The Abundant Life: Now

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John 10:10

How can the death of Jesus 2000 years ago change my lifenow?

I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. John 10:10

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money

health

peace fameno problems

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I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

love

money

health


no worriessuccess

John 10:10

one's life does not consist in the

abundance of his possessions

Luke 12:15


love

money

health


no worriessuccess

John 10:10



Luke 12:15For life

is more than food, and the body more than

clothing. Luke 12:23


love

money

health


no worriessuccess

John 10:10



Luke 12:15For life

is more than food, and the body more than

clothing. Luke 12:23

the way is hard that leads to life

Matthew 7:14


John 10:10


utterly burdenedbeyond strengthdespaired of life

2 Corinthians 1:8-9; 4:8-12; 6:4-5; 6:9-10;

7:5-6; 11:23-30; 12:7

John 10:10


utterly burdenedbeyond strengthdespaired of lifeafflictedperplexedpersecutedstruck down

2 Corinthians 1:8-9; 4:8-12; 6:4-5; 6:9-10;

7:5-6; 11:23-30; 12:7

John 10:10


utterly burdenedbeyond strengthdespaired of lifeafflictedperplexedpersecutedstruck downafflictionshardshipscalamitiesbeatings

imprisonmentsriots

laborssleepless nights

hunger

2 Corinthians 1:8-9; 4:8-12; 6:4-5; 6:9-10;

7:5-6; 11:23-30; 12:7

John 10:10



imprisonmentsriots


hungerunknown

dyingpunishedsorrowful

poorhaving nothing

2 Corinthians 1:8-9; 4:8-12; 6:4-5; 6:9-10;

7:5-6; 11:23-30; 12:7

John 10:10



imprisonmentsriots


hungerunknown


poorhaving nothing

no restafflicted

fightings withoutfears withindowncast

2 Corinthians 1:8-9; 4:8-12; 6:4-5; 6:9-10;

7:5-6; 11:23-30; 12:7

John 10:10



imprisonmentsriots


hungerunknown


poorhaving nothing

no restafflicted


laborsimprisonments

beatingsnear death

shipwreckedadrift

riversrobbers

JewsGentiles

citywilderness

seafalse brothers

toilhardship

sleepless nights

hungerthirst

without foodcold

exposureanxiety

2 Corinthians 1:8-9; 4:8-12; 6:4-5; 6:9-10;

7:5-6; 11:23-30; 12:7

John 10:10



imprisonmentsriots


hungerunknown


poorhaving nothing

no restafflicted


laborsimprisonments

beatingsnear death

shipwreckedadrift

riversrobbers

JewsGentiles

citywilderness

seafalse brothers

toilhardship

sleepless nights

hungerthirst

without foodcold

exposureanxiety

2 Corinthians 1:8-9; 4:8-12; 6:4-5; 6:9-10;

7:5-6; 11:23-30; 12:7

thorn in the flesh

John 10:10



imprisonmentsriots


hungerunknown


poorhaving nothing

no restafflicted


laborsimprisonments

beatingsnear death

shipwreckedadrift

riversrobbers

JewsGentiles

citywilderness

seafalse brothers

toilhardship

sleepless nights

hungerthirst

without foodcold

exposureanxiety

2 Corinthians 1:8-9; 4:8-12; 6:4-5; 6:9-10;

7:5-6; 11:23-30; 12:7

thorn in the flesh

Did Paul enjoy an abundant life?

John 10:10



imprisonmentsriots


hungerunknown


poorhaving nothing

no restafflicted


laborsimprisonments

beatingsnear death

shipwreckedadrift

riversrobbers

JewsGentiles

citywilderness

seafalse brothers

toilhardship

sleepless nights

hungerthirst

without foodcold

exposureanxiety

2 Corinthians 1:8-9; 4:8-12; 6:4-5; 6:9-10;

7:5-6; 11:23-30; 12:7

thorn in the flesh


For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 12:10

John 10:10



imprisonmentsriots


hungerunknown


poorhaving nothing

no restafflicted


laborsimprisonments

beatingsnear death

shipwreckedadrift

riversrobbers

JewsGentiles

citywilderness

seafalse brothers

toilhardship

sleepless nights

hungerthirst

without foodcold

exposureanxiety

2 Corinthians 1:8-9; 4:8-12; 6:4-5; 6:9-10;

7:5-6; 11:23-30; 12:7

thorn in the flesh


For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 12:10

I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.

Philippians 3:8

John 10:10


God of Life

God of Life

He Himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.

Acts 17:25

God of Life

then Jehovah God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Genesis 2:7

God of Life

The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:9

God of Life

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.

Genesis 2:17

God of Life

Then Jehovah God said, Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever

Genesis 3:22

God of Life

therefore Jehovah God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

Genesis 3:23

God of Life

therefore Jehovah God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

Genesis 3:23

pain in childbearing husband rule over you

Genesis 3: 16

cursed ground in pain eat of it thorns and thistles sweat of face to dust you shall return

Genesis 3: 17-19

God of Life

God of Life

Say therefore to the people of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment.

Exodus 6:6


Exodus 6:6

God of LifeMoses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery.

Exodus 6:9


Exodus 6:6

Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery.

Exodus 6:9

I loathe my life Job 7:16

So I hated life Ecclesiastes 2:17

Life is hard.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.

Luke 19:10

a friend of tax collectors and sinners

Luke 7:34

she is a sinner Luke 7:39


Luke 7:34


harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd

Matthew 9:36


Luke 7:34



Matthew 9:36


Luke 7:34

Samaritan woman John 4.18



Matthew 9:36


Luke 7:34

Samaritan woman John 4.18

woman caught in adultery

John 8:3

Text

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.

John 5:21

Text

I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.

John 8:12

Text

I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?

John 11:25-26

TextI came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

John 10:10

broken in spirit?

harsh slavery?

harassed?

helpless?

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.

Luke 19:10

The Love of Christ

For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

2 Corinthians 5:14-15

For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

2 Corinthians 5:14-15

unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

John 12:23-25

unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

John 12:23-25

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ

Ephesians 2:4-5

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ

Ephesians 2:4-5

you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator

Colossians 3:9-10

we too might walk in newness of life.

Romans 6:4

we too might walk in newness of life.

Romans 6:4

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Galatians 2:20

and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

2 Corinthians 5:15

and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

2 Corinthians 5:15

The Abundant Life

And this is eternal life, that they know You the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

John 17:3

I am the good shepherdI am the good shepherd

John 10:11,14-15, 27, 28

lays down his life for the sheep


John 10:11,14-15, 27, 28



John 10:11,14-15, 27, 28

I know my own and my own know me



John 10:11,14-15, 27, 28


My sheep hear my voice, and I know them,

and they follow me.



John 10:11,14-15, 27, 28


I give them eternal life

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them,

and they follow me.


Romans 8:35-39


Romans 8:35-39

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?


Romans 8:35-39


Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?


Romans 8:35-39


Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation


John 10:10


John 10:10

We implore you on behalf of Christ,

be reconciled to God. 2 Corinthians 5:20

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Understanding our Salvation

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The Abundant Life NowJohn 10:10

Compiled and Presented by:Dave Stewart

27 March 2016www.1corinthians1614.com

Synopsis: What did Jesus mean when he promised abundant life? Well explore both what that must not mean and what it does mean. This lesson will focus on the present life.

These thoughts were provoked and borrowed from chapter 11: A Careless Rage for Life in The Dragon Slayer by Jim McGuiggan, NOOKstudy (David Stewart, [email protected]). This material is protected by copyright.

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