Kept By The Power Of God Series

So I can’t think of a better place to start that to look at what the Bible says about the Keeping power of God. That keeping power of God is the cornerstone of the believer’s security. God is at work keeping us safe. And it seems to me that the Scriptures emphasize three things about God that ensures that the person who is saved will always be saved. So I want us to look at those three truths today that demonstrate God’s intention of keeping the saved saved.

1. The power of God

2. The presence of the Holy Spirit

3. The prayers of Jesus Christ

First, consider the power of God to keep us safe. What could possibly bring about the loss of your salvation? Certainly we recognize that Satan wants to steal, kill and destroy. He is the arch enemy of all who unite themselves to Jesus Christ. The Scriptures are clear that all who name the name of Jesus are in a spiritual battle against Satan and the demons of hell. If he has his way none of us will survive with our faith in tact. Satan is going to try to disrupt, disturb and destroy your faith in God. He will use poverty or prosperity. He will use sin or self-righteousness. It matters not to him what method is used so long as the end result is the destruction of your faith in Christ. So it would be wise to ask, “will God protect us from Satan’s evil plans? Will he keep us safe from the evil one?”

We also know from personal experience that there lurks in our hearts a sinful nature. It constantly pulls and tugs on our hearts. This desire to disobey God and His laws constantly seeks to seduce us into forsaking Christ and indulging ourselves in the sinful pleasures of this world. You know as well as I do that each one of us has a pressure point in our life. A spot where we are most temptable. So we naturally wonder if God will keep sin from conquering us? We wonder if God will save us from ourselves because we have found the enemy and it is us?

As if the flesh and the devil were not enough to keep us concerned we still have another enemy. This world we live in is at war with the people of God. The world system and the culture of which we are a part is not designed to produce godliness and faith in our hearts. The centers of power in America are Hollywood and Washington DC and neither one is friendly to the cause of Christ. This world seeks to lure us with flattery and intimidate us with force. It is always beckoning us like a spiritual whore standing on the corner as we pass by. There it is calling us away from our walk with Christ. It holds out its entertainment and pleasure and brings all of that seductive force to bear against our souls. So it only makes sense to ask whether or not God will keep us safe from the seduction and pressure of this world? Can He keep us safe?

I want to declare to you today God’s determination to keep us safe for Himself. And the very first guarantee we have that God will not allow us to be overcome by Satan, defeated by the flesh or seduced by the world is His vast, unlimited, boundless, unfathomable power.