God saved you. Your salvation is 100% a work of God. You can think of your salvation from two perspectives. The first is the moment you became a believer and child of God. The second is the moment you leave your body and go to Heaven. It is at that time that you saved from this world, your sinful body, and are in God’s presence forever. In a way, you can think of yourself as saved now but that you will be saved when your body dies.
Now, for some reason many believers struggle with the idea of staying saved. They think it is possible to lose your salvation. They are completely wrong! Let me make it clear that you cannot lose your salvation. Your salvation was 100% a work of God and you remaining saved to enter Heaven is also 100% a work of God.
God’s acts can’t be changed
Since your salvation is an act of God, nobody can reverse or change it:
I act, and who can reverse it? (Isa 43:13)
The moment you became a child of God and believer in Jesus was an act of God as we’ve already discussed. God saved you and nobody can change what He has done:
The Holy One, the True One, the One who has the key of David, who opens and no one will close, and closes and no one opens … (Rev 3:7)
14 Whatever He tears down cannot be rebuilt; whoever He imprisons cannot be released. 15 When He withholds the waters, everything dries up, and when He releases them, they destroy the land. (Job 12:14-15)
If He snatches something, who can stop Him? Who can ask Him, “What are You doing?” (Job 9:12)
God put your name in the book of life before the beginning of the world (Rev 17:8; Rev 13:8; Eph 1:4; 2 Tim 1:9). It was His plan since the beginning that you would be with Him in Heaven forever and nothing or nobody can change what He has planned:
Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and no one is like Me. 10 I declare the end from the beginning, and from long ago what is not yet done, saying: My plan will take place, and I will do all My will. 11 I call a bird of prey from the east, a man for My purpose from a far country. Yes, I have spoken; so I will also bring it about. I have planned it; I will also do it. (Isa 46:9-11)
Nobody can undo what God has done in saving you and nobody can change His plan to bring you to Heaven to be with Him.
God keeps you saved
You remaining saved after becoming a believer also depends 100% on God keeping you saved:
23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely. And may your spirit, soul, and body be kept sound and blameless for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it. (1 Thes 5:23-24)
It is God who protects you so that you will be saved. He is protecting you by His power to be saved:
5 You are being protected by God’s power through faith for a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. (1 Pe 1:5)
The Lord will rescue me from every evil work and will bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever! Amen. (2 Tim 4:18)
24 Now to Him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of His glory, blameless and with great joy, (Jude 1:24)
God says He will keep a believer’s body, spirit, and soul blameless for when you meet Jesus (1 Thes 5:23-24), and says He will protect you from stumbling so you can stand blameless in His presence (Jude 1:24), and says He protects you by His power for salvation (1 Pe 1:5) and bring you safely into His heavenly kingdom (2 Tim 4:18).
Praise God now that you are saved and that He is keeping your place in Heaven for you.
Think about it
Can you save yourself?
Did you truly add anything to help God save you?
Do you believe your salvation is 100% a work of God?
Since you didn’t work to become saved, do you think you need to do works to remain saved?
What do you think about the verses above where God said He’s working to keep you sound, blameless, and keep you stumbling for your day of salvation?
Do you believe it when God’s Word says “The Lord … will bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom”? How does that make you feel knowing He’s guarding your salvation?
The Lord will protect you from all harm; He will protect your life. (Ps 121:7)
4 For if God didn’t spare the angels who sinned but threw them down into Tartarus and delivered them to be kept in chains of darkness until judgment; 5 and if He didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others, when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly; 6 and if He reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes and condemned them to ruin, making them an example to those who were going to be ungodly; 7 and if He rescued righteous Lot, distressed by the unrestrained behavior of the immoral 8 (for as he lived among them, that righteous man tormented himself day by day with the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— 9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment … (2 Pet 2:4-9)
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