If I had $1 million I would help a lot of people. If am saved I’ll go to heaven. “If” is a fulcrum that much depends. Everything pivots on it. If I believe in Jesus I’ll go to Heaven. This is true but too simplistic and
misleading. Let’s look at some “if then”
scriptures and fill this out a bit.
The “if then statement” is a logical statement. If I have money and I have time, I’ll buy
food at the store. No money or no time
and I won’t be able to buy food.
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| Big if huh? |
The objective in this blog is to get a clear target. Many people assume too much when it comes to
salvation and have over simplified it.
Much like a person who shoots an arrow at the side of a barn and quickly
paints a red bullseye around their arrow.
“Perfect shot!” Obviously we need
to paint the target first and then take our shot. Here is the target.
I John and Hebrews are the two texts I’ll focus on. The scriptures are listed at the end of this
blog. The following is a synthesis of
these scripture both in the negative and the positive:
If we are in the darkness, or do not love our brother, turn
back, deliberately keep on sinning, disobey, do not give to the needy, love the
world, or if His word doesn’t remain in us, or if we do not acknowledge the
Son, do not love our brother, or give up our hope and courage, are not firm to
the end, or do not continue in the faith, then we are liars, we do not know
Him, His love is not in us, He doesn’t remain in us, we do not love Him, He
does not live in us, we are not His house, we do not share in Christ, and we
are not saved.
If we are in the light and obey, if His word remains in us,
we give to those in need, acknowledge Jesus, and if we love our brother, we do
not love the world, hold to the courage and the hope, firm to the end, and
continue in faith then the truth is in us, we know Him, His love is made
complete, the Son and Father remain in us, His love is in us, God lives in us,
we truly love God, we are His house, we share in Christ, and are saved.
Here is a condensed version:
If we remain in faith in Jesus that results in love for one another
until we die then we truly have fellowship with God and eternal life.
If we do not remain in faith in Jesus to the end or our
faith does not result in loving one another until death then we do not have
fellowship with Him and will gain eternal judgment.
1 John 2:5-6 But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is
truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: 6 Whoever claims
to live in him must walk as Jesus did. NIV
Bullseye! This is the
target “Walk as Jesus walked and be saved.”
1 John 2:15-16 Do not love the world or anything in the
world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. NIV
1 John 3:17-18 If anyone has material possessions and sees
his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
NIV
1 John 4:20-21 If
anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For
anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom
he has not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must
also love his brother. NIV
Heb 3:14 We have come
to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at
first. NIV
Heb 6:6 if they fall
away, to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are
crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public
disgrace. NIV
Heb 10:26-27 If we
deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth,
no sacrifice for sins is left, 27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment
and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. NIV
Heb 10:38-39 But my
righteous one will live by faith. And if
he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him." 39 But we are not of those who shrink back
and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved. NIV
1 John 1:6 If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk
in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. NIV
1 John 2:3-4 We know that we have come to know him if we
obey his commands. 4 The man who says, "I know him," but does not do
what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. NIV
1 John 2:24-25 See
that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you
also will remain in the Son and in the Father. 25 And this is what he promised
us — even eternal life. NIV
1 John 4:12 No one
has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is
made complete in us. NIV
1 John 4:15-16 If
anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in
God. NIV
Heb 3:6 But Christ is
faithful as a son over God's house. And we are his house, if we hold on to our
courage and the hope of which we boast.
NIV
Heb 12:25 See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks.
If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much
less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven? NIV
1 John 2:5-6 But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is
truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: 6 Whoever claims
to live in him must walk as Jesus did. NIV
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