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The Eternal Life

1John 5:13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God. 5:14 This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. 5:15 And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

If one must work does he or she have eternal life? Profound question is it not? But a simple truth overlooked and discredited by those living in fear of judgment in their flesh!

Romans 11:6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

The gift of God is what these brothers and sister were being talked out of for another Good News of “earned salvation”, not by a gift, but rather by works they never had in the first place. Yes, Satan the angel of light of the flesh, Satan the liar, whom told Eve essentially that she had life without God that she could be equal to God by having a gift God had given her freely.

1 Corinthians 4:7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn't receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

Romans 11:29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Now the same old lie was being used, nothing new under the Sun; none of God's anointed had anointed themselves or birthed themselves into the life of Christ. Not one had ever experience any such birth on earth in their flesh. Not one of them had ever received another person life in them let alone the eternal life. Yes, no mystery here, Christ is the eternal life, the eternal Father of us, why? Because we have received Christ eternal life in us, and us in him!

John 1:13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 3:3 Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew,{The word translated "anew" here and in John 3:7 (anothen) also means "again" and "from above".} he can't see the Kingdom of God."

1 Peter 1:23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

Had they received eternal life if they had Christ in them? Of course they had, or they hadn't, there is nothing in between light and darkness that is of God's. The message is quiet simple there is no darkness in the light that is the message from the beginning what had changed in these brothers and sisters?

James.1:16 Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.
1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow. 1:18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Was Christ righteousness at work in them? Did they have the Holy Spirit that was teaching them? This was not a unreality a word game where children think if they believe hard enough then they can make themselves into something else or live somewhere that is a fancy.

Unreality is what God's people experienced in the flesh these brothers and sisters flesh was dead in Christ so they could become the reality, the light. Where does darkness come from if its not from evil one?

Romans 2:19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness.

2 Corinthians 4:6 seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness,"{Genesis 1:3} who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 10:1 For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Colossians 2:12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

How can teaching claim to be the light when those teaching are telling us we don't have eternal life that is indwelling us? What Doctor tells their patient they don't have life that they must work to gain it, they must study and read to have life, what fools game is being play here by the intellects of the word of God. If it not life than it is death, is there something in between that for God's children?

John 5:39 "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

John 5:40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

John 6:47 Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.

1 John 1:2 (and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

1 John 5:11 The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

If the eye of the body is not judged, then the whole body is not judged, have we separated the judgment of life into degrees like attorney of law? What is being said here by false teachers that the eye needs something the body is not going to supply it? Well, yes, that was the lie being told by false teachers, but why? Because the things being ask for were not of God's will, and/or the will of the body in Christ. So how does one get the world if we are in the body of Christ that is no part of the world, we don't!

James. 4:1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
4:2 You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.
4:3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

John tells us right at the start not to love the world that is none of it, none of it is the light and loved by God. The message is very clear there is no darkness in light, and the world is darkness to God and all of its ways and teaching are vanity.

1 John 4:5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

1 John 2:15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

Does Christ listen to his body members or not? Yes, or no? Everything in between are lies, the lurking place of the demons. So, yes of course, he does as we do our own body. How can we have life in our body and not think its in our toe?

1 John 4:1 Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Let us not be foolish here those having the eternal life must listen to what the Spirit says, not the power of the world working through some teacher using the bible. The eternal life is the truth and the Spirit we must have to be in God's righteousness, that is, Christ Jesus our righteousness that has conquered this world, has sanctified us, who is our wisdom, and God's love, which cannot fail. In that we have confidence, but not in our flesh dead to God and Christ in the life of Christ. In Christ life not our old dead life we have boldness in the day the Lord will judge mankind the living and the dead, because in Christ is God's love and there is no judgment in God's love.

1 John 4:9 By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

1 John 4:17 In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

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