A NEW CLASS OF MEN WITH A DISTINCT LIFE By Pastor Chris Oyakhilome

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome

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A NEW CLASS OF MEN WITH A DISTINCT LIFE

Thursday, July 9th

Pastor Chris

And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son (1 John 5:11).

2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” You’re a new man in Christ, with the resurrection life: “Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life” (Romans 6:4). 

We’re a new class of men, a new species. This is what you must understand about our life in Christ. The life we have is from God and not from man. The Apostle John was deliberate with his language. He didn’t say, “Life is in His Son”; rather, he said, “This life is in his Son.” He’s talking about a specific life, the very life of God. 

In 1 John 1:2, he calls it “…that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us.” This life is different from all others. It’s what makes us divine. It’s what makes us gods: “I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High” (Psalm 82:6). The Bible says as He is, so are we in this world (1 John 4:17). 

Even the angel in the Book of Acts understood the peculiarity and taxonomic difference of our life in Christ when he said to the apostles in Acts 5:20, “Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.” This life is distinct, divine and superior. That’s what you received when you were born again. 

Being born again is not about joining a church; it’s about receiving eternal life—the life and nature of God. It means God is your Father. It means you’ve been brought into a new order of existence. Paul captures it this way: “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me…” (Galatians 2:20). The concluding portion says, “…the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God….” This is the distinct, divine life of the new man in Christ. 

                 PRAYER

Dear Father, I thank you for your divine life in me. I’m conscious that I’m a new kind of man, born of your Spirit and filled with your glory. I walk in righteousness and live by your Spirit; I express your divine nature, revealing Christ to my world, in Jesus’ Name. Amen. 

FURTHER STUDY

1 John 1:1-2 KJV 

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 

2] (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)

1 John 5:11-13 KJV 

And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 

12] He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. 

13] These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

1 Peter 2:9 AMPC 

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a dedicated nation, [God's] own purchased, special people, that you may set forth the wonderful deeds and display the virtues and perfections of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

DAILY SCRIPTURE READING

*1-Year Bible Reading Plan Acts 20:1-16 & Job 19-21

*2-Year Bible Reading Plan Galatians 2:3-12 & Isaiah 29.