I just got done watching the 2nd Pres. debate -- grrrrr. Sorta like that cat face.
We don't watch porn, extreme violence - and after tonight - we might have to add presidential debates to that list! It was a bit like watching professional wrestling, only slimier and more low-brow!
L O L -- -- it Is getting a Bit crazier by the week. Last week's VP debate was Great -- tonight's -- wasn't really sure if there Was a 'winner'. But the scrutenizer's tonight felt that Trump did pretty good. In fact -- they thought he trounced her pretty good. Who knows - we might hear that Trump has some sort of weird 'accident'. And Then we'd be left with......
Now - to figure out how to apply These comments into 'eternal security..."
jpbg wrote:
I believe I am eternally secure as long as I am still saved.
Nice logic, Einstein!
John 5:24 24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
-Edward R Murrow
St. Richard the Sarcastic--The Patron Saint of Irony
We are saved when we accept Jesus as our savior by believing on Him, and when this happens the sinful way people like to live is taken out of our heart and a new way is put in our heart. We know longer love this world but we love God with all our heart, and even though our flash sometimes strives to do wrong the love for God in our heart causes us to fit against the flesh and to walk in the Spirit, and the power we have to walk in the Spirit comes from God. Sinners do not have this power this power comes only from God.
I know that I am saved because there is a present power of God in my life giving me the strength to keep His commandments.
The bible says only Christians have this power working in them. That is the reason John said here by we know we know Him.
jpbg33 wrote:We are saved when we accept Jesus as our savior by believing on Him, and when this happens the sinful way people like to live is taken out of our heart and a new way is put in our heart. We know longer love this world but we love God with all our heart, and even though our flash sometimes strives to do wrong the love for God in our heart causes us to fit against the flesh and to walk in the Spirit, and the power we have to walk in the Spirit comes from God. Sinners do not have this power this power comes only from God.
I know that I am saved because there is a present power of God in my life giving me the strength to keep His commandments.
The bible says only Christians have this power working in them. That is the reason John said here by we know we know Him.
Just how John said it that is how I know.
1John 1:9 "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
Romans 10:9 & 10 "That is you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved."
1 Corinthians 15: 2 "By this Gospel you are saved... that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures......"
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."
At the moment of our salvation -- the Holy Spirit comes to indwell us -- we don't Lose the nature that we were born with -- but the Holy Spirit gives us New life -- 'born again'. That is why even though we now have inner peace with / from the Holy Spirit -- we Will have a struggle with our natural desires and that which God wants us to do. One of the jobs of the Holy Spirit is to convict is when we do things that are not Godly AND to give us the strength we need to overcome temptations.
But satan is Also going to make temptations to do Wrong, Very appealing to us. So - Sometimes - we aren't going to listen to the promptings of the Holy Spirit and give in To the temptation.
With the Holy Spirit living in us -- we will Want to obey God. If people we're around don't observe us Wanting to please God -- then they have a reason to question -- But it's not good works that allows us to Keep our salvation. If a person has no real desire to follow God -- if our life doesn't show any evidence of salvation -- then maybe Someone who cares about us -- needs to sit down with us and share this concern with us. The Holy Spirit Can be convicting a person of a particular thing in their life that needs to be changed-- but they are resisting him cause they Like their 'pet sin'. But -- we won't Lose our salvation because we resist in a particular area in our live.
There are various belief systems that attach 'good works' TO salvation. It's what we do After salvation to Please God -- not to Keep salvation.
I know how we are saved I knew those verses were there. I was just using the John 3:16 explanation just summing all that up into our belief. It is ultimately our belief.
Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Rom 6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Rom 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Rom 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Rom 6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Rom 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Rom 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Rom 6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
Rom 6:9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
Rom 6:10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Rom 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Rom 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Rom 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Slaves to Righteousness
Rom 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Rom 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Rom 6:17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
Rom 6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Rom 6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
Rom 6:20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
Rom 6:21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
Rom 6:22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 7:1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
Rom 7:2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Rom 7:3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Rom 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Rom 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Rom 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
The Law and Sin
Rom 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Rom 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
Rom 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Rom 7:10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
Rom 7:11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
Rom 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Rom 7:13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
Rom 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Rom 7:15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Rom 7:16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
Rom 7:17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Rom 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Rom 7:19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Rom 7:20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Rom 7:21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
Rom 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Rom 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Rom 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Rom 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Rom 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Rom 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Rom 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Rom 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Heirs with Christ
Rom 8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Rom 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Rom 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Rom 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Rom 8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Future Glory
Rom 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Rom 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Rom 8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
Rom 8:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Rom 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Rom 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Rom 8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
Rom 8:25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Rom 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Rom 8:27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Rom 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Rom 8:30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
God's Everlasting Love
Rom 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Rom 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Rom 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Rom 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Rom 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Rom 8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Rom 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Rom 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Rom 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
jpbg33 wrote:I know how we are saved I knew those verses were there. I was just using the John 3:16 explanation just summing all that up into our belief. It is ultimately our belief...
Jpbg33, are you saved by God's Grace alone?
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(by B. W. Melvin)
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Not my Circus....not my monkeys
jpbg33 wrote:Yes and my works prove to everyone and me my self that I am indeed saved.
Does that mean if you don't have works, it proves to everyone and you yourself that you are not saved?
John 5:24 24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
-Edward R Murrow
St. Richard the Sarcastic--The Patron Saint of Irony
crochet1949 wrote:A persons' Life Will show his salvation or lack there of. But THAT does Not equate to a Work's based salvation.
How Does a person's life show he's saved or not saved?
John 5:24 24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
-Edward R Murrow
St. Richard the Sarcastic--The Patron Saint of Irony
Or, is the question not ALSO, if a person is a Christian, are their works ALWAYS apparent and detectable? Sometimes, we might not know any more than THEY might say - or DON'T say.
Philip wrote:Or, is the question not ALSO, if a person is a Christian, are their works ALWAYS apparent and detectable? Sometimes, we might not know any more than THEY might say - or DON'T say.
As a believer -- there Should be a difference between 'us' and the 'rest of the world' -- we're not Supposed to be like the 'rest of the world'. Isn't God's Word Supposed to be making a Positive difference in our lives? And our actions are going to be speaking Louder than our words.
-- it Is getting a Bit crazier by the week. Last week's VP debate was Great -- tonight's -- wasn't really sure if there Was a 'winner'. But the scrutenizer's tonight felt that Trump did pretty good. In fact -- they thought he trounced her pretty good. Who knows - we might hear that Trump has some sort of weird 'accident'. And Then we'd be left with......
