THE MESSIAH (Christ) HAS BEEN BORN TODAY.
Today we will be looking at how Jesus can secure our future.
Yesterday we looked at the doctrine of salvation through the lens of Jesus as our Savior. Today we look at Jesus as our Messiah, the Christ. After all, what makes Jesus worthy to save us? What gives Him the authority to redeem me as His own possession and to secure my everlasting life with Him in heaven? I am glad you asked. Here is another two-dollar word from the doctrine of Christ: Christology.
So here is the question: Is Jesus the Messiah? Is Jesus the Christ? If He is not, then He cannot be our Savior. But if He is (and He is!), then what kind of Christ would He be if He allowed those He came to save to perish in the future?
Again, let’s take a look at the Book and see what it has to say on the subject of eternal security.
Philippians 1:6
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus (Christ’s return).
Ephesians 2:4-6
But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus…
Ephesians 2:10
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
John 10:27-30
My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they shall never perish; and no one shall snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.
Here, at the end of this John passage, Jesus claims to be one with His Father. This is Christology.
So you see, God saved us through His Son, Jesus the Christ, because He has a plan for our lives. That plan cannot be thwarted by anyone. And Jesus is, in fact, worthy because He is one with the Father.
Once your life is changed by the love of Jesus, you are put on a collision course with eternity of the best kind: eternal life with Jesus. Do not let the enemy deceive you into thinking that God has forsaken you. When He is quiet in our lives, it is because He is working silently to make us (His workmanship) into who He wants us to be for His glory and our good. Jesus secures our future for His purposes. Walk in them!
Tomorrow we will look at God’s timing for our salvation.
