Friday, February 20, 2009

Life-Giving Spirit

1 Cor 15:45

So also it is written, “The first man Adam, became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
The words life-giving (2227) can mean to produce life; and
by spiritual power to arouse and invigorate
to restore to life
to give increase of life: thus of physical life
of the spirit, quickening as respects the spirit, endued with new and greater powers of life
metaph, of seeds quickened into life, i.e. germinating, springing up, growing

Eph 2:1 & 5 speak of us “being dead in our transgressions” and :5 says “we were made alive together with Christ.”
It is so awesome, Father, to think of Jesus Christ, the risen Lord, King of all glory-that He personally gives to me His life. He is a life-giving Spirit. This is a spiritual law that You have made known to us in Rom 8:2. “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you (me) free from the law of sin and death.
By the power of the life of Your Son, Father, sin and death no longer have sway over me.

In 1 Cor 15:45, You are speaking of our natural and spiritual bodies. Verse: 48 “as is the earthy (man) so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly so also are those who are heavenly. 1 John 4:17 You again say “as He is so are we.”
Life-giving. Darkness is without Light. Jesus is the Light of the world. And with the light that we allow Him to give to our soul, our will, our thoughts, our emotions, and our heart, to that extent we receive His light, we receive His life.

Jesus is the only Life-giving Spirit. Help me Father, to receive daily from Your Son the light and the life that He desires to pour out over me each moment of my day.

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