marhig
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The will of God is that all men be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4 KJV).
By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast (Ephesians 2:8-9 KJV). It's by grace (Romans 11:6 KJV).
You can't earn it (Romans 4:4-5 KJV, Titus 3:5 KJV) and it cannot be taken away from you (Ephesians 1:13-14 KJV).
You can be saved right now, right where you are without so much as wiggling your little finger when you trust the Lord believing that Christ died for YOUR sins and that He was buried and rose again the third day as declared by Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 KJV.
It doesn't say anywhere that I have to believe that Christ died on a wooden cross for my sins, to be saved. We are saved by the grace of God through faith. Faith, and the life of Christ saves, the only death God wants is the death of our flesh, our fleshly lusts and sinful ways. And this is done by the life of Christ within our hearts, through the spirit. Only Satan would teach that you can still sin and be saved. As he did to Eve. He was a liar from the beginning and he still lies. Sin and God don't mix. If we belong to Christ and we are living by the will of God and walking in the spirit, then will be turning from sin.
And there's a whole lot more that I have to do than just sit back and do nothing not even wiggle my little finger, for a start I won't be forgiven of anything until I truly repent.
As for eternal salvation, only God knows who are eternally saved. We are saved from our past sins and then daily by the spirit within, teaching, guiding and turning from sin and we are to listen, suffer and deny those sins, and as the spirit puts our flesh to death, we become stronger in the spirit and stronger in God. Paul said that he died daily, he was putting away his flesh everyday, being put to death by the spirit so that Christ could live through him. How can others see Christ in us if we are still living the will and the lusts of our flesh? They have to go, so that Christ can live. We must decrease and he must increase. Our old man gone and replaced with a new man which is Christ in the heart. His life should be covering us inside and out so that we are seen no more. Our life is hidden in Christ and he is seen through us.
If you believe that you can continue to live your life in the flesh, living by your will and by the lusts of the flesh, and that Jesus dying on the cross means that God doesn't see the sins you're wilfully committing, and that you're saved and going heaven regardless of how you live, then your very much mistaken. When we repent we are saved of our past sins, we are then to turn from sin and live by the will of God, and the holy spirit will give us the strength to overcome, if we keep our faith and trust in God and deny ourselves and follow Jesus.
Romans 3
Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus