WHAT IS ETERNAL LIFE?

Eternal life should be translated as age-upon-age-lasting life or new-age life.

We have an earnest of that life now as disciples of the lord Messiah Jesus, as in him we participate in this world with a resurrection-life attitude and power we receive from his Spirit in us!

2 Corinthians 1:21- 22: set his seal of ownership on us and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

We should realize that in us, through the lord Messiah Jesus, resides the power that upholds the Universe. If we really realized this completely, then we would accomplish so much more by utilizing the power we have within because of him residing in us by his Spirit. Indeed, we can do all things by and through the lord Messiah Jesus working in us by the powerful Spirit that his God and his Father - Yehovah gave to him to give unto us.

Everywhere the Spirit is mentioned in the N.T., it is the Spirit of our life-giving Spirit, the lord Messiah Jesus, accomplishing all that his God and his Father - Yehovah has commissioned him to do for us and through us!

John 3:14-16: And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so it was necessary that the Son of Man be lifted up so that whoever believes in him will have life in the age to come. For God - Yehovah so loved the world that He gave His uniquely begotten Son, so that whoever believes in him will not perish, but have life in the age to come. 

John 14:23: Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father - Yehovah will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

2 Corinthians 3:17: Now the lord [Jesus] is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the lord is, there is liberty.

1 Corinthians 15:45: …so it is written that the first man Adam was made a living soul - being; the last Adam was made a life-giving spirit.

John 3:35: The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.

Mark 9:23: Jesus said unto him, If you can believe, all things are possible to him that believes.

So, the life-giving spirit in us is of the lord Messiah Jesus, who is now an immortal glorified man seated at the right hand of his God and his Father, our God and our Father Yehovah. So, we have eternal life - new age life now residing in us.

What are we doing with what God - Yehovah has given us to do? Do we realize the power God - Yehovah has placed at our disposal through His beloved Son, the lord Messiah Jesus? We should be going forth now with increased faith and power to deliver to the world the life-giving message that the lord Messiah Jesus preached about the kingdom of God, of which he will be the vice-regent ruling on this earth, seated on the throne of King David at Zion.

Let us rejoice that we have this resurrection life - new age life - age upon age lasting life - eternal life - through our being ‘new creations’ in the body of the lord Jesus, God's anointed one; we in him and he in us! What amazing grace God – Yehovah has bestowed on us!