Matt. 24:35: "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away."
I love this verse. It is a prophecy and a promise made by Jesus Himself. He is challenging His disciples and His critics, as well as the annals of history, that His words are, in fact, eternal. Jesus is God incarnate, He is Immanuel, and because of this everything that comes from Him, being by nature God, is eternal. That is why it is not a mere suggestion that Christ live inside of us as a measure of our eternal life. To be sure, if Jesus' eternal nature is not in us then we must say that we do not yet possess eternal life because of that lacking of the eternal One within us. Remember, we die to ourselves so that we may be made alive in Christ. This is not a suggestion, it is a logical extension of the reality that we are, by nature, not eternal and so in order for us to be made eternal eternity must enter into us. After all, non-eternal creatures cannot create eternal life; it can only be gifted from an eternal source who inputs His life into us. So I say: "Amen! Thank You, Jesus, that Your words are eternal and that they rest within my heart!"
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