How is Salvation Attained?
Can salvation be lost?
How is salvation attained?
Romans 10:9-10 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
· “shalt believe in thine heart”
· “with the heart believeth unto righteousness”
These are the operative phases of the verses, so what is believed is in your heart, (what is believing in your heart?); because obviously scripture (unless you are a dispensationalist nut!) shows that one can believe for awhile and fall away. When one believes in Jesus Christ there is no way one can know the totality of the Word of God. Incrementally we perceive Jesus’ fullness, as the line upon line, percept upon percept, as his depth is reveled because of our heart belief we receive and keep his word and seek the understanding, as we search the scriptures for confirmation. James 1:3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. There is much of the truth we lack, from knowledge and wisdom to understanding, but just as a little child[i] we come with a heartfelt trust unto salvation, that is believing with the heart. Do we limit our belief strictly on our limited understanding or do we fully trust in his word wherein the Word is espoused, no we believe the word of God regardless of our lack of full understanding unto the saving of our souls, or else we become offended[ii] to unbelief and fall away[iii]. When you believe with the heart, and convert[iv], there is a renewing of the mind[v]: because you love the truth, and nothing will offend you.[vi]
John 6:66
From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
Now we see in the scripture as Jesus said we needed to drink his blood and eat his flesh, DISCIPLES went back and no more walked with Christ. Clearly they did not understand, and were unwilling to kept and receive the word of God, they had not received the love of the truth in their hearts, and if you don’t believe the truth you can only believe a lie. Jesus said the volume of the book is written of him[vii] and reflects the very image of God[viii] now if we do not receive the scripture as what they are the “Word of God” we are not believing in our heart. Conditional belief base on what external knowledge of good and evil, or science falsely call, makes us partakers of the tree of death. [ix] The Tree of Life is a figure of the Word of God, metaphoric it is an allegory of the very word of God that has no variableness of change[x] and will not pass away, neither any part shall be diminished, changed or added too.
Now in the wickedness of the heart[xi] what lurks to be offended[xii] as the Sun of righteousness[xiii] rises on the judgment wherein that place we all dwell.[xiv] Do we believe in our hearts or is the offensive reclined awhile until it faces the appointed confrontation, wherein his word divides the thought and intent of one’s heart. Resolve to be fixed in heart and fear not, trust his word and only believe, less ye fall from grace.
Can salvation be lost, only if you stop believing, be converted and believe with the heart the word of God, and don’t be deceived there are many anti-Christ with a versions and a science to offend you.
1 Corinthians 10:12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
[i] Matthew 18:3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
[ii] Matthew 13:21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
[iii] Luke 8:13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. Hebrews 6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
[iv] James 5:19-20 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
[v] Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
[vi] Psalms 119:165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
[vii] Psalms 40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, Hebrews 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
[viii] Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:
[ix] Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
[x] James 1:17-18 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
[xi] Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
[xii] Matthew 13:21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
[xiii] Malachi 4:2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
[xiv] Ecclesiastes 3:16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. Matthew 5:45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
