A'BC 4 LIFE

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Jesus is Light unto humanity. Adam’s disobedience brought death upon mankind. Man died the day Adam disobeyed God’s commandment and ate of the tree which God commanded him not to eat. Although Adam lived physically but he was dead spiritually.

This spiritual death is the exit of man from the nature of the image and likeness of God into the nature of sin. Man died from divinity into carnality. Man became disconnected from God Who is Spirit. Man became a natural being that is limited to his senses. He cannot discern or comprehend the affairs of the Spirit because they are spiritually discerned. In other words it is a spiritual man that can understand the Spirit but a natural man is constraint to the affairs of the physical realm.

The fallen man or the natural man is a man living in darkness because he cannot see beyond his senses. His operations are limited to the physical realm.

The body without the spirit is dead. The natural man is an enemy of God. He is a hopeless being without God. He is under the operations of the powers of the kingdom of darkness.

Satan blindfolds the natural man so that he can not see beyond his senses. Satan takes advantage of the blindness of the fallen man to keep him under perpetual bondage. Satan takes advantage of the ignorance of man to influence his actions. The natural man does the things he doesn’t like but cannot do the things he likes. This is the wretchedness and hopelessness of living in darkness.

Jesus is the true Light that came from God. He is the express image of the Father. No one knows the Father except the Son.

Jesus came to show the Father to as many as will receive Him into their life. The life of Jesus in a man is light unto that man.

The Light shines where there is darkness and drives away the darkness. Darkness cannot withstand the presence of light.

Receiving the life of Jesus brings the man into Light. Man becomes aware of Whom the Father is, and becomes aware of whom the Father have made him, and also becomes aware of the things the Father have freely given to him.

This Light is knowledge. The Bible says that we shall know the truth, and the truth will make us free. This knowledge brings deliverance from the operations of the powers of the kingdom of darkness.

Jesus is the Light that deliver mankind from darkness. The Light shines in darkness and darkness cannot quench it.

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Eternal life is not a reward we receive in heaven; it is the life of God in a man. The life of God is called,’The eternal life’. It is a supernatural life, in other words, it is beyond the natural life. It is not subject to the affairs of the natural realm.

The natural man does not have eternal life. The life of the natural man is subject to the affairs of the natural realm. The life of the natural man can be influenced and manipulated; oppressed and possessed; and can be killed. The life of the natural man is subject to resistance; hindrances and limitations. The life of the natural man is a cursed life: it is a life of poverty; lacks and wants; a life of labor or hardwork and a life that depends on human effort.

Eternal life is the antidote to the natural life. The natural life is synonymous with death but eternal life is the true life; it is called ‘The abundant Life’. A man who has eternal life cannot die; he has passed from death into life. Eternal life is the everlasting life that comes from God. It is the very life of God. It is the life of power and authority of God; it is the life of dominion and rulership; the life of kingship and priesthood; it is the just; holy and righteous life of God. Eternal life is the life of Grace; Peace and Glory. Eternal life is the victorious life in Christ Jesus.

Eternal life is the life that Jesus gives to anyone that believes in Him.

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The body without the spirit is dead. Man was made up of the body (flesh), soul and spirit. Adam died in the spirit on the day he disobeyed God’s commandment not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Adam’s death is the death of all mankind; as such every man born of a woman inherited death from Adam.

The natural man is a dead man. His spirit is separated from God by the disobedient of Adam to God’s commandment. Adam’s disobedience brought a spiritual death upon mankind. This spiritual death is the first death; it is the exit or departure of man from the nature of God (divinity) into the nature of sin (carnality). Every man inherited this first death from Adam.

The second death is the natural death. This is the departure or exit of man from this natural realm of existence.

The Bible says that the wages of sin is death. Death is the debt every sinner (natural man) is owing. The soul of every sinner is destined to everlasting damnation. This is the last death.

Jesus died on behalf of the sinner. Jesus died the death the sinner is destined to die. Jesus paid the price the sinner is owing.

The death of Jesus on the cross of Calvary was the ransom paid for the redemption of mankind from everlasting damnation. The cross was a transaction for the salvation of the souls of mankind from the last death.

Jesus took the sins of the whole world and nailed it to the cross. He died to set man free from the death sentence upon his life.

Man is not liable to die again because of the death of Jesus. The Bible says for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believes in Him shall not die but have everlasting life.

Jesus died for the whole world. He died for all mankind. He died for all sinner. He died that the sinner should be saved.

The free gift of salvation is accessible to all through faith. In other words, anyone who believes in the finished work of Jesus Christ at the cross of Calvary shall not die. Any one who believes in Jesus Christ shall not experience the last death.

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It is an unfortunate thing for all mankind to fall into sin because of the sin of one man, Adam. We did not sin. Adam sinned; yet we participated in the consequences of Adam’s disobedience. We incurred the wrath of God for the sin that Adam committed.

This is quite unfortunate. The effect of Adam’s disobedience was genocidal. Adam’s disobedience brought death upon all flesh.

But the Good news is that just as Adam’s disobedience brought death upon mankind; so also the obedience of Jesus Christ gave life to all mankind.

Jesus died to deliver man from the wrath of God that man inherited from Adam’s disobedience. Jesus died to deliver man from death; and He was resurrected to give man life – ‘The eternal life’.

Eternal life is the free gift of God to everyone that believe in the saving Grace of God, Jesus Christ.

The Bible says that he who believes shall be saved but he who does not believe is condemned. He who does not believe shall not see life but the wrath of God rests upon him.

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Food is a basic need of mankind. Every man eats food to live. No one can survive a long period of time without food; the human body is designed to be sustained with food.

Sadly, food can only sustain the man as long as he lives. A dead person has no need for food. In others words, the importance of food is dependent on life: if there’s no life, there’s no need for food.

Food does not give life; it only aid life. Food does not have the ability to make a dead person alive. A dead person has no need for food.

As important as food is to man, it is useless in his death.

But Jesus is the food that endures forever. Jesus is the food of the spirit. As our flesh need physical foods to sustain it, so our spirit need spiritual food for its sustenance.

The Bible says that man shall not live by bread alone but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Jesus is the Word of God. He came that man should have eternal life.

Every man need eternal life because it is the life that cannot perish. Eternal Life is the life of God. It is the supernatural life; without eternal life, man is condemned to death.

Therefore, rather than laboring for the food (physical) that cannot give life; food that has no eternal relevance; food that is useless at death: man should desire and seek the food that gives life; food that have eternal value and food that endures forever – And that Food is Jesus Christ.