Grace Has a Name

[BrotherJJ]

Yes, presently. It is not about tomorrow. It is about this very moment. If you are believing/obeying, and loving God this very moment, you are being saved.

If a person is not still believing, obeying, and loving God this very moment, he is not being saved. He is perishing.

1 Corinthians 1:18
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

You believe in easy salvation. This is deception. Your belief contradicts God's word. The road/gateway to eternal life is difficult and few find it.

Matthew 7:14
For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

Luke 13:23-27
And some one said to him, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?” And he said to them, 24 “Strive to enter by the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. 25 When once the householder has risen up and shut the door, you will begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us.’ He will answer you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’ 26 Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ 27 But he will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you come from; depart from me, all you workers of iniquity!’

Jesus saves only his true followers. His true followers listen to him, and they imitate him in his obedience to his Father until death. Philippians 2:8, Romans 6:16

Jesus doesn't save the people who merely pretend they are serving him but privately reject him by their disobedience to his commandments.

Matthew 7:19-23
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus you will know them (my true followers) by their fruits.
21 “Not every one who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you evildoers.’

The passages you quoted (Matt 7, Lk 13, Rom 6, Phil 2, etc.) are all about identifying false professors, not about born‑again believers losing eternal life. Jesus says of the false professors in Matthew 7: ""I NEVER knew you."" Not I knew you once but stopped knowing you. Never. That's not a saved person losing salvation -that's an unsaved person who never believed the gospel to begin with.

The contrast in Scripture is always between: those who believed & were sealed (Eph 1:13–14; John 5:24) & those who never believed (John 8:24 & Matt 7:21–23).

1 Corinthians 1:18 doesn’t teach loss of salvation. ""Being saved"" is the present experience of salvation's power, not the future verdict. The same Paul who wrote that also wrote that the believer has eternal life now (Rom 6:23), is justified now (Rom 5:1), is sealed now (Eph 1:13) & shall never perish (Jo 10:28).

The narrow gate passages describe how few actually believe the gospel & not how many believers lose salvation. Jesus says the false professors ""never"" belonged to Him. The saved are those who entered through the narrow gate by faith, not by performance.

The issue isn't ""easy salvation."" The issue is whether salvation is by Christ's finished work or by our fluctuating obedience. Titus 3:5–7 says God saved us ""not by works of righteousness which we have done,"" but by the Hoy Spirit's regeneration, renewal & sealing. Ephesians 1 says the moment you heard & believed the gospel, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit >0 God's guarantee, not yours.

If salvation depends on ongoing perfect obedience, then it's no longer grace (Rom 11:6).

If eternal life can be lost, it was never eternal.

 

[Jan001]

If eternal life can be lost, it was never eternal.

Neither you nor I have already received eternal life.

We have the hope of eternal life while we are alive here on earth. We haven't already received it. Titus 3:7

We can't literally receive eternal life until after we die and are judged worthy to receive it. Ephesians 4:1, Colossians 1:10

John 3:36
He who believes in the Son has eternal life; he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God rests upon him.

To believe in God requires obeying him.

This is a righteous work!