John 6:37-40: The Eternal Security of the Believer
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· 5 viewsAll who believe in Christ are eternally secure. All that the Father has given Christ from before the foundation of the world will be saved and they will be saved to the very end.
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Scripture Reading
Scripture Reading
1 Thessalonians 5:23–25 Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.
Intro
Intro
Can you lose your salvation?
At some point or another very Christian asks that question.
And it’s a crucial question.
How can you be sure you are saved and you will be saved?
It’s clear from Scripture that Christians are called to endure but what does that perseverance look like?
How do we do it?
Can someone who believes in Christ fall away, and if not what are we to make of someone who made a profession of faith but ultimately walked away from Jesus Christ?
Or maybe more personal questions.
How can you know that that sin won’t be the end of you but that you will eventually overcome it?
Or that no trial or hardship you could possibly face one day in the future, or maybe even right now, won’t make you fall away?
That you will weather the storms of life by grace and be found in Christ at the end?
These are all questions surrounding the Doctrine of the Eternal Security of the Believer.
Sometimes its called the Perseverance of the Saints.
Sometimes the Preservation of the Saints.
Once saved always saved.
But no matter what you call it at the end of the day the Bible’s teaching is clear.
All who believe in Christ are eternally secure in Him.
All who believe in Christ are eternally secure in Him.
God preserves His saints and because God preserves His saints they persevere in Him.
Usually we talk about our call to perseverance - to run the race, endure, stay faithful.
But this morning I want to talk about God’s side of perseverance. How all who trust in Christ are eternally secure in Him.
And we need this doctrine.
Without it our salvation will become works based righteousness where we are always trying to make sure we are doing enough to keep our salvation.
But it is also a great comfort and assurance to our souls that allows rest in Christ finished work and truly rejoice in the Lord of our Salvation.
Truly worship Him and give Him the glory due to His Name because our salvation from beginning to end is secure in Him and His Amazing grace.
We are going to have three points from John 6:37-40 so let’s start with point number 1...
I. All Who Trust in Christ will Surely Be Saved
I. All Who Trust in Christ will Surely Be Saved
John 6:37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
This verse is one of the most precious promises of the gospel.
Jesus says, All that the Father gives to me will come to me.
Last week, we said that this refers to God’s elect.
All those God chose in Christ before the foundation of the world.
And Jesus says that all of them, every single one, will come to saving faith in Him.
That God will not fail to bring all that He predestined for salvation into the full forgiveness of their sins.
Not one of God’s children will be…forgotten…lost…overlooked…or missed.
God is faithful to save.
That is a comfort for every Christian because it reminds us that God is the God of our salvation, and that our life and our salvation rests entirely in His hands.
And then, in the second part of this verse, Jesus gives us a second comfort.
Not only will all those that God has chosen for salvation come to Him, but all who come to Him Christ will never cast out.
This is God’s grace in a verse.
This is a promise that everyone who comes to Christ will be saved once and for all.
That all who trust in Christ will surely be saved in Him.
And we see that when Christ says whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
That never in the Greek, is actually two Greek words, οὐ μὴ, and both of those words literally translated mean “not.”
So what Jesus literally says is whoever comes to me I will not not cast out.
Its a double negation, and in Greek, that οὐ and μὴ together is how you say something is impossible and could never ever happen.
So when we read never, we shouldn’t just brush over the word.
When we read this verse, what we should read is whoever comes to me I will never, no never, not ever cast out.
This is the strongest possible promise that all who come to Christ will surely be saved.
And there are two senses in which Christ says we will surely be saved, and both of them go together.
We see this in the words cast out and how they relate to the wider context of what Jesus is saying.
When Christ says whoever comes to me I will never cast out, He is promising two things:
We will be saved.
And we will be saved eternally.
We need to have both ideas in mind when we read this verse to see the full glory of the promise that Christ gives.
Welcome
Welcome
First, we will be saved.
Whoever comes to me, I will never cast out.
The idea here is all that come to Christ will be welcomed by Him.
He will receive. He will bring in.
He will never, not ever shut out or drive away.
And the promise here is that no one is too sinful or too far gone for the grace of Christ.
There is no sin so great…no life so unclean that will make Christ say, “I can’t forgive that. You need to go away.”
This is a promise of the great grace of God.
Isaiah 1:18 Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
Psalm 51:7 Purify me... and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
This is the good news of the gospel:
Christ will welcome all who come to Him.
His blood is sufficient…its enough…its more than enough!!!...to cleanse you of all our sins.
No one who ever comes to Christ will ever be shut out.
As Puritan Great Richard Sibbes once said: There is more mercy in Christ than [there is] sin in us.
Sibbes, The Bruised Reed, Banner of Truth, 1998, 13.
So what does that mean? It means coming to Christ in faith.
Remember. Jesus is talking to a group of people to whom He said, But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.
You must have a personal faith in Jesus Christ.
A coming to Christ that trusts in Him…that receives His sinless life, sacrificial death on the cross, and bodily resurrection as the one atoning sacrifice to cleanse you of all your sins and save you from the wrath and condemnation of God.
A faith that casts off all your sin and self-righteousness and humbly comes to Christ and says, “God…be merciful to me a sinner” (Luke 18:13).
And if you come to Christ, Christ promises to welcome you and cleanse you from all your sin.
To take off your filthy rags and clothe you in His perfect righteousness to save you once and for all.
And the for all takes us to the second sense of Christ’s promise that whoever comes to Him He will never cast out.
Not only will Christ surely welcome us and forgive us...but He will also surely keep us by His power and grace.
Keep
Keep
What is the opposite of cast out or drive away?
Its to keep in.
In fact, one of the ways you could translate this word would be to throw out.
And when you put that in the context of verse 39 where Christ says I will lose nothing of all the Father has given me...
One of the things that Christ is obviously promising in this verse is that not only will He welcome all who come to Him and never, ever drive them out or send them away for any of their past sins...
But He also promises to keep us in...and never, ever throw any of us out for any of our present and ongoing sins, weaknesses, and failings.
In other words, you can never lose your salvation.
Christ promises the eternal security of the believer.
Once saved always saved.
That whoever comes to Christ will be saved once and for all.
This is one of the sweetest doctrines of God’s grace, and one of the most precious promises that we could ever hope for.
The Perseverance of the Saints, Eternal Security of the Believer, God’s Preservation of the saints…whatever you call....it is the one Doctrine of Grace that makes all the other Doctrines of Grace that much more sweeter.
After all, what good would it be if we could be chosen by God the Father in eternity past if we could be forsaken in the end?
What good would it be to redeemed by God the Son and to have all our sins washed away if one day, they could all be laid back on us again?
What good would it be to be born again and called by the Holy Spirit if we could fall away and be lost in the end?
The Perseverance of the Saints and the Eternal Security of the Believer is the golden seal that guarantees all who truly trust in Christ will be saved once and for all.
Without this Doctrine, how could we ever truly rejoice in our salvation?
Wouldn’t we always be a nervous wreck.
Always on the edge of just one sin, one shortcoming, one failing one moment of weakness from throwing it all away?
The Christian life would be one of constant handwringing, constant anxiety, constant self-righteousness where every night lay our head on the pillow wondering, “Did I do enough today to keep my salvation?”
Did I do enough today to make sure I’m still saved.”
And everyday we would wake up wondering, “Will this finally be the day that I lose it?”
But the good news of the gospel is that our perseverance does not depend on us.
Because if it did surely none of us would be saved.
At some point, every single one would eventually lose our grip and fall away.
But Christ never loses His grip. He saves us once and for all and all who come to Him will surely be saved.
Perseverance
Perseverance
Now before we go on, we need to ask a very important question.
Does this mean someone can just make a profession of faith and be saved without any holiness or fruit in their life?
And what about people that fall away and deny Christ, does this mean they’re saved to?
And this is where we need to understand the relationship between the Perseverance of the Saints in relation to the Eternal Security of the Believer.
Because you need perseverance.
Sanctification. Endurance. A steady growth in holiness and following Christ faithfully all the days of your life.
Without Holiness and Endurance, you will not be saved.
Hebrews 12:14 Without [holiness] no one will see the Lord.
Hebrews 12:1–2 Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith.
Well wait a second…doesn’t that just negate everything I said about the eternal security of the believer?
Not at all.
Sanctification, Perseverance, a life of holiness are the fruit of true, saving faith.
This is a word we need for today in a culture of easy-believism and cheap grace.
The eternal security of the believer is not a license to sin living a life of unrepentance thinking, “Well I made a profession of faith so I’m saved.”
Romans 6:1 Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
A true Christian doesn’t just trust in Christ as Savior, they follow Him as Lord, and they follow Him all the days of their life.
But that doesn’t mean they keep themselves.
They endure. They persevere. They grow in holiness all by God’s power and grace.
Philippians 2:12–13 Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling…[That’s perseverance, sanctification, growth in holiness]…for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
We work out what God works in.
He works in us a new heart. A new nature. A love for Jesus. The indwelling Holy Spirit.
And the Christian life is working out what God works in.
God does not keep up based on our perseverance or endurance.
That would turn God’s grace on its head, and give us a reason to boast.
Well yeah I made it to heaven. Christ saved me, but I persevered. I endured. I kept myself.
No. The reason we keep is because God keeps us.
We persevere, because God perseveres in His love towards us.
But our perseverance and holiness is the fruit of that grace.
So don’t hear the Doctrine of the Eternal Security of the Believer, Oh great! I got my fire insurance I can do whatever I want.
That kind of heart says you don’t understand God’s grace at all.
Instead, we should see God’s promise to preserve persevere us and out of that assurance strive all the more to live a holy life.
As Peter says strive to make your calling and election sure (2 Peter 1:10–11).
Now does this mean that a Christian will never sin or never backslide?
Of course not!
David sinned with Bathsheba and murdered her husband.
Peter denied Christ.
But in both cases they repented and after they repented, they were both restored.
But what this does mean is that a Christian cannot live a perpetually unholy or backslidden life.
If they are truly saved they will repent and return to the Lord.
This encourages us to repent of all our sin.
To put it to death by the Spirit because a Christian living in unrepentant sin needs to seriously ask themselves, “Am I really saved?”
Can a man be born again and still live in sin? The Bible’s answer is no!
Those who are truly born again will live a life of repentance.
Apostasy?
Apostasy?
But what do we say about people who deny the faith? Who made a profession of faith and walk away?
1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.
A true Christian can never ultimately or finally fall away.
If you truly have saving faith you can never lose it.
And if you lose it, it just proves you never truly had it.
Strive
Strive
So what does this say to us today?
Strive and make every effort to persevere.
As Paul says, Examine yourselves...test yourselves to see whether or not you are in the faith (2 Corinthians 13:5).
Do you love Christ and live for His glory?
Are you growing in sanctification and holiness?
Do you have endurance?
Persevering in Christ is the evidence that Christ is keeping and preserving us.
We must never get our justification and sanctification confused.
We are not saved because we persevere.
We persevere because we are saved.
We keep because we are being kept. Not the other way around.
Our salvation and the Eternal Security of the Believer rests solely on God’s Sovereign grace.
On His power to keep us and uphold us all the days of our life.
But the evidence of that grace is a lifetime of faithful and holy perseverance.
Because Christ promises to save us and keep us.
Whoever comes to me I will never, no never cast out.
I will welcome them and forgive them of all of their sin.
I will make them clean with my precious blood.
And I will never throw them out or drive them away.
I will keep them to the very end despite all their sins and failings by my power and grace.
That is the good news of this verse.
Christ will save everyone who comes to Him and He will save every…single…one.
Not one of them will ever be lost or fall away.
Because Christ promises to save all that the Father has given Him once and for all.
And that takes us to point number 2...
All who trust in Christ will surely be saved and they will be saved to the very end.
II. All Who Trust in Christ will Surely Be Saved to the Very End
II. All Who Trust in Christ will Surely Be Saved to the Very End
John 6:38–39 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.
So here is what I want you to see. Christ clearly and explicitly ties our salvation to the Sovereign Will of God.
Just in the last verse Jesus said He will never cast out anyone who comes to Him.
And then at the beginning of verse 38, He says For.
He will save and He will save once and for all because, for, I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of Him who sent me.
So Christ will save and He will surely save, because it is God’s will that Christ save all the elect and to ensure they are saved to the very end.
Verse 39: And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.
Here is Christ’s promise. Out of all the elect God has given to Christ, Christ will not lose a single one.
Christ will save all that the Father has given Him.
This is why He is able to say, but raise it up on the last day.
What Jesus is talking about is the resurrection.
When Christ returns He will raise all men for the day of judgment.
Anyone who does not worship Christ will be cast off into Hell; the lake of Fire.
And all who trust in Christ will be ushered into the resurrection of life where every trace and stain of sin will be no more and God will be our God and we will be His people forever and ever.
This is what the Bible calls glorification. It is our heavenly reward.
But here’s what I want you to see.
I think sometimes we can read about the resurrection and think, Man that’s a cool promise. We get to live forever in heaven with the Lord.
But theologically its so much more than that.
Because what is the curse of our sin?
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death.
Spiritual death - separation from God.
Physical death - you are dust and to dust you shall return.
And eternal death - eternal, conscious torment under the wrath of God in Hell.
So when Christ promises to raise us up again, He’s not just promising that He will bring us back to life.
Theologically Christ is promising the fullness of salvation.
A full reversal of everything to do with sin and the curse it is entirety.
Death will be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away (Revelation 21:4).
So what is Christ saying?
All that the Father gives Him will come to Him.
And out of all who come to Him, not one of them will be lost, but every single one will receive the fullness of salvation.
Not a single one will fail to receive the inheritance God has promised to all the Saints.
Christ will keep us and He will keep us to the very last day.
All those who trust in Christ will surely be saved and they will surely be saved to the very end.
And I want to highlight two things from this verse that guarantees this promise - that Christ will lose nothing of all God has given Him, but raise it up on the last day, and both of them are connected to Jesus saying I cam to do my Father’s will.
Number 1: Our Eternal Security is Rooted in God’s Sovereign Will.
And Number 2: Our eternal Security is Rooted in God’s Almighty Power.
1. Our Eternal Security is Rooted in God’s Sovereign Will
1. Our Eternal Security is Rooted in God’s Sovereign Will
You can’t disconnect Christ’s promise to save all the Elect from God’s Election.
You hear it over and over again in this verse. It’s God’s will that Christ would save His people. Why?
Because elected them to be saved.
Look at Romans 8 verse 30.
This verse is often called the Golden chain of salvation.
And a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and if one link could be broken then all could be broken.
But look what it says, those whom He predestined…[all those, all the elect without exception]…He also called. And those whom he called He also justified. and those whom He justified he also glorified.
The repeated phrase He also is what links the entirety of our salvation from eternity past to eternity future into an unbreakable chain.
All those God predestined to salvation will receive the fullness of salvation.
In fact, the past tense of glorified, of believers being raised on the last day, is used to say that from God’s perspective, the work is as good as done.
He will bring it to completion exactly as has planned.
As Paul said Philippians 1:6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Why? Because God’s eternal decree is immutable meaning…it cannot be changed or broken.
His purpose will stand.
Isaiah 46:9–10 I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose.
If God has elected you to salvation nothing will stop Him from accomplishing it.
Not sin. Trial. Tribulation. Human frailty or weakness.
Nothing can frustrate or thwart God’s decree.
In other words, you could lose your salvation as easily God’s eternal and sovereign will could be broken.
That’s why Paul goes on to say in Romans 8 that nothing in all creation can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord and that nothing includes the weakness of the believer.
Our inability to keep our hold. It is God who holds us fast.
Number 2…
2. Our Eternal Security is Rooted in the Trinue God’s Almighty Power
2. Our Eternal Security is Rooted in the Trinue God’s Almighty Power
Notice the emphasis on how Christ came to accomplish His Father’s will.
Jesus and the Father are one. What does that mean?
God is Trinity.
There is One God who eternally subsists Three divine Persons.
The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
And all three persons of the Trinity together uphold believers by their almighty power.
John 10:28–30 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.
Look what Jesus says. No one will snatch them out of my hand. Why? Because no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
Jesus and the Father are one.
And when you remember that it is the Spirit who seals us for salvation (Eph 1:13-14), our salvation is secure in the Almighty Trinity’s almighty power!
As Calvin said “The salvation of all the elect is as certain as God’s power is invincible.”
Daniel, The History and Theology of Calvinism, 584.
We are safe because God is strong.
All those who trust in Christ will surely be saved and they will be saved to the very end.
Our eternal security is rooted in God’s sovereign and immutable decree and in God’s almighty power.
Number 3…All those who trust in Christ will surely be saved...
And they will surely be saved to the very end...
Because...Our salvation is secure in Christ.
Verse 40.
III. All Who Trust in Christ will Surely Be Saved to the Very End Because Our Salvation is Secure in Christ
III. All Who Trust in Christ will Surely Be Saved to the Very End Because Our Salvation is Secure in Christ
John 6:40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
Look what Christ says. Everyone who look son the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life.
That’s eternal life, not temporary life.
And if you look back throughout the gospel of John you will see what Christ says this eternal life means.
John 3:16 They will never perish but have eternal life.
John 4:14 Whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.
In one sermon Spurgeon says just one sip of this water satisfies the soul forever.
Where those in Hell thirst forever begging for just one drop of water for a drink.
John 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, 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.
In other words, they will never be condemned.
They will never come under judgment for their sins.
And here in our passage John 6:39 they will never be lost.
So just so far in the Gospel of John all who believe in the Son have eternal life.
And all those who have eternal life will:
Never Perish.
Never Thirst.
Never be condemned.
And never be lost.
And Christ stakes that promise on Himself.
I will raise them up on the last day.
In other words, Christ promises to personally see to it none of us are lost and each and every one receives the fullness of our salvation.
And how is He able to make this promise?
Because our Salvation is secure in Christ.
Its secure in Christ’s Finished Work.
And Christ’s Ongoing Intercession
First…
1. Our Salvation is Secure in Christ’s Finished Work
1. Our Salvation is Secure in Christ’s Finished Work
Go back to verse 38. For I have came down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of Him who sent me, and in the next two verses Christ clearly defines this will as saving all of God’s elect.
To save His people once and for all and present them holy before the Lord on the last day.
And the way Jesus did this was by fulfilling all the requirements of the Law on our behalf.
By coming down from heaven, taking on human flesh, and perfectly obeying all the will of the God on our behalf.
Galatians 4:4–5 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
And not only did He obey the Law, but He suffered the penalty of the Law our sin deserved.
He died in our place for our sins and offered His love as a sacrifice.
So Christ fulfilled all the righteousness of the Law.
He obeyed the Law on our behalf and He suffered in our place… for our sins.
Our salvation is secure because it is secure in Christ’s perfect righteousness.
We are justified…forgiven…declared righteous in Him.
That’s why Jesus was able to say on the cross “It is finished.”
His sinless life and sacrificial death made full atonement for our sins.
We are saved because of His finished work.
Number 2…
2. Our Salvation is Secure in Christ’s Ongoing Intercession
2. Our Salvation is Secure in Christ’s Ongoing Intercession
Christ died and was buried, but He did not stay in the grave.
He rose again.
As our Great High Priest He offered His life as a sacrifice, and today He lives to make intercession for us in the heavenly places at the right hand of the Father.
Hebrews 7:23–25 The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office, but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever. Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
Do you know why you will endure?
Because Christ lives in heaven interceding for you.
Praying for you to not grow faint or grow weary, but to endure.
And God hears all of His prayers (John 11:42).
We see this with the Apostle Peter.
Remember the Lord predicted that Peter would deny Him three times. What kept Peter from falling away altogether?
Luke 22:31–32 Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.
Left to ourselves all of us would surely be sifted like wheat.
But our salvation is secure because our Great High Priest prays for us.
Under the Old Covenant the High priest would wear a breastplate of precious stones each engraved with a name of one of the 12 tribes of Israel so that He would carry the names of the people as he offered sacrifices and made intercession before the Lord.
And today Christ our Great High Priest makes intercession for us with our names graven on His hands and written on His heart.
And before you say, well Christ doesn’t pray for me.
I’m too weak. Too sinful. Too sorry of a Christian for Him to remember me…Remember what we read in these verses!
I will raise them up on the last day and lose not one of all that the Father has given me.
And we know what Christ prays because we have it in the High Priestly prayer of John 17.
In that prayer He says I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word (John 17:20).
That’s you and me.
And what does He pray?
John 17:11–15 Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
1. In other words so that we would know what Christ prays for us so that we would have the fullness of joy and the assurance of our salvation.
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.
Jesus will surely keep us because He lives to make intercession for us.
Sin, Satan, and the World will never be able to tear us away from Christ.
Our Salvation is Secure in Him as our Great High Priest.
He offered His life as a sacrifice to atone for our sins.
And He lives to make intercession for us.
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out (John 6:37).
All who come to Christ is as safe as Jesus is faithful.
As Secure from Sin, Satan, and the World as Jesus is strong.
And as forgiven as Christ’s work is finished.
All of our salvation is secure in Him.
Conclusion
Conclusion
All who believe in Christ are eternally secure.
All who believe in Christ are eternally secure.
That’s what I want you to take away from this sermon today.
Everyone who has truly put their faith in Christ will never totally or finally fall away from God’s grace (1689 17:1).
Rather they will certainly persevere in holiness, faithfulness, and obedience to Christ because all the gifts and promises of God are irrevocable (Romans 11:29; 1689 17:1).
God preserves the saints and out of God’s grace we persevere.
I wanted to preach this sermon so that you would have great assurance.
God will never throw you off or cast you away because of your weaknesses and failings because God has purposed to save you.
Your salvation does not rest on your strength, power, or grip on Christ.
Your salvation rests in Christ grip on you.
We keep a tight grip. That’s perseverance. But God’s grip is what keeps a hold of us
We may fall into, hated by the world, or attacked by Satan, but like a little boy walking with His dad, we will never fall from God’s hand.
We might stumble. We might trip. But the sure grip of Christ will keep us from hitting the dirt (Daniel, The History and Theology of Calvinism, 587).
What a comfort and a rest that is.
This should encourage us to holiness. We can strive on and persevere because we know all of our running will not be in vain.
God will work in us through our striving to bring us to the end.
And also great hope in the battle!
If Christians persevere by God’s strength and power, then surely we are more than conquerors.
That sin won’t hold victory over you forever. One day, by God’s grace you will put it to death.
You will be free because if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
And the Eternal Security of the Believer is a great reminder that nothing will separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.
Like Spurgeon said, If God had loved me once then He will love me forever (A Defence of Calvinism Kindle 183-185).
I don’t know what trials or tribulations you are going through. Or what future dangers you might face.
But here’s what I know. God has promised to Save you.
No matter what storms come to your life you may be tossed to a fro and fall again and again on the deck, but you will never fall overboard.
Because all who trust in Christ will surely be saved and they will surely be saved to the very end.
God has promised. Will He not fulfill it. (Numbers 23:19).
Let’s Pray
Let’s Pray