Part One of: You must be a Believer to be saved

I was going to title this: You Must Be a Believer in order to Be a Believer...but I thought that title was too arrogant! 

When I use the term Believer (Capitol B; noun title)…I’m speaking of someone who I would consider to be a true, blood-bought, eternally saved, born-again child of Yahweh. I consider a true Believer to be someone who believes that the blood of Yeshua Christ is the only thing which can ‘wash away’ sins. I’m quite aware that there are many unbelievers (in religions all over this planet) who say they ‘believe’ in Yeshua Christ…who really don’t! Many of these unbelievers say that they believe that Christ died for their sins! But then ‘reveal’ that they don’t really believe that Christ and Christ alone saves them…when they tell you that their ‘saving faith’ involves believing in Christ PLUS doing good works and/or doing church sacraments!   

Now maybe it’s just me…but I’m pretty sure that the Bible teaches that in order for someone to BE a blood-bought, born-again, eternally saved child of Yahweh…they must BE a Believer; and not someone dreaming of being a Believer…or hoping to be a Believer…or planning on becoming a Believer…or even used to be a Believer! Again. Maybe it’s just me! I would consider anyone who openly chooses to REJECT or RENOUNCE Yeshua Christ as their savior to be an unbeliever!  

Of course someone MUST (presently) BE a believer (in the FREE GIFT/NO WORKS Gospel of Yeshua Christ) in order to be eternally saved child of Yahweh. Now, I’m doing this podcast series because there are die-hard, born-again, once-saved, always-saved Believers in the Church who actually believe that if someone (who once claimed to be born-again) openly and publicly renounces and rejects their belief that Yeshua Christ is their savior, they’ll still be eternally saved from hell…because they used to be a Believer! Yeah, you heard me right! These die-hard OSAS Christians believe that if a person (who used to be a born-again Believer)…now openly rejects the ‘written in stone’ biblical Truth that Yeshua Christ is the only way (to heaven)…they’re still going to be saved from hell because they used to be a Believer! You just can’t make this stuff up! Now, in the end, it’s the Lord Himself who decides who’s saved and who’s not saved. However, I ‘feel’ pretty confident to say that (in the Church Age) the Bible teaches that a person must die believing that Yeshua Christ is the only way to heaven! 

Speaking the Truth in love, 

Brother Bob