Sentences with phrase «disciples have eternal life»

Brian, Let me ask you this: At what point in the ministry of Jesus did the disciples have eternal life?

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Jesus replies that though the disciples have given up their actual families, in the new corporate life of the kingdom a new family will be given, and in the final summing - up of all things, they will enjoy peace and eternal life with God.

The sovereign choice of Jesus in John 15:16 is not a choice of some out of the mass of humanity to receive eternal life, but rather, the choice of some out of all His followers and disciples to have a deeper fellowship with Him so that they might serve Him and become more productive followers.

If Levi did already have eternal life, then his actions here are a decision to become a dedicated disciple of Jesus Christ.

Following Bonhoeffer's exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, he gives an exposition of Matthew 9:35 - 10:42.39 Short vignettes are drawn of the harvest (the people are without a shepherd, without relief, deliverance, and forgiveness) for which one must pray for laborers; the call of the apostles (who are given power stronger than Satan's and are bound together only by their choice and call); the work (fulfilling their commission to preach, traveling as messengers of the King, living in «royal poverty,» warning men of the urgency of the times); the suffering of the messengers (as Jesus was persecuted so the messengers will be, but they are forewarned; because Christ will return the disciples are not to fear man, or to be gullible in thinking that «there is good in every man «40); the decision (man's eternal destiny is determined by his decision on earth for the devil or for Christ); and the fruit (the disciples are fellow workers having as their goal the «salvation of the Church»).41

Once a person has believed in Jesus for eternal life, they need to be discipled.

Eternal life is present now (5:24); judgment is happening now (10:26 - 28); even though the disciples in John's gospel have trouble understanding Jesus (as they did in Mark), at the very beginning of the gospel Jesus is described by John the Baptist as «the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world» (1:29).

The verses in John that record how to have eternal life were true of the disciples and N.T. believers.

Certainly, there are actions and behaviors that a disciple (or follower) of Jesus should have, and we can look for these, but these do not provide infallible proof about whether or not a person has believed in Jesus for eternal life.

Yes... When I came to faith / trust in Jesus Christ for eternal life, things similar to 7 - 9 were in my head until I had learned / been discipled enough to understand some basic truths and was able to see and discern error.