Tong2020 said:
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Granting, for the sake of argument, the Christian, while is saved, has no assurance from Jesus Christ that he cannot be unsaved, how do you answer the questions:
1. How will he be unsaved?
2. If he be unsaved, can he be saved again?
3. If he be unsaved and can be saved again, how can he be saved again?
4. In #1, was the work Christ for him been wasted? Had Christ failed to keep him?
5. in #3, since this is a getting save matter yet again, how is the work of Jesus part of this? Is Jesus part of this salvation again? If so, how is he saved by Jesus?
How to be unsaved is found in every warning by Paul to the brethren that lining sinfully will keep them from heaven.
Paul warned the brethren in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 that living a lifestyle stealing, of drunkenness or adultery, etc, will keep them out of heaven.
In that passage,
Paul warns some of the believers that they are defrauding their brethren, (which is stealing, being a thief) then warns them that stealing, and other sins, will keep them from heaven:
1Co 6:8 Nay, ye do wrong, and DEFRAUD and that your. BRETHREN.
1Co 6:9
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? BE NOT DECEIVED: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
1Co 6:10
Nor THIEVES (such as those who DEFRAUD their brethren, verse 8) nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners,
shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Notice that in verse 11 Paul says that some of brethren used to do those things but stopped after salvation, but yet some of the other brethren were sinning by stealing from the others (by defrauding them), hence Paul’s warning.
Another warning by Paul, to the saints of God, about living a sinful lifestyle as a child of God:
Eph 5:1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
Eph 5:3
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh SAINTS.
Eph 5:4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
Eph 5:5
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath ANY inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Eph 5:6
Let no man DECEIVE you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the WRATH of God upon the children of disobedience.
Eph 5:7
Be not YE therefore partakers WITH them.
How to be a son of God, die in your sin, and become alive again, and thus be saved again, is found in the prodigal son.
In the prodigal son story, the father represents God, the son represents believers.
He’s already a son when the story starts.
He leaves the father to live in sin
When he returns to the father in repentance, the father says:
this is my son WHO WAS DEAD, but is now alive AGAIN, he WAS LOST, but now IS FOUND.
Luk 15:32 It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother *was dead*, and is *alive again*; and *was lost*, and *is found*.
He obviously wasn’t dead physically and then resurrected.
How then was he dead?
He was dead in his sins.
Eph 2:1 And you hath he quickened,
who WERE DEAD in *trespasses and sins*
Thus the son was alive, left his Father to live a sinful life, became DEAD in his sins, then returned in repentance, and became alive AGAIN.
Christians are called to a life of righteousness, such as avoiding sexual sins as part of our sanctification:
1Th 4:3 For this is the will of God, YOUR SANCTIFICATION: that you abstain from sexual immorality;
1Th 4:4 that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
1Th 4:5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;
1Th 4:6 that no one transgress and wrong his BROTHER in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly WARNED you.
1Th 4:7 For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.
1Th 4:8 Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
Our sanctification is to abstain from sexual immorality, verse 3, above.
We are expected and required as believers, to live the most sinless life we can, and to repent when we know we’ve sinned.
In Galatians 5, Paul lists the works of the flesh, which defines what is meant in Romans 8 about walking after the flesh, instead of after the spirit:
Gal 5:16 ThisI say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Gal 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Gal 5:18 But IF ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Gal 5:19 Now the WORKS OF THE FLESH are manifest, which are these;Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Gal 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Gal 5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like:
of the which I tell YOU again, as I have also told youin time past, that they which DO such things shall NOT inherit the kingdom of God.