| So spoke our blessed Lord Jesus Christ. They who come to Him in faith, trusting Him as their Savior, are His forever. He will never expel them; He will not drive them out or send them away. He said that “this is the will of Him that sent Me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on Him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.” We are “kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time,” and “the God of all grace … hath called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus,” “in whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of His glory.” He “shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ,” and “He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.” We who know the Lord Jesus, unworthy as we are in ourselves, “are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called.” Therefore “grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” |
