Justified, Righteousness, Salvation

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FlyingDove

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Justified, Righteousness, Salvation: All are Guaranteed

A “Christian” is not a person who has said a prayer or was raised in a Church. A Christian is a person who has fully trusted in Jesus Christ as the only Savior & therefore possesses the Holy Spirit

2 Tim 1:14 Refer's to the Holy Spirit as a guard & deposit.

2 Cor 5:5, Eph 1:14 & 2 Cor 1:22. Refer to the Holy Spirit as "the earnest" = Pledge.

Eph 1:13, 2 Cor 1:22 & Eph 4:30 Refer to the Holy Spirit as a seal.

If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! (2 Cor 5:17)

A Christian is not simply an “improved” person. He is an entirely new creature. He is “in Christ.” For a Christian to lose salvation, the new creation would have to be destroyed

A Christian is redeemed from their sin & bought with the precious blood of Christ” (1 Pet 1:18–19)

The word redeemed refers to a purchase being made, a price being paid. We were purchased at the cost of Christ’s death. For a Christian to lose salvation, God Himself would have to revoke His purchase of the individual for whom He paid with the precious blood of Christ

A Christian is justified. “Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Rom 5:1)

To justify is to declare righteous. All those who receive & trust Jesus as Savior are “declared righteous” by God. (Rom 3:22 & 2 Cor 5:21)

For a Christian to lose salvation, God would have to go back on His Word and “un-declare” what He had previously declared. Those absolved of guilt would have to be tried again & found guilty. God would have to reverse the sentence handed down from the divine bench

A Christian cannot be un-newly created. The redeemed cannot be unpurchased. Eternal life cannot be temporary. God cannot renege on His Word. Scripture says that God cannot lie (Tit 1:2)

Eternal life is the promise of spending eternity heaven with God. God promises, “Believe & you will have eternal life (1 John 5:1) For a Christian to lose salvation, eternal life would have to be redefined. The Christian is promised to live forever. Eternal means “eternal/forever!

Salvation is the gift of God, and God’s gifts are “irrevocable” (Rom 11:29)

Nothing can separate a child of God from the Father’s love (Rom 8:38–39)

Nothing can remove a Christian from God’s hand (Jn 10:28–29)

Romans 3:21 now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
(NOTE: The righteousness of God "IS NOW" manifested/revealed "WITHOUT LAW" (I.E. apart from the law)