August 7

John 5:24
 
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life” — John 5:2424Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24).
THERE is perhaps no clearer word in all the Bible than this as to how one may know he has eternal life. Note the five great pillars on which assurance rests. First, “He that heareth My Word.” Have you heard God’s Voice in the Word? Has it spoken to your inner ear—the ear of your soul? Second, “And believeth on Him that sent Me.” To believe on Him is to trust in Him. Do you confide in God as the One who sent His Son to die for you? Third, “Hath everlasting life.” Note there is no peradventure here. All who believe have God’s great gift of life eternal. Fourth, “Shall not come into condemnation.” That is, “judgment” for all that our sins deserved was borne by Jesus, so no believer will ever have to meet God in judgment about the guilt of the past, Fifth, “Is passed from death unto life.” All who have thus come to God as revealed in Christ are born again:
“Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Verily, verily, message ever new,
He that believeth on the Son, ‘tis true,
Hath everlasting life?”