Fr. Larry Richards is the founder and president of The Reason for our Hope Foundation, a non- profit organization dedicated to āspreading the Good Newsā by educating others about Jesus Christ. His new homilies are posted each week.
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Sermon notes š What is life? Itās a hard thing for me to define at times because when talking about life we could be talking about a number of thingsā¦ One way we can talk about life is from a pure biological perspective, but we can also talk about life as it pertains to our individual existence. The New Testament generally seems to refer to this type of life by using the greek word ābiosāā¦ But the Greek word John uses in 20:31 - the word for the life that we find when believing in Jesus as the Christ, our Savior - is not ābios,ā it is āzoeāā¦ āZoeā is the word used to talk about Life Eternal in the New Testament. And it points to the truth that we exist at a deeper level than just our flesh and bloodā¦ For those who believe in Jesusā¦there is life in us that comes from the Eternal God and is Eternalā¦and it is meant to lead our bodies with purposeā¦ Jesus says in John 12:25 that āwhoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal lifeā & āIf anyone serves me, he must follow me.ā And here, in Jesusās words, a 3rd Greek word for life is foundā¦and the word is āpsucheā - of course this is where we get psyche. This is the soul-life. This is the mind, heart, and will. I kind of think of it as the YOU of your life. Jesus basically says that your soul-life can either be driven by the ābiosā life or the āzoeā lifeā¦ That which is of this world, or that which is eternalā¦ That which is temporal, or that which is everlastingā¦. But not by both. Only one or the other can possess you, and it may seem obvious which is the better choiceā¦ But the truth is that, because of the Fall, because of our sin, our heart and soul is bound to - and I mean held captive to - desiring temporal things over eternal things. But it isnāt how we were created to be, weāre broken and we need saving. We desperately need Jesus to give us eternal life.
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Sermon notes š What is life? Itās a hard thing for me to define at times because when talking about life we could be talking about a number of thingsā¦ One way we can talk about life is from a pure biological perspective, but we can also talk about life as it pertains to our individual existence. The New Testament generally seems to refer to this type of life by using the greek word ābiosāā¦ But the Greek word John uses in 20:31 - the word for the life that we find when believing in Jesus as the Christ, our Savior - is not ābios,ā it is āzoeāā¦ āZoeā is the word used to talk about Life Eternal in the New Testament. And it points to the truth that we exist at a deeper level than just our flesh and bloodā¦ For those who believe in Jesusā¦there is life in us that comes from the Eternal God and is Eternalā¦and it is meant to lead our bodies with purposeā¦ Jesus says in John 12:25 that āwhoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal lifeā & āIf anyone serves me, he must follow me.ā And here, in Jesusās words, a 3rd Greek word for life is foundā¦and the word is āpsucheā - of course this is where we get psyche. This is the soul-life. This is the mind, heart, and will. I kind of think of it as the YOU of your life. Jesus basically says that your soul-life can either be driven by the ābiosā life or the āzoeā lifeā¦ That which is of this world, or that which is eternalā¦ That which is temporal, or that which is everlastingā¦. But not by both. Only one or the other can possess you, and it may seem obvious which is the better choiceā¦ But the truth is that, because of the Fall, because of our sin, our heart and soul is bound to - and I mean held captive to - desiring temporal things over eternal things. But it isnāt how we were created to be, weāre broken and we need saving. We desperately need Jesus to give us eternal life.
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