Thursday, December 07, 2006

WHAT ABOUT MY SECURITY IN CHRIST?

From: http://www.threshingfloor.org/spiritsoul.htm

(Rom 8:16 KJV) The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

(1Cor 2:10-12 KJV) But God hath revealed them unto us by his: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

(Rom 8:9-11 KJV) But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

(1Cor 5:5 KJV) To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

So much misery and destruction has come from failure to rightly divide the Word of Truth. There rages constant, vehement, ungodly debate over the question of whether we are saved eternally or can be lost by committing one too many intentional sins. A simple understanding of the clear and unwavering Word of God erases this debate and settles the question. It is clear and certain for everyone who will discern with the spirit and not reason with the sin adulterated mind of the flesh.

In the scripture above the Apostle Paul clearly states the reality as the Holy Spirit inspired him to write it. The unredeemed, unrenewed fleshly self, that is the soul and the body can be destroyed and thus "lost" but the new creation spirit of even this intentional sinner, the worst of the church, will be "saved " in the day of the Lord Jesus". Note this action was ordered before the man had repented. His eventual repentance saved him from physical death not from losing his salvation. The intent of the Apostle's order was to stop the man from further wanton sinning and the harm such action causes, knowing his spirit was born of incorruptible seed and therefore would not be lost in death.

(1Pet 1:22, 23 KJV) Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

(1Pet 1:5 KJV) Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

(1Pet 3:4 KJV) But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

(1Cor 6:11, 12 KJV) And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

(2Cor 1:22 KJV) Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. (Spirit and soul together).

(1Cor 6:17 KJV) But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. (With Him!)

(Gal 4:6 KJV) And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

The only way the spirit of a born again believer in the Lord Jesus Christ could be "lost" is for Jesus and therefore God Himself to die also.

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