Life in the Son
Eternal Life is found in RELATIONSHIP with the Son
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Many turn relationship with Christ into Religion. Jesus said in John 6:53 ” ….you have no life in you.” We have no Eternal Life apart from a Abiding Present Relationship with Him. If a person does not ABIDE (To Remain and not Depart) in Relationship with Him, they do not have eternal life. Anything else is just “religion.” Religion will not get you into Heaven. It is “Apart from Faith”. Hebrews 11:6 “Without faith it is impossible to please Him..” Some would like to insist that Eternal Life in found in a prayer they said years ago. They just turn relationship into religion. If you only look back on something you did in the past to declare your salvation, you have a religious experience. You think you are a Christian by something you said. Please read the book of First John. John clearly states that our profession is meaningless without an ongoing lifestyle of obedience to Him. Jesus said the same thing in Mat 7:20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
Mat 7:21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’
Mat 7:23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ If you and I declare we are “Christians and our life proves otherwise we are “Religious” no matter what has happened in the past. God will say depart from Me. Many in the “church” today say their is no need to call Him Lord or be obedient to Him. They have another Gospel. –(Religion)
Making Disciples – Relationship or Religion
The Great Commission is to go and make Disciples. This is not done over night. It is a process of making Obedient followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. The modern day church tends to make a one time act or decision into a relationship with God. This is nothing more than “Religion.” Relationship with God involves me “Hearing His Voice and Following Him.” Man like to think he can get “into Heaven” by praying a prayer. Let’s see where he is 20-30 years down the line. Is he still an Obedient follower of the Lord Jesus Christ? If not, then Jesus is not his Lord, and he will not find himself in heaven. The bible tell you and I we must Abide with Him. “My sheep are Hearing my voice and are Following Me.”
We are commanded to “Abide, Remain and Continue. We are warned departing from God.
Heb 10:38-39 “NOW THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH; BUT IF ANYONE DRAWS BACK, MY SOUL HAS NO PLEASURE IN HIM.”
But we are not of those who draw back to perdition (Destruction), but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.”
Heb 6:11-12 “And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end, that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.” The Promises of God are for those who continue in their Faith and Love for God. Those who are having Relationship with God right now.
Col 1:21-23 “And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight—if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard…”
Rom 11:22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.
Heb 3:14 “For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end…”
Some like to negate the warnings of Christ; “He could not possibly have meant what He just said.”
John 15:6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
