Eternal Life - Book of John (Reading & Study 13)

The following are some points on eternal life to be gleaned from John

1. Living water doesn’t mean water that gives life, but water that is alive [Joh 4:10]
   1. The water does in fact give life, but what makes it living water isn’t that it gives life, but that the water itself is alive
   2. Living water means the water is flowing—the water is quick.
      1. Well water is living water because when you draw from it, it rises.
   3. The living water is the Holy Spirit [Joh 4:14; 7:38-39].
      1. The Holy Spirit will be in us until we have eternal life.
   4. The fruit gathered unto eternal life is people/souls [Joh 4:36].
      1. The harvest is eternal life
      2. God’s servants labour to bring men into eternal life
   5. Jesus speaks of the first resurrection when He says that “those who hear the voice of the Son of God will live” [Joh 5:25].
      1. This is for those who accept His words
   6. Jesus speaks of the resurrection where ALL will rise, not just “those who hear” [Joh 5:29].
      1. Those who have done good will rise to live and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned.
      2. Eternal life is for those who have done good [Joh 5:29].
   7. Just as the living water wells up into eternal life, the meat which doesn’t perish endures unto eternal life [Joh 4:14; 6:27].
      1. Jesus is the meat that doesn’t perish, and unlike earthly high priests who die, Jesus lives and will continue to do so, till we get to eternal life.
      2. It appears that eternal life is a time—an age.
      3. Eternal life is also location [Mat 18:8; 19:17].
   8. There is no corruption in heaven [Mat 6:19].

Even though Enoch, Melchizedek, Moses, Elijah and other we may not know of are still in this flesh, they’re still alive in heaven, because there’s no corruption there.