Our Eternal Salvation

Are you really sure of your eternal salvation? This is a very important question,
and one that will have lasting eternal consequences. If you were to die today, do you
know for certain that you would go to heaven? This is a question about which we
cannot afford to be wrong, because eternity is very permanent. One day each of us
will face the true answer to this question, "For we shall all stand before the judgment
seat of Christ", Romans 14:10. Every one of us have two appointments that have
already been made for us and that we will definitely keep, whether we want to or not.
They are, "And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment",
Hebrews 9:27. These two appointments, death and the judgment, cannot be cancelled.
We must not make an error concerning our salvation in following what "seems right"
to us, or that we "feel in our heart that we are saved". The Bible says in Proverbs
14:12, "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death".
Our feelings are not a safe guide, but only the Bible is.
What prior assumptions have we already made about our salvation? Many of these
assumptions, that people make, contradict what God says in his word to us. All we
have to do is to look around at all of the many differing doctrines that are being
taught, and then compare them to what God says in the Bible, and we can see a great
difference. Our Lord says in Mark 7:7, "And in vain they worship Me, teaching as
doctrines the commandments of men". Our worship is vain if it comes from the
doctrines of men and not from God. Can we say that all these many differing doctrines
have come from God? I think not. I Corinthians 14:33 says that, "God is not the
author of confusion." Or are they from men? Where else could they have come from,
if they did not come from God? This becomes a very serious question. Our worship
becomes vain and useless, if our doctrines come from men when they meet in
conventions and conferences to decide what we are to believe and do.
As the apostle Peter told the Jewish council in Acts 5:29, "We ought to obey God
rather than men". Do not believe anything that I tell you, because we are not going to
be judged by what I say. Do not believe anything any other person tells you, because
we are not going to be judged by what some other person says. In fact, we are not
going to be judged by what we personally believe. On the Day of Judgment we are
going to be judged only by what the Lord says in the Bible. That is going to be the
only standard for judgment, for our Lord says in John 12:48, "The word that I have
spoken will judge him in the last day". So, if I or any other person cannot point to it
in the Word of God, then please do not believe it, because there is too much at stake your soul!

Our soul is worth more than the whole world and everything in it. Jesus says in
Matthew 16:26, "For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses
his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?" Our soul is the part
of us that is going to continue to live on forever throughout all eternity. We cannot
afford to lose it into eternal punishment.