Romans 8:29 ¶ For whom he
did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of
his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he
also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified,
them he also glorified.
Not only did God not create any human beings specifically for the
purpose of casting them into Hell and then the Lake of Fire but those that He
knew would receive Him in the form of Jesus Christ as their Saviour when they receive
Christ are predestined to something after they are saved. That is, to be like
Christ, the brother or sister of Christ by virtue of being conformed to His
image.
1John 3:2 Beloved, now are
we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know
that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he
is.
And it is those people, those born-again followers of Christ, whom
He calls to follow Him in holiness, good works, faith, and trust. And it is
those people whom He justifies before Himself. And it is those people whom He
justifies that He glorifies with Himself.
Brothers and sisters, you are now saved from the power of sin. You
have been saved from the penalty of sin. You will be saved from even the
presence of sin. This is your destiny, to be glorified with God by God.
1Peter 5:6 Humble
yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due
time:
Romans 8:31 ¶ What shall we
then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against
us? 32 He that spared not his own Son,
but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us
all things? 33 Who shall lay any thing
to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is
Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right
hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it
is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as
sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all
these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor
life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor
things to come, 39 Nor height, nor
depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of
God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
In this perhaps greatest passage in the Bible on eternal security,
that those in whom dwell the Spirit of Christ and God, the Holy Spirit, known
as the Holy Ghost cannot be lost.
John 10:27 My sheep hear my
voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28
And I give
unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall
any man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My
Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck
them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and
my Father are one.
See here in verse 39 with creature as a created thing. Even
the ancient Greeks like Plato understood that the forms we see and understand
in this world have their perfect, eternal counterparts which first existed in
the world of the spirit. It should not confuse us then that something like height
or depth being spoken of as a creature. These things, first as ideas and
thoughts, exist first in the mind of God and then in the physical world.
The point is though that nothing, absolutely nothing, can separate
those who have God’s Spirit in them from His love. Don’t let preachers try to
talk you out of it to control you. Trust in the Lord. Put your confidence in
Him. And above all things;
Titus 2:11 ¶ For the grace
of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
12 Teaching us that,
denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and
godly, in this present world; 13 Looking
for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our
Saviour Jesus Christ;
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