CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY
The Love-Life Agency
By Benjamin Nana Amissah Ansah
MACHAIRA
(Pronounced makh’-ahee-rah)
Daily revelatory thoughts to sharpen you and to
help you grow in deep spiritual understanding and
knowledge.
Scriptures for your daily meditation.
Daily Christ-centered and apostolic-prophetic
prayers.
Tuesday 25th April, 2023
THE GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE
” For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” Romans 6:23 (NKJV)
How many times have you heard this at crusades?
How many times have you heard this at “Easter Conventions”?
I suppose you might have heard this over and over again even before you got saved.
And most often the focus of this beautiful verse has been the first part, “For the wages of sin is death”.
It’s often quoted with much fearsome tone.
of course, the penalty or payment of sin is death.
Eternal death is the product of the nature of sin.
God said to Adam, “…for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die”
That was the spiritual death.
“In the past you were spiritually dead because of your disobedience and sins.” Ephesians 2:1 (GNT)
Death was and is the present state of those who had not received Jesus; or those who had rejected Jesus and those who reject Him.
However, the focus of this verse is not sin and its wages.
The focus of the verse is THE GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE.
Paul the apostle was revealing the glorious and overwhelming gift of God to believers in Christ.
Previously I explained how salvation is FREE BUT NOT CHEAP. And through salvation we received the GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE.
It is a gift and not a reward of our good works.
” For it is by grace [God’s remarkable compassion and favor drawing you to Christ] that you have been saved [actually delivered from judgment and given eternal life] through faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [not through your own effort], but it is the [undeserved, gracious] gift of God; not as a result of [your] works [nor your attempts to keep the Law], so that no one will [be able to] boast or take credit in any way [for his salvation].” Ephesians 2:8-9 (Amplfied).
This was the focus of the love of God, that you will receive eternal life only by believing in Jesus. (John 3:16).
Jesus declared that as His mandate as well.
” …I came that they may have life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows].*” John 10:10 (Amplified)
This mandate of Jesus is not to be fulfilled in the future. It is not like you are going to receive the gift of eternal life after you have gone to heaven someday.
When you received Jesus, you received Eternal life as a gift. Eternal life is not a life you will have in the future.
It is a NOW LIFE.
It is the life of God which you have received now.
” And what is it that God has said? That he has given us eternal life and that this life is in his Son. So whoever has God’s Son has life; whoever does not have his Son, does not have life. I have written this to you who believe in the Son of God so that you may know you have eternal life.” 1 John 5:11-13 (TLB)
This is refreshing!
Beloved, walk in this consciousness that you have Eternal life and you have it as a gift through Christ Jesus.
You are not going to work for eternal life. It is yours now!
DIG DEEPER:
(Romans 3:21-28; John5:39-40; Hebrews 5:8; John 3:36; 5:24; John 6:40; 20:31)
WE PRAY
Father we thank you for the gift of eternal life we have received through Christ Jesus.
BIBLE READING
Day 84: Ruth 1-2
DECLARE THESE WORDS:
– I am now quickened unto life.
– The life of Christ is at work in me.
– I have eternal life as a gift.
-I am not working hard to receive eternal life. I have it now.
– I walk in the reality of the eternal life of God in me.
– I don’t have an ordinary life. I have the very life of God.
OH Hallelujah, GLORY TO GOD!!!
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