The Christ-Life | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 8, 1905

The Christ-Life.

Jesus said to the unbelieving Jews, "Ye will not come to Me that ye might have life." Jesus therefore possessed a life which the unbelieving did not have, and which for any to obtain, it is necessary to come to Him. This life is not a life common to all. It is the life to which are applied the terms "eternal" and "everlasting." It is the life which believers now have by faith (John 5:24; Gal. 2:20), which is in Christ and in them, binding them to Christ (1 John 5:11), and which He will give in its fulness to those who are His at the last day (John 6:40). It is included in the hope of the fathers, in the promise of God, on which that hope was based. 1 John 2:25; Titus 1:2. This promise, with the eternal blessings comprehended in it, are the believer's now by faith, and remain his on the condition that he hold the beginning of his "confidence steadfast unto the end." Heb. 3:14. To those who endure unto the end God will render eternal life. Rom. 2:6, 7; 1 Cor. 15:51-55.