Posted on 10/25/2013 4:04:49 AM PDT by The Ignorant Fisherman
Having reminded ourselves of our former, unregenerate state, we are now ready to consider the great things God has done for us in His grace, saving our souls and making us whole. This listing is by no means original. For example, Lewis Sperry Chafer has a similar listing in his book entitled Salvation. Also this listing is by no means complete or exhaustive. We have listed 215 things but there are more. You can add to this list through your own study of the Scriptures as you find other things that are true of you now that you are saved. This study can be used as a devotional aid. One or two of the following points could be considered each day as you meditate on the riches of God's grace. Consider these as "SPIRITUAL VITAMIN PILLS" and take one or two a day! As you go through the day remind yourself of who you are and what you have in Christ! As a saint, live saintly! As a child of God, so walk in a way that would honor your heavenly Father! "To God be the glory! Great things He hath done!" Don't forget WHO YOU ARE! Consider the following:
215 THINGS THAT ARE TRUE OF ME NOW THAT I AM SAVED:
My salvation is fully accomplished (John 19:30). I have eternal life as a present possession (John 5:24; 6:47; 1 John 5:11-13). I have Jesus Christ as my present possession (1 John 5:12). I know the one, true God (John 17:3; 1 John 2:3; 5:20). I have been saved by His grace (Eph. 2:1-10). I have been justified by His grace (Tit. 3:7). I have passed from death unto life (John 5:24; 1 John 3:14). I have been quickened (made alive) by God (Eph. 2:1,5; Col. 2:13). I have been made fit for heaven (Col. 1:12). I have the forgiveness of sins (Eph. 1:7; Col. 1:14). My sins have been taken away (John 1:29; Heb. 9:26; 1 John 3:5). My sins have been completely purged (Heb. 1:3). My sins will never be remembered by God (Heb. 8:12; 10:17). I have been washed (1 Cor. 6:11; Tit. 3:5; Rev. 1:5). I will walk with Christ in white (Rev. 3:4-5). I have been healed by His stripes (1 Pet. 2:24). I have been forgiven all trespasses (Col. 2:13; 1 John 2:12). I have been fully justified (Rom. 4:5; 8:30; 1 Cor. 6:11; Gal. 2:16; Tit. 3:7). I am reconciled to God (2 Cor. 5:18-19; Col. 1:20). I am made nigh by the blood of Christ (Eph. 2:13). I am redeemed through His blood (1 Pet. 1:18,19; Eph. 1:7; Col. 1:14). I am redeemed from the curse of the law (Gal. 3:13). I am redeemed from all iniquity or lawlessness (Titus 2:14). I am bought with a price (1 Cor. 6:20; 7:23). I am delivered from so great a death (2 Cor. 1:10). I have been delivered from this present evil world or age (Gal. 1:4). I have been delivered from the power of darkness (Col. 1:13). I have been delivered from the wrath to come (1 Thess. 1:10). I will not come into condemnation or judgment (John 5:24; Rom. 8:1). I am a child of God (John 1:12; Rom. 8:16; Gal. 3:26; 1 John 3:1,2). I am a son of God (Gal. 4:5-7). I belong to Jesus Christ (Gal. 3:29; 5:24). I have been adopted (Gal. 4:5; Rom. 8:15,23). I am an heir of God and joint-heir with Christ (Rom. 8:17; Tit. 3:7). I am an heir of the grace of life (1 Pet. 3:7). All things are mine (1 Cor. 3:21-23). I possess all things (2 Cor. 6:10). I will inherit all things (Rev. 21:7). I am enriched by Christ in everything (1 Cor. 1:5; 2 Cor. 9:11). I am a fellow heir (Eph. 3:6). I am rich because of Christ (2 Cor. 8:9; Rev. 2:9). I am blessed with every spiritual blessing (Eph. 1:3). I have obtained an inheritance (Eph. 1:11,14; Heb. 1:14; 9:15; 1 Pet. 1:4). I have been appointed to obtain salvation (1 Thess. 5:9; Heb. 1:14). I am His inheritance (Eph. 1:18). I am a partaker of His promise in Christ by the gospel (Eph. 3:6). I am a new creature (creation) in Christ (2 Cor. 5:17; Eph. 2:10; 4:24; Col. 3:10). I have been renewed by the Holy Spirit (Tit. 3:5). I am accepted and highly favored in the Beloved One (Eph. 1:6; cf. Matt. 3:17). I have been seated in heavenly places with Christ (Eph. 2:6). I am to the praise of His glory (Eph. 1:6,12). I am light in the Lord (Eph. 5:8). I am a child of light (Eph. 5:8; 1 Thess. 5:5). I am a "peculiar person," even God's special, purchased possession (Tit. 2:14; 1 Pet.2:9). I am a priest who can offer spiritual sacrifices (Heb. 13:15-16; 1 Pet. 2:5,9; Rev. 1:6; 5:10;20:6). I am a king who will reign (Rev. 1:6; 5:10; 20:6). I am privileged to have fellowship with the Father and with the Son (1 John 1:3). I dwell in Christ (John 6:56; 1 John 3:24; 4:13,15,16). Christ dwells in me (John 6:56; Gal. 2:20; 1 John 3:24; 4:12-16). I am in Christ (John 14:20; 2 Cor. 5:17). Christ is in me (John 14:20; Col. 1:27; Rom. 8:10; 1 John 4:4).62. The Spirit of God dwells in me (Rom. 8:9; 1 Cor. 3:16; Eph. 2:21-22). The Spirit of God dwells (John 6:56; Gal. 2:20; 1 John 3:24; 4:12-16). I am not in the flesh but in the Spirit (Rom. 8:9). My "earthen vessel" houses a great Treasure (2 Cor. 4:7). My body is the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 6:19). I have been blest with the gift and pledge of the Holy Spirit (2 Cor. 1:22; Gal. 4:6; Eph. 1:13-14; 1 Thess. 4:8; Tit. 3:6; 1 John 3:24; 4:13). I have an anointing (unction) from the Holy One (1 John 2:20,27). I am one of the "called" of Jesus Christ (Rom. 1:6; 8:28-30; Jude 1; Rev. 17:14). I have been called unto the fellowship of God's Son (1 Cor. 1:9). I have been called unto eternal glory (1 Pet. 5:10). I have been called with a holy calling (2 Tim. 1:9). I am a partaker of the high, heavenly calling (Phil. 3:14; Heb. 3:1). I have been called out of darkness into His marvelous light (1 Pet. 2:9). God foreknew me (Rom. 8:29; 1 Pet. 1:2). God predestined me to be conformed to Christ's image (Rom. 8:29; Eph. 1:5,11). I have already been glorified according to God's mind and purpose (Rom. 8:30). I am eternally secure in God's love (Rom. 8:38-39). I am chosen in Christ (Eph. 1:4; Col. 3:12; 1 Thess. 1:4; 1 Pet. 2:9; Rev. 17:14). I have been chosen to salvation (2 Thess. 2:13). I am complete in Christ (Col. 2:10). I am beloved of God (Col. 3:12; 2 Thess. 2:13). I am chastened and disciplined by my Heavenly Father (Heb. 12:6-7). I am part of that group that Christ is not ashamed to call His "brethren" and "friends" (Heb. 2:11; John 15:14-15). I am a child of Abraham (Gal. 3:7). I am Abraham's seed (Gal. 3:29). I enjoy the blessing of Abraham (Gal. 3:9). I am a child of promise (Gal. 4:28,31). I am faithful (Rev. 17:14). I am a sheep in His flock (Luke 12:32; Heb. 13:20; 1 Pet. 2:25). I am a member of His body (1 Cor. 10:17; 12:27; Eph. 3:6; 4:25; 5:30). I am a stone in His building (Eph. 2:20-22; Heb. 3:6; 1 Pet. 2:5). I am a branch in the Vine (John 15:1-7). I am a child of the kingdom (Matt. 13:38; compare Mark 10:14-15). I am born again into His family (John 1:12-13; James 1:18; 1 Pet. 1:3,23; 2:2; 1 John 5:1). I am one of God's people because He graciously claims me as His own (1 Pet. 2:10; Rev. 21:7). I am a fellow citizen with the saints (Eph. 2:19). I was baptized into Jesus Christ (Rom. 6:3; Gal. 3:27). I was identified with Christ in His death (Rom. 6:3-6,8-11; 2 Cor. 5:14; Col. 2:12,20; 3:3). I was identified with Christ in His resurrection (Rom. 6:5,8,11; 2 Cor. 5:15; Gal. 2:20; Col. 2:12; 3:1). I died to sin (Rom. 6:2). My "old man" was crucified with Christ (Rom. 6:6). I have been crucified with Christ (Gal. 2:20). I have crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts (Gal. 5:24). I am alive unto God (Rom. 6:11,13; Gal. 2:19,20). Christ is my life (Phil. 1:21; Col. 3:4). I can walk in newness of life (Rom. 6:4). I can serve in newness of spirit (Rom. 7:6). I can live unto righteousness (1 Pet. 2:24). I died to the law (Rom. 7:4; Gal. 2:19). I am delivered from the law (Rom. 7:6). I am not under the law but under grace (Rom. 6:14). I have God's laws written in my heart (Heb. 10:16). I am married to Jesus Christ (Rom. 7:4). I am a partaker of Christ (Heb. 3:14). I am identified with Christ in His suffering (2 Tim. 2:12; Phil. 1:29; 1 Pet. 2:20; 4:12-13; 1 Thess. 3:3; Rom. 8:18; Col. 1:24). The knowledge of God is made known by me (2 Cor. 2:14). The savor (aroma) of Christ is made known by me (2 Cor. 2:15-16). I am an epistle of Christ (2 Cor. 3:3). I am being changed into Christ's glorious image (2 Cor. 3:18). I am being perfected (Phil. 1:6). My inward man is being renewed day by day (2 Cor. 4:16). I have put on Christ (Gal. 3:27). I am not of the world (John 17:14,16). The world is crucified unto me (Gal. 6:14). I am crucified unto the world (Gal. 6:14). I am separated unto the gospel of God (Rom. 1:1). I am set apart and sanctified in Christ Jesus (1 Cor. 1:2; 6:11; Heb. 10:10; Jude 1). I am holy (Col. 3:12; Heb. 3:1; 1 Pet. 2:9; Rev. 20:6). I am clothed in His righteousness (Rev. 19:8). I am a saint (1 Cor. 1:2; Phil. 1:1; Col. 1:2; Rom. 1:7). I am faultless in Christ (Eph. 5:27; Col. 1:22; Jude 24). I am perfected forever (Heb. 10:14). I am not my own (1 Cor. 6:19). I am called unto holiness (1 Thess. 4:7). I am a citizen of heaven (Phil. 3:20). I am a stranger and pilgrim who is not at home in this world (Heb. 11:13; 1 Pet. 2:11). I have been translated into the kingdom of the Son of His love (Col. 1:13). I am circumcised in my heart (Col. 2:11; Phil 3:3; compare Deut. 10:16). My faithful God will sanctify me wholly (1 Thess. 5:23-24). My faithful God will keep me from evil (2 Thess. 3:3; 2 Tim. 4:18). Christ has made me free, free indeed (John 8:32-36; Gal. 5:1; 1 Cor. 7:22). Jesus Christ is my Deliverer (Rom. 7:24-25). I am free from sin (Rom. 6:7,18,22). The law of the Spirit of Life has made me free from the law of sin and death (Rom. 8:2). I am God's servant or slave (Rom. 6:22). I am Christ's servant or slave (1 Cor. 7:22). I am a servant or slave of righteousness (Rom. 6:18). I have been called unto liberty (Gal. 5:13). I have the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16). I have a sound mind (2 Tim. 1:7). Christ has given me an understanding (1 John 5:20). I have the righteousness of Christ (2 Cor. 5:21). I have all sufficiency in all things (2 Cor. 9:8). I have all things that pertain to life and godliness (2 Pet. 1:3). I can ever be content for I have Christ (Heb. 13:5). I have all the armor and weapons I need (2 Cor. 10:4; Eph. 6:10-17). I have God's all-sufficient grace (2 Cor. 12:9). I have grace to help in time of need (Heb. 4:16). I have God's power (Eph. 1:19; 3:20). I have access to the Father (Eph. 2:18; Heb. 4:16). I have a great High Priest (Heb. 2:17-18; 3:1; 4:14-16; 8:1; 10:21). I have an unfailing Intercessor (Heb. 7:25; 9:24; Rom. 8:34). I have a righteous Advocate with the Father for times when I sin (1 John 2:1). I have peace with God (Rom. 5:1). Christ is my peace (Eph. 2:14). I have rest for my soul (Matt. 11:28-29; Heb. 4:9). I am led by the Spirit of God (Rom. 8:14). I am enabled during trials and temptations (1 Cor. 10:13). I am given assurance by the Spirit (Rom. 8:16; Heb. 6:18). I am given comfort by God (2 Cor. 1:3-7). I am tranquilized by His peace (Phil. 4:7). I am freely given truth and knowledge by the Spirit (1 Cor. 2:12). I am not distressed (2 Cor. 4:8). I am not in despair (2 Cor. 4:8). I am not forsaken (2 Cor. 4:9). I am not in darkness (1 Thess. 5:4). God is my Sufficiency (2 Cor. 3:5). God is my Strength (2 Cor. 12:9-10; Phil. 4:13). God is my Helper (Heb. 13:6). I belong to a Sovereign God who works all things together for my good (Rom. 8:28). All things are for my sake (2 Cor. 4:15). My God is for me (Rom. 8:31). My every need is supplied (Phil. 4:19). I am a laborer together with Christ (1 Cor. 3:9; 2 Cor. 6:1). I am His workmanship (Eph. 2:10). God works in me (Phil. 2:13; Heb. 13:21). God's Word works in me (1 Thess. 2:13). I am sealed by God (2 Cor. 1:22; Eph. 1:13). I am on the Rock, Christ Jesus (Matt. 16:18; 1 Cor. 3:11). I am established securely in Christ (2 Cor. 1:21; 2 Thess. 3:3). I am kept by the power of God (1 Pet. 1:5). I am preserved in Jesus Christ (Jude 1). I am kept from falling (Jude 24). I have a building of God eternal in the heavens (2 Cor. 5:1). My name is forever written in heaven (Luke 10:20). I am more than a conqueror, even a super-conqueror (Rom. 8:37). I have victory through Christ (1 Cor. 15:57). I have overcome the world (1 John 5:4-5). I always triumph in Christ (2 Cor. 2:14). I am indwelt by the victorious Christ who is greater than Satan (1 John 4:4). Satan cannot touch me (1 John 5:18). I have a living hope (1 Pet. 1:3). I have a glorious future (Rom. 8:18; 2 Thess. 2:14). I have been given eternal encouragement and good hope through grace (2 Thess. 2:16). I will be preserved unto His heavenly kingdom (2 Tim. 4:18). I am receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved (Heb. 12:28). I have a place reserved in heaven for me (John 14:2,3; 1 Pet. 1:4). I will eat of the tree of life (Rev. 2:7). I will not be hurt of the second death (Rev. 2:11; 20:6). I will have a new name (Rev. 2:17; 3:12). I will have power over the nations (Rev. 2:26; 5:10). I will not have my name blotted out of the book of life (Rev. 3:5). I will be a pillar in God's temple (Rev. 3:12). I will sit with Christ in His throne (Rev. 3:21). I will be with my God forever (Rev. 21:3-4).
---------- Wonderful grace of Jesus, Greater than all my sin;How shall my tongue describe it, Where shall its praise begin?Taking away my burden, Setting my spirit free,For the wonderful grace of Jesus reaches me. Wonderful grace of Jesus, Reaching the most defiled,By its transforming power Making him God's dear child,Purchasing peace and heaven For all eternityAnd the wonderful grace of Jesus reaches me!" – Haldor Lillenas
The Kingdom of heaven is at hand!
Glory hallelujah, AMEN!
I see a mass of text!
Holy wall of text, Batman!
On the eighth day, God created paragraphs.
...and He saw that they were good.
Maybe that’s what the Obamacare Web site binary code looks like ;)
Life is hard, God is good!
“I see a mass of text!”
That’s the sign! I see it too! Amen!
Good rap tune.
WOW! What a list! That must haven taken some time.
It is great to have a positive hopeful attitude and that must be tempered with a full spectrum attitude that also seeks to see real danger for what it is! See reference below and “God help us!”
http://www.catholic.com/quickquestions/doesnt-1-john-511-13-prove-once-saved-always-saved
Full Question
The Bible speaks of believers as having eternal life now (1 Jn 5:11-13). This proves “once saved, always saved.”
Answer
Sometimes Scripture speaks of believers possessing eternal life now, but it also talks about it as something in the future.
When eternal life is described as a present possession of Christians, this is an example of what theologians call “realized eschatology.” This means that Christians participate now in a limited way in what they will experience more fully in the Kingdom of God to come. It doesn’t necessarily imply those who have so partaken of the Kingdom and its gifts can’t be lost (Heb 3:14; 6:4-6).
The Bible speaks of eternal life as something future (Mt 19:29; Mk 9:43-47; Ti 1:2; 3:7; Jude 21) and based upon our fidelity, by God’s grace, to his commandments (Mt 19:16-17; 25:46; Jn 3:36; Rom 2:6-10; 1 Tm 6:18-19; Jas 1:12; 2 Tm 2:12).
My dear friend, I hope you make it on your own.... but that is not God’s way or Jesus would not have to die for our sins. He is off the cross at the Right hand of Almighty God (Psalm 110:1, Heb. 1:2-3). We work out our salvation because we possess it and are saved.. not to be saved.
“For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. Rom. 10:2-4
“These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.” 1 John 5:13. That you may “KNOW” and that ye “Have” (possessive)
Thanks for your comments.
indeed!
“We work out our salvation because we possess it and are saved.. not to be saved.”
Where in scripture or early tradition is this written?! (You Protestants sometimes provide pretty weak proofs for your assertions that scripture means something that it may not, while priding yourselves in your exclusive use of scripture. Besides, remember the warnings in the Apocalypse about whoever changes or adds to one letter of what is written!)
Paul doesn’t clarify it so but he in another place says to work out your salvation in fear and trembling! In fear and trembling! Nor does it say in scripture or early tradition that “that ye may know that ye have eternal life” refers to something that cannot yet be lost again. RATHER: See Saint John’s (an apostle who actually walked with Jesus and was the most loved by Jesus apostle) warnings in the Apocalypse (Revelation): Apocalypse 2:5-6 Jesus says that you have lost your first love. And to “repent…or else” to believers. You know, if there is ambiguity in a warning it’s far safer to assume the worst case and move forward on that basis striving for salvation then it is to assume the best. For example, if someone screams “the building is about to blow up!” and you choose to doubt it and favor the hope that it’s just some kook who is wrong, and if you’re wrong, your dead. But if you believe the guy and hustle out but it turns out he really is just a kook, and you’re wrong, you haven’t lost much in the matter, just a little time and embarrassment. Fear and trembling includes not trusting yourself too much. Saints with amazing virtue and faith have expressed some levels of mistrust in their final destiny including Saint Paul the apostle!
With the Catholic sacrament of confession we get more of a sense of our guilt and need of repentance from numerous actual sins which we and you can fall into and thus fall out of grace with God. I really often don’t hear enough call to repentance by the Protestants such as was issued by John the baptizer and Jesus and the apostles. I’m talking about balance. I hear a lot more about assurance and that Jesus died for you than that we ought to fear God as well.
One other example for now is found in the final judgment. The sheep and the goats: They are judged by their works, not by “Did they say the sinner’s prayer with a lot of conviction at some point in their life?”
That is not to say that your works save you, but that they illustrate your faith in and thus obedience to Christ Jesus our savior. “Do you do the same works that I Jesus performed? Then you must have proper faith! Welcome to eternal life!”
I can answer that pretty easily. It begins at Genesis 1:1 and ends at Revelation 22:21.
But, if you want the Readers digest condensed version, see:
Romans 7 1 Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? 2 For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. 3 So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.
4 So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5 For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. 6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. 9 Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. 10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.
13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
Romans 8: 8 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. ...
Eternal life and salvation are two different descriptors. Another pertinent descriptor is Inheritance.
We can’t lose our eternal life, but we can lose parts of our inheritance which was created in eternity past, awaiting to be awarded at the bema seat.
Our salvation also continues to be worked out until we receive our resurrection bodies.
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