Our Savior has words of certainty for you, however. If you have turned from your sins and trusted in Jesus, you have His promise as a comforting balm. He says in John 10:27-29:
"My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. 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. I and the Father are one.”
Jesus provides a three-part promise in these great words of assurance. He gives "eternal life" to those who follow Him, Jesus says. "[T]hey will never perish," He declares. "[N]o one will snatch them out of My hand," He promises.
Our Lord then proclaims this safety is based on a two-fold hold. He says, "[N]o one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand." Then He says assuringly, "I and the Father are one."
You are in the solid grasp of the Father and the Son. No demonic being and no person -- absolutely "no one" -- can loosen the grip on those whom the Father has given to the Son and the Son has saved to be in the Father's family.
Jesus preached this, and you can preach it to yourself: I am safe in the hands of the Father and the Son.
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