You're Going to Heaven? Really?

Exposing the Myth of "Once Saved, Always Saved"

Brenda Knox

• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781098070717
• eBook ISBN:
  9781098070724
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christianity

The Holy Spirit directed Brenda Knox to write this book. She knows how explosive this topic is. Most will see the cover and immediately assume she is wrong without honestly doing their own research.Let's set this straight: no, you cannot lose your salvation. That is not what her book is saying. It is saying that you cannot live in habitual sin and unforgiveness and make it to heaven.Your choice.The Holy Spirit told her to write this book. Jesus's own words testify to this very thing: "If you don't forgive your brother, your father in heaven will not forgive you" (Matthew 6: 14–15). Also Matthew 18: 35.You see, we are called to live holy lives. This is our reasonable service to God (Roman 12: 1) if you want to make it to heaven.This book gives you the understanding and the tools of living in a very practical way.She wrote this so everyone can get it. This is a very easy to read and understand book. Jesus lived a holy life. To show us that with the Holy Spirit we can also.

Chapter 6

The Investigation of Jesus

Pray this out loud:

Lord Jesus, it is in your name that I pray. I claim the blood of Jesus over me today. As I read this book and the scriptures in it, which are the living Words of God, let it penetrate into my heart. I command my thoughts and my thinking to be under the obedience of Christ Jesus. I send panic into the enemy’s camp that confuses Satan’s language so that they will attack one another. Do not let there be any communication of any kind. I ask God to release angels from Michael’s quarters to attack now. I command every demon to be silent in Jesus’s name so the Word of God can teach me. I bind up every unclean spirit that is working against me. I bind up every spirit that is trying to confuse me. Break me free from them, in Jesus’s mighty name. Reveal the truth to me today, Lord Jesus. I loosen in Jesus’s name freedom, understanding, love, healing, hope, wholeness, and protection over my mind, in Jesus’s name. Thank you, Jesus. In Jesus’s name, I pray. Amen.

This chapter has many scripture verses to give answers to questions we all have through our lives.

1. Who did Jesus die for?

For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the One and Only Son of God. (John 3:16–18)

Everyone.

“For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive” (1 Corinthians 15:22). Adam to now and future.

“Who gave Himself—a ransom for all, a testimony at the proper time” (1 Timothy 2:6). Ransom for all.

“In fact, we labor and strive for this, because we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of everyone, especially of those who believe” (1 Timothy 4:10). Everyone, especially those who believe.

“We all went astray like sheep; we all have turned to our own way; and the Lord has punished Him for the iniquity of us all” (Isaiah 53:6). All.

“But we do see Jesus—made lower than the angels for a short time so that by God’s grace He might taste death for everyone—crowned with glory and honor because of His suffering in death” (Hebrews 2:9). Everyone.

“He doesn’t need to offer sacrifices every day, as high priests do—first for their own sins, then for those of the people. He did this once for all when He offered Himself” (Hebrews 7:27). Once for all.

“He entered the most holy place once for all, not by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood, having obtained eternal redemption” (Hebrews 9:12). Once for all.

“Otherwise, He would have had to suffer many times since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared one time, at the end of the ages, for the removal of sin by the sacrifice of Himself” (Hebrews 9:26). One sacrifice for the world.

“By this will of God, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all” (Hebrews 10:10). Once for all.

“He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for those of the whole world (1 John 2:2). The whole world.

“For while we were still helpless, at the appointed moment, Christ died for the ungodly” (Romans 5:6). For the ungodly.

“For in light of the fact that He died, He died to sin once for all; but in light of the fact that He lives, He lives to God” (Romans 6:10). For all.

“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes” (Romans 10:4). Everyone.

“For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring you to God, after being put to death in the fleshly realm but made alive in the spiritual realm” (1 Peter 3:18). Once for all.

“For this is the will of My Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day” (John 6:40). Everyone who believes.

“You’re not considering that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.” He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation (John 11:50–51). For the nation.

“For through the law I have died to the law, so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me” (Galatians 2:19–20). Himself for me.

Where does it say that Jesus did not die for all mankind?

It does not say maybe Christ died for you. It does not say perhaps God so loved you. It does not say maybe Jesus shed His blood for you.

When plain sense makes good sense, seek no other sense, lest it result in nonsense:

But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, and will bring swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their unrestrained ways, and the way of truth will be blasphemed because of them. (2 Peter 2:1–2)

We need to make a difference between redemption accomplished and redemption applied.

Jesus Christ died for all, but He must be accepted.

Christ must save everyone He died for. If Christ died for everyone, then everyone will be saved. Really?

So if medicine is available for everyone, then everyone must be healed. This, of course, is false. It will only heal those who take it. Even then not all medicines save lives 100 percent of the time. Only Jesus does that.

Just as Jesus Christ can only save those who accept Him, redemption was accomplished only on the cross, but redemption applied is only when we accept Him.

There is enough cool water for every person in town. Does that mean that every person in town will have their thirst quenched? Only if every person drinks.

So yes, the Bible is literal. Jesus Christ died for all mankind, but to be saved, you have to accept Him.

2. Do we have a choice for salvation?

When I was young, a neighbor boy came over and saw me in the kitchen. He quietly sneaked in on me and scared me. I got really mad at him. Not because he scared me but because he just walked into my house uninvited. No one knew he was coming, and he did not knock. It was wrong for him to just walk into our house.

Just as it is wrong for any human to walk into any other human’s house uninvited, so it is wrong for Jesus to come into my heart and life uninvited. Jesus will not open the door.

“Listen! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and have dinner with him, and he with Me” (Revelation 3:20).

It says, “I stand at the door.” It does not say, “I will break it down,” or I “will sneak in when you don’t see me.” Jesus will also not force us to live with Him. If you open the door. If—that means you can choose to leave it shut.

“Therefore I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins” (John 8:24). If you do not believe.

“I assure you: If anyone keeps My word, he will never see death—ever!” (John 8:51). If.

“And Philip said, ‘If you believe with all your heart you may.’ And he replied, ‘I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God” (Acts 8:37). If.

“If you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved” (Romans 10:9). Again, if.

Yes, we have a choice. We can choose heaven or hell.

3. When is regeneration? When?

“I assure you: Anyone who believes has eternal life” (John 6:47). Anyone who believes.

“Then he escorted them out and said, ‘Sirs, what must I do to be saved?’ So they said, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household’” (Acts 16:30–31). Believe and you will be saved.

“When they heard this, they came under deep conviction and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles: ‘Brothers, what must we do?’ ‘Repent,’ Peter said to them, ‘and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit’” (Acts 2:37–38). Repent.

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Table of contents

• They Said They Loved God
• The Roots Don’t Grow
• Sin Is Real
• Life Gets Tough
• When You Walk Away from God, You Just Walked from Light Back into Darkness
• The Investigation of Jesus
• God Still Loves Us
• What It Looks Like to Have Root in God