Daily Devotion With Pastor Dan Nickerson – November 20th, 2020
Does the Bible teach that we can know we are going to heaven? If so, what passage can be quoted to prove we can know? We may not be able to know we are going to heaven, but we can know we have eternal life (1 John 5:13).
The purpose of what John wrote, was so we can “know” we have eternal life. Our knowledge that we have eternal life is not based on emotions, a special testimony of the Holy Spirit, or an inner feeling. We can “know” based on what is written, for John wrote so that we may “know” we have eternal life
Preceding (5:13, John stated, “And this is the testimony that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He whow has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God, does not have life” (1 John 5:11-12). God gave testimony through the miracles He performed through Jesus (John 8:18) (John 10:25) (Acts 2:22), that through our believing in Him, based on what has been written concerning Jesus, we can “know” we have eternal life (John 20:30-31).
Rev Our assurance of eternal life is because we can share the eternal life that is in Jesus. We can “know” we have eternal if we are “in Him”; the source of eternal life. Our entry into Jesus takes place through our faith and repentance when we are baptized “into Christ” (Romans 6:3) (Galians. 3:27). Our having eternal life is dependent on our being “in Jesus” in whom is eternal life. Give the Lord praise today if you have been granted salvation in Christ Jesus, having been forgiven of all your transgressions against the living God, and made a new creation in Him. And since you are in Him, He will keep you for all eternity.