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John 17:2 tells us that God gave His son Jesus authority over all flesh , that He should give eternal life to as many as God had given Him. And verse 3 of John 17: And this is eternal life , that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
Eternal life is found in the eternal home with Jesus Christ.
Within these two verses we find that eternal life is knowing God the Father, and Jesus Christ , His Son, the Savior of the world. Now, not all men will be saved! That is evident today when so many seek their own agendas. But God had one plan and that was for a family! He desired to know those He had created and purposed for this day and hour of time.
John 3:33-36 NKJV 33 He who has received His testimony has certified that God is true. 34 For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure. 35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand. 36 He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on Him.
Certainly no one wants to think of the wrath of God at the time when one has lost a loved one, and scripture tells us that we can pray for them before they die.
In this Isaiah tell us from verse 21.......Isaiah 59:21 “And as for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD: “My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children’s offspring,” says the LORD, “from this time forth and forevermore.”
Now this is something that you and I should pray for our grown children and their children indeed!
These are two verses that we meditate on:
Proverbs 20:7 The righteous who walks in his
integrity— blessed are his children after him.
Proverbs 14:26 In the fear of the LORD one has
strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.
As parents we are to bring up our children in the fear of the Lord...that is to know Him, and honor Him! In that fear of the Lord scripture tells us from Proverbs 8:13..... The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way and the perverse mouth I hate.
In that very fear of the Lord we find His wisdom and knowledge to hate evil! Wisdom is paramount in God's plan. And to live life, is to live for Him through Him. That is receiving Him as Lord and be led daily by Him in all decisions we must make either as the young couple just starting out, the couple with children in the home, and for the older couples with children gone from home to raise their own children.
Each generation will be marked for His glory and to His praise. We are to know Him and speak as He would speak to us to our own children. For death will come since Scripture is clear that it is appointed unto man once to die...(Hebrews 9:27) and then the judgment. And Hebrews 9:28 continues.... so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.
Jesus' sacrifice for mankind was securing us to a personal and intimate access to God ( Hebrews 10:22) We are to await His coming with an eagerness of heart and with a victorious cry for we are the redeemed and we continue to speak it!
Psalm 107:2-3 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy, and gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.
He brought us out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their chains in pieces. 15 Oh that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men! 16 For He has broken the gates of bronze, and cut the bars of iron in two.( Psalm 107: 14-16)
For you and I who fear the LORD we have strong confidence in knowing we have a home with Him eternally. Our lives are lived by faith in Him. Our actions must speak loudly that we live by faith in Him, trusting He has us. Our responsibility is to live in confidence following His rules and commands. They are not burdensome. His instructions allow us to live in His grace and in that we have refuge.
The Apostle Paul wrote this in Romans 14:7-8 that "whether we live...or die, we are the Lord's.
We are to live in God's truth and do what is right for ourselves, our children's and all those we come in contact with on a daily basis.
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
That is where the rubber meets the road: when people see our witness is in Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. For when we stand all our days for the Lord, in our marriage, in our work, in our business and in raising our children, we stand giving witness to the One true God. We endure to meet our Savior face to face and live eternally with Him. What a grand day that will be when He appears and may it be sooner than later!
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