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Will born again believer in Christ  lose their salvation when they sin ? by Ron Graham - twotug@embarqmail.com “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus,” Romans 8:1. Condemnation is a sphere of entrapment used by Satan and his horde of malevolent misfits to enslave even the followers of Jesus Christ. Every time we stumble and commit a sin the enemy moves in to convince us that we are once again under God’s condemnation. If you are born again and yet you have allowed the enemy to entrap you thusly, it’s imperative you memorize the above verse. If you don’t fall into that category memorize it anyway. Satan will never stop his attacks. Consider the above verse your security blanket. “He that believeth on him (Jesus the Christ) is not condemned: John 3:18a. With this verse, Jesus’ words confirm the simplicity of salvation; believing “on Him” removes all condemnation “…but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in ...

  by Ray C. Stedman It was the summer of 1787. The heat in Philadelphia was oppressive and the delegates to the Constitutional Convention fanned themselves languidly and longed for adjournment. Debate had dragged on for days over the issue of how the States would be represented in Congress. Luther Martin of Maryland had held the floor for the best part of two days in a long-winded speech on States Rights that left everyone weary and querulous. The Convention faced an impasse. At this point aged Dr. Benjamin Franklin rose and addressed himself to General Washington in the Chair.     In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings? He went on to remind the Convention that at the beginning of the war with England the...

It all depends: What kind of truth do you want God’s word to be? We have been robbed and we are found guilty of an offense not committed by us and sent to prison on death roll.  It is an undeserved verdict that we persistently deplored.  God creates heaven and earth. He creates a man and a woman.  He puts them in a beautiful garden with one commandment; “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die,” Gen 2:16-17.  Adam had one commandment to observe. You would think that it would be easy after all the Jews had 613 commandments under the Mosaic Law and our secular society has thousands of legislated laws. So, what happened? Adam was tricked into eating the forbidden fruit and was thrown into prison on death roll.  Him and the woman got kick out of the Garden of Eden. He lost everything.  We also, as of today, suffer the consequence...

Everybody is saved: True or false? Didn’t Jesus die for all of us, for all our sins; the sins of all humanity, our past sins, our present sins, and even for the sins we will do in the future. We conclude that we are all saved. Yes? So why would Jesus stated, “For many are called, but few chosen” in Matthew 20:16?   He died for everybody. Therefore, many are called. So why few are chosen? The chosen ones, what did they do to be selected? What steps did they take to be saved? It is straightforward. If it were so basic than why would only a few know? The chosen fulfilled the only condition that needed to be saved.   They accepted Jesus as the one that God had sent. They believed that Jesus is the Son of God, who paid for the penalty of their sins, John 3:16. Therefore salvation is easy.   So why should others not be chosen.   This analogy will help understand. This analogy explains how easy it is to be saved and why many refuse to be saved. Jesus’ death and resurrec...