Jesus Christ - a better/sure anchor for our soul/salvation
Jesus Christ - a better/sure anchor for our soul/salvation
The enlightenment spoken of here has to do with intellectual perception of spiritual, biblical truth. In the Septuagint, the Greek word (phōtizō) several times is translated “to give light by knowledge or teaching.” It means to be mentally aware of something, to be instructed, informed. It carries no connotation of response—of acceptance or rejection, belief or disbelief.
The Bible never speaks of Christians being associated with the Holy Spirit. It speaks of the Holy Spirit being within them.
He never repents of having given them so as to take them back again. And whatever calling He makes of any man, He never retracts it, but He stands to it still. There is no playing fast and loose in divine mercy; His gifts and calling are without repentance.
Keep it up; be as earnest today as you were twenty years ago, when you were baptized and joined the church: “Demonstrate the same diligence unto the end
No one in the universe is greater than God. And the reason He cannot lie is that He invented truth. He is truth. By definition, whatever He says is true. By the very nature of His person, He cannot lie. He has no capacity to lie. His promises, then, are first of all secured by His Person. Whatever He does has to be right and whatever He says has to be true. If God makes a promise, therefore, He not only will keep it, He must keep it.
the hope set before us We must personally lay hold on the hope. There is the hope, but we are bound to grasp it and hold it fast. As with an anchor the cable must pass through the ring, and so be bound to it, so must faith lay hold upon the hope of eternal life. The original Greek signifies “to lay hold by main force and so to hold as not to lose our hold when the greatest force would pull it from us.” We must take firm hold of firm truth.