Pastor John Eze
Topic : Eternal Life.
For those who sings that God should not forget them. God does not forget anyone.
John 3:14-15
Eternal life does not actually mean life without end. Its from the Greek word Zoe which means the life of God, the life that makes God God. It is the ability and the nature of God.
Jesus actually means that whoever believes will have the life of God. Whoever does not believe is already perished. Man's righteousness is like filthy rags, what we do to rags is to dispose(perish). The bible says 'if our gospel be his, it is hidden to those who are perishing'.
Eternal life does not come by good works, it is received thorough faith in Jesus.
John 10;10
Jesus doesn't want us to be ignorant of the devices of the devil, so he told us what the enemy came to do. He came to give us the life of God to the full.
'The life of God is superior in quality, super abundant in quantity.'
Sickness might tough the (psuche but it can not touch the Zoe)
Three Greek words that is used to describe life.
Bios (manner of life)... Way of living/character.
Psuche (the ordinary human life)
Zoe (the life of God).
Romans 6:23
We do not deny the fact that the wages of sin is death because the death of Jesus has paid it all. I can not be demanded of any more to pay the wages of sin. Christ has paid it all.
The qualities of eternal life :
You are death proof.
You are death resistant.
You are impenetrable by death.
Revelation 6:8
Death does not mean to loose life, it means the spirit that causes death. Death was given power over a portion of the earth (that is the territory of the unrighteous). But death can not walk into the territory of the sons of God. Exodus 12:13... It was nor that death could not take lives in the house of the Israelites, but as he got there, a life was already presented death for them.
1john 3:14... Hebrews 2:14
We have passed means (we have crossed over) we can no longer be brought back. As a child of God, don't see death as a finality. Death has been swallowed upin Christ. You may exist in this world but you are invisible to their harm.
We have been translated form darkness to light. This means that we have been taken to a new realm.
John 1:4
The word life there means(Zoe), the word light means (development). Because you have the life of God, you are being developed. All that God can do you can do. You have his ability.
'Stop living a limited life when God has given you a limitless life.'
God has only determined that you be at the top. You can't help but to be the boss everywhere you go.
'Money does not finish in the hands of a believer. I have never heard that something finished in heaven.'
The only reason you run out of Money is because you think money comes for you to meet certain needs.
Money intoxicates men without visions.