If He Calls, He Keeps

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Our perseverance doesn’t rest decisively on the reliability of our own resolve. It rests decisively on God’s work to keep us trusting him.

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0:00.0	March 30.
0:01.8	If He calls, He keeps.
0:31.0	The question is not, do you believe in eternal security?
0:38.0	The question is, how are we kept secure?
0:43.0	Does the perseverance of our faith rest decisively on the reliability of our own resolve?
0:50.0	Or does it rest decisively on the work of God to keep us trusting?
0:58.0	It is a great and wonderful truth of Scripture that God is faithful
1:02.0	and will keep forever those whom He has called.
1:06.0	Our confidence that we are eternally secure is a confidence that God will do whatever is necessary to keep us trusting.
1:16.0	The certainty of eternity is no greater than the certainty God will keep us trusting now.
1:25.0	But that certainty is very great for all whom God has called.
1:30.0	At least three passages put the call of God and the keeping of God together in this way.
1:37.0	One, the Lord will sustain you, keep you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1:45.0	God is faithful by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
1:52.0	1 Corinthians 1, 8 and 9.
1:55.0	Two, may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept,
2:05.0	blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2:08.0	He who calls you is faithful. He will surely do it.
2:14.0	1 Thessalonians 5, 23 and 24.
2:18.0	3 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to those who are called.
2:27.0	Beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ, may mercy, peace and love be multiplied to you.
2:36.0	Jude, 1 and 2.
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