Bible Verse of the Day Sunday October 17th 2021

1 John 5:13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

Titus 1:2 in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time.

Can a Christian lose their salvation?

First, we must determine: what is a Christian?  A "Christian" is not someone who recited the sinner's prayer or came forward during an invitation or whose parents and grandparents were Christians. Each of these incidences is an integral part of being a Christian; however, standing alone they do not make one a Christian. Instead, a Christian is someone that has surrendered heart, mind, body, and soul to Christ Jesus and has the indwelling of the Holy Spirit (John 3:16; Acts 16:31; Ephesians 2:8–9). Consequently, with this explanation in mind, can Christians lose their salvation?

It's a critically significant query. Conceivably the preeminent way to answer it is to study and assess what God's Word tells us transpires at the moment of salvation and investigate what losing our salvation would involve.

A Christian is a new person in Christ Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:17). A Christian is not merely an "improved" version of the old person; a Christian is an unequivocally new being. They are "in Christ." For a Christian to lose their salvation, God would have to terminate the new being; A Christian is redeemed (1 Peter 1:18–19). The word redeemed denotes an acquisition made, a price paid. God purchased us at the cost of the death of Christ Jesus on the Cross of Calvary. For a Christian to lose their salvation, God would have to withdraw His purchase of the individual for whom He paid with the sinless, innocent blood of Christ Jesus.

A Christian is justified (Romans 5:1). To justify is to declare righteousness.

All people that receive Christ Jesus as Lord and Savior are "declared righteous" by God. For Christians to lose their salvation, God would have to default on His promise, "un-declare" what He had previously declared. Those pardoned of guilt would have to be re-tried and again found guilty. There would have to be a reversal from God of the promise handed down from the High court of God's throne.

Born again, washed in the blood, believers in Christ Jesus have been promised eternal life by God (John 3:16). Consequently, eternal life means spending eternity in Heaven with Christ Jesus (John 3:15). So, if we could lose our salvation, eternal life would have to be redefined.

God has marked us and sealed us through the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14). For a saved Christian to lose their salvation, God must take away His mark upon us, remove the Holy Spirit from within us, renege on His promise, take away our inheritance and relinquish the praise and diminish His Glory. As born-again saved Christians, we are also guaranteed glorification (Romans 8:30); God would also have to revoke that blessing. This promise of glorification will come to fruition when we receive our perfect resurrected bodies in heaven. Consequently, if it were possible for a Christian to lose their salvation, Romans 8:30 would be an error in God's Holy Word, and we know that is not possible.

A Christian cannot lose salvation. If that were possible most, if not all of the promises of God from His holy Word would have to be annulled and canceled. A Christian cannot be un-newly created, the redeemed cannot be unpurchased, eternal life cannot be temporary and God cannot renege on His Word. Scripture says that God cannot lie (Titus 1:2).

The most common argument of the "lose your salvation" camp is what about the people that get saved and live an open life of sin? What about the folks that openly reject their faith and deny Christ Jesus? The main issue with these two arguments is the assumption is being made that everyone that considers themselves Christians are really Christians. The salvation some believe they have is only a head salvation and not a heart salvation. In other words, there was no total surrender to Christ Jesus. A person that has experienced true heart salvation will not live in a continual state of a rejection of Christ Jesus.

A Christian that truly believes they might somehow lose their salvation would live in a state of constant fear. Fearful that they might do something today, or not do something they were supposed to do that would take away their salvation. Fearful that when that happens: how am I going to get it back?

Ephesians 2:8-9 for it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.

There are no works or deeds that we can do to receive our salvation and there is nothing we can do that will take away our salvation. Our sins have been forgiven and separated from us as far as the east is from the west (Psalms 103:12). This is not to say that we are not going to sin, because we are all sinners (Romans 3:23; 3:10), and none of us has any righteousness on our own (Romans 3:10). However, our sins were forgiven by the precious blood of Christ Jesus on the Cross. Believing that we can lose our salvation is in essence wanting to crucify Christ Jesus again and again and again (Hebrews 6:4-6).

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