Once Saved, Always Saved?

This concept of once saved, always saved, has been around for a long time. Being taught by Jesus Christ and not the church or what man teaches, He began to teach me on this concept this morning and wanted me to share this with you. First of all, you don’t have to believe a word I say. I am not here to tickle your ears, to give you what you want to hear. I only share of what I am being told.

Ephesians 1:³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, ⁴ just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, ⁵ having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, ⁶ to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. What I underlined is what I want to talk about here. First, if you are of the mentality that you are a sinner then you are not of the spirit. Those spiritual blessings in heavenly places don’t concern you, but only for those who are of the spirit. You can’t live from the flesh and from the spirit. you get to choose from which you live from. If you live from the spirit your mind is on the thoughts of the spirit not of the carnal mind. Romans 8:³ For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, ⁴ that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. ⁵ For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. ⁶ For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. The second thing I want to talk about that is underlined in Ephesians 1 is His will. Are you doing your will or His? Are you after the things of this world or after the things in heaven? My question to you is, do you believe you are saved? Romans 10:¹⁰ For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Matthew 12:³⁴ Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ³⁵ A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. ³⁶ But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. ³⁷ For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Read what the Lord has to say about this subject. The sub-title for these scriptures is turn and live. Ezekiel 18:¹⁹ “Yet you say, ‘Why should the son not bear the guilt of the father?’ Because the son has done what is lawful and right, and has kept all My statutes and observed them, he shall surely live. ²⁰ The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself. ²¹ “But if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. ²² None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live. ²³ Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?” says the Lord God, “and not that he should turn from his ways and live? ²⁴ “But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All the righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die. ²⁵ “Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ Hear now, O house of Israel, is it not My way which is fair, and your ways which are not fair? ²⁶ When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity, and dies in it, it is because of the iniquity which he has done that he dies. ²⁷ Again, when a wicked man turns away from the wickedness which he committed, and does what is lawful and right, he preserves himself alive. ²⁸ Because he considers and turns away from all the transgressions which he committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die. ²⁹ Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ O house of Israel, is it not My ways which are fair, and your ways which are not fair? ³⁰ “Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways,” says the Lord God. “Repent, and turn from all your transgressions, so that iniquity will not be your ruin. ³¹ Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israel? ³² For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies,” says the Lord God. “Therefore turn and live!”

Sinner Saved By Grace

This topic is strange to me. How can you be a sinner, saved by grace, when the very thing that you are saved from, you are calling yourself? Jesus came to save sinners, but calling yourself a sinner is saying that you really aren’t saved. Luke 5:³¹ Jesus answered and said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. ³² I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance. Jesus has called you to repent from sins, not turn yourself right back into it. THIS IS MINDBOGGLING!!!! In my up and coming book, I talk about OUR WAR IS AGAINST SIN!!!! These people don’t even resist sin. Hebrews 12:⁴ You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. Sin is our enemy and those who call themselves sinners saved by grace are lukewarm. I’s your faith in Jesus Christ that saves you. Once you are saved, then you will live in Him. Now you live from this faith that is in Jesus as it is written; Romans 1:¹⁷ For in it(the gospel) the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.” If you don’t live by this faith then what do you believe? James 2:¹⁴ What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? ¹⁵ If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, ¹⁶ and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? ¹⁷ Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. ¹⁸ But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. ¹⁹ You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble!

Many don’t even realize that you won’t be judged if you believe or not. It’s your works that you will be judged by! It’s you life lived is what you believe in. Don’t believe me? Read what Jesus has to say about this. Matthew 25:³¹ “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. ³² All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. ³³ And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. ³⁴ Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: ³⁵ for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; ³⁶ I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’ ³⁷ “Then the righteous will answer Him,(the sheep) saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? ³⁸ When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? ³⁹ Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ ⁴⁰ And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’ ⁴¹ “Then He will also say to those on the left hand,(the goats) ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: ⁴² for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; ⁴³ I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’ ⁴⁴ “Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’ ⁴⁵ Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’ ⁴⁶ And these will go away into everlasting punishment, (the goats) but the righteous into eternal life (the sheep).” Revelation 22:¹² “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work. One more to prove my point. Every church that was written in the Book of Revelation was told, “I know your works.“

Be Blessed Friends