How Can I Receive Christ? // Ask Pastor John

The help Jesus offers isn’t a commodity you can buy with money or morality. To have the Son, you must receive him by faith.

“Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life” (1 John 5:12). But what exactly does it mean to “have the Son of God”? How do we come into possession of Jesus? If we don’t possess him, we remain dead in our sins. So this is one of the most important questions in the universe. The answer was expounded by John Piper in a 1985 sermon. The following clip is also one of the rare examples of Pastor John drawing out metaphors from a contemporary movie, a movie titled ‘A Passage to India’ (1984), a celebrated film nominated for eleven Academy Awards. So again, what does it mean to “have the Son of God”? Here’s Pastor John.

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