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Subject: Re: Can One Lose Salvation?
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 21:55:04 -0600
From: Larry Fisk <lnfisk@cyberhighway.net> To: action@socketis.net
action@socketis.net wrote:
> I don't now know for sure if one can actually lose their salvation, but we can
> definitely be judged by God according to His Word in the end.
> "But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness:
> There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." (Mt. 8:12; 22:13) >
> Your servant in Christ,
> Sandy
My Reply:

Larry Fisk wrote;

I suppose one could lose "their" salvation, if it is based on not sinning ,or even keeping yourself forgiven. The standard of righteousness required is far greater than we can achieve. The reason we don't lose salvation because of our sins, is because Christ dealt with sin once and for all at the cross.

1 Pet 3:18 For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit,

In my own life the law finally did the work it was designed to do,....show me my spiritual condition: dead in in sins, totally helpless to save myself, or even cooperate with God in salvation. I finally stopped living by faith in me to be obedient, and simply said, God I can't live the "Christian life", but you can. Come and live your life in and though me, I am making myself available as a living sacrifice, made Holy and acceptable in your sight, not by what I do, but what Jesus did 2000 yrs. ago on the cross.

He who knew no sin became sin, for me so that I could become the righteousness of God.

I guess if I was still trying to get to heaven standing in my own "filthy rags of righteousness", I would be worried too. But rather, I'm found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is though faith in Christ--the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. (Phil.3:9)

I Jn 5:11-12 11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.(NIV)

If we could lose it because of sin, please don't call it salvation, call it a temporary reprieve, conditional on our perfect obedience. Otherwise eternal life by definition means forever.

Again the only way we could be given a life called eternal is for Christ to deal with what killed us in the first place, sin , once and for all. Check it out in scripture, Christ "took away sin" once for all, He didn't just cover sin. The Jewish system of animal sacrifice, the blood of "bulls and goats", did that, but he offered His (God's) perfect blood, and God was satisfied with the payment.

Heb 9:24-28 24 For Christ did not enter a man-made sanctuary that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God's presence.
25 Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.
26 Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,
28***********so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people*****************;
and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him. (NIV)

Clothed in Christ;

Larry Fisk