WHO
WANTS
TO
BE A
MILLIONAIRE?
The only
person able to give eternal life - Answer:
The Lord Jesus declared (John 14:6),
' I am the
way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by
Me.' Jesus is the only way
to eternal life. He alone is the
support of spiritual life; His doctrines give life and peace to the
soul.
In order to be saved and have eternal life, a man must come to the
Lord Jesus and accept Him by faith, recognising that He is the Son
of God and the Saviour of the world.
John 6:47
- 'he that believes on Me has
everlasting life' - is one of the clearest and
briefest statements in all the Word of God concerning the way of
salvation and eternal (everlasting) life. The Lord Jesus
stated in words that can hardly be misunderstood—that whoever
believes in Him has everlasting life. However. we need to
recognise that "believing" means more than simply head knowledge,
believing, for example, that He once lived on earth. We might
believe that we can catch a bus and go to town, but it doesn't mean
we are in town. That's only going to happen if we actually get on
the bus. Merely believing is not enough!
James 2.19 tells us that the
demons believe ... and tremble.
So there is a bit more to "belief" than
simply "head knowledge". The Bible tells us what to 'believe', but
we must put into action by faith what that belief is all about.
Faith comes by hearing the word of God (Rom.
10. 17)The message of the Christian gospel is that Jesus
Christ is God’s only Son who became human – the God-Man – to live,
to die, to be buried, to be raised from the dead and ascend into
heaven… all in order to become OUR Saviour from sin!
John 6. 47 is one of many
verses in the New Testament section of the Bible that teaches that
salvation is not by works, not by law-keeping, not by church
membership, not by obeying the Golden Rule, but simply by believing
in the Lord Jesus Christ. The believer in Christ has
eternal life because he/she gives him/herself
to Him, trusting in Him alone to be saved from the penalty of sin. When you receive Jesus Christ as your Saviour from
sin, you live forever.
Eternal life is a matter of believing that God came in human flesh
in the Person of Jesus Christ who died as a substitute in our place,
bearing our sins in His own body upon the tree.
In John 6:68, Simon Peter asks
the question to the Lord Jesus Christ, 'Lord
to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life'.
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