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  And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.   I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. 

  And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.  If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that. All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death. We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him. 

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. And we know 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, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.  Little children, keep yourselves from idols. 

 

 

Beloved God wants you to know that you have eternal life,  not think so, not hope so, but know so. It not based on your shifting faith, because if we get real, our belief can be shaky. We know that we have eternal life because it is based on the object of your faith, which is Jesus. Listen. “He that hath the Son hath life.” He didn't say, “He that belongs to the church has life.” You might say, “I'm a Baptist” or “I'm a Methodist” or “I'm a Presbyterian” or “I'm a Nazarene” or “I belong to the Church of God.” It does not matter what church you belong to—your church membership does not mean you are saved. In other words are part of the organization or the organisms.   

 Listen, John has a twofold purpose in writing this epistle: (1) “that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God”—that's salvation, and (2) “that ye may know that ye have eternal life”—if you have Christ, if you have believed Him, you have life. A great many people say, “I just want to believe that I have eternal life.” The question is: Whom do you believe? Not what do you believe, but whom do you believe? Do you believe God? Do you believe the record that He gave? He says that if you have the Son, you have life. Now do you believe that? John didn't say if you feel like it or if you have joined something, but if you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior. And if you have Him, then you have life.

This is the reason John has written this epistle—“that ye may know that ye have eternal life.” This was also the purpose of the Gospel which John wrote: “And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: But these are written [John didn't write everything, just certain things], that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God [that's who He is]; and that believing ye might have life through his name” (Joh_20:30-31).

If you have the Son, you have life—John wants you to

 

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