Salvation Assured GOD IS ON OUR SIDE
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? Rom. 8:31.
It is hard to be lost. God in heaven is not looking down with a spyglass, trying to find every spot or wrinkle that will give Him an excuse to exclude us from heaven. All the intelligences of heaven are united in the common purpose of trying to make it as easy as possible for us to be saved. "Jesus has made it as easy as He possibly can for His children."--Ellen G. White, in Review and Herald, April 29, 1890.
He holds out every enticement, every attraction, to direct our attention and affection to Him. He offers His love, communion with Him, peace, and a home with Him forever for all His children.
And if we ignore all of these, He still follows after us, reminding us through His Word, through His servants, through our own minds, through our loved ones who are His, through conscience, through the troubles of life, through the Holy Spirit, and finally through the greatest mountain of all, Mount Calvary. He reminds us that He is there, waiting, unwilling to lose any one of us, "not willing that any should perish" (2 Peter 3:9).
Listen, my friends, please don't ever believe the idea that it is hard to be saved and easy to be lost. If God is for us, who can be against us? I'm thankful for the giant mountains He has put in my way. Thankful that God has made every provision for everyone to be saved, eternally saved, to live with Him forever.
The clinching argument is this: If I am going to be lost, I have to fight God, and that's a lot to fight; I have to fight Jesus; and I have to fight the Holy Spirit. I have to resist the prayers and concerns of all my Christian friends who are praying for me. I have to fight a a two-thirds majority of the angels in this universe. If I choose to be saved, all I have against me is the devil and a one-third of angels, who screamed for mercy in the presence of Jesus when He was here, and who Jesus has promised He'll fight for me. No wonder it is hard to be lost!
"Love of Christ so freely given, grace of God beyond degree;
Mercy, higher that the heavens, deeper than the deepest sea."
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? Rom. 8:31.
It is hard to be lost. God in heaven is not looking down with a spyglass, trying to find every spot or wrinkle that will give Him an excuse to exclude us from heaven. All the intelligences of heaven are united in the common purpose of trying to make it as easy as possible for us to be saved. "Jesus has made it as easy as He possibly can for His children."--Ellen G. White, in Review and Herald, April 29, 1890.
He holds out every enticement, every attraction, to direct our attention and affection to Him. He offers His love, communion with Him, peace, and a home with Him forever for all His children.
And if we ignore all of these, He still follows after us, reminding us through His Word, through His servants, through our own minds, through our loved ones who are His, through conscience, through the troubles of life, through the Holy Spirit, and finally through the greatest mountain of all, Mount Calvary. He reminds us that He is there, waiting, unwilling to lose any one of us, "not willing that any should perish" (2 Peter 3:9).
Listen, my friends, please don't ever believe the idea that it is hard to be saved and easy to be lost. If God is for us, who can be against us? I'm thankful for the giant mountains He has put in my way. Thankful that God has made every provision for everyone to be saved, eternally saved, to live with Him forever.
The clinching argument is this: If I am going to be lost, I have to fight God, and that's a lot to fight; I have to fight Jesus; and I have to fight the Holy Spirit. I have to resist the prayers and concerns of all my Christian friends who are praying for me. I have to fight a a two-thirds majority of the angels in this universe. If I choose to be saved, all I have against me is the devil and a one-third of angels, who screamed for mercy in the presence of Jesus when He was here, and who Jesus has promised He'll fight for me. No wonder it is hard to be lost!
"Love of Christ so freely given, grace of God beyond degree;
Mercy, higher that the heavens, deeper than the deepest sea."
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