Virtual Jesus / 06. Virtual Jesus // 5 I Am The Resurrection and the Life - Tobi Ford-Western // John 11:1-44
06. Virtual Jesus // 5 I Am The Resurrection and the Life - Tobi Ford-Western // John 11:1-44
To many, the idea of giving your life to Jesus would be the end of the type of life we really want to live. It’s a death to my own autonomy, it’s death to certain relationships or habits or behaviours that I enjoy. It’s ‘game over’. And perhaps that’s why Christianity is only for people who mess up their lives and are really desperate.
But Jesus says to come to Him is not ‘game over’, it is life only just beginning. He is the resurrection and the beginning of life that lasts forever. Whatever we enjoy about life now is actually just a taste of the eternal life that Jesus offers us. In our short time on earth, understandably our instinct is to grab hold of all the good things that we can, but Jesus raises the dead. That changes the landscape, entirely. Why snatch all we can out of life, when we can come to the one that gives life that lasts forever?
But Jesus says to come to Him is not ‘game over’, it is life only just beginning. He is the resurrection and the beginning of life that lasts forever. Whatever we enjoy about life now is actually just a taste of the eternal life that Jesus offers us. In our short time on earth, understandably our instinct is to grab hold of all the good things that we can, but Jesus raises the dead. That changes the landscape, entirely. Why snatch all we can out of life, when we can come to the one that gives life that lasts forever?
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