September 23.
Remember Whose You Are

1 John 5:13

These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

John the beloved disciple was responsible for penning at least three books of the New Testament – the Gospel of John, the 1, 2, and 3 epistles of John and the book of Revelation. John met the Lord at the age of twenty-five. Now he is around ninety-five years of age. He has experience under his belt. He is an old man but he is equipped to get the story out.

The first epistle of John is a specific book just for folk that are born again. It’s a book written for saved, sanctified, baptized, and filled with the Holy Ghost people. It is a book for the Saints. He wants his saints reassured concerning who they are and whose they are. The devil will try to convince you that you aren’t saved. He wants you to believe that you don’t have a thing. You need to have repeated reassurance of who you are and whose you are.

So there is a word used over thirty times in the epistles of John and that is the word know. That ye may know that ye have eternal life. You see if you can have Jesus and not know, then you just might lose him and not miss him. So I don’t want to guess about my salvation; I don’t want to hope I’m saved, or think I’m saved, or hope one day I will be saved. No, I need to know about that, because life is too precious for me to spend all that time wondering and not knowing until I get to the gate. Then it’s too late.

I need to know I’m saved while I’m down here. There are too many fringe benefits for me to miss this while I’m here. I’m not saved just to go to Heaven; I’ve got some fringe benefits just by being saved. I have a closer walk with Him. So He places the key in the middle of the book to share with us the purpose of writing this book. He wrote the book for our assurance of eternal life through Jesus.