What Is Life - Living The Kingdom Life Now with Ap. Marci Glisson

This morning, you know I believe that I have a word from the Lord

for you, for the body. Amen.

You know, I don't ever want to get up and have nothing to say

because you know what? He has everything to say.

He has everything to say. And so we lean in to him to be

led by His spirit to be able to bring forth the utterance that's

needed at the time for His body, for his people.

And and for those that may not be his people, they need to hear

that he is the savior of the world.

And so this morning, what I might share, you know, may, may

be something that some of you and most of you in here have

already heard, but do you know, there's people that haven't

heard what you've heard that need what you have.

And this is the goal is to remind us of that, to remind us

of this precious gift that we've all been given and that we need

others to be able to receive it. Amen.

Because we are living in an eternal Kingdom, and so many

times we can get so used to focusing on the scene that we're

not looking to the unseen and reminding ourselves that there

is an eternal Kingdom that we are to be a part of.

And he's, you know, asking us to be a part of it.

And listen, it is the most precious thing that we could

ever have been able to encounter, which was the savior

of the world. Amen.

Hallelujah. And this song was so perfect for

where we're going today. And This is why I wanted us to

stop at this song is because sometimes the utterance is just

right there. So let's just get on up and get

started. Amen.

But you know, I'm going to come from a scripture that we have

all heard, those that are a part of this body.

We've all heard the Scripture. But as I was beginning to study

the Scripture, the Lord gave me a little different lens of it.

And so this is what we're going to talk about today.

And our key text is going to be found in John chapter 10.

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John chapter 10 and verse 10 says this, the thief what comes

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to steal, to kill and destroy. But I have come that you may

have life, that I that you may have life and life, not just

life, but life more abundantly. I've come that you might have

life, not just life, but life more abundantly.

And we've all heard this scripture, but I want to focus

on this life because there's so many people in the world that

are still groping around and making comments like, well, what

is life? What is life, right?

What is life, you know? And then you even have the

statement, you know, well, you only live what, one life, Yolo.

You only live one life. What is life?

Is life just, you know, existing here on this earth, you know,

barely making it through, going through all the challenges,

going through all the circumstances, going through

whatever life throws at you. Is life just you getting married

and having children and having a family and and having your 401K,

having your retirement and having all the things the world

says that you should have? Right?

But what does it for? What does it gain right?

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit

his soul? So what is life?

And and as I was reading the scripture, he gave me just that

different bit. The thing about it is, is we

wouldn't we shouldn't be asking what is life?

We should be asking who is life? Who is life?

And this is the question, who is life?

Who is life? This is the question because I

don't care about everything else in this life.

You can have it all and still be in that place of asking what is

life? Because what seems to be life

only ends up being death, only ends up being death without him.

So what is life? No, who is life?

And he says that he came, that we might have life and that we

might have it more abundantly, More abundantly.

And what does that abundance mean?

Alive, more abundant. That word abundant means.

Listen to this an exceedingly overflowing superior say

superior a more excellent come on, a more excellent life.

That is what abundant means. So he didn't want us to just

barely make it through life. Come on.

He wanted to give us a superior life, a more excellent,

excellent life. Come on, a, a more superior way

of living, a more superior way. And this is where, you know, you

hear people when you come across their paths and you're just

living your life. You're living your best life

now, right? And you hear people say, oh, you

just think you're better than me.

Why do they think that? Why is that comment made?

Is it made because they recognize you do have a superior

life. Not that you've ever tried to

act superior, but they recognize there is something more

excellent about your life and there is something more superior

about your life. There's they should recognize

that and you shouldn't take that as a oh, you like, you know, a

bad thing. You should say, no, I don't

think I'm more superior than you, but I do think I am to live

more superior than you, right? Because he's given me a more

superior life and people ought to recognize that.

And that's what that word abundantly.

So he, he wants to give us a more excellent and superior way

of living and that is truly going to reflect the Kingdom of

God. It's truly going to reflect the

Kingdom of God so that when they see you, they see the Kingdom.

Because when you walk around, you live more excellent, you

live more superior. You don't act a fool like

everybody else running around acting crazy in this world gone

crazy. No, they ought to recognize they

never see you acting crazy because you have a more

superior, excellent way of living.

Come on, this world does not have to make you crazy.

Amen. When you know what life truly is

about, South, life is not just breathing, It's not just

existing. Come on, no life.

Life that God intended for each and everyone of us to live.

Life is divine, you know, I think we've forgotten that that

life is divine and that life is eternal.

It's divine. And the reason why we've

forgotten that because we so easily support those who want to

take life. And the minute you, you know,

take on the fact that we should kill babies in a womb, you begin

to realize that life really, you think life really isn't divine.

But yet we want to save the turtles lives.

We want to save the whales lives.

Come on, I'm just, let's think about it.

I'm not trying to be political. No, I'm trying to be biblical

because life is divine. And He gave us a life, a divine

life to live. And we can live that way if we

recognize what life truly is. Amen.

But when we allow the philosophies and the things of

this world to disintegrate or degenerate, whatever the Word is

our mind from realizing that life is divine and it's a gift.

It's a gift. Life is a gift.

Hallelujah. You know, because all we see is

in the world the way that the world never intended to be.

When we go back to the beginning in the book of Genesis, right?

We know in Genesis chapter 1, Genesis chapter 2, Genesis

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tractor in the beginning, what He created the earth and

everything in it. And what did he just say about

the earth and everything that He created?

And then he created man and woman and he created them to

have dominion and to rule over the earth.

And, and at the end of the the Scripture, it says what he

looked at it and he said it is good.

It's good. Life was good.

And we know that the life that we're or the world that we're

living in has been perverted, has been changed from God's

original intent. He never wanted this life that

we are living for us. He never wanted it.

He wanted everything to be good. He wanted he actually wanted

mankind not to know what evil, but we know the rest of the

story. Adam chose to what disobey God

ate the fruit. Sin entered the world, but not

just sin. And so many believers only just

think about it as sin. Sin didn't just enter the world.

Death entered the world, death and and decay entered the world

as well. Sin and death entered the world.

So everything that God had made and he said it was good is now

what destroyed and now is, you know, going to show forth the

consequence of sin, which is death and everything else.

And so we know that what happened, God decided that he

would send his Son to be the Savior of the world, to put us

back into right standing with Him if we would call on His

name. And then what would happen?

Life could begin to blossom again in your life, in your

life, because without him we are separated.

Sin, death separated Adam from God.

Sin and death separates us from God because for because of one

man's transgression. The Bible says what sin entered

the world, Sin entered the world and the only way that we can

eradicate sin and death is through the blood of Jesus

Christ and the Savior of the world that died, come on, that

died on the cross and that rose in three days.

Come on and poured out his blood on the mercy seat for all who

would call on his name shall be saved.

Hallelujah. But when you look back into

Genesis chapter 2 and you see where he says Genesis chapter 2

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where He created man out of the dust of the earth, right?

And He was forming him. And what does it say?

He did? Let's read that.

And that's where I want to go next.

Genesis chapter 2, Genesis chapter 2 and verse 7, Genesis

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chapter 2 and verse 7, and I'm going to read it out of the

amplified version. It says then the Lord God

formed, that is He created the body of man from the dust of the

ground and He breathed, say, breathed into his nostrils the

what? Breath of life He breathed into

him, the breath of life. This is God's life right here,

His breath, his existence, who he is, the life source.

He breathed into him the breath of life and man became a living

being, an individual complete body spirit.

We were not created and and did not evolve from animals.

No, he clearly states I created mankind.

Come on, I created man and not only did I create him, I

breathed life into him. His very existence depends on my

life. The very existence of your being

depends on his life. His breath he breathed in him

life, and this is how humanity was born, through him and his

life. Hallelujah and Psalms 36, nine

says this. For with you is the fountain of

life. Or one translation says the

wellspring of life. The wellspring of life, The

source of life in you is your light, and we see light.

So he is the wellspring, He is the starter of life.

Come on, he breathes into them the breath of life.

He is the wellspring, He is the source of life.

This is why you can search all the world and still be empty and

still looking for life. You still feel dead.

You're like a zombie. You're alive walking around but

not breathing the right breath of life.

Because He is the source of true life.

He is the source of eternal life.

Hallelujah, Isaiah Chapter 9 Listen, because God is the

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Father and we were created. Listen, we were created for the

eternal. We were created as eternal

beings for the eternal See all. And some people think all this

life is, is that you live your life and then you do what?

Then you die. And people are like, what's the

big deal? Live your life the way you want

to live it because in the end all you do is die.

But no, God created us as eternal beings.

Adam was never supposed to what die.

Adam was never supposed to die. He was never supposed to

encounter evil or death. He chose it.

And do you know how many people still choose death every single

day, even though they've heard the name of Jesus and they've

even heard the way to life, and they still choose death because

they won't surrender to the lordship of Jesus Christ.

But he says here that we were created for eternal life.

Isaiah 9 I want to read this and verse six and seven and many of

us know this Scripture in in in the light of the Kingdom of God.

And it says this for a child will be born to us, a son will

be given to us, and the government will rest on his

shoulders. His name will be called

wonderful counselor, mighty God. And this is the point, Eternal

Father, eternal. So many of us are not even

thinking eternally or even about eternity.

And we have to, as even believers, get our mindset back

on not looking at the scene, but thinking about eternal things.

Thinking about eternity. Knowing that there are people

that are still choosing death every single day and are still

dying. And if they died today without

be making the Savior of the world their Lord, they'll be an

eternity in a place of fire and torment, which is what we'll see

in a minute. So eternity is here.

He created eternity. We he created us to be eternal

beings. We are living eternity right

now. Right now.

I'm living in eternity right now.

And we have to remember that Hallelujah because He is our

eternal Father that breathed life into man Hallelujah, First

Timothy, first Timothy and verse 1 and 17.

It says this now to. The eternal, immortal,

invisible, the only God be honor and glory, forever and ever.

Amen. Eternal, the eternal King.

Come on, He is the eternal King, the king of his Kingdom, and He

wants to open up the doors, come on, of the Kingdom of God to

people's lives so that they can come, be a part of it and

participate in it, so that they don't have to be separated

eternally from Him, eternally from him.

See, eternal life begins now and lasts forever.

It begins now and it lasts forever.

And without that word, eternal means this without beginning and

end, that which has always been and will always be since the

world began without beginning. Eternal life from an eternal

Father who is a king of an eternal Kingdom.

Eternal, because the decisions that we make today will be

decisions that will eternally affect our lives.

Just a few other scriptures concerning Him and who He was as

our Father and creator. Acts 1724 through 25.

And in the context of the Scripture, he's actually, this

is Paul, and he was walking along the streets and seeing all

the idols and gods that people had built by their hands.

And Paul begins to speak forth and remind humanity, come on,

let's see what he reminds them here.

It says the God who made the world and all the things in it,

since he is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples

made with hands, nor is he served by human hands, as though

he needed anything, since he himself gives to all people life

and breath and all things. He was reminding them, listen,

your God is nothing. This idol, this statue, it's

nothing. It was man made.

But the God that we serve, come on.

He's the creator of heaven and earth and all of these things

and he is the one that brought life into mankind.

And then you drop on down to verse 28 of that same scripture

of chapter in 17. It says for him for in him

pastor quoted this last week and something just spoke up to me in

my spirit and it were reminded me that this was coming off of

this context and he said for in him we move, we live, we live,

see life is to be lived through him.

In him we live and move and have our being.

That's what Paul was saying when he was talking about these dead

idols and all these things that they had created with their

hands. He's like, but I serve a God who

breathed life into something. Come on, who would I live and

move and that's how I have my being.

Hallelujah, glory to God. So we need to recognize that the

Creator of heaven and earth, Father God, the God eternal of

His Kingdom, is the one that brings life and life only.

He brings life into everything, everything that exists.

We know the animals, the plants, come on, not just mankind, but

the animals, the plants, everything we see.

He created and brought life to it.

Hallelujah. But we know that He then sent

Jesus the Savior of the world and made a way for us to be back

into the life of God for those who were separated through sin

and death. Jesus declares this.

We know that God and is the triune God.

We have the God the Father eternal of the Kingdom.

We have Jesus Christ his Son, right, who was the word wrapped

in flesh glory to God. And then we have the Holy Spirit

that there is there breathing. Come on.

And orchestrating life into people's lives.

But look what he says here in John about Jesus.

Jesus declared this himself in John 1125 through 26.

He said this. I am.

I am the resurrection and the life, you know, and all I used

to think about in the spirit of the Lord prompted me with this

as I was studying as Jesus is the resurrection and the life.

Yeah, he, he was resurrected. He was brought back to life

through the power of the Holy Spirit, like the Father said he

would be. But as I began, no, he is the

resurrection and life of your life, because see, you were dead

before Christ, bound up in your sin.

Come on. But he can be the resurrection

and the life to you. When you call on his name, he

says I am the rest. So there's nothing dead.

Come on, that he cannot breathe life back into.

It doesn't matter how hopeless of a situation you think you

might be in or whatever you may be going through, and it looks

like death ahead. I'm telling you, if you'll just

allow him to breathe his life on that situation and on that

circumstance, he can resurrect it once again.

Come on, an old stale marriage can be resurrected, corrected if

you'll allow him to breathe that resurrection power on your

marriage. See, because he is, He says I am

the resurrection and the life who he who believes in me,

though he may die, He shall live.

He's letting you know this body is going to die.

Come on. But those who've called on His

name and believe that He is the resurrection and the life and

the Savior of the world, they will continue to live on in

eternity. And everyone who lives and

believes in me will never die. Hallelujah will never die

because we are eternal beings. Even when people die, death is

not the end because they will burn in the lake of fire for

eternity. That's what the scripture says.

Hallelujah. It gets quiet up in here.

But see, we have to be reminded of some of these things of

eternity and that it's real and we're living in it.

Amen. Romans chapter 6 and 23 says

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this. For the wages of sin is death,

but the gift of God is what? Eternal life.

So now he moves on into saying, listen, I am the resurrection in

life. But then we go on and see.

But now he's saying, listen, I am eternal life.

I'm not just life, I'm eternal life, eternal life, forever and

ever and ever. His Kingdom will have no end.

His Kingdom will have no end. Hallelujah.

John 17 three says this. And this is eternal life that we

may know. You listen, the only true God,

Jesus Christ, whom you have sent, and Jesus Christ whom you

have sent, eternal life is at our hand.

It's already here. It's already here, and we get to

choose the way we're going to live eternity.

Hallelujah, in this life and the one to come.

Amen. First John five.

First, John 511 says this and this, and the testimony is this,

that God has given us eternal life and this life is in His

Son. And we know that the Son of God

has come and has given us understanding so that we might

know Him who is true. Say He's true, He's true, and we

are in Him who is true in his Son Jesus Christ.

This is the true God and eternal life.

Wow, it's so plain in Scripture. So plain.

He is life, He brings life and He lets us know that we are to

live in eternity and have eternal life.

Thank you father. Jesus also said this and John

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chapter 14 and verse 6 says this.

I am the way, the truth and the life.

No one comes to the Father, the Eternal Father.

No one comes to the Eternal Father except through Me.

He lets us know the only way, the only way to be able to have

life and have life eternally is through Him.

He's the only way. The way.

What does that mean? The one that he is, The way that

reconnects us to the Father. It literally means when you look

up that word way, he says I'm the highway.

If you want to know what Rd. you're on, you might want to

read your map. And the map is every

circumstance and every situation and everything you're doing in

life. And what does your map lead you

to? But he says I have one map and

one way, a straight path. That's what it says.

He says I am the highway, I am the road.

I love the way it broke that down in the Greek, I am the

highway, I am the road. And you know what else he says

that that word way means? It means the journey to the

father. Because I've always said this,

the minute you get born again, your life just begins and you

start your journey with him. And this journey continues until

he blows that trumpet and we go on, come on into heavenlies, and

then we come back and we help him establish and put His foot

down in Israel, Jerusalem. Amen.

Hallelujah. And so I'm telling you, He is

the only way that can reconnect us to the Eternal Father.

He's the highway, He's the road. I love it.

He gives us the right direction. God will never lead us astray.

He will never lead us astray. He will never lead us in a wrong

direction and in a wrong path, but He'll always lead us

straight to life, straight to life in every situation.

And it says He is the truth. The truth is what reveals God's

reality and who He is. He is the truth.

It is not your own truth and what you make it and bits and

parts and pieces of who you might coexist with.

No, He says. I am the truth, I am the way.

And do you know what truth means?

It means true in any matter, in any circumstance, when you look

it up in the Greek, true in any matter and in any circumstance.

So no matter what circumstance you're going through, no matter

who's saying what, the the the North Star is pointing right

here to truth. And what does truth have to say

about every circumstance or every situation you're going

through? Come on, because it's the truth.

No matter what you're going through, it's a lie.

It might be the circumstance and the situation, but the truth in

the matter is, is that God can make a way where there seems to

be no other way. The truth of the matter is, come

on, that he can breathe life into everything that is going on

into your life. Hallelujah.

And then he goes on to say in the life, I am the life, and

that literally means I am the breath source.

That's what he means by the life.

I am the breath source. I am life.

I'm the only life there is, the only life that there is.

I am the source of life. Everything else is really non.

It's not even reality. So false reality that the devil

has blinded the eyes of people so that they can't see the light

and the life of God. And that's why we need people

like you to pray so that the eyes of people's understanding

would be enlightened, so the veil of darkness would be

removed from their eyes so that they can see the light of the

glorious gospel. It's a false reality when we're

really, you know, they tell us we're all, no, we're actually

living in the reality of what true life is, of what true life

is. But this life, this life that

we're living is eternal. We are eternal beings.

And I'm telling you what He lets us know that there is only one

way to be able to receive this life and walk in this life, have

a superior life, have a more excellent life.

Because He didn't want us to have to live like this world and

people in darkness live. He didn't want us to have to be

bound in what all the people of this world are bound in.

He didn't want us to have to live that way.

Hallelujah. He had a better way of living

for us. Glory to God.

Look at Matthew. I'm going to close with these

last few scriptures. In Matthew chapter 10 and verse

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39, it says this. Whoever finds his life in this

world will eventually lose it through death.

The scripture says that. I'm not saying that.

The truth is saying that. And whoever loses his what life,

not his wife, don't lose your wife.

Whoever loses his life in this world for my sake will find it.

And that is life with me for all eternity.

Hallelujah, life with him for all eternity.

Those that choose to live to lose this life and receive his

life. Hallelujah.

Now look at John John chapter 12 and verse 25.

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It says this. The one who loves his life

eventually loses it through death, but the one who hates his

life in this world and is concerned with pleasing God will

keep it for life eternal. You see that for life eternal.

That was just another scripture reading, Matthew, Luke and John.

But now look over here. Matthew 2534 says this.

Then the King will say to those on his right, come, you who are

blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you

from the foundation of the world.

So from the very beginning of creation, He's been preparing

and has a place come on for us for all eternity for those who

choose come on to be a part of his Kingdom.

And then if you continue reading on and drop down to verse 4441,

in that same chapter of Matthew 25, it says this Matthew 2541 it

says then he will also say to those on his left, depart from

me accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been

prepared. For the devil and his angels.

So he's saying through that scripture he was talking about,

listen, those that choose me, they're going to have life with

me in eternity in my Kingdom eternally.

But those who don't listen, they're going to be thrown into

a place that that God never wanted his humanity to have to

go to that place. But because Adam chose to rebel

and because he created this place for his, for the devil,

because he chose to revel, rebel, and his angels listen,

then this is the place of torment and punishment for

rebellion. And he never wanted us to have

to be there, but he will. To all of those who choose not

to call on his name and not to receive this free gift of

salvation. There is a place of eternal fire

and it's prepared. And unfortunately, many are

going to go into it, but we need to be about the Father's

business and let them know how they don't have to go, how they

don't have to go to this place. Look at Matthew 25 and 46.

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous

into eternal life. So there is eternity at hand,

and you can decide where you want to be in eternal punishment

or in the lake of fire or in His Kingdom.

Come on, that is going to last and rule and reign for eternity.

And we get to choose. And that's what's so awesome

about God is that He will not make anybody submit.

He will not make anybody, but what he'll do is he'll show them

the way. He'll show them away and he'll

show, show them by showing them people that will come across

their path that are living their best life, their best life in

Christ, the one that is more excellent and superior.

And to see that they are being blessed and that they're able to

overcome things that are going on in this world and they're not

having to, you know, yield to the things of this world.

And this is what He wants for all mankind, for them to

recognize eternity is at hand and that we need an eternal

Savior, the Savior of the world, Amen.

And He is the only one that can bring life, real life, true

life, eternal. Amen.