-John makes it incredibly simple and straighforward for us. He puts it in no uncertain terms - Jesus. God’s Son. If you have Him, you have eternal life. And the inverse is also true - if you do not have the Son of God, you do not have the life. And the order is important - you start with Jesus. Jesus said it Himself: “Truly, truly, I say to you, the one hearing My Word and believing the One Who sent Me has eternal life, does not come into judgment but rather has passed out of death into life. (John 5.24) This is eternal life, that they may know You, the One true God, and Jesus Christ Whom you have sent.” (John 17.3) It is begins, and ends, and goes on forever, right here... with Jesus.
-You wanna live forever? Jesus. You wanna go to heaven? Jesus. Sorry, Virginia, there is no other way. There is no other Name, there is eternal life in no one else (Acts 4.12). The spirit of our age longs to find another way, doesn’t it? Desperately insisting that there are many paths, many ways to find eternal life, all equally good and valid. To each his own, right? All paths lead to the same destination, don’t they? There are no absolutes, right? No one way, no one truth which is absolutely exclusively true, right? Except for this truth, of course. It is absolutely true that no one truth is absolutely true - that’s what they insist, don’t they? As they contradict themselves all the way to the grave. It’s generally not so much that they have found a better way - it is a fundamental reluctance to admit to God's way, to powerlessness and sinfulness, unwillingness to surrender to the God Who made them. Refusal to bend the knee to Jesus. ABJ - anything but Jesus. Whose grave is empty, by the way. But this is the way. Jesus. He is the ultimate fork in the road. To the right, Jesus. To the left, not Jesus. You go right, towards Jesus, you get the life. You go left, away from Jesus, you get nothing. Got Jesus?
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