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1 | Salvation is a gift to be accepted | Luke 6:46 | jalanlambert | 141082 | ||
Angel, How many times have you been saved today? For we know from scripture that God can't look upon sin. And I believe you will agree with me that we all sin each day, either by committing sin or omitting to do what God lays on our hearts. I believe that salvation is a gift from God to be accepted. Scripture says that God chastens His children. If we lose our salvation when we sin, then who is it that God chastens? One single sin separates us from God. Why do people not tell All, that will hear, that they have been born again everytime they get saved again, and again? Isn't salvation the second or third time just as important as the first? So I ask you again, how many times in your christian walk have you been saved? In Love, JAL |
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2 | Salvation is a gift to be accepted | Luke 6:46 | JCrichton | 141135 | ||
Hi, JAL! You are so correct we sin through willful acts and through omission, daily... some of us almost incessantly! I liken our Salvation to the Promise: * both eternal * both free Gifts * both greater than the object they comprise (man) * both Perfect * both perfecting the intended object * both secured by God * both inclusive of all who Believe * both conditional! The people of Israel were granted Salvation through the Promise... clearly, God would never take back His Promise! Those who Believe in Jesus are granted Salvation through Jesus Sacrifice on the Cross--clearly, God would never take back Christ's Sacrifice in our stead! Yet both Yahweh and Jesus warn that it is not the object of Salvation that merits Salvation but that God is Willing to Save! Both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament God calls on man to repentence and to abide in Him! It is not a security blanket that is being offered! It is not a contractual obligation that binds God to Save man! It is a Gift given to those who willingly accept God as their Lord and Savior! A Covenant where God agrees to be our God and we agree to be His people. But if we willfully choose to live in the flesh... if we, like the people of Israel, turn our backs to God (rejecting His Gift, refusing to humble ourselves to His Authority, refusing to repent from our sins, refusing to ask His forgiveness), how can we expect to hold Him accountable for our Salvation! Christ did not come to grant us easy passage into the Kingdom of God! His Sacrifice was not to enable us to sin and rebel against God with impunity... He came to bridge the gap between sin and God, this is why John tells us that if we confess our sins He is Just and willing to forgive us! (1 John 1:9) "So I ask you again, how many times in your christian walk have you been saved?" When I wake up till I fall asleep Jesus Christ is called on to Save me from the world, from Satan, and from myself countless numbers of times! I am Saved by His Grace even when asleep--as I some times must battle evil in my subconscious state and I call on to Jesus or read the Holy Scripture in order to push back Satan or his minions! Salvation is not a state of having! Salvation is a state of receiving! Jesus saw this state of confusion when He called us to abide in Him... when He succinctly made it known that without Him we are nothing! (John 15:1-6) Paul tells us to put away the old nature and to put on Christ! (Ephesians 4:17-32) Our freedom in Christ is not to continue a life of sin but to submit our bodies to God: 12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. 14For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. Slaves to Righteousness 15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey–whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. 18You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. 19I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to everincreasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. 20When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. 21What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! 22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. 23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:12-23) Paul is not speaking to unbelievers, attempting to convince them to join the fold... he is speaking to Believers (those who have heard Jesus' Gospels and have accepted Him as their Lord and Savior and have been baptized and have become part of the fold); clearly, Paul is not assuring them that they can sin because their salvation has been guaranteed; quite the contrary! He is reminding them that they are to walk in the Light in order to claim that they are of the Light! (1 John 1:7; 2:10) God Bless! Angel |
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3 | Salvation is a gift to be accepted | Luke 6:46 | chris4him | 141158 | ||
Hi, Angel "We know that no one who is born of God sins; but He who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him." 1Jn 5:18 I had a hard time with that scripture when I first read it. Man I try not to sin but I do, so how can I be born of God? Then I read earlier in this book "Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin because he is born of God. By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious; anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother." 1Jn 3:7-10 The key word for me in this portiion of scripture is "practice". When I was in the world I practiced sin and was good at it. Now that I'm born of God I practice righteousness. And just like any physician who practices medicene, some are better than others. That doesn't make the ones who aren't as good loose their title, they're still physicians. Just as those who practice righteousness, some are better at it than others, that doesn't mean our heavenly Father loves them any less, or that their not born of God. The differnece between a Christian who is born again and one who is not is the heart felt sorrow when we do sin and our obedience to seek forgiveness (1jn 1:9) God no longer sees our sin if we're born of God because of the blood of Jesus. Praise Him!! God bless, Chris |
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4 | Salvation is a gift to be accepted | Luke 6:46 | mark d seyler | 141170 | ||
1 John 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.” Being born again, we do not commit sin, according to this verse. This is one of those times that the Bible says something that seems opposite to what I see in my life. But let the Bible be true and my vision faulty. I have been taught that this verse speaks of the continuing practice of sin, and not to commit single sinful acts. Greek poieo poi-ay-oh is translated commit. It is variously translated as: “you cannot make one hair white or black” “when you do your alms” “I say to my servant, do this, and he does it” “have you not read what David did when he was hungry?” This word literally means to commit a single act. There must be something more to this verse that says the born-again do not commit single acts of sin. There are three Greek words commonly translated “do”. They are “katergazomai” which is to perform an action or series of actions to accomplish a purpose, “prasso” which is to repeatedly or habitually perform an action or series of actions, and poieo, to commit a single act. This is the heart of being born again. I am now something other than what I was. God has literally separated me from my sin, from all sin, now and forever. He had to. It is only mankind who sees some sin worse and some better. In the eyes of God it is all the same. James 2:10 “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.” Neither quantity nor a perceived “depth of depravity” make any difference. What difference is there if I sin once or ten million times? There is now no condemnation. That is not because sin stopped being wrong. It is because I am no longer in sin. I began life in a body of death (Romans 7:24), with a dead spirit. I am now a living spirit, though still in that body of death (Romans 8:10). When I receive the redemption of my body (Romans 8:23), I will be a living spirit in an incorruptible heavenly body (I Corinthian 15:48-54). When I go to be with Jesus, by death or by rapture, my spiritual status will not change. My body will be changed, by I already have my new spirit. Romans 6:4 “Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” In the Bible, I am no longer identified with my body of death, but I am identified with my living spirit, as I share in the life of Christ, Who is our life (Colossians 3:4). 1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. 1 John 5:18 “We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.” 2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” We have been reborn, and are now something completely different, born into eternal life. We have a new nature. We are not saved by the strength of our faith, we do not keep our salvation by the endurance of our faith. If that were true, when we got to heaven, it would be by our works. We are saved by faith that comes from Jesus, we are kept by the power of God through faith. The faith that is in us is the operation of His power in us. We are not saved because we hold our faith to the end, we are saved with faith that lasts. Again, I must stress: True re-birth results in a transformed life. If our lives do not show change, and we continue in a sinful lifestyle, and not in a life characturized by obedience to Christ, we should question strongly whether or not we have truly submitted to Christ. Love in Christ, Mark |
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5 | Salvation is a gift to be accepted | Luke 6:46 | kalos | 141173 | ||
"deliberately, knowingly, and habitually" In 1 John 3, the key words are: "[deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin" and "he cannot practice sinning." This phrase conveys the idea of habitual sinning (see 1 John 3:4,6). The emphasis here is on the first part of v. 9: "No one born (begotten) of God [deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin". 1 John 3:6-10 (Amplified) 6 No one who abides in Him [who lives and remains in communion with and in obedience to Him—deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] commits (practices) sin. No one who [habitually] sins has either seen or known Him [recognized, perceived, or understood Him, or has had an experiential acquaintance with Him]. 7 Boys (lads), let no one deceive and lead you astray. He who practices righteousness [who is upright, conforming to the divine will in purpose, thought, and action, living a consistently conscientious life] is righteous, even as He is righteous. 8 [But] he who commits sin [who practices evildoing] is of the devil [takes his character from the evil one], for the devil has sinned (violated the divine law) from the beginning. The reason the Son of God was made manifest (visible) was to undo (destroy, loosen, and dissolve) the works the devil [has done]. 9 No one born (begotten) of God [deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin, for God’s nature abides in him [His principle of life, the divine sperm, remains permanently within him]; and he cannot practice sinning because he is born (begotten) of God. 10 By this it is made clear who take their nature from God and are His children and who take their nature from the devil and are his children: no one who does not practice righteousness [who does not conform to God’s will in purpose, thought, and action] is of God; neither is anyone who does not love his brother (his fellow believer in Christ). |
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6 | Salvation is a gift to be accepted | Luke 6:46 | mark d seyler | 141181 | ||
Hi Kalos, I appreciate the Amplified Bible for it's elucidation on some points, however, regarding your note "The emphasis here is on the first part of v. 9: "No one born (begotten) of God [deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin", these words are not in the greek text, and change the plain meaning of the words written. This verse plainly says that the one who is born again does not commit a single act of sin. If the Holy Spirit wanted to refer to the practice of sin, He could have used that word (prasso), but He didn't. Again, I understand this to refer to the fact that we are given a new nature, not that our flesh has been improved. Our flesh continues in its sinful nature, but we are now no longer identified by our sinful flesh nature. We are identifed by our new nature. This is also the point of Romans 7. Love in Christ, Mark |
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