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1 | Do you keep salvation? | John 10:28 | FlintyJoe | 207527 | ||
Once Jesus gives someone everlasting life in heaven, no one will be able to take it away from them. When will this occur? It happens after death, when one will “put on” immortality. 1 Cor 15:54-57 states: When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory." "Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?"The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. If a Christian fails to continue following Christ after his dedication and baptism, by serving the God Jesus faithfully served until his death, he will have no one to blame but himself. Christ will not abandon us, but we may abandon him and his Father. God made a covenant with the nation of Israel, but they broke it and their nation was cast off. God has not changed so that “he deals with us differently than he did back in the Old Testament.” “I the LORD do not change.” (Mal 3:6; see also James 1:17) “To the congregation of God that is in Corinth, to you who have been sanctified in union with Christ Jesus, called to be holy ones” the apostle Paul wrote: “Now these things went on befalling them as examples, and they were written for a warning to us upon whom the ends of the systems of things have arrived. Consequently let him that thinks he is standing beware that he does not fall.” (1 Cor 1:2; 10:11-12) “He who stands firm to the end will be saved.” (Matt 24:13) This text does “apply to today.” That principle has always applied. |
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2 | Do you keep salvation? | John 10:28 | BradK | 207532 | ||
Hello Flinty, One has eternal life from the moment they are saved! (John 3:36, 10:28, 1 John 5:12). Neither of these verses say they have eternal life "in heaven". In fact, 1 John 5:12 states quite clearly that: "He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life." The real question is" at what point does someone have the Son? I think that is answered by Rom. 10:9-10 : "that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation." The context of "He who stands firm to the end will be saved.” (Matt 24:13) does not support that this verse is dealing with salvation. It is not. The old "you-can-loose-your-salvation" argument has been hashed, re-hashed, tired and worn out on the SBF. May we avoid this never-ending debate? Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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