Tracking Zoe
FOUNDATION STATEMENT: Zoe
is what we should be living in today.
Jesus came so that we could have zoe and have
it abundantly. He died the death of
the cross and defeated Satan so that we wouldn’t have to in bondage to death,
but his will is that we live above death and its effects. - John 10:10, 2
Timothy 10:1
I. Tracking Zoe
A. Adam was created with it
1. Genesis 1:26, 2:7 –
God said, “Man be in my image” and he spoke zoe into that man
a. That life that is in him,
is the life of God – it came from God
b. That’s zoe in him –
God doesn’t have two kinds of life
B. Through disobedience Adam
lost zoe
1. Gen 2:17-He didn’t die in
the sense that he ceased to exist, he died in the sense that he disconnected
from the source of zoe, and he hooked up to the force of death
a. Spiritual death is to be
disconnected from God who is zoe
1) Get physical death out of
your thinking
b. He didn’t have zoe
working in him, he had that force of death working in him
1) The moment he turned zoe
off, his physical life immediately got worse because zoe was no longer working
to crowd out all evil
2. The Force of Death
a. Death is the force of
darkness that works to manifest the curse
b. All sickness, all lack,
all poverty, all of the curse is the result of this spiritual force of death
working in your life
c. As a believer you can
have zoe in you, but through disobedience to the commandment of love, you
activate and release that force of death in your lives (Galatians 6:7 –
This was written to unborn again people; this was to the church)
1) That’s where many
believers are today. They have zoe in them, but with their disobedience and negligence to
the command of love they are activating that death force and seeing the results
that force produces.
2) The wages of sin is death
(Romans 6:22)
3. He lost zoe and deactivated
it through disobedience & it works the same way today
a. When Adam disobeyed and
the force of zoe was deactivated the force of death was turned on and
immediately things began to progressively get worse
b. Through that disobedience
Satan had the power of death over men and he used it to curse the whole Earth
with mission of turning Earth into hell (Hebrews 2:14-15)
C.Jesus died spiritually
went to the pit of hell and got born again
1. Jesus came to get it back
into the hands of man
a. Zoe is working in Jesus
while he’s in the Earth
1) They couldn’t kill him,
people were getting healed, and delivered every where that he went
2. Jesus become obedient
unto death (Philippians 2:8)
a. He submitted to death and
allowed death to come on him
1) Death came on Adam
through treason, it came on Jesus through obedience
b. He never sinned so how
did death come on him
1) You can’t activate that
death force without sin, anymore than you can activate zoe with obedience to
the command of love – If Jesus is going to activate it he needs sin
(Romans 5:12)
a) Death came into the world
through sin
2) The only way Jesus is
going to get death is by sin (2 Corinthians 5:21)
a) He took our sin and used
it to activate the death force
b) Death/darkness couldn’t
come until light/life left and light/life couldn’t leave until he had sin
3) The force of death was
working in him and on him; that’s how the sickness got there, that’s how the
torment got there, that’s how the poverty got there – He activated the
force that produces all those things
c. He lived without zoe so
that you would never have to
3. Jesus died spiritually; Isaiah
53:9 – He died spiritually and physically
a. Matthew 27:46 – God
turned his back on the one who never did wrong
1) 1 John 1:1-5, John 1:5
– God is Zoe, Zoe left him
a) Zoe was with the Father
and manifested unto them
2) Spiritual death is to be
disconnected from the Father & that’s what happened to Adam through
rebellion, but it happened to Jesus through obedience
b. You can’t be alive
spiritually and get into hell
4. Jesus went to hell and
experienced the full death of a sinner.
He was tormented beyond anything that you can imagine.
a. Matthew 12:40, Acts
2:30-34 – He spent three days and three nights there
b. Isaiah 53:9-He made his
grave with the wicked; the OT saints weren’t wicked
c. Luke 23:43-Paradise is
the upper regions of hell & Jesus dropped that thief off on the way down
there
1) That’s not where he went,
because that’s not were a sinner goes
5. Jesus was the first man
ever to be born again from death to life
a. 1 Timo
3:16, 1 Peter 3:18 – To be made alive in the spirit you have to be dead
first
b. Colossians 1:18, Romans
8:29 – He was the first born from the dead
c. Hebrews 1:5-6 – God
spoke the word of life into hell and Jesus got born again
6. Jesus took Satan’s
authority away from him through combat
a. Hebrews 2:14-15 –
Satan had the power of death, but He doesn’t have it any more because Jesus
took it from him in the pit of hell
1) Col 2:14-15 – Jesus
stripped Satan of all the authority that he took off of Adam
b. Hebrews 1:3 – One
born again man defeated all of hell
1) 2 Tim 1:10-He hath
brought zoe and immortality to our sight through the gospel
c. Matthew 28:18 –
Jesus got zoe back
1) Proverbs 18:21 – We
have the power of life and death now
2) Ephesians 1:19 –
The same zoe that raised Jesus from the dead is in me
D. John 10:10 – He
came that we might have zoe abundantly
1. He didn’t come so that
you could just be healed, just be prosperous, or just go to Heaven; He came so
that you could abound & overflow and be excessive in zoe & zoe will
keep you abundantly healed, abundantly prosperous, abundantly victorious
II. As believers we got zoe deposited on the inside of us when we
got born again
A. We have authority over
darkness and it’s in us (John 3:15-16, 5:24, 6:40, 47, 20:31)
1. When you made Jesus the
Lord of your life and got born again the two-edged sword of God’s Word cut your
spirit from shoulder to hip and emptied you of that spiritual death and
imparted life/zoe on the inside of you (Romans 2:29)
2. You can be born again w/
zoe in u & harvest the force of death & it’s results in your life