Last summer, thanks to the generosity of our church friends, my wife and I were able to spend a week together in Cozumel, Mexico, it was a wonderful trip. Our community was on the beach. The food was excellent. The water was a beautiful blue hue I had never seen before, but best of all I was able to enjoy my wife for twenty-five years without interruption. One day, at the end of the afternoon, while we were sitting on the beach reading, without any worries, except when we were preparing for dinner, I looked at Kristy and said, “This is life!”
Life is an important theme in the Gospel of John. The Greek words translated by the terms? Life? And life?They appear more than sixty times in John, the most striking being in reference to God’s life for Jesus Christ, sometimes called “eternal life. “Human beings yearn for immortality and seek it in many ways. But Jesus says that he who believes in him for salvation has eternal life. John tells us that his purpose in writing his gospel is for his readers to believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing, they have life in his name. (20,31). How shall we see, life, eternal life?are essentially synonymous.
- To help us understand this.
- John establishes his entire gospel in the context of creation.
- Why creation? Because in creation.
- God created all his life.
- John’s first line echoes Genesis 1: “In the beginning it was the Word”.
- John continues to reveal to us that he? He is Jesus Christ.
- And this Christ is the creator of all things (v.
- 2-3).
- Then John made this statement: “Was life in him and life was the light of men?”(V.
- 4).
- John tells us here that if you want real life.
- You can only find it in Jesus Christ.
- Himself the Creator of all life.
- Jesus also says.
- “I am the way.
- The truth.
- And the life?(14.
- 6).
- Here’s the first important point: have we ever really lived?until we know Jesus Christ.
- He is the one who gives us life.
More than that, the life Jesus gives is “eternal life. “Simply put, eternal life is a life that has no end. But eternal life? In the Bible, it refers to more than the fact that it never ends. Once again, the account of creation helps us understand that. Adam and Eve were created with the possibility of immortality. God placed them in a lush and fruitful garden. communion with God, and appreciated the blessing of work and the fruits of his labor; however, there was a tree whose fruits should not be appreciated, that is, the tree of science of good and evil, God warned them by saying: ?(Genesis 2:17).
Interestingly, they did not physically die the day they ate this fruit. However, sin and death certainly entered the world because of their sin (Romans 5:12). Eventually they would physically die; however, the day they ate, they died spiritually. His unhindered communion with God was broken. They experienced shame and alienation, received God’s curse and not his blessing, and were expelled from God’s original earthly house. True? Life?, La? Eternal life? may Jesus give the means to be restored to the state of knowledge and communion with God. It means that we can enjoy our work for the glory of God and experience the joy of God’s blessings. Later, in the Gospel of John, Christ himself prays to the Father: “And this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. (17. 3). Because sin has broken our fellowship with God, we must “be born again,” as Jesus told Nicodemus earlier in John 3. In other words, the Spirit must come and give us new life and make new life. us a new creation by its regenerative power.
In John 11, after Lazarus’s death, Jesus said to Martha, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live; and all who live and believe in me will not die forever. “(v. 25-26) When we, who trust in Christ and know Him, die, expect a resurrected body, a glorified body that allows us to have fellowship with God for eternity in a deeper and more intimate way. At the same time, those who trust in Christ will not die forever. They are simply entering a new stage of God’s knowledge. The Apostle Paul said something similar when he wrote to the Philippians: “For me, Christ is to live and die. Is it profit? (Philippians 1:21). If life is Christ, physical death means infinitely more of the life we have in him, and in a new and even better way, this is the abundant life that Jesus came to give (John 10:10), it is eternal life. Anyway, that’s life.
By: William Barcley. © 2016 Ligonier Ministério. Original: Having eternal life
This article is part of the May 2016 edition of Tabletalk magazine
Translation: Joel Paulo Aragono da Guia Oliveira Criticism: Yago Martins. © 2016 Faithful Ministry. All rights reserved. Website: MinisterioFiel. com. br. Original: Jesus gives eternal life to those who believe in his name
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