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| Chapter 1: Born Again Chapter 2: Faith Chapter 3: Keeping Your Faith Chapter 4: The Book Of Galatians Chapter 5: Sin |
Chapter 6: What Goes Around
Comes Around Chapter 7: The Faith Of David Chapter 8: Spiritual Gifts Chapter 9: Basic Christian Doctrines Chapter 10: The Lifestyle Of John The Baptist |
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Chapter
3: Keeping Your Faith
There have been arguments down through the centuries, and denominations and sects have been founded on the debate of whether a saved person can ever be lost. The answer to this question is no! A saved person can not be lost. However, the definition of a saved person must be God's definition of "saved". This is a person whose name is written in the "lamb's book of life", from before the foundation of the world, and whom God in his foreknowledge knows will not be blotted out. Matthew 7:13-14 NIV "enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. Matthew 7:15-20 NIV "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. Matthew 7:21-23 NIV "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but only he who does the will of my father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!' At the last judgment, Jesus will say to all those on his left, " I never knew you , depart from me ye cursed into the lake of fire prepared for the devil and his angels. The key word here is "never ". Many people, who appear to men to be converted, never were and never will be. These are the people who appear to men have good works, but their good works are not motivated by faith in Jesus Christ. Men, who can only judge from outward appearances, would view a person who claimed to be a Christian at one time in their life and later denies Christ, as being saved and then lost. This is not true. Any person, who will be on the left side of Christ at the last judgment, was never " saved " according to God's definition. 1 John 2:19 NIV they went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us. The apostle John makes this clear in 1 John 2:19. Anyone, who at some time in their life makes a profession of having faith in Christ and then later denies him, is simply proving that they were never truly converted in the first place. Many call out to God in the midst of a bad situation only to forget all about him when the trouble passes. Often these people appear to have been saved and then lost. In truth, their initial commitment was not real, it was just a desperate cry for help in a moment or crisis. Like a person drowning in the ocean promising God he or she will do anything if he just gets them out of this. So, the next question is how can one know he or she is truly saved? In chapter one we saw what happens to a person when they are "born again." Their life and their attitude changes. But, many people have an attitude change without becoming a Christian. The final test of real faith is that if a person makes it the end of their life with their faith intact, then they were truly converted. Anyone who doesn't was not truly "born again." The scriptures state that the human heart is deceitful and desperately wicked; and many times we deceive ourselves. Jeremiah 17:9-10 NIV The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? "I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve." James 1:22 NIV Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Some people deceive themselves into believing they are converted because they have joined a church and are living by a few do's and don'ts. They begin to follow Christ for selfish motives and may not even realize their motives are wrong. They think in their heart "if I follow God, maybe he will give me a husband. (or a wife) they may say "If I follow God maybe I will get rich, or perhaps he will deliver me from all of my problems". Then later if they do not receive the gain they had hoped for, they fall away saying "I was into religion once, but it didn't work for me." Others may receive the things they hoped for and when they are satisfied with their life they forget about God. They prove by their latter behavior that their faith was not real. 2 corinthians 13:5 NIV Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you--unless, of course, you fail the test? Colossians 1:21-23 NIV Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you Holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation--if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel. Once you are converted, it is a lifetime commitment to constantly be vigilant and resist any efforts of men and the devil to dissuade you from following Christ. Philippians 4:3 NIV yes, and I ask you, loyal yokefellow, help these women who have contended at my side in the cause of the gospel, along with clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life. Revelation 13:8 NIV all inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast--all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world. So then, the conclusion is that no one whose name is written in the '"Lambs Book of Life," will be lost, and this is God's definition of saved, one whom he knows will be in his kingdom. But, since God is the only one who has access to that bookwe must be on guard throughout our life to make our calling and election sure. 2 Peter 1:5-8 NIV for this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1:10-11 NIV Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our lord and savior Jesus Christ. Spiritual Growth Once a person has accepted the fact that there is a God, God will take the next step and reveal to that person who he is--the God of the Bible. Following this God will see to it that the gospel is presented to that person, and if they receive it and accept God's offer of salvation they will be "born again." Many people never get very far beyond this step. They have faith, they are saved, they may join a church, but that then, is just about the end of the matter. They progress slowly and never sustain any steady long term spiritual growth. They love their old traditions too much to ever change. Whenever God reveals to them a new piece of truth, they reject it if it doesn't fit in with their old way of doing things. They had some works after their conversion, enough to show that their heart had been changed, but they never get off of the spiritual baby bottle and graduate to eating spiritual meat. They remain infants in Christ for their entire lifetime. 1 Corinthians 3:1-2 NIV Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly--mere infants in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. If you wish to progress beyond the norm, beyond step two, you have to constantly be ready to learn new things from God. Whenever he flashes some new piece of truth through your mind, you have to grab it, evaluate it, think about it, and see if it is in agreement or disagreement with the word of God. If it is in agreement, you add it to the library of truth that is in your mind. If it is in disagreement with the scriptures, then discard it. If you are not sure, then put it on hold and wait for God to give you some more insight into the matter. If there is something he wants you to know and you have honestly tried to understand it but cannot, he will show it to you again in another way, a way that is easier for you to understand. Even mary, the mother of Jesus did not understand many things about her son Jesus until after his death and resurrection more than thirty three years later. Luke 2:19 KJV but mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart. God compares gaining spiritual knowledge to being weaned from the breasts. Isaiah 28:9-10 KJV whom shall he teach knowledge? And whom shall he make to understand doctrine? Them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: The writer of Hebrews goes on to teach that most people never get to the point where they can eat meat and learn the deeper truths of God; Hebrews 5:11-14 NIV We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain because you are slow to learn. In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil. Hebrews 6:1-3 NIV therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God, instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And God permitting, we will do so. It is by use, by spiritual exercise, that your senses become attuned to discerning what is good, and what is evil. Hebrews 5:14 KJV but strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. The book of Hebrews says that it is by reason of use that a person's senses are exercised to discern both good and evil. Spiritual exercise is no different than physical exercise. If you don't use it, you lose it. If you never start, you will never get anywhere. The place to start is to do what Jesus said, which is to believe in God, believe in him, (Christ) and study the scriptures. The first step is to believe that God exists. The second is to believe that Christ was the image of God in the flesh, sent to die for our sins. The third is to study the scriptures with an open mind and to forget all of the teachings that the modern day Pharisees try to pound into the heads of all those who are foolish enough to listen to them. The lazy, those who do not study, will never attain their spiritual potential. The way that you build your spiritual knowledge pool is a little at a time, piece by piece, as the Holy spirit teaches you, adding to it at every opportunity. |
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