Is There Any Biblical Basis for the Statement “Once Saved, Always Saved”

Is There Any Biblical Basis for the Statement “Once Saved, Always Saved”

                         By Yang Xin, Shandong Province

The sun sank into the west, and the last light of the sinking sun spread across the world as I walked back home after a meeting, thinking of what the pastor had said: “Once saved, then we are always saved, for the Bible says, ‘That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. For with the heart man believes to righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made to salvation’ (Romans 10:9-10). As we believe in the Lord Jesus, as long as we believe in our hearts and acknowledge Him with our mouths, then we are saved, and if we are saved once then we are always saved. As long as we keep working and expending ourselves for the Lord and endure till the very end, then when the Lord returns, we will immediately be raptured up into the kingdom of heaven!” I gave an Amen to the pastor’s words: “Yes! The Lord Jesus was nailed to the cross so that we could be redeemed, so as long as we call upon the Lord’s name, confess our sins and repent to the Lord, then our sins will be absolved and we will be saved by His grace—once saved, always saved, and afterward we will surely be raptured up into the kingdom of heaven.” Over the years of my belief in the Lord, I had always firmly believed that this view was correct, and never once doubted it.

Can We Enter the Kingdom of Heaven Now That Our Sins Have Been Forgiven

Can We Enter the Kingdom of Heaven Now That Our Sins Have Been Forgiven

                                        He Jun, Sichuan

Sunday August 5th, 2018. Cloudy.

After the meeting today, a brother came seeking me, his face filled with worry. He said that God requires people to be sanctified, but that he often involuntarily commits sin, and if he always lives like this in sin, then will he be able to enter into the kingdom of heaven when the Lord comes? I told him that the Lord Jesus was crucified and that He took upon Himself all our sins, paying the price with His life. I said that our sins had been forgiven because of our faith in the Lord Jesus, and that the Lord no longer saw us as sinners, and that as long as we could give up everything and expend ourselves, work hard for the Lord, and endure till the very end, then we would be raptured up into the kingdom of heaven when the Lord returned. After the brother heard me say this, he looked as though he hadn’t gotten the answer he’d wanted, and he left looking somewhat disappointed. As I watched him walk away, I felt some very complex emotions. To tell the truth, didn’t I have the same worries as this brother did? Thinking of how I had believed in the Lord for many years but had often been bound by sin, and had been living in a condition whereby I sinned in the daytime and confessed in the evening, I didn’t wish to keep living that way either. But I really wasn’t capable of overcoming sin, and so I often prayed to the Lord and strengthened my reading of the scriptures. And yet I never resolved the problem of my sins. The Lord is holy, so would He commend someone like me, so filled with sin?

Christian Movie "The Gospel Messenger" | Preaching the Gospel of the Last Days (English Full Movie)

Christian Movie "The Gospel Messenger" | Preaching the Gospel of the Last Days (English Full Movie)

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Christian Movie | "The Gospel Messenger" | Preaching the Gospel of the Last Days

Christian Chen Yixin has believed in the Lord for many years, and has been fortunate enough to welcome the Lord Jesus' return in the last days—Almighty God! She came to understand God's urgent will to save mankind from Almighty God's words as well as the mission and responsibility a created being should undertake, so she began sharing the gospel and bearing witness to God's work in the last days. While doing this she travels to many cities and provinces and suffers suppression and rejection from religious circles over and over as well as pursuit and persecution by the CCP government. She endures a lot of suffering. However, under the guidance of God's words, she remains on her mission, unafraid of danger, courageously going forward …

Christian Variety Show | 2018 Comedy Skit | "The Pastor's 'Good' Intentions"

Christian Variety Show | 2018 Comedy Skit | "The Pastor's 'Good' Intentions"

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Yang Xiangming is a worker in a denomination, and once he determines Almighty God is the returned Lord Jesus in the last days, he guides some of his brothers and sisters to turn toward Almighty God. This makes his pastor uneasy, so his pastor uses status and money to tempt him, and also uses his son's wedding to threaten Yang Xiangming into abandoning the true way…. Faced with his pastor's "good" intentions, what will Yang Xiangming finally decide to do? At this critical moment when we ought to welcome the Lord's coming, why does this pastor prevent believers from investigating the true way? The skit The Pastor's "Good" Intentions helps you understand the truth of the matter.

Footsteps of the Holy Spirit | God's Word "Only Those Who Know God and His Work Can Satisfy God"

Footsteps of the Holy Spirit | God's Word "Only Those Who Know God and His Work Can Satisfy God"

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Footsteps of the Holy Spirit | God's Word "Only Those Who Know God and His Work Can Satisfy God"

Almighty God says, "Knowing the work of God is no simple matter: You should have standards and an objective in your pursuit, you should know how to seek the true way, and how to measure whether or not it is the true way, and whether or not it is the work of God. What is the most basic principle in seeking the true way? You have to look at whether or not there is the work of the Holy Spirit, whether or not these words are the expression of the truth, who is testified to, and what it can bring you. Distinguishing between the true way and the false way requires several aspects of basic knowledge, the most fundamental of which is to tell whether or not there is the work of the Holy Spirit."

The Principles of Exalting God and Bearing Witness for God

The Principles of Exalting God and Bearing Witness for God

1. You must venerate God as great and supreme, have a God-fearing heart, and only obey and worship God; you are not to worship man or be restrained by man;

2. You must fellowship the truth and the knowledge of God according to God’s words, lead people to understand the truth and enter into reality, and bring them before God;

3. Be able to hold firmly to the truth and uphold God’s work; do not compromise or concede defeat to the forces of Satan, but use the truth to resolve all the problems of God’s chosen people;

4. Your focus must be on practicing the truth and entering into reality in your duty, so that you can handle matters with principle and live out a true human likeness to bring glory to God.

Best Gospel Music - God Leading the Israelites Out of Egypt

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Watch the full documentary at: Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)

Best Gospel Music - God Leading the Israelites Out of Egypt

The Israelites, descendants of Abraham, fled to live in exile in Egypt due to famine. The Egyptians were terrified of the Israelites’ expansion, so they enslaved them and maltreated them. The Israelites could not bear the torture, and earnestly supplicated God. God heard their prayers and decided to lead the Israelites out of Egypt …

Christian Movie Clip - God's Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

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Watch the full documentary at: Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)

Christian Movie Clip - God's Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were full of evil, licentiousness, rampant murders, and indulgence in extravagant pleasures. They reached the point of clamoring against God, of fighting against Him, enraging His disposition. … Burning sulfur rained down from the sky … all their residents were reduced to ashes …

Best Christian Movie Clip - God's Destruction of the Earth With a Flood

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Watch the full documentary at: Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)

Best Christian Movie Clip - God's Destruction of the Earth With a Flood

Jehovah God said: “The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth” (Genesis 6:13). After the flood, all living things with breath on the earth died, except for the eight people in Noah’s family and every sort of living thing on the ark. They have continued to proliferate on the earth to this very day.

Gospel Music 2018 - God's Creation of the World

Gospel Music 2018 - God's Creation of the World In the beginning, God created the heavens and earth and all things. A vibrant new world was born. Everything created by God was perfect and beautiful. It displayed His wisdom, goodness, and almightiness. God made Adam and Eve in His own image with His own hands, and breathed His very life into them. Jehovah God placed them in the Garden of Eden …

Best Gospel Music - God Ruling Over and Sustaining Mankind and All Things

Best Gospel Music - God Ruling Over and Sustaining Mankind and All Things Beneath the heavens, all creatures thrive and breed in their own environments, cleaving to the laws of life over and over; as day follows night, season after season … man lives and breathes in harmony with all things, each dependent on the other, everything arranged so perfectly …

Gospel Music - God Ruling Over the Beginning and the Future of Mankind

Gospel Music 2018 - God Ruling Over the Beginning and the Future of Mankind 

God says: “God created this world, He created this mankind…. Only God consoles this mankind, and only God cares for this mankind night and day. Human development and progress is inseparable from the sovereignty of God, and the history and future of mankind are inextricable from the designs of God.”

Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)

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Watch the full documentary at: Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)

Best Gospel Music 2018 - God Ruling Over the Universe

In a vast cosmic sky filled with stars, planets collide, and a series of complex processes give birth to new planets. What secrets are contained within?

FALSE DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD REFUGEES START IN SOUTH KOREA

FALSE DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD REFUGEES START IN SOUTH KOREA

08/31/2018 BY ADMIN

Executing a secret plan that Bitter Winter revealed one month ago, the CCP brings to Korea relatives of asylum seekers of The Church of Almighty God and organizes false “spontaneous demonstrations” with the help of pro-Chinese anti-cult activists.