The Highest Life Form Part 1

Now that’s wonderful. It’s great for the first two or three years, but you can’t make a career out of rejoicing that you got saved. Eventually, it gets old. Boy, it’s slim pickings after the first five or six years. After a while, you get almost so dry that you begin to wonder if God did you a favor when he saved you after all. Salvation is not your ultimate, and it is not God’s ultimate; it is a road to get back to the original intention.

Thank God we’re saved. Thank God that others find him as their Lord and Savior. This is where Christianity is stuck, and just about everything that we understand about the Lord shows salvation to be the ultimate. Like the men who crash-landed on that satellite that was in orbit around Jupiter and never got back into their ship. That satellite is where they are stuck, and salvation is where we are bogged down. That’s where you’re bogged down. God would like to take you to the stars.

Alright, then what is God’s real desire? That is exciting. His ultimate purpose has to do with Life. Now you know what Jesus Christ talks so much about? Life. He had an exciting story to tell us, and he thought it was wonderful. And it is: it’s staggering. It’s an ideal so fantastic, it even excited God.

Now, I know what you’ve been told. I know what I’ve been told about abundant living, and I would like to address that. Trust Jesus Christ, and you’ll have the abundant life. The abundant life. Oh, wow. I thought the same thing. Wow. I’ll get a big house. Abundant life. Wall-to-wall carpet, a big, big automobile. No, two big automobiles. A wonderful wife, kids who never cry. I’ll be happy; the plumbing will never clog up. There’ll never be any major problems, and lots and lots of money to take care of the minor problems. The good life, abundant life, abundant living. Trust Jesus Christ and have the abundant life. Is today’s Christianity in bad shape to come up with an idea that far-fetched from what the Lord was himself addressing? The Lord never had such a worldly thought when he said, “I have come to give you life.”

What did he mean when he said that? Well, it’s time we found out: what is Life? What does the Lord mean in the gospels? What is the secret that is hidden in Genesis? What is he speaking of when he speaks of life? Why such a central place as Genesis 1 and 2, giving so much place to the forms of life?

Well, what kind of life does a plant have? Maybe the plant can tell us. Well, a plant has plant life. Well, what kind of life does a fish have? Perhaps he can give us the key to this. A fish has fish life, and a bird has bird life. Dogs have dog life. What do you have? Well, you have human life, of course. You have the third-highest form of life in the universe, don’t you? Angels – they have angel life. What kind of life does God go around with all the time? He goes around with the highest Life in Him. Which life is that? Whatever it is, it’s something awesome, and it must be quite an experience to be God, to walk around with His own Life pulsating within Himself.

Now, here is the question: What kind of life did Jesus Christ have in Him? Well, He had the third-highest form of life in the universe, right? He had human life. Of course, because He was 100% human, He had human life in Him. But wait a minute…He was also 100% God, so He also had God’s life in Him. Now, if you wonder how He did that, one life is dimensional, and one life is not dimensional; therefore, He could be 100% of both. He had 100% of the highest life of both realms. The highest life of this realm and the highest life of that one. Now that’s staggering.

He was a unique human being, unique among all the creatures in this realm. He was a human being who had human life, but He had two forms of life in Him. No other creature ever had two life forms. No fish, no dog, no cat, no bird, no angel. He, the Lord Jesus, had two forms of life in Him. Nothing else has ever had that. Meet a fish. Have you ever seen a fish with dog life? Have you ever met a bird with elephant life? Or a kangaroo with human life? But here is Jesus Christ, the man, yet He had another life form in Him. He had the highest form of Life in the universe in Him; He was a man…third-highest form of life, walking around with first-place life within Him.

Isn’t that fantastic? Now, we’re getting closer to the point. Does Jesus Christ want to save you? Yeah. But is that all? No. There’s still the eternal purpose. He wants to put another life form in you, a higher form of life than you now have as a human being. Did you know that?

Let me illustrate this with a story. A man takes a piece of clay, and he shapes it into a beautiful goblet. He finishes the goblet. He is about to fill it with wine, but he retires and goes to bed. In the night, a robber steals the goblet. Finding no use for it and having no appreciation for all the work the potter put into it, he throws it away. It ends up in a ditch somewhere covered with mud. Eventually, the potter finds this goblet. He’s very excited. He goes home, cleans it, mends it, but after he cleans it, does He put it on the shelf? Was that his original plan? No. His original plan was to put wine in that goblet. That’s why he fashioned it in the first place.

Why did God fashion man? Why did He make you? To clean you up? No, because man wasn’t originally dirty. Man was made to have something put inside of him, but before God could pour that wine into him, a thief broke in. God found the man and reshaped him, repaired him, cleaned him up, cleansed him from sin, but that was not His purpose for man. His purpose is to put that wine in man, in you.

Man is unique; you are unique. Among all the creatures in the universe, you’re the only living creature designed to have two forms of life in you. You were made, not only for human life, but you were designed, made, fashioned to have God’s Life put in you.