Jesus is Life

“And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life (1 John 5:11-12).

Following the thread of the last post I want to say a little more on what I feel the Lord has shown me concerning the sufficiency of Christ concerning my salvation. As is revealed in the scripture above, God has given us eternal life and this life is in His Son. It is in the person of Jesus. Not in a scripture about Jesus.

Now this truth is something that the Holy Spirit began revealing to me after my good friend Daniel Sparks shared with me some good thoughts concerning it. As I have been reviewing a book given to me by a friend titled Confident in Christ by Robert Wilkin I have begun to see more then ever the importance of it. What the theology in that book teaches is that we can receive eternal life apart from receiving the person of Christ. All you have to do (and I quote) is “believe that Jesus is the guarantor of eternal/everlasting life and you will be forever eternally secure for heaven.” Believe it or not but a church right up the road from my apartment, teaches the exact same thing.

To promise life without the Son is to promise death. John 5:39-40 I believe speaks perfectly to such delusion, “you search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.”