“He who has the Son has life;
he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.”
1 JOHN 5:12
Would
it shock you to learn that God has not given us a thing called eternal
life? The Apostle John made this quite clear in his inspired writings,
saying first of all, in the oft-quoted John 3:16, that the Son is that
which was given, and eternal life is simply the reward for those who
receive the Son.
It
becomes even more apparent in 1 John
5:12. Yes we are given Eternal Life, true, but the Life is not floating
out in space somewhere waiting to fall on those who ask. Eternal Life
has nothing to do with everlasting existence. Eternal Life is a Person;
the Life is the Son; hence, we need only ask if we have received Jesus
and we shall know whether we have Eternal Life. The Life is bound up in
the Son, as is every one of God’s precious gifts. Having the Son, we
therefore have all the Son has. Eternal Life is simply an alias for
Christ.
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