Can a believer loose his salvation?
Salvation is a free gift of grace we received from God by the atoning work of Christ's sufferings and death. We were all saved from the wrath of God which will befall all those who rejects his Son; the judgement of sinners. This salvation culminates in our spirits getting washed, sanctified and made whole by God's Spirit living in us. It's a free gift which you didn't earn by your performance, but by you believing in Christ's resurrection.
My question now is, can you loose a gift given you by God? No!
God is an Eternal Spirit, His promises and giftings are also eternal.. God isn't bounded by time and space, He dwells in Eternity. By the virtue of Christ's resurrection, we all received eternal redemption and salvation, a gift which is never temporal. Saying God's free gift is temporal and then trying to earn God's favour and perfection by works and self- effort is you belittling or incapacitating the potency of the blood of Christ and it's atoning Power.
The seal of God's ownership in you which is the HolySpirit can never be removed or leave you, He is permanent. Eph 1:13
The temporary sacrifice
Those under the Old Covenant were carnal men whose spirits were dead to God. Their consciousness to God's voice was dead as a result of the fall. They could only reach God through their natural senses. The old covenant which was predicated upon the blood sacrifices of animals, diverse washings and carnal ordinances, and then Feasts was a covenant which fraustrated God. The blood of the animals was sprinkled by the High Priest upon the children of Israel to atone for their sins per year. It was a ceremonial act done year by year. This act sprang up the consciousness of sin in the heart of the children of Israel and as a result made their conscience dead. The blood of Animals could not offer an eternal sacrifice which wouldn't be done per year to them.
The Eternal Sacrifice
For a sacrifice to have an eternal effect, the testator has to be an eternal entity. Christ who in his pre-incarnate form wasb God's Eternal Word had to become flesh and blood to bring about the permanent atonement. Christ who is a high priest after the order of Melchizedek, by his sufferings and death entered into Heaven and offered his blood upon the mercy seat. Anyone who will later accept him as Lord and savior, will be cleansed once by this blood. Earlier in the old covenant, Aaron the high priest will enter into the holy place once every year and sprinkle the blood upon the mercy seat made by hands and upon God's people. But in the New covenant where we stand by faith, Christ entered into the holiest of all and poured out his blood once and for all.
We no longer need to start asking God for salvation after we have received his free gift of grace once. Only beggars do that. We are Kings and Priests of the most high. We have been eternally sanctified and made whole by the blood of Christ. The blood of bulls and animals could only sanctify and purify the carnal mind, but the blood of Christ purged us all from our sins permanently, made our spirits alive and reconciled us back to God. This Salvation is permanent, and can never be lost. Not even sin can separate God's children who have been washed by His blood from the love of Christ..
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