CAN YOU LOSE SALVATION AND ETERNAL LIFE?
Let's look at the scriptures. Salvation is condtional on...
FAITH *
JOHN 3:14-21 in God's promises *
2 PETER 1:4, REPENTANCE *
MATTHEW 3:2;
MATTHEW 4:17;
LUKE 13:3-5; ACTS 2:38; ACTS 3:19; ACTS 8:32;
PROVERBS 28:9-13 and
CONFESSION *
1 JOHN 1:9;
PROVERBS 28:13 OF SIN *
JAMES 2:10-11;
1 JOHN 3:4 in the NEW COVENANT, are all requirements for the hope of salvation. Those who follow God do not practice sin and those who continue in SIN do not know God *
1 JOHN 3:9;
1 JOHN 2:1-4 and need to be BORN AGAIN. If the HOLY SPIRIT cannot come and go why are we warned to not GRIEVE the HOLY SPIRIT *
EPHESIANS 4:30;
PSALMS 51:10-13.
We GRIEVE God's SPIRIT by SIN *
GENESIS 6:5-6;
PSALMS 119:158 and not BELIEVING and FOLLOWING God's WORD *
PSALMS 95:10-11;
HEBREWS 3:10-11;
HEBREWS 3:17-19. It is ONLY those who BELIEVE and FOLLOW God's WORD to the END that will be saved *
JOHN 8:31-36;
MATTHEW 24:13;
MARK 13:13;
HEBREWS 3:13-14;
HEBREWS 3:6;
COLOSSIANS 1:12-14; 23;
HEBREWS 10:26-27;
HEBREWS 6:4-8;
MATTHEW 13:18-23.
According to the scriptures if we are not CONTINUING to BELIEVE and FOLLOW God's WORD to the END we can GREIVE God's Spirit and depart from the faith *
2 THESSALONIANS 2:1-3;
1 TIMOTHY 4:1.According to God's WORD in the NEW COVENANT, SIN is the transgression of God's ETERNAL LAW (10 commandments) and through the LAW we have the KNOWLEDGE of what SIN is when broken *
1 JOHN 3:4;
ROMANS 3:20;
ROMANS 7:7;
JAMES 2:10-11. No one is "UNDER THE LAW" if they have by God's GRACE repented of their SINS and CONFESSED them and by FAITH Accepted the FREE GIFT of God's SALVATION *ACTS 2:38; 3:19; 8:22;
1 JOHN 1:9;
EPHESIANS 2:13. According to God's WORD it is only those who are CONINUING in KNOWN UNREPENTANT SIN that are "UNDER THE LAW" because they stand guilty before God of breaking it *
ROMANS 3:19 and do not know God and need to be BORN AGAIN *
1 JOHN 2;1-4;
1 JOHN 3:3-10.
According to God's WORD all those who CONTINUE in KNOWN UNREPENTANT SIN will not enter into the KINGDOM of HEAVEN *
HEBREWS 10:26-27 because they reject the gift of God's dear son *
ROMANS 6:23. OBEDIENCE to God's LAW is not how we are saved it is the FRUIT of God's work in us as we BELIEVE and FOLLOW his WORD through love. If our faith has no fruit it is dead *
JAMES 2:18-20; 26 and our tree will be cast down and thrown into the fire *
MATTHEW 3:10; 7:19-20; 13:49-50.
ARE WE IN A SAVED STATE WHILE CONTINUING IN KNOWN UNREPENTANT SIN?
All those who continue in KNOWN UNREPENTANT SIN are not in a saved state before God and can lose their salvation unless they REPENT and BELIEVE and FOLLOW God's WORD.
* HEBREWS 10:26-27;
HEBREWS 6:4-8;
JOHN 2:3-4;
1 JOHN 3:3-10;
REVELATION 14:12;
REVELATION 22:14;
ROMANS 3:31;
ROMANS 13:8-10;
1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-10;
GALATIANS 5:19-21;
EPHESIANS 5:6;
COLOSSIANS 3:6;
REVELATION 21:7-8;
TITUS 2:11-12
There are God's Word showing that we can have the assurance of salvation today as long as we BELIEVE and FOLLOW God's Word always in the "present tense" (now) and is why it is written we have the hope of eternal life now as we believe and follow God's Word...
TITUS 1:2 In
hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
TITUS 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the
hope of eternal life.
COLOSSIANS 1:22-23 [22], In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and blameless and unreproveable in his sight: [23],
If you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel..
TITUS 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the
hope of eternal life.
However, it is only those who ENDURE temptation to the END BELIEVING and FOLLOWING God's Word that receive eternal life.....
MATTHEW 24:13 [12], And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. [13], But
he that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved.
MARK 13:13 [13], And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but
he that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved.
HEBREWS 3:13-14 [13], But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. [14], For we are made partakers of Christ,
if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end
HEBREWS 3:6 [6], But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we,
if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.
JAMES 1:12 [12],
Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love him.
God's Word is full of warnings not to depart the faith and all these things are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world have come.
2 PETER 3:9 [9], The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
What are your thoughts?
May God bless you as you seek him and continue in His Word.
