Author	Thread: can I lose my salvation?
Admin	can I lose my salvation? Posted : 22 Oct, 2009 05:33 AM THE PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS OR THE SECURITY OF THE BELIEVERS. The Elect are not only redeemed by Christ and renewed by the Spirit; they are also KEPT in faith by the almighty power of God. All those who are spiritually united to Christ through regeneration are eternally secure in Him. NOTHING can separate them from the eternal and unchangeable love of God. They have been predestined unto eternal glory and are therefore assured of heaven. The doctrine of the perseverance of the saints does not maintain that all who PROFESS the Christian faith are certain of heaven. It is SAINTS--those who are set apart by the Spirit--who PERSEVERE to the end. It is BELIEVERS--those who are given true, living faith in Christ--who are SECURE and safe in Him. Many who profess to believe fall away, but they do not fall from grace for they were never in grace. True believers do fall into temptations, and they do commit grievous sins, but these sins do not cause them to lose their salvation or separate them from Christ. This doctrine does not stand alone but is a necessary part of the The doctrines of Election and Irresistible grace logically imply certain salvation of those who receive these blessings. If God has chosen men absolutely and unconditionally to eternal life, and if His Spirit effectively applies to them the benefits of redemption, the inescapable conclusion is that these persons shall be saved. The following verses show that God's people are given ETERNAL LIFE the moment they believe. They are KEPT BY GOD'S POWER through faith and NOTHING CAN SEPARATE THEM FROM HIS LOVE. They have been SEALED with the Holy Spirit who has been given as the GUARANTEE of their salvation, and they are thus assured of an eternal inheritance. Isaiah 43:1-3: But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you: I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior Isaiah 54:10: "For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed, says the Lord, who has compassion on you." Matthew 18:12-14: "What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that ONE of these little ones SHOULD PERISH." John 3:36: He who believes in the Son HAS ETERNAL LIFE.... John 3:16: For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him SHOULD NOT PERISH but have ETERNAL LIFE. John 5:24: "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me HAS ETERNAL LIFE; he does NOT COME INTO JUDGMENT, but HAS PASSED FROM DEATH TO LIFE." John 6:35-40: Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall NOT HUNGER, and he who believes in me shall NEVER THIRST. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me; and HIM WHO COMES TO ME I WILL NOT CAST OUT. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me; and this is the will of him who sent me, that I should LOSE NOTHING of all that he has given me, but raise it up at the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day." John 6:47: Truly, Truly, I say to you, he who believes HAS ETERNAL LIFE. John 10:27-30: "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me; and I give them ETERNAL LIFE, and THEY SHALL NEVER PERISH, and NO ONE SHALL SNATCH THEM OUT OF MY HAND. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Fathers' hand. I and the Father are one." See also: John 17:11,12,15 Romans 5:8-10: But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we are NOW JUSTIFIED by His blood, MUCH MORE SHALL WE BE SAVED by Him FROM THE WRATH OF GOD. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be SAVED BY HIS LIFE. Romans 8:1: There is therefore now NO CONDEMNATION for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:29,30: For those he FOREKNEW he also PREDESTINED to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the first-born among many brethren. And those whom he predestined he also CALLED; and those whom he called he also JUSTIFIED; and those whom he justified he also GLORIFIED. Romans 8:35-39: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? AS it is written, "For thy 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 oved us. For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angles, nor principalities, 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. 1 Corinthians 1:7-9: ...so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ; who will SUSTAIN YOU TO THE END, GUILTLESS in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. GOD IS FAITHFUL, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. 1 Corinthians 10:13: No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted BEYOND YOUR STRENGTH, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, that you may be ABLE to endure it. There are so many scriptures to support this! see also: 2 Corinthians 4:14,17 Ephesians 1:5,13,14 Ephesians 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were SEALED for the day of redemption Colossians 3:3,4 1 Thessalonians 5:23,24 2 Timothy 4:18 Hebrews 9:12,15 Hebrews 10:14: For by a single offering he has PERFECTED FOR ALL TIME those who are SANCTIFIED. Hebrews 12:28 1 Peter 1:3-5 1 John 2:19,25 1 John 5:4,11-13,20 Jude 1: To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and KEPT for Jesus Christ. At the end of every church service, my pastor comes out from behind the podium and holds up his hand and says: (Jude 24,25) Now to him who is able to KEEP YOU FROM FALLING and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing, to the only God, our savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen In Christ, Steve Post Reply
DontHitThatMark View Profile History	can I lose my salvation? Posted : 28 Oct, 2009 06:52 PM Well, I've seen many people that have experienced "conversion", and a "change of life", and lived their whole lives for God...and then change their minds, committing themselves to unbelief and willing sin. You say "then they weren't really saved". But again...the point is, if those people weren't really saved, even though they were living a godly life at one point...where is your assurance? What makes you different from them? I believe saved people can fall. God will blot them out of the book of life. Ezekiel 33:11 Say to them, �As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, O house of Israel?� 12�Therefore, son of man, say to your countrymen, �The righteousness of the righteous man will not save him when he disobeys, and the wickedness of the wicked man will not cause him to fall when he turns from it. The righteous man, if he sins, will not be allowed to live because of his former righteousness.� 13If I tell the righteous man that he will surely live, but then he trusts in his righteousness and does evil, none of the righteous things he has done will be remembered; he will die for the evil he has done. 14And if I say to the wicked man, �You will surely die,� but he then turns away from his sin and does what is just and right� 15if he gives back what he took in pledge for a loan, returns what he has stolen, follows the decrees that give life, and does no evil, he will surely live; he will not die. 16None of the sins he has committed will be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he will surely live. 17�Yet your countrymen say, �The way of the Lord is not just.� But it is their way that is not just. 18If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and does evil, he will die for it. 19And if a wicked man turns away from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live by doing so. 20Yet, O house of Israel, you say, �The way of the Lord is not just.� But I will judge each of you according to his own ways.� Romans 11:19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. 20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: 21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. 22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. 23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. :peace::peace: Post Reply

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