Knowing God and Christ Personally: The True Meaning of Eternal Life (10/11/2026)

Drawing from John 17:1-3, Pastor White examines Jesus's high priestly prayer to reveal what eternal life truly means. Rather than defining eternal life merely as living forever or going to heaven, Jesus declares that eternal life is the personal, experiential knowledge of God the Father and Jesus Christ whom He sent. The sermon emphasizes that knowing facts about God is fundamentally different from knowing God personally and experientially. Pastor White stresses that Jesus Christ is inseparable from any genuine knowledge of God, that all of God's promises are found exclusively in Christ, and that apart from Christ there is no covenant relationship with God, no forgiveness of sins, and no hope. The sermon calls believers to move beyond intellectual acknowledgment of spiritual truths into a lived, experienced reality of those truths, particularly the sufficiency and love of Christ, so that they are no longer driven to seek satisfaction from the world.