Christ The Life

CHRIST THE LIFE!

There is a great difference between telling someone about life and actually living life. Jesus, the one who lives is the one who possesses life, and the more perfect one lives, the more life one possesses. Jesus Christ lived perfectly; therefore, He possesses life perfectly. He is the Life: the very embodiment, energy, force, and source of life itself.


In biblical perspective, life flows from the living Father through the Son (His agent in creation and redemption) into a world thirsting for “real” life (John 6:57).

The overflowing vibrant quality of life made available in Christ was evident in the authority of His speech and the power of His touch (Matthew 9:18; Mark 1:27, 41, 42; 5:27—29).

He is the “author of life” (Acts 3:15 “Him who has led the way to life”, constantly advising how to enter into life (Matthew 7:14; 25:46; Mark 8:35—37; 9:43—47). And He raised the dead.

His own resurrection made Him “ a life-giving spirit,” with the power of “an indestructible life” (Romans 8:2; 1 Corinthians 15:45; Hebrews 7:16), so infinitely extending human life’s horizons (1 Peter 1:3—5).

Jesus is “Christ our life” (Colossians 3:4), in union with whom we find “newness of life” (Romans 6:4) and are newly created, living hence forth not for ourselves but for Him (2 Corinthians 5:15, 17).

John especially dwells on Christ as the source of this new quality of life (John 3:14—16; 5:21), that of the children of God.

Thus the life within the Father flows into the world through the Son, who also “has life in Himself” and gives it to whom He will (John 5:26). He is “the resurrection and the life” (John 11:25; 14:6), and demonstrates it by restoring life to paralyzed limbs, raising the dead and conquering death (John 5:5—9; 11:43). Men remain in death only because they will not “come and have life” (John 5:40; 1 John 3:14).