Are
you really sure of your eternal salvation? This is a very important question,
and one that will have lasting eternal consequences. If you were to die today,
do you know for certain that you would go to heaven? This is a question about
which we cannot afford to be wrong, because eternity is very permanent. One
day each of us will face the true answer to this question, "For we shall all stand before the judgment
seat of Christ", Romans
14:10. Every one of us have two appointments that have
already been made for us and that we will definitely keep, whether we want to
or not. They are, "And as it is appointed for men to die once,
but after this the judgment", Hebrews
9:27. These two appointments, death and the judgment, cannot
be cancelled.
We must not make an error concerning our salvation in
following what "seems right" to us, or that we "feel in our
heart that we are saved". The Bible says in Proverbs
14:12, "There is a way that
seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death". Our
feelings are not a safe guide, but only the Bible is.
What prior assumptions have we already made about our
salvation? Many of these assumptions, that people make, contradict what God
says in his word to us. All we have to do is to look around at all of the
many differing doctrines that are being taught, and then compare them to what
God says in the Bible, and we can see a great difference. Our Lord says in Mark
7:7, "And in vain they
worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men." Our
worship is vain if it comes from the doctrines of men and not from God. Can
we say that all these many differing doctrines have come from God? I think
not. I Corinthians 14:33 says that,
"God is not the author of confusion." Or are
they from men? Where else could they have come from, if they did not come
from God? This becomes a very serious question. Our worship becomes vain and
useless, if our doctrines come from men when they meet in conventions and
conferences to decide what we are to believe and do.
As the apostle Peter told the Jewish council in Acts
5:29, "We ought to obey God
rather than men". Do not believe anything that I
tell you, because we are not going to be judged by what I say. Do not believe
anything any other person tells you, because we are not going to be judged by
what some other person says. In fact, we are not going to be judged by what
we personally believe. On the Day of Judgment we are going to be judged only
by what the Lord says in the Bible. That is going to be the only standard for
judgment, for our Lord says in John 12:48, "The
word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day". So, if I
or any other person cannot point to it in the Word of God, then please do not
believe it, because there is too much at stake ñ your soul!
Our soul is worth more than the whole world and
everything in it. Jesus says in Matthew 16:26, "For
what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own
soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?" Our soul
is the part of us that is going to continue to live on forever throughout all
eternity. We cannot afford to lose it into eternal punishment.
Questions Lesson 1 Our Eternal Salvation (click
on the button of the answer of your choice)
1)
(Romans 14:10) Who will appear before the judgment seat of Christ?
Only the lost. Only
the saved. All
people.
2) We cannot afford to be wrong about our salvation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) (Proverbs 14:12) The way that seems right unto
man leads to Eternal
life. Spiritual
death. Success. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4) Our feelings are a safe guide when it comes to
our eternal salvation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5) (Mark 7:7) If we follow the doctrines of men It
is vain. It
doesn't matter. God
is still well pleased. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6) It is pleasing to God if we follow the
doctrines of men in our worship. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7) (John 12:48) What will be the standard of
judgment on judgment day? What
we think. The
words of Christ. What
my preacher says. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8) Just because we feel in our heart we are saved
does not mean we are saved. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9) (Hebrews 9:27) What appointments have already
been made for us? Doctor.
Dental.
Death
and Judgment ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10) We can cancel our appointments with death and
judgment.