 when does Jesus say who who who gets eternal life the person who believes truly true last say to you whoever believes has eternal life whoever believes has eternal life all right so now this has you guys speak English and so I'll just use the English context has is present tense right has is tense so if you believe you presently have it right so believing is essential you have to believe now some of you guys think that you've got to have you got to believe and do four other things to go along with this you got to believe and do this and that or whatever no if you believe now implicit in believing guys implicit in believing is that you have a repentant heart so you have to repent okay that goes without saying okay to be a believer you have to have been baptized in the spirit Paul tells us that every single believer has been baptized into the body by the spirit where the person has been believing for one day one minute one hour one year one month one decade all of those believers have been baptized in the body the key identifying mark of a believer is the Holy Spirit okay so now so if a person believes he has presently eternal life but the question on the floor was if a person continually believes will he have eternal life will he ever lose his salvation any answers no so now the next question is is but does a believer does a true Christian continually believe yes a true Christian continually believes I believe that Christians abide Christians continue to abide I think that there are warning passages to tell us to make sure hey if you're not enduring if you're not abiding not bearing fruit then guess what you're not you're not a Christian because he tells us to check to see to make sure not everyone who says Lord Lord shall enter the kingdom of heaven now we're going to find out in a little bit that God has already said that all the believers that get the Holy Spirit that all the believers are going to continue in him that all the believers will never depart from him that's what God said before we even get to the cross God said when he does this this is what's going to happen and he cannot mean God didn't mean that he's speaking about after we get to heaven who makes the argument that you could possibly forfeit your salvation when you get to heaven so according to this passage though if you believe you have eternal life let's go back to it I want to see where the condition is this does Jesus put a condition no we don't see any conditions placed on here if you go from 35 on up matter of fact we don't want to go to 37 35 37 because people get a little bothered by what's what stated there because it looks like God has kind of more in control but according to verse 47 truly truly I say to you whoever believes now the point that I'm trying to make about the believing I said that Christians enter into a constate into a continuous state of believing you enter in and you keep believing because something happens that causes you to keep believing something happens that caused you to keep walking he's greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world the Holy Spirit he causes you if you don't this the this is the crazy part I think and I'll get back on topic but I often wonder though when people who believe that you can lose your salvation people who believe that you can walk away what in the world does a Holy Spirit do in a person who has salvation and then forfeits have been walked away what's the that's a weak Holy Spirit I think to me if the Holy Spirit is just sitting there just chilling if the Holy Spirit is sitting there chilling I wonder what Bob is going to do today well Bob don't go over there Bob don't mess with her Bob don't this but the Holy Spirit is just is the Holy Spirit along for the ride is is is that what we're saying the Holy Spirit is just along for the ride or is the Holy Spirit active what you cannot ask for and focus on the power of the Holy Spirit but the power of the Holy Spirit is weak and feckless in you that's why he says greater is he that is in me than he is in the world that's why he says that's why he says he who began a good work oh by the way the Holy Spirit is God he who began a good work he's faithful to complete it to see you through that gets you to the finish line the Holy Spirit has to be something in you my God if if the Holy Spirit can't hold me can't have any influence in my life and I don't need the Holy Spirit you don't need the Holy Spirit if he's not gonna do anything if you just take it up if Satan is active and messing with us how come God ain't that that's the part that this blows my mind some of you guys who are into the move of the spirit not inside of you though some of you guys are only into the move of the spirit when the drums are going on the guitar playing the organ is playing that's it that's the one time that you feel the move of the spirit but you're not as far as the move of the spirit in you but you don't have the spirit it's just what it is and this is what Paul says every man ought to examine himself to make sure he has it how do you examine yourself how do you know that you're a believer because you're not believing you're not enduring you just do what you want to that's how you know that's how you examine yourself if you are walking in a way that's unbecoming that's not like Christ I don't mean you know you once or twice I'm saying you live a lifestyle of sin if sin is is what you do often that's who you are that's how you live that's how you get down then you're not a Christian you never entered into this state of continued believing