LOSE YOUR LIFE

LOSE YOUR LIFE

DOC LYNCH

Let's be clear. I said "LOSE" your life. Not "TAKE" your life.

LOSE your life also does not indicate "misplacing" your life. You are already a victim of that if you do not know Jesus.

Losing your life according to Jesus is a reclamation. A redemption of yourself. A "FINDING" of who and what you were meant to be.

Read:

Matthew 10:39 (AMP) – "Whoever finds his [ lower] life will lose it [the higher life], and whoever loses his [lower] life on My account will find it [the higher life]."

See how Jesus speaks in terms of the Lower and Higher life? He is really speaking of two natures.

The two natures are the one you were born with, which is the "NATURAL", and the one you need to get born-again with, which is "SUPERNATURAL".

If you insist on staying attached to your carnal lower nature, your "lower life", you will forfeit the much more desirable "higher life".

Conversely, according to Jesus, the opposite is true. When you decide to strive for the "higher life", you will be elevated in Christ to a new place.

THIS is where you need to get to in order to first, please God, and second, to better your self in body, soul, and spirit.

It could just as easy be said to lose your "old life".

Seriously. EVERY person needs to do this no matter how great you think your "old life" is. In fact, those who have attached themselves so permanently to the earth, glued to it by their stuff, relationships, and various beliefs and ideals, are the hardest to shake free.

Most of us are not in those places. Most of us were just hanging on to life as mere existence, being jostled from one scenario, one relationship, one experience to another. There was more turmoil than peace, joy, happiness, well being, etc.

I'd like to try to perhaps explain what Jesus means about this "exchange" of one lesser nature for a more better and higher one.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (AMP) – “Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!”

This is not a recruitment into a religion or a church. It's that Way that Jesus Himself has shown us. Many people who abhor or shrug off "religious" sounding methods in favor of more generic and religiously benign advice or sayings never realize that most of what many people have written past or present has been said by Jesus first. That's because when Jesus says that He is "The Way, the Truth, and the Life" he is announcing that He IS all of that. If THAT is true (which it most definitely is), than there is NO way apart from His Way, there is NO truth apart from His Truth, and there is NO life apart from His Life. And when you accept Him into your life you LITERALLY become a new person! You ascend to a higher place in Him!

I can’t stress this factor enough.

Think about that. If Jesus is Who he says He is, and you choose NOT to believe that, consider how things will fail for you all the way down the line. IF He is all of THAT, and YOU do not choose for Him, than you have CUT yourself off from any chance at EVER being happy in spite of ANY other philosophy you may exercise in circumvention of that TRUTH.

I'm Pastor Doc Lynch from Revival Life Church at 21 Executive Center Drive, New Milford, CT 06776, and found out many years ago that Jesus is everything He says He is. There is no other way but Him. He says no one comes to God except through Him. We believe that here at Revival Life, and I would like to show you that Way. We have praise and worship starting at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday. I'd love for you to join us as my guests.

Until then, be REVIVED and trust in and be blessed in Jesus for all of your needs today!

~Pastor Doc Lynch~