The Powerful Hand of God!

“I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.” – John 10:28-30 NIV

First of all, we need to know that all of us are sinners, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23); even though we believe that we have not sinned. This is hard to believe for some of us, but it is true.

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned—

To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who is a pattern of the one to come. (Romans 5:12-14)

Because “…the world around us is under the control of the evil one” (1 John 5:19), God sent His beloved Son, Jesus Christ as an image of Himself (Colossians 1:15) into the world (John 1:14) to crucify Himself on the cross as our atonement of our sins, to free us from the power of death (Colossians 2:13-15) and to bring us back to God through faith.

Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil—and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. (Hebrews 2:14-15)

For God so loved the world [Garden of Eden] that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. (John 3:16-18)

Hence, we should come to Jesus Christ with full-devotion, for He says, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light” (Matthew 11:28-30); we know that “the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23) Thus, we always can rejoice in the Lord (Philippians 4:4); nobody can snatch us from Him (John 10:28-30), unless we shrink our faith ourselves by negative-thinking. For this reason, the word of God declares:

Now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. (Philippians 4:8)

Dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life. (Jude 1:20-21)