Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, February 27th. Have you ever worried about what will happen after you die? If so, stay with us as we examine the clear scriptural foundation for believing that a Christian’s eternal future is secure. There are many things that separate the Christian faith from all other religions, but primarily the one that stands out above all the rest is this.

That all of the religions are based on performance and the Christian faith is based on grace. I want you to turn to Romans chapter 8. And I want us to look at two verses in this passage, the last two verses of Romans 8. Because here Paul is offering us an awesome sense of assurance about our relationship to God when he makes this statement having told us in these verses in the eth chapter how God is in charge of everything how he’s predestined us to be conformed to his likeness how everything is under his divine control. How he is guiding every

aspect of our life. And he says beginning in this 38th verse, for I am convinced, I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor heights, nor depth, nor any other created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Now, there are many commands in scripture. It’s very clear what you and I ought to be able to do as a believer, how we should live. And yet all of us know that because we still live in this flesh, we’re not always going to do exactly what he tells us to do. So if our relationship to him is built on our performance, all of us would have to say, “Father, just take me on now because I’ll never be able to do every single thing that I ought to do as long as I live in this flesh.

” Because we will not always rely upon the Holy Spirit. Then upon what is our assurance based? And so what I’d like to do this evening first of all is to give you a definition of eternal security. So I want you to write this down uh in the back of your Bible somewhere there so that you’ll not forget it. Eternal security. What is it? Eternal security.

Once a person is saved by the grace of God, they are eternally secured in his grace and cannot be severed from their relationship with God. Now the grace of God is his goodness and kindness toward us without regard to our worth or you can say our value or and efforts and in spite of what we deserve. So that’s what the grace of God is all about.