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Jesus Is The Life

Jesus came to give us life, and that we may live it to the full (John 10:10). It was God's design that we have life; to live and be in fellowship with Him. We are His sons. We were created in His likeness and we are to enjoy also God's kind of life.

God's kind of life is a lifestyle that is rich in every way! Rich in love, rich in resources, rich in peace, rich in health, rich in all the good things! God wanted us to have a life in paradise! But the devil deceived us and we exchanged the truth of God for the lie of the Devil. And the wrath of God came upon all men and Man was cursed ever since Adam.

But God would not let Man be destroyed and so He sent His own Son to bear the judgment that Man deserved. Through His death on the cross, the wrath of God was satisfied. And if we believe in Him, we are restored to Life (Joh 3:36). The curse was lifted and we are now blessed with all spiritual blessings in Christ (Eph 1:3). We are now new creations in Christ (2Co 5:17). The first Adam was created a living soul, but the second Adam (which is Christ) is a life giving spirit (1Co 15:45). God has begotten us again (1Pe 1:3) after Christ. He has made us sharers of the Divine Nature (2Pe 1:4).  Which means that we share in God's nature! As Pastor Chris puts it, we are no longer man-kind, we are now sharers of the God-kind! We are now life giving spirits so that through His name, through faith in His name, we can cast out death from amongst us. We can cast out illness from among us, we can cast out poverty from among us. We can speak life unto anything as we please.

God did not create us so that we can suffer, God did not create us so that we can die of an illness, God did not create us so that we can live in poverty, God did not create us so that we can steal from each other..  God has a much better plan for us than all of those things.

God created us to have life and live it to the full. And that life is found only in Jesus Christ. As the Word himself declares, I am the way, the truth and the LIFE (Joh 14:6).
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