I Am Secure
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Story of two believers
Story of two believers
Theology matters
Theology matters
Ephesians 1:11-14
Ephesians 1:11-14
Perseverance of the saints
Perseverance of the saints
What it is
What it is
Romans 4:21
21 fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.
Simply speaking, perseverance of the saints, is believing that God is able to do what He said He would do.
It is having faith that God is strong.
That what He says He will do…he can and will do.
We must not get confused between what man says, and what God says.
Some people declare promises.
God is not obligated to keep those.
God keeps the promises that He makes.
The Preservation of God
The Preservation of God
v.13
You were sealed
God is the one who saved us.
God is the one who preserves us.
We are strong standing not in our strength and power, but in the Lord, and in His might.
1 John 5:4
4 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
All those who are born of God, can and will overcome the world
Phil 1:6
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.
God began a good work in you, He will complete it.
What is that good work?
1 John 4:19
19 We love because he first loved us.
If we love God, it is because God has begun that good work in us.
What it isn’t
What it isn’t
Freedom to sin
Romans 6:1-4
Romans 6:1-4
We are not to trample on the grace of God, living as sinners and claiming grace.
What about those other verses?
What about those other verses?
1 Tim 6:12, Luke 12:8-9, 1 Cor 10:12, Rev 3:5
They tell us to fight the good fight, that if we deny Christ, He will deny us. That our names can be blotted out of the book of life.
God does not contradict, nor is He a God of confusion.
These verses are a call to persevere, a call to holiness.
They are a stern reminder that we were bought with a price, and if you are really a Christian, you have a job to glorify God with your life.
It is a warning letting you know that assurance isn’t a free license to sin.
They were not Christians
They were not Christians
Those who don’t stand strong, who walk away.
1 John 2:19
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.
What John reminds us, is that those who would trample on the blood of Christ in their own freedom, were not really believers.
This is why Jesus says, you will know them by their fruits.
Why 1 Peter says that the genuineness of your faith must be tested by various trials.
Why?
To separate the sheep from the goats.
Comfort, In Christ
Comfort, In Christ
The entire point of knowing these things isn’t to get a license to sin.
It is to encourage, and strengthen the believers who are fighting the good fight.
To encourage those who yes, might not always be perfect, but love God and desire to glorify Him.
It is so we may know that neither riches, or poverty, or sickness, or persecution, or cancer, or Alzheimer, nothing can separate you from the love of Christ.
To encourage those doing right
To encourage those doing right
1 John 5:13
13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.
That we might have confidence, that we have eternal life.
Our salvation began as a gift of grace, it isn’t kept by works.
Our salvation is a gift of grace, and is kept by grace.
Jude 24-25
24 Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, 25 to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.