Part 3. Once and for allways
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And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;
and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?
Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies;
who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Just as it is written,
“For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;
We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Three possibilities
Three possibilities
Once you are saved, you can then lose your salvation and be cut off from the saving grace of Christ.
Once you are saved, you cannot lose your salvation.
Those that appeared to be saved and walked away from the faith, were never saved to begin with.
A Look inside
A Look inside
Have you ever seen the cockpit of a commercial plane?
Have you ever seen the cockpit of a commercial plane?
All we have to do is get on the plane. Get on in Memphis, get off in Florida, New York, wherever.
Maybe you know a little about how planes work. Thrust, lift. etc.
But the cockpit is much more complicated.
Can you lose your salvation?
Can you lose your salvation?
John 6:37
John
“All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.
“For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
“This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day.
“For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”
“All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.
“For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
Salvation is God’s work and His work alone through Christ.
Salvation is God’s work and His work alone through Christ.
“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.
Last night we went to a wedding of one of our daughter’s best friend. The wedding was in the back yard of the groom’s mother’s house right off the golf course of the Jonesboro Country Club.
We had an invitation to go there.
That invitation does not mean that today I can go over there and hand out in the back yard drinking lemonade.
The invitation do accept Christ is always open, but that doesn’t mean that tomorrow God will be drawing you.
Lets look at what Paul had to say about it.
Romans 8:28-2
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;
and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.
5 Questions without an answer
5 Questions without an answer
Romans 8:
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies;
Romans 8
who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
Romans 8:
Romans 8:35
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Romans 8:
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Once you are sealed.
In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,
who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.
The most important question is not once you have salvation, can you lose it. The most important question is are you saved?
Has God saved you?
Has God saved you?
Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test?
2 Corinthians
John 10:27-
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;
and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.
“My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
“I and the Father are one.”