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Knowing for Sure About Unlimited Life

Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ’s person, work, and office, is the life, heart and mainspring of the Christian soldier’s character.

It’s a very big question. How can you really know that you have eternal life? If you don’t have a clear answer, you will live in insecurity and fear. And that’s not God’s will for anyone! Some people will tell you that you can’t know for sure whether you have eternal life until the end of your life. How wrong they are! Our text tells you the exact opposite. That’s why John wrote his letter to his Christian friends.

We know that we have eternal life because God has promised it to those who have believed in Jesus (John 1:12; John 3:16). And Jesus made it perfectly clear in John 5:24 (CEV): “I tell you for certain that everyone who hears my message and has faith in the one who sent me has eternal life and will never be condemned. They have already gone from death to life.” That declaration trumps every other objection we can throw up.

Later in 1 John 3:14, we read the only test that Scriptures gives us to gauge whether we have eternal life. It says, “Our love for each other proves that we have gone from death to life. But if you don’t love each other, you are still under the power of death.”

So, our love for each other is the “ultimate test”, the place where the rubber hits the road of our Christian life. Take some time today to examine your life. Have you allowed God to pour his love into you?

By Dr. Eliezer Gonzalez