Sunday Rhapsody Of Realities: Eternal Life-A Promise Fulfilled!

In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour (Titus 1:2-3).

The Bible says, “...all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us” (2 Corinthians 1:20). The eternal life that He promised before the world began was fulfilled when Christ came: “For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us” (1 John 1:2).

Jesus came to do much more than die for our sins; His death was a means to an end: to give us eternal life—the God-life. We’ve become partakers of the divine nature—associates of the God-kind (2 Peter 1:4). In 1 John 5:13, the Apostle John writes, “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life...” Eternal life isn’t something you’ll have in the sweet by-and-by; it’s a promise fulfilled. It’s the possession of the one who believes in Jesus Christ, being a gift from God: “...but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6:23).

Eternal life has come! Once, it was a promise, a hope afar off, but Christ has died; Christ is risen, and we were raised together with Him to a newness of life. He’s brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel (2 Timothy 1:10). This is what excites us to preach the Gospel, and tell men and women about Jesus. He came, not just to save humanity from sin, but also to give us eternal life—the God-life. True Christianity is the pulsating life of Christ in a human person; it’s the revelation of eternal life.

PRAYER: Dear Father, I thank you for the privilege granted me to make the Gospel known to those in my world and the regions beyond! I declare that as many hear the Gospel today, their hearts will be open to receive, and their minds able to understand, accept and live by your message of life, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

FURTHER STUDY: Matthew 28:18-19 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Acts 13:48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Luke 8:1-21 Joshua 3-4

2 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Matthew 26:36-46 Exodus 38