THE EVIDENCE of eternal life, the deferred if ultimate prize of the Blood that Jesus shed on the Cross is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, and faith. In other words, the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22).
It is hollow for a Christian to say that they have eternal life, yet they do not demonstrate righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. As is written, “And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.” Isaiah 32:17 KJV
If a professor looks like a Christian, walks like a Christian, talks like a Christian, thinks like a Christian, and eats like a Christian, then they are probably a Christian.
Brethren, let us live and walk by the Spirit, for as the scripture reminds us:
“For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. | For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our house which is from heaven: | If so be that being clothed, we shall not be found naked. | For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. | Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.” 2 Corinthians 5: 1-5 KJV
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