"Let me now remind you, dear brothers and sisters, of the Good News I preached to you before. You welcomed it then, and you still stand firm in it. It is this Good News that saves you if you continue to believe the message I told you--unless, of course, you believed something that was never true in the first place." (1 Cor 15:1-2, NLT) You can always tell how precious something is to someone by simply observing the way he or she holds on to it. I am always intrigued by the type of security employed by banks when they transfer money from one branch to another within the same city usually through a few trekable kilometers. They would stuff the money in bullet proof bullion van, armed with a siren and then accompany the van with an armed escort of ten to twelve military men - just to keep the money safe. People will apply the greatest caution and care to protect something valuable to them. In Nigeria here, we have something we call the protector - a small iron gate which people add in front of or behind their wooden and glass doors and windows to fortify it against burglary. How God wish we can build protectors on the doors of our heart to keep His word safe because we have a thief who enters our heart to steal God's word. And if we lose God's word in our hearts, we have lost everything..
When speaking to the Corinthians, Paul said that he wanted to remind them everything they heard from him which they eventually believed, and to remind them on the need to hold on to them. The truth is that if you are truly born again, it means you must have heard the word of God at some point in your life. It also means that that word had touched your heart and ministered to you on a personal level which made you forsake your sin and accept Jesus. Now, it is that thing you heard, that thing you believed that convinced you to reject your old ways, it is that great feeling of joy and peace which the word of God gave you and is still giving you that the devil wants to steal from you. He would come in various forms to tell you that what you believed was not true after all. He would try to convince you that there was nothing wrong with you before; that the word of God has brainwashed you, that the pastor or the person who preached to you had deceived. The devil will simply lie to you and make you start to doubt the word of God which saved you and gave you internal peace. The question now is are you going to let him?