A few days ago I lost my favorite "mask" I searched high and low for it. After switching to one of the paper ones. When I next did the wash I found that I had left the mask in a pants pocket.
What in the world am I taking about what does this have to do with OSAS?
Salvation cannot be lost in the sense my mask was, but...
Romans 11:21-22
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
If one does not continue in God’s goodness they will be cut off.
John 15:6
6 If 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.
Speaks for itself.
1 Corinthians 15:2
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
If one does not keep in memory what was preached they are not saved.
Galatians 6:9
9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
If one faints they will not reap.
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 unto the end.
If one does not hold fast they are not part of Jesus’ house.
Hebrews 3:14
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
If one is not steadfast until the end they are not partakers of Christ.
Hebrews 10:38-39
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
If one draws back Jesus will have no pleasure in him.
Colossians 1:22-23
22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
If one does not continue in the faith and is moved away from the hope of the gospel, they will not be presented holy, unblameable and unreproveable in God’s sight
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 unto the end.
If we do not hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end we are not God’s house.
Hebrews 3:14
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
If we do not hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end, we are not made partakers of Christ;
To abide in, one must first be in.