Kept By The Power Of God Series

God has made certain promises to those who place their faith in Christ for salvation. It is significant to note that God’s promises and God’s power are linked together. If God makes a promise but is not capable of carrying it out then His promises are merely His best wishes for us. If God didn’t have the power to do what He promised than we could not call them promises. We could only say that they were nice thoughts and hopes and dreams. These best wishes from God would certainly teach us about His compassion and love for us but they would do nothing to secure our faith, build our confidence or guarantee our future.

When I read about the slaughter of the Christian people of Sudan and Indonesia my heart breaks and I want to rescue them and deliver them. I pray for them. But what I desire for them are at best only hopes and dreams and wishes for a better life, for security, and safety and liberty. The fact remains that I have no power to guarantee anything better for them. If God’s promises are not connected to His power than they are nothing more than His best sentiments on our behalf.

More importantly, if His promises are not joined to His power than His integrity is at stake. If God makes promises that He cannot keep than what is at stake is more than our welfare, the very glory of God and the reputation of His name is at stake.

But here is what I know: not one promise of God will fail to come to pass. What does this have to do with our eternal security? God has made promises to us that He will keep us, that He will complete His work in us, that He will bring us to glory and that nothing will separate us from Him. Listen to a few of the passages in which we find God’s promises to us. I was talking with a friend this week and told me that when he became a Christian he couldn’t find anyone in his church except the pastor to show him in the Bible what it said about eternal security. So you ought write these verse down in the flyleaf of your Bible, or memorize them or do something so that you can share this with others. Listen to the promises of God:

“My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone 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 My Father’s hand.” (John 10:27-28)

“He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.” Philippians 1:6

“Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.” 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

“Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

John 4:14

“I am the bread of life. He who comes to me shall never hunger and he who believes in me shall never thirst. . .This is the will of the Father who sent me, that of all He has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. . .He who believes in me has everlasting life. . .If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world. . .He who eats of this bread will live forever.” John 6:35,37,39,47,51