TODAY'S VERSE:

1 John 5:13 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.

We are learning about eternal security in prep school right now. What is that? It is having confidence in God’s promise of eternal life. If you are saved (remember the Gospel from last time? Admit you’re a sinner- repent, Admit you need a Savior, Accept that Jesus Christ died for your sins and is that Savior, Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior), then you are going to spend all of eternity with Jesus Christ- how exciting is that? How can we be confident in that? We are confident in our eternity because we are confident in God, Himself.

In today’s verse, John is writing to believers who needed reassurance of their eternal life. When he wrote this letter, there were false teachers. They taught lies!  What they taught made people afraid. John was trying to reassure the believers that they had eternal life through Jesus Christ. They were not to live in fear; they were to live in the love of Christ the same as we are to do! God has promised believers in the Lord Jesus Christ a permanent, eternal home in Heaven. Godalways keeps His promises! He tells us and wants us to know, without a doubt, that because through faith we have accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, we have eternal life! We can be confident in God!

1 John 2:25-26 This is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life. These things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you.

No unbeliever will turn to Christ as Savior without the help of God the Holy Spirit. No believer can live the spiritual life without the help of the Holy Spirit. God the Holy Spirit is the One who brings us to Jesus Christ and gives us His power to believe and to live our life in obedience to God the Father. We are His workmanship!  He will never leave us nor forsake us! The Spirit assures us of our eternal security!

Ephesians 1:13-14 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation – having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, 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.
 
Just like false teachers did in the days of John, Satan, the world, and our flesh also tell us lies about our eternal security. They want us to get our minds off our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and onto ourselves - leaving Jesus behind! That is awful thinking! Only Jesus Christ purchased eternal security for mankind; only He can give eternal security to mankind. He knew His mission from the Father – to save mankind – and He did whatever it took to accomplish that mission. He was and is always thinking of others. Our Lord and Savior has shown us how to live and tells us about it in the Bible. He doesn’t want to leave anyone behind. He wants to share His love and eternal life with everyone!

John 10:10-11 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly, I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

It is up to us to use our volition to have faith and trust in God. God gives us time to live our lives. He gives us time, the truth, and the divine power to believe in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. He gives us time to know who we are in Christ! What is true about Jesus Christ in His humanity is true about believers! Whoever believes in Jesus Christ has passed from death to life –to eternal life and eternal security! This can’t be taken away! Jesus Christ was raised from the dead, lifted up into Heaven and is seated at the right hand of God the Father. One day all believers will be looking into the eyes of Jesus Christ! What glorifies Him now is for us to live in His eternal life and eternal security! Through the power of God the Holy Spirit, we can rest in knowing who we are in Christ; through the power of God the Holy Spirit, we can live the life God wants us to live! We have eternal security because of who we are in Jesus Christ!
 
Thank You, Jesus, my Lord and Savior for eternal security! Thank You God the Holy Spirit for being my power to come to faith in Jesus Christ and to live the spiritual life. Thank You God the Father for sending Your precious Son to save mankind and for sending God the Holy Spirit as our Teacher, Helper, Comforter and Counselor!
 
Romans 6:4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
 
John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.