This morning, you know I believe that I have a word from the Lord
for you, for the body. Amen.
You know, I don't ever want to get up and have nothing to say
because you know what? He has everything to say.
And so we lean in to him to be
led by His spirit to be able to bring forth the utterance that's
needed at the time for His body, for his people.
And and for those that may not be his people, they need to hear
that he is the savior of the world.
And so this morning, what I might share, you know, may, may
be something that some of you and most of you in here have
already heard, but do you know, there's people that haven't
heard what you've heard that need what you have.
And this is the goal is to remind us of that, to remind us
of this precious gift that we've all been given and that we need
others to be able to receive it. Amen.
Because we are living in an eternal Kingdom, and so many
times we can get so used to focusing on the scene that we're
not looking to the unseen and reminding ourselves that there
is an eternal Kingdom that we are to be a part of.
And he's, you know, asking us to be a part of it.
And listen, it is the most precious thing that we could
ever have been able to encounter, which was the savior
of the world. Amen.
Hallelujah. And this song was so perfect for
where we're going today. And This is why I wanted us to
stop at this song is because sometimes the utterance is just
right there. So let's just get on up and get
started. Amen.
But you know, I'm going to come from a scripture that we have
all heard, those that are a part of this body.
We've all heard the Scripture. But as I was beginning to study
the Scripture, the Lord gave me a little different lens of it.
And so this is what we're going to talk about today.
And our key text is going to be found in John chapter 10.
John chapter 10 and verse 10 says this, the thief what comes
to steal, to kill and destroy. But I have come that you may
have life, that I that you may have life and life, not just
life, but life more abundantly. I've come that you might have
life, not just life, but life more abundantly.
And we've all heard this scripture, but I want to focus
on this life because there's so many people in the world that
are still groping around and making comments like, well, what
is life? What is life, right?
What is life, you know? And then you even have the
statement, you know, well, you only live what, one life, Yolo.
You only live one life. What is life?
Is life just, you know, existing here on this earth, you know,
barely making it through, going through all the challenges,
going through all the circumstances, going through
whatever life throws at you. Is life just you getting married
and having children and having a family and and having your 401K,
having your retirement and having all the things the world
says that you should have? Right?
But what does it for? What does it gain right?
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit
his soul? So what is life?
And and as I was reading the scripture, he gave me just that
different bit. The thing about it is, is we
wouldn't we shouldn't be asking what is life?
We should be asking who is life? Who is life?
And this is the question, who is life?
Who is life? This is the question because I
don't care about everything else in this life.
You can have it all and still be in that place of asking what is
life? Because what seems to be life
only ends up being death, only ends up being death without him.
So what is life? No, who is life?
And he says that he came, that we might have life and that we
might have it more abundantly, More abundantly.
And what does that abundance mean?
Alive, more abundant. That word abundant means.
Listen to this an exceedingly overflowing superior say
superior a more excellent come on, a more excellent life.
That is what abundant means. So he didn't want us to just
barely make it through life. Come on.
He wanted to give us a superior life, a more excellent,
excellent life. Come on, a, a more superior way
of living, a more superior way. And this is where, you know, you
hear people when you come across their paths and you're just
living your life. You're living your best life
now, right? And you hear people say, oh, you
just think you're better than me.
Why do they think that? Why is that comment made?
Is it made because they recognize you do have a superior
life. Not that you've ever tried to
act superior, but they recognize there is something more
excellent about your life and there is something more superior
about your life. There's they should recognize
that and you shouldn't take that as a oh, you like, you know, a
bad thing. You should say, no, I don't
think I'm more superior than you, but I do think I am to live
more superior than you, right? Because he's given me a more
superior life and people ought to recognize that.
And that's what that word abundantly.
So he, he wants to give us a more excellent and superior way
of living and that is truly going to reflect the Kingdom of
God. It's truly going to reflect the
Kingdom of God so that when they see you, they see the Kingdom.
Because when you walk around, you live more excellent, you
live more superior. You don't act a fool like
everybody else running around acting crazy in this world gone
crazy. No, they ought to recognize they
never see you acting crazy because you have a more
superior, excellent way of living.
Come on, this world does not have to make you crazy.
Amen. When you know what life truly is
about, South, life is not just breathing, It's not just
existing. Come on, no life.
Life that God intended for each and everyone of us to live.
Life is divine, you know, I think we've forgotten that that
life is divine and that life is eternal.
It's divine. And the reason why we've
forgotten that because we so easily support those who want to
take life. And the minute you, you know,
take on the fact that we should kill babies in a womb, you begin
to realize that life really, you think life really isn't divine.
But yet we want to save the turtles lives.
We want to save the whales lives.
Come on, I'm just, let's think about it.
I'm not trying to be political. No, I'm trying to be biblical
because life is divine. And He gave us a life, a divine
life to live. And we can live that way if we
recognize what life truly is. Amen.
But when we allow the philosophies and the things of
this world to disintegrate or degenerate, whatever the Word is
our mind from realizing that life is divine and it's a gift.
It's a gift. Life is a gift.
Hallelujah. You know, because all we see is
in the world the way that the world never intended to be.
When we go back to the beginning in the book of Genesis, right?
We know in Genesis chapter 1, Genesis chapter 2, Genesis
tractor in the beginning, what He created the earth and
everything in it. And what did he just say about
the earth and everything that He created?
And then he created man and woman and he created them to
have dominion and to rule over the earth.
And, and at the end of the the Scripture, it says what he
looked at it and he said it is good.
It's good. Life was good.
And we know that the life that we're or the world that we're
living in has been perverted, has been changed from God's
original intent. He never wanted this life that
we are living for us. He never wanted it.
He wanted everything to be good. He wanted he actually wanted
mankind not to know what evil, but we know the rest of the
story. Adam chose to what disobey God
ate the fruit. Sin entered the world, but not
just sin. And so many believers only just
think about it as sin. Sin didn't just enter the world.
Death entered the world, death and and decay entered the world
as well. Sin and death entered the world.
So everything that God had made and he said it was good is now
what destroyed and now is, you know, going to show forth the
consequence of sin, which is death and everything else.
And so we know that what happened, God decided that he
would send his Son to be the Savior of the world, to put us
back into right standing with Him if we would call on His
name. And then what would happen?
Life could begin to blossom again in your life, in your
life, because without him we are separated.
Sin, death separated Adam from God.
Sin and death separates us from God because for because of one
man's transgression. The Bible says what sin entered
the world, Sin entered the world and the only way that we can
eradicate sin and death is through the blood of Jesus
Christ and the Savior of the world that died, come on, that
died on the cross and that rose in three days.
Come on and poured out his blood on the mercy seat for all who
would call on his name shall be saved.
Hallelujah. But when you look back into
Genesis chapter 2 and you see where he says Genesis chapter 2
where He created man out of the dust of the earth, right?
And He was forming him. And what does it say?
He did? Let's read that.
And that's where I want to go next.
Genesis chapter 2, Genesis chapter 2 and verse 7, Genesis
chapter 2 and verse 7, and I'm going to read it out of the
amplified version. It says then the Lord God
formed, that is He created the body of man from the dust of the
ground and He breathed, say, breathed into his nostrils the
what? Breath of life He breathed into
him, the breath of life. This is God's life right here,
His breath, his existence, who he is, the life source.
He breathed into him the breath of life and man became a living
being, an individual complete body spirit.
We were not created and and did not evolve from animals.
No, he clearly states I created mankind.
Come on, I created man and not only did I create him, I
breathed life into him. His very existence depends on my
life. The very existence of your being
depends on his life. His breath he breathed in him
life, and this is how humanity was born, through him and his
life. Hallelujah and Psalms 36, nine
says this. For with you is the fountain of
life. Or one translation says the
wellspring of life. The wellspring of life, The
source of life in you is your light, and we see light.
So he is the wellspring, He is the starter of life.
Come on, he breathes into them the breath of life.
He is the wellspring, He is the source of life.
This is why you can search all the world and still be empty and
still looking for life. You still feel dead.
You're like a zombie. You're alive walking around but
not breathing the right breath of life.
Because He is the source of true life.
He is the source of eternal life.
Hallelujah, Isaiah Chapter 9 Listen, because God is the
Father and we were created. Listen, we were created for the
eternal. We were created as eternal
beings for the eternal See all. And some people think all this
life is, is that you live your life and then you do what?
Then you die. And people are like, what's the
big deal? Live your life the way you want
to live it because in the end all you do is die.
But no, God created us as eternal beings.
Adam was never supposed to what die.
Adam was never supposed to die. He was never supposed to
encounter evil or death. He chose it.
And do you know how many people still choose death every single
day, even though they've heard the name of Jesus and they've
even heard the way to life, and they still choose death because
they won't surrender to the lordship of Jesus Christ.
But he says here that we were created for eternal life.
Isaiah 9 I want to read this and verse six and seven and many of
us know this Scripture in in in the light of the Kingdom of God.
And it says this for a child will be born to us, a son will
be given to us, and the government will rest on his
shoulders. His name will be called
wonderful counselor, mighty God. And this is the point, Eternal
Father, eternal. So many of us are not even
thinking eternally or even about eternity.
And we have to, as even believers, get our mindset back
on not looking at the scene, but thinking about eternal things.
Thinking about eternity. Knowing that there are people
that are still choosing death every single day and are still
dying. And if they died today without
be making the Savior of the world their Lord, they'll be an
eternity in a place of fire and torment, which is what we'll see
in a minute. So eternity is here.
He created eternity. We he created us to be eternal
beings. We are living eternity right
now. Right now.
I'm living in eternity right now.
And we have to remember that Hallelujah because He is our
eternal Father that breathed life into man Hallelujah, First
Timothy, first Timothy and verse 1 and 17.
It says this now to. The eternal, immortal,
invisible, the only God be honor and glory, forever and ever.
Amen. Eternal, the eternal King.
Come on, He is the eternal King, the king of his Kingdom, and He
wants to open up the doors, come on, of the Kingdom of God to
people's lives so that they can come, be a part of it and
participate in it, so that they don't have to be separated
eternally from Him, eternally from him.
See, eternal life begins now and lasts forever.
It begins now and it lasts forever.
And without that word, eternal means this without beginning and
end, that which has always been and will always be since the
world began without beginning. Eternal life from an eternal
Father who is a king of an eternal Kingdom.
Eternal, because the decisions that we make today will be
decisions that will eternally affect our lives.
Just a few other scriptures concerning Him and who He was as
our Father and creator. Acts 1724 through 25.
And in the context of the Scripture, he's actually, this
is Paul, and he was walking along the streets and seeing all
the idols and gods that people had built by their hands.
And Paul begins to speak forth and remind humanity, come on,
let's see what he reminds them here.
It says the God who made the world and all the things in it,
since he is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples
made with hands, nor is he served by human hands, as though
he needed anything, since he himself gives to all people life
and breath and all things. He was reminding them, listen,
your God is nothing. This idol, this statue, it's
nothing. It was man made.
But the God that we serve, come on.
He's the creator of heaven and earth and all of these things
and he is the one that brought life into mankind.
And then you drop on down to verse 28 of that same scripture
of chapter in 17. It says for him for in him
pastor quoted this last week and something just spoke up to me in
my spirit and it were reminded me that this was coming off of
this context and he said for in him we move, we live, we live,
see life is to be lived through him.
In him we live and move and have our being.
That's what Paul was saying when he was talking about these dead
idols and all these things that they had created with their
hands. He's like, but I serve a God who
breathed life into something. Come on, who would I live and
move and that's how I have my being.
Hallelujah, glory to God. So we need to recognize that the
Creator of heaven and earth, Father God, the God eternal of
His Kingdom, is the one that brings life and life only.
He brings life into everything, everything that exists.
We know the animals, the plants, come on, not just mankind, but
the animals, the plants, everything we see.
He created and brought life to it.
Hallelujah. But we know that He then sent
Jesus the Savior of the world and made a way for us to be back
into the life of God for those who were separated through sin
and death. Jesus declares this.
We know that God and is the triune God.
We have the God the Father eternal of the Kingdom.
We have Jesus Christ his Son, right, who was the word wrapped
in flesh glory to God. And then we have the Holy Spirit
that there is there breathing. Come on.
And orchestrating life into people's lives.
But look what he says here in John about Jesus.
Jesus declared this himself in John 1125 through 26.
He said this. I am.
I am the resurrection and the life, you know, and all I used
to think about in the spirit of the Lord prompted me with this
as I was studying as Jesus is the resurrection and the life.
Yeah, he, he was resurrected. He was brought back to life
through the power of the Holy Spirit, like the Father said he
would be. But as I began, no, he is the
resurrection and life of your life, because see, you were dead
before Christ, bound up in your sin.
Come on. But he can be the resurrection
and the life to you. When you call on his name, he
says I am the rest. So there's nothing dead.
Come on, that he cannot breathe life back into.
It doesn't matter how hopeless of a situation you think you
might be in or whatever you may be going through, and it looks
like death ahead. I'm telling you, if you'll just
allow him to breathe his life on that situation and on that
circumstance, he can resurrect it once again.
Come on, an old stale marriage can be resurrected, corrected if
you'll allow him to breathe that resurrection power on your
marriage. See, because he is, He says I am
the resurrection and the life who he who believes in me,
though he may die, He shall live.
He's letting you know this body is going to die.
Come on. But those who've called on His
name and believe that He is the resurrection and the life and
the Savior of the world, they will continue to live on in
eternity. And everyone who lives and
believes in me will never die. Hallelujah will never die
because we are eternal beings. Even when people die, death is
not the end because they will burn in the lake of fire for
eternity. That's what the scripture says.
Hallelujah. It gets quiet up in here.
But see, we have to be reminded of some of these things of
eternity and that it's real and we're living in it.
Amen. Romans chapter 6 and 23 says
this. For the wages of sin is death,
but the gift of God is what? Eternal life.
So now he moves on into saying, listen, I am the resurrection in
life. But then we go on and see.
But now he's saying, listen, I am eternal life.
I'm not just life, I'm eternal life, eternal life, forever and
ever and ever. His Kingdom will have no end.
Hallelujah.
John 17 three says this. And this is eternal life that we
may know. You listen, the only true God,
Jesus Christ, whom you have sent, and Jesus Christ whom you
have sent, eternal life is at our hand.
It's already here. It's already here, and we get to
choose the way we're going to live eternity.
Hallelujah, in this life and the one to come.
Amen. First John five.
First, John 511 says this and this, and the testimony is this,
that God has given us eternal life and this life is in His
Son. And we know that the Son of God
has come and has given us understanding so that we might
know Him who is true. Say He's true, He's true, and we
are in Him who is true in his Son Jesus Christ.
This is the true God and eternal life.
Wow, it's so plain in Scripture. So plain.
He is life, He brings life and He lets us know that we are to
live in eternity and have eternal life.
Thank you father. Jesus also said this and John
chapter 14 and verse 6 says this.
I am the way, the truth and the life.
No one comes to the Father, the Eternal Father.
No one comes to the Eternal Father except through Me.
He lets us know the only way, the only way to be able to have
life and have life eternally is through Him.
He's the only way. The way.
What does that mean? The one that he is, The way that
reconnects us to the Father. It literally means when you look
up that word way, he says I'm the highway.
If you want to know what Rd. you're on, you might want to
read your map. And the map is every
circumstance and every situation and everything you're doing in
life. And what does your map lead you
to? But he says I have one map and
one way, a straight path. That's what it says.
He says I am the highway, I am the road.
I love the way it broke that down in the Greek, I am the
highway, I am the road. And you know what else he says
that that word way means? It means the journey to the
father. Because I've always said this,
the minute you get born again, your life just begins and you
start your journey with him. And this journey continues until
he blows that trumpet and we go on, come on into heavenlies, and
then we come back and we help him establish and put His foot
down in Israel, Jerusalem. Amen.
Hallelujah. And so I'm telling you, He is
the only way that can reconnect us to the Eternal Father.
He's the highway, He's the road. I love it.
He gives us the right direction. God will never lead us astray.
He will never lead us astray. He will never lead us in a wrong
direction and in a wrong path, but He'll always lead us
straight to life, straight to life in every situation.
And it says He is the truth. The truth is what reveals God's
reality and who He is. He is the truth.
It is not your own truth and what you make it and bits and
parts and pieces of who you might coexist with.
No, He says. I am the truth, I am the way.
And do you know what truth means?
It means true in any matter, in any circumstance, when you look
it up in the Greek, true in any matter and in any circumstance.
So no matter what circumstance you're going through, no matter
who's saying what, the the the North Star is pointing right
here to truth. And what does truth have to say
about every circumstance or every situation you're going
through? Come on, because it's the truth.
No matter what you're going through, it's a lie.
It might be the circumstance and the situation, but the truth in
the matter is, is that God can make a way where there seems to
be no other way. The truth of the matter is, come
on, that he can breathe life into everything that is going on
into your life. Hallelujah.
And then he goes on to say in the life, I am the life, and
that literally means I am the breath source.
That's what he means by the life.
I am the breath source. I am life.
I'm the only life there is, the only life that there is.
I am the source of life. Everything else is really non.
It's not even reality. So false reality that the devil
has blinded the eyes of people so that they can't see the light
and the life of God. And that's why we need people
like you to pray so that the eyes of people's understanding
would be enlightened, so the veil of darkness would be
removed from their eyes so that they can see the light of the
glorious gospel. It's a false reality when we're
really, you know, they tell us we're all, no, we're actually
living in the reality of what true life is, of what true life
is. But this life, this life that
we're living is eternal. We are eternal beings.
And I'm telling you what He lets us know that there is only one
way to be able to receive this life and walk in this life, have
a superior life, have a more excellent life.
Because He didn't want us to have to live like this world and
people in darkness live. He didn't want us to have to be
bound in what all the people of this world are bound in.
He didn't want us to have to live that way.
Hallelujah. He had a better way of living
for us. Glory to God.
Look at Matthew. I'm going to close with these
last few scriptures. In Matthew chapter 10 and verse
39, it says this. Whoever finds his life in this
world will eventually lose it through death.
The scripture says that. I'm not saying that.
The truth is saying that. And whoever loses his what life,
not his wife, don't lose your wife.
Whoever loses his life in this world for my sake will find it.
And that is life with me for all eternity.
Hallelujah, life with him for all eternity.
Those that choose to live to lose this life and receive his
life. Hallelujah.
Now look at John John chapter 12 and verse 25.
It says this. The one who loves his life
eventually loses it through death, but the one who hates his
life in this world and is concerned with pleasing God will
keep it for life eternal. You see that for life eternal.
That was just another scripture reading, Matthew, Luke and John.
But now look over here. Matthew 2534 says this.
Then the King will say to those on his right, come, you who are
blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the world.
So from the very beginning of creation, He's been preparing
and has a place come on for us for all eternity for those who
choose come on to be a part of his Kingdom.
And then if you continue reading on and drop down to verse 4441,
in that same chapter of Matthew 25, it says this Matthew 2541 it
says then he will also say to those on his left, depart from
me accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been
prepared. For the devil and his angels.
So he's saying through that scripture he was talking about,
listen, those that choose me, they're going to have life with
me in eternity in my Kingdom eternally.
But those who don't listen, they're going to be thrown into
a place that that God never wanted his humanity to have to
go to that place. But because Adam chose to rebel
and because he created this place for his, for the devil,
because he chose to revel, rebel, and his angels listen,
then this is the place of torment and punishment for
rebellion. And he never wanted us to have
to be there, but he will. To all of those who choose not
to call on his name and not to receive this free gift of
salvation. There is a place of eternal fire
and it's prepared. And unfortunately, many are
going to go into it, but we need to be about the Father's
business and let them know how they don't have to go, how they
don't have to go to this place. Look at Matthew 25 and 46.
These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous
into eternal life. So there is eternity at hand,
and you can decide where you want to be in eternal punishment
or in the lake of fire or in His Kingdom.
Come on, that is going to last and rule and reign for eternity.
And we get to choose. And that's what's so awesome
about God is that He will not make anybody submit.
He will not make anybody, but what he'll do is he'll show them
the way. He'll show them away and he'll
show, show them by showing them people that will come across
their path that are living their best life, their best life in
Christ, the one that is more excellent and superior.
And to see that they are being blessed and that they're able to
overcome things that are going on in this world and they're not
having to, you know, yield to the things of this world.
And this is what He wants for all mankind, for them to
recognize eternity is at hand and that we need an eternal
Savior, the Savior of the world, Amen.
And He is the only one that can bring life, real life, true
life, eternal. Amen.