How We Can Absolutely KNOW Absolutely That We Are Saved.

[Marathoner]

You're blessed to have grandchildren, @JAG**.  

There's an appointed time for every matter under heaven. For those who struggled with abandonment during the formative years, nothing is permanent nor enduring. Friends come and go like the seasons and the ones they trusted left when the storms came. A lack of permanence effects us deeply indeed. 

Such was the case when the Lord called me out of the world many years ago. I hadn't a clue and was afraid of my own shadow, waiting for the inevitable hammer to fall like it always had before. Surely the Lord who called me would grow tired and cast me away! I was a stupid man who didn't know his right from his left, let alone God who made me tremble when His Spirit moved and I heard His voice. I trembled at His words.

Let God be true and every man a liar. When the hammer fell the Lord never cast me away; when I stumbled in my ignorance, He bid me to stand upright again; and when I cried out in my suffering He inclined His ear toward me. The Psalm became my song when He delivered me with a mighty hand. 
 

Psalm 116 (NKJV)

I love the LORD, because He has heard
My voice and my supplications.
Because He has inclined His ear to me,
Therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live.

The pains of death surrounded me,
And the pangs of Sheol laid hold of me;
I found trouble and sorrow.
Then I called upon the name of the LORD:
“O LORD, I implore You, deliver my soul!”

Gracious is the LORD, and righteous;
Yes, our God is merciful.
The LORD preserves the simple;
I was brought low, and He saved me.
Return to your rest, O my soul,
For the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.

For You have delivered my soul from death,
My eyes from tears,
And my feet from falling.
I will walk before the LORD
In the land of the living.
I believed, therefore I spoke,
“I am greatly afflicted.”
I said in my haste,
“All men are liars.”

What shall I render to the LORD
For all His benefits toward me?
I will take up the cup of salvation,
And call upon the name of the LORD.
I will pay my vows to the LORD
Now in the presence of all His people.

Precious in the sight of the LORD
Is the death of His saints.

O LORD, truly I am Your servant;
I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant;
You have loosed my bonds.
I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving,
And will call upon the name of the LORD.

I will pay my vows to the LORD
Now in the presence of all His people,
In the courts of the Lord’s house,
In the midst of you, O Jerusalem.

Praise the LORD!

No matter how high or low and no matter where I wandered on this earth, I am always in His hand. The permanence of our salvation in Jesus Christ is everlasting. 

Edited May 20, 2021 by Marathoner

[steve morrow]

IF  YOUR  NOT  A  CHILD  OF  GOD  ARE  YOU  SAVED   

 

1 JOHN 3:10  in this the children of  GOD  are manifest and the children of the devil ---whosoever doeth not righteousness--- is not of   GOD   ---   neither he that loveth not his brother 

ROMANS 6:16 know you not that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey his servants you are to whom you obey whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness 

PROVERBS 8:8  all the words of my mouth are in righteousness there is nothing froward or perverse in them 

MATTHEW 5:6  blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled 

 

IS  SALVATION  FOR  THOSE  WHO  TRUST  IN  THE  WORDS  OF  JESUS  OR  IN  MANS  WORDS

 

1 JOHN 2:9  he that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in darkness even until now 

--2:10-- he that loveth his brother abideth in the light ---and there is --none-- occasion of stumbling in him 

PSALM 119:130  the entrance of thy words giveth light it giveth --understanding--unto the simple 

EPHESIANS 5:8  for you were sometimes darkness but now are you light in  THE  LORD  walk as children of light

PSALM 89:15  blessed is the people that know the joyful sound they shall walk  O LORD  in the light of thy countenance 

HEBREWS 5:8  though  HE  were a son yet learned  HE  obedience by the things which  HE  suffered 

--5:9-- and being made perfect  HE  became the author of ---eternal salvation---unto all them that --obey--   HIM 

 

ISAIAH 2:22  cease you from man whose breath is in his nostrils for wherein is he to be accounted of

 

2 TIMOTHY 2:7  consider what I say and  THE  LORD  give thee understanding ---in all things---

1 TIMOTHY 2:5  for there is one  GOD  and one mediator between  GOD  and men ---the man  JESUS  CHRIST---

 

LOVING  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST 

[Aries2020]

Greetings,

I didn't realise it but I have always believed in the OSAS concept, but not in the OSAS premise,they are the opposite.