ARE YOU TRUSTING IN JESUS? by Pastor Scott Henry

“This is the will of the Father who sent Me that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day” (John 6:39).

 

In the days of Noah there was ONLY one place of safety when the flood came and it was the Ark.  In the same way, there is ONLY one place of salvation from the storm of God’s furious wrath against sin, and that place of safety is the person and work of Jesus Christ.  As Noah and his family were completely saved from the flood through the Ark … in the same manner … there is full salvation for every sinner who believes on the Lord Jesus Christ.  “He is able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them” (Hebrews 7:25).  Jesus is our hiding place and refuge from the guilt and consequences of our sins, and Jesus promises spiritual rest (Matthew 11:28) and eternal reconciliation with God to all who come to Him by faith (2 Cor. 5:20).  As it is written, “And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).  His name is Jesus, which means Jehovah is salvation, and He was sent to “save His people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21).

 

Jesus said in John 6:39: “This is the will of the Father who sent Me that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.”  God’s Word promises that if you come to Christ you will never be cast out because you were given to Christ by the Father.  And the will of the Father is that all whom He gave to Christ should be saved and raised up on the last day.  Therefore, it is impossible for Christ to lose any for whom He died since He always does the will of His Father.  As Jesus said in John 10:27-28:  “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.”  And again in John 17:12:  “While I was with them, I kept them in thy name which thou hast given me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.”

 

Have you come to Christ?  Are you trusting Him ALONE for redemption from the guilt and consequences of your sin?  If so, then rest confident in the promise of Jesus when He said, “This is the will of the Father who sent Me that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day” (John 6:39).