Kept by God's Power- by John F. Strombeck

s a Gradate of Northwestern University in 1911

JESUS PRAYED: "Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name ... so that they may be one as we are one" (John 17:11). Peter who heard that prayer wrote some years later: “Kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time” (First Peter 1:5).

A. IS GOD OMNIPOTENT?

Thus those who are saved have been committed by Jesus, who for them gave His Own life, to God for safe keeping. If God fails to keep a single one of those whom Christ bought with His own blood, He fails to conserve that which was accomplished by the death and resurrection of Christ. God forbid the thought.

There is a need today for believers to know that they are being kept by the power of God. Paul realized this in his day, and wrote to the Ephesian saints, to "the faithful in Christ Jesus," that he prayed that they might know "his incomparably great power for us who believe." Then he described that power as: "the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. And God has placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body..." (Ephesians 1:19-23).

No finite mind can fathom the "incomparable greatness" of this power, but everyone who believes may know in simple faith that this power is exercised in his behalf.

The power of God, in raising Christ from the dead, surpasses every other power, for it raised Christ from a death which was caused by the sum total of human sin and placed him far above every other power, present and future. It is nothing less than omnipotence.

As this power is greater than all human sin, it is surely greater than the sins of any single saved person. As it is clearly stated that this power is exercised on behalf of everyone that believes, it is nothing less than a denial of the omnipotence of God to say that by sinning, or by ceasing to believe, or by willing to go away from God, a saved person can be lost.

As this power is the greatest expression concerning God's power, it can be said, to use the words of another, "the universe will crumble before a single saved one can be lost."

To deny the eternal security of the believer is to deny the omnipotence of God.

B. WAS CHRIST RAISED FROM THE DEAD?

The resurrection of Christ is considered in God's word as guaranteeing the resurrection of believers. Both are by the same power. "By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also" (First Corinthians 6:14).

Jesus himself gave the fact of his resurrection as a guarantee of the resurrection of believers. He said, "Because I live, you also shall live" (John 14:19). The same truth is also found in Romans 8:11. "And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you."

One who is lost has no part in the resurrection of the saints, but God's word to those who are saved is, that they shall participate in that resurrection and points to the resurrection of Christ as evidence of that fact. Thus the denial of the security of the believer questions the power of God to resurrect those who are saved. It implies that something might happen in the life of a saved person to interfere with the operation of God's power. If that's possible, then isn't there also room even to question the resurrection of Christ as having taken place?

Thus it is seen that the denial of the security of the believer raises questions as to the power of God and as to the resurrection of Christ, the very ground for the hope of eternal life.

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