but faith can be lost and that is what is critical......
WRONG!
Counterfeit Faith can be LOST, but NOT GENUINE FAITH.
1 John 2:19 (HCSB)
19 They went out from us, but they did not belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. However, they went out so that it might be made clear that
none of them belongs to us.
THOSE WHO APPEAR TO HAVE FALLEN AWAY, WERE NEVER BORN AGAIN IN THE FIRST PLACE.
1 Peter 1:3-6 (HCSB)
3 Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to His great mercy, He has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead
4 and
into an inheritance that is imperishable, uncorrupted, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.
5
You are being protected by God’s power through faith for a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
6 You rejoice in this, though now for a short time you have had to struggle in various trials
John 10:26-30 (HCSB)
26
But you don’t believe because you are not My sheep.
27
My sheep hear My voice, I know them, and they follow Me.
28
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish—ever! No one will snatch them out of My hand.
29
My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
30 The Father and I are one.”
IT IS NOT ETERNAL IF YOU CAN LOSE IT.
John 3:3-7 (HCSB)
3 Jesus replied,
“I assure you: Unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
4 “But how can anyone be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked Him. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born?”
5 Jesus answered,
“I assure you: Unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
6
Whatever is born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7
Do not be amazed that I told you that you must be born again.
IF YOU ARE BORN AGAIN, THE HOLY SPIRIT GIVES YOUR HUMAN SPIRIT
ETERNAL LIFE.
ONLY BORN AGAIN BELIEVERS GO TO HEAVEN.
Romans 11:6 (HCSB)
6 Now if by grace, then it is not by works; otherwise grace ceases to be grace.
OBEDIENCE IS NOT PART OF SALVATION, IT IS PART OF OUR LOVE FOR HIM. OUR LOVE FOR HIM, SPAWNS OUT OF HIS LOVE FOR US, THAT LOVE THAT THE MOMENT THE HOLY SPIRIT ENTERS OUR HEARTS (HUMAN SPIRIT), HE POURS INTO OUR HEARTS.
Romans 5:5 (HCSB)
5 This hope will not disappoint ⌊us⌋, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
SALVATION happens the MOMENT the HOLY SPIRIT ENTERS YOUR HEART after you Genuinely Repent, RECEIVING JESUS CHRIST AS LORD, meaning MASTER; our of pure LOVE coming from your HEART (Human Spirit).
SANCTIFICATION is a life long process that will arrive at perfection the DAY HE gives us the Resurrected Body that cannot even think SIN. Therefore Sanctification is Conforming our bodies to WALK LIKE CHRIST.