Friday, September 18, 2009

Salvation Secure - Part 3: Key Grounding Scriptures

Hebrews 6:17-18 - " Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, [if Jesus is your Savior -you qualify here] he confirmed it with an oath. God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope offered to us may be greatly encouraged."

Hebrews 7:22; 25 - " Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant. ...therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him..."

Hebrews 10: 12-18 - " But when this priest [Jesus] had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God. Since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool, because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy...' Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.' "

Romans 8: 1-4 - " Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the spirit."

Romans 10: 9-11 - " That if 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. As the scripture says 'Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame.' " (Isaiah 28:16)

John 10:28 - " I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand." [Jesus speaking]

Romans 4: 7-9 ="' Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered [by the blood of Jesus]. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will NEVER count against him. '"

As far as the East is from the West; he remembers our sins no more - because of Jesus; nothing we do or don't do past the point of believing in him as Savior can alter our state of salvation or snatch eternal life from us...everything past tense is forgiven and wiped clean! We are new creations (2 Corinthains 5:17) from the point of receiving Father God's free gift on...the scripture references heavenly rewards as being connected with the fruit from our lives and works we do for the kingdom but, not our salvation (Matt. 16:27, Rev. 11:18; 22:12). 

MORE TO COME...

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