Salvation
“if You confess with your mouth that jesus is lord and believe in your heart that god rasied him from the dead, you will be saved. for with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.” Romans 10:9-11)
A NEW CREATION: According the Bible, when you’re saved, you’re a new creation. In 2 Corinthians 5:17, Paul says, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” You didn’t just upgrade who you were before. To be “in Christ” is to be a whole new person. Your old self has died. You become a new creation.
To become “unsaved” would mean that Christ would have to destroy the new creation. Last I checked, He isn’t running around destroying people because they backslid. *phew!* Can I get an AMEN! on that one?
REDEEMED: You were bought. Purchased with the blood of Jesus. 1 Peter 1:18-19 tells us that, “…knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.”
To lose your salvation, Christ would return His purchase. The scripture doesn’t say you were bought with the blood of Christ*. (*Disclaimer: Unless you mess up. Then His purchase is null and void. Return to sender.)
PROMISED ETERNAL LIFE: Probably the most infamous sentence from the Bible, John 3:16. “For God so loved the world that he gave his gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
God promises us: if we believe, we shall spend eternity with Him. Since God is outside the realm of time, as we know it, what exactly does eternity mean? According the Strong’s Concordance, the Greek translation for eternity is aiónios.
Original Word: αἰώνιος, ία, ιον
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: aiónios
Phonetic Spelling: (ahee-o’-nee-os)
Short Definition: eternal, unending
Definition: age-long, and therefore: practically eternal, unending; partaking of the character of that which lasts for an age, as contrasted with that which is brief and fleeting.
Again, if you lost your salvation, God would have to go back on His word.
Final Thought
Look at it this way, if God can take back his gift of salvation because we sinned…that means our salvation is dependent on how good we are. We can never be good enough to enter in God’s presence. Being “good” won’t grant us salvation.
Our salvation is solely dependent on Jesus and what He did at the cross.
If we can’t be good enough to earn our salvation, we can’t be bad enough to lose it either.