'Life' is for Living

As a means of continuing to refocus of our faith, we provide the following resources:

In the Bible, ‘life' mostly refers to the period of existence that we have on this earth.

However,  sometimes it means the very life energy that comes from God that makes us living human beings, and then through Christ, what makes us Christians.

a) All ‘life' is God-imparted – life is living energy – it is what every living thing has:

Gen 1:30 all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground--everything that has the breath of life in it….

Gen 2:7 God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (Heb. – spirit), and the man became a living being.

1 Kings 17:21 ,22 "O LORD my God, let this boy's life return to him!" The LORD heard Elijah's cry, and the boy's life returned to him, and he lived.

Isa 42:5 the LORD … who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it….

Ezek 37:5 This is what the Sovereign LORD says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life . (breath = wind or spirit)

Acts 17:25 he himself gives all men life and breath….

b) ‘Life' (living energy) comes from God Himself, because He is life:

 Jn 5:26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself.

 Jn 1:4 In him was life , and that life was the light of men.

1 Jn 1:1,2 this we proclaim concerning the Word of life . The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it…..

c) Yet there is ‘life' beyond merely physical life – Jesus came to bring it – ‘spiritual' living energy:

Jn 6:53 Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

Jn 5:21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life , even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.

Jn 6:57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.

Jn 10:10 I have come that they may have life , and have it to the full.

Jn 20:31 these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

Rom 5:18 the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men ( those who will receive him ).

Rom 8: 11 if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.

2 Cor 3:6 for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life .

Eph 4:17,18 the Gentiles … are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God.

1 Jn 5:11,12 this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life ; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life .

d) Conclusions

1. ‘Life' is living energy.

2. God is ‘Spirit' – personal living energy.

3. He is the originator of ALL life.

4. He energises all living creatures. This is what we call life.

5. Yet there is also a further dimension of ‘life' that is more than physical energy – it is spiritual living energy, the very life of God.

6. THIS energy is imparted to us by God when we turn to Him and become Christians. It is what makes us ‘spiritually alive'.

7. Without this spiritual energy (His Spirit) we are spiritually dead, i.e. we have no real sense of God or of spiritual things.

8. It is this energy that brings change in us and enables us to serve Him.

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