Jesus Has Become Our Lord By Giving Us His Life
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Jesus Has Become Our Lord By Giving Us His Life ㅡ
“For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.”
(Romans 14:8, 14:9)
The grain of wheat that preserves its own life can produce no fruit. It abides alone.
Christ could, if He chose, save Himself from death. But should He do this, He must abide alone.
He could bring no sons and daughters to God. Only by yielding up His life could He impart life to humanity.
Only by falling into the ground to die could He become the seed of that vast harvest,—the great multitude that out of every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, are redeemed to God.
With this truth Christ connects the lesson of self-sacrifice that all should learn:
“He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.”
All who would bring forth fruit as workers together with Christ must first fall into the ground and die.
The life must be cast into the furrow of the world’s need. Self-love, self-interest, must perish. And the law of self-sacrifice is the law of self-preservation.
The husbandman preserves his grain by casting it away. So in human life. To give is to live.
The life that will be preserved is the life that is freely given in service to God and man.
Those who for Christ’s sake sacrifice their life in this world will keep it unto life eternal.
(The Desire of Ages 623.4, 623.5)
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