NDlC/DMO Chapel
Central Business District,
Garki, Abuja - Nigeria
* Speaker: Pastor Ambrose Nwogu
* Topic: God with us
* 27th January, 2015
★ WHY JESUS CAME
* 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."
* Jesus came to give us life
- What is life?
- What kind of life?
1. Life is the force, energy & power of being
- Anyone that lacks that Cannot be said to be alive
2. life Is the opposite of death/perishing
- It is the Cessation of destruction & death
* John 5:24 →"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life."
* NOTE: The cessation of death and decay can only be through Jesus
3. The life that Jesus gives is eternal
* Genesis 3:22 →" And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever."
* Eternal life Was deprived Adam & Eve because of their sins
* John 17:3 → "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."
* Many people today are holding on to Something that is false and will not give them eternal life - they will be disappointed in the end
* Every soul will live eternally (both Saints & Sinners)
* The Kind of eternal life Jesus is speaking about & offering is not one of duration, but one of quality and bliss
4. This eternal life is found only in Christ. No one else.
*1st John 1:2 →" (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)"
* John 1:4-5 →"In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."
* There is no two-way about It: outside Christ, there is no life
★ PRAYER:
"I want this eternal life;
Give me your eternal life;
let nothing deprive me of it"
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