Originally Posted by
FreeNChrist
Salvation is not a prize.
Exactly.......it is a gift......and free to boot!
sigh.... .... ....
Getting SAVED is a Free Gift.
Once you are SAVED your in a race.
Know you not that Salvation is ONLY given to a person on Judgment Day? When a person gets Saved, they have not received Salvation, if that were True, then they would immediately receive their Glorified bodies and be caught up with God. It is ONLY when the Book is opened on Judgment Day that determines who is Saved and who is not Saved, hence the reason it is called JUDGEMENT DAY.
i may be Saved today, and my name written in the Book of Life, but i may deny Jesus Christ a year from now, when my Mom gets a longsuffering painful disease, i may just curse God and deny Him, because He did not answer my prayers concerning her. Tell me, if i then a year from now DENY CHRIST, is my name still written in the Book of Life on JUDGMENT Day?
i can ask you the same question, not likely you will answer though.
Is your name right now written in the Book of Life? Answer, its a simple question that you should know.
Now tell me, are you saying it is IMPOSSIBLE for you to one day in the Future to DENY JESUS CHRIST? IMPOSSIBLE?
WARNING: Careful how you choose to answer that question. God may just TEST YOU ON THAT.
So then today your name is in the Book of Life, does NOT mean it will remain there until Judgment Day, Hence the reason the Apostle Paul used the analogy of a race, to get the prize. He also said that he had not yet attained it and not yet perfect
Php 3:12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Getting Saved is Free and anyone can have it.
Being SAVED is entirely a DIFFERENT THING, but for some reason this generation refuses to see that difference. Getting SAVED and BEING SAVED or two different things. What do you receive the FREE GIFT DAILY? or is it given to you ONCE when you GOT SAVED?
What DAY were you SAVED? Is that not the DAY that you accepted the FREE GIFT? Now that you HAVE that FREE GIFT given to you on that specific DAY, You are NOW to be DOERS of the Word of God and NOT hearers only. Do you not hear all the verses which teach to STOP SINNING, STOP obeying the enemy of Jesus Christ?
Do these words that i teach sound like words of the wicked one? Are they not teaching to OBEY JESUS and not to obey satan. Yet this generation think me evil and wicked because i teach what Scriptures teach concerning sinning. This generation loves to sin, and are not willing to give it up for Jesus or anyone. They love to sin and make excuses to continue to live in them.
What i teach is what God told me, and Scriptures confirms what i teach. This generation rejects what i teach because it is from God, and it is the TRUTH, but this generation loves to sin, not to hearken to anything that teaches against their own sinning which they love to do. There is no sin that you do that you can't cease from, try to remember that the next time you are tempted to commit sin. Tell me, where is Jesus when you are tempted to commit sin?
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††† In His Holy and Precious Name, Jesus Christ †††
DiscipleDave