In 1 Thessalonians 5, verses 23-24, Paul says, “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly: and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful he that calleth you, who also will do it.”
In these verses, in essence, Paul says that Yahweh is faithful to ensure that we are blameless in the end by sanctifying our spirit, soul and body.
In 1 Peter 1, verses 4-5, Peter says, “To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”
In this verse, Peter says that our reward cannot be corrupted or defiled, and it will not fade away because the Holy Spirit keeps us in the faith unto salvation.
In 1 John 5, verses 10-13, John says, “He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life: and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written to you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that e may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.”
This verse should give us pause. It says that if we really believe on Yeshua, His Spirit is in us as a witness, and since Yeshua has eternal life dwelling within Him, we have eternal life also. Here is what should give us pause: If we do not believe this, we portray Yahweh as a liar.
To say that we believe in Yeshua, but do not have eternal life (have lost it), is to call Yahweh a liar. So, do we want to say that we can lose our salvation, that is, do we want to say that we can lose eternal life?
That brings us to question number two, which is what is eternal life?
The Greek word, “Aionious” (Strong’s #166) is translated into the English word, “eternal”. The word means, time in its duration, that is, constant, abiding, eternal. Having nether beginning or end. Eternal life describes the life of Yahweh because His life has no beginning or end.
The Greek word, “Zoe” is translated into the English word, “life”. It means, an animated, and functional spirit, and soul with an identity.
So, the words, “eternal life” mean, that our spirit and soul will survive the death of our body to live forever in the life of Yahweh.
More to the point: Yeshua defined eternal life in John 17:3. Yeshua said, “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou has sent.”
Yeshua said that He and Yahweh are one. And Yahweh sent Him, and if we have seen Him, we have seen Yahweh. Yeshua also said if we receive Him, we receive Yahweh. So, when we believe on Yeshua, and His Spirit becomes one with our human spirit, we become one with Yahweh. We become Yahweh’s son, and He says that He will never leave us or forsake us, and that nothing can pluck us out of His hand.
Since Yahweh and I are one, His life is now my life. This is exactly what makes me His son. And since I have the life of Yahweh, my Father, I have eternal life, like Him. If we do not believe this we make Yahweh a liar.
To say that I am a son of Yahweh is not a play on language or a legal statement of some future reality. No, it is an ontological state that I occupy within our current reality.
With this in mind, I ask how would it be possible to become the old creature that I was before I became a new creature with the life of Yahweh? Yahweh’s life can never end, and if my life is His life, how can my life end? Yahweh tells me He has given me eternal life, well, if this “eternal life” ends, then it never was eternal life, and Yahweh is a liar.
If I fall from grace because I do not act right, or do enough good works, how do I regain grace, and become a son of Yahweh again? How right do I need to act? How many good works must I do?
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