Eternal Salvation

Eternal Salvation

*****Really BELIEVE*****
John 11:26 (He who "believes" in me)
Romans 10:9-10 (believe and confess)
2 Corinthians 4:13 (belief produces ACTION)
Mark 9:23 (all things are possible)
John 1:12 (receive- to lay hold of - active, not passive)

*****Faith vs. Works******
Hebrews 11:6 (w/o faith it is impossible)
Galatians 2:16 (justified by faith)
James 2:14-26 (Faith AND Works)

****What about grace??*****
Galatians 2:21 (GRACE)
Romans 6:14-15 (don't sin to multiply grace!)
Galatians 5:4 (fallen from grace, justified by law)
Romans 3:19-31 (..and the Law)
1 John 5:18 (God keeps him) (...also see Romans 7:20)
1 Corinthians 6:9-12 (you have been sanctified)

*****Is it possible to turn away??******
John 17:12 (son of perdition)
Hebrews 6:6 (and then have fallen away)
Matthew 24:10 (falling away in the end)
1 Timothy 4:1 (some will fall away)
1 Timothy 5:15 (some have turned aside)
Matthew 10:33 (will deny before men)
2 Timothy 2:12 (if we deny Him)
Titus 1:16 (by their deeds deny him)
Hebrews 10:26 (deliberate sin)
2 Peter 2:20-22 (it is worse for them)

*****What exactly is Salvation?******
2 Corinthians 7:10 (Repentance leads to Salvation)
Philippians 2:12 (Work out your Salvation)
Hebrews 5:9 (to all who obey)
Eph 1:13 (gospel of Salvation)

********The Choice is Yours********
John 3:36 (obedience, or not?)
John 8:51 (if anyone observes His teaching)
Romans 6:16 (obeying sin results in death)
Matthew 7:16 (know them by their fruit)
Luke 3:9 (bear good fruit)
Romans 8:13 (flesh or Spirit?)
Galatians 6:8 (sow to the Spirit)
Galatians 5:16-26 (Flesh vs. Spirit attributes)
John 8:54-55 (we will also keep his word)
John 14:15 (if you love Him)
1 John 2:4 (if you know Him)
Colossians 1:21-23 (if you continue)
Revalation 2:10 (faithful till the end)
1 Peter 4:17 (separates God's house from the disobedient)
2 Thessalonians 1:8 (disobedient are grouped w/ unbelievers)
Matthew 7:23 (never knew, you who practice lawlessness)

*****Parables*****
Luke 8:11-15 (Parable of sower and seeds)
John 15:5 (Parable of vine and branches. "abide")
Matthew 25:12 (Parable of the wise virgins)
Luke 15:11-32 (Parable of the prodigal)
Luke 13:6-9 (Parable of the fig tree)

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*****A Few Worthy Definitions*****

Believe:
1.To think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in the thing believed, 2.Have faith in, cleave to, and rely on. **More than mere mental consent, an action. In all definitions it is a verb, either transitive or intransitive.

Receive:
1. a)To take with the hand, lay hold of; to take up a thing to be carried, b)To take what is one's own, to take to one's self, to make one's own; to claim, procure, for one's self, c)Of that which when taken is not let go, to seize, to lay hold of, apprehend; to take, to receive a person, give him access to one's self. **Proactive

Abide:
4.Intransitive verb, dwell: to live or reside in a place, 3.To remain; to last; to conform to; to comply with.

Obey:
1.To listen, to harken a)of one who on the knock at the door comes to listen who it is, (the duty of a porter), b)to obey, be obedient to, submit to, 3.To carry out instructions; to be guided or controlled; to follow directions.

Salvation:
3.The deliverance from the effects of sin. 4. a) act of saving from harm: the saving of somebody or something from harm, destruction, difficulty, or failure. b) means of saving somebody or something: somebody or something that protects or delivers somebody or something else from harm, destruction, difficulty, or failure. c) christianity deliverance from sin through Jesus Christ: in the Christian religion, deliverance from sin or the consequences of sin through Jesus Christ's death on the cross

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Definitions Taken from: 1.Strongs New Testament Greek Lexicon, 2.The Amplified Bible, 3.Websters Dictionary, 4.Encarta Dictionary, and finally **My own rendering.