EXPLANATION:
It’s that simple as
“For they
being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish
their own
righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of
God.” (Romans 10:3)
It’s that simple as
“For by
grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the
gift of
God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9)
It’s that simple as
“But to
him
that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his
faith
is counted for righteousness.” (Romans 4:5)
It’s that simple as
“I do not
frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then
Christ
is dead in vain.” (Galatians 2:21)
It’s that simple as
“To wit,
that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not
imputing their
trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of
reconciliation.
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you
by us: we
pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be
sin for us,
who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in
him.” (2 Corinthians 5:19-21)
SMELL A RAT? WHEN SOMEONE SAYS …
“You can lose God’s free gift of eternal life” you have
to smell a rat.
This will inevitably be spoken by a man, or woman, who wrongly, but
arrogantly
and proudly profess, they have never lost their salvation. Yes, not
even for a
single day in their life!
Look, they might admit to a couple of lapses early on in
their salvation
walk, but they will quickly tell you they immediately got saved again
the
second after that.
AN EXAMPLE OF BOB THINKING HE’S LOST HIS SALVATION
(That’s of course if he is saved)
Bob is in a panic. He thinks he’s currently in a state of
not being
saved because he believes he ‘fell out’ of Jesus because of sin, and he
‘lost
his salvation’ because he got angry without a cause.
HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED.
Bob suddenly realizes and with horror says to himself ….
“Oh no! I’ve lost my salvation! Now I must get saved
again right now! I
‘d better pray.
But before he can the phone rings.
Ring! Ring! Ring!
He answers “Hello, Bob here”
“Hey Bob, it’s John. How are you going?”
“Not too bad John. I think I’ve just lost my salvation.
How are you?”
“Well, what happened last week was unbelievable. I was
going to the
shops, when this bloke pulled out in front of me and … you still there
Bob?
Hello Bob? What’s up?
Unbeknown to John, Bob had suddenly had a heart attack
and dropped dead
on the floor …
or
How about the scenario that a drunk driver crashed his
car into the side
of Bob’s house and instantly killed him before he could say the
salvation
prayer again.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but Dear Reader, you know
what I mean.
QUESTION:
“Will Bob go to heaven before he got saved again?”
I mean he was going to do it, he just got distracted with
John’s phone
call. I guess that’s too bad … he went to hell being in a state of
unrighteousness and sin. Is that how it works?
DEAR READER, CAN YOU SEE HOW SILLY IT GETS?
How about if you’re saved but you have wrong doctrine?
That’s a sin
isn’t it? Surely then you can lose your salvation? Must you have
perfect Bible
knowledge?
What about your temper, anger, and your lack of love,
peace, joy,
long-suffering, goodness and gentleness, not to mention your lack of
faith,
meekness and temperance? They are sins aren’t they?
I mean a man would have to be getting saved twenty times
a day forever
after, in order to get to heaven. I mean how do you get this perpetual
state of
100% holiness and purity so you don’t lose your salvation, so you can
get to
heaven?
WHAT’S WAS BOB’S PROBLEM? WHERE WAS HIS FOCUS?
It was on Bob and his goodness and purity and not on
Christ and his
perfect life. Bob was constantly sticking the spiritual thermometer
into
himself, and that’s a good thing, BUT NOT FOR SALVATION!!!!
IT’S CALLED SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS
It means you are dealing with a man, or woman, who
questions your
salvation because he or she observes you don’t live as holy a life as
he or she
lives. These people are self-righteous!
THERE ARE TWO LIES THE ‘LOSS OF SALVATION’ CROWD BELIEVE.
1. YOU CAN RIP YOURSELF OUT OF CHRIST’S BODY…
after being sealed in it permanently by the Holy Ghost. This means you
have
lost God’s free gift of eternal security. You have been able to take it
off
yourself. So by and act of your will, you can override God’s will even
though
the Lord has said the following:
For whom
he
did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed
to
the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many
brethren. Romans 8:29.
Isn’t it
amazing that you are so pure and holy that your will is greater than
God’s
promise and God’s will? Hello Pentecostals and Methodists … and anyone
else who
holds to this ‘loss of salvation’ error.
Look, John
Wesley was saved and preached nothing but the blood, however after that
the
error of salvation loss crept in. Why? The Methodists were so dedicated
and sin
conscious, that when they sinned, they immediately thought they weren’t
saved.
And of
course out of this doctrinal error grew the Pentecostal and Charismatic
movements in their attempts to be filled with the Holy Ghost and
thereby
eliminate sin from their life. They simply couldn’t understand
Colossians
chapter two and verse eleven.
2. “IF
JESUS IS NOT LORD OF
ALL, THEN HE’S NOT LORD AT ALL”
Furthermore, they will tell you that when you got saved, Jesus was not
your
Lord. They take the position that the “Lord” and “Saviour” are exactly
identical, which they aren’t. They misunderstand the following
scripture
regarding the jailer
“….Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved …” (Acts 16:31).
Paul uses
the word “Lord” in this context to merely correctly identify Christ as
there
were/are many Christs, many Lords and many men called Jesus.
The jailer
could have gone to the wrong saviour if Paul had said “Oh, believe on
Jesus and
thou shalt be saved.” The jailer probably knew men called Jesus or men
who
called other men by the title of ‘Lord’.
HAVING
SPENT SOME TIME IN THE NEW AGE, …
the author of this article knew people involved in this alternative
form of so
called ‘spirituality’ who would actually call upon the name of ‘Jesus’,
‘Jesus
Christ’, ‘the Christ’, ‘the Christ Jesus’, ‘Lord Jesus’, ‘the Lord
Christ’, and
even ‘the light of the Christ and the Holy Spirit’ and so on,
for help
and aid in their spiritual walk, but they would never invoke
the name of
‘the Lord Jesus Christ’ as this only meant one person in the
history of
mankind! And they wouldn’t have a bar of that!
Paul is
simply identifying the person to whom the jailer must go to in order to
be
saved. He is using the three titles to precisely pinpoint the
man. Paul
does not say ‘Jesus Christ’ or ‘the Lord Jesus’ or ‘the Christ’ and so
on.
THE
LORDSHIP SALVATION PEOPLE …
judge
the
way you live your life by their own standards of a perfect life – that
they
live. Furthermore, when you got saved, if you only called on the name
of the
‘Lord’ to save you, you weren’t saved.
They
will
try and get you saved again with his correct title of The Lord
Jesus Christ.
They
believe that if you don’t meet their standards of their standards of so
called
Christian living, you are obviously lost, because if Christ had saved
you, you
would have automatically and completely surrendered to HIM! YOU SHOULD
BE
LIVING LIKE THEM!
SALVATION
IS NOT DISCIPLESHIP
They
have
confused and confounded salvation with discipleship, salvation with
service,
and salvation with submission.
THESE
PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN LORDSHIP SALVATION ARE PROUD AND ARROGANT AND
SELF-RIGHTEOUS FOOLS WHO ARE TRYING TO FORCE YOU TO LIVE LIKE THEY LIVE
OR ELSE
DENY YOUR SALVATION.
In essence
they say if you don’t obey the Lord Jesus Christ like they do, IN ALL
MATTERS
OF FAITH, PRACTICE, WORD and DOCTRINE, you must not be saved. Dear
Reader, they
are completely and utterly wrong!
For we
dare
not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that
commend
themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing
themselves among themselves, ARE NOT WISE. (2 Cor 10:12)
For the
time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but
after their
own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having
itching ears;
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall
be turned
unto fables. (2 Tim 4:3-4)
Harley
Hitchcock
www.AustralianBibleMinistries.com
www.AustralianBibleMinistries.com
