Daily Bread - 05/31/07
John 5:24 - With absolute certainly I tell you, Those who hear my word and believe in the One who has sent Me has eternal life and shall not come into judgment but has passed from death into life.
God has made it easy for us to believe. He came with His awesome displays of love and His signs and wonders. He spoke the word of life so that all who hear could be healed and pass from death to life (Ephesians 2:1; 1 John 3:14; Psalms 107:20). He gave to every man a measure of faith to mix with His word so that what He spoke would be a living reality (Romans 12:3; Hebrews 4:2). All we have to do is be willing to cooperate with God and we receive eternal life - a quality of life that is present right at the time one hears the word and believes it (John 3:36; John 10:10; 1 John 5:12, 13).
Through the salvation that is in Christ Jesus we pass over from death into life even as the children of Israel passed over from slavery into freedom on the night of Passover (Exodus 12:11; 1 Corinthians 5:7). Jesus came that we might have eternal or unlimited life now and forever. It is an abundant life absent of death. The death being the realm of sin and darkness that took over Adam the day that he disobeyed God (Genesis 2:17; 3:8, 10-11). If we desire to fully benefit from all that God has supplied to us in Christ Jesus then we must learn to walk in obedience to the faith (Romans 1:5). Through the Word of God and the Spirit of God we can learn to walk in all of the blessings of this life in Christ Jesus.
Today lay hold on the quality of life that God has provided for you when you entered into eternal life. Enjoy the fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit that produces the abundant life of joy unspeakable peace that passes understanding and the righteousness of God. Find yourself living in heaven today as A.B. Simpson (the founder of the Christian Missionary Alliance) said, "Heaven is Jesus and Jesus is mine I am living in heaven today."
Be blessed!
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
abidingplace.org
About Me
- Carol L
- San Diego area, California, United States
- I started this blog back in 2005, but in 2006 began dedicating it solely for the purpose of posting email messages called, Daily Bread, sent out Monday through Saturday by my pastor, Mark Spitsbergen. These daily emails contain fresh revelation that Mark gets from the Word of God by the Holy Spirit for that day for the church that God has called him to pastor, Abiding Place. 1 Peter 4:11 says, "If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God gives that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen." Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, (John 14:6), and He says, "The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are Life." (John 6:63). For the Word of God is quick (alive), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12).
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