Monday, March 31, 2025

PT-2 "Eternal Life" (1 John 5:13)

 

EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/31/2025 9:11 PM

 

My Worship Time                                                                                Focus:  PT-2 “Eternal Life”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                         Reference:  1 John 5:13

 

            Message of the verse:  “These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.”

 

            I have to admit that I really thought that this verse would only take one SD to finish, but I have to do things in my Spiritual Diaries that I believe the Lord is guiding me to write, especially when it comes to the end times sections that come to mind when I am studying a passage.

 

            John MacArthur writes “As has been clear throughout, the blessings of salvation and assurance are only for those who believe in the name of the Son of God (cf. the discussion of 3:23 in chapter 13 of this volume).”  My Spiritual Diaries from chapter 13 of MacArthur’s commentary begin on 1-23-2025 to 1-31-2025).  “God has guaranteed these blessings to Christians by giving them the Holy Spirit as a pledge (Eph. 1:14).”  14 who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.”  “John’s uncompromising presentation of the truth in absolute, unqualified terms, the relentless attacks of the false teachers, and the departure of some of the false believers (2:19) had shaken his readers.  The apostle assured them that if they passed the doctrinal and practical tests, they could know for certain that they had eternal life. 

 

            “In its most basic sense, eternal life is liven forever with God in heaven (Matt. 25:46; Mark 10:30).  But as noted in the discussion 5:11 in the previous chapter of this volume, the term does not refer primarily to duration of life, but to quality of life.  Eternal life is to know Jesus Christ (John 17:3), who Himself is eternal life (1 John 5:20), and to share in His life.  It is a present possession, not merely a future hope (John 3:36; 5:24; 6:47, 54; 10:28; 1 John 3:15), though it is not fully manifested in this life.  But there will come a day in the future when the eternal life believers already possess will no longer be incarcerate in their sinful, fallen flesh. On that glorious day, they will experience their “adoption as sons, the redemption of [the] body’ (Rom. 8:23; cf. Phil. 3:21; 1 John 3:2).  Then the glory of eternal life—the power of the Trinity that works within them (cf. Eph. 3:16-19)—will shine through them unclouded by their mortal bodies.”

 

            All I can say that this has begun in my life on the 23rd day of January in the year of our Lord 1974, and for my wife it was sometime in April of 1974, and praise the Lord my two adult children became believers when they were very young, and not all of my seven grandchildren are believers, and I have to say that there is no greater feeling than that. 

 

            Once again I am asking for worldwide prayer for wife as we have found out that she now has cancer and is to be operated on at the end of April.  My prayer is that God will be glorified through this as we fight this battle, praying for wisdom to win this battle with her cancer.

 

3/31/2025 9:32 PM

 

 

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