“There is no life apart from Him. ‘He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son hath not life.’ No works, no efforts of ours, could ever produce divine life. You could not make yourself become a Christian, a child of God; you could not by any effort of your own, by any prayers, any penances, produce one spark of divine life within your soul. But the moment you receive Christ, you have receive Him who is the life. ‘God so loved the world, that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.’”[1]

[1] H. A. Ironside, Epistles of John and Jude, Neptune NJ: Loizeaux Brothers, 1931, 141.