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NASB | 2 Corinthians 1:22 who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Corinthians 1:22 it is He who has also put His seal on us [that is, He has appropriated us and certified us as His] and has given us the [Holy] Spirit in our hearts as a pledge [like a security deposit to guarantee the fulfillment of His promise of eternal life]. |
Subject: can you lose your salvation or not? |
Bible Note: Hi, Kalos! It is not I who tells you it is He! It is beautiful to believe! I believe the children are our future... wonderful line from an old song! I believe in God, says... well almost every body... but they create their own version of what that "God" constitutes... for some new age Christians it is a God that loves everything and allows everything including homosexuality and interfaith worship (which allows for homosexuality, atheism, a female divinity, and the acceptance of evil and good as part of God's inner structure...); it is Jesus who tells you to abide in Him and if you refuse to abide you will be cut off and burned! 1I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 6If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. (John 15:1-6) And abiding in Christ does not mean saying "I believe in Christ!:" 15If ye love me, keep my commandments. 21He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. (John 14:15, 21) Saying that we are "saved" or "born again" or that we "believe" does not make it so! Obeying Christ when He Command us to abide in Him or when He Command us to change our ways and be perfect or when He Commad us to stay the course that is what "Believing" means... it never means an easy route to salvation (jumping in line or committing ourselves to sin because we "believe" or because we are "saved..."); if you abide in Me and I in you so that you can bear much fruit... if you do not abide in me... well... just don't go around calling Lord, Lord, because I tell you, "I know you not!" (a little play on words as I paraphrased for your John 15:4-6 and Matthew 7:21-23) Believing without abiding is nothing more than the echo of sound dissipated into nothingness... even the demons believe that Jesus is who He says He is, but they do not obey; they seek to transgress any and all of God's Authority... so does the man who walks with a Bible because he believes... yet, transgresses against God as his will dictates! Was Jesus simply using double talk when He spoke to the disciples? "Abide in me... without me you are nothing!" Does that sound like "Believe in Me (well, I mean 'say you believe in me') and everything is secure... now, go on, go be yourself?" Salvation is free--for the asking! But that "born again" thing is permanent and a person cannot be born into the Light and continue to live in darkness!: 5This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. (1 John 1:5-10) God Bless! Angel |