The God Kind of LIFE

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The God Kind of LIFE

• ZOE

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Meaning Zoe

• The Greek word for "life" is zoe. This is the
  root of the English words "zoo" and "zoology.
• Zoe is used of the state of existing and being
  animate which is common to all mankind, whether
  saved or unsaved.
• Acts 1725-28 "The God who made the world and all
  things in it...He Himself gives to all life (zoe)
  and breath and all things...for in Him we live
  (zao--the verb form) and move and have our being"
  (Acts 1725-28 NASV).

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Special Meaning

• Zoe also refers to an individual person's life
  while on earth (Luke 1625, Philippians 120,
  James 414).
• But in the Greek New Testament, zoe has a special
  meaning. It speaks of the life that is given by
  God through Christ Jesus to those who believe the
  gospel. which means "eternal", "everlasting", "of
  endless duration."

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God is the source of LIFE

• Scripture reveals that the source of this zoe
  life is God the Father. Indeed, Jesus calls Him
  "the living zao Father" (John 657)
• The very life that God has in Himself.
• The Father imparted this life to the Son "For
  just as the Father has life in Himself, even so
  He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself"
  (John 526 NASV).

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Jesus manifested this life to the world

• John 14-5
• I John 12
• II Timothy 19-10

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Given to Man

• Jesus' foremost purpose in coming was to give zoe
  life to men, that is, to cause men to enter into
  and partake of the very life of God.
• John 1010
• John 640
• John 172

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Dead in SIN

• Mankind was without life because of sin.
• All had sinned and through sin, death had come.
• Dead in our trespasses and sins and in the
  uncircumcision of our flesh Ephesians 21,
  Colossians 213
• Excluded from the life of God Ephesians 418
• Without God in this world Ephesians 212

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Our Dead State

• Alienation from God
• Opposition to God.
• We were enemies Romans 510
• Hostile in mind and engaged in evil deeds"
  Colossians 121
• Titus 33
• Ephesians 417-18

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Repentance Faith Realigns US

• Through repentance towards God and faith in Jesus
  Christ, zoe life becomes man's portion.
• "He who believes in the Son has eternal life
  but he who does not obey the Son shall not see
  life, but the wrath of God abides on him" John
  336
• John 316
• 1 John 647, I Timothy 116, I John 51

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Transition

• We pass from death to life at the moment we
  receive the gift of zoe life.
• "We know that we have passed out of death into
  life..." I John 314.
• "But God, being rich in mercy, because of His
  great love with which He loved us, even when we
  were dead in our transgressions, made us alive
  together with Christ..." Ephesians 24-5.

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Life in Christ

• The zoe life which we receive is not a package
  that Jesus gives us. It is not something separate
  from Himself. Rather it is IN Jesus. "...But the
  free gift of God is eternal life IN Christ Jesus
  our Lord
• He who has the Son has the life he who does
  not have the Son of God does not have the life" I
  John 511-13

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Life through Christ

• In fact, the zoe life we receive is Jesus
  Himself, for Jesus IS life. "I am...the life he
  who believes in Me shall live even if he dies..."
  
• John 146 "I am...the life no one comes to
  the Father, but through Me"
• The life shines in darkness John 15

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Light Shines
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Light Life
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Effect of the LIFE of GOD

• INWARDLY Being made alive in Christ transforms
  the course and outcome of our lives both in this
  present age and also in the age to come.
• His life is manifested in and through our mortal
  flesh II Corinthians 410-11.
• No longer do we live limited and bound by sin
  and flesh. This fleshly tabernacle is now indwelt
  by the power of an indestructible life Hebrews
  716

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OUTWARDLY

• As we abide with Him and His word abides in us,
  we bear fruit "He who abides in Me, and I in
  him, he bears much fruit for apart from Me you
  can do nothing" John 154-5.
• Our hearts are changed "We know that we have
  passed out of death into life, because we love
  the brethren I John 314
• Fruit of the Spirit Gal 5 19-24

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Fruits
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Bad to Good Fruit
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Good Fruit
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RESURRECTION

• "if we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we
  are of all men most to be pitied" (I Corinthians
  1519 NASV).
• Do not marvel at this for an hour is coming, in
  which all who are in the tombs shall hear His
  voice, and shall come forth those who did the
  good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who
  committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of
  judgment KJV--damnation")

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Today

• So let us live now to the fullest by His eternal
  life, and be raised by it later.
• "everything pertaining to life and godliness,
  through the true knowledge of Him who called us
  by His own glory and excellence" (II Peter 13
  NASV).
• Let us not take this life for granted, be
  ignorant concerning it, trivialize it, forget it,
  neglect it, or turn it into cliches. Let us not
  doubt or disbelieve it, let it slip from our
  grasp, or surrender it to the enemy of our souls.

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