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‘You may know that you have eternal life.” (5) [1 John 5:13-21]         In today's text 1 John 5:13, the Apostle John explains the purpose of why he is writing this letter to the recipients.   Its purpose is that “you who believe” in Jesus Christ, “the Son of God,” may “know that you have eternal life” (v. 13).   Interestingly, in John 20:31, written by the same author, the Apostle John, the Apostle John explains the purpose of why he wrote the Gospel of John: “But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.”   Here, the Apostle John is talking about the twofold purpose of writing the Gospel of John: (1) “you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God”, and (2) “by believing you may have (eternal) life in his (Jesus’) name.   However, the Apostle John explains why he wrote the book of 1 John in 1 John 5:13 and the purpose is that those who belie...

‘You may know that you have eternal life.” (4) [1 John 5:13-21]         In today's text, 1 John 5:13, the Bible says this: “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.” Focusing on this verse, I want to meditate on the five assurances (John MacArthur) in 1 John 5:13-21 under the title of ‘You may know that you have eternal life’, and want to receive the lessons that he Lord gives us:         The first assurance is the assurance of salvation. In other words, it is the assurance that those who believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, have eternal life.         Look at 1 John 5:13 again: “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.” The Apostle John, in writing the letter to 1 John, considers why he is writing this letter to his recipients for six purposes: (1) Look at 1 Jo...

  Assurance of salvation     "... Salvation is from the LORD "(Jonah 2:9).                     Do you have assurance of salvation?  When we think about ‘assurance of salvation’, we tend to think about our conviction that we will go to heaven after we die.  Of course, this conviction is based on believing in Jesus Christ.  In other words, the basis of our assurance of salvation is faith in Jesus Christ who died on the cross for forgiveness of our sins and the resurrected from the dead for our righteousness (Rom. 4:25).  Besides the conviction of this salvation, another assurance or deliverance of salvation that we must have is the assurance that God will save (or deliver) us from the circumstances of our sufferings.  We desperately need assurance of salvation (deliverance) that even it is impossible for us to be saved in human perspect...