We now walk with Jesus in eternity, or, as Paul put it in Romans 6:5, “If we have been united with him in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection.” If we got this far, of believing Jesus’ death got us to eternity, then we can be [...]
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Eternal life is to be experienced. This is what Jesus died and rose for, Romans 5:21, ”so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Eternal life is ours to experience now because of Jesus. He “brings” eternal life to us, to use Paul’s term, [...]
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Justified, reconciled, saved, they’re all old-fashioned words that may not mean much in today’s English. So are words like righteousness, sanctification and atonement. So, perhaps, are sin, faith and grace. And yet they’re all essential words in the explanation and description of what God accomplished for us in Jesus Christ. Can [...]
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When the children in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe step into the magical land of Narnia, they have no clue whatsoever what’s coming next. Nor do we as we step into our eternal life now, but like the children in Narnia, we get clues and hints along the way. [...]
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When Christ died for the ungodly, the tumblers in the locks on the gates to eternity magically clicked to the unlocked position. The gates from now on would only need a little push to swing open. The little push needed would be our faith. That’s all, just faith, Romans 5:2, because it’s by [...]
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So there you are, interested in eternity at last, rather than being totally consumed with success and everything working out right in this world. But eternity looms before you like an impenetrable castle on the hill. How does a frail, physical human get through walls that thick, ramparts that high, and gates that [...]
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The key to our eternity is gaining access to God’s grace, because it’s only by his grace that our eternity is guaranteed (Romans 4:16). How does one get access to God’s grace, then? How do we break the lock? Religion says we break it by our obedience to a complicated set [...]
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There’s that moment of hesitation and then triumph when a safecracker gets the combination right and the safe door swings open to reveal the contents. There’s so much disappointment when it comes to cracking God’s safe, however. People try all kinds of combinations, think they’ve got it, pull on the handle but the [...]
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God stands on the other side of a great abyss, a huge chasm between himself and us. He stands there holding an incredible gift for us, the best we could ever wish for. He then has to watch us trying to leap across the chasm to get it. It’s a pathetic sight, as [...]
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