RHAPSODY OF REALITIES **We Have Divine Life** Friday 12th August . Pastor Chris
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord (Romans 6:23).
In our fellowship with the Father and the Son, Jesus Christ, we’ve been
given something free, and that’s life eternal: “And this is the record,
that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He
that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath
not life” (1 John 5:11-12). What is eternal life? It’s the life and
nature of God—the quality of the divine life. In the world, there’s the
animal life and the plant life. There’s also the natural human life.
However, according to the scriptures, there’s the God-type of life, and
that’s what He’s given us.
When you were born again, something
actually transpired in the realm of the spirit. Your human life was
supplanted by the divine life. This is the reality. It’s one of the
reasons Christianity isn’t a religion; being born again is an actual
transformation; a real spiritual birth: “Therefore if any man be in
Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all
things are become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17).
The word, “creature”
means “strange living thing”: something that can’t really be described; a
new species or type of being that’s born of God; that’s who you are.
The Bible says, “Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth,
that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures” (James 1:18).
“First fruits” means “the first and best.”
The Apostle John
declared in 1 John 5:13, “These things have I written unto you that
believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have
eternal life and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.” Why
was it so important for him to let us know we have the God-life? It’s
because you can’t enjoy the benefit, the power, and the influence of
that life except you have it, and know that you have it.
Philemon 1:6 says, “That the communication of thy faith may become
effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in
Christ Jesus.” Acknowledge and affirm that you have, and can live the
God-life: the life of righteousness, praise, dominion, and glory.
Hallelujah.
CONFESSION
I’m a partaker of the divine nature;
I have the very essence and character of divinity. The indestructible,
impregnable, and indomitable life of God is in me. I’m thus programmed
and positioned for the transcendent life, dispensing the realities and
verities of God’s Kingdom. Glory to God!
Further Study: || John
10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to
destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have
[it] more abundantly. ||
|| John 3:16 For God so loved the world,
that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life. ||
|| 1 John 5:11-12
And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this
life is in his Son. 12 He that hath the Son hath life; [and] he that
hath not the Son of God hath not life.
|| Daily Scripture Reading
1-Year Bible Reading Plan: Romans 14:1-23-15:1-4, Psalms 90-93
2-Year Bible Reading Plan: Philippians 2:1-11, Isaiah 63
EXTRACT FROM: Rhapsody of Realities Daily Devotional
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