When God makes us into a new creation we cannot make ourselves the old again. Those who think they can lose their salvation do not understand the character and work of God.
There is a monstrous lie floating around that God does not leaves us but we can walk away. This lie makes no sense at all.
2 Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come."
No man can change himself back to the old nature when he had no power to change himself into the new creation. Those who believe you can walk away from your salvation are depending completely on self rather than Christ. It is not trusting in Christ to believe you have to do anything to get or maintain your salvation.
Those who have trusted in Christ for salvation continue to trust Him to keep them.
Ephesians 1:13-14 "13 In [a]Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also [b]believed, you were sealed in [c]Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is [d]given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory."
Jude 1:24 "Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy,"
2 Thessalonians 3:3 "But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one."
If you believe that you can walk away from Christ after salvation then you do not believe Him when He said this:
Hebrews 13:6 "So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”
Psalm 55:22 "Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved."
Hebrews 13:5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
John 5:24: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
John 6:44-47: “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets, and they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me. Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”
Ephesians 2:1-22 "2 And you WERE dead in your trespasses and sins,
2 in which you FORMERLY walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.
3 Among them we too all FORMERLY lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and WERE by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, MADE US ALIVE together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6 and raised us up with Him, and SEATED US WITH hIM IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES in Christ Jesus,
7 so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that NOT OF YOURSELVES, it is the gift of God;
9 NOT AS A RESULT OF WORKS, so that no one may boast.
10 For we are HIS WORKMANSHIP, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
11 Therefore remember that FORMERLY you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “Uncircumcision” by the so-called “Circumcision,” which is performed in the flesh by human hands—
12 remember that you WERE at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
13 But NOW in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST.
14 For HE Himself IS OUR PEACE, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall,
15 by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace,
16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having PUT TO DEATH THE EMNITY.
17 And He came and preached peace to you who were far away, and peace to those who were near;
18 for THROUGH HIM we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, BUT YOU ARE FELLOW CITIZENS with the saints, and are of God’s household,
20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone,
21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit."
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