In the last day of our week-long focus on being the child of God, today we're looking

at how our status as God's child can never be taken away from us.

May God give you confidence and joy today in your new identity in Him.

And may you see how powerful his sacrificial love is today

as we make space to see and live out our identity as eternal children of a good God.

Welcome to the First 15 podcast. Our scripture for today comes from John 10, verse 28.

Scripture says, I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

As a disciple of Jesus, we have full assurance of eternal face-to-face relationship with our Heavenly Father.

John 10, verses 27 through 30 says,

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish,

and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

My father who has given them to me is greater than all and no one is able to snatch them

out of the father's hand.

I and the father are one.

Once we have become a child of God by confessing with our mouth and believing in our

heart that Jesus Christ truly is Lord of all, we are the child of God forever.

No sin, struggle, trial, or rebellion can pluck us from the Father's hand.

And as children of God, we no longer look to this world, but to our total restoration, redemption, and glorification as our

source of hope.

There is peace and transcendent joy in the truth that this world is not our final resting

place.

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