John 16:33
I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.]
The overcoming life is also described as the abundant life. The abundant life is not a bigger house or a nicer car or even elaborate vacations . Abundant life is the life that breaks forth: through trail difficulties , distresses:
This is abundant life:
Matt 7:14
But the gate is narrow (contracted by pressure) and the way is straitened and compressed that leads away to life, and few are those who find it.
And this :
Rom 8:35
Who shall ever separate us from Christ's love? Shall suffering and affliction and tribulation? Or calamity and distress? Or persecution or hunger or destitution or peril or sword?
Rom 8:36
Even as it is written, For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we are regarded and counted as sheep for the slaughter. [Ps. 44:22.]
Rom 8:37
Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us.
And finally this is how the Abundant life was purchased for us:
John 12:23
And Jesus *answered them, saying, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
John 12:24
"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
John 12:25
"He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.
John 12:26
"If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
John 12:27
"Now My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say, 'Father, save Me from this hour'? But for this purpose I came to this hour.
Yes beloved of GOD the abundant life = the eternal life.. Without eternal LIFE THERE IS NO ABUNDANT LIFE.
Even sinners have cars beautiful homes and such things.. The excessive lavish living of the world can not and is not worthy to be compared to the true riches found only in Jesus Christ, the SON of the Living GOD.
Luke 12:15
And He said to them, Guard yourselves and keep free from all covetousness (the immoderate desire for wealth, the greedy longing to have more); for a man's life does not consist in and is not derived from possessing overflowing abundance or that which is over and above his needs.
It should be clear to us now when reading the above verse , having more is NOT the abundant life .
Ps 18:33
He makes my feet like hinds' feet, And sets me upon my high places
Where is this HIGH Place???
Eph 2:5
even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
Eph 2:6
and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
And where is this heavenly place????
Eph 1:21
Far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named [above every title that can be conferred], not only in this age and in this world, but also in the age and the world which are to come.
The Abundant Overcoming life is being in Jesus...
John 15:5
I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing.
