Christ does not save people in a way that gets him no glory. He is not a vaccination. He is not an inoculation. He is a person living, real, and we are saved by virtue of attachment to him living,

attachment to him by faith and trust and confidence and hope in him.

And I will not go to hell because my Jesus has the keys of hell and I'm with him.

What makes our security and salvation eternal?

John Piper tackles that question from Hebrew 3 12 to 19 in this episode of light and truth

This sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on August 18, 1996.

I invite you to turn to Hebrew chapter 3.

Hebrew chapter 3 verse 12.

Take care brethren lest there should be in any one of you an evil unbelieving heart

in falling away from the living God. But encourage one another day

after day as long as it is still called today, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness

of sin.

For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm to the end.

While it is said today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as when they provoked me

for who provoked him when they had heard indeed did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses. And with whom

was he angry for 40 years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness. And to whom did he swear

that they should never enter his rest but to those who were disobedient? And so we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.

Now Father, I pray with all my heart now that the next few minutes of unfolding these words

would be blessed with the presence of the Holy Spirit to persuade, to convict, to awaken, to create earnestness

and care where there is inattention and carelessness toward our hearts and your word.

I pray for unbelievers in our midst that they and your

believers in our midst that they would be given beyond all their

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