Foundational 1

Foundational Class

SEGMENT 1: THE GREATEST SECRET IN THE WORLD; WHAT IS AVAILABLE In this first session of this Biblical research class on Power For Abundant Living I’d like for you to take your Bible and I’d like for you to turn to the Gospel of John, the tenth chapter. And here in this tenth verse of this tenth chapter we have one of the foundational scriptures for this class. As a matter of fact it is this scripture that literally turned my life upside down many years ago. It was this scripture that brought me to the place of starting into Biblical research. In John 10:10 we read, Jesus said: John 10:10: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. Jesus said he came that men and women might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. You know, this verse of scripture changed my life. We were in the ministry and we were moving ahead with the things as we thought they were the things of God, but some how or other we lacked an abundant life in almost every category. And here I was reading from the Word of God one day Jesus said he came that we might have life and have it more than abundant. And it sort of shook me because as I looked round about on the different people in the churches and in the communities where I served, and among the ministers with whom I worked; I failed to see an abundant life many times. I look in the secular world and there I’d see people who were not even Christians who were manifesting more of an abundant life than many times the people in the church. So I began to ask myself the question, “Why is it, if Jesus Christ came that men and women might have life more abundant, why is it that the Christian believers do not manifest an abundant life?” Then I noticed furthermore that that verse said he didn’t just come to