Wednesday, April 29, 2015

This is THE LIFE...

1 John 1:2 The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. 
Jesus had proclaimed that He was "the Way, the Truth and The Life" (John 14:6).  In this letter, John focuses a lot on the last title: The Life.  The Life is eternal; He has always existed with the Father and has now appeared on earth.  John saw Him and is going to tell us more about Him.  As "the Life", He is the one who gives life to all of us; it is through Him that we can have eternal life.  John will tell us a lot about Christ: His deity, incarnation and humanity, but the first thing He wants us to realize this: if we want life - real life, Christ is the one we come to and through.  There is no other...

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