Bible
Study - Are You Really Sure Of Your Eternal Salvation?
Lesson 1
Our Eternal Salvation
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 – 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.