You know the problem with having large muscles? You have to continue to work them in order for them to maintain their strength and tone.
Not surprisingly, the same is true with your salvation.
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At the first, you accept Yeshua is the Messiah God promised to send, you confess your sins and repent, faithfully asking that by means of Yeshua’s sacrifice, you be forgiven.
Ta Dah! You’re now saved, meaning that your sins have been forgiven, you are clean as new fallen snow, and from this moment on, for the rest of your life, you to work at staying this way.
Huh? Waddaya mean, “stay this way”? I am forgiven, I am saved- there’s nothin’ else I need to do.
Well, that’s what most Christians are told, but the truth is different. The sins that were forgiven were the ones you already committed, but now you have to remain sinless.
The big lie (among many others) that Christianity has been teaching is that once saved, always saved (known as the OSAS lie), but if you sin, you are not going to be allowed into God’s presence.
Don’t take my word for it, let’s see what God says about this.
In Ezekiel 33:12-16, God tells us that those who are righteous, but turn from that lifestyle and commit crimes (i.e., sin), their righteous past will not save them. Conversely, the sinner who turns from his sinfulness and acts righteously will be saved; his sinful past will not be held against him. And God repeats this in that same chapter, later on in verses 18 through 23.
There’s one thing we can know for certain: when God says something twice, he really means it!
So, when you are saved, you must continue to live in a manner that keeps that salvation intact. Oh, yeah, it’s true that no one can take our salvation away from us, but what should scare the heck out of all of us is the fact is that we can throw it away!
So, the idea that you must use it or lose it means you need to know what God wants from you and to live that way, which is generally not the way most Christian religions tell you to live. The sad fact is that most Christian religions will tell you you don’t need to do most anything that God says he wants you to do, because that is all “Jewish stuff”.
Well, guess what? That “Jewish stuff” is what Yeshua did, and the idea that he did away with it all is so ridiculous, I am constantly amazed that anyone with any knowledge of the Bible would ever think that could be true. I mean, really? The Son of God, the Messiah, sent to die for people so their sins could be forgiven, having done that no longer requires us to be lawful or righteous, but rather to ignore his father’s commandments, to reject the rules and regulations God commanded us to obey, and to replace every one of the Holy Days he ordered us to celebrate with some man-made holiday.
And once we receive forgiveness, we don’t have to repent any more, we don’t have to change how we live or do anything different?
C’mon, now, does that really make sense?
This is what you need to do to avoid losing the salvation you received: you must truly repent of what you have done in the past (and you better really mean it- God isn’t stupid, you know- he knows your heart and mind), ask forgiveness and do t’shuvah (turn from sin) for the rest of your life, for every sin you will commit.
That’s right! The hard truth of it all is that salvation isn’t a “once-and-done” thing, it is a muscle you have to continually work out, constantly keep in shape, and never allow to depreciate through lack of use.
I pray every morning, and ask God to forgive me for whatever sins I have or may have committed. I figure I may not know what I have done, but God does, so I better ask for forgiveness just to cover my tuchas.
Here is your daily exercise- read the Bible (and I mean the entire Bible), learn what God wants from you and reject any religion that tells you you don’t have to obey God.
The Christian church teaches that you only have to obey the “Law of Christ”, which has to be the way he lived, right? Well, we know that he lived according to the Torah, otherwise his sacrifice would not have been accepted, so the “Law of Christ” IS the Torah!
I know, what a bummer! Well, it’s your salvation, use it or lose it… it’s up to you.
Thank you for being here, and please remember to share these messages with everyone you know, even non-believers. Hey, after all, you never know how fertile the soil is until you plant a seed in it.
That’s it for today, so l’hitraot and Baruch HaShem!