Jesus when we think we can know and assert that man, even in his sinful corruption, is held in the hand of God and in spite of that corruption is not allowed to fall. Otherwise we do not know what we are saying when we make this statement. We can make it only with a final uncertainty, threatened by the possibility that it might be quite otherwise, or that this perception might again slip from our grasp. It is by faith, and indeed by faith in the Word of God which is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, that