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- “Believers in Jesus who keep his word have passed already out of death into life.” Yes, we die. The text itself says, “though he die, yet shall he live.” But no, we don’t die, because it says in verse 26, “everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.”
www.desiringgod.org/messages/you-will-never-see-death/excerpts/invincible-in-christInvincible in Christ: How Believers Never Die - Desiring God
Jesus promises that those who keep His word will not experience this ultimate separation. Instead, they will partake in eternal life, a life in communion with God that transcends physical death. This assurance is central to the Christian hope, rooted in the resurrection and the life that Jesus offers.
- Keeping Jesus’ Word
- Shall Not See Death
- Conclusion
In his excellent book, The Reign of the Servant Kings, Jody Dillow suggests that keeping His word “means to ‘pay attention to’ or to ‘take to heart'” the gospel which Jesus preached (p. 400). Thus he interprets John 8:51 to mean that the one who has come to faith in Christ will never experience spiritual death (parallel to passages like John 5:24 1...
If we stop to think about it, the expression he shall never see deathis intriguing and far from simple and easy to understand. While many assume that it means something like “he shall never experience eternal condemnation,” that interpretation is very unlikely as we shall now see. There is only one other NT occurrence of this expression. An OT sain...
Perseverance in good works is not a condition of eternal life. However, it is a condition of living well-and of dying well. Only the believer who is keeping Jesus’ word lives an abundant life and dies without perceiving death as a terrifying enemy. 1There are also three almost identical expressions, all of which are consistent with the uses of the ...
May 14, 2011 · So Jesus finishes his response to their indictments like this (verse 51): “Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.” In other words, you have gotten to the point where you are blaspheming me, calling me a half-breed and demonized.
Jan 28, 2019 · Believers in Jesus who keep his word have passed already out of death into life. They now have what’s called eternal life. Eternal life cannot, by definition, stop for a second. It cannot stop.
Aug 10, 2014 · In Jesus, we have eternal life if we do and keep his word. Though we all will die, death is not the end of life for all those in Christ.
In all there is the fuller meaning that for the believer who now has spiritual life, and continues to live in communion with God, there cannot be death. “He shall never see death.” What we think of as death is but a sleep. (See Note on John 11:11.)
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Those who "keep His word," in this context, are those who express saving faith in God's Son (John 3:16–18). Those who reject Christ, however, remain condemned to spiritual death (John 3:18, 36). Once again, as shown in the next verse, Jesus' opponents will misunderstand His message.
