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You can't lose it.

Fire, fire, fire, yells the man in the little red coat as he takes a bottle of red wine and a biscuit out of his big red jacket. What are you doing says the woman he is with (who happens to be his wife!) "I'm starting a revolution," he says, then loudly slips into the back room never to be seen again. We all have times in our lives when someone is shouting death at us, and it happened to me tonight. I'm not happy that someone who hardly knows me, feels perfectly free to contradict something that I stake my life on. Actually thinking about it sort of makes me want to laugh because it is like a big bully with his pants around his ankles saying "come get me." Tonight was a great night the sense that I got to gather with my church family and lift high the Saviour that we claim as Lord. And I want to talk about just what that term means. You know Jesus as your Saviour, but can someone please tell me if that's all it takes to get to Heaven? I met someone tonight who would tell you that not only is that enough, but if you claim him as Lord you could lose your salvation. He didn't use those exact words, in fact he said nothing of the sort, but his eyes betrayed his heart for the eyes are the windows to the soul, so I've heard it said. Let me clear something up for you, you are saved not because you claim Jesus as your Saviour, you are saved because you have confessed him as Lord.

Yes he is your Saviour, but you are not saved because you say you are or because you prayed some magical prayer, but because God himself has forgiven you because you came to him on his terms and have asked for it. Don't ever listen to anyone who tells you you can lose your salvation because that person does even understand the meaning of forgiveness. Jesus Christ died on a cross not to become your personal Saviour, in a sense that it true, but the purpose of his death was to forgive you. Receiving him as saviour without understanding why you are doing so, negated the purpose for the reason God sent him to earth. He didn't come to give you a better life, where you have to do all the work to maintain your relationship with him, he died on the cross to forgive you and to become Lord. You can't have him as Saviour, and deny his Lordship or the cross. There will only be one group of people in Heaven, and forgive me for being crude, but there will only be forgiven people there, not Jesus is my Saviour, if he is your Saviour, then you know why he came to save you so your sins could be forgiven. This is the only reason for repentance and faith. You love Christ not for the right reason, you should only love him, because he is the Lord and that means he is the only one who has forgiven you. That's what salvation is. Forgiveness of sins. You are going to hell not because you failed to make Him your saviour, but because you are not forgiven. And you are going to Heaven because He has forgiven you. End of Story.

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