ETERNAL LIFE IN ITS PRESENT FORM

ETERNAL LIFE IN ITS PRESENT FORM

As I understand eternal life in its present form it is our living by Christ in the power of the Spirit, in a new position and relationship before the Father, to which He has given us entrance by His death. We are thus morally outside the flesh and the world, in the Son — a new sphere. (John 6: 54; John 12: 31, 32.) Hence even faithfulness down here, and walking in patience and grace and relative duties, though they give occasion for the display of the Spirit of Christ, hardly connect themselves in my mind with eternal life. That is displayed in John 17: 3.