ETERNAL SALVATION

ETERNAL SALVATION

Hebrews 5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of ETERNAL SALVATION unto all them that obey him;

John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, HATH EVERLASTING LIFE, AND SHALL NOT COME INTO CONDEMNATION; BUT IS PASSED FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE.

We are saved once for all. Our salvation is not based upon our works or ourselves; instead, it is based upon the Lord and His work. We ourselves and our works can change and are not reliable, but the Lord and His work will not change and are eternally reliable.

We cannot obtain the Lord’s salvation by our works, and we cannot lose the Lord’s salvation by our works. The Lord did not save us because of things that we have done, and He will not take away His salvation because of things that we will do.

Since our salvation is apart from works, our works have absolutely no effect on our salvation. The Lord’s gift of salvation issues from the grace of His unchanging love and is based upon His eternal work of redemption which He accomplished.

Romans 4:3 For what saith the scripture?  Abraham believed God, and it was counted  unto him for righteousness. 4 Now to him  that worketh is the reward not reckoned of  grace, but of debt. 5 BUT TO HIM THAT  WORKETH NOT, BUT BELIEVETH ON HIM THAT  JUSTIFIETH THE UNGODLY, his faith is counted  for righteousness. 6 Even as David also  describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness  without works, 7 Saying, Blessed  are they  whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose  sins are covered. 8 Blessed  is the man to  whom the Lord WILL NOT IMPUTE SIN.

When we talk about eternal salvation we are talking about the finished work of Christ on our behalf. This work was not done in half its a perfect work done for the salvation and redemption of man. It's not something we worked to get its something God in Christ worked to get for us. This is not an opportunity for us to live recklessly because we value what we have.


 ^{Ephesians 7-10}

Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It's God's gift from start to finish! We don't play the major role. If we did, we'd probably go around bragging that we'd done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing