – in context, Jews and Gentiles], that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Jn 3:18
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

God’s Justification
To be justified means to be declared righteous by God. Justification refers to the sovereign act of God in justifying the elect, implying the twofold satisfaction of God’s holiness (penalty of sin paid + perfect righteousness imputed).

God’s Glorification of Man
Refers to the completed course of a believer’s sanctification (aka “ultimate sanctification”), where their Christlikeness is maximized for all of eternity (e.g., glorified body, soul, spirit).

2 Co 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.

Being Born Again
According to Jesus, being born again is a supernatural act of God the Holy Spirit as part of God’s salvific plan. No one will ever see or enter the Kingdom of God unless they are born again. (Jn 3:1-15)

Mt 6:22-23
“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!”

Lk 13:34
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!

Jn 3:3
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”