"I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant"
Love that quote. Sometimes I ask myself "Do people really mean what I think they've said?" In light of that (and another thread) I was looking for something but at http://crossinglouisville.com/sermon...ity-in-christ/ found this instead, a list of some thirty things that happen to us when we're saved.
So in this first post I list them so that we can see what happened to us; I'm presuming you agree with them, tell me why if you don't.
But because some (most) of you believe you can lose your salvation, in the next post I'll change the wording to reflect what I think you believe can happen and let you look at it and say Yea / Na.
The thirty things:Rom. 5:1 I have been justified (completely forgiven and made righteous).
Rom. 8:1 I am free forever from condemnation.
1 Cor. 6:19, 20 I have been bought with a price. I am not my own. I belong to God.
2 Cor. 1:21 I have been established, anointed, and sealed by God in Christ.
2 Cor. 5:21 I have been made righteous.
Eph. 1:4 I have been chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and without blame before Him.
Eph. 1:5 I was predestined (determined by God) to be adopted as a son.
Eph. 1:13, 14 I have been given the Holy Spirit as a pledge (a deposit/down payment) guaranteeing my inheritance to come.
Eph. 2:6 I have been raised up and seated with Christ in heaven
Col. 1:14 I have been redeemed and forgiven of all my sins (the debt against me has been cancelled). (see Col. 2:13, 14)
Gal. 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. (The life I am living is Christ's life.)
Eph. 1:7, 8 I have been redeemed, forgiven, and am a recipient of His lavish grace,
Col. 1:13 I have been delivered (rescued) from the domain of darkness (Satan's rule) and transferred to the kingdom of Christ.
Col. 3:1-4 I have been raised up with Christ. I died with Christ. My life is now hidden with Christ in God. Christ is now my life.
2 Tim. 1:9 / Titus 3:5 I have been saved and called (set apart) according to God's doing.
Heb. 2:11 Because I am sanctified and am one with the Sanctifier (Christ), He is not ashamed to call me brother.
2 Pet. 1:4 I have been given exceedingly great and precious promises by God by which I am a partaker of the divine nature (God's nature).
Rom. 6:1-6 I died with Christ and died to the power of sin's rule on my life.
Eph. 2:5 I have been made alive together with Christ.
Col. 2:7 I have been firmly rooted in Christ and am now being built up in Him.
Col. 2:12, 13 I have been buried, raised, and made alive with Christ.
Heb. 4:16 I have a right to come boldly before the throne of God (the throne of grace) to find mercy and find grace in time of need.
1 Cor. 1:30 I have been put into Christ by God's doing.
Eph. 1:3 I have been blessed with every spiritual blessing.
Col. 2:11 I have been spiritually circumcised (my old, unregenerate nature has been removed).
2 Cor. 5:14, 15 Since I have died, I no longer live for myself, but for Him (Christ).
Col. 2:10 I have been made complete in Christ.
Col. 1:27 Christ Himself is in me.
2 Tim. 1:7 I have been given a spirit of power, love, and self-discipline.
Eph. 2:18 I have direct access to God through the Spirit.
Eph. 3:12 I may approach God with boldness, freedom, and confidence.