ONCE SAVED , ALWAYS SAVED
The Bible clearly states that believing on the Lord Jesus Christ is the only prerequisite for salvation.
Acts 16:30: “And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.”
Unfortunately, there’s a false doctrine being taught by the Roman Catholic Church and other cults such as Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, and Seventh-Day Adventists, along with Protestants that salvation is difficult. They teach people to do good works and live a good life (in addition to faith) in order to be saved.
This is heresy, and it’s sending their victims to hell.
Even worse, many Baptists are being poisoned by the diabolical teachings of Catholicism and Protestantism that one must “repent of their sins” to be saved (i.e. alcohol, fornication, smoking, etc.). However, nowhere in the Bible does it say we even need to be willing to turn from them for salvation, while the terms “repent” and “saved” never occur in the same verse. Instead, “believe” and “saved”, or “faith” and “saved” occur numerous times.
“Repentance” has nothing to do with being sorry for our sins as manmade, fallible dictionaries like to define as because the most common usage of this word in the Bible involves God repenting. God has no sins to be sorry for! When He repents, God only changes His mind. Here are several of many examples:
Genesis 6:6: “And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” Exodus 32:14: “And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.” 1 Samuel 15:35: “And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.” Psalm 106:45: “And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.”
For verses like John 3:16, John 5:24, Acts 16:31, Romans 4:5, Romans 10:13-14, and many others which proclaim that anyone who believes on the Lord Jesus Christ and puts their faith on Him is SAVED to be true, God has to save people who are unwilling to turn from sin. Or else God is a liar.
John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Of course, repentance can be a significant part of salvation, like if someone is a Roman Catholic. They must repent from their works salvation, or else it’s impossible to put ALL their faith on the Lord Jesus Christ alone.
Ephesians 2:8-9: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”
Repenting from our sins is something God commands those who are already saved to do. He repeatedly commands this in Revelation chapters two and three, but it has nothing to do with salvation.
You might wonder, “Is God giving us a license to sin?”
But the balance is love, which is what a lot of people who claim to be Christians don’t understand.
John 14:15: “If ye love me, keep my commandments.”
BECAUSE of God’s love and grace, He gives us the freedom of choice. The question is do we love Him, hence “if”.
One of the biggest problems in modernized soul-winning is the omission of teaching eternal security. The “One, two, three, repeat after me” style is detrimental to the cause of Christ because in not giving a clear presentation of the Gospel, people might still believe at the back of their minds that it’s possible to lose their salvation.
False religions derived from Christianity have one common denominator, in that they don’t believe in eternal security. This is why Catholics, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Seventh-Day Adventists, Mormons, Methodists, Pentecostals, etc. aren’t saved, because they don’t believe the record that God gave of his Son.
1 John 5:10-11: “He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.”
Regardless of what we do, even though God will chastise us for disobedience, once we believe, there’s absolutely nothing we can do to lose our salvation.
We can pray the sinner’s prayer until we’re blue in the face, but if our faith hasn’t been put on the Lord Jesus Christ alone, we’re still going to burn in the eternal fires of hell.
Salvation is easy, but we must believe with all our hearts. How can we 100% know for sure we’re going to heaven once we die?
First of all, we need to understand the wages of sin.
Romans 3:23: “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”
We’ve all sinned, and not only that, the Bible says we come short of His glory. We’ll never measure up to what God expects. The punishment for our sins is death.
Romans 6:23: “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Unfortunately, there’s also a second death. It’s not the end after we die.
Revelation 20:14-15: “And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”
Hell is our punishment because we have to pay for all the sins we’ve committed.
Revelation 21:8: “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”
Although we might not be a murderer, whoremonger, sorcerer, or idolater, everyone has told a lie. According to this verse, all liars are going to hell.
But God loves us. He doesn’t want us to go to hell.
2 Peter 3:9: “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
So this is what God did for us.
Romans 5:8: “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
God was manifest in the flesh, and Jesus was born of the virgin Mary. He lived a perfect life that we could never live, and He never sinned. He was eventually crucified.
1 Peter 2:24: “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”
Every sin we’ve ever done, or will ever do, when Jesus was on the cross, it was as if He did them. He was being punished for murder, stealing, lying, etc. He never sinned, but bore all our sins and was punished for them.
Moreover, He was crucified more than two thousand years ago, meaning He died for the sins we’re never even committed. Jesus paid it all.
Jesus died for everyone. His body was taken down and brought to the grave. His soul went down to hell for three days and three nights. He was then resurrected.
1 John 2:2: “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.”
The determining factor of who goes to heaven or hell as we’ve learned is faith alone by grace through faith on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 16:30: “And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.”
This neither says we have to attend church, nor be baptized. Neither does it say we have to live a good life nor give up our sins.
BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND THOU SHALT BE SAVED
Notice the D at the end of “saved”? This is past tense, and it’s already done. Getting saved isn’t a process because when we’re saved, we’re immediately passed from death unto life and will never see death, or the second death!
John 5:24: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
The point of all this is that everyone who believes on the Lord Jesus Christ is saved. There are hundreds of verses in the Bible that say this.
And did you notice how it says believe “on” the Lord Jesus Christ? It means we’re putting all our faith on Him to get to heaven, and not to just believe there’s a God. We don’t put our faith in works.
Romans 6:23: “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
A gift isn’t something we earn. It’s free, while only the giver pays. When Jesus Christ died on the cross for us and shed His blood, He paid for our salvation, and eternal life.
What if I gave someone a gift and said, “Here’s your gift, but you have to give me five dollars.” Is it still a gift?
What if I said, “I’m giving you a free gift, but you have to clean my wheelchair”? Is it still a gift?
If we have to do any work for it, then it’s not a gift. If I gave a gift to someone, it’d belong to them. I can’t return to them somewhere down the line and take it away for any reason because that wouldn’t be a gift. If I took it back, that would make me a thief and liar.
1 John 5:10-11: “He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.”
If God gives us eternal life, and it belongs to us, He’s not going to take it away. In not believing this, we’re making God a liar, and God can’t lie.
If we receive a gift and it lasts forever, we only need to receive once. Once we’re saved, it’s eternal. We can’t lose our salvation.
Think about this for a moment. If I said, “I’m giving you this gift and it’s yours forever.” Then, somewhere along the line, I take it away for any reason. Was I telling the truth that it was eternal?
So when God gives us eternal life, it’s going to last forever. We can NEVER lose it. It’s also a spiritual gift that we can never throw away because God’s promise is above all else.
Titus 1:2: “In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;”
No matter what we do; if we get out of church, or even commit a grievous sin like murder, God won’t take away our salvation. He might punish us, but we’ll always remain to be His child because we weren’t good enough anyway.
We’ll always come short because we’re sinners. The only reason we’re going to heaven is through the blood of Jesus Christ. We weren’t good enough to be saved, and we don’t need to be good enough to stay saved. It’s by grace through faith alone.
The Lord Jesus Christ said (Hebrews 13:5):
“I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”
Acts 16:30: “And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.”
Unfortunately, there’s a false doctrine being taught by the Roman Catholic Church and other cults such as Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, and Seventh-Day Adventists, along with Protestants that salvation is difficult. They teach people to do good works and live a good life (in addition to faith) in order to be saved.
This is heresy, and it’s sending their victims to hell.
Even worse, many Baptists are being poisoned by the diabolical teachings of Catholicism and Protestantism that one must “repent of their sins” to be saved (i.e. alcohol, fornication, smoking, etc.). However, nowhere in the Bible does it say we even need to be willing to turn from them for salvation, while the terms “repent” and “saved” never occur in the same verse. Instead, “believe” and “saved”, or “faith” and “saved” occur numerous times.
“Repentance” has nothing to do with being sorry for our sins as manmade, fallible dictionaries like to define as because the most common usage of this word in the Bible involves God repenting. God has no sins to be sorry for! When He repents, God only changes His mind. Here are several of many examples:
Genesis 6:6: “And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” Exodus 32:14: “And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.” 1 Samuel 15:35: “And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.” Psalm 106:45: “And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.”
For verses like John 3:16, John 5:24, Acts 16:31, Romans 4:5, Romans 10:13-14, and many others which proclaim that anyone who believes on the Lord Jesus Christ and puts their faith on Him is SAVED to be true, God has to save people who are unwilling to turn from sin. Or else God is a liar.
John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Of course, repentance can be a significant part of salvation, like if someone is a Roman Catholic. They must repent from their works salvation, or else it’s impossible to put ALL their faith on the Lord Jesus Christ alone.
Ephesians 2:8-9: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”
Repenting from our sins is something God commands those who are already saved to do. He repeatedly commands this in Revelation chapters two and three, but it has nothing to do with salvation.
You might wonder, “Is God giving us a license to sin?”
But the balance is love, which is what a lot of people who claim to be Christians don’t understand.
John 14:15: “If ye love me, keep my commandments.”
BECAUSE of God’s love and grace, He gives us the freedom of choice. The question is do we love Him, hence “if”.
One of the biggest problems in modernized soul-winning is the omission of teaching eternal security. The “One, two, three, repeat after me” style is detrimental to the cause of Christ because in not giving a clear presentation of the Gospel, people might still believe at the back of their minds that it’s possible to lose their salvation.
False religions derived from Christianity have one common denominator, in that they don’t believe in eternal security. This is why Catholics, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Seventh-Day Adventists, Mormons, Methodists, Pentecostals, etc. aren’t saved, because they don’t believe the record that God gave of his Son.
1 John 5:10-11: “He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.”
Regardless of what we do, even though God will chastise us for disobedience, once we believe, there’s absolutely nothing we can do to lose our salvation.
We can pray the sinner’s prayer until we’re blue in the face, but if our faith hasn’t been put on the Lord Jesus Christ alone, we’re still going to burn in the eternal fires of hell.
Salvation is easy, but we must believe with all our hearts. How can we 100% know for sure we’re going to heaven once we die?
First of all, we need to understand the wages of sin.
Romans 3:23: “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”
We’ve all sinned, and not only that, the Bible says we come short of His glory. We’ll never measure up to what God expects. The punishment for our sins is death.
Romans 6:23: “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Unfortunately, there’s also a second death. It’s not the end after we die.
Revelation 20:14-15: “And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”
Hell is our punishment because we have to pay for all the sins we’ve committed.
Revelation 21:8: “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”
Although we might not be a murderer, whoremonger, sorcerer, or idolater, everyone has told a lie. According to this verse, all liars are going to hell.
But God loves us. He doesn’t want us to go to hell.
2 Peter 3:9: “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
So this is what God did for us.
Romans 5:8: “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
God was manifest in the flesh, and Jesus was born of the virgin Mary. He lived a perfect life that we could never live, and He never sinned. He was eventually crucified.
1 Peter 2:24: “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”
Every sin we’ve ever done, or will ever do, when Jesus was on the cross, it was as if He did them. He was being punished for murder, stealing, lying, etc. He never sinned, but bore all our sins and was punished for them.
Moreover, He was crucified more than two thousand years ago, meaning He died for the sins we’re never even committed. Jesus paid it all.
Jesus died for everyone. His body was taken down and brought to the grave. His soul went down to hell for three days and three nights. He was then resurrected.
1 John 2:2: “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.”
The determining factor of who goes to heaven or hell as we’ve learned is faith alone by grace through faith on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 16:30: “And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.”
This neither says we have to attend church, nor be baptized. Neither does it say we have to live a good life nor give up our sins.
BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND THOU SHALT BE SAVED
Notice the D at the end of “saved”? This is past tense, and it’s already done. Getting saved isn’t a process because when we’re saved, we’re immediately passed from death unto life and will never see death, or the second death!
John 5:24: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
The point of all this is that everyone who believes on the Lord Jesus Christ is saved. There are hundreds of verses in the Bible that say this.
And did you notice how it says believe “on” the Lord Jesus Christ? It means we’re putting all our faith on Him to get to heaven, and not to just believe there’s a God. We don’t put our faith in works.
Romans 6:23: “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
A gift isn’t something we earn. It’s free, while only the giver pays. When Jesus Christ died on the cross for us and shed His blood, He paid for our salvation, and eternal life.
What if I gave someone a gift and said, “Here’s your gift, but you have to give me five dollars.” Is it still a gift?
What if I said, “I’m giving you a free gift, but you have to clean my wheelchair”? Is it still a gift?
If we have to do any work for it, then it’s not a gift. If I gave a gift to someone, it’d belong to them. I can’t return to them somewhere down the line and take it away for any reason because that wouldn’t be a gift. If I took it back, that would make me a thief and liar.
1 John 5:10-11: “He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.”
If God gives us eternal life, and it belongs to us, He’s not going to take it away. In not believing this, we’re making God a liar, and God can’t lie.
If we receive a gift and it lasts forever, we only need to receive once. Once we’re saved, it’s eternal. We can’t lose our salvation.
Think about this for a moment. If I said, “I’m giving you this gift and it’s yours forever.” Then, somewhere along the line, I take it away for any reason. Was I telling the truth that it was eternal?
So when God gives us eternal life, it’s going to last forever. We can NEVER lose it. It’s also a spiritual gift that we can never throw away because God’s promise is above all else.
Titus 1:2: “In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;”
No matter what we do; if we get out of church, or even commit a grievous sin like murder, God won’t take away our salvation. He might punish us, but we’ll always remain to be His child because we weren’t good enough anyway.
We’ll always come short because we’re sinners. The only reason we’re going to heaven is through the blood of Jesus Christ. We weren’t good enough to be saved, and we don’t need to be good enough to stay saved. It’s by grace through faith alone.
The Lord Jesus Christ said (Hebrews 13:5):
“I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”
Reader, are you sure if you died today that you’d go to heaven? Do you want me to help you get saved? If so, feel free to message me.
Bro; JUSTIN SUNIL MON
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