The reality of this life is determined by how one stands in relation to salvation. It is believed by some that everyone is intimately acquainted with God before they are born in the birthing process. It is further thought that salvation is determined by God in His counsel from all eternity. This means that, in a sense, God seeing us or intimately ordering the way we are formed sets the reality of our salvation as an eternal reality to us. Because before we receive salvation, God knows our ways as determinate all the way back into the secret place.We are connected to the Father in His redemptive seeing. Our past sins have no hold on our identity as the apostle says who terrorized the church.. "I do not have the blood of men on my hands." In other words it is in that secret place as a matter of identity.We are connected to the Father through His redemptive power. It is essential to realize that our identity is not based on our past sinfulness, but on our new relationship with Christ. When we first come to Christ, we experience a real release from the power of sin and a deep sense of joy and satisfaction in our new spiritual transformation and salvation. However, we need to understand that this transformation is based on God's grace alone. In the early days of our faith, we may still be testing and exploring this new sense of identity, but it is crucial to remember that our worthiness comes from God.The power of the gospel was experienced by us. We were wondering if that experience would lessen over time and if we would then begin to fall back to our former experience. However, we would wake up and there would be a new day, a new experience as our hope. We had a profound attachment to the work of the Spirit in that regeneration experience. Brothers, the simplicity of that experience was exactly what the apostle was warning us to guard! Why have you so quickly wandered from that work of the Spirit?There are a few very simple concepts that we need to get back in touch with. Salvation is a concept that is communicated through language because the universe we live in is really an impersonal or personal relationship to the universe of spoken language. Let me explain. The opposition that we have is a voice of irrationality that we must identify in our ongoing way of thinking. We are dealing in a personal way against the devil through concepts that He knows will form an identity that is irrational.The most ferocious attack will be directed at our trust in Christ. Because our trust is a proposition that we have confessed Christ. He will say" if God is real then let Him save you, let Him deliver you." In other words we are influenced by this general proposition that is a daily occurrence that comes in our world. The truth is that we have very little power of proposition to form our identity in our own finite view of this world. This world is filled with a multitude of devils propositions that make us a different identity than we are. We are dealing with an attack on the mind first and then we experience a deep level of struggling in our proposed identity.This is a world where Christ is absolutely in charge, and we often struggle to focus on something that is not entirely true. I think I am focusing on the proposition "My Sheep hear my voice and they follow me." This is a clear proposition that we can follow.It is essential to understand that our Father spoke our salvation into existence from eternity past. This identity is much greater and more powerful than any other identity that could be proposed to us. We live in a world where we are constantly facing opposition and temptation to create idols out of other men that propose false identities to us that provide temporary satisfaction. However, it should be clear to us that this world is one in which men use different half-truths to deceive and manipulate others. This is why God says that the tongue is a world of evil, because it has the ability to set the course of a man's life.We are not susceptible to falling under the spell of another man and departing from the voice of our Shepherd because we are opposing the propositions of the Pharisee and the reprobate. We are experiencing a war of propositions.In order for us to have a hope that cannot be moved, we must have a connection to the power of the Shepherds warnings and encouragement. This way, we might be able to identify those words that we have no control over, and change the course of our world. Men can destroy another man in a temporary sense with a few words.