THE PROMISE OF SALVATION

1 JOHN 5:11-13
11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
13 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.
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John does not say, "so that you may hope or wish to have". He uses the word KNOW. All we need to do in order to be saved is to BELIEVE Christ was sent and is able to save us. This first step needs to be in place before we can even begin to cultivate a relationship with Jesus. God wants to know that we TRUST His promises. One of His greatest promises to us, is that we are saved by the death of His Son on the Cross. Who are we to tell Him that He is wrong or worse that He is a liar? There is nothing in our power that we will ever be able to do or not do in order to enter Heaven. Once we BELIEVE the Holy Spirit is sent to us. Once we begin to walk in the Spirit, we will have a natural desire to be OBEDIENT to the Word of The Lord. We will still fall short of His Glory but we will repent and learn from it and move forward knowing that we are forgiven:

ROMANS 3:23-28
23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
25God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement,† through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished–
26he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
27Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of observing the law? No, but on that of faith.
28For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law.

It is choice that we need to make. BELIEVE the promise and be saved or try to do it on our own without the GIFT of Christ on Cross. When you give someone a gift, doesn't it kind of take away from the excitement of it, if they do not feel like they are worthy enough to receive it? Oh, you did not have to do that, you should not have that costs way too much, or worse let me give you the money for this. I imagine that our Heavenly Father feels the same way when we won't accept His gift to us without trying to explain it away.

Make the choice to accept the Gift of Jesus cheerfully today. Leave the rest up to Yeshua/Jesus