FAITH
ASSURES
Romans
3:21-24
Romans
3:22-24 “This righteousness from God
comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned
and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by His grace
through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.”
God wants every believer to live absolutely certain of
our everlasting relationship with Him through Jesus. To remind us from the last series, Let’s Get Busy: people are saved the instant they choose to
believe in Jesus as Lord and Savior (John 6:47).
This creates a permanent relationship with God the Father
through Jesus, God the Son. Faith gives
us this assurance.
This ought to give God’s kids peace and joy every minute
of every day. The power of faith doesn’t
make sense to human minds. But faith is
the only way that the power of God—in the person of the Holy Spirit—is released
in our lives—sealing us into God’s family (John 10:28-29).
Faith assures us that our names are written in the Lamb’s
Book of Life (Revelation 13:8). Faith
assures hope of our bodily resurrection, and eternal life with God in heaven. For 2 Corinthians 5:1-2 says, “Now we know
that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God,
an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. Meanwhile, we groan, longing to be clothed with
our heavenly dwelling, because when we are clothed, we will not be found
naked.”
It doesn’t matter how the world labels God’s kids. Fellow saints (yes, that’s you, if you believe
in Jesus) include a schemer, a prostitute, a murderer, former idol-worshipper
and even a persecutor of Christians.
Faith assures that God forgives His kids when we confess sin—any sin. God is faithful to deliver on promise after
promise in the Bible. “For no matter how
many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ.” (2 Corinthians 1:20a).
Faith unleashes supernatural transformation through the
Holy Spirit into Christ-likeness—the goal God has for all His kids. Philippians 1:6 says, “being confident of
this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until
the day of Christ Jesus.”
Take
Home Nugget
Faith assures that what 1 John 5:13 says is true: “These things I have written to you who
believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have
eternal life.”
So let’s not be like babies who get scared of falling
after learning to walk. Let’s run the
race set before us with faith that assures victory.
Faith assures us that we’re secure in
Christ when hard times only assure us of hardship.
J.D.
Griffith
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