I picked up an old book I have not read in a while and met some old quotes which brought back great memories such as "Any Old Bush Will Do" (will share it on a future blog). I found a new one on Eternal Life and it was good.
Ian Thomas The Saving Life of Christ p 139-140
What it eternal life? Is it a place that you are going to when you are dead? Is it a peculiar feeling inside? If you were to ask a normal congregation or any sort of Bible class or Sunday school in an evangelical church to define eternal life you would be amazed at the strange answers you would get.
What is eternal 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. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life."
Jesus Christ and eternal life are synonymous terms, and eternal life is none other than Jesus Christ Himself, of whom it is written in John 1:4: “In him was life; and this life was the light of men.” If you have eternal life at all, it simply means that you have the Son, Jesus Christ – now! Jesus said, “I am the way, I am the truth, I am the life” (John 14:6, emphasis added).
Eternal life is not a peculiar feeling inside! It is not your ultimate destination, to which you will go when you are dead. If you are born again, eternal life is that quality of life that you possess right now, at this moment, in you own physical body, with your own two feet on the ground, and in the world today! And where does this life come from? Of Him! He is that life!
Grace and Peace, mike
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Amen dear brother Mike,
When we are regenerated we come into eternal life, which is the very Triune God Himself. Hallelujah for such a life. We are even becoming the New Jerusalem as we allow this life to operate in us, flowing the riches of the divine life into our being, that we become the same as He is in life and nature, but not in the God-head. Again I say, hallelujah fr such a life. When we look at the New Jerusalem with His eyes, we see a group of people standing together as One with Him, wanting the same thing He wants, which is to just be an expression of the Father. Lord, keep us in your presence today, that we would receive more of the anointing, that we would just exhibit Christ.
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