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530. Active Steps to Immortality

Mike Parsons

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Put On Immortality

It is a subject which is becoming quite widespread and more and more people are beginning to engage it. I think the key to it is you cannot just be passive hoping that you are immortal. It says that the mortal puts on immortality. So there is a sense of “well, what do we do to put it on, or be clothed by immortality?” and that it requires our thinking to align with immortality. So, no fear in our thinking, no alignment to aging and death as if inevitability, no alignment to time running out. All the negatives, you know, we have to think of.

You cannot embrace immortality without thinking about the effects of death because death is overcome with life, it is swallowed up in life. So we have got to actually address what is our thinking which needs to change, which has been aligned to death or the inevitability of it, because most of us have been brought up with that inevitability. And in Christian circles, death is seen as a promotion because you get promoted to get the good stuff. We have got to break that mindset and make that mindset disconnected from death so that we can actually embrace, ” why does God want me to be immortal? God has made me immortal, and how can I clothe myself with his intention for me?”

346. Ageing and Immortality

Draw from the Right Source

Which means, how do I draw from the right source, because most people die because they run out of life. It is almost like you are born with an amount of life within a container of your body. There is an amount of life that, as you get older, you are running down that amount of life until eventually there is no life left and you die because you are only drawing from the natural source of life that is within your mortal body.

But if you are drawing from an energy source which is beyond that energy that you have just within your body, and you are drinking from living water as an energy source which is a fountain which is supplying you eternal life, then you are not going to run out of energy – because it is a constant supply of energy which is not that you had when you were born. So we have got to change the source to draw on immortal energy, the energy of God, the life of God, the spirit, all sorts of ways of looking at it. Drinking living water so that rivers of living water are flowing in us.

It is like we were born with a tank and we are drinking from the tank until there is no tank left. Nothing in the tank and the tank is empty, we die. But if we continually be infilled with a flow of life which is coming from beyond the tank, then our tank never needs to actually run out. But it is the source, and we have got to turn to the source. Jesus said, “Anyone who is thirsty, come to me and drink.” Think of thirst being running out of life. We need to turn to a source of eternal life.

506. The Mindset of Immortality | Secret to an Abundant Life

Abundant Life

And immortality is not just ‘not dying’. It is living a quality of life which is the abundant life that Jesus promised. I do not think most people would want to live forever in the state that they are currently in. They do not want that, but they do not know how to do it.

382. Understanding Immortality | Beyond life and death

And there are changes. We need to find the abundance of life so that that life is a joy to live and we do not want to die because this life is so good. Why would I want to miss out on more of this life? But for a lot of people, the quality of their life is not there. Therefore they see life as something where “eventually, I am going to get a promotion and then I will get the good stuff when I die” because they do not have the abundance now.

So we need to ensure that we have the abundance of life which is love and joy and peace and everything that God intends us to have, and not be robbed, killed or destroyed by the lack of it, which is how the enemy will deceive us into believing that we will inevitably die. So there is a sense where our mind needs to be renewed to a different way of thinking about it, but our being needs to be focused on drawing from a different source.

So we are actively clothing ourselves in immortality or drinking from the right source because we know that we do not have what it takes within our own self to maintain life forever. There is a limitation on what we can draw from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, if you like. We need to draw from the tree of life, and that source, the tree of life, will never run out.

So there is stuff to think about, you know, in changing thinking, turning our attention to a different source, and then drinking from that source.

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346. Ageing and Immortality

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Death is a promotion?

The mindset around death needs to change. We have been conditioned to believe that death is a promotion to another realm and state of being, and that this is a good thing. This is how it has been presented to us. However, when it talks about Jesus bringing life and immortality to light through this good news, and Jesus saying in John 6 that you don’t need to die… Because most people have died, it’s so hard to believe that.

Societal Conditioning

From virtually the moment we can talk, we are conditioned to understand that we are going to die one day. This concept is ingrained into everybody, making it not just a religious concept but a societal one. Death is seen as inevitable. Some people try to cheat death through their own efforts, such as seeking ‘eternal’ life through various means like cryostasis, where their heads are preserved after they die, hoping their consciousness can be revived one day. There are also attempts to eliminate death through nanotechnology. All these efforts reflect our best attempts rather than realising that death has no part in us.

We must deal with the physical body because our soul and spirit aren’t going to die anyway. It’s only the physical body that’s the issue. We often accept the idea that from dust to dust, we will return to dust one day as if that was God’s intention from the beginning. However, Jesus rebalanced that notion by saying that you don’t need to die if you eat His flesh and drink his blood. This has become ritualised into taking communion and spiritualised to mean that you won’t die spiritually. But Jesus meant it physically. Eating his flesh and drinking His blood meant fully embracing who He was, not literally eating His flesh and blood. Communion is an element of that, but it goes beyond just the ritual into living with His breath and life, as everything about Him is life and there is no death in Him.

Transformation and Renewal

Now, obviously, our physical body may have things attached to it and within our DNA which reflect our earthly inheritance rather than our heavenly one. So, that needs changing. It’s not just a mindset change; there’s also a physical transformation of any death within our cells. Our cells need to be renewed and not destroyed. The ability of our cells to renew themselves needs to be restored, and they need to learn how to communicate what brings about that change and restoration.

The things within ourselves that, within normal thinking, lead to death need to be dealt with physically as well. Breathing in His life constantly can put us in a state of continual renewal and restoration. But does that mean we will have the same physical body forever? No, because there’s a limitation to our physical body that Adam didn’t have. His spirit was around his body, not the other way around.

There needs to be a restoration of the balance of the relationship between spirit, soul and body that God intended, that our bodies, spirit and soul would come back into the correct balance, harmony and design that God had for them. Jesus, when He died, had a resurrection body. His physical body died, but He had a resurrection body with certain abilities different from His physical body while he was alive. This body allowed him to do things differently, which shows a transformation that we will also undergo to bring about a different relationship between spirit, soul and body than we have now.

He had a resurrection body. We died with Him and were raised with Him, and we are in the process of that being fully formed in us. Our thinking can stop this process because “as a man thinks in his heart, so is he”. If you think in your heart that death is the answer, then you will probably die. Our thinking needs to be in alignment for the outworking to take place. It’s not just about thinking it and it will be; there’s a process of our whole body being renewed and the relationship between spirit, soul and body being transformed into what it should have been. That may have different ways of outworking – I don’t know.

The Nature of Aging

Do I have a resurrection body now? Yes, in one sense, because I have died and was resurrected with Him. But in another sense, my mind is coming into agreement with what that means, and my thinking has an effect on that. Hence, the renewal of my mind to agree with God about my physical state needs to take place. There hasn’t been a lot of history of teaching or experience to draw on regarding this. Some people are said to be alive after hundreds of years because they have embraced this concept, but not many people have met them, making it difficult to provide concrete examples.

I believe it starts with belief, which then brings about the transformation of our physical nature. The cells of our being need to align with God’s intention. This poses the question of aging. Are we going to age? If aging has a consequence with death, then we should not be aging to bring death. Jesus aged from a baby to a full-grown adult. What would he have done if He had not moved into a resurrected body? We don’t know because He didn’t do it.

But nothing in our body should hinder us from fulfilling our destiny in God. There may be some people who, like Enoch and Elijah, might be translated into another state of being without going through physical death.

We don’t know yet. Some people might know that there’s a time when they’re not going to be here. But we don’t need to equate that time with death. It may be that I’ve fulfilled all that I need to fulfil, so this part of my destiny is complete, and I don’t need to be here any longer, therefore I will just move on. But I think there will be a transformation in the nature of our physical being at some stage – or in process – whichever way it occurs.

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326. The Power of Confessing Your Beliefs

Mike Parsons

‘Confession’ is not just saying the words. Anyone can say “I am immortal” but that has no value if you do not truly believe it in the depths of your being. Your confessions have to be an overflow of what you already know to be 100% true – not something you are trying to convince yourself of.

When Jesus said that those who eat his flesh and drink his blood will not die, he was speaking of physical, not just spiritual, death (look at John 6:58). But this truth has been largely lost and spiritualised over the past 2,000 years. Religious leaders have instead reinforced the inevitability of physical death, often misinterpreting passages like Hebrews 9:27.

The reality is that Jesus has already conquered death, and we are called to live in the victory of that finished work. But most Christians have bought into the mindset that death is just a “promotion” to heaven – an unavoidable part of life that we have to accept. We need a complete mindset shift to align ourselves with the truth of our immortality. This isn’t just a mental or spiritual concept – it has to manifest in our physical bodies as well. We pursue wholeness and health, believing that God wants us healed and restored; when we live in that reality of health, we no longer need healing, because sickness and disease will have no hold on us. And if we do not get sick, we will not die. Immortality is the truth that has been brought to light through the gospel (see 2 Timothy 1:10), but a truth that most people have lived in darkness about.

The passage of time is no longer a threat, but an opportunity to fully walk out the eternal life that is ours in Christ. We do not have to fear aging or death, but can confidently press forward, knowing that our bodies will be transfigured and empowered to function in ways beyond our current understanding.

Conclusion

The key is aligning our confessions and our mindsets with the reality that Jesus has already accomplished, not trying to make something true that was not true before, but declaring and living out the truth of our immortality. When we do that, we will begin to see the power of the resurrection working in our mortal bodies, bringing them into the fullness of eternal life.

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311. Death Has No Hold Over Me

Mike Parsons –

Through communion, death has no hold over me.
The wages of sin is death, and Jesus has already dealt with sin.
But if there are still remnants of death within me,
inherited through my generational lines and encoded in my DNA, they are still able to manifest.

I embrace the truth that Jesus is the living bread that came from heaven; by eating that bread, I will not die.

This is an excerpt from my latest book, Into the Dark Cloud. If you have ever wondered what Jesus meant when He said we could eat His flesh and not die, that is what I am writing about in this excerpt.

“I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.” (John 6:48-51).

Jesus really did say “and not die.”

There are people who have not died and are still alive, hundreds and hundreds of years old. They are often called hermits, or ancient ones, and they are somewhat changed by the process of living that long with God.

I do not intend to die either; therefore I want everything in me removed that could cause me to do so. I take communion so that there is no death operating in me. The plan of God is not for us to die and go to heaven; it is for us to have age-enduring life, living from the Kingdom of God within us.

If we have unknowingly made a covenant with death,
believing that we can only truly experience heaven after we die, let us break those agreements and mindsets. We can encounter God face to face, now, and become transformed into His likeness. The death and resurrection of Jesus have already overcome death, so we do not need to die. Jesus died our death on the cross, so that we would not have to. Now, all of us who believe in Him have the life of God at work within us.

We have spiritualised it to avoid believing it.

Not dying does not simply refer to life after physical death, but to a life that transcends death in this age and for all ages to come.

The resurrection changed everything. Jesus made it possible for all of us to have a relationship with God and experience exactly the same quality of life that He has.

Key takeaways

Jesus really did say “and not die.”
His resurrection changed everything.

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