I. Introduction
• What is eternal life?
• The true purpose of eternal life
• How do we receive eternal life?
• How do we experience and express eternal life?
Related Scriptures:
John 3:16 (KJV); Mark 7:13 (KJV); Colossians 2:8 (KJV); Colossians 2:21-22 (KJV)
II. Definitions
Perish Defined: G1311 – corrupt, destroy
Related Scriptures:
2 Corinthians 4:16 (KJV); 1 Timothy 6:5 (KJV)
Perish Defined: G622 – to render useless, to be lost, ruined, destroyed
Related Scriptures:
Luke 5:37 (KJV); 2 John 1:8 (KJV) 2 Peter 3:9 (KJV); Jude 1:11 (KJV)
Perish Defined: G5351 – in an ethical sense, to corrupt, deprave
1 Corinthians 15:33 (KJV); 2 Corinthians 11:3 (KJV); Ephesians 4:22 (KJV)
Eternal Defined:
G166 – Without beginning, without end, never to cease, everlasting, perpetual
Life Defined:
G2222 (Zoe) – of the absolute fulness of life, both essential and ethical, which belongs to God, and through him both to the hypostatic “logos” and to Christ in whom the “logos” put on human nature.
Related Scriptures:
John 3:15-17 (KJV)
III. Explanation
The working definition of eternal life
Related Scriptures:
John 17:1-3 (KJV)
To Know Defined
G1097 – ginōskō – to learn to know, come to know, get a knowledge of perceive, feel; to know, understand, perceive, have knowledge of; Jewish idiom for sexual intercourse between a man and a woman.
Genesis 4:1 (KJV) – And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
So, we see that the working definition of “to know” is simply our intimacy with God, the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ. This will cause the life that is in us to be seen and to manifest outside of us such as: healing deliverance, wisdom, power, prosperity, etc.
Daniel 11:32 (KJV) – And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
Job 22:21-22 (KJV)
21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
Hosea 6:6 (KJV)
6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Jeremiah 31:34 (KJV)
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Galatians 4:6-11 (KJV)
6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
IV. Expound (Explaining scripture with scripture)
• The governing principles
V. Benefits
Related Scriptures:
Eternal Life
John 3:16 (KJV)
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.