WEBVTT 00:04.695 --> 00:13.980 [SPEAKER_00]: In the last day of our weeklong focus on being the child of God, today we're looking at how our status as God's child can never be taken away from us. 00:14.840 --> 00:29.388 [SPEAKER_00]: May God give you confidence and joy today in your new identity and him, and may you see how powerful his sacrificial love is today as we make space to see and live out our identity as eternal children of a good God. 00:30.249 --> 00:32.390 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the first 15 podcast. 00:44.593 --> 00:57.516 [SPEAKER_00]: Our Scripture for today comes from John 10, verse 28, Scripture says, I give them eternal life and they will never perish and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 01:00.658 --> 01:08.081 [SPEAKER_00]: As a disciple of Jesus, we have full assurance of eternal face-to-face relationship with our Heavenly Father. 01:09.142 --> 01:16.445 [SPEAKER_00]: John 10 verses 27 through 30 says, My sheep pier my voice and I know them and they follow me. 01:17.305 --> 01:23.727 [SPEAKER_00]: I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 01:24.507 --> 01:31.589 [SPEAKER_00]: My father who has given them to me is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the father's hand. 01:32.409 --> 01:33.970 [SPEAKER_00]: I and the father are one. 01:37.013 --> 01:47.397 [SPEAKER_00]: Once we have become a child of God by confessing with our mouth and believing in our heart that Jesus Christ truly is Lord of all, we are the child of God forever. 01:48.437 --> 02:04.583 [SPEAKER_00]: No sin, struggle, trial, or rebellion can pluck us from the Father's hand, and as children of God, we no longer look to this world, but to our total restoration, redemption, and glorification as our source of hope. 02:06.290 --> 02:12.456 [SPEAKER_00]: And there is peace and transcendent joy in the truth that this world is not our final resting place. 02:13.277 --> 02:21.144 [SPEAKER_00]: Your pains and trials are temporary and pale in comparison to the incredible life that awaits you in heaven with your father. 02:22.085 --> 02:43.942 [SPEAKER_00]: Romans 8, verses 38 through 39 says, for I am sure that neither death nor life nor angels nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else, and all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 02:45.824 --> 02:51.048 [SPEAKER_00]: Rest in the fact that you are fully and constantly loved by your Creator. 02:52.198 --> 02:57.121 [SPEAKER_00]: nothing you or anyone else can ever do has the power to pluck you from his hand. 02:58.362 --> 03:02.324 [SPEAKER_00]: God made salvation as simple and complete as possible. 03:03.224 --> 03:07.607 [SPEAKER_00]: Once you have been saved and brought into the kingdom of God, you are forever saved. 03:08.652 --> 03:35.410 [SPEAKER_00]: Titus three verses four through seven says, but when the goodness and loving kindness of God are Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us, richly through Jesus Christ are Savior, so that being justified by his grace, we might become aears, 03:40.313 --> 03:45.016 [SPEAKER_00]: Your salvation is about the grace of your Father, not your own works. 03:46.037 --> 03:55.884 [SPEAKER_00]: If salvation ever became about our own strength, it would cease to be rooted in God's loving grace and rest on our shoulders instead of the death of Jesus. 03:57.265 --> 04:04.611 [SPEAKER_00]: Placing our hope and eternal relationship with our Father is the path to freedom from the cares and burdens of this world. 04:05.687 --> 04:11.369 [SPEAKER_00]: We will never truly know a abundant life until we live surrendered to our King and Savior. 04:11.909 --> 04:15.270 [SPEAKER_00]: And lay the crowns and cares of this life at his feet. 04:16.590 --> 04:18.631 [SPEAKER_00]: This world is not your home. 04:19.631 --> 04:22.952 [SPEAKER_00]: This world is not meant to be your highest satisfaction. 04:24.133 --> 04:33.616 [SPEAKER_00]: Persu greater depth of relationship with your father and watch as the stress and cares of the world fall off in light of his glorious grace. 04:34.776 --> 04:46.439 [SPEAKER_00]: place your hope in Him alone and follow His leading to an abundant life free from the worries, doubts, and fears that come from living for the world instead of Jesus. 05:09.497 --> 05:20.905 [SPEAKER_00]: As we begin, meditate on God's promise of your eternal salvation as a believer, allow scripture to guide you to place your hope in the Father alone. 05:22.046 --> 05:30.191 [SPEAKER_00]: John 10 verses 27 through 30 says, My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me. 05:31.249 --> 05:37.254 [SPEAKER_00]: I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 05:38.475 --> 05:45.982 [SPEAKER_00]: My father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the father's hand. 05:46.922 --> 05:48.664 [SPEAKER_00]: I, and the father, are one. 06:22.656 --> 06:25.719 [SPEAKER_00]: And next, where have you been placing your hope? 06:26.880 --> 06:31.043 [SPEAKER_00]: What have you been pursuing as your source of satisfaction, apart from Jesus? 06:31.984 --> 06:39.309 [SPEAKER_00]: Jeremiah 1776 says, blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. 07:10.314 --> 07:18.541 [SPEAKER_00]: And last, take time to confess and surrender any ways in which you have been seeking satisfaction over Jesus. 07:19.542 --> 07:23.766 [SPEAKER_00]: Ask the Holy Spirit to help you place your hope and trust in God alone. 07:24.784 --> 07:35.853 [SPEAKER_00]: Romans 1513 says, May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace and believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. 07:51.501 --> 07:55.267 [UNKNOWN]: Thank you so much for watching. 08:05.902 --> 08:14.526 [SPEAKER_00]: May Romans 5, 2 through 5, ignite a lifestyle of continual surrender and pursuit of restored relationship with your father. 08:15.227 --> 08:22.210 [SPEAKER_00]: Scripture says, through him, we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. 08:22.830 --> 08:25.971 [SPEAKER_00]: And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. 08:26.631 --> 08:36.755 [SPEAKER_00]: More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope. 08:37.415 --> 08:46.338 [SPEAKER_00]: And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. 09:01.823 --> 09:07.764 [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much for listening to this last podcast in our weeklong focus on being children of God. 09:08.384 --> 09:10.104 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