Abundant Life in Christ

[Thompson, Darryl]

Abundant Life in Christ
 
     I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it
more abundantly. John 10:10  

     All created beings live by the will and power of God. They are
recipients of the life of the Son of God. However able and talented,
however large their capacities, they are replenished with life from the
source of all life. He is the spring, the fountain, of life. Only He who
alone hath immortality, dwelling in light and life, could say, "I have
power to lay down My life, and I have power to take it again." . . .  

     Christ was invested with the right to give immortality. The life
which He had laid down in humanity, He again took up and gave to
humanity. "I am come," He says, "that they might have life, and that
they might have it more abundantly." . . .  

     All who are one with Christ through faith in Him gain an experience
which is life unto eternal life. . . . "Because I live, ye shall live
also."  

     Christ became one with humanity, that humanity might become one in
Spirit and life with Him. By virtue of this union in obedience to the
Word of God, His life becomes their life. He says to the penitent, "I am
the resurrection, and the life." Death is looked upon by Christ as
sleep--silence, darkness, sleep. He speaks of it as if it were of little
moment. "Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me," He says, "shall never
die." . . . And to the believing one, death is but a small matter. With
him to die is but to sleep.  

     The same power that raised Christ from the dead will raise His
church, and glorify it with Christ, as His bride, above all
principalities, above all powers, above every name that is named, not
only in this world, but also in the heavenly courts, the world above.
The victory of the sleeping saints will be glorious on the morning of
the resurrection. 

>From My Life Today - Page 295