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A CELEBRATION OF HIS LIFE IN US! - PASTOR CHRIS OYAKHILOME FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25TH, 2015

These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; THAT YE MAY KNOW THAT YE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God (1 John 5:13).
Today, many around the world are commemorating the birth of Jesus. While Christmas tags along symbolic decorations, giving and receiving of gifts, family and other social gatherings, beyond these excitements and celebrations however, it’s important not to lose sight of the very purpose for which Christ came! Christmas is about who Jesus is, and what He came to do. He didn’t come to establish a religion. He didn’t come to merely show us how to do good things, or how to live a good life; it’s much more than that!

In John 10:10, He said, “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I AM COME THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE, and that they might have it more abundantly.” Jesus came for a purpose, and that purpose was to give us life—the God kind of life. He made that statement because we didn’t have the kind of life that God wanted us to have. The Greek word translated “life” is “Zoe”; it’s the God-life; the very life and essence of divinity. It’s the true, indestructible, imperishable and incorruptible life of God. It’s the transcendent life!

God made humans, but He wanted us to have His kind of life. His plan, according to the Scriptures, was that Jesus would be the one to give us that life, and that we should receive it through faith, because God is a faith-God. Hebrews 11:6 tells us, “But without faith it is impossible to please him….” So, in celebrating Christmas, we celebrate the life and nature of God that we’ve received through faith. We celebrate His glory that’s now revealed in our lives! We celebrate the triumphant life that the birth, vicarious death, burial, and glorious resurrection of Jesus Christ has made available to us. Blessed be His Name forever!

PRAYER
Dear Father, thank you for bringing me into oneness and vital union with you through Christ Jesus, who has made me a participator in the divine nature; a distributor of the divine life. The life of God in me makes me indestructible, imperishable, incorruptible and impregnable; it makes me more than a man. Therefore, I live victoriously today and always, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Further Study: || 1 John 5:11-12 and this is the record that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. ||

|| Colossians 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: ||

Daily Scripture Reading

1-Year Bible Reading Plan: Revelation 17,
Zechariah 1-3

2-Year Bible Reading Plan: Acts 3:12-26,
Ezra 3-4

EXTRACT FROM: Rhapsody of Realities Daily Devotional

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