Can you lose your salvation?
(Excerpt from Finding the Way)
- Isaiah 43:11: Who is God according to this verse? ______________
- "I, even I, am the Lord, and there is no savior besides Me." Isaiah 43:11
- What does Savior mean? _____________________________________
- John 1:12-13: Followers are children of God by whose will? _________________
- But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:12-13
- Ephesians 1:11-14: If the Holy Spirit seals followers, how do you unseal something God has done? ___________________________
- Also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will, to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of His glory. In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation- having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory. Ephesians 1:11-14
- Romans 8:15-16: If followers are adopted into God's family, what family court can remove you?
- For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, "Abba! Father!" The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God. Romans 8:15-16
- Titus 3:5: If our deeds did not save us, then how can our sinful deeds relinquish a gift from God?
- He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, Titus 3:5