“There Is No Way We Can Live Without You God”

John 15:4-7

Without is defined as with the absence, omission, or avoidance of; not with; with no or none of; lacking. 

We owe our being to the God in whose image we are made. Our existence depends on God, whether we acknowledge His existence or not. God is life and all creation is held together by the power of Christ. Even those who reject God receive their sustenance from Him: He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. To think that man can live without God is to suppose a sunflower can continue to live without light or a rose without water. Jesus came that we may have life “and have it to the full.” All who place their trust in Him are promised eternity with Him. For man to live, truly live, he must know Christ. Without God, man has physical life only. God warned Adam and Eve that on the day they rejected Him they would “surely die.” As we know, they did disobey, but they did not die physically that day; rather, they died spiritually. Something inside them died, the spiritual life they had known, the communion with God, the freedom to enjoy Him, the innocence and purity of their soul, it was all gone. Adam, who had been created to live and fellowship with God, was cursed with a completely carnal existence. What God had intended to go from dust to glory now was to go from dust to dust. Just like Adam, the man without God today still functions in an earthly existence. 

I come by this afternoon to let you know enjoyments and pleasures cannot be fully received without a relationship with God. Jesus stresses this point when He says, “Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” Not bread (the physical) but God’s word (the spiritual) keeps us alive. It is useless for us to search within ourselves for the cure to all our miseries. Man can only find life and fulfillment when he acknowledges God. Be bless and I love you!!! JE