As we begin a new week in our Wonderful Day in the Lord broadcast, we are going to be focusing our attention, as we have been doing for weeks, on the riches that are ours in Christ. We have pinpointed and identified numerous blessings, riches, and treasures that are ours in Christ. These things are meant to encourage and strengthen us and help us understand who we are in Christ and our position in Him and His provisions for us. I trust you have been gaining some insight and encouragement from these discussions. I am turning our attention today to the issue of our security in Christ. That is not just a minor thing. As a pastor these questions come up regularly among people. How do I know for sure that I am secure in Christ? How do I know that even if I am a Christian now, I will not lose my salvation somewhere down the line or that I won’t do some sinful behavior that would cause me to lose my salvation or that I might come under the attack of the devil that might shake my faith? How do I know that I will persevere to the end and if I am a Christian now that I will ultimately be with the Lord in glory? A lot of Christians struggle deeply with their spiritual development because they have not resolved these questions.
I’d like to focus our attention on Romans 8 this week. I think this is one of the key passages, one of the most important passages in all the Bible on this particular subject because we are not looking at some proof texts here or there, but we are looking at a section that is actually dealing with that subject plus it is capsulizing all that is being said in the book of Romans, in many ways, all the way back to Romans 5 which has been dealing to some degree with this issue of our position in Christ, our salvation and now the security of our salvation . . .
