How Can You Know You Have Eternal Life? | Doug Batchelor
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Happy Sabbath from To'Hajiilee NM
I struggle too much in my sin of lust of the flesh. I feel as though I'm already lost. I do believe in one God the almighty 🙏. I have depression that keeps me bummed out and down most of the time. I need a guide or someone that can be a mentor to me.
If the Holy Ghost was not received as Jesus did, which includes witnesses seeing the apparition descend and hearing the Father speak (Luke 3:22), then that person has not repented of all of their sins, therefore has no guarantee of eternal life. It is interesting when those that have not received the Holy Ghost preach about receiving eternal life when they haven’t gotten the assurance from God. What is needed are teachers that have first walked the path rather than those that speculate on the path.
Recommit now. Praying for the ministry.
May God use me to help finish the work.
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LIFE ETERNAL… BUT PERMANENT? Many argue that because the life God gives us is eternal and not temporary, it cannot be lost. But by thinking this way, they seem to be missing a very important point. Because though it is true that the life God gives us through Jesus is eternal, this life must also abide in us in order to be permanent: "Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him" (1 John 3:15). How is this explained?
Understanding that God has placed this eternal life in Jesus, and not in us: “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), the only way it can become permanent and abide in us till the end is if we abide in the son of God, who said: "I am the vine, ye are the branches… Abide in me" (John 15).
In short, eternal life is actually IN THE VINE and not necessarily in the branches, unless they remain connected to the vine.
Therefore, in order for the branch to RETAIN that eternal life PERMANENTLY, it must ABIDE in the vine; otherwise it will lose it: “If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned” (John 15: 1-6).
And though it is true that Jesus said eternal life is obtained by believing in him: “He who believes in the Son has eternal life” (John 3:36), he also spoke of those who “for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away" (Luke 8:13). They simply don’t believe in a permanent way. In other words, when Jesus said that it was necessary to believe in him in order to have eternal life, he was referring precisely to that: BELIEVING, and not only to ‘have once believed’.
So the only way to be saved is by ‘enduring to the end’ in the faith, and persevering in doing the Father's will, that is, keeping the commandments of love: “the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved”; "Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven" (Matthew 10:22; 24: 12-13; 7:21).
Because he who does not abide in love but allows it to cool down, turning away from God and mistreating others, will become a 'murderer' in the eyes of God: "Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him", and unfortunately will lose that eternal life that God placed in his son, unless he repents and corrects himself, and returns to the narrow way: “Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins” (James 5: 18-19).
So while it is true that the kind of life God gives is not temporary but eternal, our participation in that life must also be permanent and not temporary; and if we want to keep it abiding in us, we also must abide in Jesus to the very end: "he that endureth to the end shall be saved" (Matthew 10:22).
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