Who has the power to save eternally? Is it you? Is it us? No, to save eternally takes a Divine Being that lives eternally who can and wants to save. He, with His power, saves sinners and can keep them saved.

Some people get hung up wondering if they put their trust in Jesus Christ, can they still live a good enough life to keep them saved. When they do that, they are shifting their faith away from the merits of Jesus Christ and putting the emphasis on their own merits of righteousness.

Who wants a savior who cannot save sinners and keep them saved? Who do people think that Jesus Christ of Nazareth is? The Holy Bible says that Jesus Christ is the Savior who keeps people saved by faith and not by good works. Jesus Christ is not just a man born on earth. Holy Scripture proclaims Jesus to be God the Son, leaving heaven to become a man to redeem and save. Then after His crucifixion, He came back to life and then returned to His heavenly throne. Jesus has power to overcome sin and death. Keeping the law could not save, but its purpose was to show us that we fall short of doing what is best for us. What can we do then? We trust in Jesus Christ of Nazareth to save us and to gradually change us into what He purposed for our lives.

Romans 3: 19 Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may become accountable to God;

20 because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.

Jesus Christ paid it all on the cross when he suffered and died for the sins of mankind. We cannot add anything to what He did at the Cross of Calvary, but our faith and trust in His accomplishments is sufficient.

Romans 3: 21 But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,

22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction;

23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

24 being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;

25 whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith.

Salvation is a gift to be received by asking, not an item to be achieved by working. By Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit, this one act brought condemnation for all men. But by Jesus’s one act of obeying the Heavenly Father and going to the cross, redemption was made available to all men.

John 5: 18 Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men.

19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

John 6: 28 Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?"

29 Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."

32 Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

33 For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

34 "Sir," they said, "from now on give us this bread."

35 Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.

36 But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe.

37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.

38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.

39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day.

Whoever decides to place their trust in Jesus Christ will never be disappointed or ashamed. Jesus will hang onto them and keep them.

New Christians forget, or do not know, what happens at the moment of Biblical Salvation. John baptized with water, but Jesus baptizes with the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 1:13 And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit,

14 who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession--to the praise of his glory.

A Christian’s confidence is not in their own merits, but is in the merits of our Savior dying on the cross and then coming back to life - to redeem us from our sins.

The Holy Spirit comes along beside and in a person, and that person is no longer the same. They still are not perfect and deal with temptations, but there is a difference. With the Holy Spirit residing in them, their choices and decisions are now influenced by the Spirit of God. Their conscience reacts in a different manner. According to John chapters 14 through 16, this Spirit encourages, directs, loves, and disciplines (Hebrews 12:6). We are now in God’s family. We now have a Heavenly Father who deals with us. We are then gradually conformed into the image of His Son Jesus Christ. We begin to think “what would Jesus do” in this situation.

The book of Hebrews in the Bible discusses how Jesus is superior to the Law of Moses. There are blessings when we obey the laws, and to spurn them is dangerous. However, the Law of Moses cannot save, Jesus Christ can. Romans 8:1 states:

8:1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,

2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.

3 For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man,

4 in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.

Where is your faith? In yourself? In your church? Or is it in what Jesus Christ accomplished for you at the Cross of Calvary?

The book of Hebrews teaches that Jesus Christ is superior to the Law of Moses.

Hebrews 2:1 We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

2 For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment,

3 how shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.

4 God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and gifts of the

Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.

We must pay careful attention to God’s salvation offered by faith in Jesus Christ. For those who reject Christ, there is no hope for them if they choose not to repent. There is only awareness of the coming judgment and doom.

Hebrews 10:19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,

20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body,

21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.

23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.

Jesus Christ left heaven, was born as a babe in Bethlehem, gave witness to what the Heavenly Father wanted, and then died on a cross shedding His blood to redeem mankind.

He resurrected back to life after 3 days and is now with the Heavenly Father interceding for us.

Please choose Jesus Christ as Savior. Ask Him to save your eternal soul today.

Hebrews 9: 27 Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,

28 so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.