Those who think one can lose their salvation are often also
those who believe in divorce and remarriage.
When we operate as though we have to endure through our own
strength to keep our salvation, then it would follow that we do not have faith
to believe we can endure in a difficult situation, through the Holy Spirits
help and direction, or that God makes us one in marriage.
Belief in the loss of ones' salvation and bailing out of
marriage go hand in hand. Those who think you can lose your salvation do not
believe Christ changed them, saved them and keeps them. Just as they do not
believe Christ made two people one in marriage.
They think they are keeping their own salvation by their own
efforts and they think they are making their own marriage by their own vows.
These same people do not believe that God made two people
into one by His power outside the realm of human effort. They see everything
from the perspective of human endeavor, rather than spiritual works of God.
Which men have made two people one in marriage or makes a
believer into a new creation? Christ did that, man had no part in it.
Ephesians 2:10
"10 FOR WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP, created in Christ Jesus
unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in
them."
Mark 1:8-10
"8 I indeed baptized you with water, but He will
baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” 9 It came to pass in those days that Jesus
came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan . 10 And
immediately, coming up from[a] the water, He saw the heavens parting and the
Spirit descending upon Him like a dove."
It is interesting to me that many, if not most people who
believe one can lose their salvation and endorse divorce and remarriage also
love outer miracles that everyone can see. They do not walk by faith in
marriage, in salvation or miracles.
2 Corinthians 5:1-5: Assurance of the Resurrection
"1 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is
destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in
the heavens."
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed
with our habitation which is from heaven,
3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found
naked.
4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not
because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be
swallowed up by life.
5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who
also has GIVEN US THE SPIRIT AS A GUARANTEE.
6 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at
home in the body we are absent from the Lord. 7 For we walk by faith, not by
sight. 8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body
and to be present with the Lord.
So, in summary, those who are not confident in the works of
God are feverishly working to keep their own salvation, depending on human
effort for their marriage and requiring miracles everyone can see to maintain
their faith, which is really lack of faith.
I have faith that God made my husband and I into new
creations when Christ answered our call of repentance to become born again.
I have faith that when we went before God to become married,
He made us into one flesh, no outer signs of that union were necessary for me
to know what God did.
I have faith that God is working even when I don't witness a
miracle with my eyes. I know that God is working all the time on our behalf,
whether I can see the results or not.
Romans 10:17
"So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the
word of God."
2 Corinthians 5:7
"7 For we walk by faith, not by sight."
Which one of these verses tell us to make sure we can see
with our eyes to have faith?
