PART SIX, the last installment of a long list of New Testament scriptures guaranteeing the believer’s eternal security – collected and with comments by Paul Ellis. So much to be THANKFUL for! Let this living Word of God dwell in you richly! LR
- 1 John 2:1 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. What happens when we stumble? Our Righteous Advocate intercedes for us!
- 1 John 3:2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. The promised future for God’s kids.
- 1 John 3:9 No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God. (ESV)
- 1 John 3:24 Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
- 1 John 4:17 We may have confidence for the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him], because as He is, so are we in this world. (AMP) His future is your future.
- 1 John 5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. Some poo-poo this idea that we are born again, saying it is barely mentioned in the Bible. Nevertheless, here is it. Jesus said it and so did John because being born again is everything. Once we were not his people, now we are. Everything has changed!
- 1 John 5:10-11 Anyone who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his heart. Anyone who does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. And this new life is eternal.
- 1 John 5:13 I have written this to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know you have eternal life. This is not something to wonder or worry about. John writes so that you may know with certainty that you have eternal life.
- 1 John 5:18 We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the one who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him. Jesus keeps us!
- 2 John 1:2 …because of the truth, which lives in us and will be with us forever. John echoing Jesus in John 14:16
- Jude 1:24-25 To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy—to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen. Jesus keeps me. See also 1 Cor 1:8, Php 1:6, 1Th 5:23-24.
- Revelation 3:5 He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels. In Christ, you are an overcomer and Jesus promises to never blot out your name.
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My abundant thanks to Dr. Paul Ellis for gathering the 130 Scriptures that declare every reborn believer’s Eternal Security in Christ, in God. It was a WONDER-FULL way to wrap up a year of trouble and turmoil in the Seen Realm. Why? Because, by being In Christ and, therefore, seated with Him in the heavenlies spiritually, we are above these passing difficulties. It was the truth that both Jesus and Paul learned to focus and depend on to live victoriously through all the difficulties they endured while they lived in this Seen Realm. Meditating on these 130 scriptures in 2022 – despite what happens down here – will enable you to experience Jesus’ victory over the world system, the flesh and the devil because you, dear saint, have “over-come” into Jesus eternally!
A REMINDER: The 33 songs on this web site are based on New Covenant revelations of who God really is and on who you ARE in Christ. Singing is twice praying, some say, so they are an easy way to joyfully declare the truth to renew your mind and encourage yourself and others in the Lord.
COMING NEXT WEEK / NEXT YEAR, 2022, will be a series on how to walk according to the Holy Spirit – rather than by the world system, the flesh (yours or other people’s) or the devil. Happy New Year. LR
life, that is, Jesus himself.