Showing posts with label eternal things. Show all posts
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Thursday, January 16, 2014

7 Eternal Things



~ All Are Only Possible Because Of An Eternal God ~

Eternal God (the source of all)  ~  “The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms; He will thrust out the enemy from before you, and will say,  ‘Destroy!’” (Deuteronomy 33:27).   

Eternal Redemption (the cause of all)  ~  “But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.  Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption” (Hebrews 9:11-12).

Eternal Salvation (God’s greatest work)  ~  “Though He [Jesus Christ] was a Son [the Son of God], yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.  And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him” (Hebrews 5:8-9). 

Eternal Life (God’s richest gift)  ~  “But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.  For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:22-23). 

Eternal Inheritance (the saint’s possession)  ~  “And for this reason He [Jesus Christ] is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance” (Hebrews 9:15). 

Eternal Glory (the believer’s hope)  ~  “But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.  To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen” (1 Peter 5:10-11). 

Eternal Fire (the unrepentant sinner’s doom)  ~  “But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.  And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire” (Jude 5-7). 

If the one is eternal, enduring forever, so are the others.  To limit one is weaken all. 

Do you have eternal life?  Are you sure?  You can be absolutely confident! 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW