Eternal Salvation
The life which mankind has
standing in Christ after His death and resurrection is spiritual and eternal.
But when one believes and receives Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, he receives
the right or authority to become a child of God, an adopted son. He is then
translated from the kingdom of darkness, into the kingdom of the Son of God’s love.
At the point of acceptance, and translation from the kingdom of darkness into
the kingdom of light, the individual receives eternal salvation. Christ gives
them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch
them out of His hand (John1:12; Colossians1:13; John
10:28-29).
Eternal Salvation is to believe
and accept what transpired on the cross. It is to believe in Jesus Christ as
the Beloved Son of God who divested Himself of His divinity to become the Son
of Man, so that, “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so
must the Son of man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him may have eternal
life” (John
3:14-15; Romans 10:8-13).
Those who choose to believe Jesus
Christ and receive Him have been born again, “Not of blood [human life], nor of
the will of the flesh [human passion and desires], nor of the will of man
[one’s determination], but of God” (John1:12-13).
It is, by grace we have all been
saved through faith and that not of ourselves, it is the gift of God, not of
works lest anyone should boast. Eternal life is Jesus Christ, who is also the
substance of faith, He is God’s gift to all mankind, and in whom we all stand.
Eternal Life therefore
constitutes two things:
• Eternal existence of the
spirit:
• Eternal salvation of the spirit
Everlasting Life however is
different from both the eternal existence of the spirit, and the eternal
salvation of the spirit. It is the everlasting existence of the human body,
which has a beginning and would have naturally ended, for it is appointed unto
man once to die, but it will be made to live forever. In contrast, eternal life
has eternally existed, and will continue to exist forever. Eternal death is not
the cessation of life as with physical death, but it is separation from God.
Everlasting life however, is the
immortality of the human body which Christ alluded to by saying, “Most
assuredly I say to you, unless one is of born of water [flesh] and the Spirit,
he cannot enter the kingdom of God” (John 3:5).
In order for anyone to inherit
the kingdom of God, the mortal must put on immortality, and the corruptible
must put on incorruptibility, because Flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of God: nor does corruption inherit in-corruption” (1
Corinthians 15: 50-53; Romans 8:11, 23).
Everlasting life or immortality
is guaranteed only to those who, not only believe in Jesus Christ as the Beloved
Son of God, Who became the Son of Man and died for the sins of man, but who
also believes in Jesus Christ as the Begotten Son of God Who became our
resurrection and the life.
To be continued
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With brotherly love
Lucius Joseph
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