In John 14:6, Jesus declared Himself “the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” In John 17:3, Jesus defines eternal life as knowing God and Jesus Christ. So eternal life as described in the bible is a relationship with Christ, not a measure of time or the absence of time. If eternal life is about knowing God, and not about living forever, we can enjoy what Jesus called eternal life even while we live. When we live by God’s moral law and seek to glorify Him in our lives, we experience eternal life in our walk on earth. This eternal quality of life is available only through Christ: solo Christo, as the Protestant Reformers summarized it.
In today’s message, Pastor John exhorts us to exercise our faith, so that we can experience God’s grace and experience heaven on earth. Through Christ alone, we have access to God and eternal life. This message is the third in the Core series on the five solas of the Reformation.
