Jesus never fails to save His loved ones! He never faces failure in saving anybody!
When we were brought to Christ, we were already dead – dead in our trespasses and sins! In fact, we were too dead to come to Jesus on our own.
In Ephesians 2, Paul describes our deadness. We had, not the Holy Spirit, but that vile spirit that works in all the children of disobedience.
But God loves His people so, and is rich in mercy to us, even while we were dead in our sins, and so He made us alive together with Christ, by grace saving us!
For by grace we are saved through faith, and that not of ourselves, even it is the gift of God to us!
For lost people, it must be the Holy Ghost that brings us to Christ, because we are dead already!
Jesus made this clear to Nicodemus: except a man be born again by the Holy Ghost, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Most appropriate to this discussion, is to recall that new, fleshy heart that God gives to those whom He will save. He told Ezekiel, that He would take out our stony, dead hearts, and give us new hearts of flesh, to know and to love and to obey Him. He promised to give us a new spirit as well, His very spirit, to cause us to walk according to His commandments!
Our Savior has been very clear: He never loses a single one of us brought to Him by the Father for rescue!
In John 6, Jesus couldn't have said it any plainer: "I came from heaven not to do my own will, but the Father's will. And this is the Father's will Who sent me, that of all that He gives to me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day."
Christ also asserted here, that everyone who believes on Him, will have everlasting life! |
