Jesus Is Life: The Word Of God Is Life
Study The Word
John 5:24
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life.”
In our opening verse of scripture, Jesus uses the double emphasis “verily, verily” – which in Greek is “amen, amen” – to emphasize the absolute certainty of what He’s about to declare meaning, that this He is about to say is a guaranteed reality!
So every time you see Jesus say this in the KJV you have to pay very close attention because He is saying that this is of utmost importance, and that this He is going to say now is absolute reality. So what this means is that whatever Jesus is going to say in follow up to “verily verily” is not something that might happen; this is something that has either already happened, or will definitely when the demands are met; in this case the demand for this is ones hearing His Word and believing on Him that sent Him.
Remember we defined believing before from the Greek word translated to believe which is “to think to be true”. And in this portion of scripture Jesus says the person that does this “verily verily” or “most assuredly”, “has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life”. Jesus assures that this happens the moment that you believe!
Look at the tenses being used here: “IS passed from death unto life”. The Greek tense here indicates a completed action – you have already passed, you have already crossed over! “IS passed!”
This isn’t talking about something that will happen when you die physically; this is talking about something that happened the moment you believed! You have already passed from the realm of death into the realm of life! Haha! Nobody has ever spoke with such surety about these things like Jesus did.
μεταβαίνω metabainō passed – to go over, pass over, remove from one place to place into another
But here’s where it gets incredible: remember that Jesus IS life. So when He says you have passed from death unto life, He’s saying you have crossed over from the realm where Jesus is absent to the realm where Jesus is present and dwelling within you! Hey! Jesus is dwelling with me presently! I am never alone! Even if you look around me and think that I am alone, you are mistaken, I am never alone! Jesus is always present with me!
This means that the moment I believe, I don’t just receive the gift of eternal life – I receive the Person who IS life, my eternal companion, for this life and for the life hereafter! I don’t just get forgiveness of sins – you get a new spirit with a new life, Jesus Himself taking up residence in me through the Holy Spirit! I am not alone! I have Jesus with me. I didn’t just get a ticket to heaven – I have heaven’s Life-Giver living within me right now!
ζωή zōē life – divine life, the life that Jesus IS, unending life
Remember what we said in the previous articles how the word for life that Jesus said He gives us is zōē – and it’s the same word Jesus used when He said “I am the way, the truth and the life.” So this is not bios – biological life or psuchē – soul life(mind, will, emotions) – this is zōē, the divine life, the God-kind of life, the very life that Jesus has and the very life that Jesus IS! So, when you believed in Him, He says that you received zōē! You received the life that belongs to God! That life of God – aionios zōē – eternal life! You received the life that Jesus Himself possesses! You have in you right now!
This is why Jesus could say with such confidence that whoever believes “shall not come into condemnation.” How can there be condemnation when you possess the life of Jesus Himself dwelling within you? How can there be judgment when the Judge has taken up residence in your spirit? How can there be death when the Resurrection and the Life is living within you? You see, how those “judgement begins in the house of God” preachers don’t understand? Because they do not understand who Jesus said they are; they do not understand their identity in Christ; but they think they do. So they about preaching doom gloom and judgement to the children of God. They just don’t understand but one day they will. So don’t mind them – focus on what Jesus said and you’ll be alright.
Notice something more; Jesus also didn’t say “will have” everlasting life – He said “hath” everlasting life! Present tense! That means that you have everlasting life now! This everlasting life is not something you’re waiting to receive when you die – it’s something you possess right now!
1 John 5:11-12 says “And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” Do you see it? This life IS in the Son – Jesus Christ, and if you have the Son, you have the life – zōē!
Aionios zōē! Eternal life!
Pray The Word
Heavenly Father, I thank You that the moment I believed, I passed from death unto life Thank You Father that I have pulsating in me the Person who IS life Jesus Christ through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit dwelling within me right now. I thank You that I have already crossed over from the realm of death into the realm of divine life, in Jesus’ name, amen.
Speak The Word
I have passed from death unto life! I have crossed over from the realm where Jesus is absent to the realm where Jesus dwells within me! I have everlasting life in my spirit! I possess zōē – the divine life, the God-kind of life – right now! There is no condemnation for me because Jesus by the Holy Spirit dwells within me! I have eternal life – I have it now because I have Jesus, and Jesus IS my life!