THE BIBLE PRAYER LINE – Bible Questions Answered
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Bible Questions Answered:
“If we sin after taking Jesus are we then lost?...”
Sheila/ Enid, Oklahoma U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
No, having received The Lord Jesus as our Savior, we are in the family of God. We have become God's children.
Illustration:
If one of our children disobeys their parent, are they cast away, of course not!
We, are God's children.
When and if we sin, we are to go to The Father, and confess that sin, turning from it, and ask for His forgiveness, and we will receive it.
I John 1:7,9 KJV
7 But if we walk in the light, as He is in The Light, we have fellowship one with another, and The Blood Of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.
9 If we confess our sins, He is Faithful and Just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
John 1:17 KJV
For the law was given by Moses, but grace
and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Some
one has long ago said, that the explanation of Grace is found in the
acronym for Grace.
G.
God's
R. Riches
A. At
C. Christ's
E.
Expense
Mankind under
fallen Adam, has sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, and no
good comes of sin.
Romans
3:23 KJV
For all have sinned, and come short of the
glory of God;
Fallen
mankind has only earned the wages of death.
Romans
6:23 KJV
For the wages of sin is death; but The Gift
Of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Grace,
God's Riches At Christ's Expense, comes only to man through The Lord
Jesus Christ.
And all the grace of God (Gift of God), is heaped up
on the one who has received, and who is living for God's Son.
Acts
4:12 KJV
Neither is there salvation in any other:
for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we
must be saved.
Acts
4:11,12 NLT
11 For Jesus is the one referred to in
The Scriptures, where it says,‘The Stone that you builders rejected
has now become The Cornerstone.’
12 There is salvation in no one
else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be
saved.”
John 14:6
KJV
Jesus saith unto him, I am The Way, The Truth,
and The Life: no man cometh unto The Father, but by Me.
God's
grace cannot be earned.
Romans
11:6 NLT
And since it is through God’s kindness,
then it is not by their good works. For in that case, God’s
grace would not be what it really is—free and undeserved.
Romans
3:24 KJV
Being justified freely by His grace through
the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Ephesians
1:7
In whom we have redemption through His Blood,
the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His
grace;
Ephesians 2:8,9
KJV
8 For by Grace are ye saved through faith; and
that not of yourselves: it is The Gift Of God:
9 Not of works,
lest any man should boast.
Where
would we be without the Mercy of God, His salvation (through the shed
Blood Of His Son), His love, His direction, and blessings without
number?
Psalm
68:19 KJV
Blessed be The Lord, who daily loadeth us
with benefits, even The God Of Our Salvation. Selah.
Psalm
84:11 KJV
For The LORD God is a sun and shield: The
LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will He withhold from
them that walk uprightly.
Philippians
4:19 KJV
But my God shall supply all your need
according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
As
Christian people, we have the love, mercy, salvation, and grace of
The Lord, but we are not yet complete, not yet sanctified, and won't
be until we come into His presence.
Colossians
2:9,10 KJV
9 For in Him (Jesus
Christ) dwelleth all the fullness of The Godhead bodily.
10
And ye are complete in Him, which is The Head Of All Principality And
Power:
I John 3:1-3
NAS
1. See how great a love The Father has bestowed
on us, that we would be called children of God ; and such we
are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not
know Him.
2. Beloved, now we are children of God, and it
has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He
appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He
is.
3. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies
himself, just as He is pure.
Jude
24
Now unto Him that is able to keep you from
falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His
glory with exceeding joy,
II
Timothy 2:1 KJV
Thou therefore, my son, be strong in
the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
Prayer:
Romans 5:8,9;20
8 But God commendeth His love toward us, in
that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more
then, being now justified by His Blood, we shall be saved from wrath
through Him.
20 Moreover the law entered, that the offense might
abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
