Are you born again?
Thats a very specific >event.
Its something that God caused, and you can't ever change.
The only reason you will go to heaven, is because you are born again.
The only reason you will go to hell, is if you are not.
Jesus said "you MUST be born again", or you cannot SEE or enter into the Kingdom of God"
Being born again is
not a process.
Discipelship is the process, so, dont confuse being born gain, or being eternally secure, with learning how to operate within, your Christianity, which is discipleship.
Most Christians confuse Salvation, which is God caused and completed with discipleship, which is the daily lifestyle stuff you do = because you are already born again and have eternal life.
Salvation is not water baptism. Salvation is a SPIRITUAL BIRTH, that is to be "born again... and that is obviously not just getting your body wet in a pool or a tub or in a river or in a "baptismal" whatever.
Its you being transformed INTO a "New Creation", "In Christ" = by GOD's HOLY SPIRIT.
It's God Birthing you, into Himself......as "One with God and Christ".
You can't cause that, and that is why you have no power over it, once God completes it, in you.
You should be able to point to the exact moment when you came to the Cross, kneeled before Jesus in HEART FAITH, and your heart was CHANGED. = born again....by the Spirit of God
into the Spirit of God....= "in Christ".
You are IN THERE< if you are born again.
This does not have to happen in a Church.
But it does have to HAPPEN, or you are not born again, and you are just religious and very affiliated with "Christian Stuff".
If you die like that.....you get this...>"depart from ME, i never KNEW YOU".
One of the specific evidences of this "conversion experience" is that you will SEE SIN.
You will notice the sinful.
In other words, what use to be fun and daily living........you suddenly SEE these as "sin" and "sinning"..
Suddenly your unbelieving mama is a sinner in your eyes.
Suddenly you recognize that some of your best friends are dirty sinning unbelieving fornicators, who are currently going to HELL.
And before, you never SAW THIS> about them..
Ahhhhhh....
See that CHANGE?
You can't cause those "new eyes" to exist....
Understand?
And that is the Holy Spirit in you, in operation... that has changed your conscience, renewed it, so that it became really sensitive to SIN....
Saint, the unbelievers, of which you use to be,....dont SEE sin....they just enjoy it as "life".
But the born again, SEE sin, we are sensitive to it, and it becomes what we avoid, naturally.
The sinner, naturally enjoys Sinning, and has no conscience regarding it at all and embraces it, chases it, and live in it.
The only time a sinner is sorry for their sin, is when they get caught and are in big big trouble., and that is not really being sorry for sinning, that is just being upset that they are in big trouble.
So, if you are born again, and you believe you can lose your salvation, its because you were taught this deception, or its because you have sinned after you were saved, and became condemned about this, and started trying to be good enough for God to accept.
Once you developed that mind set, you are fallen from Grace.
So, how do you get out of a self saving mental stronghold and into the rest and comfort of right believing?
1.) First you have to realize that you are trying to keep yourself saved, so that you can then realize how utterly impossible this is.......its impossible.
Saint, you can no more keep yourself saved then you could save yourself to begin with..
See, Salvation is all of God, provided as a Gift.
Salvation is not about demanding from you.....but rather its God giving to you.
The Law demands.
Grace supplies.
2.) Think of it like this..
Before you are saved....... you can live a good life, be a good person, do good works.........and can any of that save you?
Can you forgive your own sin, by your good works?
If you can, then why did Jesus have to die?
So, if you have become flipped, subverted in your faith by a deceiver....then you are trusting in those deeds to keep you saved, = that could not save you before you were saved.
See how backwards is your believing?
See how wrong it is????
Its upside down, Saint.
Its spiritual darkness, and many will be found on Forums and in Pulpits trying to keep you in it.
3.) And so..... to see all that ......is
THE Light Switch.
And if you are a Legalist, a self saver, then when you can see this Light, you can begin to escape from a twisted faith that has left real faith in Christ.
Let say you are a "enduring to the end" deceived.
So, isn't your enduring, to try to do good deeds and try to be good, and try to live holy?
And if you did all that, if you "present your body a living sacrifice for God".... and are not born again, would it save you?
NOPE. !!
SEE, you have left faith in Christ, and are trying to "endure to the end", by doing self effort deeds, that can't save you to begin with, that you now think and believe you have to do, to Stay Saved.
So, see how backwards and Jesus rejecting that is ????......Its actually Cross rejection to think like that...to believe like that, and to teach that deception.
That is a deceptive STRONGHOLD in your mind that has to be taken down, which means...it has to be replaced by RIGHT BELIEVING.
Do you see?
4.) So, all wrong believing is related to trying to make yourself right with God, or keep yourself right with God.......and that is...>
>= SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS.
And all who teach this are Cross denying legalists...as that teaching and that believing opposes GOD's Righteousness that is GIVEN TO YOU as "the Gift of Righteousness" that is all God accepts, to accept you and keep you.
See, God only Accepts His own Righteousness.
He does not accept yours, that is your self effort, because you have no righteousness of yourself.
All you ever had was a life of SIN that you presented to God that He dealt with, using The Blood of Jesus.
Salvation is God coming here, to give you His Righteousness, so that He can accept you and keep you.
God creating and delivering this "Gift of Righteousness" is found In the Blood of Jesus that is provided by The CROSS and the DEATH and the Resurrection, of God, who is Jesus THE Christ.
5.) So, when you think that YOU can LOSE your Salvation, its because you dont BELIEVE that JESUS is your Salvation, or even understand this yet.
You have stopped BELIEVING THIS, or you never understood it to begin with.....and are now trying to be YOUR OWN Savior, by "enduring" or " commandment keeping".......etc.
So, STOP doing that.
Stop thinking that way.
Stop listening to deceivers who have trapped you inside a broken Cross rejecting backwards faith.
SEE YOURSELF in that situation, and REPENT if you are trying to keep yourself saved.
(Repent) = IS to change your mind = away from what is deception.
And in this case , change it BACK to Right Believing.
Change your mind back to : "Jesus who saved me KEEPS ME SAVED".
Change your mind back to : Philippians 1:6. "God who Himself began salvation in all the born again, will HIMSELF be FAITHFUL to
complete it".
And if you have never seen this, then believe it right now, and go to
Hebrews 13:9 and live in that
GRACE verse for the rest of your life.
That is a MUST DO.
