The Resurrection Life is a Secure Life

Our sense of security and safety is not something we talk about much but we all want it. We want our home to be a safe haven. We want to insure that our credit cards and our bank accounts are secure. We want our freedoms to remain secure. And we want our relationships to be secure. And one of those relationships we want to be secure is our relationship with God. Can I know for sure that I will see God face to face? Will I always be the object of His love? Will I always be part of His family? Is my future with God secure? How can I be sure?

1.   He Secured this Life for us when we Heard His Message

And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation.  Ephesians 1:13a

In Romans 10:16 we are told that we cannot accept God’s good news unless someone announces it to us. In other words, it is truly news. We did not create this good news. The good news comes to us from God. So the good news, “the message of truth”, is something God gives to us so we can believe. It is a message that comes through a messenger.

It’s His message! It’s His plan of salvation. He is the one who chose to send His Son to die in our place. It was His plan to redeem us and forgive us.

Apart from the message of truth, no one even knows that a God of great compassion, mercy and love exists. We need someone to declare to us that such a God exists and that He made Himself known to us in Jesus.

Securing your salvation begins by Hearing His message. He brought this message to us so we could get in on everything He planned for us. This is where our future is secured: Jesus himself said it this way in John 5:24, “I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.”

2.   He Secured this Life for us by Marking Us as His Own

When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession  Ephesians 1:13b-14a

A seal indicated ownership. It ratified a contract. It served as a guarantee. It was designed to preserve and protect. What is so unique about God’s seal of ownership was that He put His seal not on us, but in us. He sealed us with the promised Holy Spirit. This was the fulfillment of the promise recorded in Ezekiel: “And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws… you will be my people and I will be your God.” Ezekiel 36:27-28

Not only that, but when He sealed us with the Holy Spirit, the Spirit Himself serves as a Deposit: a down payment of the Holy Spirit guaranteeing there is more to come.

The Spirit He puts IN US is His guarantee that there’s more to come. The Spirit is God’s PLEDGE to us that there will be a day when we will experience fully all God has given us in Jesus. That day is the DAY OF REDEMPTION. There will be a day when everything of Jesus’ will be ours. We will lack nothing. This is our security in Christ. His Spirit in us seals the deal for eternity.

And that’s amazing grace. If you’ve heard and believed, you have been sealed. You possess God’s unshakable guarantee.

 3.   He Secured this Life for us so He would get the Glory

 to the praise of his glory.  Ephesians 1:14b

When we begin to grasp and embrace the extravagant grace of all that God has given us in Christ… when the reality sinks in that we have it all in Christ:

All of God’s love

All the access and intimacy with God as being His beloved

All the freedom and forgiveness that is ours in Christ

All the hope and meaning that is ours in Christ and,

And the solid guarantee of God’s Spirit Himself in us securing once and for all that all of this is ours with more to come… There really is only one response – that we would live to the praise of His glory!

And the fact that you live for His glory – this is proof that your life is secure in Christ.