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1 John 1:1-2
That which was from the beginning,
which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked
upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word
of life;
(For the
life was manifested, and we have seen it,
and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal
life, which was with the Father, and was manifested
unto us;)
Life comes from God. Life starts with the Living God and is made know to man by the Word of Life which God has revealed.
Jeremiah 10:10a
But the LORD is
the true God, he is the living God,
and an everlasting king: . . .
Psalm 84:2
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth
for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the
living God.
The LORD is "the Living God." Man is basically God hungry. The heart of man longs for and cries out for a knowledge of the Living God and the eternal life that is available through a knowledge of His Word.
Matthew 4:4
But he answered and said, It
is written, Man shall
not live by bread
alone, but by every word that proceedeth out
of the mouth of God.
The Word of God is the Will of God. God is made known by His Word. God's Word is vital to the life of man. Just as physical food is necessary to sustain the body, the words that proceed from the Living God are necessary for life.
Hebrews 4:12
For the
word of God is quick [alive!],
and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the
dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and
is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
God is the Living God and His Word is alive and powerful. The life of God is available through the Word of Life.
John 6:63
It is the spirit that quickeneth
[makes alive];
the flesh profiteth nothing: the words
that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
John 12:49-50
For I [Jesus
Christ] have not spoken of myself; but the
Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say and what
I should speak.
And I know that his
commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever
I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
Jesus Christ always spoke God's Word of Life because he knew that everlasting life comes from the Living God by way of His Word.
John 5:39
Search the scriptures; for in
them ye think ye have eternal life: and they
are they which testify of me.
Jesus Christ is the subject of the Word of Life. Eternal life from the Living God is made available to man by the Lord Jesus Christ. The Word of God makes known Christ and Christ is the only way to the life available from the Living God.
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I
am the way, the truth, and the life: no man
cometh unto the Father, but by me.
John 10:10b
I
am come that they might have life, and that
they might have it more abundantly.
John 20:31
But these [the
words of the book of John] are written, that
ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing
ye might have life
through his name.
Jesus Christ came that we might have life. He was crucified and died for our sins. God raised him from the dead. When we believe, as the Word of Life declares, that Jesus Christ is Lord and that God raised him from the dead, we receive eternal life from the Living God. [Romans 10:9-10]
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is
death; but the gift of God is eternal
life though Jesus Christ our Lord.
As children of the Living God, with God's gift of eternal life dwelling within us, we shine as lights in this world as we hold forth that same Word of Life.
Philippians 2:15-16a
That ye may be blameless and
harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and
perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Holding
forth the word of life; . . .
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