(Third part)
Memory verse (John10: 10): " The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly ".
What brought Jesus into the world is to give us life. Jesus came to remove the obstacle that could not allow you connect with life, i.e. God. So, he died on the cross to solve the sin problem, which was the barrier between man and God. Now that Christ has died on the cross, sin problem is solved forever. Bless God. Now what next? It’s you to walk in the newness of life in God through Christ. Scripture teaches Jesus is the vine and we are the branches (Jn15: 1-16). Again it is written, that we were taken away from a wild olive and grafted into the true vine (Rom11: 17-24). When we were still lost in the kingdom of darkness controlled by the prince of the power of the air, we were then grafted into a wild vine, i.e. the one that produced death (Eph2: 1-2), but when we received Christ Jesus into our lives, we were broken off the tree of death and we were grafted into the true vine, the tree of life (Col1: 13). Before, it was death that was flowing through us, but now in Christ, it's life everlasting that is flowing in us.
The life of the branch comes directly from the tree. My dear beloved I would like to know that since you are in Christ, the life of God is flowing in you. God’s life is so pure, powerful, so abundant, so forceful, so satisfying. It produces peace, joy, fulfillment, rest and comfort. It’s a dimension of life the world has no vocabulary to define it in full. It’s a life beyond the scope of the minds of men; it baffles all the faculties of human philosophies. God is life himself. So all those who are united with God are united with life. God does not have life. Life is not what God possess, God is life. He is the tree of life. Bless God forevermore we are grafted into life.
Stop listening to the lies of the devil, stop focusing on your flesh, focus on God, life, through the cross. See yourself grafted into God. Yes you are in Him, therefore you are not dead but living, you are not about to die you are living, you will not die but live forever if you continue in the vine. Every day you need to wake up in the morning and confess who you are in Christ. Don’t allow the feeling of the fresh dictate who you are.
Tomorrow’s teaching: “Victory is your now”
