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Behold

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Reader,

Salvation is the End of Salvation., but its not the end of what happens to the "Heir of God, after they die.

In other words........

Jesus is Salvation.

That's the "end of it"..... for all those who are Born again.

The best and clearest way to understand this is to recognize that the Born again : START Finished.

The born again, cant become more SAVED, more REDEEMED, because their Redemption and Salvation is JESUS Himself.

You cant "take it from there"....as He is the END., or as Jesus told you from the CROSS....>"IT is FINISHED"

A.) ""IT""", is SALVATION.. Redemption.. Justification.... = The Blood Atonement.. the NEW Covenant.


What you can do, is live a life that is sacrificially given to God, as your "reasonable service",...Romans 12:1..... and if you fail there, then just remember that Jesus Didnt Fail YOU on the Cross., and His Cross provides the only REASON that the born again received Salvation, and will receive the New Body,.. the inheritance, and the "conforming into the image of Christ"..

Now there is a Judgement Seat of Christ, and that is not related to the eternal inheritance,, that all CHRISTians will receive, because you are an "HEIR of God"..

The Judgement seat, is different, and we the born again will go there, and its a rewards banquet... is the clearest way to understand it.

'"What have you done in MY BODY"... And Christ will take a look at all the works you did for Him, and God, after you were saved.

A.) Your works will be judged according to your Heart MOTIVE for doing them...., and rewards will follow, or not.

Also, you can earn CROWNS , .. and one of them is to "keep the faith".... and never lose it, never become cold or backslidden.....your entire Christian Life.

Paul teaches this as...>"I have finished my course, and i have Kept the Faith, therefore there is laid up for me, in Heaven""... "A Crown."

That one is difficult to achieve, the most difficult, as it requires a devotion to God, that is unwavering, throughout the entire lifetime of the Believer.

Now, it could be that being Martyr'd for Christ is the most difficult to comply with.......but that is a unique case, usually.
 
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Are you familiar with the term, 'speaking out of both sides of your mouth' ?
 
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Jesus is Salvation.

God offers Jesus, on The Cross, as ... John 14:6.... "I am THE WAY... " "No person comes to the FATHER, but by ME">.

This eliminates ..

Water baptism
Commandment keeping
Self effort


"By me" = because i have died for all your sin,


"God hath made JESUS to be sin for us"...


Therefore..... you now have the opportunity to become reconciled to God, based on My shed BLOOD, and my Death, and my Resurrection., as this is the "new Covenant".

John 3:16

"Whosoever".... is "everyone is invited". "all are called"... "to AS MANY as will believe"..