Once Saved Always Saved Is Not True; An Intimate Relationship With The Lord Is True

Once Saved Always Saved?

We’ve all heard the term “Once saved always saved”.  It is a term used which reflects eternal security a person receives once they put their faith in Jesus as their Savior.  The way some pastors describe salvation, it makes it sound simple and easy; repeat a sentence and you are now a child of the kingdom.  Is it as simple as declaring that you need a Savior, or is there more to it?  The point to this discussion is, what is it that saves you? 

I don’t believe in “Once Saved Always Saved”.  I believe in “Truly Saved Always Saved”.  Those who have an intimate relationship with the Lord are the true believers and followers of Christ.  Claiming the name of a person you spend no time with will not grant you eternal security.  Look at the following verses:

Matthew 7:21-23 – 21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

Revelation 2:4-7 –  4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. 5 Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. 6 But you have this in your favor: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate…..   7 To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.

Revelation 3:1-5 –  1 I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. 2 Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God. 3 Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.  4 Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. 5 The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels.

Revelation 3:15-16 –  15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16 So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

Matthew 25:1-13 – 1 “At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish and five were wise. 3 The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them. 4 The wise ones, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps. 5 The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep. 6 “At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’ 7 “Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. 8 The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’ 9 “ ‘No,’ they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’ 10 “But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut. 11 “Later the others also came. ‘Lord, Lord,’ they said, ‘open the door for us!’ 12 “But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I don’t know you.’ 13 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.

Luke 13:22-30 – 22 Then Jesus went through the towns and villages, teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem. 23 Someone asked him, “Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?” He said to them, 24 “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. 25 Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, ‘Sir, open the door for us.’ “But he will answer, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’ 26 “Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’ 27 “But he will reply, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!’ 28 “There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out. 29 People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God. 30 Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last.”

This is not about claiming the name of Jesus when you are 5 years old and then living like hell the rest of your life.  This is about making an informed decision about dedicating your life to Jesus then having an intimate relationship with Him. 

What Is Required Of Us?

If we as Christians claim to know God and claim to follow Him, yet we don’t follow anything He asked us to do, then we haven’t even done the basic things that God wants us to do.  The accepted the free gift of His sacrifice, but they didn’t care enough to keep up their end of the bargain.  So the basic picture is:  people receive Jesus’ sacrifice +  no repentant heart + no will to do what God asks = no Salvation.

Jesus paid the penalty for our unrighteousness, but He never gave us a free pass for sin.  In fact, Jesus said that the law will never disappear.  The law is what we all need to understand what holiness is. 

John 14:15 – “If you love me, keep my commands.

1 John 5:3 – For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.

John 14:21 – Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

John 14:23 – Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.

Now, am I inferring that we need to be perfect and get to Heaven by works?  Not at all!  Will you sin?  Of course you will.  But the mark of a saved person is a person who is convicted by their sin and repents from it.  We are to turn from sin and we are to strive to live sinless lives, but that comes through time well spent with Jesus. 

How about works?  Will works save us?  Not at all.  There is nothing works based that we can do to be saved.  He has to save us. 

Two Types Of Christians

So there are those who trust in the Lord with all their heart and the live changed life.  There are others who think they trust in the Lord, but they are trusting on a message of free grace to cover a multitude of sins that they do not feel like giving up.  In the end, the ones with the unchanged lives will suffer:

Matthew 24:45-50 – 45 “Who then is the faithful and sensible slave whom his master put in charge of his household to give them their food at the proper time? 46 “Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes. 47 “Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 48 “But if that evil slave says in his heart, ‘My master is not coming for a long time,’ 49 and begins to beat his fellow slaves and eat and drink with drunkards; 50 the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know, 51 and will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

In those verses, we see people who know the Lord and know what He expects of us, yet were also lazy and did not meet His expectations.  

Matthew 13:18-23 – 18 “Hear then the parable of the sower. 19 “When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is the one on whom seed was sown beside the road. 20 “The one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, this is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; 21 yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls away. 22 “And the one on whom seed was sown among the thorns, this is the man who hears the word, and the worry of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. 23 “And the one on whom seed was sown on the good soil, this is the man who hears the word and understands it; who indeed bears fruit and brings forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.”

In those verses, we see many people excepting and believing and then falling away.

Matthew 13:36-43 -  36 Then He left the crowds and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.” 37 And He said, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, 38 and the field is the world; and as for the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one; 39 and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are angels. 40 “So just as the tares are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the age. 41 “The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness, 42 and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43 “Then THE RIGHTEOUS WILL SHINE FORTH AS THE SUN in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

In those verses, we see both the righteous and the unrighteous in the church and God will sort them out in the end.  Both are attending the same church and both believe that they are saved.

Matthew 22:1-14 -  1 Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying, 2 “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son. 3 “And he sent out his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding feast, and they were unwilling to come. 4 “Again he sent out other slaves saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fattened livestock are all butchered and everything is ready; come to the wedding feast.”’ 5 “But they paid no attention and went their way, one to his own farm, another to his business, 6 and the rest seized his slaves and mistreated them and killed them. 7 “But the king was enraged, and he sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire. 8 “Then he said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy. 9 ‘Go therefore to the main highways, and as many as you find there, invite to the wedding feast.’ 10 “Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered together all they found, both evil and good; and the wedding hall was filled with dinner guests. 11 “But when the king came in to look over the dinner guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed in wedding clothes, 12 and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without wedding clothes?’ And the man was speechless. 13 “Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ 14 “For many are called, but few are chosen.”

In those verses,  we see that all are invited, but it takes some effort on our part to be able to be with the Lord.

Conclusion

Please do not be fooled by anyone who says believing in Jesus is all you need to be saved.  Even the demons believe that Jesus is the Messiah:

James 2:19 – You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder.

Put your faith in Jesus as your Savior and spend time with Him!  Spend time reading the Book He left for you.  Spend time praying to Him.  Spend time serving Him because He served us.   

Thanks for reading!

Please check out my other stories and teachings on Before It’s News!

Also, check out my Youtube channels:

JesusIsSalvation23 - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxu5Kz_UGnHgloJj7XC_PCA

Discreet Prepper – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcYaqzNTifN6jtC-kA9ZrBA