Eternally Secure in Christ JESUS

 

Faith asks no signal from the skies,

To show that prayers accepted rise;

Our Priest is in the holy place

And answers from the throne of grace.

                                                                            

--Josiah Conder

 

 

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ETERNALLY SECURE IN CHRIST

 

 

     Someone asked me, “Do you think those who believe on Christ are eternally secure, or do you believe that a person can, through sin and neglect, lose their salvation?”  My response was, “What do the scriptures say?”  This is always how we should seek to answer the questions that people raise.  What I think or believe must be in alignment with Holy Scripture.  

 

As to what the Word of God says about the safety of believers we have clear answers.  It is written.  “This is the record, that God hath given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.  He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.  These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God” (I John 5:11-13).  

 

What did the Shepherd say in John 10:27-28?  “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me:  And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand.” Did the Savior say of His sheep, “they shall never perish?”  Well then, the issue is settled and the question is answered directly from the lips of Him Who is “the Way, the Truth and the Life” (John 14:6).  

 

By God’s grace I am in Christ and since my salvation is fully dependent upon Him, my eternal safety can never be in jeopardy.  Like Paul, “I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38-39).                                                                

 

 

--preacher Jim Byrd

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