Life Assurance

 Greetings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     First John 5:11-12 says, “And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.  He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.”

     As the new year begins, I pause to think of the things I don’t need anymore.  I donn’t need life insurance anymore as I am now in the era of “over time” as far as life is concerned.  I don’t need car insurance since I don’t own a car, nor do I need insurance on a house or an apartment as I don’t have eit her one of those.  Pastor Bob Alderman once told me, since the Bible says that we may get threescore and ten years and for some four score, which comes to a total of eighty years then if you are over eighty eighty then you are in overtime.  Well, I have been in overtime for the past four  years.  

     I traded in my insurance program forf a life assurance program.  First John reminds me of the assurance of salvation as the word “know” appears some 27 times and the word “love” appears some 33 times.  We may be asked if we know if we are going to heaven or not and how we can know for sure.  We dind that there are number of tests, about sixteen in total, that are mentioned in First John  First John 5:19-13 is the greatest of all of the tests.  “If you have the Son, you have life.  If you don’t have the Son, you don’t have life.”  That  is the simplicit y of the matter. Verse thirteen goes on to say that by this you can know whether or not  you have eternal life.  So, I call it the life assurance program.  As my life begins to go closer to the end of the overtime, there are a lot of things that have been taken to Goodwill or the Salvation Army that I don’t use anymore like the number of suits, sports coats and over 100 next ties.  The large quantity of books have been donated to a church and to some individuals in our area as most of my literature collection is now on my computer such as over 255 books with numerous translations of the Bible.  What do you need in order to live out your final years?  Praise God that He has provided all that you need in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ who died for all of our sins.