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When did Jesus come to give you life and life more abundantly? Now in this life or the next?
Also do you have to receive His life now in this life or the next in order to receive eternal life? What is you don't in this life will He forgive you and give you eternal life in the next even though you did not receive His life in this life?
Source John Chapter 5:39-40.
He is the man through the Holy Spirit that knocks on the door of your heart. Will you open the door and let Him in to have a meal in front of your enemies. Be prepared to have to fight against other evil spirits that knock as well and will force their way in if you open the door...lol No seriously.
Woe you say that we do not earn then say we have to do in order. Now that is hypocrisy. I think God is talking about those get who get what is who is the first to get what is first is last and the ones who get what is last is last.
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- JustinLv 72 weeks ago
People who worship a false Christ hate the verses I am about to post because the REAL Jesus doesn't teach us to be beggars and whine about poverty while only 'helping' others by commiserating with them. He is not some kind of 'hippy guru.'
"Jesus said, “Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel’s sake,
but that he will receive a hundred times as much now in the present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life.
“But many who are first will be last, and the last, first.” (Mark 10:29-31).
People often blow right by these powerful verses and assume they apply only to men like the apostles who dropped everything and 'left behind' everything they had to follow Jesus. In reality, not even they actually did that. We still see them interacting regularly with family members. What was Jesus talking about?
Christians have been called to 'leave behind' the old and obsolete social models and the social roles once set for us by the world's 'first families,' ('First last and last first'). Jesus was describing the end of the age of aristocracy and the '100 fold' prosperity of the modern world fashioned after His new models for family, business and farm. They honor a new brotherhood across all previous lines of culture, birth class and gender.
Most people simply take this new liberty, integration and prosperity for granted now. Many are even part of the proportionate 'persecutions' Jesus also describes accompanying the changes as the remnant old order futilely struggles to reestablish itself and return us to oppression and 'rule' once again using self-proclaimed 'earthly lords.'
Joining Christ's New Covenant and agreeing to forgive all personal and tribal wrongs done to us in exchange for GOD's forgiveness of our own evil is how we attain eternal life. The 'abundant life' here on earth allows us to develop a 'reward' in the life to come, since scripture explains that GOD 'translates' our earthy life here into a 'heavenly' equivalent there, very much like translating a language.
So what we do and the example we represent here matters, but eternal life itself is not 'earned.' It is a free gift of GOD granted to those who accept it by forgiving everyone else who agrees to make the same decision for others.
"We love, because He first loved us." (1 John 4:19).
- 2 weeks ago
Jesus came 2000 years ago to give life more abundantly in this life and the life to come
- Anonymous2 weeks ago
Believing in the Lord Jesus Christ means having eternal life right now, permanently. The Lord Jesus Christ is God, and He loves you. Believing in the Lord Jesus Christ means being forgiven all sins past and future, and means going to heaven and not hell. Death leads to immediate heaven or hell, and it is too late to be saved, after death. All believers still sin. See 1 John 1:8. To be in heaven and not hell, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is God and who died on the cross and shed His blood to pay for all of our sins in full, and who was buried, and who resurrected from the dead. The only way to avoid hell is by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, without adding any of your own works. See Romans 4:5, 1 Corinthians 15:3-4, and John 3:16.