{"id":2647,"date":"2016-11-06T17:16:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T21:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=2647"},"modified":"2016-11-06T17:16:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T21:16:09","slug":"reasons-of-reassurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=2647","title":{"rendered":"Reasons of Reassurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Message by Richard Jones<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/rec1106-114151.mp3\">rec1106-114151<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Reasons of Reassurance<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>John 10:27-30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>John 10:27-30 (NIV)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">27 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<span class=\"JesusWords\">My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.<\/span><br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">28 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<span class=\"JesusWords\">I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand.<\/span><br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">29 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<span class=\"JesusWords\">My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father&#8217;s hand.<\/span><br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">30 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<span class=\"JesusWords\">I and the Father are one.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Three\u00a0reasons why a Christian can never loose his salvation:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>1. Because the Book is clear enough to keep us in His hands.<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Galatians 3:26-27 (NIV)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">26 <\/span><\/sup><span class=\"ind\">\u00a0You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus,<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">27 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Romans 8:1 (NIV)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1 <\/span><\/sup><span class=\"ind\">\u00a0Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Philippians 3:8-9 (NIV)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">8 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">9 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ&#8211;the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>2. Because the Bond is strong enough to keep us in His hands.<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><strong>1 John 3:1 (NIV)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1 <\/span><\/sup><span class=\"ind\">\u00a0How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ephesians 1:5 (NIV)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">5 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ephesians 2:1-6 (NIV)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1 <\/span><\/sup><span class=\"ind\">\u00a0As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">3 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">4 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">5 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions&#8211;it is by grace you have been saved.<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">6 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Philippians 1:6 (NIV) <\/strong><br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">6 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 Corinthians 5:5 (NIV)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">5 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. <span class=\"ind\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>3. Because the Blood is rich enough to keep us in His hands.<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><strong>1 Peter 1:18-19 (NIV)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">18 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers,<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">19 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Message by Richard Jones rec1106-114151 Reasons of Reassurance John 10:27-30 John 10:27-30 (NIV) 27 \u00a0My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28 \u00a0I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=2647\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-messages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2647"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}