number three Christians don't lose their salvation by struggling with sin so we
mentioned that Christians don't practice their sin but they can still sin and now
I'm gonna talk about a little bit closer Christians don't lose their salvation by
struggling with sin as a Christian you don't lose your salvation when you sin
but you lose the joy of your salvation Psalm 51 do you remember when David
committed murder and adultery that's some pretty heavy sins it's interesting
in his repentance David never said Lord restored to me my salvation
he said restore to me the joy of my salvation as a Christian you don't lose
your salvation when you sin you do lose the joy closeness you can die faster
when you sin you can even open the door to a demonic torment you can end up in
jail you can forfeit your reward as a Christian but you don't lose your
relationship as a Christian when you sin in first Corinthians it says that one
day we'll stand before God and the eyes of God's fire will go through our works
and what was built on wood hay and straw will be burned and it says this and we
will be saved as dull from the fire yet we will be saved
meaning our bad works that we do they don't cause us to lose our relationship
they cause us to lose our reward Can somebody say amen They don't cause us to
lose our salvation it cause us to lose the joy of our salvation now for those
of you who your mind is freaking out right now
oh my gosh Vlad you just gave somebody a license to sin can I just calm you down
those who are not born again don't need a license does every criminal wait
for a permit to do something criminal no ok so relax I'm giving grace to
people who are gonna use that to overcome their sin and those who won't
overcome their sin they don't need that grace they're gonna still use a reason
to sin as Christians we don't lose our salvation we lose the joy of our
salvation I would like to go a little bit further I like what Dr. Michael
Brown said this topic first of all I want to say it is controversial there is
four main thoughts three big ones we belong to the fourth one of thoughts
concerning losing your salvation the first big thought is the once saved
always saved in the sense that you can never lose your salvation you can deny
Jesus you can even go and become a Muslim or a Buddhist but once you pray
that prayer you are always saved you can completely reject God insult the Holy
Spirit trample the blood of Jesus it doesn't matter because it's called
eternal and you're done with and the second school of thought that exists is
called the perseverance of the saints the perseverance of the saints believes
that if you are born again then you will not lose your salvation and if you
disowned Christ turn your back on the grace of God walked away from Jesus it
just simply means you were never really saved the third school of thought is
where most of us grew up in it's that your salvation is secure until your next
mistake and the moment you commit sin or you fall you lost your salvation and
then you have to start everything again and you have to repent and then you have
to get saved again and pretty much you get you lose it and one day sometimes
you can do like five times you lose it and you get it back you lose it get it
back you commit sin God takes it away and then you repent God gives you back
the salvation and then there's a fourth one where it's a little bit of
everything and that's what we are at now I don't believe Christian can lose their
salvation like you lose your keys you don't lose your place in the family when
you forget to take the garbage out come on you don't lose your marriage because
you had a bad day you don't get disowned for that my my my dear brother was was
living on drugs for seven years he didn't lose his family in fact he
grieved his family we were all heartbroken it was bad for all of us and
for him but if it wouldn't be for the family he would have never changed and
God knows that and so God doesn't disown his children who fall even if it's into
the same sin struggling we don't lose our salvation I like what Dr. Michael
Brown said he said this you can't lose your salvation like you lose your keys
passenger on the plane is guaranteed to reach its destination overseas
unless you used to do something crazy and open the
emergency door and jump otherwise you won't arrive at your destination safely
now I believe that you cannot lose your salvation as a Christian but you can
forfeit your salvation as a Christian by rejecting Jesus and His grace few
reasons and I've studied you know both of them and I have preachers on both
sides that I deeply loved deeply love till this day the part what I have
struggled with once saved always saved that you cannot lose your salvation is I
just don't see in the Bible what the scripture tells us that once you're
saved you are taken away the right to reject Jesus and you no longer have a
free choice salvation does not take away your choice to reject Christ that would
look more like a Colombian cartel than salvation well you can get in but you
can't get out same thing with the family you can disown your family you can
completely I'm not just talking about you move out I'm talking you can disown
your family go change your last name it's not a trap your family's not a trap
now nobody in the room right mind I think would never do it but to say that
that's not possible we just don't see the evidence of that
in the Bible contrary we see in the Bible verses like that if we sin against
him meaning we reject him God says our blood
your name out of the book of life so that means that when my name is written
the book of life I have the choice to turn my back in Christ and saying you
know what I don't believe in grace I can be saved by my good works in fact I'm
gonna follow another god I'm gonna follow another person God and say well
I'm sorry bro but you're stuck with me I think that's not love that's force and
God gives us a choice verses for example in the Bible in John chapter 1
what it says any branch in me that does not bear fruit it doesn't say that God
cuts it away it says he lifts up that speaks to Christians who are in Christ
in God's grace but honestly they don't have fruit right now they don't have
love they don't have patience they're really cranky they'll really have issues
and Jesus doesn't come and say you're done you're gone why because you don't
have flew the Bible says he lifts us up if we don't have fruit but then later on
in verse 6 if I'm not mistaken it says that but any
branch that doesn't abide in me gets thrown away meaning God says if you
still have a choice to reject my grace and do it your own way that branch gets
thrown into the fire in Hebrews it says that and this verse used to scares me is
that this for if we've willfully sin after receiving the knowledge of truth
there is no longer remains a sacrifice percent you readers like oh shoot that's
me coz I mean come on let's face it a lot of our sins are willful
We didn't get slapped into didn't get its willful but you always have to
read the verse in context if you read the verse later it says the following
it says how much worse punishment do you suppose will he be thought worthy will
he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot counted the
blood of the Covenant by which he was sanctified as a common thing and
insulted the spirit of grace so it's not you sinfully you willfully sinned
because all of us who sin of course we do it willfully you you were not out of
your mind when you were doing it you didn't lose your mind at the time you do
it willfully what is simple it means is people they reject the grace they reject
the blood and insult the Holy Spirit and God says my sacrifice doesn't cover you
now for most of us in here it's not going to be switching religions it's not
gonna be the one day you're gonna decide to become Muslim or one day you're gonna
decide to turn your back on Christ and become a Buddhist for most of us as
Christians this is what the problem happens is we switch from Christ to our
works we outgrow our need for Christ we no longer remain on the branch on the
vine on him as the source of our grace and we feel like well I got saved Jesus
I got it from here it's like I'm 30,000 feet in the air I got it from here
thanks pilot and then you're simply stepping out of the plane I believe I
can fly
and so what I'm preaching to you today is
remain in Jesus remain in him because he is not just someone to get you up in the sky he
says I want you to remain in me stay in the plane the door exit door is there
you can't jump out I can tell you one thing you can't fly my friend there's
only one name under which man was given to be saved and that is not Jose or Juan
it's Jesus it's Jesus Christ come on somebody come on somebody so I believe
as Christians our salvation is secure our salvation is secure but we must
remain in Christ and this is not a it's a privilege to remain in Christ it's
it's an honor to remain in Christ I'm not talking about prayer or reading or
even the church attendance I'm talking about remaining in Christ His grace
continues to flow changes and transforms us and I believe we have a choice to
turn our back on him and totally walk away from him and walk away from the
grace of God walk away from our salvation and walk away from our Savior
