Text: “O
Lord, Thou hast brought up my soul from the grave; Thou hast kept me alive,
that I should not go down into the pit (Hell).”
Psalm 30:3.
Good
morning, delivered and secured Christian!
Praise God, by His Sovereign grace alone, you and I have been dedicated
in Eternity; set apart for Salvation and Eternal security by God. Almighty Lord God has ordained us, or
‘elected’ us for His Salvation, before the foundations of the world. It was then that He ‘gave’ us to His dear
Son, Christ Jesus, and marked us out to be saved in time, according to the
Scriptures. We were, thus, ‘dedicated’
to be delivered and to receive God’s Eternal security. Wow!
What a gracious and powerful, and Almighty Lord God we serve! Hallelujah!
“Elect
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification (set
apart, dedicated) of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the Blood of
Jesus Christ: Grace (unmerited favour from God) unto you, and peace be
multiplied.” (1 Peter 1:2)
Jesus
said: “All that the Father giveth Me shall come to Me; and him/her that cometh
to Me I will in no wise cast out.” (John
6:37)
Why
will Christ Jesus not ‘cast out’ those that come unto Him? Because He came to do the Father’s will in
all things, and the Father has elected (chosen) and given to Him those whom the
Father has dedicated, set apart in Eternity, to be redeemed by Christ’s sinless
Blood. Wow!
See
how God’s Salvation plan unfolds so succinctly?
Glory to the Lamb Who is worthy!
Glory to the Father for His grace!
Glory to the Spirit for His quickening power, His making alive the souls
of us who were ‘…dead in trespasses and sin…’!
Hallelujah! “Salvation is of the
Lord!” (Ephesians 2:1;5) (Jonah 2:9)
True
Christians are elected in Eternity, delivered in time; and kept secure forever
- and all by the Sovereign grace of Almighty Lord God, Jehovah.
“I
give unto them Eternal life (not temporal life!); and they shall never perish
(Spiritually), neither shall any man (including ourselves!) pluck them out of
My hand. My Father, which gave them Me,
is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of My Father’s hand. I and My Father are One.” (John 10:27-30)
Verse 3. “O Lord, Thou hast
brought up my soul from the grave. Mark, it is not, ’I hope so’; but it is, ’Thou
hast; Thou hast; Thou hast’ - three times over.
David is quite sure, beyond a doubt, that God has done great things for
him, whereof he is exceeding glad.”
(C.H. Spurgeon, Treasury of David, page 144)
Verse 3. “…Thou hast kept me
alive.” The Lord God, in His Sovereign grace and mercy to
Hell-deserving sinners, saved me, a convicted terrorist murderer, in a prison
cell at the infamous high security Maze Prison here in Northern Ireland, UK, on
August 12th, 1979. That is a
full 36 years ago. Since that day of His
Salvation - both inside the prison and here in the outside world - I have
survived terrorist murder bids and endured numerous terrorist ’death threats’,
and am still alive and serving my Lord God Who saved me. Surely this is testimony enough of the truth
of God’s revealed Word? For not only did
the Lord God save me back in 1979, but He has kept me alive, physically and
literally, ever since He did! Give God
the glory! Raise up a shout of praise to
Him! Hallelujah! Thank you, Lord
God! (See the book by Brent Riggs,
‘Terrorist to Evangelist’, Amazon.co.uk)
“For
we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants
for Jesus’ sake…We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are
perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not
destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that
the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are always delivered unto
death for Jesus‘ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in
our mortal flesh.” (2 Corinthians
4:5-11)
Verse 3. “…Thou hast kept me
alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
Not only has the Lord God
kept me alive, physically, through many perilous years, He has and will keep me
alive Spiritually, ’…that I should not go down to the pit.’! The pit of Hell is for unbelieving sinners,
believing sinners shall never go there.
We have God’s own Word on this Eternal matter:
Psalm 9:17. “The wicked shall be turned into Hell. I have read of a loadstone in
Ethiopia which has two corners, with one it draws the iron to it, with the
other it puts the iron from it; so God hath two hands, of mercy and justice;
with the one He will draw the godly to Heaven, with the other He will thrust
the sinner to Hell; and oh, how dreadful is that place! (Thomas Watson 1690?)
“And
whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of
fire.” (Revelation 20:12-15)
“O Lord, Thou hast brought up my soul from the grave;
Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down into the pit (Hell).” (Psalm 30:3)
Thought: Elected, sealed, and Eternally delivered - we
are ’His people’; we are Eternally secure in Christ Jesus. Let us live accordingly to His greater glory?
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