~~~~~~~~ Bible Verses ~~~~~~~~

John 1:4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.
10:10 I have come that they may have life and may have it
abundantly.
1 John 5:12 He who has the Son has the life; he who does not
have the Son of God does not have the life.

~~~~~~~ Words of Ministry ~~~~~~~~

[Part 2 of 2]
The principle of the tree of life is dependence. Perhaps many
of you are not clear about this principle of dependence.
Allow me to use the illustration of graduation. Nearly
everyone reading this message has graduated from some kind of
school, either elementary school, high school, college, or
university. We may graduate from studying, but we should
never graduate from eating.

Furthermore, we cannot graduate from drinking water or from
breathing air. I encourage you to study well and to graduate
from school as soon as possible. However, I would never
encourage you to graduate from breathing, for if you do that
you will die.

What is the meaning of this? It means that knowledge creates
independence and that life demands dependence. Obtaining a
certain body of knowledge permits us to graduate and to act
independently. For example.after studying the art of cooking
under an expert chef, I will eventually become knowledgeable,
independent, and able to cook without the aid of my
instructor. However, in the things pertaining to life we can
never be independent. We are dependent upon life constantly.
I have been breathing since the day I was born, and I
continue to breathe twenty-four hours a day. I have never
graduated from breathing. I should not say, “I have practiced
enough breathing. Now I am an expert. I can teach you to
breathe, but I don’t need to breathe myself.” Regardless how
old we are, we remain dependent upon breathing because
breathing is a matter of life.