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Finally, Jesus said "I am... the life". He is the Emancipator from death, hell and the grave! He is the tender Branch, the divine Sprout, springing forth and breaking through the clods of wickedness, shattering the generations of iniquity! He is the only Author of real life, life to the fullest, heavenly life on earth. He is the life that animates all those who seek and serve him. In one place He's called "the Prince of life" (Acts 3:15).
The mere natural man has no spiritual reality. In fact, spiritual things are a mockery to him: "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned" (1 Cor 2:14). Self is the center and circumference of his existence; he is dead to heavenly things, and void of love for the things of God. Thankfully, Jesus has come to change all that! "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" (Jn 10:10).
Without the Lord Jesus, men are utterly dead in trespasses and sins. But with Him, we receive the care of the great Physician! "In him was life; and the life was the light of men" (Jn 1:4). But He isn't just a physician who has come to merely invigorate the old nature, try to refine it's awful processes, or attempt to repair it's many defects.. Rather, He's come to fully envelop us with Himself, that is, the very life of God! He's come to translate us into His superior kingdom! He is the Life, both in grace and glory; the life that not only saves from death, but destroys it too! He said, "because I live, ye shall live also" (Jn 14:19). He's come to literally make alive those who receive Him: "For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will" (Jn 5:21). He's a "quickening Spirit", ready and willing to impart the life of God (1 Cor 15:45)! He wants to become your life (Col 3:4).
As was so with the prodigal son (Lk 15:24), the one who clings to Christ Jesus has passed out of death into life (Jn 5:24). "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life" (Jn 3:36).
Reader, let's turn to Him alone who is the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE!
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