Seven Common Lies # 5 Once Saved You Will Always be Saved…

Seven Common Lies # 5 Once Saved You Will Always be Saved…

October 10, 2008 by LizAnn

1. All churches are God’s church
2. Satan was once in heaven
3. An anti- Christ is coming
4. Jesus is coming back here
5. Once you are saved, you will always be saved
6. We are all sinners
7. Baptism washes your sins away

Once saved you will always be saved, no matter what you do.

Indeed this is a very dangerous lie and will prove the destruction of many a soul.

“Many will say Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in they name? and in the name have cast out devils? And in thy name have done many wonderful works? And then I will profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me; ye that work iniquity.”Matthew 7: 22-23

Here we have many people, not just s few, that the Lord said are religious. They prophesy, meaning they teach God’s word, they cast devils out of people, they do good works, BUT… they sin. There is no such thing as a sinning Christian. If someone professes to be a Christian, yet still willingly sins, they are deceiving themselves. No matter how much work a person does for God, nor how much money is give for his cause, it is all a stinch to God if he or she continues in their sin. Why? Because God paid the ultimate sacrifice that we might be set free from sin. He does not expect any less from us. If our works could get us to heaven, then Jesus died in vain.

“Wash you, make you clean: put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well… Come now and let us reason together, saith the Lord: Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.“  Isaiah 1:16, 18

“Jesus answered them, Verily, Verily, (truly, truly) I say unto you, whosoever commiteth sin is the servant of sin. And the servant abideth not in the house for ever; but the Son abideth ever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”  John 8: 34-36

“Well”, some say, “our salvation is secure, once we are saved, if we are truly saved, we are secure for heaven. You cannot lose your salvation.

“Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confindence stedfast unto theend;“ Hebrews 3: 12-14

“For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them agian to repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.” Hebrews 6: 4-6

We need no other scriptures to prove this, although many more could be inserted here. These are very plain. No special interpretation needed here.  The first example given, he is direclty addressing the brethren (this letter is to the church) You cannot “partake of the Holy Ghost” if you have not been saved first. They are then warned not to depart from God and be deceived by sin again. The latter example shows very clear a saved and holy ghost filled individual, and then talks of this individual falling away. Not only is this a backslidden individual, but for someone to lay claim on salvation and still live a sinful life, that is openly shaming our Lord Jesus Christ who “did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth.”