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VARIOUS FEARS TO WHICH GOD’S PEOPLE ARE LIABLE

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VARIOUS FEARS TO WHICH GOD’S PEOPLE ARE LIABLE

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Saints are not their own keepers; and it is well for them that they are not; they would be sorrily kept if they were. Adam was his own keeper, and what did he get by it? God’s chosen are not left in the hand of their own counsel nor trusted to their own management. We read, “All his saints are in they hand,” that is, the hand of Christ, whence none can pluck them, which general promise of the preseverance of God’s elect taken as a collective body, ensures the perseverance of each believer in particular; for the whole necessarily includes every part. Those who belong to Christ are kept and will be kept by his power through faith unto salvation, and may sing with him who was caught up into the third heavens, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” Neither life nor death, nor things present nor things to come shall ever be able to do it. There is no being disinherited of the blessings entailed by God’s covenant and bequeathed in Christ’s last will and testament, igned wits his own blood, an sealed by his own Spirit. Saving grace is the good part which shall not be taken away. Whatever you lose, it is impossible to lose that. It is bound up in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God, and hid with Christ in him, and when Christ who is your life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

I shall mention one other fear common to many of God’s redeemed, namely, the fear of death. Some true believers are apt to cry out, as the human nature of Christ himself did, “Father, save me from this hour.” Why are you so dismayed at the prospect of getting home? Are you afraid of dying, or of what you may suffer in your last conflict? The Lord will deal bountifully with you, and be better to you than your fears. None return from the grave to tell us what it is to die. Some believers have indeed sung in their last moments, “O death, where is thy sting?” And very probably the passage is both sweeter and smoother than living imagination is apt to suppose. You tremble perhaps at the thought of laying aside your weak, sinful, mortal body; but you will receive it again, not such as it is now, frail, defiled, and perishable; but bright with the glory and perfect in the image of God. Are you loth to bid a long adieu to your Christian friends? They will soon follow to the place of rest, and in the meantime you will be with Christ and with all the saints who have been gathered home before you. Your prayers may not be answered immediately, but they are in God’s remembrance, and shall be answered after many days.

Toplady.

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Bekijk de hele uitgave van zondag 1 december 1935

The Banner of Truth | 6 Pagina's

VARIOUS FEARS TO WHICH GOD’S PEOPLE ARE LIABLE

Bekijk de hele uitgave van zondag 1 december 1935

The Banner of Truth | 6 Pagina's