The Highest Life Form Part 1

Jesus Christ had come in the first century, just as the Tree of Life had come to the garden in primordial times, and He came as food to be eaten that Life, the Life of God, might enter into us. God’s Life was the fruit that was hanging there on the Tree of Life. Had Adam eaten in the garden of the Tree of Life, he would not only have had God’s life in him in an innocent, sinless state, he would have also had, not only the abundance of that wonderful human life, but he would have also been able to switch over in that moment, just after eating the fruit of the Tree of Life; he could have turned and switched to living by the Life of God. A man with God’s Life in him, living by God’s Life. At that moment, God would have launched into His eternal purpose.

You know that Adam never ate of the Tree of Life. If he had, he would have entered into the Life of God. God’s Life would have entered into him. Did you know that? It’s quite clear in Genesis 3, verse 24; instead of eating of the Tree of Life, he ate of that other tree, the cursed tree, the damned tree, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. For this man, Adam, was driven out of the garden because he had eaten of that tree. Why? God did not want him to have the Tree of Life’s fruit in him, along with the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Had he done that, that would have been the most horrible thought, the most horrible thing that would have ever happened in universal history.

Adam had eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He had sinned. He knew he was naked. He had fallen. Sin ruled in him, and he was losing intimate fellowship with God; had he then eaten the Tree of Life, he would have lived forever here on earth, yet in a corrupt state and without fellowship with God. Out of the mercy of God, Adam was banished from the garden. God closed the door and put a cherubim there with a circling flaming sword at the entrance to keep man from having the Life of God in him.

Now, don’t get the idea from all this that God was giving up. He was not. He was determined to have His desire. Jesus Christ came to earth to clean up that cup and to put wine in it. Jesus Christ came into this earth to cleanse you from sin, but He also came to put the Life of God in you, the very Life of the Father that pulsated in Him; He meant for that Life of the Father to be in you. He came to get you and to get me off the detour. He came to put the Tree of Life back on the earth, to cleanse man, to cleanse him, and to put that Tree of Life in front of this cleansed man once more. He did all of this so that we, so that you, that man could eat of the Tree of Life. He came as the Tree of Life and presented Himself to you. As God had put the Tree of Life before Adam and said, Eat of the fruit, Jesus Christ came and presented Himself as Life to be taken into by you.

If Adam had, he could have lived by the Life of God. Now Jesus has come to man, and He comes, and He says, Partake of Me, and you will live by Me. There in Galilee, God was back to His full intention. He was offering man the highest form of Life in the universe and telling man what? He was saying to man: You can live by that life.

You don’t have to be jealous of the angels, jealous because they go running around living by a life form higher than ours. You and you alone, you’re the only creature in the universe who ever got an offer to have two life forms in you. You’re the only species ever chosen to have God in him. You’re the only being who has ever been given a chance to live by the same Life for which God lives.

This was the incredible, enormous, staggering message of Jesus Christ. This is what boggled the minds of men in the first century. They had been invited to have the Life of God and to live by the Life of God. Now, if you think that is wonderful, consider what it’s like to actually encounter that experience. You – you know what it’s like not to live by the life of God. You know what it’s like to live by third-rate life. But you can know what it is to enter into the very experience of Jesus Christ. The experience He had every day He lived on this earth. It’s a staggering, overwhelming, but most of all: it’s possible! This message of His…this word of this encounter with that Life form, outdates every other message Christianity is presenting in this day, it obsoletes every cheap message that this age is peddling as the great answer; this makes tongues take a back row, this makes intellectualism look like kindergarten, all the rest of our little trinkets and Christendom pale. God wants to give you his life, and to say the least, that’s radical. That’s like a fish becoming a man. It’s staggering.

Put it in another context. Make an offer to a fish. Let’s make it like Christians are making their offers today, with the many fads that come by about every three or four years. Okay, the first Christian comes by: “Do you want to be the most educated fish in all the ocean?” Another Christian comes by. “Would you like to speak “humanly” every once in a while? How would you like to speak human?”

Ah, speak human. How would you like to be the most powerful fish in the pond with great power? Heal all the other fish; impress your friends. How would you like to know the entire fish encyclopedia by heart? How would you like to quote every verse and chapter perfectly? Every fish ought to know the encyclopedia of fishdom by heart. That will really change your life. How would you like to be the most moral fish in fishdom? Say, little fish, I’ve got a better idea. Little fish, how would you like to become a human being? How would you like to know what it’s like to be a human? How would you like to be, not only a human being, but to find out that you’re the son of the great king?

Now, which offer do you think one of those little fish is going to take? Power? Speaking human? Knowing the encyclopedia of fishdom? Being the most moral one? Getting a wonderful fishdom education? Or giving up being a fish altogether, and becoming a human being, and living by human life.

I don’t know what that little fish would do, but I know if Christians come by and make me all these offers and end up saying, “How would you like to have the Life of God and get up in the morning and live by the very Life God lives by?”, I know what I will take. I want to live by a higher form of Life, and when I say higher, I mean a totally different type of Life altogether, for His ways are not our ways, and His thoughts are not our thoughts.  I doubt that He even has thoughts, for we are thinkers; He is a revelator. To live totally by different instincts, to live and have your being in a divine way, in a way that belongs to other realms, to heavenly places, that make everything else taste like fish water.

Now, before I go on, I’d like to make a definition here. Educators are always starting off with definitions. When I was in seminary, I remember all of our professors would always start off each course with some sort of definition. So here is our question, for here is our subject: the subject is Life. What is the definition of Life? What is it? What is the Life of God? What is Life? The Lord wishes to give you His Life. What is it He would give you? What do you get when you get Divine Life? What do you live by when you live by the Life of God?