I Am the Life
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I Am the Life
SLIDE 1 “WE’RE GLAD YOU ARE HERE”
As I come forward at end of worship
Encouragement from worship
Any church family news that comes to heart
We have been in our series “who Jesus is to us”
We have learned from God’s word that Jesus is the Word
In the beginning was the Word
SLIDE 2 “I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE”
We have learned Jesus is the Way
We have discovered Jesus is the Truth
Today we will see Jesus is also the Life
This statement was made by the Lord in John 14:6 and all started when Thomas asked Jesus, “Lord we do not know where you are going, how do we know the way”
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6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
With our phone map now days simple just type in the place you want to go and follow blue line
Might see some yellow or red areas along that route
Before GPS or phone maps or before the follow the line
You had a list of directions
For us a followers of Christ He is always the correct way, He will always reveal to us all truth along our journey and have the fullness of what life is as well.
SLIDE 4 “I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE”
One of Chevy Chase movies, the big ugly station wagon, he stops and ask for directions.....
Jesus will not lead us down the wrong path or steal your hub caps!
Even though others may do those things to us .....Jesus is always there to restore, give strength and encouragement, joy, peace, and to discover I still have all true life experienced in Him
In fact there are different types of LIFE out there in the world ..... would you agree?
The type of LIFE Jesus is talking about here in John 14 is known as zoe life
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Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon
LIFE [zoe /dzo·ay/] 1A the state of one who is possessed of vitality or is animate. 1B every living soul. 2 life. 2A of the absolute fullness of life, both essential and ethical, which belongs to God, and through him both to the hypostatic “logos” and to Christ in whom the “logos” put on human nature.
In other words through Jesus we get the whole package deal
But in our own life experiences we have come to find out there may be other types of life out there
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There is truth in that ........we find that in God’s word
If we were to lay that out in a pie chart this is how life is experienced throughout the bible
Were the people in the bible real people? real families, really work for a living also? really have................ issues?
The really good news for followers of Christ .....being in God’s word.....being in Jesus because He is the word
Notice on the chart in BLUE most almost half of God’s word is about people, personality, life, the soul, dead soul …thats known as nepes life
Or in the RED almost the other half is about lifetime, lifespan, the joy of life or maintenance of life. this is known as hay life
The rest is the all the other stuff in between....yom life
What does that tell us? By being a follower of Christ and in His word The Lord encourages us to stay focused on what is important.
Another words as we saw in the definition earlier “the absolute fullness of life” zoe life
I feel the Lord wants to show us 3 points today
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GOD’S LIFE TO THE FULLNESS
1 Attitude
2 Maintain (journey)
3 Eternity
I prey that the Lord will reveal to us just how much fullness of blessings He gives through His Son Jesus
That real zoe life that is there at all times....all we need to do is tap into it
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GOD’S LIFE TO THE FULLNESS
1 Attitude
In Ecclesiates Solomon describes what the worldy kind of life would be like
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18 Through indolence the rafters sag, and through slackness the house leaks.
19 Men prepare a meal for enjoyment, and wine makes life merry, and money is the answer to everything.
Now indolence is referring to sluggishness, slowness or laziness
Whats the attitude here? O well whatever, let some else deal with it, I don’t care, just give me more money or another drink and everything is fine
These two verses come off of the previous verses that say even the land you live in will be blessed if you do not have a king that lives like this.
So we see here is attitude
You know the day we called on Jesus to rescue us and gave our life to Him. What did we get with that? A new attitude
This can be related with Nicodemus in John 3 ..
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3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Nicodemus was a Pharisee who was known as one of the best teachers in Israel
We see that life surrendered to Christ changes our whole outlook
This is what we mean by a biblical world view
I now see the world and my life through the eyes of Jesus not my own
We see this is done by the Holy Spirit which we have in Jesus
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63 “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
What is God’s main desire when we come to church Sunday? Change our attitude.....why worship first? start breaking down our old attitude
Worship time produces a heart of gratitude an attitude of gratitude.....amen
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“Gratitude sets the Attitude for Altitude “
When we read God’s word....change of attitude.....Weds night meal with other believers.....change of attitude
Point number 2 for the Fullness of Life in Jesus
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GOD’S LIFE TO THE FULLNESS
1 Attitude
2 Maintain (journey)
This could really mean you have to do point number 2 to maintain point number 1
And then it makes things go better to make it to point number 3!
Take a look with me in Deut for the words of God given through Moses to Israel
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15 “See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and adversity;
We see God gives us a choice along the journey, how do we maintain?
Moses goes on describing
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19 “I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants,
This next verse is like what John our drummer would say “epic”
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20 by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, that you may live in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”
Also so many verses in the new testament for our journey
I feel the Lord zeroed in on these two for us today.
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9 Now as to the love of the brethren, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;
10 for indeed you do practice it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, to excel still more,
how to excel still more and what will also be the outcome?
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11 and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded you,
12 so that you will behave properly toward outsiders and not be in any need.
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8 for bodily discipline is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
So we see the maintain part is really important for attitude but also we see will carry over to point 3 for today
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GOD’S LIFE TO THE FULLNESS
1 Attitude
2 Maintain (journey)
3 Eternity
The Main thing for point 3 today is that absolutely only accessible through Jesus
He is the Way the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the father except through Me
There are so many verses throughout the bible that use point 2 maintain to connect to point 3 eternal life
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12 Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
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21 keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
WORSHIP TEAM
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20 And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
This passage sums up all of Jesus being the Way, Jesus being the Truth and Jesus being the Life
SLIDE 24 “I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE”
Jesus put these things in order to help us keep the 3 points we learned today
Attitude, Maintaining and Eternal Life
You know the beauty in what Jesus said and as you see up on the screens. Look how He starts off that statement....I AM
All life is lived to the fullness in Christ Jesus, life not always understood....... or figured out but joy and peace and life more abundant
PRAYER / WORSHIP