The most important event in human history occurred at Calvary when Jesus died on the cross for our sins and with his blood purchased our salvation. Jesus is Christianity. Christianity is Jesus. Belief in Jesus is our only hope salvation. God is the author of history and he knows beforehand what will happen. God has chosen those to be saved unto eternal life. God didn’t make anyone with the express intent of sending them to hell. That’s not God’s nature. However, God knew those who would reject him so, in a sense, the unbeliever has chosen to go to hell themselves. God is also not the author of sin, but he permits it as an expression of free will. Keep in mind God cannot do anything which is unreasonable or unfair so we must interpret anything God does by who he is. Never lose sight of the fact that God is good and God is great.
Satan tries to convince us salvation isn’t permanent and that we can lose eternal life at any time. Satan tells us we’re not worthy of heaven and he’s right about that one point. One of Satan’s favorite tactics is to speak to us in half-truths that on their face appear reasonable but will be then twisted around and cause us to doubt the truth of God and his Word. Don’t listen to Satan! Salvation isn’t about what we deserve, it’s about what Jesus has done on the cross because of his love for us. Satan tells us because we sin God couldn’t love us. The fact that God sent his only Son to die for us while we were yet sinners is proof Satan is a liar. Satan wants us to be insecure in our salvation and fearful. If you believe in God, Jesus Christ and the infallibility of the Bible then rest assured that once saved you’re always saved. God cannot lie and God is always faithful. If you’re a believer and you’ve accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior let the certain knowledge of your salvation give you the peace of God. The Bible contains numerous proofs of our salvation and eternal security. All three persons of the triune Godhead repeatedly confirm in Scripture that all believers belong to God forever.
God has a salvation plan to gift eternal life to those he calls to be conformed into the image of Christ. Is God going to go to all the trouble of making us like Jesus just so he can turn around and kick all believers out of heaven? God will glorify all believers who go to heaven. Will God then change his mind and undo our glorification? Will God take back the resurrection body he has given us? What will replace it? Will God change his mind about us being in heaven at all? God is love and he loves us. Will God then change his mind and renounce his love for us and bar us from heaven? God has adopted us as sons and will our father now rejects his children? The answer to all the above questions is emphatically, “no”. Remember who God is and base any possible actions by God by who he is. God can never be unfair or unreasonable.
Romans 8:29 – For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Ephesians 1:6 – To the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.
Colossians 3:3 – For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Jesus came to earth to die so we could go to heaven. Will Jesus now forsake that sacrifice and return us to earth? Will God make the the death of Jesus in vain? Will Jesus renege on his promise to prepare a place for us in heaven so we can be with him? The Bible says Jesus is in heaven interceding with God on our behalf. Will Jesus stop praying for us? Will Jesus stop being our advocate before God? The answer to all the questions above is a resounding, “no”. Jesus is God and God does not change his mind. Once our name goes into the book of life it is never removed.
Matthew 26:28 – (Jesus speaking) – For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Romans 8:34 – Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
John 6:37 – (Jesus speaking) – All that My Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me, I will by no means cast out.
At salvation the Holy Spirit gave us a new spirit. Shall we at any time be required to return it? The Holy Spirit baptizes the believer into the body of Christ and thus we become bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. Shall we then one day be surgically remove from the body of Christ? At salvation the Holy Spirit seals the believer as God’s own possession. Shall God then cast off what he has promised to hold and be revealed as a liar? The answer to all the above questions is unequivocally, “no”. If we are not secure in heaven then God is not real, Jesus is not God, and the Bible is just a book, and our salvation is a lie. If Satan can make us doubt one truth then all truths become suspect which is one of Satan’s favorite tactics. If any truth of God falls then Christianity itself falls. That’s why we can’t let Satan get his foot in the door. Don’t let Satan drive a wedge between us and the truth of God. Trust in the Lord, for he is our strength. Learn the wiles of the devil so we can know his voice. Use God’s Word to defeat Satan in your life.
Ephesians 1:13 – In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.
1 Corinthians 3:16 – Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
Galatians 3:27 – For as many of you who were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Titus 3:5 – Nor by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit.
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