John 5:24-30: in context

Jesus makes a series of staggering claims about himself and about life and death. Truly, he says, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he does not come into judgment but has passed from death to life. The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. The Father has granted the Son to have life in himself and authority to judge. An hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, to the resurrection of life or the resurrection of judgment. And Jesus adds that he seeks not his own will but the will of the Father who sent him.

The astonishing claim is at the start: whoever hears and believes has passed from death to life. Not will pass, someday, at the end, but has passed, already, now. Jesus speaks of eternal life not only as a future reward but as a present possession, a transfer that has already happened for the one who believes, out of death and into life, right now. The believer does not wait to escape judgment; he has already crossed over, and the judgment holds no threat. That is an enormous comfort, that eternal life is not merely a hope for later but a reality entered now, by hearing and believing. And it hangs on hearing his voice. Twice Jesus says the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and live; his word is the thing that raises the dead, both the spiritually dead who hear and believe now, and, at the last, all who are in the tombs. The same voice that will one day call bodies out of graves is the voice that calls dead souls to life today. To hear his word and believe is already to have crossed from death to life, and it is his living voice that does it.

Have I heard the voice of the Son of God and believed, crossing already from death into life, or am I still treating eternal life as only a distant hope rather than a reality entered now?