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NASB | Luke 6:46 ¶ "Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say? |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 6:46 ¶ "Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not practice what I tell you? |
Bible Question:
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 |
Bible Answer: 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 |