By contacting the Word, you are contacting the
By contacting the Word, you are contacting the source of the eternal and everlasting life.
Consequently, because you are always in con tact with the Lord Himself, you will never taste death (8:51). This has been proved by history. When some of the saints were about to die, they did not taste death even though they were dying. For example, when D. L. Moody was dying, he died bravely. He died without tasting death, be cause he was abiding in the Lord and contacting the source of life. Likewise, if we will abide and continue in the Word of the Lord, we will also contact the source of life all of the time. Then we will never taste death. We will pass through death without tasting it.
The Gospel of John is a book of life. Many times in this Gospel people asked the Lord ques tions with the intention of receiving a yes or no answer. However, the Lord never answered yes or no. For example, in chapter four the Samari tan woman said, "Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men must worship" (4:20). In other words, she was asking Him which place was the right place in which to worship. The Lord Jesus did not say which place was right. He said that God is Spirit and that we must worship Him in