Welcome
to this Article where we are going to discuss the subject of Eternal Life And You. Many Followers of JESUS' have been taught that
Eternal Life happens to you when you pass over from this life to the one to come.
Eternal Life begins the very moment a person accepts JESUS CHRIST as
their personal SAVIOR.
We begin our journey by going to the New Testament
where JESUS spoke to a Pharisee named Nicodemus -
John 3:1-15
"Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to
JESUS at night and said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from GOD. For no-one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if GOD were not with him." In reply JESUS declared, "I tell you the truth, no-one can see the kingdom of GOD unless he is born again." "How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be
born!" JESUS answered, "I tell you the truth, no-one can enter the kingdom of GOD unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the SPIRIT gives birth to SPIRIT. You should not be surprised at my saying, `You must be born again.' The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the SPIRIT." "How can this be?" Nicodemus asked. "You are Israel's teacher," said JESUS, "and do you not
understand these things? I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? No-one has ever gone into heaven except the ONE who came from heaven--the SON OF MAN. Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the SON OF MAN must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in HIM may have eternal life.
"For GOD so loved the world that HE gave his ONE and ONLY SON, that whoever believes in HIM shall not perish but have
eternal life."
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On the topic of Eternal
Life And You, where are you today? Are you like Nicodemus, who was religious in all of his ways but did not know the things of GOD'S SPIRIT? If you are
living by your own standards or by legalistic standards, then look into your heart and see that the
Word of GOD has opened your heart and you find yourself wanting before JESUS this very
day.
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