My Anchor Holds

You know one of the greatest things in human life is hope. Paul classified hope as one of the three "abiding" things in life. In that marvelous 13th chapter of 1 Corinthians on love, "Now abideth faith, hope, and love," what he means is that these are three things that we just can't get along without in life.

I. A SURE AND STEADFAST ANCHOR

The hope of a child of God is an "anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast." Now a sure anchor is an anchor that has been made by an experienced smith, the prongs of which were set at exactly the right angle so that, when it is let down and takes hold of the bottom, it will never let go.

II. THE ANCHOR HOLDS

Have you ever asked yourself what it was that made Job able to stand up and say, "Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him."? How could he do it? Nobody could – hear old Job when he said, "I know that my redeemer liveth." That's the reason David could say so confidently, "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."

III. HOW WE CAN KNOW

God's oath guarantees it – God has put himself on oath and has sworn, not by one thing, but two things: Two things that cannot change; two things that cannot fail: two things in which it is impossible for God to lie. If you turn back to the 17th chapter of Genesis, you will find the very wording of the oath that God made. "As I live, sayeth the Lord." What does it mean? As long as God lives – I want you to get it – as long as God lives, there never will be a penitent sinner turn to Jesus Christ and not be saved. Until God repudiates the Sacrifice of Jesus on Calvary until God repudiates His Word, until God purges His own oath until God lies and until God dies, there never will be a penitent sinner come to Jesus for salvation and not find it.