By: Brian A Yeager                                                         

Part IV

God Will Save Us

     When this life ends all that matters is where you will spend eternity.  What we face here on earth is but for a season, our destination in that world to come is eternal ( Matthew 25:46 ).  People often quote the twenty-third Psalm, but few understand what it means to be saved by God.  We may die on this earth due to ungodly persecution.  At times God will allow our enemies to prevail (at least in the sight of men).   Then, when we do die, God's salvation is truly realized.  For the faithful Christian death is the greatest gain we'll ever have ( Philippians 1:21 ).  Why?  Isn't that what the life of a Christian is all about?  Aren't we living here towards the prize at the end of the race of life ( Philippians 3:14 -15 )?

     God will save us in the end because He promises us so ( Titus 1:2 ).  The point of the life and death of Christ was for the obedient to have everlasting life ( Romans 5:6-10 , Hebrews 5:8-9 , and James 1:12 ).  Sadly, there will be those who do not love the truth that they might receive salvation ( II Thessalonians 2:10 ).  Let us not be of that number.  We need to strive to be those walking in the midst of trouble, not those who are causing the trouble.   We can be in this world so long as we are not of this world.  Let us live now to be ready for the day of salvation.

Conclusion

     Paul wrote the brethren in Rome saying: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?  As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.  Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.  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 8:35-39 ).  We should all be able to say: “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory” ( I Corinthians 15:55 )?  Though we are all in the midst of trouble, truly the victory over death is eternal life which comes to us through our Savior ( I Corinthians 15:57 ).  God will use His might in protecting us now and saving us in the end!  

Brian A Yeager

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Vol. VI Issue VI                  Nov. 6th, 2005