Lesson 1 – What is Life (Outline)

Lesson 1 – What is Life?

1 John 5:12 He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.

John 3:36 He who believes into the Son has eternal life; but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him.

  1. Only the life of God is life
    1. The unique life 1
    2. Only God’s life is life 2
    3. God’s life is divine and eternal 3, 4
  2. Life is the flowing out of God
    1. A river of life flowing 5
    2. First step – His becoming flesh 6
    3. Second step – His being nailed to the cross 7
  3. Life is the Holy Spirit
    1. The Spirit living in us and abiding with us 8
    2. The Spirit of life 9

READING

Bible References:

  1. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. (John 1:4)
  2. Jesus said to him, I am the way and the reality and the life, no one comes to the Father except through Me. (John 14:6)
  3. Before the mountains were brought forth, and before You gave birth to the earth and the world, indeed from eternity to eternity, You are God. (Psalms 90:2)
  4. But You are the same, and Your years are without end. (Psalm 102:27)
  5. And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb in the middle of its street. (Revelation 22:1)
  6. And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality. (John 1:14)
  7. But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood and water. (John 19:34)
  8. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter, that He may be with you forever, (John 14:16)
  9. For the law of the Spirit of life has freed me in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and of death. (Romans 8:2)