Secure in the Father’s Hand
Many genuine believers struggle with anxiety about their eternal security. However, Scripture provides abundant reasons to believe that those who are born again by the Spirit of God and justified by faith in Christ alone will persevere in faith to the end.
The Logic of Love
Our perseverance is ultimately more about God and his character than about us. Because God will preserve us, we will endure in faith. This is not to say our character doesn’t count; we’re told to “strive for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord” (Hebrews 12:14). But without the Lord, no one will see holiness.
The Ministry of the Holy Spirit
The security of our salvation is grounded in the ministry of the Holy Spirit in our hearts. We read that believers have been “sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance” (Ephesians 1:13–14). By “the Holy Spirit of God” we “were sealed for the day of redemption” (Ephesians 4:30); God has “given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee” (2 Corinthians 1:22).
God’s Faithfulness
All biblical truth is reason to rejoice, but perhaps none more so than this truth of our eternal security. What encouragement! What joy! What strength for today’s problems! What peace for tomorrow’s threats! God has said it; God will do it: “He has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you’” (Hebrews 13:5).
A Guaranteed Inheritance
There will be times in every Christian’s experience when God seems distant and uninvolved, when we have doubt, fear, or anxiety, and feel beyond the reach of his forgiveness and grace. But his Spirit has sealed our hearts, declaring loudly and clearly: You belong to God! Your eternal inheritance is guaranteed!
Faithful to Sustain
As New Testament passages abundantly emphasize, God is faithful to sustain and establish us in our relationship with Jesus; he supplies our every need, all the power, and whatever spiritual resolve is required. As Paul declared, “He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ” (Philippians 1:6). Whatever God starts, he finishes!
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