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Eternal life is not just "a ticket to paradise".

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Updated: Dec 16, 2024



John 3:16. Many have heard this scripture. It's likely the most well known verse people hear, especially those who are seeking Jesus or new in their faith.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.


But there are a few more verses that we also need to be aware of when it comes to having everlasting life.

The reason why I say, that what Jesus did for us is more than a "ticket" out of here, is because many believers are unaware or may not fully understand why Jesus came.


There is more depth to the "Believing" in Jesus than many realize.


In Luke 10:25-28, Jesus says what it takes to have eternal life.

"And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said unto him,

What is written in the law? how readest thou?

And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live."


Jesus is saying, that having eternal life is realized by having a loving heart, mind, soul, and will, for God and for each other. He's saying if we don't love God and love one another we won't have eternal life.


Therefore, Jesus came to change our heart, mind, soul, and will. He came to give us his love and to live in us. He came to make us new. A new identity, heart, and nature, of love. If I have not love, I am nothing (1 Corinthians 13).


Love = Life. Thus, no love = no life. God is love. The devil is the absence of love. Sin is the absence of love.

Love is self-giving. Sin is self-getting (self-first, self-gratification, motive of getting, hard and selfish heart).


John 14:17. Jesus is foretelling the holy Spirit will indwell in those who believe in him.

"Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you."


John 14:20. Jesus is foretelling that at that day Jesus will live in our heart, mind, soul, and will.

"At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you."

What's "that day" mean? It means the day you "Believe" in Jesus as your Lord and Savior.


John 17:26. Jesus is saying that he came so that the Father's love would be in them and Jesus in them.

"And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them."


Ephesians 1:13. Paul writes, that when we believed in Jesus we are sealed with the holy Spirit of promise, which is Jesus dwelling in us, God dwells in the believer.

"In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,"


2 Timothy 1:7. As a born again believer, we have received the holy Spirit, who lives in us. The holy Spirit is God's love, it's Jesus, and we have love living in us, which give us life.

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.


Genesis 2:7 (God breathed His Spirit (love) into the man which gave him life. Love brings life).

God the Father, Son, and holy Spirit (One God, three persons, all are Love).

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.


If I have not love, I am nothing (1 Corinthians 13:3)


God is love.

God's Son is love.

God's Spirit is love.

The Word is love.

God's kingdom is love.

God's word is love.

God's character and nature is love.

God's motive is love.

God's command is love.

God's will is love.

God's ways are love.

God's precepts are love.

God's truth is love.

God's law is love.


God created us to love.


Born of God = Born of Love.

Born again = Born of Love.

Spirit filled = filled with God's love.


Eternal life is not just "a ticket to paradise".


Eternal life is about having a loving heart, which includes the mind and will of Christ (Love).


1 John 4:7-8

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

1 John 4:17

Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.


Romans 13:8,10

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.


Only a loving heart can have life (now and forever).

Only God's love gives us life. But we will not have life unless we are giving the love we have been given.

Love gives.

Jesus came to put God's love (Spirit) in our heart, mind, soul, and will, so that we could and would love Him and one another. Receiving and knowing His love, gives us the heart of love, to give to each other.


Giving is Living

Love = Life (Eternal Life)




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