John 10:10 (Amplified) says, "The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)."
John 6:63 (Amplified) says, "It is the Spirit Who gives life (He is the Life-Giver); the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words (Truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."
The abundant Life that Jesus is proclaiming, is life into their spirit. In the new covenant, we take for granted the new life that Jesus was speaking about. But, the people listening to Jesus were spiritually dead. Before receiving Christ, we were equally as dead in trespass and sin. Under the Law, it was the acts of obedience in the flesh, that covered them by the blood of bulls and goats. Even though, they had sacrifice to cover them, it could not give them life. As we read in John 6:63(Amplified), "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver)."
Jesus also said in John 6:63 (Amplified) that, "The Words (Truths) I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life." When Jesus said that, "He came that we have life and have it to the full, till it overflows," He was to give us Life with His Life and that by His Spirit, we are made alive in Him. Jesus' Blood paid for our sin and trespasses. Hebrews 9:22 (Amplified) says, "(In fact) under the Law almost everything is purified by means of blood and without the shedding of blood there is neither release from sin and its guilt nor the remission of the due and merited punishment for sins."
Hebrews 10:19 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, brethren since we have full freedom and confidence to enter into the (Holy of) Holies (by the power and virtue) in the Blood of Jesus."
We now have Life in Christ Jesus and it is Life in our spirit and it is the God kind of Life. Our spirit has been made alive once more in Christ Jesus. Jesus said that His Words are also Spirit and Life, so we can now enter into "overflowing" life by His Word.
This is exactly what I mean when I talk about "Learning To Live." Now that Life has come, by our receiving Jesus, how do we walk in this Life? How do we take this life into the fullness, the abundance and the overflowing that Jesus said it will produce.
If the Word is also Life and the Spirit is life, then as we read God's Word by the Holy Spirit, it will reveal His power and guidelines to learn about this life. We've mostly read the Word from a sense of duty rather than life seeking. We often argue and stumble over His covenant. If God's Word is Life and Spirit (and it is), then we grow into the fullness of this life by reading the Word and receiving it into your spirit.
Proverbs 4:20-22 (Amplified) says, "My son, attend to My Words; consent and submit to My sayings. Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart. For they are life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh."
This is Life to the fullest. We have eternal life (are made alive) in Christ Jesus. We have forgiveness and right standing by His Blood. We've been made joint-heirs with Jesus and heirs of God. We are delivered from satan and have been raised together with Christ. Because we are now alive in Him, we also have the ability to receive the Spirit of His Word and not just the Law. Now, this Spirit Word will even heal and bring health to our body.
We're beginning to see what Jesus meant when He said we would have "Life to the full." Not only would we be alive again to God, but this life would also flow in the natural realm. God's Spirit (Life) would now affect every aspect of our lives, spirit, soul and body. We would not just "Go to heaven when we die," but we actually have heaven (God Himself) living in us at all times. How can our body not respond to this?
If Jesus, Who is this life, could lay His hands on sick people and heal them, then how hard is it for Jesus to heal us when He lives in us bodily. If you could touch His garment and be healed, then why wouldn't His Presence in us, bring healing to our body as well?
We don't know how to live this Life that Jesus came to give us because we've allowed the old man or the man who isn't reborn, to teach us the Word of God. The world still looks at the Bible as a book. We look at the Bible as our life and the length of our days. It isn't a book of rules, but of liberties. It's not a book of condemnation, but of peace.
Everything that is born must have a teacher of life. Babies must be taught how to live because they have life, but don't even know what that means. They must be taught everything about life that we can teach them. They can't talk, walk, or feed themselves. Everything in life must be learned.
We now have life because of Jesus, but are unsure of what that means for us here. Sometimes, we get stubborn headed or prideful and refuse to listen to the truth. It seems easier somehow and sometimes to simply do nothing.
It is true that you will still have eternal life and unbroken fellowship with the Father even when we do nothing. But, the full or abundant life that was supposed to enter into our lives here, might not manifest into overflowing and abundance when we do nothing.
The more we receive the Life and Spirit by His Word, the more we learn and live in His Life. He had so much life that He could give it to all who would receive it. By just the touch of His hands, Jesus could heal sick bodies. Now, the whole of this Life (not just His hands), but His very Life, is in us. Proverbs 4:22 (Amplified) says that, "His Word (Jesus) is healing and health to all your flesh."
This is life more abundantly for anyone who has ever been sick. This is life to the full (eternal life in heaven and long healthy life on earth). To the lame man, this is overflowing life that makes him able to stand righteous before God in eternity and able to stand whole before his family and his friends here on earth. This is truly overflowing life.
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