1 John 2:3-6 (NKJV) Now BY THIS we know that we know Him, IF WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS. 4, He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5, But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. 6, He who says he ABIDES in Him ought himself also to walk JUST AS HE WALKED. Knowing about Jesus is in no way the same as knowing Him.

When it comes to following Jesus, there are things He put in motion specifically designed for He our new covenant. And possibly the key component of the new covenant is the fact that it requires a believer for it to actually work. Here’s something else to keep in mind, when it comes to our new covenant, as one of His children, one of His disciples, we don’t have to talk God into doing something that He’s already established in Jesus. Something He’s already put in motion.

1 John 5:11-13 (NIRV) Here is what God says about the Son. God has given us ETERNAL LIFE. And this life is found in his Son. Whoever BELONGS to the Son has life. 12, Whoever doesn’t belong to the Son of God doesn’t have life. 13, I’m writing these things to you who BELIEVE IN THE NAME of the Son of God. I’m writing so you will know that you have eternal life. As one of the Lord’s Eternal Witnesses, according to His Word, there’s only one way to ETERNAL LIFE. At the end of the day, it always comes back to believing. Absolutely everything about our new lives is built to function one way, by faith.

If God’s word is a lamp unto our feet? A light for our path? If His word truth? Exactly what does His word teach us when we follow Jesus? When you follow Jesus through the scriptures, what do you see? Acts 1:1 (NKJV) The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that JESUS BEGAN both to do and teach. Jesus began to do and teach. The book of Acts is still unfolding.

John 10:27, Jesus said, MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE, and I KNOW THEM, and THEY FOLLOW ME. Understand, following Jesus is a reality every disciple has to grow in. And make no mistake, it’ll never happen on accident.

1 John 5, He who BELIEVES in the Son of God has THE WITNESS in himself; and this is THE WITNESS, that God has given us ETERNAL LIFE, through His Son Jesus. Here’s the thing, according to God’s Word, there’s only one way to ETERNAL LIFE, you have to believe something very specific and do something very specific.

1 John 5, He who BELIEVES in the Son of God has THE WITNESS in himself; and this is THE WITNESS, that God has given us ETERNAL LIFE, through His Son Jesus. Here’s the thing: according to God’s Word, there’s only one way to ETERNAL LIFE; you have to believe in something very specific and do something very specific.

1 John 5, He who BELIEVES in the Son of God has THE WITNESS in himself; and this is THE WITNESS, that God has given us ETERNAL LIFE, through His Son Jesus. The apostle John gives us the revelation of God’s Word being living spiritual reality. And by design, because of free will, the things of our eternal world all hinge on our BELIEVING what His Word reveals to each of us. It’s only through His word that we get glimpses of ETERNITY.

John 10:25-27 (NKJV) Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father’s name, they bear witness of Me. 26, But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. 27, MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE, and I KNOW THEM, and THEY FOLLOW ME.”

In John’s gospel, Jesus said, I am THE WAY, and no one comes to the FATHER except through Me. If you’ve seen Me you’ve seen the FATHER. Believe Me, I am in the FATHER and the FATHER is in Me. And I pray for those who will believe in Me, that they all may be one, as You, FATHER, are in Me, and I in You; THAT THEY MAY HE ONE IN US, that the world may believe that You sent Me. Possibly one of the greatest revelations a believer can comprehend is, “that they may be one in Us” Make no mistake, the “In Christ” life, at the end of the day is THE ETERNAL WITNESS, commissioned by the Master Himself. After all, according to Revelation 3, These things says THE AMEN, THE FAITHFUL and TRUE WITNESS, the Beginning of the creation of God.