God’s Wonderful Promises – Eternal Life
As we learned in Part 1 of God’s Wonderful Promises, God always does what He says and promises. Because of God’s perfect character and perfect faithfulness, God’s promises are actually guarantees. Whatever God says or promises is guaranteed by God to happen. You can always count on God to fulfill His word and promises.
Now we will begin to look at some of the thousands of promises in God’s Word. We will start in this article with God’s promises for salvation and eternal life.
God’s Great Love
God loves you very much. You are God’s first love, and He loves you more than anything else that He created.
And you are God’s treasure, and you are more valuable and precious than to God than anything else He has created.
And you are God’s passion, and He is passionate about you and about having a restored personal love relationship with you.
Because God loves you so much and you are so valuable and precious to Him, more than anything God wants you (and all people) to have true salvation. Salvation is a reconciled and restored personal relationship with God, and then close fellowship with Him. He wants you to have peace with Him, which is a restored personal relationship with God.
- “We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” – Romans 5:1
God also wants you to have eternal life with Him in heaven when your life is done here. He wants you to be a co-heir of His eternal kingdom and spend the rest of eternity with Him.
- “God wants all men to be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth.” – 1 Timothy 2:4
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God’s Wonderful Promises
God’s Wonderful Promises – Eternal Life
God’s Word the Bible is full of promises about salvation and eternal life. Salvation is not just about being saved by faith and repentance, and then waiting around to go to heaven forever. It is about having a restored relationship with God through Jesus Christ. And then growing in and enjoying close fellowship with God. And being an active participant in God’s plan and mission in the world.
John 17:3 – “Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.”
Matthew 4:19 – “And He *said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
Matthew 28:19-20 “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to follow all that I commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
God’s Wonderful Promises – Eternal Life
Here are some of the many of God’s wonderful promises about eternal life.
John 6:47 – “Truly, truly, I say to you, the one who believes has eternal life.”
John 11:25-26 – “Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; the one who believes in Me will live, even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this ?”
1 John 2:25 – “This is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life.”
Romans 8:11 – “But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”
More Of God’s Wonderful Promises – Eternal Life
1 John 5:12-13 – “The one who has the Son has the life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have the life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.”
1 Corinthians 15:20-21 “But the fact is, Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. For since by a man death came, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead.”
Romans 8:1-2 “Therefore there is now no condemnation at all for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.”
Romans 6:23 – “For the wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
God’s Wonderful Promises – Eternal Life
John 3:16 – “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.”
John 10:27-28 “My sheep listen to My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.”
2 Corinthians 5:1 – “For we know that if our earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.”
2 Timothy 1:10 – “but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.”
More Of God’s Wonderful Promises – Eternal Life
Daniel 12:2 – “And many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt.”
1 John 5:11 – “And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.”
John 14:6 – “Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.”
Luke 20:35-36 “but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage; 36 for they cannot even die anymore, because they are like angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.”
God’s Wonderful Promises – Eternal Life
Galatians 6:8 – “For the one who sows to his own flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.”
John 6:39-40 “And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that of everything that He has given Me I will lose nothing, but will raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”
John 14:2-3 “In My Father’s house are many rooms; if that were not so, I would have told you, because I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I am coming again and will take you to Myself, so that where I am, there you also will be.”
Revelation 21:4 – ” and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.”
These are just some of the may of God’s promises about eternal life.
Our next Bible study article on God’s Wonderful Promises will focus on God’s promises for forgiveness.
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