The Highest Life Form Part 2 – Living by the Life of God – The True Christian Life Explained

Christians today don’t know that they have God’s life in them. I think you could take virtually any sermon that is being preached today, or has ever been preached in the Christian family, and study it very carefully, and you would see something similar to the explorers standing in front of the penguins calling them to be humans and determining that they would eat with a fork and speak of philosophy.

As you talk to Christians who don’t even know they have the life of God in them, no wonder there is so much askew in the Christian family. It’s exhausting for you or for me to try to respond to that appeal, for we are using the wrong form of life to live by. You, a Christian, can only be Christian as you lay hold of and live by a Life not your own; unfortunately, most of us didn’t know what the Lord meant when He said I’ve come to give you Life, didn’t know that Life was in us, and certainly don’t have the biggest idea how to live by that Life.

Let me ask you something. I’d like you to look at human life for just a moment. It would be very, very silly, would it not, for you to start caring about which dog in your community is head of the dog pack. The dogs are running around; there’s always one in charge. Anybody who’d be interested in that would be a little odd. That’s silly. Well, then, why would someone ask me to be interested in politics? It’s the wrong form of life.

I am a Christian. I do not belong to the unregenerated unbeliever whom the Lord reckons as dead. On the other hand, to ask me, a human, to perform divine acts, to live according to the divine standard, is just as ridiculous as asking the penguin to drive a car. Don’t tell me what I’m supposed to do as a Christian. I cannot do it. I have the wrong life form, and I’m used to living by that life form. No. Set me free. Don’t tell me what to do. Tell me I have the Life of God in me and tell me how to live by that Life.

Now, if a new life form were to come to our earth today, something higher than us, let’s say, or worse, something lower, we could expect that life form to come, find somewhere on this earth, some sort of suitable habitat. And it would begin immediately to ignore all the other life forms around and go about expressing the unique nature of this form of life. Dogs sniff out rabbits and bark at the moon. You never want to bark at the moon. Cats chase mice and purr all day long. That’s their life form’s expression. And birds fly, build nests, and hunt worms. That’s typical. And that form of life coming from some other place would do the very same thing.

Now let’s look at this thing called man, and I’m speaking now not of Adam in his innocence, and I’m speaking not of the Christian in being saved and having been impregnated with the life of God. Just man. What is his way? Well, he thinks an awful lot. He acquires money. He gets a really big kick out of helping others. He loves to acquire knowledge; he eats up education. He really likes power and riches and luxury. He is captivated by technological advances. He goes ape over things like being the main dog on the block, in the city, in the state, in the capital, or even in the world.

He has never shown any real significant interest in the life forms that are on the bottom of the sea. Well, there is one life form other than his own that seems to be very, very interested in. He once skinned a pig, and he’s been fighting over who owns that pig now for several generations, and every week, millions of homo sapiens watch to see who’s going to end up with that piece of pig skin for the week. So far, there have been billions of dollars spent to settle this dispute. As of last Sunday, it was not resolved.

Now that’s not all. He loves to play games, and he loves watching them even more. All sorts of games. Most of all, he likes to talk about them when they’re over with. Now that’s man life. That’s the expression of the third-highest life form after it has fallen. This creature is wild about building an intricate, complex thing which he calls civilization, and by the way, never forget, he really enjoys being religious and sinning.

Now, is that God? Have I just described the Lord? No, of course not. You know that and recognize it immediately. Alright, but be careful, for you are a Christian, and you belong to a higher realm of life, and sometimes we don’t make the connection that when we speak of the kind of life that I just mentioned and describe its ways, we are not speaking of the life form of the Christian.

What if this life form, this higher form of life, ever did come to this earth? What would it do? Would it do all the things that I just mentioned? Do you think that if God came down from heavenly places and came to earth, He would spend a good part of His life trying to get rich? Would He be excited about pushing for great technological advances? Would He go to the university and try to get a degree, or several degrees, and encourage other people to get degrees? Would He end up watching what happened to that pigskin? Would He sell His life’s existence to get a car and a three-bedroom house? Seriously, would he be upper class, middle class, or lower class? Would He be interested in who is number one? Would He launch a campaign to reform local government? Would He spend all summer campaigning for his candidate for the presidency? Would He really, really care? No. And how do I know? Because He’s a totally different life form from that species. He has no more genuine interest in getting involved in the things of fallen man’s social affairs than you are in reforming the local fish hatchery.

Now, wait a minute, because we’re going to bridge a gap here. Let’s get this a little bit closer to you and to me, for though we are human, there is something also divine going on in us. You know God would not conduct himself in the way the typical fallen man would who lives on this earth, but wait a minute, if that divine Life did visit this earth in you, but lived instead of you, what would your life be interested in?

A thousand years ago, fallen man invented something where people from all over could come to study, and they could study many, many different kinds of knowledge. In fact, knowledge known on the earth, universal knowledge. Therefore, they called it a university. Now, that was something invented by man, totally man, nothing like a dog who scratches fleas, and nothing like angels nor God. Natural expression of the human, this poor creature, this fallen creature called man. Now, about 200 years ago, someone got out of bed and said, “Well, let’s have a university that’s Christian.” That’s like talking about an obedience school for humans, so we can teach them to roll over, sit up, and pant and bark. In other words, that’s not a Christian’s form of life. In other words, they were trying to send the wrong form of life to the university. And that’s what we did.