If We Are Born Again We Are Secure

I am amazed at how many people I meet believe the sacrifice of Christ on the cross was not enough, they have to walk perfectly to keep their salvation.

 

If they believe that one can lose their salvation, then they must have an answer for these questions;

 

1. How many sins does one have to commit to lose their salvation.

2. How big does the sin have to be that would lose someone their salvation.

3. Which kind of sins will lose us our salvation?

4. Why didn't God tell us exactly which ones would lose our salvation?

 

If Christ's sacrifice on the cross was not enough and we have to work to keep what we didn't earn, then Christ's sacrifice was not sufficient to take away sin. I find it hard to believe that God would not tell us what the sins are that would lose our salvation, if in fact that were true, we could never have the assurance of salvation under those conditions.

 

Romans 5:8 "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

 

The Holy God Who demonstrates His love toward us, shedding His blood for us while we were still sinners, is not One Who would not provide a way for us to keep us the salvation. Since we have no ability to save ourselves, then what would make us think we have the ability to keep it in our own effort by our deeds? 

 

Hebrews 10:1-10

"10 For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near.

2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?

3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year.

4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

5 Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, “Sacrifice and offering You have not desired, But a body You have prepared for Me;

6 In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have taken no pleasure.

7 “Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (In the scroll of the book it is written of Me) To do Your will, O God.’”

8 After saying above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have not desired, nor have You taken pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the Law),

9 then He [d]said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second.

10 By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all."

 

If the sacrifice of bulls and goats were not sufficient to cover sin, what makes mankind think any sacrifice they do would cover sin?

Our good deeds don't save us, nor do good deeds keep us. The saving and the keeping are God's Work in us.

 

Ephesians 2:10 "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them."

 

Ephesians 1:13-14 "13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in [c]Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,

14 who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory."

 

When we become born again we are immediately seated in the heavenlies positionally.

 

Ephesians 2:1-10

"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."

 

It is Christ Who makes us alive and changes us into a new creation, we do none of this, it is all a work of God, not only when we became born again, but after we are born again Christ continues to keep us.

I worry about all those people who say they believe one can lose their salvation, they do not believe God when He said "I will never leave you nor forsake you." There are those who even add to scripture saying "but we can leave Him." God will never leave His children who have been sealed, He will however discipline those who belong to Him.

Hebrews 12:6 "FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES, AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES."

 

2 Timothy 2:13 "If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself."

 

Our salvation is not based on our good deeds or faithfulness, it is entirely based on Christ's faithfulness to us. We don't have to pay to get our salvation it is free, neither do we have to pay to keep it.