A Sure Salvation

And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land. - Zechariah 9:16

    The heart and design of all false religion is the promotion of man’s self-righteousness and imagined free will in opposition to the glorious righteousness of Christ and God’s sovereign free will. The righteousness and free will of man is non-existent in the justification of sinners before God. The works and will of man is certain damnation for those who trust therein. The Lord Jesus Christ and his redemptive work is the only ground for justifying righteousness before the holy God.

    The Bible only knows and reveals a full, free and sure salvation wrought by the one whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God (Rom 3:25), and he is the propitiation for our sins (1 Jn 2:2). The salvation of God in Christ is certain, sure and everlasting because it is his salvation, wrought by him and dispensed by Him. I fall and fail ten thousand times a day, but he never has and never will fail, yea, cannot fail! He shall not fail nor be discouraged (Is 42:4). The salvation of God’s elect children is as sure as the majestic throne of his glory, eternal in the heavens.

    The earth shall burn and crumble, the sun will refuse to shine, the stars will fall like rain, and death and hell shall be cast into the lake of fire; but the Great Shepherd and his sheep shall dwell safely together on the Mountain of the Lord in the Land of Promise and they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.

    When our Lord said, It is finished, it was finished! Period! Our surety sealed all covenant promises with his everlasting, efficacious blood. Away with all fancies and notions contrived in the hearts of fallen, unregenerate mankind concerning salvation. May we ever raise the banner of God’s free, sovereign, and everlasting grace in Christ Jesus our Lord!