Once Saved Always Saved

It is true that, once a man is saved by God’s grace, he will remain saved forever; yet the Scriptures are also full of warnings to believers against unbelief, against drawing back, against neglecting the worship of God and the hearing of the Word, and exhortations to continue in the faith. We are told to “abide in HIM, and in His WORD, and in His LOVE.”

This abiding in Christ is the RESULT of the life and faith which He has given to us. It is also true evidence that we have been saved and shall be saved. Branches that abide in the vine do not bear fruit of themselves but from the vine and as a result of their union with the vine. Even so, those who are in Christ will bear much fruit, “And so shall ye be my disciples.”

Pastor Henry T. Mahan (Bulletin 1991)

Faith, not a Feeling

Salvation is not a question of feeling, as so many would make it. It is entirely a matter of grace wrought in the soul of a sinner by the power of the Holy Ghost and believed by faith. This faith is something quite different from a mere feeling of the person or an assent of the intellect.

Mere feelings, sentiments or emotion can never rise above the source from whence they come, and that source is self. But faith has to do with God and His eternal Word and is a living link connecting the heart that possesses it with God who gives it. Feelings and sentiments can never connect with the soul of God. No doubt, faith will produce feeling and sentiments (spiritual feelings and truthful sentiments)—but the fruits of faith must never be confounded with faith itself. Christ can only be known by His own revelation and by the faith which He Himself imparts. Pastor Scott Richardson

One Day Everyone will be Penniless.

We live in a very wealthy country. Many kings have not had the riches that we have. However, someday every person, even the richest in the world, will be penniless the second they die. However, when the day comes for believers to die the only thing that will matter is their relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ. If we have Him, we have true riches, durable riches. “Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness” (Proverbs 8:18).

Pastor John Chapman

COMPLETE IN CHRIST

“For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power” (Col. 2:9-10).

All that is necessary to secure and to complete our eternal salvation is to be found in the Lord Jesus Christ (Phil.3:7-9; 4:19). There is a completion or a complete filling up in Him, so as to leave nothing lacking in the sinner. In the Lord Jesus Christ dwells all the fullness of God (John 1:16). He is perfect and the believer stands perfected in Him (1Cor. 1:30; Col. 1:22). All that is lacking in us by our ruin and sin in Adam is abundantly, freely and eternally supplied to us in the Lord Jesus Christ, "where sin abounded, grace did much more abound" (Rom. 5:19-20).

Christ’s perfect obedience is our righteousness (Phil. 2:7-8). His sacrifice for sin is our atonement (Heb. 2:17). His word is our instruction (2Tim. 3:16). His wisdom is our direction (Col. 2:3). His power is our protection (1Peter 1:5). His blood sacrifice is our justification (Rom. 5:9). His grace is our salvation (Rom. 3:24). His eternal love is our security (Rom. 8:32-39). His everlasting mercy is our hope (Lam. 3:22-26; Titus 3:5). His fullness is our completeness (John 1:16). His immutability is our strength (Mal. 3:6; Heb. 13:8). His resurrection is the guarantee of our final glory (Rom. 4:25; Rev. 1:18). His intercession is the assurance of all our deliverance from sin (1 John 2:1).