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"Don't Lose Fellowship" By Nathele Graham

http://www.raptureready.com/featured/graham/g446.html


Maranatha!
Tammy

Thanks Tammy, good article.

How very true: "There is no place as secure as in the hands of God the Father and God the Son. Not only that, but once you sincerely accepted Christ for salvation the Holy Spirit is sealed within you. There is nothing you or anyone else can do to take that salvation from you. Fellowship is another matter. It is possible to be saved, but out of fellowship. That’s when inner turmoil happens, which spawns anger and unhappiness.

In the above passage, notice that Jesus said His sheep hear His voice and “... they follow me.” Accepting Christ’s sacrifice on the cross will bring forgiveness of past, present, and future sin, but that doesn’t give anyone a license to continue sinning. We are saved by the grace of God, but that grace is not to be taken lightly.
“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?” (Romans 6:1-2).

Grace may be freely given to Christians, but it came at a great cost for God. Never look at that free gift of salvation as something you deserve or treat it as if it’s no big deal. Jesus was fully God and fully human. He was human in order to be our Kinsman Redeemer, but His blood was pure. His sacrifice takes all our sin away if you truly believe. Even though He faced the same temptations we face, He didn't sin. Yet, He became sin for us:

“For he that made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” (2 Corinthians 5)."

Truer words were never spoken. Salvation is a free gift for us, but it cost Jesus everything. And it is all too true that one can have a relationship with God, and yet be out of fellowship with Him.