I've always wondered about the once saved always saved. I am horrible at finding Bible Verses, but I have heard many quote Bible Verses and say that just because one believes they are saved, does that truly mean they are? I have always heard too that once your name is written in the Book of Life that it can never be erased. This may be true,
What I am talking about isn't once saved always saved, though it does have application there, but how we are saved, by whom and for what reason. We are saved through faith in the person and work of Christ alone. It is He who has saved us by His life, death and resurrection. We are saved because God has wrapped up His glory in sovereign mercy. We are saved because it glorifies God. Christ is the only one whom God accepts and He accepts us in Him. Christ alone is the only one with whom God has said He is well pleased and He is well pleased with us only in Him. United to Christ, hid in Him if you will, we are as holy and as righteous as God's Son. When He died he died under the penalty of sin as the substitute and Surety of His people. The Scripture says that He put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. It says He purged our sin ans when He had finished He sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on High. He sat down because the work was done. When you purge something you completely remove it. No trace of it is left. That is what Christ did. But that isn't all He did. He lived a perfectly righteous life for me. One which God says is righteous and will accept. He didn't need a righteousness but I did. In Him I am as righteous as God's Son. In my place He earned all that God gives to His people. All that God has for a believer is in Him, by Him and through Him. We get all that Heaven is, all the rewards, and all the glorious things promised because He earned them not because we do. He is my wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption. If I have Him I don't need anything else. Faith in Christ isn't using His name as a good luck charm or to get something from God. It is seeing in Him alone, without our help or works, everything that God expects of me and everything God has for me. Whether I fall or whether I stand fast God accepts me because of Christ alone. What I do or don't do cannot change how God loves Christ or me in Him. It cannot change how God deals with me in Him and it cannot earn me anything that Christ hasn't already earned for me. The entire motive of the believer is to serve Him and glorify Him out of love for Him. Anyone who serves Him seeking to keep himself saved doesn't yet know Him or trust Him. Anyone who serves Him or works in any way to get something from Him doesn't yet know what it is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. They are still looking to themselves in some way.
but when we get to Heaven and if I were to die with unforgiven sins, what would happen? I and I don't believe anyone else can answer that question but God and I personally don't want to risk it and find out.
It is real simple, if you die with unforgiven sin you are condemned to eternal destruction and misery. God doesn't forgive our sin when we confess it. He forgave it when Christ died. All of my sin, past, present and future is already gone. My record is clean and will remain so because Christ so thoroughly put away my sin. Because of Christ I have nothing to fear from God. I will stand at judgement day without fear because Christ has already been judged in my place. He didn't just bear some of my sin in His own body on the tree but all of it. God now calls me holy, a chaste virgin, undefiled and perfectly righteous through Christ my Savior.
I hope you don't think I am trying to come off as trying to be perfect in Gods eyes,
Every believer is perfect in God's eyes. He is so because Christ is perfect in God's eyes.
because I believe we all fall short.
We fall short but Christ didn't.
I don't believe I receive special attention from God because I ask forgiveness so much (in fact I have laughed and have said to my mom God is probably wishing I would leave him alone, just for a little bit LOL).
Every believer receives special attention from God because He loves His Son and us in Him. We can come boldly to the throne, the place of authority and power, and find grace to help in time of need which is always.
I believe I am one of the worse sinners out there. I live with guilt every single day for the way I have lived my life and also the thoughts I continue to have although I am trying to be a totally different person.
Hate what you are and do by nature but trust Christ and leave the guilt. He bore the guilt in our place. He has so completely finished the work that guilt is gone. You will never be able to feel sorry enough or to repent enough to ease the guilt. All you need do is see in Christ that God is satisfied with you in Him.
I don't know, maybe I am trying to make up for the way I was, but in all honesty, I ask for forgiveness without even having to think about it. When I realize I said or did something wrong it's like I feel chatised and ask for forgiveness automatically.
There is nothing wrong with continually running to Christ for any reason.
So I personally don't think I can do anything I want, been there, done that.
It depends on what you want to do. I don't want to sin but I do. I don't want to serve myself in any way but I do. I want to be holy. I want to be totally consecrated and committed to Him. I do what I don't want and don't do what I want. Like Paul I cry who shall deliver me from this body of death? I thank God by Christ because He is all that God requires of me. Though the old man plagues me daily I do not despair or become discouraged. I rest in the knowledge that Christ has already done everything I need and is all I need now.
At the end of the night when I'm saying my prayers I do ask God to forgive me for anything that I might not have known I sinned against. So I believe at the end of the night, yes all my sins have been forgiven. Although I do find myself asking for forgiveness over and over for the same sin which was in the past.
If you are in Him they were all forgiven 2000 years ago. I can lay my head down and sleep in peace not because I confessed my sins but because I trust what Christ did for me.
I don't think you are being confrontational and I hope you don't think I am either. I guess I am trying to explain why I ask forgiveness so much.
I have a VERY difficult getting out what I mean to say, sometimes it comes out the complete opposite of what I want to say LOL, so please forgive me if anything up there doesn't make sense LOL
God Bless
Melissa
It all makes sense. I can sometimes come across as confrontational when I don't intend to. Especially when I go against what most folks naturally believe or have been taught all their lives.
