The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in John 14.19b,
"Because I [Jesus Christ] live, you also will live."
Here is the wonderful promise of our Savior! Because he lives, we will live! Because he has life within himself, so we also have life within ourselves!
Following the arrest of the apostles by the high priest, an angel of the Lord freed them in the middle of the night. He told them "Go, stand in the temple courts,... and tell the people all about this new life." This they did as we read in Acts 5:20. "This new life"! Paul reminded his readers, "God ... gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not." Romans 4:17. In the following chapter he says that "those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!" Romans 5:17. Reign in life!
Life is the gift of God, eternal life! Romans 6:23. It is the Spirit who gives life, Romans 8;10. In 1 Corinthians 15:45 we read that the last Adam [Jesus Christ] is a life-giving spirit.
2 Corinthians 5:4 says that while we are burdened by our coming physical death, we look forward "to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life."
Paul tells Timothy to command rich people to do the right thing, to "do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share." The result of this is, "In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life." 1 Timothy 6:18-19. "Life that is truly life"!
This life is promised to us in Jesus Christ, "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, in keeping with the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus..." 2 Timothy 1:1.
We read in 2 Timothy 1:9-10, "This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel." Jesus Christ has destroyed death and brought life and immortality!
"Because I [Jesus Christ] live, you also will live."
Here is the wonderful promise of our Savior! Because he lives, we will live! Because he has life within himself, so we also have life within ourselves!
Following the arrest of the apostles by the high priest, an angel of the Lord freed them in the middle of the night. He told them "Go, stand in the temple courts,... and tell the people all about this new life." This they did as we read in Acts 5:20. "This new life"! Paul reminded his readers, "God ... gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not." Romans 4:17. In the following chapter he says that "those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!" Romans 5:17. Reign in life!
Life is the gift of God, eternal life! Romans 6:23. It is the Spirit who gives life, Romans 8;10. In 1 Corinthians 15:45 we read that the last Adam [Jesus Christ] is a life-giving spirit.
2 Corinthians 5:4 says that while we are burdened by our coming physical death, we look forward "to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life."
Paul tells Timothy to command rich people to do the right thing, to "do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share." The result of this is, "In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life." 1 Timothy 6:18-19. "Life that is truly life"!
This life is promised to us in Jesus Christ, "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, in keeping with the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus..." 2 Timothy 1:1.
We read in 2 Timothy 1:9-10, "This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel." Jesus Christ has destroyed death and brought life and immortality!
Jesus Christ brings life!
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