THE TREE OF LIFE


REVELATION 2:7

“He that hath an ear,
let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches;
To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the Tree of Life,
which is in the midst of the paradise of God.”

Jesus Christ has sent the Comforter, the Holy Spirit. Today (the present, the gift), we are to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit, as He reproves and convicts the world of their unbelief because they have not believed on Jesus Christ as their God and Saviour. We are to hear the voice the voice of the Holy Spirit, as He reproves and convicts the world of ungodliness because Jesus has already made a Way for man to become righteous and godly through His free gift of righteousness. We are to listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit, as he convicts and warns the world of judgment and destruction that comes to sinners because Satan has already been judged to one day forever dwell in the Lake of Fire in hell, and so will those who listen to is lies. And we are to listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit, as He instructs, guides, and comforts, the children of God.

Jesus wants everyone to accept His love and live eternally with Him in heaven, but He has made each person a free moral agent to choose for himself. Men and women are not submissive robots with out any choice. Each person has a free will with which to choose either life or death! A person can choose to overcome by believing God or be overcome by the lies and deception of the enemy. The individual, as well as the church, is to repent of false doctrine and dead works that may have crept into one’s life and keep oneself from adultery with the world, which is putting anything ahead of God. Christians are to be separated, holy unto God. Christians are to seek God with the whole heart and rejoice in the freshness, the newness of what He does in each life on a daily basis (John 16:33). As a Christian believer, a person should follow the example of Christ and overcome all tribulation set forth by the enemy. Christians know that they are “in” the world but “not” of it, and “in” the world there are tribulations. Yet Christians are to overcome and conquer the problems and set backs in our lives, as we allow the Holy Spirit to “rest” upon each one to give us strength, patience, wisdom, and perseverance to over come. The “overcomer” is the one that stands in faith believing God’s Word and His promises. To the “overcomer” Jesus Christ has promised to give to eat of the Tree of Life eternally, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

Christians have a hope and a belief of having eternal life with God in paradise. The term “paradise” means both “the garden of Eden,” as in Genesis 2:8-9 and “the final dwelling place of the righteous dead" (Revelation 2:7). Ephesians 4:8 reports that Christ led captivity captive, in other words, after He preached to the saints in Hades, He moved the compartment of the righteous dead to heaven, which He called Paradise (Luke 23:43). In “paradise,” or in the Garden of Eden of Genesis, was the Tree of Life, and “paradise” in heaven has the same Tree of Life, which is Jesus Christ. Jesus said, “He that drinks My blood and eats My flesh has eternal life. His flesh that one eats is the Word of God that we partake of continually to abide “in Him.” To drink His blood is to know He was poured out as a Drink Offering before the Father. To drink His blood then is to recognize that the blood sacrifice He made on the cross ratified the new and better Covenant between God and man that brought reconciliation and fellowship. Jesus’ words are spirit and life so that we understand this is not physical but spiritual eating and drinking. Jesus said, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek Me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled. Labour not for the meat, which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of Man shall give unto you: for Him hath the Father sealed. Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but My Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is He, which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.

Then said the people unto Him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.

And Jesus said unto them, I AM the Bread of Life: he that cometh to Me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on Me shall never thirst. But I said unto you, That ye also have seen Me, and believe not. All that the Father giveth Me shall come to me; and him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me. And this is the Father’s will which hath sent Me, that of all which He hath given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of Him that sent Me, that everyone which seeth the Son, and believeth on Him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on Me hath everlasting life. I AM that Bread of Life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I AM the Living Bread, which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us His flesh to eat?

Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is meat indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. He that eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, dwelleth in Me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent Me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth Me, even he shall live by Me. This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live forever”

(John 6:26-40, 47-58).

Jesus is the Bread of Life. His body (the bread) was broken for us (Isaiah 53); His blood (the drink offering) was shed that we might have everlasting life (John 3:16). Jesus instructed, “Abide in Me, and I in you,” for the branch (the saint of God) cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine (Christ Jesus) (John 15:4). As the Christian maintains his daily prayer and Bible reading, he fellowships and abides in the Lord. As he continues to munch on the Word of God he continues in the righteous life of God. Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! (Psalm 34:8).

In the Middle East when enemies suspend fighting, they sit down and break bread together to confirm that the war is over. The breaking of bread together signifies that “we are in covenant together and peace in fellowship has come.” This is an example of God and mankind. After sin came into the world, man was at war with God (the flesh is enmity with the spirit), but now we can share our bred together. Once we were alienated from God, but now through partaking of the Bread of Life (Jesus Christ), we are no longer enemies of God but He calls us friends. Psalm 16:11 is a prophecy that God will show us the path of life: for in Thy presence is fullness of joy; and at thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore. As we break the bread of the Word in the Presence of the Lord, we are filled with joy unspeakable and full of glory for there are pleasures at His right hand forevermore. And He gives us living water that we will never thirst again. It’s paradise…to those who abide in Christ and are overcomers in this life!

IT'S PARADISE!

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