Eternal Life – Teach Inmates to be Thankful For It

This message is primarily for those who call on the name of Jesus Christ as their own Lord and Savior from sin, and serve as a Chaplain or a gospel minister in a jail, prison or a follow-up ministry such as a rescue mission – in the United States.

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ALL CAPITAL LETTERS are sometimes used to emphasize words in a text, or to make a comment about a biblical text, or emphasize a statement.

One of the things biblical Christians, including true inmate followers of Jesus Christ, continually ought to thank God for is ETERNAL LIFE. The Holy Spirit through the Apostle John asserts that Jesus is Himself, Eternal Life.

Note this fact in 1 John 1:1-2 and I John 5:20

1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the word of life –
2 the life was manifested, and we have seen and bear witness, and declare to you THAT ETERNAL LIFE WHICH WAS WITH THE FATHER and was manifested to us –

Hear it again in 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 (His Son Jesus Christ) is the true God and ETERNAL LIFE.

The same Apostle tells us that THIS KIND OF LIFE is IN God - the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. This fact is stated in 1 John 5:11-12. It says there:

11 And this is the testimony; that God has given us ETERNAL LIFE, and THIS LIFE is IN HIS SON.
12 He who has the Son HAS LIFE (Eternal Life); he who does not have the Son of God does not have LIFE (Eternal).

Jesus is Himself life eternal and the giver of that life to true believers. As you speak of eternal life to inmates, MAKE SURE they understand you and the Bible are talking about a DIFFERENT KIND OF LIFE than what they generally know.

Eternal life does not mean the same kind of existence they as unsaved persons, as rebellious sinners have known – just continued on and on forever.

I have had inmates tell me if THAT is what God wants for them they would rather not have it! Their existence, their biological living apart from Christ is a miserable existence. It is spiritual death, separated from this special life of God. Jesus said it best in His prayer to the Father in John 17:3

“…this IS eternal life, that they may KNOW You, the only true God, and (know) Jesus Christ whom You have sent.”

So, always explain eternal life is a RELATIONSHIP with God. It is KNOWING Him personally.

This now brings me to the main text I want to speak about this month as we celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday. It is in Titus 1:1-3, where the inspired Apostle wrote –

1 Paul a bond-servant (literally, a slave) of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, …
2 in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began, (literally, “before times eternal”)
3 but has in due time manifested (the fulfillment of His promise through) His word through preaching, which was committed to me according to the commandment of God our Savior;

Wow! What a wonderful, mind-boggling passage! God made Paul His messenger (apostle) to proclaim the message of ETERNAL LIFE, which has a future as well as a present reality.

The use of the word “hope” in verse 2, points to the future aspect of this kind of life. It applies to an eternal experience of sharing life with God in heaven. BUT note it: - there are four other things related to ETERNAL LIFE that this passage mentions.

In logical order they are:

1. The fact that God Himself, PROMISED IT. (V. 2)
2. Furthermore, the promise of eternal life came from a God who CANNOT LIE. (V. 2)
3. Furthermore, furthermore, He promised this future eternal life to believers, BEFORE TIME BAGAN! (V. 2)
and
4. Eternal life is made available THROUGH the PROCLAMATION of HIS WORD. (V.3)

FIRST, In considering the fact that God Himself promised eternal life, it is good to point people to the truth that whatever God promises, HE ALSO HAS THE POWER TO MAKE HAPPEN. You see an example of this in Romans 4:18-21. There, speaking of the FAITH that Abraham had in God’s prior PROMISE to give him a son and make a great nation from him, it says:

18 who (a reference to Abraham), contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”
19 And NOT being WEAK IN FAITH, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
20 He did not waver at the PROMISE of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,
21 and being fully convinced that what He HAD PROMISED HE WAS ALSO ABLE (or, had the “power”) TO PERFORM.

Abraham believed God because He understood what God promised, no matter how seemingly impossible, God also had the power to bring into reality!

SECONDLY, the promise to believers of a future eternal life also comes from a God WHO CANNOT LIE! He is always FAITHFUL to His word. Tell them to think about that. Since God cannot lie, because He is always faithful to what He has said, His promises will always be realized - eventually.

This aspect of God’s nature also is a great aide to believing Him. Consider and teach this from Sarah’s side of receiving the fulfillment of God’s promise to her husband Abraham in Hebrews 11:11-12, which says:

11 By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him FAITHFUL WHO HAD PROMISED.
12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude—innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.

The THIRD truth brought out in Titus 1:2 is that God’s promise of a future eternal life for believers was made BEFORE eternity past, literally “before times eternal.” This statement is truly beyond our full comprehension.

It is one thing to realize that an all powerful God made a promise and can therefore bring it to reality. It is even greater to know that the One making the promise is incapable of ever lying, BUT to now be told an eternal God made a promise BEFORE ETERNITY BEGAN stresses the eternal aspect of an eternal promise of eternal life from an Eternal God.

God has always existed outside of time. So we learn from Titus 1:2, that His plan to share His life with us was always outside of time. As long as God has existed, so has His PROMISED PLAN to grant believing humans His eternal life ALWAYS EXISTED.

God has always existed. He has always sought to give His life to the crown of His creation – believing mankind. This incomprehensible truth is in accord with Isaiah 55:8-9, which says –

8 “ For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD.
9 “ For as THE HEAVENS ARE HIGHER THAN THE EARTH, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My THOUGHTS (higher) THAN YOUR THOUGHTS. “

Listen again to our text in Titus 1:1-3

1 Paul a bond-servant (literally, a slave) of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, …
2 in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began, (lit. before times eternal)
3 but has in DUE TIME manifested His word through PREACHING, which was committed to me according to the commandment of God our Savior;

The FOURTH AND FINAL thing about eternal life, brought to focus in verse 3, is that in human time and history His Eternal Life is NOW made available THROUGH the PROCLAMATION of HIS WORD.

Of course, the “preaching” (v. 3) the Apostle Paul was referring to was (and is) the announcing of the gospel of Jesus Christ. People are saved from spiritual and eventual eternal death through a proper response to the word of God being proclaimed to them. They must hear the message, believe and obey it to be granted eternal life.

Another Apostle, Peter, said the following words to true believers in 1 Peter 1:18-23

18 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers,
19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

Those two verses contain the central kernel of the gospel message – the substitutionary death of Christ in the believing sinners place.

20 He (Christ) indeed was foreordained BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD (note the eternal theme), but was manifest in these last times for you
21 who THROUGH HIM (Christ) BELIEVE in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
22 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth (by believing) through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,
23 having been BORN AGAIN, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, THROUGH THE WORD OF GOD which lives and abides forever,

Those that are born again, or regenerated, are made possessors of eternal life as soon as they have obedient saving faith in Christ. Note Jesus’ words in John 5:24 (NASB Translation).

24 Truly, truly I say to you, he who hears MY WORD, AND BELIEVES Him who sent Me, HAS (present tense, right now) ETERNAL LIFE, and does not come into judgment (which would relate to the future), but has passed (lit. has already been passed) out of death into life.

So eternal life is the present possession of true Christians, BUT future eternal life will be in heaven and those that have it now will have it then and NOT BE JUDGED FOR THEIR SIN, because Christ already bore their judgment at the cross.

That is a LOT TO BR THANKFUL FOR! In thinking about being thankful and the possibility of obtaining eternal life, God urges sinners to repent and believe in His provision of mercy.

Again, THIS provision of forgiveness of sin and eternal life is connected to hearing and responding obediently in faith to the life-giving word of God. Note it in Isaiah 55:6-11

6 Seek the LORD while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near.
7 Let the wicked FORSAKE his way, and the unrighteous man (forsake) his thoughts; let him RETURN to the LORD, and He will have mercy on him; and (return) to our God, for He will ABUNDANTLY PARDON.
8 “ For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD.
9 “ For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts (higher) than your thoughts.
10 “ For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
11 SO SHALL MY WORD BE THAT GOES FORTH FROM MY MOUTH; it shall not return to Me void, but IT SHALL ACCOMPLISH what I please, and it shall PROSPER in the thing for which I sent it.

So teach inmates to seek Eternal Life in Christ, and to be THANKFUL for the provision of it from God.

In closing, I want to suggest that you challenge professing believers to come up with an acrostic of the English alphabet for at least 26 things they should be thankful to God in Christ for. BELOW IS A SAMPLE OF WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT.

A Christian’s Thanksgiving Alphabet: Jesus, Our God is -

ALMIGHTY - Revelation 19:6
BEAUTIFUL beyond imagination - Ezekiel 1:26-28, Revelation 1:12-18
CREATOR and COMPASSIONATE - Ps.103:22 see also Genesis 1:1, John 1:1-3 and Colossians 1:16 / compassionate - Psalm 103:1

DELIVERER from sin, Savior - Ps.103:12 and see Matthew 1:22
ETERNAL, with no beginning or end - the word LORD includes this concept and see Ps.103:17, John 8:58

FAITHFUL and FORGIVING - Numbers 23:19, see also Heb.11:11 and Rev.3:14, 19:11 forgiving - Ps.103:3,12

GOOD and GRACIOUS - Ps.103:2,4,5,8

HOLY, HOLY, HOLY (set apart by moral perfection) Ps.103:1 and see Isa.6:3
IMMUTABLE – meaning He never changes, see Hebrews 1:12 and James 1:17; also IMMENSE, beyond infinity yet INTIMATELY INVOLVED with His creation - Jer.23:23,24
JUST and fair, will JUDGE rightly - Psalm 103:6, Psalm 96:10 with Acts 17:31
KING over everything - sovereign in control and KNOWS everything - in the word LORD, Ps. 18,19,22 and Ps.103:14 and LOVING - Ps.103:4 see also 1 John 4:8
MERCIFUL - Ps.103:8,17 and Ps.103:13
NEVER TIRED, (He cannot be depleted in strength after exerting Himself) - Isaiah 40:28, Heb.

OMNIPRESENT, always present everywhere (by His Spirit) - Psalm 139:7-12
PATIENT, longsuffering with us - Ps.103:8,9
the QUENCHER of our spiritual thirst - John 4:13,14 and John 7:37,38
RIGHTEOUS and REDEEMER (the One who pays to set us free from sin)- and Ps.103:4,6

SELF-REVEALING and the only SUSTAINER - Ps.103:7 and Ps.103:3,5
TRUTH, ultimate reality - John 14:6
UNCHANGING, always the same - Malachi 3:6, Hebrews 13:8 and James 1:17
VICTORIOUS over His enemies, over sin and death - 1 Cor. 15:26,55-57
WEALTHY - Psalm 24:1, Philippians 4:19
the X-RAYer of hearts - John 2:24,25 and Hebrews 4:12,13
One who YEARNS for our fellowship - Luke 19:10
One who ZEROS in on the smallest details in our life - Matthew 10:29-31

Rich Hines
Aurora Ministries – Minister to Chaplains
Chaplain Help Ministry

Don’t Just Give them Baby Food

This message is primarily for those who call on the name of Jesus Christ as their own Lord and Savior from sin, and serve as a Chaplain or a gospel minister in a jail, prison or a follow-up ministry such as a rescue mission – in the United States.

All Scripture quotes are usually taken from the New King James Version (NKJV) of the Bible, copyright 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. When quoting a text, any deviation from the NKJV text is placed within parenthesis signs (). These usually occur as direct translations from the original languages, or as notes from the original setting to help apply the text to today’s culture.

ALL CAPITAL LETTERS are sometimes used to emphasize words in a text, or to make a comment about a biblical text, or emphasize a statement.

Dear Chaplains or gospel ministers, I want to begin this month’s message by saying I have often been told by Chaplains and other people: “with this segment of the population you can’t ever get very deep. You must only give them the very basics of the milk of the word because they cannot understand the deeper things of the Bible.”

I respectfully DISAGREE. I do not think any chaplain or Christian discipler has “fulfilled” their ministry as they are exhorted to in 2 Tim. 4:1-5, by JUST GIVING THEM BABY FOOD!

Furthermore, I believe God REQUIRES those that minister to inmates and rescue mission residents to give them the whole counsel of God, or as Jesus Himself put it in Matt. 28:20, “teaching them (those that are converted disciples) to observe ALL THINGS that I have commanded you; …”

Consider the first letter (epistle) to the Thessalonians. According to Acts 17:2, the Apostle Paul was only with them LESS than a month! Yet, in writing back to those new believers, just a few months after their conversion, he spoke about the following biblical doctrines, WHICH HE HAD ALREADY TAUGHT THEM DURING THEIR FIRST FEW WEEKS AS CHRISTIANS.

1. The Triunity of God (1:2-5)
2. Election (1:4)
3. The return of Christ – eschatology (1:10; 5:1-11)
4. Their responsibility to evangelize (1:8-9)
5. Persecution (2:2,14; and 3:4)
6. Divine judgment and the wrath of God (2:15-16)
7. Holy living, practical sanctification (2:10-12; 3:12-4:3 and 5:23-24)
8. Satan’s schemes against Christians (2:18)
9. Prayer (2:13 and 5:25)
10. Spiritual parenting (2:7-8, 11)
11. Work ethics (2:9 and 4:11-12 also compare 2 Thess. 3:6-12)
12. Believers physical death and the resurrection and the rapture (4:13-18)
13. Christian love in action, edifying one another (4:9-10)
14. False teachers and what to look for in a truly godly leader (2:1-8)

Also consider this fact: the letter to the Romans was written to brand new Christians! Romans contains some of the deepest concepts in all the Bible. Among the teachings in Romans are many things relating to future glory. Note it in chapters 8 and 11.

It was the Apostle Peter who said in 2 Peter 3:15-16, “our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, (What things? The near context in 2 Pet. 3 has to do with end time events) IN WHICH ARE SOME THINGS HARD TO UNDERSTAND,”

Before I proceed, I want to make sure you understand that I am NOT SAYING speak over their heads or use difficult theological words – WITHOUT DEFING THEM. That would violate the principle of 1 Cor. 14:9 (“… unless you utter by the tongue words easy to understand, how will it be known what is spoken?”).

Having restated what God has said about giving the whole of His word to His children, I want you who minister the gospel of Christ to now consider TWO THINGS. They are, the DANGERS INDICATED to those who cannot take deeper Bible teaching, AND the issue of PRACTICAL SANCTIFICATION.

1. I want you to look at some passages of Scripture that indicate the DANGERS indicated to any person or persons that simply “can’t take the deeper things of the word.”

First, consider Hebrews 5:10-14.

10 … called by God as High Priest “according to the order of Melchizedek,”
11 of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk (which is to say, baby food) and not solid food.
13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.
14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

A key to understanding this passage is to understand the phrase “dull of hearing.” The word dull is equal to slow, sluggish, indolent, or languid AND it also carries the idea of stubbornness. As used in this passage it refers to professing believers that do not want to grow in their understanding of God’s word. They do not want to put forth any effort to understand Him.

There are two dangers to persons showing this attitude. The first is that it might indicate they are in fact not genuine and are still UNSAVED. This would be in step with the warning sections in Hebrews where readers are challenged to make sure their professed faith is real saving faith

The second would be even if they are truly saved, they are IN THE SIN OF QUENCHING THE INDWELLING Holy Spirit. After all – He would urge them towards the very words He breathed into the ancient writers of Scripture.

On the other hand, it is a sign of true salvation when anyone has a deep craving hunger for the word of God.

Psalm 1 makes that fact abundantly clear. In verse 2 it says of the saved for whom heaven is reserved, “his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night.” (v.3) But it also says in verse 4, “The ungodly are NOT SO,”

Next, look at 2 Peter 3:18.

18 … but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

God wants all of His true children to grow spiritually. I made that point in last month’s message on 1 John 2:12-14. A true believer cannot grow in grace apart from a deepening KNOWLEDGE of God’s word.

For a true believer to not be constantly going deeper into God’s word, the third clear danger is a LACK OF SPIRITUAL GROWTH. Along with that fact, look with me at 2 Peter 1:5-10, which says:

5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to (lit. “in”) your faith virtue, to virtue KNOWLEDGE,(of God’s word - I say that because of verse 4 which spoke of God’s promises in His word)
6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness,
7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.
8 For IF these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and HAS FORGOTTEN THAT HE WAS CLEANSED FROM HIS OLD SINS.
10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble;

So a fourth danger in regard not be getting the meat of God’s word AND APPLYING IT - is A LACK OF ASSURANCE THAT THEY ARE FOGIVEN. That will also make any true Christian ineffective for ministry.

Lastly let’s look at 1 John 2:18-26, which says:

18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, EVEN NOW MANY ANTICHRISTS HAVE COME, by which we know that it is the last hour.
19 They went out from us, but THEY WERE NOT OF US; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that NONE OF THEM WERE OF US.
20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.
21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
22 Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.
23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
24 Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.
25 And this is the promise that He has promised us—eternal life.
26 These things I have written to you CONCERNING THOSE WHO TRY TO DECEIVE YOU.

There is much that should be taught from this passage, but here a fifth clear warning to those Christians (and to those that are false professors to being Christ’s followers) that don’t pay serious attention to deeper Bible teaching is IT WILL MAKE THEM SUSEPTABLE TO FALSE TEACHERS - AND THEIR HERESIES.

So in all, at least five dangerous conditions, are indicated for those that don’t want the whole of God’s word.

1. It may indicate they are still in their sins and not yet saved
2. If saved, it means they are quenching the desire of the Holy Spirit. That is sin.
3. They will not be growing spiritually. This also is in disobedience to the Holy Spirit.
4. If they are saved, they will lack the assurance of it. AND:
5. They make themselves easy prey for satanic false teachers and man-made religions.

2. Now, l want you to also consider the ISSUE OF PRACTICAL SANCTIFICATION.

It is clear from Scripture that there is no such thing as salvation that does not produce some sanctification HERE AND NOW – IN THIS LIFE. There are many places that teach us that - but 1 John is certainly one of them.

The Apostle John was moved by the Spirit of God to make obedience to God’s commands, a growing righteousness or practical sanctification - ONE OF THE TESTS OF ETERNAL LIFE. You see it in 1 John 2:3-6; then again in 2:28-3:10a; and in 3:22-24. Even one last time in 5:2-3 it is mentioned.

Looking briefly at of one of the passages I just referenced in 1 John 2:28 – 3:3, we read:

28 And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.
29 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who PRACTICES RIGHTEOUSNESS is (literally, ‘HAS BEEN’) born of Him.
1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
3 And EVERYONE WHO HAS THIS HOPE in Him PURIFIES HIMSELF (literally, ‘keeps on purifying himself’), just as He is pure.

This passages centers on two things: the return of Jesus Christ in glory (2:28 and 3:2) and practical sanctification (2:29 and 3:3). It teaches the proof of having received salvation and being born of God is practicing righteousness or said another way, seeking moral purity.

The Spirit of God, who indwells the true recipient of His grace at the point of salvation, creates a deep desire for this righteous purity. He even enables the believer to say “No!” to temptation and sin.

Christ’s glorious return is the motive to live in purity, because no true child of God wants to be ashamed when He appears. The question then to ask is, just HOW do they keep on purifying themselves on a daily basis?

They have to be cleansed by a constant input of the word of God. Psalm 119:9-11 and John 17:15-17 are just two passages that make this clear.

Psalm 119:
9 How can a young man CLEANSE his way? By taking heed according to Your word.
10 With my whole heart I have sought You; oh, let me not wander from Your commandments!
11 Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might NOT SIN against You.

John 17: (Jesus is here praying to the Father about His true saved ones)
15 I do not pray that You should take them (believers whom the Father gave to the Son) out of the world, but that You should keep (or, guard) them from the evil one.
16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
17 SANCTIFY THEM by Your truth. Your WORD is truth.

Then, about a week later, Jesus told His church leadership what we see in Matthew 28:

16 Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them.
17 When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted.
18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, …
19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
20 TEACHING THE TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS that I have commanded you; …”

This applies to all Christian pastors today. This applies to Chaplains and volunteers that bring inmates the gospel. Your THOROUGH TEACHING OF BIBLE DOCTRINE is what the Spirit will use to help sanctify and protect them! Don’t neglect your responsibility, even though some may tell you NOT to teach the deeper things of the word to inmates.

Remember what Hebrews 12:14 says.

14 Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:

This verse is not speaking about the perfect holiness that will be experienced in a believer’s new glorified body in heaven. It is speaking about the continual chasing after purity and holiness in the nasty here and now, even when doing time in jail or prison.

The desire (given by the Holy Spirit) to catch up to Christ’s perfect holiness is shown by chasing after it now. It is another indication of the possession of true salvation. That desire in the Christian inmates’ hearts will increase as you and others are consistently faithful to teach them the word of God.

Rich Hines
Aurora Ministries – Minister to Chaplains
Chaplain Help Ministry