"BORN OF GOD" DEVOTIONAL BOOK

Most people have religion for the flesh, but few have salvation for the soul.  It is useless to seek assurance of salvation, if one does not truly possess salvation.  There is no salvation in good works, religion or churches; only faith in Jesus Christ results in salvation and gives full assurance.

John 3:14-16, "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:  That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

John 3:36, "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life:  and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. EVERLASTING IS ETERNAL AND FOREVER!

This is the promise of God, who cannot lie.  Eternal life is life that cannot end.  Any life that ends is not  (and never was)  everlasting life.  THERE IS NO RECORD IN THE BIBLE OF ANYONE EVER BEING SAVED TWICE.  We recieve God's gift of everlasting life one time and it is everlasting.

Ephesians 4:30, "And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are SEALED unto the day of redemption.  This word "seal", means to establish or settle with finality.  We are his.

II Timothy 1:12b, "For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to KEEP that which I have committed unto him."  God is absolutely able to "keep" an eternal soul.

Romans 8:31, "What shall we then say to these things?  If God be for us, who can be against us?"

Romans 8:35a, "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?"

Romans 8:38-39, "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Romans 10:9, "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be SAVED."

John 10:27-29, "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:  and I give unto them eternal life:  and they SHALL NEVER PERISH, neither shall any man pluck them out of my  hand.  My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all;  and no man is able to pluck them out of my FATHER'S hand."

Hebrew 10:14, "For by one offering he hath PERFECTED forever them that are sanctified."

II Timothy 4:18, "And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will PRESERVE me unto his heavenly kingdom; to whom be glory for ever and ever.  Amen."

"I Peter 1:3-5, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, which according to his abundant mercy hath BEGOTTEN us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that FADETH NOT AWAY, RESERVED IN HEAVEN for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time."

We are SAVED, SEALED, PRESERVED, PERFECTED and KEPT by the power of Almighty God, and Jesus Christ is praying for those who are his.  We can have complete assurance of eternal salvation, knowing the Creator of the universe  (John 1:3)  , intercedes for us.  He prays to the Father and they are one.  (John 10:30).

John 17:9, "I pray for them:  I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine."

Hebrews 7:25, "Wherefore he is able also to SAVE them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them."

To have complete assurance of salvation, we must understand and focus on the need.  Jesus Christ came to save the SOUL of man, not his body.

II Timothy 2:7, "Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things."

Conclusion:  If we believe God and the Bible to be true, we must also believe the soul, that is "Born of God" is BEGOTTEN, SAVED, SEALED, PRESERVED, PERFECTED, and ETERNALLY KEPT by God.  To the believer, this assurance of eternal salvation.

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