Salvation is remarkable.
Christians understand the Cross as The Love of God poured out as The Blood of Jesus on the Cross, and Atheists, generally consider the Cross as anything but the Love Of God.
Atheists, that ive talked to, over much time... in general, can't really wrap their head around the idea of God giving His Life for all of us, as a Gift of Love.
And of course they are not able to believe that God became One of us, when in fact, they don't even believe that God exists.... so they say.
So.. if they can't seem to relate at all to the idea of "laying down your life for a friend" as perfect Love, then certainly they are going to have huge issues with "Love your enemies ", = Jesus laying down His LIFE for those who hated Him when He was on the earth, and also for those who have hated Him ever since He ascended back to His original home with the Father of Creation and Grace..
But im not here to talk about Atheists, im here to talk about the reason that works and obedience before you are saved, which can't save you, also can keep you saved after you are Born Again.
The Bumper Sticker reads like this..... "What Saved You, is what Saved You, accept no substitues", and that does not change the day after He saved you, nor does it change the last minute before you draw your last breath in your body, just before you meet your Savior.
"What Saved You, is what Saved You.....accept no substitutes.".
And the "What" is Jesus The Lord. This is why we call Him the Savior.
Kinda makes sense, doesn't it.
Now let me give that to you again....... all your good works, and all your obedience, and all your lifetime of 10 Commandment keeping that you can do- practice- and perfect, BEFORE YOU ARE SAVED (Born Again), cannot save you, and doing all this also can't keep you saved after you are born again.
So what does this really mean? .
Are you born again? Then listen Saint.. it means that you can live as holy a life as you could possibly live, every second of your life, never break the 10 commandments...and do all of this until you are 109 yrs old, and you will die and go straight to hell like a bullet if you die and are not Saved.
Jesus said.."you must be Born Again".
So, if the best you can do, is going to end you up in Hell if you are not born again.... then how can these same deeds, works, obedience, take your salvation away from you, once your are born again, if you don't do all the works, obedience, abiding, enduring.. and so forth that could not save you to begin with?
A.) ? = They Can't.
Were you ever taught by a doctrinally sound teacher of the Word of God, or by the Holy Spirit Himself when you were alone with Him, that "what can't save you, also can't cause you to lose your salvation".
And if neither of those have shown you this reality regarding Eternal Salvation, does your common sense not show it to you?
Sure it does.
Ask yourself......"if what i do, if all my good works, done perfectly, can't save me,.......... then how can these same works, affect my Eternal Salvation, once Jesus saves me, if i don't do what could not save me to begin with?
A.) ? What saved you, saved you, and what can't has no effect on it.....EVER.......>NOT EVER.
So, why can't being good, living holy, doing good deeds, and being a wonderful human being, get you into heaven, instead of directly into Hell after you die, if you are not SAVED?
Why?
Why can't your works, and enduring, and tithing, and church going, and holy living, and obedience to the 10 commandments, keep you out of HELL< after you die, if you are not Saved?
Its because none of that can give you what you have to have, before God will accept you.
Its because none of that can give you what you have to have, before God will accept you.
Its because no works you do, no obedience you can perform, no "living a good life", "being a good person", "helping orphans", "cleaning the church", , can give you what God requires that you MUST have before He will accept you and keep you.
= That's why.
Thats why a good life, a clean life, being a good person, being a wonderful human being, who does not drink, smoke, cuss, watch porn, or hate..... is just as hell bound as a God hating Christ Rejecting child molester.
Its because nothing you can do by SELF EFFORT, not ever, not EVER, will make you acceptable to God...........not ever.
Does this mean you should not live a holy life, a good life, a clean life? No. What it means is that you come to understand some Truth about Salvation, (if you've not yet).... so that you are not living your entire Christian life sort of confused and nervous regarding truly understanding WHO SAVES ANYONE who was ever saved..
Lets understand perfectly........ that only what God accepts to save you, is what saves you and keeps your saved.
God does not accept what an unbeliever believes and some fake christians say and teach saves them, which is....>"i'll do good, and some bad, and at the end God will judge all my works, and if my acts of good are a higher percentage then my bad, then JACKPOT !!< im in GLORY singing with the Angels."........Ummmm, no, you are in Hell once you die, and were going there the whole time you were breathing, thinking you were ok.
Ok, lets nail it down. Lets get it RIGHT.. and keep it there, forever.
You , me, us, we are born with a problem, that only God can solve. And this is why He came down here, reader.... The problem is that nothing we can do can make us RIGHTEOUS. Nothing..... And God will not have you, me, or us, in His Family, unless we are RIGHTEOUS..... As Righteous as HE IS. So, out the window and down the river just went all your lifetime of trying to be good so that God will have you. = He will NOT. As your good life is not RIGHTEOUS...it has no RIGHTEOUSNESS in it.
And what is Righteousness, dear Reader? Its God's holiness.
To be Righteous, (holy), is to be "made Righteous" by the blood of Jesus.
So, can all your good deeds make you Righteous? If so then don't worry about the Cross, and just keep on going to church while you are thinking you are accepted by God , when in fact you are not.
See it?
Now lets get REAL.
Jesus, the Bread of Heaven, the Prince of Glory, the Living Word, the Light of Life, the Sinless Son of God, Virgin Born, came down here to give you His Righteousness on a Cross so that God would have you as His OWN.
Understand?
And if that Righteousness has been given to you, then you are SAVED and will remain just as saved as God's Blood has made you HOLY<>Righteous. And this only happens because you have "believed on the Lord Jesus", and from your heart came this Faith that God accepted to SAVE YOU, and out of your mouth came the confession of your faith . And if you did this, then God has taken the Righteouness of Christ and He has given it to you, or as the word says.....He has "Made it unto you"...you are MADE RIGHTEOUS......and that is the only reason He will have you or keep you.
NO OTHER REASON, will He take you, accept you, or keep you.
So, can your works and lifestyle and obedience and confessing sin, do this for you?
NO < NO < NO< NEVER !!
So, again........... why are you saved?
Is is because of you? Did you do it? Can you do it ??? So then, if you didn't save yourself, and can't, then can you keep yourself saved?
NO.
Only God can save you, and only God can Keep you saved, because of HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS that He has given to you, that He now Accepts, to accept you.
"By faith you are saved and that not of yourself", "The Gift of Righteousness" "Justification by Faith".
And if you see this....if you get this, if you have this understanding, then you understand the Grace of God, and if you dont, and you are saved or not, you will think and believe that your works and your obedience, save you, or keep you saved, and in both cases that is a Self Deception. Its an Untruth, and a complete impossibility. It is in fact Satan's Lie.
God Himself had to give you His very Righteousness to take you, to Birth you, to have you, and to keep you.
Jesus is your only Righteousness, and if you have Him, if you are born again, then God has you.
So, Where are your works and your obedience? They are never ever accepted by God, to accept you. Not ever.
And if you can see this, if you can grab this, and grasp it, then you have understood the Blood Atonement and the Redemption that is only found where it is Given.
>The Cross".
"It is NOT by works of righteousness (that we do) but by and according to God's Mercy, = He saved us".
God's "mercy" is Jesus on The Cross dying for your sin, so that by this sacrifice, God is able to give you in place of your Sin, Christ's Righteousness. And that is WHY and the only WAY, that God will have you and keep you.
What are your works and your obedience compared to the Holy Blood of Jesus The Christ?
Do you see this???
"Jesus is the Way". And His Righteousness given to you, as He took your sin and became your Sin Bearer on the Cross, = is the only means that God supplied Himself to accept you, and there is no other way to be accepted by God.
"God who began your salvation in you, will himself be faithful to complete it". And He did all this on the Cross, and gives it to you (by Faith) as the "gift of Righteousness".
So, where are your works and 10 commandment keeping in all that?
They are not found in God's Righteousness. Not ever.
Salvation, is God's Righteousness, (Christ on the Cross), given to you as the "Gift of Righteousness".
Christians understand the Cross as The Love of God poured out as The Blood of Jesus on the Cross, and Atheists, generally consider the Cross as anything but the Love Of God.
Atheists, that ive talked to, over much time... in general, can't really wrap their head around the idea of God giving His Life for all of us, as a Gift of Love.
And of course they are not able to believe that God became One of us, when in fact, they don't even believe that God exists.... so they say.
So.. if they can't seem to relate at all to the idea of "laying down your life for a friend" as perfect Love, then certainly they are going to have huge issues with "Love your enemies ", = Jesus laying down His LIFE for those who hated Him when He was on the earth, and also for those who have hated Him ever since He ascended back to His original home with the Father of Creation and Grace..
But im not here to talk about Atheists, im here to talk about the reason that works and obedience before you are saved, which can't save you, also can keep you saved after you are Born Again.
The Bumper Sticker reads like this..... "What Saved You, is what Saved You, accept no substitues", and that does not change the day after He saved you, nor does it change the last minute before you draw your last breath in your body, just before you meet your Savior.
"What Saved You, is what Saved You.....accept no substitutes.".
And the "What" is Jesus The Lord. This is why we call Him the Savior.
Kinda makes sense, doesn't it.
Now let me give that to you again....... all your good works, and all your obedience, and all your lifetime of 10 Commandment keeping that you can do- practice- and perfect, BEFORE YOU ARE SAVED (Born Again), cannot save you, and doing all this also can't keep you saved after you are born again.
So what does this really mean? .
Are you born again? Then listen Saint.. it means that you can live as holy a life as you could possibly live, every second of your life, never break the 10 commandments...and do all of this until you are 109 yrs old, and you will die and go straight to hell like a bullet if you die and are not Saved.
Jesus said.."you must be Born Again".
So, if the best you can do, is going to end you up in Hell if you are not born again.... then how can these same deeds, works, obedience, take your salvation away from you, once your are born again, if you don't do all the works, obedience, abiding, enduring.. and so forth that could not save you to begin with?
A.) ? = They Can't.
Were you ever taught by a doctrinally sound teacher of the Word of God, or by the Holy Spirit Himself when you were alone with Him, that "what can't save you, also can't cause you to lose your salvation".
And if neither of those have shown you this reality regarding Eternal Salvation, does your common sense not show it to you?
Sure it does.
Ask yourself......"if what i do, if all my good works, done perfectly, can't save me,.......... then how can these same works, affect my Eternal Salvation, once Jesus saves me, if i don't do what could not save me to begin with?
A.) ? What saved you, saved you, and what can't has no effect on it.....EVER.......>NOT EVER.
So, why can't being good, living holy, doing good deeds, and being a wonderful human being, get you into heaven, instead of directly into Hell after you die, if you are not SAVED?
Why?
Why can't your works, and enduring, and tithing, and church going, and holy living, and obedience to the 10 commandments, keep you out of HELL< after you die, if you are not Saved?
Its because none of that can give you what you have to have, before God will accept you.
Its because none of that can give you what you have to have, before God will accept you.
Its because no works you do, no obedience you can perform, no "living a good life", "being a good person", "helping orphans", "cleaning the church", , can give you what God requires that you MUST have before He will accept you and keep you.
= That's why.
Thats why a good life, a clean life, being a good person, being a wonderful human being, who does not drink, smoke, cuss, watch porn, or hate..... is just as hell bound as a God hating Christ Rejecting child molester.
Its because nothing you can do by SELF EFFORT, not ever, not EVER, will make you acceptable to God...........not ever.
Does this mean you should not live a holy life, a good life, a clean life? No. What it means is that you come to understand some Truth about Salvation, (if you've not yet).... so that you are not living your entire Christian life sort of confused and nervous regarding truly understanding WHO SAVES ANYONE who was ever saved..
Lets understand perfectly........ that only what God accepts to save you, is what saves you and keeps your saved.
God does not accept what an unbeliever believes and some fake christians say and teach saves them, which is....>"i'll do good, and some bad, and at the end God will judge all my works, and if my acts of good are a higher percentage then my bad, then JACKPOT !!< im in GLORY singing with the Angels."........Ummmm, no, you are in Hell once you die, and were going there the whole time you were breathing, thinking you were ok.
Ok, lets nail it down. Lets get it RIGHT.. and keep it there, forever.
You , me, us, we are born with a problem, that only God can solve. And this is why He came down here, reader.... The problem is that nothing we can do can make us RIGHTEOUS. Nothing..... And God will not have you, me, or us, in His Family, unless we are RIGHTEOUS..... As Righteous as HE IS. So, out the window and down the river just went all your lifetime of trying to be good so that God will have you. = He will NOT. As your good life is not RIGHTEOUS...it has no RIGHTEOUSNESS in it.
And what is Righteousness, dear Reader? Its God's holiness.
To be Righteous, (holy), is to be "made Righteous" by the blood of Jesus.
So, can all your good deeds make you Righteous? If so then don't worry about the Cross, and just keep on going to church while you are thinking you are accepted by God , when in fact you are not.
See it?
Now lets get REAL.
Jesus, the Bread of Heaven, the Prince of Glory, the Living Word, the Light of Life, the Sinless Son of God, Virgin Born, came down here to give you His Righteousness on a Cross so that God would have you as His OWN.
Understand?
And if that Righteousness has been given to you, then you are SAVED and will remain just as saved as God's Blood has made you HOLY<>Righteous. And this only happens because you have "believed on the Lord Jesus", and from your heart came this Faith that God accepted to SAVE YOU, and out of your mouth came the confession of your faith . And if you did this, then God has taken the Righteouness of Christ and He has given it to you, or as the word says.....He has "Made it unto you"...you are MADE RIGHTEOUS......and that is the only reason He will have you or keep you.
NO OTHER REASON, will He take you, accept you, or keep you.
So, can your works and lifestyle and obedience and confessing sin, do this for you?
NO < NO < NO< NEVER !!
So, again........... why are you saved?
Is is because of you? Did you do it? Can you do it ??? So then, if you didn't save yourself, and can't, then can you keep yourself saved?
NO.
Only God can save you, and only God can Keep you saved, because of HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS that He has given to you, that He now Accepts, to accept you.
"By faith you are saved and that not of yourself", "The Gift of Righteousness" "Justification by Faith".
And if you see this....if you get this, if you have this understanding, then you understand the Grace of God, and if you dont, and you are saved or not, you will think and believe that your works and your obedience, save you, or keep you saved, and in both cases that is a Self Deception. Its an Untruth, and a complete impossibility. It is in fact Satan's Lie.
God Himself had to give you His very Righteousness to take you, to Birth you, to have you, and to keep you.
Jesus is your only Righteousness, and if you have Him, if you are born again, then God has you.
So, Where are your works and your obedience? They are never ever accepted by God, to accept you. Not ever.
And if you can see this, if you can grab this, and grasp it, then you have understood the Blood Atonement and the Redemption that is only found where it is Given.
>The Cross".
"It is NOT by works of righteousness (that we do) but by and according to God's Mercy, = He saved us".
God's "mercy" is Jesus on The Cross dying for your sin, so that by this sacrifice, God is able to give you in place of your Sin, Christ's Righteousness. And that is WHY and the only WAY, that God will have you and keep you.
What are your works and your obedience compared to the Holy Blood of Jesus The Christ?
Do you see this???
"Jesus is the Way". And His Righteousness given to you, as He took your sin and became your Sin Bearer on the Cross, = is the only means that God supplied Himself to accept you, and there is no other way to be accepted by God.
"God who began your salvation in you, will himself be faithful to complete it". And He did all this on the Cross, and gives it to you (by Faith) as the "gift of Righteousness".
So, where are your works and 10 commandment keeping in all that?
They are not found in God's Righteousness. Not ever.
Salvation, is God's Righteousness, (Christ on the Cross), given to you as the "Gift of Righteousness".
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