Jesus Is the Better Hope

"Raise your hands if you're sure!" Do you remember the advertisement? Catchy slogan, but for some who are "perspirationally" challenged, placing one's hope in an deodorant is going to take more than just a catchy slogan and name. It's one thing to have an anti-perspirant leave you pitted, it's an entirely different thing to have assurance of an authentic salvation. The Scriptures reveal the beautiful doctrine of the assurance of our salvation. In other words, if God saves a person, can that salvation be lost? The absolute answer is "no"; yet, not everyone who claims salvation has actually been saved. Our passage this morning is really the heart of the application of the great book of Hebrews and it comes with a warning not to leave the faith and the promise of a God who will never lose someone who is authentically His. Today we will begin a two-week look at this passage that dives deeply into the beautiful doctrine of the assurance of our salvation.