ZOE (The Divine and Eternal Life) 5

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Life Capsule For Today                                                             21 Dec, 2023

Theme:        ZOE (The Divine and Eternal Life) 5          

Topic: The way to gain eternal Life

Memory Verse:    John 10:10

10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. NIV

Today’s Reading:

John 14:15-18

15 “If you love Me, keep My commandments.  16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever —   17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.  18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. NKJV

Words of the Ministry

Today we would be considering how believers gain access to the Zoe life. This starts with the new birth as we previously learnt within the week. This goes to prove that believers have the powerful life of God in them although it is most times underutilized. The bible in Jhn 3.16 says he gives eternal life, the Zoe life to all those who believe. In Jhn 20.22, we see a fulfilment of this promise as the bible records “And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. NIV”. This was the spirit as promised in Jhn14.16-17, by this the Holy Spirit, the promised comforter came into the disciples. This breath is the breath of Life from Christ the tree of Life. This brought Christ into them as the comforter.   We immediately notice something in the verse, Jesus said whosoever sins you forgive would be forgiven. The forgiveness of sin was an exclusive right of God and the Pharisees questioned Jesus on whose authority he forgave sin in Luk 5.17-24. We see Jesus saying the same right he had to declare such forgiveness has been given to his disciples, that meant the same God in Him was in them and the same life was operating in them.

Saints, as we read further in Jhn 14.15-20,23, we see God’s provision for us to get the Zoe, we see it is the promised Holy Spirit Acts 1.8, so power here is one of the many manifestations of Zoe, so wesee previously timid Peter in Acts 3 healing a man born cripple. We see the apostles doing miracles, we see the handkerchief of the apostles healing the sick, Paul was bitten by a viper and the venom could not harm him, we see Peter raising Dorcas to live, we also saw others like Stephen who were not apostles doing great miracles, it was so much that even the face of Stephen was shining like Jesus on the mount of transfiguration.  As the apostles walked in this reality, men wanted to worship them as God. Peter describing this in Acts 3:6 said 6 Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.”, what Peter had was the Zoe, the God life that brings life to every dead situation be it in health, marriage, business, education etc.

in  1 John 5:13 the bible says 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God. Saints we have this Life already, we are born again of God and as a result, Zoe is in us, the verse says we must keep believing in the reality of this life by living it out. We must continually utilize that which we have like Peter did at the temple. We must not remain dormant. God is counting on us to shine the light. For the knowledge of the glory of God to fill the earth like water covers the sea, we must do beyond reading, we must begin to ask in faith and trust the Lord for a fulfilment, May the Lord grant us light.

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