DECEMBER 7, 2025 ~ FROM A PASTOR'S HEART

DECEMBER 7 DEVOTIONAL BIBLE READING: HEBREWS 7:20-28

The old saying, "Once Saved, Always Saved," always sounded to me as something that should go on a bumper sticker rather than an expression of the wonderful promise we have in Christ Jesus. To be sure, in Christ we have the gift of eternal salvation but we need to be careful how we express it and treat it. We want to be sure we never use our security as a reason to live anyway we want and do anything we want; because we know we are saved. Biblical salvation will always lead us to live as God wants us to live. If we make the initiation of our salvation about us, then we make the living out our salvation about us. Then we make the keeping of our salvation about us. Then our salvation is about us, rather than about the Lord. Man-centered salvation is not biblical salvation. If Christ is not the focus of the initiation, the living and the keeping, we had better check out whether we genuinely have salvation.

That being said, if one has biblical salvation...one has eternal salvation. When God saves us, He does not save us for a day, a week, a year, or even a lifetime. He saves us for eternity. The promise of biblical salvation is eternal security in Christ Jesus. Can I ask you when does eternity end? You say, Tony if it's eternity it has no end. I would respond exactamondo! Our salvation in Christ is eternal, because His promise is eternal and He can make such a promise because He is eternal. The matter of our eternal security is not based on us holding our salvation, but the promise that it is held in the hands of Almighty God. Jesus told us that we are held in the Father's hand and there is no one mighty enough to remove us from that place of security. Paul told us that there is nothing that can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus. What is the love of God in Christ Jesus? "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him will NOT PERISH, but have ETERNAL LIFE!" That is not only good news...it’s great news!

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