Continuation once saved

Repentance makes forgiveness possible.
You can’t forgive someone if they don’t repent.

An example of this would be a suicide bomber blows himself up and others. He would need to repent his sin before you could forgive him, which obviously he can’t as he is dead. Faith is based on historical facts that happened two thousand years ago, historical evidence then backs this up. There were eyewitness testimonies and circumstantial evidence.

Lee Strobel did this in his very successful book titled A Case for Christ, by compiling all the evidence as a sceptic, believing then having faith.

If he wanted to be saved he would then have to repent, believe, be baptised and receive. In the resurrection of Jesus, there was eyewitness accounts, written and circumstantial evidence.

Any jury in the world if they truthfully examined the evidence would unanimously agree on the evidence for the resurrection. People don’t want to know about the evidence so they don’t change their lives accordingly. So continuing in faith is to believe that they happened and share the good news. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Knowledge is only the first element of faith. The second thing he brings out is, true faith needs personal conviction.
He says, “Faith recognizes the personal relevance of knowledge. It is being convinced in our own hearts of the significance of that truth for our lives. We must be willing to act on that knowledge and conviction.

True faith is revealed by our actions. We will only act on things we really believe are true. Personnel faith believes in Him which leads to trust and obedience. Faith has to be put into words, we confess Jesus with our lips and talk to others about Him.

If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

If you deny Jesus with the mouth before men, He will deny you before the Father. Trusting in Christ alone is the sole condition for eternal salvation. However, continuing in the faith is required in order to be presented at the Judgment Seat of Christ as holy, blameless, and beyond reproach. Continuing in the faith takes repentance and obedience over a lifetime.

Faith without action is dead. If faith never does anything to show that you trust the Lord, it’s not saving faith.

Release your faith through what you say and do this is continual until you die.

Key steps to repentance
 
  

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