What do we mean by life? Life for a human has a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual component. And each component of that life has both a quantity and a quality attribute. it is the quantity and quality of life that was lost in Eden. Jesus said that He had come that we might have life and have it abundantly ().
Why do we want life? → to be
→ to enjoy
→ to experience
→ to learn
Implicit in our desire for life is that life is good and death is to be avoided. It is In Christ that we experience the good life and escape death forever.
God is the source of life. So for us to move forward in the quantity and quality of life we must get closer to its source.
And the Lord formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.  |
And the Lord said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:  |
I denounce unto you this day, that you shall surely perish, and that you shall not prolong your days upon the land, where you pass over Jordan to go to possess it. |
That you may love the Lord, your Lord, and that you may obey his voice, and that you may cleave unto him: for he is your life, and the length of your days: that you may dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.  |
There shall not any man be able to stand before you all the days of your life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with you: I will not fail you, nor forsake you. |
One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple. |
For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to you. |
For whoso finds me finds life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord. |
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? |
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads unto life, and few there be that find it. |
For whoever will save his life shall lose it; but whoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. |
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son Of Man be lifted up:  He was lifted up on the cross. |
He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of the Lord abides on him.   When a person believes on the Lord Jesus Christ the Holy Spirit, who is Everlasting Life , enters them. Those who never receive Christ Jesus as Saviour and Lord never receive the Holy Spirit, who is Everlasting Life . Such people will exist in opposition to the Truth experiencing fear, guilt, sickness, heartache and corruption with no access to the Saviour, the Healer, the Deliverer. Wilful disconnection from the Lord is self-imposed wrath . All men fall into one of two categories: → 1) saved → 2) Lost Those who are saved have received Christ. To receive Christ is to receive the Spirit Of Christ, His Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is Everlasting Life Those who have not received Christ are lost. The Lost can be further broken down as → those who have never heard the Gospel, → those who have heard the Gospel and rejected it. It is the job of every Christian to make sure that the people in their life have heard the Gospel. A big part of the Gospel is that every person will stand before the Lord. Those who have received Christ will enter into the joy of the Lord. Those who have rejected Christ will be cast into the Lake Of Fire. |
Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. |
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. |
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory. |
For bodily exercise profits little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. |
Hereby perceive we the love of the Holy Spirit, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.  |
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