Did I Lose My Salvation? - Salvation Clearly Explained

i get so many messages from people who are so afraid of whether or not they've lost their salvation they said brother david i messed up here did i lose my salvation brother david i looked at a woman to lust did i lose my salvation or they'll ask questions like if i die and the last thing i did was sin do i go to heaven or hell well the reason they're asking that question in the first place is because they don't understand how salvation works i mean imagine this is what some people imagine that they're driving down the street they look at a woman maybe jogging by they have a lustful thought then a suddenly a a diesel truck comes and wipes them off the road they die in that moment and now guess what they think they go to hell that's not how it works if that was how it worked then not only were we saved by the cross we were saved by the cross plus good timing make sure that you don't sin right before you die how do any of us keep that standard you never know so that's not how salvation works now just because you lose your confidence in your salvation doesn't mean you've lost your salvation let me say that again just because you've lost your confidence in your salvation doesn't mean that you've lost your salvation having said that when you walk with the holy spirit you have better access to that confidence in what christ has accomplished for you the bible says in ephesians chapter 2 verses 8 and 9 for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is a gift of god not of works lest any man should boast so obviously biblically speaking god does not consider faith a work all that's required of us is that we believe romans chapter 10 verse 9 says if you confess with your mouth that jesus is lord and believe in your heart that god raised him from the dead you will be saved galatians 3 6 in the same way abraham believed god and god counted him as righteous because of his faith so it's by faith that you are saved come on now i want you to visualize a tree visualize a tall tree with roots that go deep into the ground now some people imagine that if salvation were a tree the roots are good works and the fruits are salvation that's not how it works i wrote about this years ago it's called digas salvation tree you can put it up on google and it'll come up so if you're imagining salvation as a tree you must know that the roots are not good works the roots are faith the fruits are good works so good works are not the roots of salvation they're the fruits of salvation we don't do good works to be saved we do good works because we are saved imagine an operating table now you go in for an operation you don't come out of that operation and go man i did a really good job either really if you're operating on yourself okay i don't know why you would do that it's very dangerous but nobody's gonna operate on themselves why because you need the surgeon to do his work well jesus is the surgeon of the soul so salvation is like getting on the operating table you've really got nothing to do with it other than you surrendered yourself to the table and then the physician does his work it'd be like if i wrote you a check you would have to have faith to deposit that check but you wouldn't have done anything to earn that money in the same way we have faith to receive salvation but it's still a free gift and requires no works again faith is not considered a work so once you understand that you are sealed by the holy spirit your confidence in your salvation goes through the roof you're no longer walking around paranoid wondering did i sin enough to lose my salvation today imagine this imagine before you was a long hallway and on one side of that hallway is a door and all the way on the other side of that hallway is another door now the first door before you is called justification justification is your position your position once you are saved is sinless blameless holy spotless once you put your faith in christ you switch records with him and now you receive that perfect unblemished record so justified means you've been declared in the courts of heaven innocent justified it's done okay now you open that door and you shut the door behind you that's justification you're saved now that process in the hallway is called sanctification so the first door justification is your position the hallway sanctification is your process but no matter where you are in the hallway of sanctification you're still past the door of justification you may take 10 steps forward 12 steps back five steps forward two two steps back doesn't matter god is not looking for you to be perfect he is looking for you to be submitted to the process of being perfected progress not perfection that's sanctification and so as long as i'm in that hallway with sanctification behind me i am saved now you ask well what if i slip up well that's a step backwards but so long as you are justified and in that hallway of sanctification so long as you are in the process you're saved so justification the first door is your position the hallway sanctification is your process the door all the way at the other end that is perfection that's glorification that's when you're done now here's what the scripture says ephesians chapter 1 verse 14 the spirit is god's guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people he did this so we would praise and glorify him so here the scripture tells us that the spirit of god in us is god's guarantee it's the deposit it's it's like the the assurance that it belongs to you the scripture also says in second corinthians chapter 1 verse 22 and he has identified us as his own by placing the holy spirit in our hearts as the first installment that guarantees everything he has promised so the holy spirit has been deposited in us to show that we belong to god so when you walk with the holy spirit the confidence in your salvation is boosted through the roof because you recognize the work that he's doing now again just because you've lost the confidence of your salvation doesn't mean you've lost your salvation it just means you've lost your perspective now watch this i wrote this down to help you understand ephesians 1 14 and 2nd corinthians 1 22 which i just read in jewish wedding culture the father of the groom would usually be the one who picked the bride for his son so that's what would happen in jewish wedding culture the father would pick the bride after the father of the groom found whom he believed to be the choice bride he would approach the bride and her family there would be a written marriage agreement made like a contract after the written agreement was finished it was customary watch this for the father of the groom to give a gift to the father of the bride the gift acted as a deposit for the bride it was a promissory note a guarantee of the groom's intentions to marry once the deposit was made the intent to marry would become official the jewish wedding traditions like many jewish traditions mirror the spiritual realm just as the father of the groom selects the bride so god the father has chosen to give the church to his son and just as the father of the groom leaves a gift representing a promise so god fills you with his holy spirit his divine promise when the groom left the gift for the for the bride it was him saying i'm coming back to get you the holy spirit in you is the promise of god saying i'm coming back to get you so walking with the holy spirit gives you assurance of salvation thank you for watching encounter tv don't forget to subscribe and click the notification bell also help us spread the gospel of jesus christ in the power of the holy spirit make a one-time donation or become a monthly supporter by clicking on the donate link now

Channel: David Diga Hernandez

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Length: 8min 35sec (515 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 25 2021