Operation Christmas Child Area Team will be coming to Cornerstone Church for a Prayer Walk on Saturday, August 9th at 9:45 AM.  If you and others would like to join the team and pray, it is welcomed.  If you or others would also like to join us praying over other churches the agenda is below.  If you have prayer request for your church, or individuals in the church if you like you can provide those to me and they will be shared with the prayer team. Hope to see you there.

August Prayer Walk

9:00 AM - White Mountain Bible

3171 Show Low Lake Rd.

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9:45 AM - Cornerstone Community

2707 S. White Mountain Rd. # F

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10:00 AM - Show Low First Baptist Church

700 N. Central Ave.

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10:30 AM - Maranatha Bible

581 E. Old Linden

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11:05 AM - Calvary Baptist Church

241 E. McNeil

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Given to Us Eternal Life

“And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.” (1 John 5:11)

Our text for today contains truths that provide great power and comfort for Christians. Let us reflect on some of them.

The word “record” needs amplification. In noun form, it means “the evidence given,” and in verb form it means “testify,” or “witness.” The apostle John used it nine times in verses 7 through 11. Study of our text and its context shows that the record mentioned is none other than the great truth that Christ Jesus was God’s only Son and that He died as a perfect and fully sufficient sacrifice to provide us life eternal.

In our text, we see that this work of bestowing eternal life is God’s work. It is “not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us” (Titus 3:5). This eternal life is our present possession, for He “hath given” it to us (i.e., in the past). This gift is to individuals—to “us”—not to a nation or even the church, but to those who have believed. Furthermore, this “eternal life” is eternal! It will last for eternity and cannot be taken away. It is inconceivable for an omnipotent God to give “eternal life” temporarily. We are alive in Him, having been born (again) into His family. This is a permanent situation.

The tense shifts to the present in the last phrase of the text. Our “life is in his Son.” We are “in him....This is the true God, and eternal life” (1 John 5:20). Our life finds its vitality in living in unity with the Son. His death and resurrection made life possible, and now His present life is ours. His Spirit, resident within us, provides this vitality, and since the Spirit of God is eternal, our life is eternal. “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God” (v. 13). JDM