Scripture Rereces: Ephesians 2:8
Make no mistake about it if God does not save us, then wewill never be saved. The apostle Paul clearly reveals how God saves us, butevidently most cannot see the truth of it, but looks at this verse of scripturewith a carnal mind. Paul is not telling us that we are saved by a mere faith inthe person of Christ, but rather we are saved "through faith" which means weare being saved as we walk in, believe, and obey Gods word as it is revealed byrevelation of the Spirit of God in a daily process. Many will rebel againstthis truth and remain dead in their sins and end up suffering the consequencesof the second death in the lake of fire. Most fail to take into considerationthe two words that says "THROUGH FAITH" and they are led to believe they aresaved by an instant act of God by faith when they confess belief on Christaccepting him as their Lord and Savior. Seeing and knowing they are still inbondage to sin by believing that, it seems they would know that is not thetruth of the matter.
Nowhere in scripture does it say that a person is saved inan instant of time, but yet ninety some percent of confessing Christians holdon to that belief still leaving them prone to sin in their life. The problem isthat they don't truly know what it means to be saved. To be saved simply meansto be saved "FROM SIN", but most believe they are saved "IN SIN." They don'tseem to know the difference between the words from and in. The word "from"means to be separated or removed and the word "in" means to remain somewhere.To think that God saves a person leaving them in their sin is to say or believethat Gods salvation is not sufficient to actually save from sin, but hissalvation can do above what we think or even believe. Why would God save anyonein their sin when sin itself is rebellion against God? Did not sin separateAdam from God in the garden? To be separated from God means there is nofellowship one with the other. Sin is doing things that is totally against Godsnature and it will at the same time cause much hurt and devastation in your thelife you live. Sin is like a disease that is constantly eating away at the bodyuntil it will die. There are many life threatening sicknesses and diseases thattakes the life of multiplied millions every year.
Sin will cause mans way of living to become corrupt andimmoral and will also be the cause of serious health problems as well. Sintakes it's toll on the whole man that consists of a body, a soul, and a spirit.The wages of sin, which is the final results that it will produce, is bothphysical and spiritual death. Anyone who dies in a sinful state will suffer theconsequences of the second death in the lake that burns with fire andbrimstone.
It was the apostle James that also reveals how God saves usin what he said in James 1:21-22 that says, "Wherefore lay apart all filthinessand superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word,which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearersonly, deceiving your own selves." James is very clearly revealing here that it'sthe word of God that saves the soul, but notice he also tells us to be doers ofthe word and not just a hearer only and thereby deceiving ourselves. To be adoer of the word simply means to do what it instructs us to do, but today wehear the clergy saying there is nothing we can do in order to be saved, but whoare you going to believe what they say or what Gods word says?
Only the truth of Gods word can and will solve the sinproblem for mankind, but evidently most people loves the darkness of sin morethan the light of truth that will solve their problem of sin. The apostle Paulclearly reveals how God has chosen us to salvation as revealed in IIThessalonians 2: 13 that says, "But we are bound to give thanks alway to Godfor you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginningchosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of thetruth." We must believe and obey Gods word in order to be saved, but the massesof people are believing what man has to say about it instead of taking God athis word and obey it. The same was true with Eve when she believed and acceptedwhat the serpent told her instead of allowing God to be true. God told Adam inthe day he ate of the tree he would die, but the serpent said they would notsurely die and so Eve was deceived into eating of the tree and she in turn gaveit to Adam and they died exactly as God said.
Adam and Eve did not die a physical death, but rather it wasa spiritual death into sin and separation from God. Sin is what keeps mankindseparated from God, because a life of sin is a life of rebellion against God.It was the prophet Isaiah that tells us these words in Isaiah 59:1-2 that says,"Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his earheavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you andyour God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear." Themany false prophets doctrines in the world today has deceived millions intobelieving that God saved them leaving them in bondage yet to sin, but that is alie of the devil and has caused multiplied millions to speak lies in hypocrisy.Anybody who says they are saved or born again and still live in and commit sinare speaking lies in hypocrisy, because I John 3:9 clearly tells us thatwhosoever is born of God does not and further more cannot commit sin, becausethey are born of God. But this scripture is being ignored and because of thatmillions will die in their sins and be eternally lost.
Instead of people believing what Gods word says, they likeEve are believing the lies of the serpent to be damned. The apostle Paul warnsus about this, which is the mystery of iniquity that will cause all mankindonce again to end up in a state of apostasy, as it was in Noah's day. Mankindwill end up in this same condition by corrupting his way as the people did justbefore the flood came and destroyed them all, with the exception of Noah andhis family. The world today has been led to believe all the lies of Satan throughhis many ministers that has perverted the one true gospel. Of all the manyreligions in the world today with their multiplied millions who believe andfollow them, only the true teachings of Christ will impart salvation to thebeliever. But as we look into the realm of the confessing Christian world withit's many millions of followers, it's plain to see that they as well havecorrupted themselves being totally void and ignorant of the truths of Godsword. Christianity is nothing more or less than a multiplied millions ofsinners just calling themselves Christians, as they continue to live in theirpleasures of sin.
The word "Christian" means Christ-like, but a sinner is notlike Christ, because Christ was no sinner nor a preacher of sin like the greatestmajority of today's clergy are. Sin is what determines who a person is of,whether it be of God or of Satan the devil. It was the apostle John thatreveals the truth of it in what he said in I John 3:8-10 that says, " He thatcommitteth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. Forthis purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works ofthe devil.
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seedremaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. In this thechildren of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doethnot righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother."
What John says in these scriptures is the plumbline that weare to go by, but listen how millions of confessing Christians are stillclaiming to be sinners living right on in sin and yet call themselves bornagain Christians. They are nothing more than mockers of Gods holy word and astench to His nostrils. So we can only be saved by Gods way folks; not by theblind ideas and ways of man today...