If you thought you’d be reading about the 1987 movie, The Untouchables, starring Keven Costner, well, you were wrong. While the infamous Chicago mob boss, Al Capone, may have thought he and his posse were untouchable for a time, they weren’t, as history proved, and as the aforementioned movie recounted. In fact, if you want to know the absolute truth, then here it is:

Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
— Galatians 6:7

There’s no more mention of Mr. Capone in this blog - just wanted to get that bit of trivia behind us. This blog is about really being made untouchable, by the sovereign will of God. And when I say “untouchable,” I mean that once saved, always saved. In addition, I mean to highlight all the goodness that accompanies our so great salvation in Christ Jesus. For starters, we are promised His love, and so we receive it in abundance.

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.

God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

We love because he first loved us.
— 1 John 4:14-19

As believers, we have become members of God’s family, given the supernatural ability to love as Christ does, with a love that not only transcends this world, but is truly unflappable, regardless of circumstances. Any threat to said love is merely a ruse played out by one of our enemies (Satan, the kingdom of darkness, or our own human flesh). There is no real threat to godly love. The truth is that we are indeed untouchable in the sense that we have every right to hold fast to our convictions about God’s love for us and our love for Him. In fact, God desires for us to abide in this love, for that is what makes us untouchable. It’s true, we may fail daily, but the fact remains - we are loved by the holy, sovereign God of the Universe - and that will never change.

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
— 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

Our enemies will threaten us. They will beat their chests. They will hurl fiery darts at our psyches. But, it is all for naught in the end, for we are the true “untouchables.” There’s nothing that’s ever been, nor anything that will ever be that has the power to separate us from the love of God!

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
As it is written,
 “For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
— Romans 8:35-39

Hold your chin up. Go ahead and don’t you apologize for it, either. You are God’s son or daughter. You were purchased by Jesus Christ, Himself, and so you are redeemed forever. You are precious. You are wonderfully made. You are the very work of God’s hand. God knew He’d love you before you were even born. He knew He’d save you and make you His own. He knew the number of days until you’d be in Heaven with Him forevermore. Be confident in this very thing, my friend - God loves you; and, for this reason, you are untouchable.

Love in Christ,

Ed Collins