1. Salvation is in Christ alone-we just plainly RECEIVED IT BY REAL AND SINCERE REPENTANCE AND FAITH IN CHRIST ALONE.
*[[Joh 14:6]] KJV* Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
*[[Act 4:12]] KJV* Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
*[[Joh 1:12-13/KJV]]* %v 12% But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: %v 13% Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
*[[Joh 3:16-18/KJV]]* %v 16% For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. %v 17% For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. %v 18% He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
*[[Mar 1:14-15/KJV]]* %v 14% Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, %v 15% And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
2. We in our effort can not MAINTAIN it. It is CHRIST THAT WILL ENSURE WE ARE SAVED TO THE END. HE AND THE FATHER HOLDS US. OUR TWO NATURES PLAYS THE RULE AND HOW WE DECIDE. WE SIN BECAUSE OF THE OLD NATURE.
*[[Phi 1:6]] KJV* Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
*[[1Co 1:8-9/KJV]]* %v 8% Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. %v 9% God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
*[[Joh 10:28-29/KJV]]* %v 28% And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. %v 29% My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
*[[Eph 1:13-14/KJV]]* %v 13% In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, %v 14% Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
*[[Rom 8:1]] KJV* There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
*[[Joh 3:36]] KJV* He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
*[[Rom 8:35-39/KJV]]* %v 35% Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? %v 36% As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. %v 37% Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. %v 38% For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, %v 39% Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1Th 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
1Pe 1:4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
3. THE TRULY SAVED AND THE FAKE. SIN OF THE SAVED OLD NATURE, OR SIN BECAUSE HE NEVER ACTUALLY SINCERELY RECEIVED CHRIST AS SAVIOR AND TRUST OTHER MEANS LIKE GOOD WORKS, ETC. AND IS FAKE.
A. Fake SALVATION is salvation not in Christ alone but by good works or personal merit.
Good works is after SALVATION and is the proof that you have been saved.
1Jn 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Titus 1:16, "They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed."
1 John 1:6, "If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth."
1 John 2:4, "The one who says, 'I have come to know Him,' and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him."
1 John 4:20, "If someone says, 'I love God,' and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen."
Salvation is never by our Works but by Jesus in the Cross. Fake SALVATION is by personal works.
*[[Rom 4:2-7/KJV]]* %v 2% For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. %v 3% For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. %v 4% Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. %v 5% But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. %v 6% Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, %v 7% Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
*[[Rom 11:6]] KJV* And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
*[[Gal 2:16]] KJV* Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
*[[Eph 2:9]] KJV* Not of works, lest any man should boast.
*[[Eph 2:9]] KJV* Not of works, lest any man should boast.
B. SALVATION is never a Reward but a gift. Those who Who are saved can still sin in the body, in the old nature.
*[[Rom 7:18-20/KJV]]* %v 18% For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. %v 19% For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. %v 20% Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
*[[Rom 7:23-25/KJV]]* %v 23% But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. %v 24% O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? %v 25% I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
*[[1Jn 1:8-10/KJV]]* %v 8% If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. %v 9% If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. %v 10% If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Psa 51:12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
St Peter: *[[Mar 14:70-72/KJV]]* %v 70% And he denied it again. And a little after, they that stood by said again to Peter, Surely thou art one of them: for thou art a Galilaean, and thy speech agreeth thereto. %v 71% But he began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not this man of whom ye speak. %v 72% And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he wept.
4.CAN THE ETERNALLY SAVED ABUSE it.
They may try but the CONSEQUENCES is so high and may cause pain and physical distruction and discipline and lose the Joy of SALVATION.
Psa 51:12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
5. DOES GOD TOLERATE SIN OF THE ETERNALLY SAVED? WHAT'S THE CONSEQUENCES THAT WE FEAR TO SIN.
NEVER DOES GOD TOLERATES SIN. IT IS THE CAUSE OF HIS DEATH AND SACRIFICE. TO THE SAVED HE PURIFIES THEM WITH HIS BLOODAND WITH DISCIPLINE OF THE BODY TO TRAIN US TO BE DISCPLINED.
"CHASTEN" verb
- To punish (in order to bring about improvement in behavior, attitude, etc.); to restrain, moderate
- To make chaste; to purify.
- To punish or reprimand for the sake of improvement; to discipline.
- To render humble or restrained.
*[[Psa 89:30-35/KJV]]* %v 30% If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; %v 31% If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; %v 32% Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. %v 33% Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. %v 34% My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. %v 35% Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
*[[2Sa 7:14]] KJV* I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
*[[Heb 12:5-11/KJV]]* %v 5% And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: %v 6% For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. %v 7% If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? %v 8% But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. %v 9% Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? %v 10% For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. %v 11% Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
*[[Job 5:17]] KJV* Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
*[[Pro 3:11-12/KJV]]* %v 11% My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: %v 12% For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
*[[Rev 3:19]] KJV* As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
6. IF(HYPOTHETICAL) SALVATION CAN BE LOST, CAN IT BE EVER RESTORED?
*[[Heb 6:4-6/KJV]]* %v 4% For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, %v 5% And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, %v 6% If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
7. CAN A MAN BORN BE UNBORN? NEVER!
*[[Joh 3:3]] KJV* Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
1Pe 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
1Pe 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
1Jn 2:29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him. note View more
1Jn 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
1Jn 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1Jn 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
1Jn 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
8. WHAT'S THE SIGNIFICANCE OF GOOD WORKS, IF NOT FOR SALVATION?
Mat 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
*[[2Ti 3:16-17/KJV]]* %v 16% All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: %v 17% That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
WORKS CONFIRM OUR FAITH
*[[Jas 2:21-23/KJV]]* %v 21% Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? %v 22% Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? %v 23% And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
Mat 10:41 He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.
Mat 10:42 And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.
Mat 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
Mar 9:41 For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.
Luk 6:23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
Luk 6:35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
*[[1Co 3:7-9/KJV]]* %v 7% So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. %v 8% Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. %v 9% For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
*[[1Co 3:11-15/KJV]]* %v 11% For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. %v 12% Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; %v 13% Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. %v 14% If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. %v 15% If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
Heb 11:26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
9.WHAT REWARDS AWAITS THE FAITHFUL?
2Jn 1:8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
1Co 9:25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
Phi 4:1 Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
1Th 2:19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
2Ti 2:5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
2Ti 4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
Jas 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
1Pe 5:4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
Rev 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Rev 3:11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
10. WILL GOD ACCOUNT THOSE WHO DISOBEY IN THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST?
Rom 14:10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
2Co 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
Romans 14: 12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
