WHAT DID JESUS SAY ETERNAL LIFE IS?

WHAT DID JESUS SAY ETERNAL LIFE IS?

B.I.C. Abeiku Okai 

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Jesus definition of eternal life is in John 17:3;

"And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent."

In John 3, Jesus told Nichodemus he must be born again. But to be born again is a description of the process of gaining eternal life. It is not the definition of eternal life. Eternal Life is to KNOW GOD, according to Jesus Christ. 

To know God is not to gain head knowledge about God or gobble up scriptures and quote here and there. To know God is a Hebrew proverb or proverbial phrase that means to have acquantance or very close relationship with God. It is also used to indicate sexual unity between a husband and wife. In Genesis 4:1 the Bible says, 

"Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, “I have acquired a man from the LORD.”

In Bible interpretation there is something called The Law of First Mention, this law indicates that the meaning of a text can also be examined through the first time it was mentioned in the Bible. Therefore, since the first time the phrase, 'to know' is found in Genesis 4, then we can have a better understanding of it from there. 

Adam knew his wife and she got pregnant and gave birth. This means to know God is to have intimate relationship with God, leading to conception and delivery. What this means is that eternal life gives you the opportunity to have and build a very strong bond with God. That's the whole essence of the Bible and the death of Jesus Christ. And as a result of that relationship you become pregnant with the seed of God and also deliver whatever fruit or benefit that seed has. 

1st John 3:9 says, 

"Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God."

The seed of God, which you become a possessor of when you gain eternal life, gives you victory over sin. Jesus said you will have life abundantly. Abundant life overflows just as a woman who has received seed from her husband gets pregnant and delivers another life. A pregnant woman is an abundant woman. Her big belly is not just a protruding flesh but an indication of her abundance. It is an evidence of the presence of a life in her. The same is spiritually seen when you gain eternal life. You become so filled with life that you become a carrier of it and proceed to deliver it. That's amazing!

Family, eternal life is not just about going to heaven. It is fully about a marriage relationship with God. It is about becoming absolutely one with God and fully representing Him on earth. 

Jesus said, "I and my Father are one", the reason they are one is because they have the same life. You cannot separate Christ from God. Hence, when you also gain eternal life, you cannot be separated from God. That's stunning and unbelievable. But that's what eternal life is just about. 

"And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. (John 10:28-29). 

Paul told the Corinthians, 

"But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him." (1st Cor. 6:17). 

Therefore, if you have eternal life, know that you are not ordinary. You have the Godlife in you and you are in the richest relationship and also pregnant with the seed of God. You become a victor, not a victim. And because you carry the seed of God, it becomes God's responsibility to protect, provide and direct your life just as a husband would do for his wife. 

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Abeiku Okai 

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