Saturday, July 18, 2020

Eternal Life

John 17:3  Amplified Bible And this is eternal life: [it means] to know ( to perceive, recognize, become acquainted with and understand) You, the only true and real God and [likewise] to know Him, Jesus [as the] Christ ( the Anointed one, the Messiah,) whom You have sent. 4 I have glorified You down here on the earth by completing the work that You gave Me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify Me along with Yourself and restore Me to such majesty and honor in Your presence as I had with You before the world existed. 6 I have manifested Your Name [ I have revealed Your every Self, Your real Self] to the people whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, and You gave them to Me, and they have obeyed and kept Your word.

 

The indwelling Christ is eternal life in us and through us to others. Christ in me will resonate with Christ in you! We become one in Him when we have accepted Him as Lord of our lives.

 

Jesus in His prayer time…prayed for the church! How is it possible for someone who is a “church go-er” to die …..without Christ. WAS there no teachings on this eternal life, no eternal knowledge available to the person who attended and did not either receive this truth or was never taught it?

The truth known in this instance, is that this person is separated from God found in Revelation 21:8 But as for the cowards and the ignoble and the contemptible and the cravenly lacking in courage and the cowardly submissive, and as for the unbelieving and the faithless, and as for the depraved and defiled with abominations, and as for murderers and the lewd and adulterous and the practicers of magic arts and the idolators (those who give supreme devotion to anyone or anything other than God) and all liars (those who knowingly convey untruth by word or deed)----[all of these shall have]  their part in the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone. This is the second death. [Isaiah 30:33]

 

Did you know there are people who say they are Christians and practice those ‘angel cards’?  Another is those who practice sorcery. But Jesus speaks this in Revelation 22:14-15   “Blessed ( happy and to be envied) are those who cleanse their garments, that they may have the right to the tree of life and to enter through  the gates into the city.  15 [But] without are the dogs, those who practice sorceries (magic arts), impurity [ the lewd, adulterers] and the murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and deals in falsehood (untruth, error, deception, cheating).” 

 The Bible says in Psalm 97:10: “Let those who love the LORD hate evil…”  God hates sorcery.  Jesus was light sown for the righteous! That people would come to the light and not stumble. John 2:1-2 My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

Eternal Life is made up those obedient to God’s word where His love is matured in us! That love is not demanding rights but is seen as that which is humbled before God for His purpose on earth.

 Jesus asked the Father to glorify Him with the glory that was His before the world began seen in verses 4-5 of John 17. Jesus, the humble, obeyed the Father. And we see this in :Phil 2:6-8. The Father exalted Jesus because of His act of humble obedience. Paul instructed believers to have the same mind or attitude Jesus had. Jesus serves not only as our example of an intercessor, but also of an obedient servant.

Jesus maintained a heart for His father and for people! Romans 6:16-23 Amplified Bible 16 Do you not know that if you continually surrender yourselves to anyone to do his will, you are the slaves of him whom you obey, whether that be to sin, which leads to death or to obedience which leads to righteousness (right doing and right standing with God)? 17 But thank God, though you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient with all your heart to the standard of teaching in which you were instructed and to which you were committed. 18 And having been set free from sin, you have become the servants of righteousness ( of conformity to the divine will in thought, purpose, and action). 19 I am speaking in familiar human terms because or your natural limitations. For as you yielded your bodily members [and faculties] as servants to impurity and ever increasing lawlessness, so now yield your bodily members [and faculties] once for all as servants to righteousness ( right being and doing) [ which leads] to sanctification. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 But then what benefit (return) did you get from the things which you are not ashamed? [None] for the end of those things is death. 22 But now since you have been set free from sins and have become the slaves of God, you have your present reward in holiness and its end is eternal life. 23 For the wages which sin pays is death, but the [bountiful] free gift of God is eternal life through (in union with ) Jesus Christ our Lord.

 

We are to keep the word of God in our heart: John 15: 7-9 If you live in Me [abide vitally united to Me] and My words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts, ask whatever you will and it shall be done for you. 8 When you bear (produce) much fruit, My Father is honored and glorified and you show and prove yourselves to be followers of Mine. 9 I have loved you, [just] as the Father has loved Me; abide in My love [continue in His love with Me].

 

To obey the Word means we know who is the Word of God…that is Jesus Christ, the anointed One! He came and He stood in a place of authority representing the Kingdom of God, His Father. John 1: 14 Amplified Bible 14 And the Word (Christ) became flesh ( human, incarnate) and tabernacle ( fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us; and we [actually saw His glory (His honor, His majesty) such glory as an only begotten son receives from his father, full of grace (favor, loving-kindness) and truth.  John 8:51 I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone observes My teaching [lives in accordance with My message, keeps My word], he will by no means ever see and experience death. John 14:24 Anyone who does not [really] love Me does not observe and obey My teaching. And the teaching which you hear and heed is not Mine, but [comes] from the Father Who sent Me.

 

Fruit is Brought forth in perseverance: John 6:27 Stop toiling and doing and producing for the food that perishes and decomposes [in the using]; but strive and work and produce rather for the [lasting] food which endures [continually ] unto life eternal; the Son of Man will give (furnish) you that, for God the Father has authorized and certified Him and put His seal of endorsement upon Him. John 4:14…”but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

 

There are people who have a “thirst” today but it is for wealth and it is for power. It has nothing to do with loving others!

 

We are to believe and be saved……..when we thirst for life….it is only found in Him….John 3:17-19 NKJV For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

 

We are to be grounded in truth: Colossians 2:6-7 NKJV  As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

Hebrews 3:6; 12-14….NKJV 6 but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.  12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; 13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called  “Today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end.

Our lives should reveal a light of Christ Jesus that glows from a heart filled with His great love. And that love is to be given to those we encounter. The love demonstrated today is not what the Bible reveals. Love does not contain gossip, rumors, accusations nor does it contain any offenses. The love illustrated is that which is to get “one’s” way, to have a thumb rule holding people in a place which can be destructive and is far from being wise. It only brings further division of people! The only thing that will bring unity is sharing the same purpose, plan and power that Christ came to set up. It is the Father’s will on earth. That is for each believer set apart to do the ministry of truth where they live, work and play! God did this for us. He presented the greatest love of all!

 

The Biblical definition of the Love of God is found in:1 John 5:3 - "This is the love of God, that we keep His Commandments, and His Commandments are not burdensome."

 

Accepting Jesus Christ, is accepting His ways, and His word for living in this day and hour! We know there is a way to follow and missing it, points to falling away from His words of truth. You find it in the warnings given to the seven churches in the book of Revelation! We must be those who adhere to Him and that truth and anything outside that truth will be death. We miss a step in Him and we repent ….and in that asking of forgiveness we turn away from that sin…and continue to receive the eternal life with Christ Jesus.

Jesus Himself said in John 14:15 - "If you love Me, keep My Commandments." And this: in Matthew 5:17 - "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill."

What is done away with under the New Covenant are the old requirements, as stated in Colossians 2:14 - "Having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He, Jesus has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross."

 

And if we love God, we do keep His Commandments! And we are happy about it, because keeping His Commandments means to live in righteousness and respect towards ourselves, others and God. Sin is not Love for sin creates a breach in relationships and separates us from ourselves, it separates us from others and separates us from God!  Sin will always hurt someone.  Romans 13:8-10 - "Owe no one anything except to love one another, because he who loves another has fulfilled the Law. The Commandments: "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet", and whatever other Commandment there may be, are summed up in this statement: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the Law."

What we see on many streets of this nation and around the world is a love that has nothing to do with God! The righteous way is living through that which came through His Son. That outside of Jesus is trouble and torments in the streets! It is the killing or taking of lives that were meant to serve God and know His great love.

The consequences of sin and iniquity can be deadly and without God. But God our Father desires our lives filled with blessings, yes those who know Him as the Father and call Him Abba. And His children hear His voice and they follow His ways.

 

  Certainly a judgment is coming and one will stand before Him (Jesus) at the Bema Seat of Christ or at the other called the Great White Throne Judgment. Are we visibly seen as one with Jesus Christ?  Is His Lordship seen in us and through us?

Jesus spoke this which also included His family: Luke 8:19-21 NKJV 19 then His mother and brothers came to Him, and could not approach Him because of the crowd. 20 And it was told Him by some, who said, ‘Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, desiring to see You.’ 21 But Jesus answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.’

When we obey more light is given to us. Our pathway is clearly visible. But if we fail to take heed, we will lose what we have been given. Light is seen….and it will appear with Jesus. But like John 3:20-21 speaks:  “ For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he Who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen that they have been done in God.’

Yes, those with the Lord become brighter….unto the full light of DAY…their justice is revealed at noonday! Found in Psalm 37:5-9 NKJV 5 commit your way to the LORD, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. 6 He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light. And your justice as the noonday. 7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in His ways, because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass. 8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; do not fret----it only causes harm. 9 For evildoers shall be cut off; but those who wait on the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.

 

Yes, those who adhere to the Lord now will be with Him on earth when He rules in His kingdom in Jerusalem. For eternal life is always serving with Him in the love of God and in the power of His might. Even so, come Lord Jesus, come!

 

Father, we give thanks today that eternal life is ours! As believers, assurance of eternal life began the moment we surrendered our lives to Jesus. We believe in our hearts that Jesus is the Son of God who lived a perfect life, & then, obediently died the death we deserved, so we could be reconciled with God Who is our Father in heaven! 

We are thankful that Jesus defeated death when he rose from the dead on the third day just as He said He would. As Christ followers, we have the promise of eternal life. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” according to John 3:16! We give thanks this day that our citizenship is in heavenly places for where Christ is there we are also with Him! We are pilgrims traveling through this lifetime, but our citizenship is in heaven. We eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. We have an expectancy of His return this day. We prepare to be the bride without spot or blemish.

Father we know there are always wars and rumors of wars but we win! We know nation will rise against another nation, son against the father, friend against a friend, but Scripture reveals that we ultimately win for God destroys the enemy. We as Your children receive this victory today. We are the healed, we are the peacemakers, we are those armed with Your great word that silences the lies, and closes the mouths of lions. We have the promise of triumph. No matter the outcome of this day or this week God has moved into our neighborhood. He made His home with us His people. He lives with us…..whom shall we fear? NO one!


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