The Glorious Christian Life - Part 1 Series

The message is the Glorious Christian Life. And the Christian life is very very glorious, there is no life like the Christian life. And as you know it stems from a person, and that is, Jesus Christ. And we all know Jesus Christ, we have heard of Him since we were so small. In fact, many of us were born into Christian families. So we are acquainted with God and His Bible to a certain extent or The Word of God; we have no doubt, heard it in the churches, in Sunday school and even in our homes.

God wants us to have that life as a living reality within our hearts and He wants us to know that He is Almighty God but He chooses to dwell even in our very human bodies. So we can have God dwelling in our bodies. In fact, if we are Christians, if we are truly in relationship with The Lord, we can say today, even tonight, that The Almighty God who fashioned the universe, who created the stars, the sun and moon and everything, the earth and all the host; that Living God dwells in this human body. Your human frame actually has the Living God within, if you have a relationship with Him.

So the glorious life must have a strong beginning, it must have a proper beginning. And then we must continue with The Lord, and then we must finish well. So The Lord will speak to us, to show us how we can know for certain that we are going to have Him and that we are going to have a rich welcome when we meet The Lord. All of our lives, as you know are quite finite and, all the days of our lives are numbered. So we have a relatively short period of time on the earth in which to show The Lord all our love for Him, in which to be a blessing to the world, to our generation, having God’s life in us. So we thank God for His Son Jesus Christ and that is the beginning. Regardless of what our denomination or church background is, we must settle on one thing, and that is, we must have a relationship with God and that comes only through Jesus Christ.

In John Chapter 3 and Verse 3, the Lord Jesus is speaking to one of the leaders of the Jewish Council in those days and He says to him, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again you cannot see the kingdom of God". "What do you mean?" Nicodemus said, “How can an old man go back into his mother’s womb and be born again?" Jesus replied, "I assure you No one can enter the kingdom of god without being born of water and the spirit. Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life. So don’t be surprised when I say you must be born again. The wind blows wherever it wants, just as you can hear the wind but can’t tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can’t explain how people are born of the spirit."

"How are these things possible?" Nicodemus asked. Jesus replied, "You are a respected Jewish teacher, and yet you don’t understand these things. I assure you, we will tell what we know and have seen, yet you won’t believe our testimony. But if you don’t believe me when I tell you about earthly things, how can you possibly believe if I tell you about heavenly things? No one has ever gone to heaven and returned, but the Son of Man has come down from heaven and as Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up So that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life." And this follows with John 3:16 the very well known verse, which is the foundation of our Christian lives. That is Jesus says, "For God loved the world so much, that He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life or everlasting life. God did not send His Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it through Him. So this is the foundation and all of us must make sure, and must revisit, not to doubt it but to reaffirm that the only standing we have with God is through the blood of His Son. That’s the only way we have any fellowship with God. So we all have lives of grace and we are so thankful for that.

The Heavenly Father has loved us so much, He has given us everlasting life. So this is the foundation. And how does one become, this term Jesus used in John 3, the term born again? What does that mean? Is that a certain denomination; is that a certain facet of Christian society? It is actually scripture and the term simply means to be born the second time. As Jesus said the first time - we are born humanly, from our mother’s womb. The second time is through a supernatural work of the Holy Spirit working within our hearts. It’s not simply a profession, I like the Christian principles, I like the Christian idea, the Christian morality is good for me and my children, it will keep us hopefully happy. It is not that at all.