If that isn’t bad enough these spiritual enemies here is not a more important subject to study than wo rds,

important subject to study than wo rds, as long as yo u clea ve to the pleasures of sin for
also slander Christians in various ways w ho declare
T salvation. In fact, there is not even a close second a short time (Heb. 11:25) you do not and can not have

Salvation
the aforementioned plain and simple truths about sal- among all the many topics that have been taught over the salva tion w hich is only fou nd in the L ord Je sus.
vation found in God’s word. the centuries. Though the term salvation can be used Peo ple who have repented (and become Christians)

Plain and Simple

[For much more information about this subject in different ways, here it refers to d elivera nce fro m da m - are describ ed as follows:
nation in the fire s of he ll. This is the only wa y this im-
please consult our two books related to this topic: The
portant term will be used in this teaching. Tho se who be long to Christ Jesus have crucified the
Believer’s Conditional Security and The My th of Eter-
sinful natur e with its passions and desires (Gal.
nal Secu rity. Neither book has ever been refuted and
Jesus, God’s Religious Leader 5:24).
never will be. Though these boo ks have created a stir and
brought many to repentance for salvation, the eternal Of all the majo r religious leaders, the one and To turn from your wickedness, which is dragging
security teachers are afraid to even mention their exis- only reliable spiritual authority is the Lord Jesus. All you to hell, and to wisely chose to submissively place
tence, since they can’t adequately deal with the evidence others were/are counterfeits and therefore have danger- Jesus’ yoke o n yourself to follow and serve him is
and defense therein presented. Without a doubt, they ously misled their following. This list includes Buddha, equated to believing on Jesus. This is also the same as
don’t want others to even know about them.] Mohammed, Confucius, Zoroaster, Dalai Lama, the getting born ag ain. When a person is born again, he is
Pope, etc. also forgiven of all of his sins and set free from the sin
Regarding salvation Jesus pointed people to him- addictions he was a slave to (John 8:34-36; Rom. 6:22).
In Conclusion In particular, it is contact with Jesus’ cleansing, precious
self with the following vital conditions attached:
blood (Rev. 1:5; 1 Pet. 1:19; 1 John 1:7) that brings this
In conc lusion, to enter God’s kingdom after Then he said to them all: “If anyone would come new creation (2 Cor. 5:1 7) miracle abou t.
death one must become Biblically born ag ain and at after me, he must deny himself and take u p his Getting born ag ain occurs at the point of a trusting-
the end of his life die in a spiritua lly saved condition, cross daily and follow me. For whoever wa nts to and-submitting faith in Jesus for personal salvation. All
which does not always happen. Some of the righteous save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life 100% of our trust must be in mankind’s only Savior,
have lethally backslid, tempora rily lost their salvation for for me will save it. W hat good is it for a man to gain who is Jesus, to have salvation (John 14:6; Acts 4:12;
a time and later returned to God (like David and P eter), the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self? etc.). Again, Jesus must be the object of our faith.
while others haven ’t (like Solomo n; Judas; those cited in If anyone is ashamed of me and m y word s, the Son (Many have, unfortunately, been deceived into lethally
of Man will be ashamed of him w hen he com es in trusting church membership, water baptism, M ary, Satur-
Heb. 6:4-6 and Jo hn 6:66; etc.).
his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the day Sabbath keeping, Lodge membership, etc., for salva-
In other w ords, unless you endure, remain faith-
holy angels” (Lk 9:23-26). tion. Som e others are trusting in Jesu s partly and in
ful to God and hold firmly till the end, your getting
someone else or some other thing also for their salvation.
born aga in will be useless and you will still get thrown They also have been dangerously misled.)
Jesus also told people he had a spiritual yoke for us
into the lake of fire—the same as though you were to wear much like oxen or other animals in the natural VERY IM PO RT AN T: T he B ible refers to the term
never born again . M oreover, you will be worse off at have that would be wo rking in a field and pulling a bur- salvation, or a derivative of it, such as saved, in two dif-
the end than you we re be fore initial salvation (2 Pet. den: ferent ways. At times it is used in reference to initial sal-
2:20). M ore and more Bible believers are becoming vation and at other times for final salvation. (Initial sa l-
aware of these facts abo ut salvation a nd sp reading this Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I vation refers to the point of getting saved or being born
infor mation to othe rs for their b enefit. am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find again while final salvation refers to an actual entrance
Remember Jesus d escribed real Christians as rest for y our souls. For my yoke is easy and my into God’s kingdom after physical death.)
burden is light (Matt. 11:29,30). A few exam ples of initial salvation are shown in
those that hear God’s word and put it into practice (Lk.
these verses:
8:21 ). God bless you.{
(NOTE: Yo u w ill never find rest for your soul until you
come to Jesus on his terms.) Jesus said to the woman, “Your faith has saved
Jesus taught you must turn from sin (repent) or you you; go in peace” (Lk 7:50).
. would perish (in hell’s fire):

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He then brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what
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13:3). the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved— you and
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 Jesus said to him, “Toda y salvation has com e to that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows that did fall away from their salvation due to certain sins, For if you live according to the sinful nature, you
this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abra- to please the Spirit, from the Spirit w ill reap eter- believing/teaching a false gospel and or by disowning will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the mis-
ham” (Lk 19:9). nal life. Let us not become weary in doing good, for Jesus during persecution for godly living. deeds of the body, you will live (Rom. 8:13).
at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do
Examples of final salvation are shown here: not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let Severe Warning Alert! The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual im-
us do good to all people, especially to those who morality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and
O ur salvation is nearer now than when w e first belong to the family of believers (Gal. 6:8-10). In spite of the clarity of these facts shown through- witchcraft; hatred , discord, jea lousy, fits of rage, sel-
believed (Rom. 13:11). out Scriptures, false teachers want to convince us other- fish ambition, dissension s, factions and envy; drunk-
Clearly, eternal life is also reaped but only by those wise. Of this group, the most deadly false teacher of enness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did be-
All men w ill hate you beca use of me, bu t he who sowing to plea se the Spirit of God (in obedience). Hence, all for those that have been born again are the eternal fore, that those w ho live like this will not inh erit
stands firm to the end will be saved (Matt. 10:22). eternal life is a hope, as shown elsewhere in Scripture security teachers. Because of the popu larity of this doc- the kingdom of God (Gal. 5:19-21).
(Titus 1:2; 3:7). trine and these teachers often being exalted as spokesmen
Someone asked him, “Lord, are only a few people Paul taught something else abo ut eternal life that is and apologists for evang elical Christianity, ma ny Bible See also Mark 9:43-48.
going to be saved?” He said to them, “Make every also rarely kno wn in our day: believers just accept their sinister teac hing and security- Such important teachings as these can never be
effort to enter through the narrow door, because in-sin-with-salvation theology. Such dangerously de- correctly termed a works salvation, legalism or cultic,
many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able But now that you have b een set free from sin and ceived people are usually very casual readers of Scripture but the dangerous eternal security teachers want you
to” (Lk 13:23, 24). have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap (at best) and just implicitly trust their pastor, radio teach- to think this way! Those vital teachings about sin’s de-
leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. ers, etc. for truth instead of reading the New Testament structive power originated with the Lord and his apostles.
In this last passage, Jesus answered the question (Rom. 6:22) for themselves and putting into practice its life-giving Two striking points about all eternal security teach-
about being saved by mentioning entering through the message. Scripture actually says that there are people that ers are: (1) While they believe sins will damn a perso n
kingdom doors. He also stated we will need personal Between initial and final will seek out (false) teachers who has never been saved to hell and teach such need s to
effort to get in. This is Jesus’ teaching, not mine or salvation, there are many The missing part of the plan of salvation in to say what their sinful ears be forgiven and born ag ain, they also believe after get-
some other Christian’s. Jesus taught an instant salva- spiritual dangers that can in- our day, among Bible believers, is: A true want to hear (2 Tim. 4:2-4). ting born again he can commit the same sins that were
tion thro ugh repe nting and su bmissiv ely trusting in terfere with and even c urtail Christian must endure to the end and remain The missing part of the dragging him to hell befo re ge tting born ag ain and he
himself for salvation, but also taught a continuous your following/believing in plan of salvation in our day, retains his salvation, even wh ile unrepentant! (2) They
effort on m an’s part (to stay spiritually alive) to enter Jesus and salvation such as:
faithful to God for salvation’s sake are trying to convince us, after getting born again, that we
among Bible believers, is: A
Go d’s kingdo m do ors. A raging spiritual battle is go- persecutions, cares of this (Mt. 10:22; Heb. 3:14; Rev. 2:10,11). true Christian must endu re can not and do not need to live holy and obedient for sal-
ing on with the forces of darkness as they try to lead life, pleasures of this life, be- to the end and rem ain faithful vation, in blatant disharm ony to Scriptures (Mt. 5:8; Rev.
you astray and cause you to fall from grace (Gal. 5:2- coming and staying lukewarm, not producing good fruit, to God for salvation’s sake (Mt. 10:22; Heb. 3:14; Rev. 20:6; Heb. 12:14; etc.). In other words, the eternal secu-
4); shipwreck your faith in Jesus (1 Tim. 1:19,20); get becoming unforgiving and even through lusts and hatred 2:10,11). Because many p eop le that receive the gift of rity teachers want us to believe that once you get born
you to become immoral, impure and greedy (Eph. 5:5- that can creep in. salvation don’t endure and remain faithful, but some again you can turn and becom e wicked, vile, stray into
7); etc. Another very rea l and extreme spiritual danger is others do, the only difference can be what they them- false doctrine about the gosp el, not bring fo rth goo d fruit,
W hen God opens your eyes to these truths, the Bible certain false teachers—those who misuse Go d’s word re- selves do and believe after getting born ag ain. Many etc. and never imperil your eternal salvation. Such a
makes much more sense, especially when studying the garding the salvation message. don ’t even know about final salvation or acting upon the message has obviously come from demons and the
words eternal life. The salvation-related term eternal life Teaching wrongly abo ut fasting , or about some other vital spiritual safeguards found in Scripture to enter devil himself.
becomes one’s personal possession when the repentant non-sa lvation related subject, is not nearly as serious as God’s kingdom. Such is foreign to their concept of sal- Sometimes eternal security teachers declare things
starts to follow or be lieves on Jesus for his soul’s salva- false teaching regarding salvation. The real ravenous vation and the Christian life. like: A Christian ca n’t really be obed ient, and we all sin
tion or as he turns from idols to serve God (1 Thess. wolves in sheep’s clothing (Mt. 7:15) are those that teach The one and only real gospel declares this to real all the time; all sin is of the same degree; God doesn’t see
1:9). This is common knowledge and shown in John 6:47 in a way contrary to: (1) Getting Biblically born again or Christians: your sin after initial salvation anyway, since your future
and elsewhere. But most impo rtantly, etern al life is (2) Reaping eternal life by sowing to please the Sp irit of sins are already for-
shown to be something else, which reflects an aspect of God (obedience)—which is the same as actually entering By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to given before you
it which you do not now have and only will if you into God ’s kingdom. This is so because both truths the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have commit them and
endure to the end through persecution (M t. 10:22), refer to salvation. believ ed in vain (1 Cor. 15:2). God can only see
hold firm to the end of your life (Heb. 3:14) and re- Many people that do get Biblically born again later Jesus’ blood when
main faithful to God until our physical death (Rev. (during their long distance spiritual race) die spiritually There are free will and human responsibilities in- he looks at us. They
2:10,11). or become lost again by backsliding (Rom 8:13; Jam. volved in this salvation by grace, acco rding to Scripture. term this grace
Paul taught the sam e in different words: 5:19,20; Ezek 18:24 ; etc.) One prime examp le is found Furthermore, sin is still the issue since Calvary’s when it is a dea dly
in Jesus’ own teaching (Lk. 15 :24,32). There a re at least cross, according to true grace teaching. Paul wrote real lie and doctrine of
The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from 18 Biblical examples of the name d and unnam ed peop le Christians these facts: dem ons.