Excerpts from a message in The Gospel of God’s Love, found on pages 81-82, channeled from Jesus:
“When a mortal dies, the only part of them that dies and is left behind is the physical body, and with the spirit body survives all those things which are the real person. Hence, humans never cease to remember, to progress and to know that they are beings which death cannot destroy or change. So I answer the question: When a person dies shall they live again? They never cease to live, and it is not a new life, but only a continuation of the old life, with all the things of mind and conscience one had accumulated in their life on earth.
“In the spirit life, the spirit body continues to contains the soul, and will be its protector and covering so long as the spirit body shall last. This body also changes, however, by disintegration into spirit elements, and formation of new ones in their place. Spiritual laws differ from material laws and control the development of the soul which is the real person and resides in the spirit body.
“The soul is the real person, because it is the only part of a person which may become immortal, and the only part made in the image of God; and the only part that may become part of the substance of its maker and partake of His Divine Nature. I say may, for that is dependent upon a person’s free will choices. I know this possibility of the soul becoming immortal is true, for it is proven in the case of many souls who now reside in the Celestial Heavens. I also know that there are many souls in the spirit world’s natural heavens who have been there for many centuries and have never received this divine nature and consciousness of immortality.
“Another thing I can tell you is this; so long as the soul does not receive the divine nature, the mind, which is part of the spirit body, continues to exist and dominates both soul and body; and in its progress it may attain to a condition of purity and perfection such as were possessed by the first created incarnate souls. Many spirits are now in this condition; yet they are mere human beings, and their souls remain only in God’s image, nothing more.
“God is Soul, a thing of Substance, with a nature Divine.” To be continued…