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From the Minister's Study
There's a fuller life in Jesus Christ
BY REV. VIC JAMIESON
BELGRAVE & BRUSSELS
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES
‘ ‘The thief comes only in order to
steal, kill and destroy. I have come
in order that you might have life -
life in all its fullness.” These are
the words of Jesus in John 10:10.
Some of us try annually in
mid-July to be part of the
Abundant Life Conference in
Bingeman Park in Kitchener,
sponsored by a committee of
Inter-Mennonite Church mem
bers.
Speakers from various Christian
denominations in Canada and the
United States give testimony to
how Jesus Christ is changing their
lives and how he wants those
listening to live life more fully too.
If you have missed it, try to take it in
next year, but in the interval seek
fellowship with people who are
hungering and thirsting for the
way to be in a right relationship
with God and people.
The way to a fuller life in Jesus
Christ begins when we hear God
speaking to us directly or through
his word or another person. This is
not something that other people
will necessarily hear at the same
time even if they are with us. It is
something we hear in our inner self
or soul, the spiritual part of us. We
are told to turn to God, to stop
trying to direct our lives as if they
were our own.
Ephesians 1:5 tells us: ‘‘Be
cause of his love, God had already
decided that through Jesus Christ
he would make us his sons - this
was his pleasure and purpose.”
In other words, throughout
endless life all that exists in heaven
and on earth are part of God’s
purpose and pleasure. That pur
pose or goal was achieved in Jesus
Christ for in Colossians 1:20 we
read: ‘‘Through the Sun, God
decided to bring the whole uni
verse back to himself. God made
peace through his Son’s death on
the cross and so brought back to
himself all things, bothonearth
and in heaven.”
We are born again of the Holy
Spirit for God’s pleasure when we
regretdeeplyofoursins, which
include any hope of right relation
ship with God or other people by
our individual actions or through
mere membership in a religious
group, and in prayer ask Jesus
Christ to be our Lord and Saviour.
Hebrews 10:10 tells us: ‘‘Because
Jesus Christ did what God wanted
him to do, we are all purified from
sin by the offering that he made of
his own body once and for all.”
We are like new born natural
children when we are born again
and require a special diet and
protection from enemies. The
special diet is daily reading God’s
word to hear him speak to our souls
and praying which is talking to him
through our faith in Jesus. Unless
we put our complete trust in Him
who was the only one who pleased
God, we cannot enter into a fuller
life which is available only through
faith in Jesus Christ.
God’s word will enrich our lives
more when we share our conversa
tions with God with others who are
born again into God’s family. We
need help to use God’s word to
pre vent us from being robbed of
that fuller life by the devil who is at
work in those who have not put
their complete trust for life’s
provisions here and hereafter in
Jesus Christ.
Ephesians6:l 1 and 12 inform
us: ‘ ‘ Put on all the armour that God
gives you, so that you will be able to
stand up against the Devil’s evil
tricks. For we are not fighting
against human beings but against
> the wicked spiritual forces in the
heavenly world, the rulers, author
ities, and cosmic powers of this
dark age.”
We are told in Ephesians 6:17
that ‘ ‘ the World of God is the sword
which the Holy Spirit gives.”
We know that we are truly a part
of this fuller life in Jesus Christ
rooted in Bible study, prayer and
Christian fellowship when we are
moved by the Holy Spirit to share
what God has done for us through
Jesus Christ with those who do not
know him as Lord and Saviour.
If we read John 15 and 16 we
shall realize that the fuller life is
something that the spirit of this
world, Satan will try to take away
from us but through faith in Jesus
Christ he cannot. In John 15:7
Jesus promises: ‘‘If you remain in
me and my words remain in you,
then you will ask anything you
wish, and you shall have it.”
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