The believer's peace turns wholly on having God's Son and life eternal in Him. It is written that this "life is in His Son" because the Spirit would comfort the believer with its security independent of himself and every other creature. In the Son is this life, where no evil can reach, no danger approach. It is his joy to know his life, the life eternal, in Him who is not only its unfailing spring but its divine preservative against all the wiles of Satan; and yet more: He is in fellowship with God the Father, the object of His love and honor more than ever since redemption. But John 5:2424Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24) equally assures us that we have this life and that God has given it to us here.
Now nothing can be more certain than that God's love is toward every child of His family. Therefore is the Word of God most explicit that this privilege was meant to be inwardly known, enjoyed and exercised in personal communion, worship and walk of every Christian, however immature, just as the other life, the flesh, always utterly hateful to God, is now more than ever, through Christ and the given Spirit of God, made hateful to the saint. Hence the Christian has to disown and set aside the fallen life and to walk by faith according to the only perfect model of Christ in his new nature, called here and in the corresponding Gospel "eternal life." It is the life of Christ, and now, by grace, it is "our life." [23]