How to Live So You Never Have to Die: A Key to Maximising your Life.

By John Bullock

A look into the wider Biblical meaning of death. It is not simply the act of dying but also a condition that you can live in. Having been crossed over from death to life, it is still possible to be feeding death. This book is full of answers to help you to maximise your life .

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Mar 4, 2014
• ISBN: 9781483523668

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CHAPTER ONE

MAXIMISE YOUR LIFE

It started with a lyric from a beautiful song.

I had never seen the musical ‘Les Miserables,’ until it came on the big screen. I sat awestruck and extremely moved as the actress, Ann Hathaway sang, ‘I dreamed a dream.’ It was a great and believable rendition. At the end of the song is the line: ‘life has killed the dream I dreamed.’

That one line began a process of thought that was to transform my life yet again.

It is all in the word life.

Fontaine, the character played by Ann Hathaway didn’t say a person or date, or luck or circumstance had killed her dream but rather, life.

It was life that killed her dream.

What did she mean?

Well, eventually this precious, precious gift that we have been given called life will creep up on us and destroy us. It rarely ends well. In the majority of cases it kills the dreams.

For several months I had been teaching on the meaning of death within the context of Scripture and the fact that most of the time it doesn’t mean the termination of life but rather a condition that we live in. a condition that is affected by others and circumstances.

There are two ways of being alive.

The Bible says that at the point of salvation, we cross over from death to life. This means life with the possibility of maximising it according to the promises of God.

‘Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.’ John 5:24

But there is a problem:

Jesus also said,

‘The thief comes only to kill, steal and destroy but I have come that you may have life and life more abundantly.’ John 10:10

It is clear that the ‘life’ spoken of by Fontaine in ‘Les Miserables’ is actually the death spoken of in Scripture, as in: crossed over from death to life.

So, the questions I’m going to seek to answer are the following:

1.What is the potential of this new life?

2.What are the guidelines to achieving this potential?

3. Can every believer achieve this abundant life?

Let’s make a start.

CHAPTER TWO

THE POTENTIAL OF THE NEW LIFE

What is the potential of this new life that we have crossed over into?

‘He replied, ‘because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, Move from here to there, and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.’ Matthew 17:20

Nothing will be impossible for you.

In a sentence, Jesus makes clear that once we have crossed over into a life of faith, nothing will be impossible for us and He links this to being able to speak to mountains (problems).

That’s quite something! No wonder Jesus refers to the life He came to give us as ‘abundant.’

This is what it means to be more than a conqueror.

‘No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.’

Romans 8:37

What a positive message!

For years I had puzzled with the following thought:

Why does the Bible promise so much and we seem to experience so little? Through persistent prayer and study I began to see it. The search was conducted, in part, down to my own failure, problems, and, at times, torment and relative