“Bear them up forever” (Psalms 28:9)

It’s necessary for God to bear you after He saves you, because you backslide. Through ignorance or rebellion, you let your flesh and your Old Man rule. You need the constant help of the indwelling Holy Spirit to obey the New Man that God created inside of you. “Put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the Old Man with his deeds, and have put on the New Man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him” (Colossians 3:8-10). 

 Three essential ways God bears you: 

 1) God bears you close to Himself. “He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him … do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's” (1 Corinthians 6:17-20). “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him … but he who does the will of God abides forever” (1 John 2:15-17). 

 2) God bears you in spiritual battles. “Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand” (Ephesians 6:10-13). 

 3) God will bear you up to Heaven. “Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed - in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality” (1 Corinthians 15:51-53).