 When do we receive eternal life? Do we receive it now or do we have to wait to receive it in the future? This issue of when we receive salvation. In other words, do we have to wait to receive it? Do we have to keep working towards that goal to receive it? Or do we have it right now? Well, this should not be a difficult question to answer. Jesus actually answers the question. So let's go to John 647. He says, truly, truly, I say to you that he who believes has eternal life. Notice how he says it. Look at the tense of the verb that is used. So he says, over here on the side where we see the Greek, he says, truly, truly, or in the Greek, I'm out of man and let go. I say hamon, which is, or hamon, which is to you. High pistol wine, which is the ones that's believing. So if that's you, if you are a believer right now, if you are believing, that's the passage. That's a tense. It's a present active participle, that one that's believing. High pistol wine, the believing one. And if that's you, you know, only you and God know. He said that person at King has it. He has it right now. That's present tense. If the person, if it's you and you believe right now, then guess what you have right now? He says has present tense. He has zoe, Ionian, which is life now, life forever, life into the ages, life eternal. And so that should be pretty clear. It's not a difficult statement. We can make it difficult. We can, as a matter of fact, we can throw a lot of things in there to make it more difficult than what it really is. But it's clear. He says that the believer, that's you or anyone else that you know that is believing right now. Notice what's also not there if we go back to the passage. There are no conditions placed upon there. There are no conditions says that if you are a believing person right now, as long as you keep believing, as long as you don't ever stop believing. Now, we obviously know that if a person stops believing that he's not the person that's been spoken up because the way the Bible describes a Christian most often is with that same tense, a present active participle, this active believing, that's the most common way. And so the Bible knows of a Christian as someone who is constantly believing, never stopping to believe. And he says that to make sure that that's you because if you're the kind of person who believed today and then stopped believing, well then, that's not you that he's speaking of. That's not the Christian. But that genuine person with actual faith, you know that's you, obviously God knows. And if that's you, according to this passage, he says that you have it, not you will have, but you have it today. And what do you have today? You literally have life forever. That's the real good news. Amen.