My Thoughts Wesley Crawford

Zoe Life

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

The Greek word for life in this verse is Zoe. This is the life we lead when we follow the Spirit. This life, which we want, is in Jesus. Actually, it is Jesus and we're to be like Jesus. He's our example and we're to follow our example. Jesus said in Matt 16:24, deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow me. The phrase, follow me, occurs seventeen times in the gospels. I think this signifies the importance of our following Christ.

Zoe - G2222 - 1. life-above and 2. epithet of Jesus
{literally or figuratively. used in a mortal, temporal sense and in an eternal sense.  The act of genuine, neighborly kindness is living above mere bodily, flesh-driven existence.}

Epithet is an interesting word and one I didn't know, so I looked it up online. Here's what Wikipedia says:
An epithet or byname is a descriptive term (word or phrase) accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, divinities, objects, and binomial nomenclature. It is also a descriptive title.

Jesus is the way, Jesus is the truth, and Jesus is the life. When you think of the way you think of Jesus, when you think of the truth you think of Jesus and when you think of the life you think of Jesus. Each word in it's truest form is Jesus.

2Cor gives us a better understanding of what Zoe life is. The life we are or should be seeking in Christ.

2Cor 5:1-5 ESV
1 For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling,
3 if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked.
4 For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened-not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
5 He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

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