Theme: ZOE (2) 21 Oct. 2024
Topic: The missing 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:
Gen 2:8 -9
8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Gen 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Gen 2:16-17
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Words of the Ministry:
As we read the scripture and the several references to life in the New Testament Greek, we see life denoted as ZOE, meaning God Life, the Uncreated and eternal divine life. By implication, God wanted man to eat the tree of life with the resultant effect of living forever Gen 3.22, which is exactly what Jesus came to do in the new covenant Jhn10.10, so we can deduce that even from the beginning, God wanted to make man and not just create man. To make man by adding Christ to the created man so that man would not just be a mankind but a Godkind (Jhn 1.12) and that God is not satisfied with man being good as that can be gotten from the tree of knowledge, but he wanted man as a vessel to be Zoe filled, a God-man
As we read Jhn 3.16, we see Jesus’ mission statement which is to give us everlasting ZOE. Note he didn’t come to give us individual money, fame, connection, power, holiness, righteousness but the entirety of all which is the Zoe, Zoe encapsulates the totality of what God is and can be. For instance, a dog is a dog because it has the life of a dog so is a mouse and man. Therefore, to have the life of God with our human life makes us a God-man. God has never intended that man should be good as both good and bad men are same before God. The desire of God even from ages past is that man is Life filled, a God-man living out the abundant riches of the God life.
Saints, as we journey through life we are always faced with choices of life and good and evil. On the one hand, our nature and society emphasizes on choosing what is good over evil. We were brought up hating evil and loving good because we felt by doing good we would not only be doing the right thing but also we would be acceptable to God. That made us not see the importance of ZOE, the missing life in our Spirit and that is why many of us function as mere men. The God-life in us should have been our advantage among men but many saints despite having the God life still live within the choices of the tree of knowledge. Join me tomorrow as we look at the life of God and how to we can fully engage it. Be a part of October Peniel Encounter, fellowship with us by 4pm on the 27th of October, shalom!
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