You will never save your self !

When i believed on Jesus Christ 20 years ago ! I had no idea why all these pastors back then were warning about having faith ! I had it beat into my head 20 years ago that it was faith that saved and let no man steal your faith !

But i was new and did not understand just wanted to serve Christ back then ! So i set out to do just that joined churches that did all kinds of works ! Did it for so long i thought wow i'm definitely going to heaven look at what i've done !

Then God hit me upside the head and you know what i fell back into the worst kinds of sins then i committed before i was saved ! See i got so high on my horse and got so caught up with the works of not sinning and doing what i thought would save me i forgot all about the saving grace that Jesus first brought to me ! What i had done to my self was crazy i was committed full time to a church that believed works saved and therefore had endless projects on the go to feed cloth house the poor visit the people in jail to tell them the wonderful news of works salvation ! Who did i save ? No one !

We Fed lots of hungry bellies ! Maybe planted some seeds for another harvest ! Which is fine but the one harvesting is going to have a harder time because the works doctrine i preached to them but good luck. I am sorry for the doctrine i taught back then and it led to my chastisement for sure a punishment i will never forget ! But guess what i never lost my salvation Jesus was right there waiting for me when i broke 10 years later ! It happened to be a Franklin graham concert ! Not that his message hit me !

But the light came on that night and i have never looked back since.I had no idea i believed in a false doctrine and defended it until i found the real Gospel God forgives me for i didn't know any better who does not forgive is the teachers who taught me that !

Any teaching that states that a born again believer could lose his/her salvation if they do not continue until the end, is a heresy. It is a heresy because effectively that person has to depend upon their own works and efforts to retain their salvation, rather than just simply trusting in the Saviour for that prize.  In fact, the reason I focus so much on the evils of ecumenism is because vast areas of the "so called" evangelical/protestant church are embracing and/or joining forces with the work based religion of Rome (Vatican religion). Apart from ecumenism, there are those (within the evangelical church) who are being misguided, who follow arminianism. Arminianism was an offshoot from Rome (around the time of the reformation) and contains a lot of catholic teaching. No wonder really, because it has (at its essence, like catholic dogma) a dependence on works to maintain salvation.

The teaching of arminianism, is that it is possible for a believer to become saved and then later unsaved if they do not continue in the faith (including works evident of salvation) until the end. I will now show that this is a seriously false teaching and extremely dangerous to the spiritual health of believers and to their relationship with the Lord. There are those within the Christian community who state that the teaching of eternal security is not a teaching to be divided over, as it is a non vital doctrine, which does not affect our salvation. Is that true? I would beg to differ. Effectively, if you believe that you can lose your salvation (which was a free gift "not of works") then this means that after receiving the gift freely, you could end up losing it, if you do not continue with works. How could it be a free gift if you could lose it? In fact, although you receive it as a gift, you would end up paying for it in instalments for the rest of your life. Friends, that is NOT how free gifts operate. If you believe that, then effectively you are depending upon works to ultimately save you and not on the eternally based free gift that cannot be taken from you

once received. The apostle Paul did not think that this teaching was insignificant regarding salvation and did not mix his words over such heretical teaching. Let us read what he said about it: Galatians 2:6-9 'I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.'Wow, Paul didn't just say "accursed" once. That means he was making a VERY serious point. That was in chapter 2. He then digressed for a while before continuing explaining what that heresy (false teaching) was. We continue it in chapter 3 verse 1 to 14 (note: it is worth reading the rest of chapter 3 and 4 because Paul says so much about this matter throughout). 'O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? Have you suffered so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?— just as Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.” So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.” But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for “the just shall live by faith.” Yet the law is not of faith, but “the man who does them shall live by them.” Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree” that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.' I know that it talks about the works of the law. You may say that that is different. Is it? What Paul is showing us is that it is foolish to do ANYTHING in the strength of the flesh. Effectively Paul is saying: "having begun in the spirit are you now trying to be justified by self effort and/or external works, to save you?". Those who preach the arminian heresy are affecting the minds, practices and spiritual well being of those who they influence. This is because it will inevitably create guilt feelings that they are not doing enough and panic that maybe they are not really saved. I will end this discussion by highlighting encouraging words: Philippians 1:6 "being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ",  Philippians 2:12-13 "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure" The above words do not say "work for your salvation". It says "work out" which has an entirely different meaning and implies an unfolding process of your salvation. The key words PROVING this, continue on in that passage "for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good  pleasure". He is empowering you within, by motivating you in your WILL and in your ACTIONS. It is nothing to do with self effort at all, but a complete dependence on Him.

Those who have put their trust in Jesus for their eternal salvation have become children of God "a new creation" born into God's eternal kingdom. They can NEVER then become unborn. Those who are born again have received the Holy Spirit. They WILL persevere to the end because it is HE who keeps us. If we sin, the Holy Spirit convicts us of sin, inspiring us to repent. We are being changed from one degree of glory to another into the image of Christ. It is NOT OUR WORK but the work of the Holy Spirit within us. Therefore, we no longer need to be concerned whether we will "make it" by self effort because "He who began a good work in us will bring it to completion UNTIL the day of Christ (ie until the very end). May I ask you if you have the assurance that you will persevere and enter heaven and why? What must YOU do to ensure you are ultimately saved? Before you answer, consider does it depend upon your own self effort, works or ......? Why did Paul ask " Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?"? and in Philippians 3:3 "For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh" Paul was stating that believers STILL have no confidence in self effort.