The Highest Life Form Part 1

True, you got dirty at first, but God couldn’t be stopped. He found you. He came and got you. Cleaned you up, and He means for you to have another form of life in you, and it’s the highest form of life in the universe. In you. Fantastic!

Some years ago, I found out that I had another form of life inside me. I found out that in me was the same form of life that is in God, and I could hardly contain it. I wonder why I didn’t explode. I was excited. It was the most wonderful news. This is the mind-blowing good news. But brothers, you ain’t heard nothing yet. When I found out that I had the highest form of life in the universe, I was excited. After that, everything I’ve ever heard as a Christian was just for naught, not to go on, because there are other things we have never heard.

A plant has plant life in it; we’ve already seen that. What life does a plant live by? Well, it lives by plant life, a fish lives by fish life, a bird lives by bird life, and a dog lives by dog life. What about man? Well, that’s the saddest story there ever was. A man goes chugging along on human life. Do you like living that human life? Neither do I – there’s nothing more miserable in the universe than a human being chugging along on human life.

When I was a youngster, my dad gave me a car. It was a Ford, and I remember the first time that car wouldn’t start for me, and I had to move it. It had a V8 engine, but it wouldn’t work, so I had to get it off the road. I put it in first gear, pressed a dashboard button, and got that car off the road on battery power. It just barely moved, and it groaned while it pulled itself off the road, going ruh…ruh…ruh.

What drives us, all of us, to Christ is the fact that we can’t stand the life form we’re stuck with. A plant is happier being a plant than a man is living by human life. There’s a reason for this. Not only do you live and have a lower form of life in a third-place life, no less, but the situation is worse than that. You see, God has the highest form of life. The angels have the second-best deal. They’re pretty well off, but we human beings are not only in third place, but something very terrible has happened to us. We were never intended or created to live by human life. That was the life Adam first lived when he was innocent, and it’s third place, which isn’t bad. It’s not bad if you happen to be unfallen Adam; it was only slightly lower than the angels; very little envy, I’m sure, on the part of Adam toward an angel. But you and I do not live by the undamaged human form of life that Adam lived by in that short time in the garden he had something really neat on the end of the sixth day, the seventh, and the very first part of the eighth day, and we have never had the experience of Adam, for our life though it is still in third place, is far, far lower than the life Adam lived by in the garden.

We do not have an innocent, unfallen, third-place human life, but we are stuck with a fallen, deeply damaged human life, a long way down from the life form that Adam lived by. Adam lives just a little lower than an angel with his third-place life. We live just a little higher than the animals with our fallen third-place life.

You know, in Europe, they have first, second, and third-class train seats, and if you’re first class, they’re nice. Third-class is not too nice, and we are fallen creatures, and we’re going around in a third-class car. You and I are chilling along, not only in a third-class car, but a wrecked third-class car. We’re living with a bad deal. We’re stuck with a third-rate model that’s been in a wreck, and the saddest part of the story is this: neither we nor Adam were ever supposed to live by third-place life, and that brings us once more to Jesus Christ, for Jesus Christ was a man, but He was also God. He had human life in Him, but He also had the highest form of life in the universe in Him.

Now, here is one of the most earth-shaking questions that can be asked. By which of his two lives did Jesus Christ live? What life form did Jesus Christ live by? Did He live by human life? He certainly could, you know. No. When Jesus Christ woke up every morning, when He started his day, He lived, not by human life, but He, a man, lived by the highest Life form in the universe. Jesus Christ lived by Divine Life. Here was a being who not only had two life forms, but He could live by a form of life not human, not human. He could live by a life not human. A higher form of life than human life. A man lived by…now, we’re getting closer to understanding the pulsating, ultimate desire of God, his eternal purpose.

Do you realize what God planned for you? Do you know why He created man in the first place? This is the reason He wants you to be as his only begotten son. When God created man, He never intended for man to continue living by human life. Adam was never intended to live by Adam life. Not even unfallen, Adam, human life. God always intended for man to live by another life form. That was his original purpose. That’s what the tree of life is all about. On the eighth day, God put the Tree of Life in the garden; He put the Tree of Life there. He put Divine Life in that garden. He put it there. The same life Jesus Christ lived by, that life was put in the garden, before man, in the form of a tree, and that man was told to eat of that tree. The Life of that tree would come into him. A heavenly Life would come into man from out of heavenly places, not of this earth, not created: uncreated. The Divine Life that God lived by would come into that man. Man would take God’s own Life, the highest Life, into himself. And he would live by that Life.

Do you realize that you can live by another form of life? You can live by a life not human. You can live by the highest Life. You can live by the Life of God: I’ve come that you might have Life, and that you might have it abundantly. He who believes in me can live by me. You can live by the same Life God lives by. You can live by the Life Jesus Christ lived by when He was on this earth. You can live, not by human life, but by the same Life divinity lives by.

When God gets up in the morning, He lives by Divine Life. When you get up in the morning, you can live by the same Life. That was His plan for you. He wishes to give you the Life He lives by. He wants a race of people on this earth living by the Life He lives by. He not only gives that Life to us, but He gives this Life to us that we might live by it the way that He lives by it. Hallelujah!

Now that was what Jesus Christ was talking about when He came to earth. Here on this earth, He lived the same life His Father lived by in heavenly realms, the Life of God that the Father lived by every day in heavenly places. Jesus Christ walked around this earth, drawing from that same Life and living by it, and then He turned around and made the most staggering statement in man’s ears as I ever imagined: As I live by the life of my Father, in the same way you shall live by me.