Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
John 11:25-26 ESV
Probably the greatest promise we have from Jesus is the one assurance we have about life. This life as God has it, is both eternal life and quality of life here and now. Jesus said the thief comes to steal kill and destroy, but I am come that you might have life (Zoe) and have it more abundantly.
zōē – life (physical and spiritual). All human life (2222/zōē), and all creation, is derived. None is "self-standing," all comes from (is sustained by) God's self-existent life. The Lord intimately shares His gift of life with people – creating each in His image which endows them with the capacity to know His eternal life.” Helps Word Studies
Once again we have the revelation that all God life begins and ends in Jesus Christ. In the beginning of Johns Gospel we learn that Jesus as life is the light of mankind. It requires his life and light to dispel every place of darkness. Zoe is the Greek word for life. God’s life (2222/zōē) is inextinguishable, indestructible, and inexhaustible and through it creates and sustains all things (Jn 1:3).
Life always and only belongs to the Lord. He gives life and breath to all. We derive life from God but only He possesses life in Himself. Life that is without beginning or end (Jn 1:1-4; Rev 1:8) And The Lord shares His life . . . "abundantly" (literally "all-around").
Jn 10:10: "The thief does not come, except to steal and kill and destroy. I came so that they [believers] could constantly have (experience) life (2222/zōē), and could continuously have (experience) it all-around ('encircling,' 4053/perissós)." Helps Word Studies
Jesus as the resurrection and the life comes to impart this God life, Zoe, by delivering mankind from his sin nature.
Jn 3:16: "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life (zōē)" (NASB).
Jn 5:26: "For just as the Father has life zōē) in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life (zōē) in Himself" (NASB).
Jn 14:6: "Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life (zōē); no one comes to the Father but through Me'" (NASB).
For as by a man came death, be a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive. 1 Corinthians 15:21-22
The very foundation of our Christian faith is Jesus Christ crucified, dead, buried and raised again by the power of God. This resurrection life is imparted into the believer as he receives Jesus as lord and believes that God has raised Him from the dead. The believing one passes from a state of spiritual death, which is separation from God, into newness of Life through his believing and the life he now lives is lived by faith in the Son of God.
“Because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Romans 10:9
As the Resurrection and the Life Jesus imparts new beginnings and new life into those who believe on Him.
Therefore If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new and all things are of God.... 2 Corinthians 5:17-18KJV
“We were buried with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.” Romans 6:4-5
Jesus is still the resurrection and the life. The one who believes on him, though he die, shall live and everyone who lives and believes in Jesus shall never die.
Do you believe this?”