ETERNAL LIFE

Jesus said:


'Now this is eternal life: that they may know you,

The only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.' (John 17:3)

In Jeremiah 31, God says through Jeremiah, concerning the New Covenant
The following:
The time is coming,’ declares the Lord,
‘When I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel
And with the house of Judah.
It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers
When I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt,
Because they broke my covenant though I was a husband to them,’
Declares the Lord.

‘This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time,’
Declares the Lord.
'I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God and they will be my people.
No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother,
Saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
Because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,’
Declares the Lord.
‘For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.’
(Jeremiah 31:31-34)

Here God says that in the New Covenant
He will put His law in the minds and write it on the hearts of His people.
When He does this,
It will not be necessary for another person to teach them to “know” Him,
Because they will all “know” Him from the least to the greatest.

The Apostle John picks up this theme in the New Testament:
'But you have an anointing from the Holy One,
And all of you know the truth.
I do not write to you because you do not know the truth,
But because you do know it
And because no lie comes from the truth.' (1 John 2:20)

Continuing John says:
'As for you
The anointing you received from him remains in you,
And you do not need anyone to teach you.
But as his anointing teaches you about all things
And as that anointing is real, not counterfeit;
Just as it has taught you remain in him.' (1 John 2:27)


Here the apostle John connects “knowing” God
To the Anointing from The Anointed One.
The Anointing being that which enables a person to “know” God.
This reality brings together the Old and New Testaments
Regarding the nature of the New Covenant,
And the Anointing, the baptism (immersion) in the Holy Spirit
Imparted by “The Messiah, The Christ, The Anointed One.”

As Christ Jesus said, “knowing” God is eternal LIFE.
It is Christ in us, the Anointing of The Anointed ONE
That enables us to “know” God the Father,
And Christ Jesus and the Father are ONE.

In order for His Anointing to be effective in us,
We must fully surrender our will to the will of Christ in us;
We must be crucified with Christ and no longer live,
But allow Christ to live in us,
Then we “know” Him and we are ONE with Him.


“Knowing” Christ and becoming ONE with Him are the synonymous.
We cannot “know” Him and not be in full agreement with Him.
This would be an irreconcilable contradiction.
When we are in full agreement with Him
We are ONE with Him.

Everything regarding Faith is initiated by God,
But requires our submission to His will.
God speaks to us in His still small voice.
We hear and respond to that voice.
With the faith that God gives us, we make a confession of that faith.
When we make a confession of faith;
When we make the declaration that Jesus is our Lord,
And believe in our heart that God raised Him from the dead,
We are saved out of this world.
We are washed in the blood of Christ,
And receive His Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit in us, Christ in us,
The Anointing of The Anointed ONE in us,
Becomes our teacher.
We must then allow our hearts are circumcised by the Holy Spirit,
A circumcision done by Christ,
So that we have His heart;
So that we no longer live but Christ lives in us.
Only when we surrender our will to His perfect will,
Does His Kingdom come, and His will be done,
In us as in heaven.


When we allow Christ to accomplish this in us,
We live in His Kingdom, the Secrete Place of the Most High;
And His Kingdom lives in us.
Then we “know” Him or rather are “known” by Him. (Galatians 4:9)
Then we are ONE with Him,
And have eternal LIFE in the here and now.

LIVING IN ETERNAL LIFE IN THE HERE AND NOW
God has given us eternal life, and that 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)


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. (1 John 5:13)

Jesus said:
'For my father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son
And believes in him shall have eternal life,
And I will raise him up at the last day.' (John 6:40)

Jesus said about His followers:
'My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish;
No one can snatch them out of my hand.' (John 10:27-28)

Christ is now our LIFE,
And this LIFE is eternal as He is eternal.
We have died to this world and its ways
We have been crucified with Christ and we no longer live,
But it is Christ who lives in and through us,
And we live in Him.
His righteousness, peace and joy reign in us.

God is LOVE and LOVE is our LIFE,
And His LIFE is our LOVE.
We live His WAY, by His TRUTH as He lives in and through us.
His WAY and His TRUTH are above all LOVE.


God is LIFE itself since He is the Self-Existent ONE.
Without God (which is a contradiction in itself) there would be nothing!
As He is entirely LIFE, He is entirely LOVE.
As He is entirely LIFE and LOVE, He is entirely the WAY and the TRUTH.
LIFE, LOVE, LIGHT, the WAY and the TRUTH, embody God’s eternal Kingdom.


In His Kingdom there is ALL provision and everything that is good.
Righteousness, love, peace and joy reign in God’s Kingdom.
God is all powerful, all seeing, all knowing, present everywhere.
He knows everything about us.
He knows every thought and experience we have ever had.
He knows how long we will live.
He created us and made us just the way we are.
We are fearfully and wonderfully made.


God made us in His image, with a soul (mind, will and emotions);
With a heart to rule over these.
But when Adam and Eve disobeyed God and fell from His grace,
Their hearts were corrupted by the knowledge of evil.
Since we are in the lineage of Adam and Eve we too have corrupted hearts.
The only thing that can change our hearts is the Holy Spirit of God.
The only way He can change our hearts is for us to submit our will to His will.


Eternity, LIFE in the Holy Spirit, LIFE in the Kingdom of God
Requires that we have the pure heart of God,
And become ONE with Him.
Eternal LIFE is being ONE with God, forever.

That which was from the beginning,
Which we have seen with our eyes,
Which we have looked at and our hands have touched--
This we proclaim concerning the Word of life.
The life appeared;
We have seen it and testify to it,
And we proclaim to you the eternal life (Christ),
Which was with the Father and has appeared to us.
We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard,
So that you also may have fellowship with us.
And our fellowship is with the Father
And with his Son, Jesus Christ.
We write this to make our joy complete. (1 John 1:1-4)

See that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you.
If it does, you also will remain in the son and in the Father.
And this is what he promised us--even eternal life. (1 John 2:24-25)

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)

We know also that the Son of God has come
And has given us understanding,
So that we may know him who is true.
And we are in him who is true--even in his Son Jesus Christ.
He is the true God and eternal life. (1 John 5:20)

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
That whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.(John 3:16)


Christ in us is eternal LIFE in the here and now and the by and by.

*Scriptures quoted are italicized and from the New International Version.