How Many Times Have You Been Saved?

we are to test and examine our faith/salvation...

"examine yourselves, whether ye be in the fiath; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?"

 

Christ died once for my salvation and that is all thats needed for your salvation.

True salvation is a 1 time thing.

John 3:16-18
Ephesians 2:8-10

And verse 10 in Ephesians 2:8-10 is how you know someone is saved.

Brothers and Sisters we must walk in the good works. We must show the world we are set apart we are the redeemed. The way to do that is walk the walk and talk the talk.

I preached a sermon on this very subject!

To answer the OP only 1 time on Feb. 12, 2002 in a jail cell in small town in Kansas. That day I devoted my life to spreading the gospel. I don't know what time it was because I didn't have a watch or a clock but it was after lights out.

 

Once

 

6) only one time.

But it has lasted for 54 years so far
and is expected to last forever.

 

I would not claim "I am saved".

Mt:26:35: Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.

The evil that led to Peter's fall and that shut out the Pharisee from communion with God is proving the ruin of thousands today. There is nothing so offensive to God or so dangerous to the human soul as pride and self-sufficiency. Of all sins it is the most hopeless, the most incurable.

Peter's fall was not instantaneous, but gradual. Self-confidence led him to the belief that he was saved, and step after step was taken in the downward path, until he could deny his Master. Never can we safely put confidence in self or feel, this side of heaven, that we are secure against temptation. Those who accept the Saviour, however sincere their conversion, should never be taught to say or to feel that they are saved. This is misleading. Every one should be taught to cherish hope and faith; but even when we give ourselves to Christ and know that He accepts us, we are not beyond the reach of temptation. God's word declares, "Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried." Dan. 12:10. Only he who endures the trial will receive the crown of life. (James 1:12.)
Those who accept Christ, and in their first confidence say, I am saved, are in danger of trusting to themselves. They lose sight of their own weakness and their constant need of divine strength. They are unprepared for Satan's devices, and under temptation many, like Peter, fall into the very depths of sin. We are admonished, "Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall." 1 Cor. 10:12. Our only safety is in constant distrust of self, and dependence on Christ.

 

I would not claim "I am saved".

Mt:26:35: Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.

The evil that led to Peter's fall and that shut out the Pharisee from communion with God is proving the ruin of thousands today. There is nothing so offensive to God or so dangerous to the human soul as pride and self-sufficiency. Of all sins it is the most hopeless, the most incurable.

Peter's fall was not instantaneous, but gradual. Self-confidence led him to the belief that he was saved, and step after step was taken in the downward path, until he could deny his Master. Never can we safely put confidence in self or feel, this side of heaven, that we are secure against temptation. Those who accept the Saviour, however sincere their conversion, should never be taught to say or to feel that they are saved. This is misleading. Every one should be taught to cherish hope and faith; but even when we give ourselves to Christ and know that He accepts us, we are not beyond the reach of temptation. God's word declares, "Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried." Dan. 12:10. Only he who endures the trial will receive the crown of life. (James 1:12.)
Those who accept Christ, and in their first confidence say, I am saved, are in danger of trusting to themselves. They lose sight of their own weakness and their constant need of divine strength. They are unprepared for Satan's devices, and under temptation many, like Peter, fall into the very depths of sin. We are admonished, "Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall." 1 Cor. 10:12. Our only safety is in constant distrust of self, and dependence on Christ.

 

I would not claim "I am saved".

Mt:26:35: Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.

The evil that led to Peter's fall and that shut out the Pharisee from communion with God is proving the ruin of thousands today. There is nothing so offensive to God or so dangerous to the human soul as pride and self-sufficiency. Of all sins it is the most hopeless, the most incurable.

Peter's fall was not instantaneous, but gradual. Self-confidence led him to the belief that he was saved, and step after step was taken in the downward path, until he could deny his Master. Never can we safely put confidence in self or feel, this side of heaven, that we are secure against temptation. Those who accept the Saviour, however sincere their conversion, should never be taught to say or to feel that they are saved. This is misleading. Every one should be taught to cherish hope and faith; but even when we give ourselves to Christ and know that He accepts us, we are not beyond the reach of temptation. God's word declares, "Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried." Dan. 12:10. Only he who endures the trial will receive the crown of life. (James 1:12.)
Those who accept Christ, and in their first confidence say, I am saved, are in danger of trusting to themselves. They lose sight of their own weakness and their constant need of divine strength. They are unprepared for Satan's devices, and under temptation many, like Peter, fall into the very depths of sin. We are admonished, "Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall." 1 Cor. 10:12. Our only safety is in constant distrust of self, and dependence on Christ.

 

I would not claim "I am saved".

Mt:26:35: Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.

The evil that led to Peter's fall and that shut out the Pharisee from communion with God is proving the ruin of thousands today. There is nothing so offensive to God or so dangerous to the human soul as pride and self-sufficiency. Of all sins it is the most hopeless, the most incurable.

Peter's fall was not instantaneous, but gradual. Self-confidence led him to the belief that he was saved, and step after step was taken in the downward path, until he could deny his Master. Never can we safely put confidence in self or feel, this side of heaven, that we are secure against temptation. Those who accept the Saviour, however sincere their conversion, should never be taught to say or to feel that they are saved. This is misleading. Every one should be taught to cherish hope and faith; but even when we give ourselves to Christ and know that He accepts us, we are not beyond the reach of temptation. God's word declares, "Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried." Dan. 12:10. Only he who endures the trial will receive the crown of life. (James 1:12.)
Those who accept Christ, and in their first confidence say, I am saved, are in danger of trusting to themselves. They lose sight of their own weakness and their constant need of divine strength. They are unprepared for Satan's devices, and under temptation many, like Peter, fall into the very depths of sin. We are admonished, "Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall." 1 Cor. 10:12. Our only safety is in constant distrust of self, and dependence on Christ.

 

I would not claim "I am saved".

Mt:26:35: Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.

The evil that led to Peter's fall and that shut out the Pharisee from communion with God is proving the ruin of thousands today. There is nothing so offensive to God or so dangerous to the human soul as pride and self-sufficiency. Of all sins it is the most hopeless, the most incurable.

Peter's fall was not instantaneous, but gradual. Self-confidence led him to the belief that he was saved, and step after step was taken in the downward path, until he could deny his Master. Never can we safely put confidence in self or feel, this side of heaven, that we are secure against temptation. Those who accept the Saviour, however sincere their conversion, should never be taught to say or to feel that they are saved. This is misleading. Every one should be taught to cherish hope and faith; but even when we give ourselves to Christ and know that He accepts us, we are not beyond the reach of temptation. God's word declares, "Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried." Dan. 12:10. Only he who endures the trial will receive the crown of life. (James 1:12.)
Those who accept Christ, and in their first confidence say, I am saved, are in danger of trusting to themselves. They lose sight of their own weakness and their constant need of divine strength. They are unprepared for Satan's devices, and under temptation many, like Peter, fall into the very depths of sin. We are admonished, "Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall." 1 Cor. 10:12. Our only safety is in constant distrust of self, and dependence on Christ.

 

wow I cant believe this posted this thing that many times... sorry about that! This board has been acting strange lately. It showed that it didnt post anything at all then I come back and it posted multiple times.

 

I'm sorry, Claudia, I didn't get that, could yoou repeat it?

 

It seems to have been doing that quite a bit recently...

 

James,

Its not that I dont think I am "saved" so to speak, its just that I think of Bible passages like the one where it says something like that we were grafted in and we can be grafted out (I cant recall the exact words)..

But the idea is that we should not be so haughty as to think like the Pharisees who went around thinking they were "God's chosen ones" and were the sons of Abraham.. The viewed themselves as the favorites of God and didnt think that God would ever be against them.

Its hard to put ito words what I mean, exactly. And Im not saying anything bad about anyone else here who regards themselves as "saved".

I guess I have fallen into various sins that I never even thought possible and so it taught me to realize that I am weak and liable to fall.

Claudia

 

tragic pizza,

where is everybody finding those sticking out your tongue icons? I dont see it on here... and alot of the others Ive seen people use either.

I'd of used the sticking out your tongue one lots of times if I knew where to get it from

 

Matt

Thats good, I thought it was just acting up on my own computer.

Its been being really sloowwwww too, when I push the "Add Reply" button...

Claudia

 

Claudia,

Dont feel like the Lone Ranger. It happened to me on another thread. I dont know whats going on.

Mike