When a person genuinely embraces Jesus as their Lord and Savior, God consummates a legal agreement with them, a covenant guaranteeing their place in heaven. This covenant is irreversible and irrevocable, and it is based on the finished work of Jesus on the cross. As followers of Christ, we can take this covenant to the bank from the day we get saved until the last day of eternity, and there is no doubt about it. We can look death right in the eyeballs and say to death, I am not afraid of you, because I have a contract with Almighty God, a contract that has been sealed with the blood of the risen Savior and Lord of glory, guaranteeing me a place in heaven and death.
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