Ten Things John Said About Zoe-Life

The Gospel of John mentioned “zōē-life” in about fifteen (15) verses. We call it “zōē-life” to distinguish it, due to it’s spirituality and eternality, from psuchē-life which is temporal and earthly.

The following “ten things” John wrote about zōē-life is summary of his teachings:

1. The evangelistic purpose of John’s Gospel is stated this way: He wrote it,

“so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name” (John 20:31).

2. It presents two types of resurrections: one for those who have done good, the Resurrection of Zōē-life; and, another for those who have done evil, the Resurrection of Damnation (John 5:29).

3. It speaks of Jesus having zōē-life in himself granted by the Father (John 5:26).

4. It presents Jesus as THE zōē-life, the only way to the Father (John 14:6).

5. It presents zōē-life in Jesus as the Light of Men that shines which darkness hasn’t overcome (John 1:4-5).

6. It presents Jesus as the Light of the World that men should follow and never again walk in darkness (John 8:12).

7. It also presents Jesus, as the Bread from Heaven, the giver of ever satisfying, abundant zōē-life (John 6:33, 35, 48, 51; 10:10).

8. It metaphorically speaks of believing the words Jesus as partaking his own flesh and blood, so that they will live forever (John 6:51, 53, 63).

9. It assures anyone who dies believing in Jesus, the Resurrection and Zōē-life, shall live again (John 11:25) and those who lives and believes in shall never die (John 11:26).

10. It has issued a verdict that the people who loved darkness rather than light does wicked things and will not come to the light (John 3:19; 5:40).

Suggested reading: Ten Things John Said About Eternal Life.

Ten Things John Said About Eternal Life

The Gospel of John mentioned “eternal life” for about seventeen (17) times and with about fifteen (15) verses he mentioned zōē-life, that is, “zōē” in Greek translated as “life” in English.

Here are the summary of eternal life teachings in the Gospel of John:

1. God sent the Son so that whoever believes in him will not perish but have eternal life (John 3:15, 16; 6:40, 47).

2. Eternal life is to know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent (John 17:3).

3. Whoever hears the word of the Son and believes the Father who sent him has eternal life; he does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life (John 5:24).

4. The Son has the authority over all, to give eternal life to all the Father has given him (John 17:2).

5. The Son has the words of eternal life, the commandments of the Father, and the Scriptures testify about him (John 5:39; 6:68; 12:50).

6. Work for the food that endures to eternal life that the Son gives, his own flesh and blood (John 4:36; 6:27, 54).

7. Drink the water that the Son gives, it will become a spring of water welling up to eternal life (John 4:14).

8. Those who have eternal life will never perish, they can neither be snatched out from the Son’s hand nor the Father’s hand (John 10:28).

9. Those who have eternal life will see life, they will be raised up by the Son at the Last Day (John 3:36; 6:54).

10. Whoever hates their life [psuchē, Gk.] or those who have done good in this world will keep it for eternal life (John 5:29; 12:25).

Assured of eternal life are only those who hear and believe the words of Christ Jesus, the Son that God has sent into the world whom he has given all authority to save it. They have passed from judgment, they will never perish, and they will be resurrected at the last day.

Further readings: Ten Things John Said About Zoe-Life | What does it mean to be Born Again?

Ten Things the Bible says About the Promised Kingdom

There more than ten things to know about the promised Kingdom, the following are but a short list that we hope to get you started.

It’s a Kingdom God prepared from the foundation of the world.

After judging the nations in Mat 25:34, the King will say to those on his right, “Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”

It will be on earth.

Jesus taught his disciples to pray to the Father, “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” (Mat 6:10; Luke 11:2).

[Watch John Piper’s exposition on what it means to say “Your kingdom come” in Desiring God website.]

It will break to pieces all the other kingdoms on earth.

Dan 2:44 says, “And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever.”

The nations will no longer be deceived.

John foresaw in Rev 20:3 how Satan was thrown “into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore.” And Hab. 2:14 we read, “the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea. ” While in Psa. 22:27 it is written that the ends of the earth “shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship” God.

It will be marked with lasting peace, righteousness, justice, love and compassion.

In Hos 2:18b-19 says, “I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety. And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.”

The people of God will receive it.

Dan 7:22 says, “until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given for the saints of the Most High, and the time came when the saints possessed the kingdom.”

It will be a lasting Kingdom.

Dan 7:18 says, “the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, forever and ever.”

The Son of David will sit on its throne.

In 1 Chr. 17:11 God says to David, “When your days are over and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.”

The Son of David is Jesus Christ, the Son of God who was crucified.

In Lk. 1:32 the angel told Mary, “He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David.” Days before his rejection Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey as if to receive him as their king, “And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!’” (Mat. 21:9)

It’s fulfillment will be in the future, upon his return.

Jesus said in Mat 26:29, “I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s kingdom.” And Paul taught the disciples in 2 Tim 4:1, “I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom.”