Matt 5:14

An except from one of Pastor Prince's sermons when the chimes started playing by itself. Truly a man after God's heart. Click here to watch.

The church has made more of the manner of living than it has of the Life that would make our living like the Master's. Our teachers have never majpred the Greek word, "Zoe", which is translated - Eternal Life. They have never realised its place and significance in the plan of redemption.

Jesus majored it. He majored the Life - the nature of God. The very reason why Jesus came was so this Life would be brought to the world. John 10:10: "I came that they may have life and have it abundantly". Man needed Eternal Life because they were spiritually dead. This Eternal Life is the very nature of God, and Man had a need for it!

If we go back to Genesis, we remember that God placed two trees in the Garden Of Eden. One was the Tree of Life. It would have united Man with God. He had the opportunity, but he did not partake of it. Then Jesus came bringing the thing that Adam ignored in the Garden. John 3:16:"For God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have Eternal Life." And John 5:24, tells us very clearly that when we believe in Jesus, we pass out of death into life. "He that heareth My word, and believeth Him that sent Me, hath Eternal Life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life." You who believe are no more in death, but in life! Zoe - Eternal Life!

Perhaps the most outstanding scripture is John 20:30,31: "Many other signs therefore did Jesus in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book: but these are written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God; and that believing ye may have life in His name." This is referred to by many as the little Gospel. The reason for Redemption, all that God did in Christ, was to give to man Eternal Life, and yes, with an abundance!

John 6:47: "Verily, verily, i say unto you: he that believeth hath Eternal Life" We receive Eternal Life by accepting Jesus as our saviour. Another word which is used, which means - manner of life, conduct, or conversation - is the Greek word "Anastrophee" Eph 4:22: "That ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life (anastrophee), the old man, that waxeth corruption after the lusts of deceit." We have majored conduct, conversation and habits, because they are in the sense realm. They have always appealed to the babes in Christ. We like to be told what we can do, and what we cannot do. And this is why, even with the death of Jesus and the victory that comes only by grace, many still seekth after the Law, though long forsoke and void. These many do so not knowing that they are yet embracing the yoke that Jesus came to free Man from. Gal 5:1: "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage."

The Gospel of John opens with the Greek word - Zoe. John 1:4:"In Him was Life; and the Life was the light of men. This is significant when we realize that no nation has ever developed mentally beyond a barbaric existence until they received Eternal Life; that no nation ever produced an age of invention, discovery, art, music, or philanthropy until they received Eternal Life. The people of India, for instance, have as many fine intellects as the people of England or Germany, and yet until Christianity was carried to her, India never invented anything. She used the same method of tilling ground that She had conceived four thousand years ago. Japan is yet another example of a nation which falls in the same category. She never had any inventive abilities until Eternal Life was given to her.

We can see the imperative need to receive Eternal Life. It is a crime that the Church has never majored this. In Eternal Life, Man received the very Nature and Life of God which puts him into God's class of being. This is something greater than the forgiveness of sins, baptism, joining the church, or confirmation. It is receiving God's Life into our spirits. It receiving the Creative ability of God.

Col 1:13-14: "Who delivered us out of the authority of darkness, and translated us into the kindgom of the Son of His love in whom we have our Redemption, the remission of our sins." This verse shows us that to pass out of death into Life is being "translated out of the kingdom of Satan into the kingdom of the Son of His love" It is becoming a partaker of the Divine Nature.

John 5:26: "For as the Father hath life in Himself, even so gave He to the Son also to have life in Himself." In other words, God is the fountain of Life, and Jesus brought it to the Human race. It is a remarkable thing, when we think of it; that God is the fountain of Eternal Life, and that Jesus came to bring this Life to you and I.

Do you have Eternal LIfe yet?