This is another in a series of excerpts from The Book of Life: What the Bible Says about God’s Registry of the Redeemed from High Street Press and available at Amazon. This except comes from the beginning of Section III: The Book of Life in the New Testament.

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This post begins excerpts from Section III of The Book of Life: What the Bible Says about God’s Registry of the Redeemed. Our focus in this section is on references to the book of life in the Gospels and epistles.

The New Testament offers numerous references to the book of life, and it specifically identifies the book of life as belonging to the Lamb. As we read the Gospels and epistles, we come to understand more clearly that the book of life is the registry of the redeemed – a record of those who have trusted in the Lamb of God for salvation.

Here’s a summary of future posts:

Chapter 13 explores the encouraging words of Jesus to his followers that their names are “written in heaven” (Luke 10:17-20). In chapter 14, Paul writes about his coworkers, “whose names are in the book of life” (Phil. 4:3). Chapter 15 examines what the writer of Hebrews means by “the assembly of the firstborn whose names have been written in heaven” (Heb. 12:23). 

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