2nd Timothy 2: "14 Keep reminding them of these things. Warn them before God against quarreling about words; it is of no value, and only ruins those who listen. 15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth (Bible). 16 Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly. 17 Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, 18 who have wandered away from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and they destroy the faith of some. 19Nevertheless, God’s solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: 'The Lord knows those who are his,' and, 'Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.' "
"ONCE SAVED, ALWAYS SAVED"?
I have come to realize that people have really begun to focus wayyyy too much on this questionable doctrine as well as the one of "when" Jesus will be returning... and I have come up with a comfortable response:
"Why?" Why ask? Why has this become the main focus of topic as of late? Are we not supposed to forget the past, focus on the present and worry not about the future? If we are living our lives according to the will of the Father, then why are we concerned about losing our salvation in the first place?
I believe the devil is working overtime to misdirect our attention from what really matters- living rich, righteous and God-honoring lives while spreading the truth of Christ's gift of salvation to others whom do not even have the gift of salvation at all.
If you are living your life according to the doctrine of "once saved, always saved" then you stand a chance of not living THE LIFE at all and you are not going to be much use to anyone else. You WON'T read your Bible... you WON'T keep in prayer, and you WON'T share the gift YOU have been freely given. Why should you... you're covered. You can go on about your daily life free of all worries and have no need to deal with the stresses and condemnations that come from those you would attempt to share this wonderful gift with. And since you're saved and therefore permanently riding the free train on the Heaven Homebound Express, why should you worry about your sins and your lifestyle at all. Again... you're good. Party On!
Careful... there is a lot at stake here! In fact EVERYTHING is at stake here! Do you really want to mess around and put all your faith in just a couple of scriptures in the Word that just may be being misinterpreted when so many other scriptures say LIVE RIGHTEOUSLY OR ELSE? Obey God's commandments or else.
Folks... stop letting others dictate your faith for you. Stop trusting in MAN to be the supplier of your knowledge and wisdom of Our Beloved Heavenly Father. As I have spent my year studying the Word, one message remains clear throughout- get saved by the blood of Christ, then obey His commandments. Do NOT be in the world- do NOT look like the world- do NOT love the world and its sin. CLEAR. Clarity at its best. So why do so many Christians look just like the world?
Brothers and sisters.... do not compromise the truth... do not compromise your salvation. Jesus came to save us from our sins and He has made it clear... "If you love me, obey my commandments!" (John 14:15). If you are choosing to remain in sin, you don't love Christ. If you don't love Christ... how can you be saved? Stop sinning. You are the ambassaders of the almighty God. STOP BALTANTLY SINNING!
1. Read the Word- fully (Click Here!). Put on the full armor of God daily (Eph 6:10-17)! Some Main scriptures to see if you are TRULY saved are found in this perfectly thorough study that is nothing more than Bible scriptures. Please read:
Are You New In Christ? Are You Truly Saved?
...also, for fighting against the principalities of evil, and preparing yourself daily, check out this study: The Full Armor Of God: Protect Yourself and Your Family Against Evil
2. Test all spirits. (Click Here!)
** 1st John 4:1 "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world."
3. Stop believing EVERYTHING you here- figure it out for yourself. Put some real effort into finding the truth, and the truth YOU WILL FIND! (Click Here!)
** Ephesians 4: " 11 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. 14 As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; 15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love."
** Matthew 7:7 "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:"
4. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling:
** Philippians 2:12b-13 "...work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure"
** Isaiah 55:8-11 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is My Word the goes out from My mouth. It will not return to me empty."
** "GOD'S WAY: To work out your own salvation is to solve by means of going to the very source of our salvation, going into the Word to renew our hearts and minds and to come into His presence with 'fear and trembling.' The fear spoken here in NOT a fear of running from God, but a different type of fear, a 'reverence'. A fear of 'not knowing' that causes us to seek God and His presence. 'Trembling' refers to a shaking due to weakness, but this is also a weakness of higher purpose-a weakness that brings us to depend on God." -found here: GRACE PLACE
Let God, through the blood of Christ, by the guidance of the Holy Spirit of Truth our Lord has given unto all who be saved lead you into a solid foundation of faith that needs NOT ask "Can I Lose My Salvation?"
Your salvation should NEVER be in danger of being lost. If you have to question it- you are probably not saved at all!
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Be Renewed in the Spirit of Your Mind
Bringing Into Captivity Every Thought to the Obedience of Christ
Psalms 10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Psalms 19:14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
Psalms 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Psalms 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Proverbs 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
3 Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
Proverbs 24:9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Matthew 15:18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Mark 7:20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Acts 8:22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
Romans 8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
1 Corinthians 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
Ephesians 4:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
20 But ye have not so learned Christ;
21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
2 Timothy 1:6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Hebrews 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
James 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
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