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Eternal Life Cannot Be Lost

There is a great deal of comfort to the enlight-
ened children of God in knowing that the saints

Romans are secure in Christ. But how extremely dis-

8:32-39 tressing it would be to know that after all God

has done for His people they might still be
finally lost. How sad it would be if after God

is also an had chosen them in Christ, and Christ had

excellent proof wrought out a perfect righteousness for them

text here. and died for their sins, and the Holy Spirit had
given them eternal life and a number of other

divine gifts, they should still be forever

consigned to the miseries of eternal fire! God forbid that we should think for
one moment that such a monstrous thing could be true! Knowing my own

fickle nature, if I really believed that such an awful failure was possible, I

could never draw a peaceful breath; I could never have a peaceful moment
on this earth.

If God's people were not saved solely on the basis of His eternal covenant
and its unalterable stipulations, then none of them would be saved at all. All

would be doomed. But by virtue of the fact that He puts His Spirit within

them and writes His laws in their hearts and prints them in their minds, their

relationship with Him is of infinite duration. The life He gives His people is
eternal, and by its very nature cannot be lost. The saints may, and often do,

temporarily lose the joy of that life by their failure to walk as close to God

as they should, but they cannot lose the life itself.

Dear Lord, help us to be everlastingly thankful to Thee for "the sure mercies

of David" (Isaiah 55:3 and Acts 13:34). "Israel shall be saved in the Lord

with an everlasting salvation" (Isaiah 47:17).