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VI. Salvation
Is it mine and who says whether it is or not?
Salvation comes from God alone!Psalm 3:8
"Salvation belongeth unto the LORD ..."
God, knowing us as He does,
knows that in the weakness of our flesh we will need, from time to time,
reassurance that we truly are saved. That we truly do possess God's
Salvation through Christ.
We can only praise Him for His love for us as His children that He will pick us
up when we
are down and soothe our fears with words of encouragement, assurance, and love.
He has even given us an example and a prayer for such occasions of human
weakness when we may start to look with the eyes of sight instead of the
eyes of faith and belief and we cry out to Him for help and assurance:
Mark 9:23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe,
all things are possible to him that believeth.
Mark 9:24 And straightway the father of the child
cried out, and said with tears,
"LORD, I BELIEVE; HELP THOU MINE UNBELIEF."
(Look up and read the context of these verses in Mark.)
In the study following are many words of
encouragement and assurance
from God our Saviour to help us know that His Salvation is truly ours.
These we need to learn so we can share them with others who
may be subject to the same fears from time to time. For as long
as there is a Devil to taunt and whisper, and as long as people
are in this flesh, the fears will be there- from time to time. Doc
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A. Repentance is
necessary.
The first criteria for Salvation and
assurance is: have we repented of our sins?
Luk 24:47 "And that __________ and
____________ __ ____ should be preached
in his name among all nations,
beginning at Jerusalem."
Act 5:31 "Him hath God exalted with his right hand to
be a Prince and a _________,
for to give _________ to Israel, and
____________ of sins."
Act 11:18 "When they heard these things, they held
their peace, and glorified God,
saying, Then hath God also to the
________ granted __________ unto ____."
Act 20:21 "Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the
Greeks, _________ toward
God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus
Christ."
Rom 2:4 "Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness
and forbearance and long-
suffering; not knowing that the
goodness of ___ _________ ___ to repentance?"
II Cor 7:9 "Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry,
but that ye sorrowed
to _________: for ye were made sorry
after a godly manner, that ye might
receive damage by us in
nothing."
II Cor 7:10 "For _____ ______ worketh
__________ to _________ not to be
repented of: but the sorrow of the
world worketh death."
Heb 6:1 "Therefore leaving the principles of the
doctrine of Christ, let us go on
unto perfection; not laying again the
foundation of _________ from dead ______,
and of faith toward God,"
Heb 6:2 "Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on
of hands, and of resurrection
of the dead, and of _______
_________."
II Pet 3:9 "The Lord is not slack
concerning his promise, as some men count
slackness; but is longsuffering to
us-ward, not willing that any should perish,
but that all should come to
________."
Mar 1:14 "Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus
came into Galilee, preaching
the gospel of the kingdom of
God,"
Mar 1:15
"And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at
hand: ______ ye, and _______ the
gospel."
It is obvious that the first step
of knowing that Salvation is ours is to check that we have met the
first criteria- have we repented of our dead works.
Heb 6:1 "Therefore leaving
the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on
unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of _________
from dead ______,
and of faith toward God,"
And that brings us to our 2nd
criteria- Faith and belief!
B. Faith and belief
are necessary
to work in conjunction with repentance.
Have we exercised faith and belief?
Act 20:21
"Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, ________
toward God, and ____ toward our Lord
Jesus Christ."
Hab 2:4 "Behold, his soul which
is lifted up is not upright in him:
but the just shall live by his
_____."
Act 26:18 "To open their eyes, and
to turn them from darkness to
light, and from the
power of Satan unto God, that they
may receive ___________ of sins, and inheritance
among them which are sanctified by
_____ that is in me."
Ro 3:22 "Even the righteousness of God which is
by _____ of Jesus Christ unto all
and upon all them that believe: for
there is no difference:"
Ro 3:24 "Being justified freely by his grace through the
redemption
that is in _____ _____:"
Ro 3:25 "Whom God hath set forth to be a
propitiation through _____ in
his _____, to declare his
righteousness for the remission of sins that
are past, through the forbearance of
God;"
Ro 3:26 "To declare, I say, at this time his
righteousness: that he might be just,
and the justifier of him which
_________ in Jesus."
Ro 3:27 "Where is boasting then? It is excluded.
By what law? of works?
Nay: but by the law of _____."
Ro 3:28 "Therefore we conclude that a man is
_________ __ _____ without
the deeds of the law."
Ro 3:29 "Is he the God of the Jews only? is he
not also of the Gentiles?
Yes, of the _______ also:"
Ro 3:30
"Seeing it is one God, which shall ______ the circumcision __ faith,
and uncircumcision ______
faith."
Ro 4:16
"Therefore it is of
_____, that it might be
__ _____; to the end the promise
might be sure to all the seed; not to
that only which is of the law, but to that also
which is of the _____ of Abraham; who
is the father of us all,"
Ro 5:1
"Therefore being _________ __ _____, we have peace with
God through our Lord Jesus
Christ:"
Ro 5:2
"By whom also we have access by _____ into this grace wherein we stand,
and rejoice in hope of the glory of
God."
Gal
2:16 "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by
the ____ of Jesus Christ, even we
have _________ in Jesus Christ, that we might
be justified by the _____ of Christ,
and ___ by the works of the law: for by the
works of the law shall no flesh be
justified."
Gal
3:7 "Know ye therefore that they which are of ____, the same are the
children
of Abraham."
Gal 3:8 "And the scripture, foreseeing that God would
justify the heathen
through _____, preached before the
gospel unto Abraham, saying,
In thee shall all nations be
blessed."
Gal 3:9 "So then they which be of _____ are blessed with
faithful Abraham."
Gal 3:11 "But that no man is justified by the law in the
sight of God, it is evident:
for, The just shall live by
_____."
Gal 3:23 "But before _____ came, we were kept under the
law, shut up unto
the _____ which should afterwards be
revealed."
Gal 3:24 "Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to
bring us unto Christ,
that we might be justified by
_____."
Gal
3:25 "But after that _____ is come, we are __ _______ under a
schoolmaster."
Gal 3:26 "For ye are all the children of God __
_____ in Christ Jesus."
C. Have we accepted Jesus Christ as Saviour; and that, by God's grace alone?
This is the third criteria for
assurance that Salvation is ours.
Ro 1:16 "For I am not ashamed of the ______ of
Christ: for it is the ______ of
God unto _________ to every one that
__________; to the Jew first, and also
to the Greek."
Heb 4:2 "For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as
unto them: but the word
preached did not profit them, not
being mixed with _____ in them that heard it."
Jo 3:15 "That whosoever ________ in him should not
perish, but have ______ ____."
Jo 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his
only begotten Son, that
whosoever _________ in him should not
perish, but ____ everlasting life."
Jo 3:17 "For God sent not his Son into the world to
condemn the world;
but that the world through him might
be _______."
Jo 3:18 "He that _________ on him is not condemned: but
he that believeth ___ is
condemned already, because he hath
not _______ in the name of the only begotten
Son of God."
Eph 2:4 "But God, who is rich in _____, for his great
____ wherewith he loved us,"
Eph 2:5 "Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened
us together with Christ,
(by ____ ye are saved;)"
Eph 2:6 "And hath raised us up together, and made
us sit together
in heavenly places in
_____ ______:"
Eph 2:7 "That in the ages to come he might shew the
exceeding riches of
his _____ in his kindness
toward us through _____ _____."
Eph 2:8 "For by _____ are ye saved through _____; and
that not of yourselves:
it is the ____ of
God:"
Eph 2:9 "Not of _____, lest any man should boast."
Gal 2:21 "I do not frustrate the _____ of God: for if
righteousness come
by the law, then Christ is dead in
_____."
Php 3:9 "And be found in him, not having mine own
righteousness, which is of
the law, but that which is through
the _____ of Christ, the ___________ which
is of God by _____:"
I Tim 1:14 "And the grace of our Lord was exceeding
abundant with _____ and
love which is in Christ Jesus."
I Tim 1:15 "This is a faithful saying, and worthy
of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus
came into the world to _____ sinners;
of whom I am chief."
I Tim 1:16 "Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy,
that in me first Jesus
Christ might shew forth all
longsuffering, for a pattern to them which
should hereafter _______ on him to
____ __________."
II Tim 3:15 "And that from a child thou hast known the
holy scriptures, which are able
to make thee wise unto __________
through _____ which is in Christ Jesus."
Ro 10:8 "... The word is nigh thee, even in thy
mouth, and in thy heart: that is,
the word of ____, which we
preach;"
Ro 10:9 "That if thou shalt _______ with thy mouth the
Lord Jesus,
and shalt _______ in thine heart that
God hath raised him from the
dead, thou shalt be saved."
Ro 10:10 "For with the heart man ________ unto
righteousness;
and with the mouth confession is made
unto __________."
D. Assurance that
Salvation is ours.
In
several places in the Bible we find scriptures that tell us of several things
that will
assure us that Salvation is truly
ours.
1. Our best word of assurance is because God
tells us that it is ours!
This
is easily seen by the multitude of scriptures to which we have already referred.
Such as:
II Tim 3:15
"... the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise
unto
salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus."
And those scriptures are the very words of God
himself- inspired by Him and written
down for us
by the hands of those through whom God breathed His word to us.
II Tim 3:16
"All scripture is given by __________ of God ..."
"inspiration" Gk qeopneustoV,
they-op-neu-stoss, def. divinely
inspired
from: qeoV,
they-oss, "God"; and pnew,
pney-oh, "to breath or to blow"
From this we get the definition of "God breathed out" for the
word "inspiration."
Therefore, it is from the very Word of God, the Scriptures, that were
"breathed out" by
God himself that gives us our
greatest assurance that Salvation is truly ours.
And this is what God tells us in
His very Word- the Bible:
I Jn 5:7
"For there are three that bear record in heaven, the ______, the ____, and
the _____ _____: and these three are one."
I Jn 5:8
"And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water,
and the blood: and these three _____ in one."
I Jn 5:9
"If we receive the witness of men, the witness of ___ is greater:
for ____ is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son."
I Jn 5:10
"He that ________ on the Son of God hath the witness in himself:
he that believeth not God hath made him a ____; because he believeth not
the record that God gave of his Son."
I Jn 5:11
"And this is the record, that God hath given to us ______ ___, and
this life is in ____ ____."
I Jn 5:12
"He that hath the ____ hath ____; and he that hath ___ the
Son of
God hath ___ life."
I Jn 5:13
"These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of
the Son of God; that ye may _____ that ye ____ eternal life, and that ye
may believe on the name of the Son of God."
It is easy to see that God tells us that we can "know" that
we have "eternal life ... in his son."
There is no greater assurance to be found anywhere that we do have God's
Salvation;
but, God has chosen to
give us other
assurances in His Bible besides this greatest of assurances.
2. Our spiritual fruit also gives us assurance that
Salvation is truly ours.
a. Good works are the
natural fruit of a saved person.
Mat
7:21 "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter
into the kingdom of heaven; but he that ____ the will of my
Father which is in heaven."
Luk
6:43 "For a good tree bringeth not forth _______ fruit;
neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit."
Luk
6:44 "For every tree is _____ __ his own fruit. For of thorns men do
not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes."
Luk
6:45 "A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that
which is _____; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth
forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh."
Luk
6:46 "And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and __ ___ the things which I
say?"
I Jn
1:6 "If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in_________,
we ___, and __ ___ the truth:"
I Jn
1:7 "But if we walk in the _____, as he is in the light,
we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of
Jesus Christ his Son ________ us from all sin."
Gal 5:22
"But the fruit of the ______ is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith,"
Gal 5:23
"Meekness, temperance: against such there is no ___."
Gal 5:24
"And they that are Christ's have ________ the flesh
with the affections and lusts."
Gal 5:25
"If we live in the Spirit, let us also _____ in the Spirit."
Eph 5:8
"For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye
light
in the Lord: ____ as children of light:"
Eph 5:9
"(For the fruit of the _____ is
in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)"
Eph
5:10 "_______ what is acceptable unto the Lord."
b. A living faith that is
shown forth in good works gives us assurance that Salvation is ours.
Jas
2:17 "Even so faith, if
it hath not works, is _____, being alone."
In Christ we are created "unto" good works, not "by" them.
Eph 2:10
"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus ____ good works,
which God hath before ordained that we should ____ in them."
Good works shows others, and ourselves also, that we have a living,
saving,
faith; and
assures us that through the channel of that faith that God truly did save us by His
grace.
Jas 2:18 "Yea, a man may
say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: ____ __ thy
faith without thy works, and I will ____ __ my faith __ my works."
Eph 2:8
"For by _____ are ye saved _______ faith; and that
not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:"
Eph 2:9
"Not of _____, lest any man should boast."
c. Our self-sacrificing
love for the brethren also will give us assurance.
I Jn
3:10 "In this the
children of ___ are manifest, and the children
of the devil: whosoever doeth ___ righteousness is not of God,
neither he that loveth ___ his brother."
I Jn 3:11
"For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning,
that we should ____ one another."
I Jn 3:12
"___ as Cain, who
was of that wicked one, and slew his
brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works
were evil, and his brother's righteous."
I Jn 3:13
"Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you."
I Jn 3:14
"We _____ that we have passed from death unto life, _______ we
love the brethren. He that loveth not his
brother abideth in death."
I Jn 3:15
"Whosoever hateth his brother is a _________: and ye know
that no murderer hath _______ ___ abiding in him."
I Jn
3:16 "Hereby perceive we the love of God,
because he laid down his life
for us: and we ______ __ lay down our
lives for the brethren."
From these scriptures, and many others, we can see that our love for the
brethren gives
us much assurance that we truly have received God's Salvation.
D. Summary.
Our exercise of faith and belief in
the gospel plainly given in the Scriptures, and our personal
acceptance of God's grace without any of our works and
receiving of Christ as our Saviour by calling
on His name, these things plus our spiritual fruit, our love
of the brethren, and the good works that
we naturally began to do following our Salvation, all of
these give us undeniable assurance that God's
Salvation is truly and personally ours.
Salvation comes from God alone
and
can only be attained by God's plan!
Psa 3:8 "Salvation
belongeth unto the LORD:
thy blessing is
upon thy people. Selah."
Now we can add
to this the fact that once
we are saved, then we are kept by God's
power. And since God's power is eternal
and His veracity unchallengeable, then
when He tells us that the life He gives us
in Christ will have no end, that it is eternal
and everlasting, and that it can not be
abrogated by any person or thing, not even
ourselves, then we must conclude that our
Salvation will last forever!
Joh 10:28 "And I give
unto them eternal life;
and they shall never perish,
neither shall
any man pluck them out of my hand."
Now we also
know that it is sustained by the eternal
God in the force of His eternal power and is unassailable
by any finite power exercised by man or devil.
Dan 4:35
"And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed
as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army
of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and
none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?"
And we can
have assurance that it is truly ours; first
off because God says so, but also because our good
works that follow it, including our love for the
brethren, help reassure us that it truly is so.
II Tim 3:15
"... the holy scriptures, which
are able to make thee wise unto
salvation
through faith which is in Christ Jesus."
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