Question: “CAN A
CHRISTIAN
LOSE
THEIR SALVATION?”
Answer: We’ve all
seen the 
fifty
scripture verses as to why
a person can’t lose their salvation and these are extremely
valuable.
But there
is
a dilemma for the Christian. Saved people get upset because they can’t
live a
perfect life without sinning and hence say “Well if I’ve been saved,
why then
do I keep on sinning? Surely this means I’ve lost my salvation?”
Paul
explains that a saved person is made up of two people. There is
that
part of him that delights in the law of God after the inward man
(Rom
7:22) but also there is that part which brings him into captivity
to the law
of sin in his members (his body) (Rom 7:23). Paul concludes that with
the mind I serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin (Rom
7:25)
Have you heard of the phrase “A dog has fleas to let it know that it is
still a
dog?” Similarly, God has his plan to allow a Christian the option of
sinning
just to let him know he has not yet received the sinless state of a
glorified
body.
In reading Romans 6:3-11,
a Christian gets confirmation of their eternal
security in spite of their continuing sins.
3
Know ye not, that so many of us as were
baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
This is not
water baptism, but a spiritual
baptism by the Holy Ghost that spiritually places a believer into
the death
of Christ when he believes the gospel (Eph
4:5; Rom 6:3).
4 Therefore
we are buried
with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised
up from
the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should
walk in
newness of life.
The new
man/the inward man, that never sins, is
born again and walks with a new life. The Christian’s old nature has
been
crucified on the cross with Christ.
5 For
if we have been planted
together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the
likeness
of his resurrection:
This is a
spiritual, not physical, resurrection for
the Christian
6 Knowing
this, that our old
man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed,
that
henceforth we should not serve sin.
A
Christian has been delivered from the power of
continually sinning.
The
question then arises for the Christian, who has
a particular stronghold of sin in their life “How badly do I
want to be
rid of it?”. God will deliver but old habits must be given over and
many
Christians are not ready for this to happen. “Lord, please deliver me
from this
evil, but don’t ask me to totally hand over my life!”
8 Now if we
be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also
live with him:
This is
spiritual at the moment. Christ sits at the
right hand of God the Father in heaven, and Christians are spiritually
in
Christ.
9 Knowing
that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more;
death hath no more dominion over him.
Similarly,
a Christian being spiritually in Christ,
will also die no more.
10 For in
that he died, he died unto sin once: but in
that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11 Likewise
reckon ye also
yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus
Christ
our Lord.
Dear Reader, can you see this?
In
summary, as Christians, we have been spiritually
put into Christ’s death.
Now, as
Christ can die no more, we will also no
more die spiritually.
Indeed,
just as Christ has been raised from the
dead, we also have been spiritually raised into life, even though we
are
trapped in a body of sin of which we daily groan to be rid of.
This means that spiritually speaking, a CHRISTIAN CAN NO LONGER DIE AND HAS ETERNAL SECURITY AND SALVATION.
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