This week I will share in a few paragraphs every day on the immense benefits of being in the kingdom of God! I will attempt to answer these questions. What are the benefits of being a disciple of Jesus? Why am I so grateful that I am accepted as a disciple of Jesus? Why is it that I and millions of other disciples are willing to leave everything that the world offers to follow Jesus? Why are we willing to go through pain and sacrifice of comfort and sometimes our lives just to share this good news with other? I will ask if you have these benefits to remind you to say I have [the benefit]!
The first one is everlasting life, eternal life! Or divine life!
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16 NKJV
You receive forgiveness for sins committed and you also receive the life of God that enables you to stop sinning. That is what everlasting life means!
God the righteous Judge, has made a way for us not to pay for the sins we committed and has made a way for us to have a new life! His righteous type of life. Jesus pays for our sins.
This would not sound like good news to a person who thinks that he is not that bad. But for those who know that a righteous Judge cannot overlook sin, then it’s the best news you can ever get.
If you have sinned then you are doomed unless you accept the finished work of Jesus! I’m so glad I have been forgiven! I have everlasting life! I’m no more a condemned criminal under God’s righteous judgement! The righteous Judge has made a way for me to go free and to live with His righteous life so that I can live like Him!
“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8 NKJV
Hallelujah!