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How do you know?

I asked: How do you know that when you die you will be with Jesus?

Somebody said:

1Jn 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.

And WHAT are these who believe...

1Jn 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God...

And what shall become of those who believe...

Joh 6:40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

I said: Yes, sure the Bible tells us that, and our Pastors tell us that. But how are you so sure that indeed you have eternal life?

And again he says:

Rom 8:30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also GLORIFIED.

This is the glorious future of those whom the Father foreknew.

Again I said: Sure, sure, sure it is written in the Bible. But again, how are you so sure that it applies to you? Or let me re-phrase the question, what makes you so sure that you have eternal life?

And then another person said: Faith?

Yes indeed it is called faith! If you are a believer, it is faith that holds you. That is the one most important thing that you got. Don’t lose it. As the Apostle Paul said to Timothy, Fight the good fight of faith!

As it is written:

Rom 4:16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be SURE to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all.

And in another part of Scripture it says:

Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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