ETERNAL LIFE: YOURS RIGHT NOW

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God wants everyone to have and to experience Eternal Life beginning right now in this life, not to wait to experience it in the afterlife. Sin separated man from God, but God made a way for the entire human race to be reconciled to Him by giving us His only begotten Son, Jesus, who was born of a virgin, lived a sinless, perfect life and gave His life for us.

¹⁶ “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. – John 3:16 NRSV

How do you know if you have this Eternal Life in you? Again the Word of God makes it plain:

¹³ I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. – 1 John 5:13 NIV

There you have it, if you believe in the Name of Jesus, then you have Eternal Life. We can’t earn Eternal Life, we receive it by faith. It is by grace that we've been saved, through faith.

What exactly is this Eternal Life, someone might be wondering, isn't it just being alive forever with God in heaven? Yes, Eternal Life includes, but it’s not limited to, being alive and well forever after this life is over. Again, let’s see how the Good Book defines Eternal Life, this is Jesus Himself praying:

³ And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. – John 17:3 NRSV      

Being intimately acquainted with the Father and the Son is the very essence of Eternal Life. Now, how can we mere mortals even begin to know the Almighty? Worry not beloved, He’s given us His Spirit; it is the Holy Spirit who reveals Christ to us, He takes what belongs to Jesus and shows it to us. The Holy Spirit also searches and reveals the deep things of the Father to us. God loves us and desires intimacy with us and has given us the gift of Eternal Life for that purpose.

The Father has given us His Spirit so that through Him (the Holy Spirit) we may be able to know not only what He has freely given us, but also that we may know Him. The gift of Eternal life enables us to enjoy our lives right now regardless of our circumstances; every area of our lives is positively impacted for the glory of God. The abundant life that Jesus spoke of in John 10:10 is but a part of this awesome gift of Eternal Life.

This gift of Eternal Life is available to anyone who decides to believe in Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Everyone who does not believe in Jesus does not have Eternal Life and while they might be alive and well on planet earth, they are spiritually dead.The opposite of eternal life is spiritual death, eternal separation from God, an awful, terrible, torturous form of existence that God never intended nor prepared for mankind, it is the result and ultimate consequence of sin. 

²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. – Romans 6:23 NIV

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When we believe in Jesus and what He did to reconcile us back to the Father, we receive this gift of Eternal Life and are translated from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of God’s dear Son, the Kingdom of Light. The Word says:

³⁶ He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” – John 3:36 NKJV

The gift of Eternal Life is available to every single person, if you are in Christ, it’s in you, go ahead impact the lives of those around you with it today.