What is the abundant life Jesus talked about?
The abundant life Jesus spoke of is the life produced by the Holy Spirit, expressed in the nine fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance. It is not merely salvation as a fire escape from hell, but the inner result of believing the Gospel and living in those Spirit-produced attributes.
Les explains that the abundant life Jesus talked about is seen in the nine fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance. He divides them into three segments of three. The first three—love, joy, and peace—are the inner results of salvation in the believer, what we experience simply because we have believed the Gospel. Salvation is not merely a fire escape from hell; it also gives this abundant life. Against such things there is no law, and nothing can oppose them.