You are safe with God

Peace with God

I want you to know that you are at peace with God. You are safe with God.

God loves you and He wants a relationship with you. Once you start a relationship with God, that relationship will never go away. You are a child of God forever.

There is nothing you can do that will make God stop loving you. There is nothing that will separate you from God. Nothing has the power to break your relationship with God; not even if you sin. God loves you too much and He’s not going to let you go.

So you can have peace knowing that when you start a relationship with God, you get all the benefits that God provides. Including a guarantee you’ll end up in heaven.

Once we put our faith in God, He guarantees that we will be at peace with Him forever.

Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 5:1 (emphasis mine)

Jude 1:24 tells us that we stand blameless before God:

Now to Him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of His glory, blameless and with great joy

Jude 1:24

It’s a beautiful and calming thing to know that I am at peace with God. God is not angry with me. Instead, He loves me and is at peace with me, through the completed work of Jesus Christ.

You are safe with God.

So let’s look at the facts…

Fact: Salvation is by faith alone.

For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift — not from works, so that no one can boast.

Ephesians 2:8–9 (emphasis mine)

People worry that they have to do (or not do) certain things in order to keep their salvation. But if that’s the case, salvation is not by faith alone. Instead, works are included. However, I know from Scripture, salvation is by faith alone — meaning: There is nothing I can do to lose my salvation. In 1 John 5:13, John even wrote to a group of believers just so they would know they are eternally secure.

I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.

1 John 5:13 (emphasis mine)

Fact: When Jesus died, he covered all of my sins. That work is completed.

When Jesus died on the cross, He died for my sins. But back then, I hadn’t sinned yet. I wasn’t even born. So which of my sins did He cover? All of them. That means past, present, and future. And Jesus said His work — His dying to cover our sins — is completed:

I have glorified You on the earth by completing the work You gave Me to do.

John 17:4

Hebrews 10:10 makes it clear that Jesus’ work is completed. We have been completely sanctified (all of our sins have been removed).

By this will of God, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all.

Hebrews 10:10 (emphasis mine)

Jesus tells us His work is complete. We are also told we have been sanctified. So if we believe we can lose our salvation, we are saying that Jesus’ work is not completed.

You are safe with God.

Fact: Nothing can separate us from our relationship with our God.

For I am persuaded that not even death or life, angels or rulers, things present or things to come, hostile powers, height or depth, or any other created thing will have the power to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!

Romans 8:38–39

We see in Romans 8:38–39 that nothing can separate us from the love of God. Nothing can separate us from our relationship with God. We ourselves, as we are included in the category of “created thing” in Romans 8:38–39, cannot separate ourselves from our relationship with God.

We are told the same thing in John 10:28–29:

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish — ever! No one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

John 10:28–29

Ephesians 4:30 also lets us know that we are sealed (protected) for the day of redemption:

You were sealed by Him for the day of redemption.

Ephesians 4:30

God is keeping us.

The Bible makes it clear that God will not let anything come between Him and His children (that’s us). We have been given eternal life and we will never lose it!

You are safe with God.

Fact: There is no fear in love.

We’ve probably all been there… We’ve been told we have to do or not do certain things in order to earn or keep our salvation. For example, we might have been taught that we need to be baptized to be saved. Then later taught we have to be good to stay saved.

This is what I call fear-motivated salvation. The problem is that the Bible doesn’t teach this kind of salvation. This fake salvation that you could lose at any moment. This kind of teaching robs us of our joy and peace that we could otherwise be experiencing in God.

Let’s be real… If we are constantly worried about losing our salvation, then there is no way we are resting in God’s love. It would be hard to trust God if I thought He was always up there in heaven, just ready to scratch my name out of the Book of Life when I made a mistake. Or even if I made a series of mistakes.

God does not want us to live in fear.

In this, love is perfected with us so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, for we are as He is in this world. There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. So the one who fears has not reached perfection in love. We love because He first loved us.

1 John 4:17–19

John made it clear in 1 John 4:17–19 that we do not have to fear God’s punishment. Through the completed work of Jesus Christ, we are eternally secure. When Jesus died for our sins, He died for all of them at once. Jesus’ death on the cross paid the price for all of our sins at once; that is, past, present, and future sins.

You are safe with God.

Fact: Salvation is a gift from God. God’s gifts are irrevocable.

We know we have salvation through faith alone. This is a gift from God. And God’s gifts are irrevocable:

God’s gracious gifts and calling are irrevocable.

Romans 11:29

Fact: It’s not possible to lose your salvation.

The Bible tells us that we are birthed anew; regenerated. We are given a new life in Jesus. Let’s see some examples of that:

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

1 Peter 1:3 (emphasis mine)

God gives us a new heart and a new spirit:

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

Ezekiel 36:26

Titus 3:5 explains that we are regenerated, not by any work we have done, but only by God’s mercy:

He saved us — not by works of righteousness that we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

Titus 3:5

The Bible gives no evidence that this new birth — this regeneration — can be taken away.

You are safe with God.

Fact: God loves us too much to leave us.

Even while we were separated from God from our sin, God chose to die for us anyway. We didn’t deserve to have a relationship with God, but God wanted to be with us anyway.

But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us! Much more then, since we have now been declared righteous by His blood, we will be saved through Him from wrath.

Romans 5:8–9

God’s love far exceeds the imaginable. God sacrificed so we could be with Him. The evidence of God’s love in the Bible is overwhelming. It is not possible that we, as God’s children, will ever be separated from our relationship with God. God loves us too much to let us go.

The words from Hillsong’s What a Beautiful Name ring so true here:

You didn’t want heaven without us,
So Jesus, You brought heaven down.
My sin was great, Your love was greater;
What could separate us now?

What a Beautiful Name, Hillsong Worship

You are safe with God.