Being Kept in Christ

Being Kept in Christ

Roger Tointon—January 13, 2024

I’m going to talk on a subject today that affects us all from beginning to end of our judgment for salvation.

How are we being kept in Christ? We would be astounded if we could literally figure out all the different ways!

As John said when he was ending his Gospel of John, ‘Christ has done so many things, said so many things, etc., that if they could be known, there wouldn’t be space to put them.’ I mean, essentially, that’s what he said. So, our relationship with Christ is critical.

We all know that God has a plan for mankind; that’s why we are here. That’s why all of the human beings that have ever been born were born. The God and the Logos developed a plan.

I want to do a little outline because I want to hinge being kept in Christ upon something. So, I’m going to do a little outline here, but it won’t start at the beginning.

· How could we start at the beginning?

· The beginning of what?

God’s Plan that we’re talking about, and Fred has put it together in a big, thick book: God’s Plan For Mankind Revealed by His Sabbath and Holy Days.

· When did it start? It didn’t start until the plan for mankind had been developed.

We don’t know what They did before that time; maybe we will find out one day.

When the plan for mankind started, there were certain things that had to happen. That’s where I want to start.

So, #1 in the plan, and this is a plan for salvation, salvation that we can literally one day become a living son of God. We will no longer, of course, be physical. We will have to be spiritual, as Paul points out so well.

Christ had to come here below and die. We know that was to pay the supreme price for the penalty of sin, but it was to pay for the sins past, not for future sins.

Now, that comes in, too, in Christ’s responsibility, but at first He had to come here to die for the sins in the past. Then He had to be resurrected.

IF Christ—there are many Scriptures that deal with this—had not been resurrected, we could not have salvation!

Now, that gets really into what I want to talk about. It’s at the core of it. So, Christ had to be resurrected, because after He was resurrected and went back to the Father and sat down at the right hand of God Almighty, He had a job to do, and that’s really what I’m going to be talking about.

Then what had to happen? We know that the Holy Spirit had to come.

· all things come from God

· all things were created by God

As it says in:

John 1:3: “All things came into being through Him, and not even one thing that was created came into being without Him.” That’s what He did!

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