Substance or Sham

What’s the essence of your existence? Is it eternal substance or flimsy fluff? Children pretend stuffed animals are real but they can’t actually see or feel. And when people grow up they usually put “fluffy” away but the life of pretending may linger and stay. If you don’t have real life you’ll just try to fake it, but without the True substance you won’t be able to make it. Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. “And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.” (1 John 5:11-13) And just because you call yourself a “Christian” doesn’t mean you’re not a pretender, so get real with God and acquire the Life He will render, receive the essence of the Almighty to His Splendor surrender.

Heb 11:1-2
11 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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Col 2:16-18
16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.
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Deut 30:19-20
19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; 20 that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days…
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John 6:40
40 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day."
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John 6:47-48
47 Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.
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John 17:3-4
3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
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Phil 3:10a
10 [For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly], and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection…
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John 1:6-13

6 There came a man sent from God, whose name was John. [Mal 3:1.]

7 This man came to witness, that he might testify of the Light, that all men might believe in it [adhere to it, trust it, and rely upon it] through him.

8 He was not the Light himself, but came that he might bear witness regarding the Light.

9 There it was — the true Light [was then] coming into the world [the genuine, perfect, steadfast Light] that illumines every person. [Isa 49:6.]

10 He came into the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him [did not know Him].

11 He came to that which belonged to Him [to His own — His domain, creation, things, world], and they who were His own did not receive Him and did not welcome Him.

12 But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the authority (power, privilege, right) to become the children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name — [Isa 56:5.]

13 Who owe their birth neither to bloods nor to the will of the flesh [that of physical impulse] nor to the will of man [that of a natural father], but to God. [They are born of God!]
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1 John 5:20
20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
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