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"Death no longer has dominion over Him. . . . the
life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be
dead indeed to sin, but alive to God . . ." — Romans 6:9-11
Co-Eternal Life. Eternal life is the life which Jesus Christ exhibited on the
human level. And it is this same life, not simply a copy of it, which is made
evident in our mortal flesh when we are born again. Eternal life is not a gift
from God; eternal life is the gift of God. The energy and the power which was so
very evident in Jesus will be exhibited in us by an act of the absolute
sovereign grace of God, once we have made that complete and effective decision
about sin.
“You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you . . .” (Acts
1:8)— not power as a gift from the Holy Spirit; the power is the Holy Spirit,
not something that He gives us. The life that was in Jesus becomes ours because
of His Cross, once we make the decision to be identified with Him. If it is
difficult to get right with God, it is because we refuse to make this moral
decision about sin. But once we do decide, the full life of God comes in
immediately. Jesus came to give us an endless supply of life— “. . . that you
may be filled with all the fullness of God” ( Ephesians 3:19 ). Eternal life has
nothing to do with time. It is the life which Jesus lived when He was down here,
and the only Source of life is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Even the weakest saint can experience the power of the deity of the Son of God,
when he is willing to “let go.” But any effort to “hang on” to the least bit of
our own power will only diminish the life of Jesus in us. We have to keep
letting go, and slowly, but surely, the great full life of God will invade us,
penetrating every part. Then Jesus will have complete and effective dominion in
us, and people will take notice that we have been with Him.
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