— A Series —
Once Saved, Always Saved, & Being Saved
“Do you believe in ‘Once Saved, Always Saved’”?
That is a pretty common and basic question among Christians these days, and as the believers in Christ, we certainly should believe in that; namely, that our eternal salvation has already been fully secured through the death and resurrection of Christ.
But, if we are willing to receive “the whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27) in the New Testament, we will soon realize that there is also a sense in which we are still being saved (e.g., Rom. 5:10, Phil. 2:12-13, 1 Peter 1:9, 4:17).
How can we reconcile what seem to be two different views of salvation? The answer is, by understanding that, on the one hand, our eternal destiny is already secure in Christ. But, on the other hand, we cannot yet have the assurance that we will be with Christ for His 1,000 year kingdom on the earth; that will be determined by how faithful we are to follow Christ in this age, and will only be finally decided when we as the believers in Christ stand before His judgment seat at the end of this age (2 Cor. 5:10).
And that is what we consider in this series of Brief Notes on the Christian life.
“Let Us Also…Run with Endurance the Race that is Set Before Us”
Do we, like Paul, realize that our Christian life is a race we must run if we are to win the prize?
“Do Not Be Led Astray; God Is Not Mocked”
The false teaching of security without responsibility has frustrated so many believers in their Christian life
The Salvation of the Soul (6)
“Receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls”
The Salvation of the Soul (5)
“The one will be taken and the other left”
The Salvation of the Soul (4)
“Then shall He repay each one according to what he has practiced”
The Salvation of the Soul (3)
“The implanted word…is able to save your souls”
The Salvation of the Soul (2)
Our spirit is saved through our faith in Christ, but our soul is saved through our following of Christ
The Salvation of the Soul (1)
The Lord spoke about “losing” or “gaining” our soul in the next age to His disciples, His believers, not to the unsaved
“The Righteous Man Is Saved with Difficulty”
Only through God’s judgment, His discipline upon us, can we be prepared for the judgment seat of Christ
We Are Still “Being Saved”
…because we are not yet fully conformed to the image of Christ
“Work Out Your Own Salvation”
Why does Paul add that little word?
Being Saved in His Life (2)
The ongoing salvation we have in Christ is absolutely a matter of His divine life working in our inward parts
Being Saved in His Life (1)
The book of Romans shows us that, to be “saved from the wrath” in the coming age, we must first be “saved in His life” in this age
Our Two Basic Problems Before God & How He Deals With Them
“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”
The Human Spirit (3)
The full salvation we have in Christ begins in our human spirit, but it must eventually reach our soul as well
The Human Spirit (2)
Witness Lee used a very down-to-earth example to show the importance, in our walk with the Lord, of knowing the difference between our spirit and our soul
The Human Spirit (1)
We may have a very different view from what the apostle Paul had regarding the importance of our human spirit
One Thousand Years
We must keep in view the coming reign of Christ upon the earth to properly interpret passages on the future reward and discipline of the believers
The Two-Fold Nature of Divine Truth
Only when we see that, throughout the Bible, one side of the truth balances the other, can we properly interpret the Scripture
“One Free In Every Box!”
We should not treat the New Testament the way my friend treated that box of ice cream bars!
Once Saved, Always Saved, & Being Saved (1)
To follow Christ as we should, we must be clear about the ongoing aspect of our salvation