![]() Jesus also indicated in this verse that believers will not come into judgment. However, at the moment of faith, at that very moment, one who believes in Jesus Christ gains eternal life and ceases to be spiritually dead. That is, before faith people are spiritually dead. Jesus said that all believers have already passed from death to life. One passage that stands out as clearly and irrefutably teaching this is John 5:24. Death is not the beginning of that life and that relationship. However, one day I was reading a Bible study guide and I discovered that eternal life was an eternal relationship with God which begins at the point of faith. I had thought that eternal life started when we died. ![]() It was more than a year later when I discovered the blessed truth that all believers have eternal life as a present possession. I was shocked when he said, “I know for certain that I am going to heaven.” I deeply wanted to be able to say that, but I didn’t think that anybody could know that for certain. It was night and I was watching Billy Graham on TV. I was a senior in college and it had only been a few months since I had heard about the grace of God and placed my trust wholly upon Jesus Christ to save me. “Most assuredly, I say unto you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.” (John 5:24)
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