Believe and Obey.

Do you believe in - Eternal Life.

You will not perish if you believe in Jesus Christ.

But you say- people still perish even as they confess their belief, and you speak the truth. We all die. There isn't a single person on earth who has lived more than the maximum human life span- a hundred or so years at most. They perish. However, what doesn't perish when we believe in Jesus Christ is our hope for the resurrection in the last day, when the trump of Christ sounds and the dead in Christ rise. There is HOPE beyond perishing.

Joh_3:15  That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

To perish would be to never have a resurrection to a new life, to a life eternal.

To perish is to face a second death, the death from which there is no return.

Rev_2:11  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

Those who have the hope of eternal life through Jesus Christ will not be hurt in the second death.

Rev_20:6  Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

The first resurrection- those raised from the dead in Christ- death has no power over those raised in Christ.

Rev_20:14  And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

Death and the grave destroyed. Death and the grave to reign no more. Death and the grave ended. No more death, no more graves.

Rev_21:8  But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

All sin, all sinners will be no more.

This is life eternal, the life we are called to by Jesus Christ.

We live in this temporal world surrounded by fear, unbelief, abominations, murder, indulgers in illicit sexual lusts, those who believe in sorcery, those who worship anything other than God, liars. This is the world we live in, the world that constantly glorifies all the variations of the aforementioned evils, and there are millions of variations. This world uses covering make up and layers of clothing to shroud the evils and calls them good so that millions upon millions believe in the evils thinking they are good. Rather than admit that this world is corrupt at its very core and truly destined for destruction, people live their lives of indulgence and a lot of them do so even thinking they know Christ and have eternal life.

Mat 7:22  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 

Mat 7:23  And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. 

Using the name of the Lord these people will think they have power from the Lord, that their lives are being used by the Lord, and yet they are deceiving themselves. Why? How?  The world calls them, the world and its evils are embraced by them, the evils hidden beneath layers of deception.

We need only truth, and that truth is found in Jesus. And Jesus tells us-

Joh_14:23  Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

We need to keep Jesus' words.

Joh_14:15  If ye love me, keep my commandments.

And don't try to alter those commandments to make them into something you can keep all the while committing atrocities, even subtle atrocities. Anything that goes against the commandments of God, of Jesus, even in the slightest way is a sin, a transgression in need of repentance and forgiveness, not to be overlooked at unimportant.

More on this tomorrow by the GRACE of our LORD and SAVIOR, by the WILL of GOD now and forever!!!!!!!