The Bible says that anyone who believes in Jesus
for eternal life receives it.
Not exact matches
Well if you're not serving Jesus then you're working
for the devil who cares
for no one, but there's still time
for you to serve the lord and shun the devil, give your
life to Christ my friend and
receive eternal life don't be blinded by Satan and say that Jesus is not real, he is real and you know he «s real, deep down inside you know he exists, and the bible proves it know matter how you try to deny it.
29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands,
for my name's sake, will
receive a hundredfold [c] and will inherit
eternal life.
29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife [k] or children or lands,
for My name's sake, shall
receive a hundredfold, and inherit
eternal life.
Generally, they include the following in their gospel definition: - human sinfulness - the deity of Jesus - the death of Jesus on the cross
for our sins - the resurrection of Jesus - the necessity of faith in Jesus to
receive eternal life
And if we believe the promise, if we believe what God has said, if we believe in Jesus
for eternal life, then we have
received the free gift of grace.
That Blood has to be applied to one's
life in order
for one to
receive eternal life.
John's baptism of repentance
for the forgiveness of sins was the Jewish baptism of repentance which I wrote a few posts about, and which has nothing to do with
receiving eternal life, and everything to do with the repentance of Israel as a nation so that she can be restored to her rightful place among the nations as God promised in Scripture.
If a person goes to church, reads their Bible, and calls themselves a Christian, but has never believed in Jesus
for eternal life (John 3:16; 5:24; 6:47), then they have not
received the indwelling Holy Spirit.
People believe in Jesus Christ
for eternal life, the
receive the seal of the Holy Spirit in their
lives, but then we tell them they can just sit around and relax.
Depending on who you read, most Christians have between five and ten propositions which they say constitute the entire gospelm, all of which must be believed
for a person to
receive eternal life.
If you confuse purification gospel truths with the presentation truth, then you might think it is necessary
for a person to repent of their sin or believe in the future judgments in order to
receive eternal life.
But to
receive eternal life, Jesus says that everyone who believes in him alone
for it, will
receive it.
Once you have
received the baptism of the Spirit, which all Christians do at the moment they believe in Jesus
for eternal life, there is no reversing or undoing it.
Once we clarify what these words mean, a lot of confusion get pushed away about what the Bible teaches regarding
eternal life and the condition
for receiving it.
It is possible to believe in Jesus
for eternal life (and of course,
receive eternal life as a result), but still not be «saved» from many of the temporal and physical consequences of sin, or from sickness, or from enemies, or from many of the other negative things that can happen in
life.
We have already seen how everywhere in the Bible, 99 times in the book of John alone, the single and only condition
for receiving eternal life is believing in Jesus Christ
for it.
While the death and resurrection of Jesus are central to the Gospel, believing in the resurrection of Jesus is not required
for a person to
receive eternal life from Jesus.
If we are talking about how to
receive eternal life, it is not simple belief that matters, but believing in the right person
for the right thing.
They hear a pastor, professor, teacher, blogger, or evangelist say that to
receive eternal life, all you need to do is believe in Jesus
for it, and the objector says, «That's not true!
Since it is about the election and rejection of Israel
for God's purposes, many believe that Romans 9 teaches that even after we
receive eternal life, if we fail to
live according to God's purposes, we either lose our
eternal life or we prove we never had it in the first place.
I don't disagree (if I am understanding you correctly), but we must make sure we understand the difference between how to
receive eternal life (believe in Jesus Christ alone
for it), and the logical and theological foundations
for that truth (deity of Jesus, death and resurrection of Jesus, sinfulness of humanity, etc., etc., etc.).
then we now have another question: «Has the condition
for receiving eternal life changed?»
Others have noticed this same thing, and we
receive daily e-mails and phone calls from people saying they are prayerfully supporting Bob Wilkin, myself, and the ministry of Grace Evangelical Society as we continue to present the offer of
eternal life to all who believe in Jesus
for it.
Jesus says that we
receive eternal life by believing in Him
for it (John 3:16; 5:24; 6:47; etc.).
All people have the ability to respond to the light of revelation that they have
received, and if people respond, God has obligated Himself to make sure that they
receive more light so that they too may believe in Jesus
for eternal life.
A person
receives eternal life simply and only by believing in Jesus
for it.
It doesn't matter how good or bad we've been — if we simply believe in Jesus
for eternal life, we
receive it.
As
for Matthew 19:21 - 24, I don't think Jesus was talking about how to get to heaven or
receive eternal life in that text.
For it is in giving that we
receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in dying that we are born to
eternal life.
Jesus said: «no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields
for me and the gospel will fail to
receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields — along with persecutions — and in the age to come
eternal life» (Mark 10:29 - 30).
To
receive eternal life, you simply believe in Jesus
for it (John 3:16; 5:24; 6:47, etc.).
Is it possible that the reason that the Corinthians were so concerned about baptism is that they had been taught by the Apostle Paul and other Christian evangelists that salvation and the promise of the resurrection of the dead and
eternal life are
received in Baptism, just as orthodox Christians, including Lutherans, have been teaching
for almost 2,000 years??
So,
for example, if your hear a pastor saying, «You have to take up your cross daily and follow Jesus in order to go to heaven when you die,» you can look in the text he is preaching from (maybe Matthew 16:24 - 26 or Luke 9:23 - 26), and see that Jesus is talking about saving your
life (which is NOT the same thing as
receiving eternal life) by
living in a profitable way here on earth (cf. Luke 9:24 - 25).
Where the Bible only speaks about laying down this
life for Christ, in order to
receive peace and
eternal salvation.
Craig i thought what you wrote was really good and agree with you.Enduring to the end is not that the person hasnt already
received eternal life by faith in Jesus Christ as once done that is a done deal.Enduring to the end is to encourage those who are persecuted to keep believing in Christ and do nt lose there faith and trust in God and to be strong in the faith.In doing so they will get there reward from the Lord because they trusted him more than the fear of death.They overcame them there persecuters with love
for the Lord that is true courage.brentnz
For if, as Calvinists teach, God, in eternity past, chose some people to be the beneficiaries of His grace so that they, out of all the people of the world, might alone
receive eternal life from Him, then Israel, as God's elect people, should all unconditionally
receive eternal life from God.
Repentance is something all people should do to avoid the devastating consequences of sin, but repentance is not a condition
for receiving eternal life.
Though many Calvinists argue that double predestination is the only logical conclusion to the Calvinist position on God's election of some (but not all) to
receive eternal life, I am not going to belabor the point or try to refute the idea since most Calvinists claim that they do not teach or believe it... (
for more on reprobation and double predestination I recommend this book: Vance: The Other Side of Calvinism, pp, 250 - 333).
If this is true, John is not trying to teach that believing that Jesus is God is how a person
receives eternal life, but that believing that Jesus is God brings a person to believe in Jesus
for everlasting
life.
The Christians felt that they were being persecuted
for their faith, and not a single dancer
received eternal life.
There is only one condition
for receiving eternal life — and that is believing in Jesus Christ
for it.
For it is in giving that we
receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to
eternal life.
But precisely
for this reason all Christians do not only
receive a complete and supposedly concrete natural law which is communicated to them by the official representatives of the Church, they also find out
for them - selves the actual requirements of public
life, so that all may have as much freedom as possible, a freedom that can act with God in view and thus create that personal finality which
receives God himself as its
eternal meaning.
For example, we say that to receive eternal life, you must simply believe in Jesus for
For example, we say that to
receive eternal life, you must simply believe in Jesus
for for it.
Here's some more Christian language terms
for you; This secular article is demonically charged to turn - off others who might be open to
receiving the Lord's gift of
eternal life.
Even if, however, all the contextual and exegetical material presented above is wrong, and this verse does in fact teach that God ordained these particular Gentiles to
receive eternal life (which the arguments above show He did not), this verse is still not a good proof - text
for the Calvinistic doctrine of Unconditional Election.
From the results of my own study, I believe there are only two likely candidates
for places where the word «save» refers to
receiving eternal life: Acts 16:30 - 31 and Ephesians 2:8 - 9.
While I still believe that the only way to
receive eternal life is to believe in Jesus
for it, I do not believe that this is the summary of the gospel.
The gospel is good news
for all aspects of
life, not just good news about how to
receive eternal life.