Lesson 45: Kept by the Power of God, part 3

Now I bring you the message that in prosperity as in adversity, in the sunshine as in the dark, your God is ready to keep you all the time.

Then again, there are others who think of this keeping thus, “God will keep me from doing very great wickedness, but there are small sins I cannot expect God to keep me from. There is the sin of temper. I cannot expect God to conquer that."

When you hear of some man who has been tempted and gone astray or fallen into drunkenness or murder, you thank God for His keeping power.

“I might have done the same as that man," you say, "if God had not kept me." You believe He kept you from drunkenness and murder.

Why do you not believe that God can keep you from outbreaks of temper? You thought that this was of less importance; you did not remember that the great commandment of the New Testament is—" Love one another as I have loved you." When your temper and hasty judgment and sharp words came out, you sinned against the highest law—the law of God's love. Yet you say, “God will not, God cannot"—no, you will not say, God cannot; but you say, "God does not keep me from that." You perhaps say, “He can; but there is something in me that cannot attain to it, and which God does not take away."

I want to ask you: Can believers live a holier life than is generally lived? Can believers experience the keeping power of God all the day, to keep them from sin? Can believers be kept in fellowship with God? I bring you a message from the Word of God, in these words: Kept by the power of God. There is no qualifying clause to them. The meaning is that if you will entrust yourself entirely and absolutely to the omnipotence of God, HE WILL DELIGHT TO KEEP YOU.


Some people think that they never can get so far as that every word of their mouth should be to the glory of God…but is what God wants of them, it is what God expects of them. God is willing to set a watch at the door of their mouth, and if God will do that, cannot He keep their tongue and their lips? He can; and that is what God is going to do for them that trust Him. God's keeping is all-inclusive, and let everyone who longs to live a holy life think out all their needs, and all their weaknesses, and all their shortcomings, and all their sins, and say deliberately: "Is there any sin that my God cannot keep me from?" The heart will have to answer: "No; God can keep me from every sin."