ppt

1. Eternal Life
God created all things created (Acts 17: 24):
“God that made the world and all things therein,
seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth
not in temples made with hands; 25: Neither is
worshipped with men's hands, as though he
needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and
breath, and all things; 26: And hath made of one
blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face
of the earth, and hath determined the times before
appointed, and the bounds of their habitation…

2. Eternal Life
God created all things created (Acts
17: 24):
“…27: That they should seek the Lord, if haply they
might feel after him, and find him, though he be not
far from every one of us: 28: For in him we live, and
move, and have our being….”

3. Eternal Life
Jesus and life:
 Jesus spoke of eternal life (2 Tim. 1: 10, John 14:
6).
 Jesus is the author (John 11: 25, 26, 1: 4).
 Jesus presents eternal life as a fact and reality
(Matt. 25: 46).
“And these shall go away into everlasting
punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.”

4. Eternal Life
“Eternal,” Greek aionios:
“Describes duration, either undefined but not
endless or undefined because endless” (W. E.
Vine).
“16: For God so loved the world, that he gave his
only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John
3).

5. Eternal Life
“Eternal,” Greek aionios:
In a sense, all, both lost and saved, have “endless
life.” Consider Vine on “perish:”
“The idea is not extinction but ruin, loss, not of
being, but of well-being.”
The lost shall go on forever, but not in a qualitative
state (cp. Matt. 25: 46).

6. Eternal Life
“Everlasting life”
(aionios)
The qualitative
state in heaven,
joy that is beyond
comparison (Matt.
5: 12).
“Perish”
(apoletai)
“…ruin, loss, not
of being, but of
well-being” (cp.
Mark 9: 42, 43).
“Eternal (aionios) punishment” versus
“life eternal” (aionios, Matt. 25: 46).

7. Eternal Life
Eternal life is of great
urgency and importance!
“And, behold, one came and said
unto him, Good Master, what good
thing shall I do, that I may have
eternal life?” (Matt. 19: 16.)

8. Eternal Life
Facts about
eternal life.

9. Eternal Life
False source
of eternal life.
John 5: 39

10. Eternal Life
Eternal life is a
gift from God.
Romans 6: 23

11. Eternal Life
Ordained to
eternal life.
Acts 13: 48

12. Eternal Life
Recipients of
eternal life.
Romans 2: 7,
cp. 8, 9

13. Eternal Life
There are
“words of
eternal life.”
John 6: 68

14. Eternal Life
Some see what they think is a contradiction
regarding when eternal life is actually
possessed:
 Present possession – I John 5: 12, 13.

15. Eternal Life
“12: He that hath the Son hath life; and he
that hath not the Son of God hath not life. 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” (I John 5).

16. Eternal Life
Some see what they think is a contradiction
regarding when eternal life is actually
possessed:
 Future possession – Titus 1: 2, I Peter 1:
4.

17. Eternal Life
“2: In hope of eternal life, which God, that
cannot lie, promised before the world began”
(Tit. 1).
“4: To an inheritance incorruptible, and
undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved
in heaven for you” (I Pet. 1).

18. Eternal Life
“Hence, not available in this life. Eternal life
– the inheritance of the people of God – is
not a present possession, but a promise, the
realization of which much await our entrance
into the world to come (Mark 10: 30…, Guy
N. Woods on I Peter 1: 4, Commentary on
the New Testament Epistles).

19. Eternal Life
“Those passages which apparently assert
the possession of eternal life here…are to be
understood as referring to it in prospect, and
not in reality. The believer has eternal life in
prospect and promise, but not in
realization…” (Guy N. Woods on I John 5:
12, Commentary on the New Testament
Epistles , compare I John 2: 25 with 5: 12,
13).

20. Eternal Life
Where will you spend eternality?