“Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall keep my judgments and do them… I will also save you from all uncleanness and I will call for the corn, and will increase it and lay no famine upon you” Ezekiel 36:25-27 & 29.
LIGHT FOR NOW: In Christ, we have eternal life.
In the course of explaining Ezekiel’s prophecy in our studies, we came to allude that the saved man (that is, the man in Christ) has the reality of what is being communicated in Ezekiel’s prophecy above. Thus, the man in Christ is the new man; this man has been cleansed from filthiness; that is, he has been separated from filth which is sin; this man is indwelt by God’s spirit and moreover he has the gift of eternal life. In the course of our studies in previous days, we have examined the fact that the saved man (the man in Christ) is a new man and this man has been indwelt by God’s spirit eternally and this is the custodian of God’s presence. In our studies, we will be examining the fact that the saved man has eternal life; that is, eternal life is the reality of the man in Christ. Recall, from Ezekiel’s prophecy, the focus was to give a new life or a fresh life to the recipient. So, what could this life be? Without doubt, this life that is given to this man in Christ is eternal life.
How does this come in? from Jesus’ explanation in John 3 where Ezekiel’s prophecy was brought to the spotlight, he implied eternal life and this eternal life was being inferred in Ezekiel’s prophecy as a promise to be fulfilled upon the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Jesus in John 4 where he used the term “water” again will put this fact on the spotlight, it reads “Jesus answered and said unto her, if thou knowest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life” (John 4:10; 4:14). In Jesus’ words here in John’s synoptic gospel, he used the term “water” to explain the gift of God; that is, everlasting life or eternal life in the son. That’s why in Ezekiel’s prophecy, the focus is to give new/fresh life to the recipient. Thus, this life is eternal life found in Christ. No wonder the term “water” used in Jewish culture for cleansing was figurative and Jesus taught it as the giving of the spirit or eternal life. This life therefore, was fulfilled in Christ in the resurrection and has now become the reality of the born again man.
INSTRUCTION: Your life is from above; acknowledge this.
PRAYER: Thank you Lord for the gift of eternal life which is imparted into my spirit by faith in your son, in Jesus Name. Amen.
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QUOTE: The life the born again man has is eternal and does, cannot be lost.
DAILY BIBLE READING: MORNING: JOHN CHAPTER 3; EVENING: TITUS CHAPTER 1
LIGHT FROM THE WORD 