Security. Everyone is looking for security. I think lots of people are searching for security,

whether it be physical security and install alarms and security personnel at our work,

or it is in terms of health security where we try to pop pills and do whatever it takes to stay healthy, whether it is

financial security, where we guard and plan and organize against those days that could be

challenging in the future. In fact, that's why many financial institutions call what they sell

securities. And you see how the drug manufacturers and the investment firms and the alarm

manufacturers, they all team up with marketers to convince us that we can be physically secure if we buy their alarm system

or health-wise we can be secure if we pop their pills or that we can be financially secure

if we invest with them. Here's a statement I don't want you to miss. There is nothing wrong with that. In fact,

a wise person must think and plan and guard against recklessness and carelessness.

I believe that will all my heart. The problem arises when our need for security, whatever it may be, turn into a life of worry and anxiety and fear about these securities.

When the securities we seek turns into a fearful obsession, that is where we need to stop and take account of our

lives. Please think with me, okay? All of this concern about our security, it would be physical

or health or financial. All of these have to do with this life, right?

It's to do with this life, whether it be short or long.

It doesn't matter.

It's all the concerns here.

And yet, there are believers in the Church of Jesus Christ

who have that same worry and anxiety and doubt, and they take it into

their eternal security.

In the last message, we saw how in 2 Peter 1 to 4 that he was telling us that God's salvation is permanent, that God's grace

is permanent, that God's gifts are permanent, that God's promises are permanent, that the

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