The "Missing Link" Between Armenians and Calvinists

2/23/2009

So, by faith in Jesus’ finished work on the cross, through the blood that He shed, I am saved?

Do I have to “endure to the end to be saved” or stay saved?

Thanks, Preston

Hi Preston, IF one ever gave their lives to Him in the first place, rather than just religion, then the Spirit of God (“the deposit guaranteeing the Inheritance”) is His Gift and has these results in a true Believer’s Life, as a practical Gift, not by man’s striving.

The Verses in 1John are PROOF that a person has put their full weight on the Blood of Christ, without works or pretense, since clearly the Spirit of God in John who wrote these words neither lied, nor was a legalist. So Faith alone, with proof that there has been Biblical Faith in the Lamb of God, by evidence, “tests of Reality” if you will, of the Holy Spirit as described here by God. Since Jesus said “MANY will say on that day” and be false “christians” that He “never Knew”—John was kind enough 60 years after Pentecost (to second generation christians for the most part, who were capable of faking religion based on borrowed vocabulary and doctrine without Jesus) to describe some of how the Miracle of true Faith and resultant Regeneration would evidence itself amongst Christians.

So, in answer to your question in part—a better question according to God, via John in 96AD would be “Who is REALLY Saved in the first place—rather than those who have never truly been Born a Second time by Faith in the Blood, but are just religious and have no demonstration of the greatest Miracle in the history of planet earth: GOD living INSIDE of them.” Those who are saved in the first place are “continually cleansed” (the Greek tense) as that same apostle John said, 1John 1:9. This is the “missing link” between Armenians and Calvinists—to define “Faith” as God does in the first place, with John’s description to second-generation christians of how one can know the difference between fake and real Christianity, in the Work and Person of the “down-payment that guarantees the Inheritance” “that we might know we have Eternal Life”. While “immaturity” and “lack of regeneracy” seem similar in an “attendance-based” religion (which is unBiblical anyway—Heb.3:12-14), when life is truly JESUS’ LIFE (Acts 2:42-47, 1Cor.12) time and relationships allow the religious to come to Jesus in ways that are not possible in the unBiblical “attendance-based” model of religion.

So, Preston, more than you wanted to know, I’m sure. But, I would never be “worried” about a person who has TRULY come to Jesus, that’s for sure. His grace (“provision”) enables and provides “everything that pertains to life and godliness” to all who are TRULY “partakers of the Divine Nature”—2Peter1. Hallelujah. : )

Yours in Christ,