![]() ![]() He writes to them as believers, and he says, “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God that ye may know that ye have eternal life.” As believers, they had eternal life, for “He that believeth on the Son of God, hath everlasting lasting life,” and shall never come into condemnation yea, “He that liveth and believeth in Christ, though he were dead, yet should he live.” But it is one thing to have eternal life, and another thing to know that we have eternal life. The first ascent he would have them take is from faith to the full assurance of faith. I think I see before me now, three shining ladders, and John with the glory of God reflected from his brow, like an angel of God conducting the Lord's Jacobs up the glittering rounds. THE beloved apostle, John, here addresses himself to those who have believed on the Son of God and having himself ascended the high hill of fellowship with Jesus, he labours to conduct his fellow believers up three glorious ascents of the mount of God. And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.”-1 John 5:13-15. “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
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