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

Don’t get me wrong. A higher life form is not a lazy cop out, just a totally different realm of living with a totally different lifestyle. Should you, a Christian, a man with a higher life form in you, decide the directions of your life on the basis that man has always had? Or should you make your decisions, not in the predictable patterns of human life, but in the deep, intuitive ways of divine life? The only way that you are ever going to find out the real and proper way to face the decisions that you will face upon this planet, and face them through the eyes…no, not through the eyes of God, for that would be a standard…but through the very Life force of the Lord being lived in you. If you’re to do this, then you and I must stop living by human life and begin living by the Divine Life that is within us. And I’m not saying exactly what you will do then. All I am saying is the way you get there will be totally different.

I’d like to go back to the angels for a moment. Could you interest an angel in calculus? Maybe you could get him down to a Christian musical and get him to play a harp there. Maybe you would make this appeal to him: Oh, angel, use your God given talents to glorify the Lord. An angel couldn’t even compute such language. If you have any idea of what Divine Life would be like, consider the difference between you and an angel, or even better, consider the Lord Jesus Christ in those three and a half or four years that he lived.

I would ask you to come with me and look through His eyes. You may be amazed. It’s wonderful. It’s exciting to see someone from another realm invading Earth, coming out of a separate dominion, dimension, scene, and also being able to see the scene. Coming out of the non-material into the material. Coming out of the spiritual into the physical. Coming out of the realms of the higher life form to the lower life form. It had never happened before. A life form that had transversed classifications and entered into another life classification, to understand and know its characteristics and its ways in existence. Jesus Christ did that when he became a man.

As someone said, it was very much like a man becoming a cockroach. The Lord Jesus must have been fascinated to be introduced to the feelings of logic or the realms of logic, reason, ambition, and the lust of knowledge. I don’t mean that He was experiencing that, but to see it and to be able to identify it in those whom He had watched at a little bit more distant vantage point than when He was captured inside a human body.

What would it be like if I had become a puppy, or you had become a cat? We would begin to get all sorts of senses and feelings that we had never had before: the desire to bark, the desire to rub up against someone’s leg, and purr. We would begin to understand the instincts of the dog or of the cat. We would immediately begin to understand why he wags his tail or why the cat is always chasing the mouse. We would begin to understand, at least, the instinctive nature of this. Well, God, the highest Life form in the universe, transversed His highest state and entered into a third-class state. Why? Because he was compelled by love and because he had a purpose.

Look at this life form, now in a human body, this invader from outer space. Several things come immediately to our attention. The first thing that hits us is that when Divine Life takes on human life and suddenly has the choice of which of those two lives to live by, He denies His human life and chooses to continue living by the life of His Father. He denied, he put in second place, His human life, so that he might live, continually, even in human form, by the life He had lived before. That’s a very simple observation, but it’s very powerful, for it points the Christian to the proper decision for his own life. It is the nature of Divine Life to live by Divine Life, even when that life form may be living in another in the body of another life form. It is the nature of Divine Life to deny the soul. You may not realize this, but that means He totally denied almost everything that we hold central in human living.

Did you ever notice how interested Jesus Christ was in public schools and in technology? Notice how interested He was in getting rich. Notice the big house He lived in. Did you ever see His view on local taxes? It was classical. Notice just exactly how impressed He was with the Roman Empire and the Roman Emperor. See how much He pressed for education in His own life and those around Him. He chose mostly illiterate and ignorant people to be with.

But did He not say, You visited me? You visited one of these in prisons. Shouldn’t we go to visit the prisoners and the sick? Well, you’ve left out one little phrase in that passage. Jesus Christ was interested, terribly interested, in those who had His own Life form in them. Like all other life forms in the universe, He is very interested in His species. He showed virtually no interest in other forms of life, but He often spoke of “My brethren.” He was referring to those who would have the Life of God in them.

He was not a social reformer, trying to right the wrongs of the destitute. He was interested in “My brethren.” God did not come to earth to get all wrapped up in the activities of a lower life, for He lived according to the disposition of His own Life, and God in Christ turned out not to be all that interested in science, becoming famous, acquiring creature comforts, or amassing wealth. Living by His Life as he did, He lived by the life of the Father, and He showed and reflected the interest and the disinterest of His Father.

Look at Him. Life form number three is so logical, so complex. Life form number one came along, so simple. So incredibly simple. Overwhelmingly uncomplicated, He spoke in simple words about simple things, in simple ways, living a simple life, and he was mostly responded to by the simple. When “mental” men came to Jesus with complex questions and flawless logic, He stunned them with His childlike answers and destroyed their pretentious reasoning. He was the essence of simplicity in thought, way, outlook, desire, and living. He was another kind of Life and a higher one, and yet a Life, though it was higher, was not given to complexity.

Who would have ever guessed that a higher Life form would be not more complex but simpler than man? You’re in reverse when you’re complex. That’s the fallenness of your life showing. A simple life is more advanced than a complex life. You need only look at the Lord to see that. The divine life was simpler than the human life He came to save.

He came here to introduce, on this earth, a new species. That’s why He came. Not a new race, but a new species, one that had never existed on this planet before. A visible creature it would be, not like angels who are invisible, but a visible species that lived by Divine Life, God’s Life. Not until that time had God’s Life ever been visible. Previously, it had only been invisible. Now he wished for a living creature who could be seen to live by His Life. That new species had its beginning in heavenly places, but came to earth, and that is still true today. The Life that is in you came from outer space. It came from beyond space. It came from spiritual realms where there is no space.