Spontaneous living

Someone once advised, “You’ll never really know God is all you need until He’s all you have.”

John 6:57 says, “As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.”

“When He says ‘eateth me,’ He’s talking about he that believes on me—takes me in and assimilates me-- 'even he shall live by me,' " explains Jordan.

“The comparison is, ‘As I live by the Father and I share the life of the Father, I’m going to let the people who believe on me share my life.’ Now what would that mean? Well, how do members of the godhead live and relate to one another?

“When God the Father looks at other members of the godhead, Psalm 16 says about the Father, ‘Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.’

“Colossians 1:19 says, ‘For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell.’ When God the Father takes action, He doesn’t think about Himself; He thinks about His Son, and everything He does is to make His Son preeminent.

“When you confess Jesus as Lord, who gets the glory out of that? Philippians 2:11 says, ‘And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.’

“So when Jesus Christ is exalted, who does He point to? He points to the Father. So He doesn’t live for His own exaltation; He lives for the exaltation of the Father, and the Father lives, not for His glory, but for the exaltation of the Son.

“Jesus tells us in John 16 that, ‘When the Holy Spirit comes, He won’t speak of His own but He’ll speak of  mine because He’ll glorify Me.’ Every member of the godhead lives spontaneously for the benefit of the other members of the godhead.

“Now that’s divine life. That’s deity life. That is eternal life. Eternal life has to do with living God’s life and it being your life. The way God’s life lives is that at every point, it lives for the benefit of the other.  That, by the way, is why there had to be three members of the godhead.

“That’s why three is the optimum number stamped all over creation because it reflects the godhead. It’s why three’s enough and five wouldn’t help any more.

“You get a 100 people in a room and we all share the same humanity. Our essence of humanity is all the same, but we’re a hundred different people. Well, in the godhead, the three people in the godhead all share the same essence of deity. But they are three distinct people.

“But the life they live, they each live for the other. Now, if there were only one of them, He couldn’t live for anybody else. If there were only two of them, well, they could never know for sure that they were sharing love because there needs to be a third object that you can choose from that I can value about you.

“But once you’ve got the third one, you don’t need four, five, six, seven and eight.

“By example, statistics say families in America have ‘2.1 children.' But when you have that third child, it changes your life as much as five more do. When you’ve got two kids, a four-passenger car works. The booth at McDonald’s works.

“When you have that third child, now there’s five of you. That four-passenger car won’t work until they’re about five years old.

“In the godhead, three allowed each one of them to live for the other equally and to demonstrate, ‘I’m living for you and I’m sharing with you and making that life work.’

“Eternal life isn’t just living forever; eternal life is the quality of the life that you live forever. You live that divine lifestyle; that divine attitude; that divine thinking process and this spontaneous living for one another.”