Jesus came to give us LIFE

I am still pondering the reasons that Jesus came. After looking at the fact that Jesus came to “save his people from their sins,  (you can read that post from last week if you want to) my mind immediately went to what Jesus said in John 10:10 “I came that they may have life and have it abundantly”.

When Jesus said that He came to give us life, He used the Greek word “zoe” which means life as a principle, the essence of life, the life of God, life that is eternal, indestructible, divine.

Jesus was not promising just a better human life. He was offering to give us the very life of God, the eternal, indestructable, incorreuptble, divine life.

This is the life that is in God Himself.

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

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

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

We get the Divine life when we come to Jesus

John 5:39-40 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.

John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Jesus does not just promise that we will live forever, but that we will receive the life that is eternal

Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

This is life that is like nothing we have had before.

Rom 6:4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Paul said 2 Cor 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. We are a new creation, new to this world, new like nothing that has existed before. New creation does not mean just a new person. We are new in a sense that we are no longer just human, but we are now human with the life of God inside.

This zoe life is active within us

John 6:35 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

Rom 5:10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

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