GOD’S WORD FOR  MAY 4

We are reading from a daily devotional  called “Running To Win” written by Erwin Lutzer  and the late, great D.L. Moody.   Erwin Lutzer is a light in our day as D.L. Moody was in his.  Besides his many ministries, and many books, Pastor Lutzer was Senior Pastor at Moody Church in Chicago for 36 years and now serves as Pastor Emeritus there.  He is Chancelor and a former professor at Moody Bible Institute, where he taught Theology and Ministry, and now has numerous radio teachings.

ETERNAL LIFE IS NOW!

John 5:24

“whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life.”

D.L. MOODY

A man once prayed for me that I might obtain eternal life “at last”.  I could not have said “Amen” to that.  I obtained eternal life over forty years ago when I was converted.  What is the “gift of God.” If it is not eternal life?  What makes the gospel such good news?  Is it not that it offers eternal life to every poor sinner who will take it?

ERWIN LUTZER

Eternal life starts the moment we believe and continues into eternity.  Eternal life is to know God and His Son, Jesus Christ (John 17:3).  God invites us into His fellowship as members of His eternal family.  So let us draw near, taking advantage of the welcome the Father gives to His children.  I have a friend who prays for me regularly and he always signs his texts, “Christ is life!”

After Jesus cried, “It is finished” in John 19:30, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom by an invisible hand (Matthew 27:51).  We have confidence to enter into the most holy place by the blood of Jesus (Hebrews chapters 9 and 10).  It is Jesus who gives us that right and that authority to come directly to the Father.  That is our privilege as those who have inherited eternal life and already enjoy its benefits after having fully and uniquely trusted Jesus’ sacrifice for forgiveness of our sins, instead of trying to earn it ourselves.

It’s as if Jesus delivered us to the Father and says, “These are the redeemed; they belong to us both, now and forever.”   All of life, until we see Him face to face, can be lived in the here and now in the very presence of God.  As my praying friend reminds  me, even now, “Christ is life.”

PRAYER

Father, I stand amazed at the gift of eternal life, and because of that, we can boldly enter into Your presence by the blood of Christ.  I praise you for that.

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John 10:28-29 – And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.

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 Romans 8:38-39 – For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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 1 John 5:13 – These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God.

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 Ephesians 1:13-14 – In whom you also trusted, after that you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that you believed, you were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

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 2 Timothy 1:12 – For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

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 Hebrews 10:22 – Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

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 Philippians 1:6 – Being confident of this very thing, that he which has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.

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 1 Peter 1:3-5 – Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

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