PENnED

November 16, 2011

Read: 1 John 2:18-27

²⁴ As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. ²⁵ And this is what he promised us—eternal life.

There was a young man who attended my Bible study and who said that whatever he did, even if it was a very bad thing, like killing, would not endanger his soul. He believed that because he “accepted” Christ, he was predestined to go to heaven.

Eternal life, however, is promised to genuine believers and not to counterfeit ones. The real ones are those that “remain in the Son and in the Father.”

Fakes won’t make it; but to the real ones the Lord will say, “Well done!”