If someone were to ask you the question, “Do you have eternal life?” — how would you respond? Some people would say, “I don’t know” — by that they mean that they have never really given too much thought to eternal things. The Bible warns such a person in 2 Corinthians 6:2 by saying “behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”

Others might respond to the question, “Do you have eternal life?” by saying, “I think so” — they are trusting in things like baptism or membership in a church; but there is a nagging doubt in the back of their mind that questions the validity of the very things which they are trusting in to get them to heaven. After all, if baptism or church membership could get someone to heaven, then why did Jesus Christ have to suffer and die on a Roman cross?

Still others would respond by saying, “I hope so” — they are hoping that as they stand before God, their good deeds might out-weigh their bad deeds; and on the basis of that, God will usher them into heaven. The basic problem with this argument is that it ignores the total depravity of man – we are all sinners (Romans 3:23). No one can keep the Ten Commandments. James 2:10 says, “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.”

But there are many people who can respond to the question, “Do you have eternal life?” by saying with absolute conviction, “I know so.” This is not a prideful boast of their own self achievement; rather, it is a trust which is based upon the achievement of another — the Lord Jesus Christ.

During the American Civil War, an informer in a small town disappeared and the commander in charge ordered ten men to be shot in reprisal. Several men were being detained in the local jail as prisoners of war, and ten men were selected from among them. One was a man by the name of William Humphrey — the father of several small children. Another young man in the prison cell by the name of Hiram Smith volunteered to go in the place of Humphrey since he thought it was better for a single man to die rather than a man with a young family. Hiram Smith was subsequently taken and shot in the place of William Humphrey. As the years passed, Humphrey could have reflected on those events and stated, “I’m here today because he died in my place!”
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That will be our only boast in heaven — not, “I am here today because of what I have done” but “I am here today because Christ died for me, because He took my place and bore the condemnation of my sins on the cross at Calvary.”

Do you have the assurance of sins forgiven and a home in Heaven? The Bible tells us how you too can have that certainty. Acts 16:31 says, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved…”

Morris Hull
Home Life Ministries

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