Now the question is, once you receive Christ as your Savior, can you lose your salvation? Again, let us take a look at some scripture. In Romans 8:38-39 the Bible says, “I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depths, nor any other creatures shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
God Loves You
The principle here is the love of God. Paul says that “nothing can separate you from the love of God.” Understand that in eternity past God loved you so much that He provided for you a Savior, and that love was expressed in time when Jesus Christ came to earth and went to the cross. God actually has two kinds of love for you. So, if you have made a decision to believe in Christ and His righteousness (+R) has been imputed to you, God loves you, and that love is the basis of knowing that nothing will separate you from Him. Hebrews 13:5 guarantees it: “I will never leave you, I will never forsake you.”
God Gives You Eternal Life
There is more assurance in John 10:28-29: “I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My Father’s hand. My Father which gave them to Me is greater than all, and no man can take them out of My Father’s hand.” Again the promise and claim from the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, no one can remove you from the Plan of God once you have made a decision to believe in Jesus Christ.
God Will Never Stop Loving You
One of my favorite verses is 2 Timothy 2:13 “Even if we believe not, yet, He abideth faithful; for He cannot deny Himself.” This verse means that there may come a time in your life that you don’t even believe that your salvation still exists. Has God denied you? You are in Christ and in God’s family.
For God to deny you, for God to say no to you means that God would have to say no to Christ. He cannot do that, that is what the verse says. That is a condition that God will not carry out. So by means of your faith, and by means of the imputation of the (+R) of Christ to your life, you know that you have salvation, and you know that nothing can separate you from God. You know that even if you deny that it happened, God will not deny you.
Yes, if you have made a decision to believe in Jesus Christ, it did happen, and you are in the family of God. You have completed phase one of the Christian life, which is salvation.
