Title: Life saves life (John 12:23-26)
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Life saves life (John 12:23-26)
A living person can bring the dead back to life.
In the event of a fire, firefighters carry an oxygen bottle on their back and wear an oxygen mask when entering.
Because if you live, you can save others.
Jesus became a grain of wheat. At the time of Jesus, wheat was a staple food.
Therefore, wheat is like life.
Only Jesus is the wheat of life that can give eternal life to us who are dead in trespasses and sins.
Jesus became the bread of life. A grain of wheat must be planted in the ground to rot and die before it bears much fruit.
Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead three days later to become the bread of eternal life.
Whoever eats the bread of Jesus (believes) has eternal life.
No great man in the world, no religion, can save us from eternal death. Because they are all in the grave. Jesus alone is the eternal life and the bread of life that saved mankind forever.
Jesus said that this is the true bread from heaven and that whoever eats this bread will have eternal life (John 6:31-51).
Jesus said, “He who loves his life will lose it,
He who hates his life in this world will preserve it for everlasting life.
If anyone wants to serve me, follow me; where I am, there will be those who serve me.
If a man serves me, my Father will honor him.”
Jesus taught the principles of life to the disciples who had received a new life.
This is also the principle of the saved Christian life.
To hate your own life is to save many lives like Jesus.
Like a grain of wheat, it must be planted in the ground to rot.
This is the Christian mission, and it is also the goal and value of life.
Acts 20:24, “In order to finish my course and the mission I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify of the gospel of God’s grace,
I do not count my life of any value.” Paul said for the witness of the gospel.
He did not regard life as precious in the slightest because he knew the value of life.
In order to live a life that saves life, you must believe in Jesus and receive eternal life.
Because only those who have received eternal life can save the dead.
If you mistakenly believe in Jesus, you can never raise the dead.
Because the Pharisees did not know Jesus who is life, they prevented them from believing in Jesus.
He destroyed himself and made other people into hell.
If one Christian who has the life of Jesus rots, he saves the world.
If each individual rots like a grain of wheat, we save the family and the church.
While serving in the church, there are many things that rot inside.
This is because the church is not a place where angels gather, but a place where various people with many problems gather.
Therefore, someone has to put down himself, sacrifice, dedicate himself, and serve.
Who will rot with a grain of wheat?
A Christian who has the life of Jesus can bear much fruit only when it decays.
God will crown them with a crown of glory.