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1 | Are you onced saved always saved? | John | I-Heaven_bound | 102124 | ||
Are you onced saved always saved? | ||||||
2 | Are you onced saved always saved? | John | khuck | 102486 | ||
Hello I -Heaven bound I was reading at http://johnmyers.com And your question was asked and answered: Bible Question: Can you lose your salvation? Bible Answer: The short answer is no, because according to the Bible, our salvation as believers in Jesus Christ is not ours in the first place, it's God's salvation. Salvation is entirely God's work and not ours, so we can't lose it. When David, the king of Israel, sinned with Bathsheba, he was guilty not only of adultery, but also murder, as he arranged the death of Bathsheba's husband, Uriah, to cover up the origin of the birth of his son with Bathsheba. But David repented of his sins, asked for forgiveness, and recorded his prayer in Psalm 51. And he prays in Psalm 51:12, "Restore to me the joy of Your salvation." David was still God's child, and he knew God was still his heavenly Father, but he knew he had lost the joy of salvation by allowing sin to stop his fellowship with God. But since it wasn't his work, but God's work that saved him, he prayed for God to restore the joy of His salvation. Perhaps the clearest New Testament verses on this truth are written by the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 3:10-15. "According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each take heed how he builds on it. "For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ," 1 Cor. 3:10-11 says. The foundation Paul refers to in verse 10 is the doctrine of grace, which God revealed to him and which he preached. But he notes in verse 11 that even that powerful doctrine rests on the one true foundation, Jesus Christ. There's the foundation of our faith and our salvation, the death of Jesus on the cross to pay for all of our sins. "Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw," 1 Cor. 3:12 says. Here's our part, our works which we do after we are saved, and Paul gives six examples, three unburnable types of works, gold, silver and precious stones; and three types of works which can be burned up, wood, hay and straw. "Each one's work will become manifest; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it is," 1 Cor. 3:13 says. The "Day" Paul refers to is the day of judgment for believers, and what will be tested by God's consuming fire that day will not be our salvation - that is already settled in Christ when we first believed - but our life's works. "If anyone's work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved, yet so as through fire," 1 Cor. 3:14-15 says. If our works are gold, silver or precious stones, they will be refined and made even purer, with any impurities burned away, and we receive rewards for those works. But anything done of less than pure motives of love for Christ will be burned up on that day, like wood, hay and straw, when tested by God's consuming fires of judgment. Yet look at the last words of 1 Cor. 3:15, "but he himself shall be saved, yet so as through fire." The believer who sees his life's works burned up, nothing of any lasting value remaining to receive any rewards, yet because he trusted in Christ, that believer will still be saved, Paul says. But he adds a terrible imagery, "yet so as through fire." I picture someone escaping from a burning building, with even their clothes burned from their body, yet they escape by the skin of their teeth, still alive though naked. That's the most amazing picture of God's grace I can imagine, that He would still save someone who never did a single work for Him, only because he has trusted in Jesus. So what do you think? I personally agree with this -khuck |
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