SPIRIT OF LIFE

SPIRIT OF LIFE

“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.”

Romans 8:2 NKJV

The law of the spirit of LIFE has set me free from the law of sin and death. Life is a spirit. To be a living being you need a spirit, the spirit of life. Life is a spirit. Just as God is a spirit. Life is the spirit of God. Only God has the ability to give life (1 Timothy 6:13). He can give life and also take it. He collects the life back. Not destroy it, but take it back. The destroyer of life is the devil. His mission is to kill everything God has created. He is the total opposite of the Father. So as God gives life, the devil steals it away (John 10:10). The Spirit of God gives life. The Holy Spirit of God gives us life through Him who is life itself, Jesus Christ the Lord.

“He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.”

John 1:2-4 NKJV

“the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us—”

I John 1:2 NKJV

He died for our complete redemption from the destruction of sin. We were dead spiritually before we came to Christ. Our Old sin nature separated us from God’s life giving spirit. He died so that He could pay for the debts of the sin that led us to death and also give us a new spirit in the process of taking away the old nature.

“For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.”

Romans 6:5-9 NKJV

The same way Jesus died, we also died to our old selves, and as He was raised up from death through the power of the life giving spirit (Holy Spirit), we also have been born again in the spirit and brought into newness of life through that same life giving spirit. As a result of this redemption through Christ Jesus, we now have right standing with God at all times (Romans 5:1). We now have Peace with the Father as a result of Jesus Christ dying and giving us His own spirit. We are completely new beings when we receive Christ. We are now partakes of the divine nature of God (2 Peter 1:4). We now share in the inheritance of Jesus Christ the Son of God and we are now fellow Brothers and Sister with Jesus Christ the Son of God (Romans 8:15-17). We are now God’s Children by rebirth in the spirit. Nothing we can ever do in this life can ever attain us this position if not by Faith in Jesus Christ the son of God. Only Believe in Jesus Christ saves you (Acts 16:32; Ephesians 2:8-10; Luke 7:50; Romans 10:9-11; 1 John 5:4-5; John 3:14-17; John 5:24; John 1:12-13).

“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”

John 1:12-13 NKJV

We are children born of God. Not born of the sinful flesh, not born of blood, but born of the Spirit of God. We are legal children of God. This is only by faith. And even the Faith is not of ourselves, it is still a gift from God (Ephesians 2:8). We were so helpless, without Jesus Christ we would be nothing forever. All this was done out of LOVE. The Love that God the Father has for all of us. He loved us so much He was willing to sacrifice His own son to pay for our sins. It must have grieved Him so much. The hurt of loosing a son to a life of suffering, to pay for the sins of the very people that were persecuting Him. What Manner of Love is this. It is the endless, unchanging Love of God the Father. He is Love all through. Always patient with us. Always doing good for us. Always kind to us. Always faithful to us. The attributes of Love are who God is. God is LOVE. The Love of God will never fade away. It never fails. It lasts forever. Everything else will vanish, but God’s Love is going no where.

“And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”

I Corinthians 13:13 NKJV

These 3 things are the only things that’ll last forever. THE FAITH OF GOD. THE HOPE OF GOD. THE LOVE OF GOD. And the greatest of them all is the LOVE OF GOD. It’ll last forever. Now put this in another view, this is the same Love He is showing towards us. In that while we were still sinners Christ Died for us.

“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.”

Romans 5:8-11 NKJV

We are now free. Free to do every good work for God now (Ephesians 2:10). We are free from the bondage of sin (Romans 6:22). We are now new beings of light in Jesus Christ. We are now redeemed into His being. We went through all this verses to help us understand that we are no longer under the power of sin. We are now working under a new power, under a new Law that gives us LIFE through Christ Jesus in whom we have access to God’s Spirit who now lives in us. We are now under the LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE. We are free from every form of sin that leads to death. We are now full of Life through His Spirit that lives on the inside of us as He is also full of life at this very minute. He came to give us Eternal Life through the new spirit we have received by having Faith in His death, and this eternal life through the new spirit we receive gives us access into the kingdom of God (John 17:2-4). We are now free from the law of sin and death. What is the law of sin and death? The law of sin and death entails that the payment for sin is death (Romans 6:23). For sin to be paid off your books or your account, you have to pay that debt of sin with death. In the old convenant the shedding of the blood of animals was a shadow of the main reality which is Christ to come. It was signifying the death Jesus would suffer for us. His own blood was shed to pay for our sins (Hebrews 9:18-28). He gave us eternal redemption.

“But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.”

Hebrews 9:11-12 NKJV

Every believer is redeemed forever. Eternal means forever. Redemption means rebirth. We are made new forever. We are God’s Children. We need to understand that God lives in us. We need to realise that old things have passed (2 Corinthians 5:17-19) and now we are walking in newness of life (Romans 6:4). We are no longer under the power of any form of sin whatsoever, because we now have Jesus’ spirit in us literally and it makes us beings as He is. As He is so are we in this world (1 John 4:17). We are now Heirs of God.

Grace that came through Jesus Christ’s death and redemption has set us free from any form of sin that leads to death. It has freed us from sicknesses, it has freed us from poverty, it has freed us from sin, it has freed us from everything the devil took away from us. We are now back to the true owner of our spirit,soul and body. We are now redeemed by the only One and True God. The God who is above every other king and ruler both on this physical earth and the spiritual world. He is God over everything. And this God who is lord over all has chosen us to be His own children. What a privilege it is to be called Sons of God (John 1:12). We ought to be celebrating this fact rather than focus on all this other things that are contrary to what God said He has prepared for us to enjoy. Eternal Life is as much a present reality right now as it would be when we go to be with the Lord. Eternal life starts now , right here on earth (Hebrews 4:7-16). The Kingdom of God of Lives in you (Luke 17:21). The problem is not from God not pouring out His power, the problem is that we haven’t learned how to receive what He has already given us freely by grace. God is a giver. You can never out give God. He gave us so many gifts out of the Love He has for us. Yet we keep doubting His words that lead to life. We are attached so much to this world that we fail to see that we were never meant to live in all this hardship and our father has made a way for us to be like Him and give us eternal redemption back into His kingdom. We need to learn how to receive (Faith) what Jesus Christ has already provided for us freely through grace. Grace is what saves us, Faith is how we receive this free gift of Grace. We are saved by Grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8).

We need to accept God’s free gift of Grace by Faith in His son as the redeemer of our lives.

We are no longer under the law of sin and death. We are under the Law of the spirit that gives life through Christ Jesus. A law is anything that is true and is constant at all times. From the dictionary, one of the definitions of Law is

“a statement of fact, deduced from observation, to the effect that a particular natural or scientific phenomenon always occurs if certain conditions are present.”

A law is an effect that always occurs if certain conditions are present. First of all you need to understand that a law “always occurs if certain conditions are present”. It always produces results as long as the certain conditions are met. As long as you meet those conditions for that law it will produce result. The Law of The Spirit of Life gives us life at all times. It gives us healing, it gives us power, it gives us life. Now what matters is your willingness to accept this truth. Are you going to believe the Word of God and see that you have been healed. Will you believe Him when He has said that “by His stripes ye are healed”?(1 peter 2:24).

You need to keep renewing your mind (Romans 12:1-2) to the truths in the word of God, and you’ll experience the supernatural power of God in everything you do. Renewing your mind entails changing the way you think. It all starts from your mind. Change your ideology and reasoning to be conformed to what the word of God says. Get into the word of God yourself. Allow the Holy Spirit to teach you Himself from the word of God. Get quiet and listen to His tender, gentle voice guiding you into all truths in the word of God. Make it a habit to remind yourself of the inheritance you have received through our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of Him we now partake in the blessings of God to His son and to share also in His kingdom. Let us keep coming back to the word of God. It is our only safe hold.