Last week I wrote about God’s sovereign plan. Why would a follower of Christ find true peace in God being in control?
One of the key truths that a believer takes ultimate trust is how God remains unchanging, true and faithful. What we learn about God in the Bible remains consistent with who God is now and forever. Supernaturally preserved in Scripture is what we are meant to know about God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, the “Triune” God who has been revealed through the prophets, history, and people’s changed lives through the Holy Spirit.
The Apostle Paul wrote about those who have a saving relationship with the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ:
39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. – Romans 8:39
The glory of God’s justification is key to our security.
For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
So great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear Him.
12 As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
13 As a father has compassion on his children,
So Yahweh has compassion on those who fear Him. – Psalm 103:11-13
Once your transgressions have been removed, they are gone, your name entered in the Book of Life.
He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments, and I will never erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. – Revelation 3:5
It’s an everlasting love, an invitation to a relationship that you must first accept. But it’s easier to understand Justification when Jesus is proclaiming a believer’s name before the heavenly court. It’s not as though, you go through a red light (or other personal violation) and then Jesus has buyer’s remorse. Note Jesus proclaimed He will never erase a name that is written in the Book of Life. A believer will still contend with his worldly flesh, though on a path of transforming to become more holy like Christ, but the work of Salvation is done through Jesus Christ.
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.” – John 14:1-4
If you are a genuine believer, witness to living a transformed life, Jesus has your heavenly space prepared for you. It’ll be better than anything you can imagine, that’s the way the heavenly kingdom is.
6 “I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. 7 Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. 8 For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. 9 I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. 10 All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. 11 I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. 12 While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled. – John 17:6-12
To be accepted by God must be a divine work. Being still affected by our sinful nature, we would surely lose our Salvation if securing it was our own responsibility. But believers remain protected by God’s Holy Name, can’t beat that.
20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
Believers live to glorify God by sharing His Gospel and testifying about God as revealed in the Bible. Following Christ is a relationship with the Living God, not merely religion. Jesus is the Truth, The Truth is in the person of Christ.
24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. – John 17:20-24.
7 Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you must go with this people into the land that the Lord swore to their ancestors to give them, and you must divide it among them as their inheritance. 8 The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.” – Deuteronomy 31:8 (italics added for emphasis).
To be unseparated is synonymous with unforsaken. Like Marriage in the true sense, a lifelong and now eternal bond the result of God’s perfect and divine power. God is a God of covenant and God hates divorce.
Make sure that your way of life is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, “I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you,” – Hebrews 13:5
That last one stings a bit, because we often attach being wealthy and self-sufficient to the foundation of being spiritual, happy, and believing God’s blessings must somehow be tied to worldly reward, that somehow, if we do not have physical and worldly comfort that that kind of life is synonymous with being unseparated from God.
While the blessings of material comforts while we are still living in this world are not out of the purview of God, we need to be very careful that we are not searching the Bible to justify our world attitudes. The Bible exists for us to learn about and understand God, and not so much to understand ourselves except mainly for the fact that we a sinful by nature and subject to God’s wrath and therefore need God’s grace through Jesus Christ.
The One who embodies Truth, the Way and the Life, Jesus Christ bore our sin and suffered our punishment, wrath of a Holy God who must judge sin. He loves us and invites us to believe in Him and His works done on our behalf.
By the Grace of God, may you be covered by His righteousness, allowing you to gloriously live unseparated from God for eternity.
For a one minute explanation of the Gospel from the late Pastor John MacArthur, watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCP9UcC7BzE
For a review of the Ten Commandments: https://www.challenyee.com/the-ten-commandments/
All quoted excerpts have footnotes removed, usually from Legacy Standard Bible (LSB), sometimes from New International Version (NIV), on rare occasion the Amplified Bible (AMP).
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