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What Is Life? – Part 2

Posted in Christian Walk, tagged , , , , , on July 12, 2011| 1 Comment »

Scripture reading: John 1:4-5

The devil must be really mad to know that there is such a thing named LIFE!  It is written in John 1:4-5, “IN HIM WAS LIFE AND THE LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN.  And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.” 

In this passage, the word translated “comprehended” could be better rendered “overcame.”  The devil cannot overcome life for the life is the light.  We are actually taking in more and more of the light and the life, which is more and more of Christ which is our resurrection.  BY OUR DAILY SPIRITUAL GROWTH, WE ARE ACTUALLY TAKING IN CHRIST.  WE ARE TAKING IN OUR RESURRECTION.  THE MORE YOU OPEN UP TO GOD, THE MORE THE CHRIST COMES IN.  CHRIST IS OUR LIFE!  (See Colossians 3:4.)

Imagine a picture of the Great Almighty God, Author and Possessor of this great reservoir called LIFE.  The name of God’s LIFE is Christ (Messiah).  He dipped into His bosom and took out “Messiah,” and let Him loose in the earth.  The life came down as an entity in the person of Jesus Christ.  God can divide Himself in as many parts as He wants to since He has power over all things and all things are subject to His will. 

In Luke 1, the Holy Ghost overshadowed Mary with her consent.  The conversation that the angel had with her was designed to get her consent.  When Mary accepted what the angel said, he departed.  He was only the messenger.  The Holy Ghost then came and overshadowed her, meaning to say that the Holy Ghost planted the seed of Life in her, and she became pregnant, because that was the will of God.  Some ignorant people felt this was a sexual thing.  God is the Creator.  He created Adam and Eve.  He created the first man, and He was in the process of creating the second man.  The first man, “Adam,” was a full-grown man; the second man was born in a manger, sired of God, born of a woman.  The first man, “Adam,” was a natural man, and the second man, “the Lord from heaven.”  (See I Corinthians 15:47). 

May God bless our understanding.  God put Jesus into Mary and Christ into Jesus.  Therefore, when Mary birthed Jesus as a babe, she brought forth Christ in the earth.  Since Christ is the Messiah, the second person of the Godhead from before the foundation of the world, then the birth of Jesus Christ was the entrance of God as a member of the human race. 

When we receive Christ in us through the action of the Holy Spirit, then we are on par with Jesus when He was born of Mary in Bethlehem of Judea.  Jesus, therefore, did not need to be born again, since He was never born of corruptible seed.  Because we were born of corruptible seed, we need to be born again. 

You were first born in Adam, then you were born in Christ.  A charge of LIFE came into the earth in Jesus Christ, and then the charge came into you as an individual.  This life is eternal; it cannot die. 

(Excerpt from The Omega Message, June 1996, pg. 4-5)

Thought for today: Let us grow daily in God in order to take in Christ, to take in our resurrection.  The more you open up to God, the more the Christ comes in.  Christ is our life!

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What Is Life? – Part 1

Posted in Christian Walk, tagged , , on July 11, 2011| 1 Comment »

Scripture reading: John 11:21-27

We do not fully understand what life is.  If you do not understand what life is, then you do not understand what death is, either.  LIFE IS GOD.  Jesus says in John 11:25, “I am the resurrection, and the life.”  This means that life cannot be killed.  Resurrection life means that even one who has been blasted into smithereens, so that you could never find any two pieces of his body together, is then seen sitting in this room smiling at you, complete and whole.  Death had been conquered; it had no power over him.  This is what Jesus meant when He said, “I am the resurrection, and the life.” 

Do we understand how powerful life is?  We know the awesome power of destruction.  We have seen things like the atom bomb blast in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which brings terror to the human mind, but the power of life is greater because it reverses the power of death and destruction.  The Bible says in Revelation 20:13 that the elements will give up the dead, “And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.” 

We are comprised of so much air, so many gasses, so much water, minerals and all the different substances, but we also have LIFE in us, and the life determines that we must remain an entity for eternity.  In the interim between our physical life and eternity, old time gets a hold of us and we die, and our body goes to the earth.  We see the gasses and the entire physical body yield to the earth and join this great reservoir of elements in the earth and sea. 

The Word says the sea gave up her dead, and the earth gave up its dead, the air and the ashes gave up their dead.  The soul (which is the real man) slips back into its body like a man putting on his clothes.  He is raised up—not another man, not another flesh—but the same man is raised up, and he looks at the devil and all the forces of destruction and death and says, “Aha!”  The devil and all his forces are beaten; all that he has done to humanity over the ages has been in vain.  “Death is swallowed up in victory.  O death, where is your sting?  O grave, where is thy victory?”  (I Corinthians 15:54b-55). 

(Excerpt from The Omega Message, June 1996, pg. 2-3)

Thought for today: Ask God to give you a personal revelation of what it means when Jesus says, “I am the resurrection, and the life.”  Then, hold on to this eternal life and never let go.

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