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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: Nobel Kam Aixen Ordered by Date |
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1 | is there security of the believer | Rom 8:39 | Nobel Kam Aixen | 68371 | ||
I have pondered your question carefully before God and I believe he has an answer for you. I trust you will ponder it as well. I do believe that God reveals his truth to us. It does not come through studying, looking up word meanings, arguing, debating, etc. We are to have searched the Scriptures. With that, the Holy Spirit puts it together for us in times of need. The Lord has long ago given me the assurance that I cannot lose my salvation. If you are still open to doubts about keeping yours, I trust the Lord will give you an answer of peace. With that let me say that the Lord in John 15 is speaking not of salvation but of a position of usefulness in the kingdom of God. To be a disciple indeed is to be a follower, a learner, an imitator of our Lord Jesus Christ. In the area of service, as in other areas, he was in perfect fellowship with the Father, in all things well pleasing, and accomplishing the task assigned to him. Many a believer loses that because he is not careful to discern and to do the Father’s will. Whether it is through sin or through neglect of duty, he falls away from that position. To describe this directly one may use Scriptural terms such as testimony and candlestick and being a vessel fit for the Master’s use. That is what is lost. To use an example one might think of King Saul. One may be rejected, cast away, cut off, abandoned by God, if you will, in that God no longer chooses to use him for work in the kingdom. That is a sad situation, supposing that the person wanted to serve in the first place. God knows that some people are satisfied to be saved and do not want to do anything for him. They want to get everything and to give nothing. The Lord does not deny them salvation because of that. The Lord calls on us to give our whole lives to him, and there is much satisfaction and joy in this. We may lose all that, but our salvation is not affected. We may yet be in heaven with no crown. Our works may be all burned up, but we ourselves will be saved from the fire. I trust that you know the Scriptures and realize that all of this is taught. Please think about it and ponder the Scriptures, and may the Lord give you peace. Let us avoid sin because the Lord has put a loathing for it in our hearts. Let us follow the God-given desire to please him, to make him happy. It is he who works in us both to will and to do his good pleasure. Let us not resist him. Let us serve him, not in order to be born again or to remain so, but because we are new creatures with these desires. There is joy in pleasing God and we don’t want to lose that. Please think about what has been said here. The Lord will give you understanding in all these things. |
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2 | is there security of the believer | Rom 8:39 | Nobel Kam Aixen | 68318 | ||
I think what you have shown us is that you are somewhat limited in your abilities. God has no such limits. He is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy. It must be said, however, that salvation is not like getting on a boat. The Lord requires repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. When we turn to him in faith he saves us, and the job is finished. Yes, there are other things required of us after that, but not for salvation. We love him because he first loved us. We serve him because we are saved. Let us, each of us, make sure we are. But we cannot save ourselves. We need him. |
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3 | is there security of the believer | Rom 8:39 | Nobel Kam Aixen | 68275 | ||
Ah! AO: You have given us a big and daunting task, to explain all of those quotations in one post and to show that yet our salvation is not affected. I dare not attempt it. Instead I will ask the question that Paul asked: If God so loved us that he gave to us his Son, will he not also with him freely give us all things? Whatever it takes to keep me safe. His Holy Spirit, his power, his strong hand, his intercessory ministry, his forgiveness, his patience, his respect for the blood of Christ, his disdain for double jeopardy, whatever it takes, I have it. So forgive me if I summarize it all under his love for his blood-bought child. I’ve found a friend, O such a friend He loved me ere I knew him He drew me with the cords of love And thus, he bound me to him And round my heart still closely twine Those ties which naught can sever For I am his and he is mine Forever, and forever I’ve found a friend, O such a friend All power to him is given To guard me on my onward course And bring me safe to heaven The eternal glories gleam afar To nerve my faint endeavor So now to work, to watch, to war But not to worry. Never! It’s all up to him, and he is able. I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him. Therefore I will never worry about losing my salvation. |
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4 | Do I understand correctly? | Rom 8:39 | Nobel Kam Aixen | 68239 | ||
You seem to believe that a person who has been genuinely saved can later lose his salvation. Am I correct? | ||||||
5 | Are you a true believer? | Rom 8:39 | Nobel Kam Aixen | 68226 | ||
So what was there in the person's question, short as it was, to suggest that they were not a true believer or that they were stuck in sin? The person simply presented two passages, one saying that nothing can separate us from the love of God and another saying that a servant was cast into outer darkness. | ||||||
6 | is there security of the believer | Rom 8:39 | Nobel Kam Aixen | 68207 | ||
Please do not allow the plain teaching that the believer is eternally secure to be cast in doubt by an unclear statement about a servant in a parable. We do know that Jesus has promised eternal life to those who believe. This is based on the fact that they have repented of sin and does not yet depend on their future faithfulness and service. We do not know what the earthly master in Matthew 25 meant to be done to his unprifitable servant. But it was an earthly consequence. He as a man did not have the power to cast anyone into hell. And our Lord will not cast his servant out of heaven even if his works on earth have been null or useless. They may be burned up but, he will be saved from the fire. |
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7 | Amplified a version or a something else? | Bible general Archive 1 | Nobel Kam Aixen | 68202 | ||
Amplified Bible © Copyright 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 The Lockman Foundation. The Amplified Bible was the first Bible project of The Lockman Foundation. It attempts to take both word meaning and context into account in order to accurately translate the original text from one language into another. The Amplified Bible does this through the use of explanatory alternate readings and amplifications to assist the reader in understanding what Scripture really says. Multiple English word equivalents to each key Hebrew and Greek word clarify and amplify meanings that may otherwise have been concealed by the traditional translation method. Copyright 1995-2002 Gospel Communications International Box 455, Muskegon, MI 49443 1-231-773-3361 |
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