is it possible? can i be sure of my salvation? how do i get it? find out from god’s holy word

GOD’S ETERNAL

SALVATION:

Is It Possible? Can I Be Sure Of My Salvation?

How Do I Get It? Find Out From GOD’s Holy WORD

Once Saved… Always Saved!

First Century Gospel Church HQ - www.FCGCHURCHES.org

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TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?

ONCE SAVED… ALWAYS SAVED:

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YES. GOD’S FREE ETERNAL SALVATION IS GIVEN TO THOSE

WHO CONFESS THEIR SINS TO AND

BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST!

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GOD’S ETERNAL SALVATION

TRUE!


“ETERNAL ASSURANCE,”

“ETERNAL SECURITY” OR

“100% GUARANTEE OF ETERNAL LIFE” ALSO KNOWN AS

“ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED” IS

GIVEN TO BELIEVERS WHO…

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ACCEPT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AS

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BELIEVE IN THE LORD JESUS

CHRIST AS THE SON OF GOD,

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CONFESS TO THE LORD JESUS

CHRIST THAT THEY ARE GUILTY, LOST,

AND HELPLESS SINNERS! 1974 Rvsd 12/06/2009 7



WHILE SO MANY PEOPLE ARE EAGER TO CLAIM THAT THEY BELIEVE IN THE LORD JESUS

CHRIST, OUR HUMAN NATURE RESIST OUR URGENTAND

DESPERATE NEED TO CONFESS THAT WE ARE

INDEED GUILTY, LOST, AND HELPLESS SINNERS WHO

DESERVE TO GO TO HELL! 1974 Rvsd 12/06/2009 8



WE MUST REALIZE THAT UNLESS WE “CONFESS

OUR GUILT” TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, THERE IS NEITHER FORGIVENESS NOR SALVATION FOR US!1974 Rvsd 12/06/2009 9



Remember the first warning that the LORD Jesus Christ gave was,

“REPENT, AND BELIEVE IN THE

GOSPEL” (Mark 1:15)

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Later, the LORD Jesus Christ

declared that, “I am the Way, the Truth, and

the Life. No one comes to the Father except

through Me” (John 14:6)1974 Rvsd 12/06/2009 11



Because GOD’s WORD says: “All have sinned and fall short of

the glory of GOD” (Romans 3:23)

“But GOD demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we

were still sinners, Christ died

for us” (Romans 5:8)

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ALSO, GOD’s WORD says: “The wages of sin is death, but the Gift of GOD is Eternal Life in

Christ Jesus our LORD” (Romans 6:23)

“Whoever calls on the name of

the LORD shall be saved” (Romans 10:13)

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6 Seek the LORD while He may be found, Call upon Him while He

is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous

man his thoughts; Let him return to the LORD, And He will have mercy on him; And to our

GOD, For He will abundantly

pardon (Isaiah 55:6-7) 1974 Rvsd 12/06/2009 14



Therefore, if you truly need GOD’s Eternal

Salvation, you must first CONFESS with your

mouth to the LORD Jesus Christ that YOU ARE “A

GUILTY, LOST, AND HELPLESS SINNER”1974 Rvsd 12/06/2009 15



It makes no difference whether you have lived a morally great life or commend yourself as not

having sinned. GOD’s Word says that because of our first Father Adam, every human

being was, and will continue to be born in sin, and that includes you and me…

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12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and

death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned. 14 Nevertheless death

reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a

type of Him who was to come (NKJV Bible)

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Romans 5:12,14


Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my

mother conceived me (Psalm 51:5)

How then can man be righteous before God? Or

how can he be pure who is born of a woman? (Job 24:4

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But we are all like an unclean thing, and

all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags (NKJV Bible)

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Isaiah 64:6


John 1:12 – GOD’S PROMISE

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of GOD, to

those who believe in His name (NKJV Bible)

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John 10:9-11 – THE LORD’S PROMISE:9 I am the door. If anyone enters by

Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that

they may have it more abundantly. 11 “I am the Good Shepherd; The

Good Shepherd gives His life for the sheep (NKJV Bible) 1974 Rvsd 12/06/2009 21



John 10:27-2927 My sheep hear My voice, and I know

them, and they follow Me. 28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall

never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. 29 My

Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s

hand (NKJV Bible)1974 Rvsd 12/06/2009 22



John 3:16,36 – GOD’S INVITATION:16 For God so loved the world that He

gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not

perish but have everlasting life. 36 He who believes in the Son has

everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but

the wrath of God abides on him (NKJV Bible)

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John 3:14,15 – LISTEN TO THE LORD:14 And as Moses lifted up the

serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life

(NKJV Bible)

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John 5:24 – THE LORD JESUS CHRIST SAYS:

24I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, the person whose ears are open to My Words [who listens to My message] and believes and trusts in and clings to and relies on Him Who sent Me has (possesses now) eternal life. And he does not come into judgment [does not incur sentence of

judgment, will not come under condemnation], but he has already passed over out of death into life (Amplified Bible)

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John 3:37,47 – OUR SAVIOR’S ASSURANCE:

37All whom My Father gives (entrusts) to Me will come to Me; and the one

who comes to Me I will most certainly not cast out [I will never, no never, reject one of them who comes to

Me]. 47I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, he who believes in Me [who adheres to, trusts in, relies on, and

has faith in Me] has (now possesses) eternal life (Amplified Bible)1974 Rvsd 12/06/2009 26



John 17:3,11 – PRAYING TO THE FATHER:

3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

11And [now] I am no more in the world, but these are [still] in the

world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep in Your Name in the

knowledge of Yourself] those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We [are one] (Amplified Bible)1974 Rvsd 12/06/2009 27



Mark 16:15,16 – THE GREAT COMMISSION:

15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach

the gospel to every creature. 16 He who believes

and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned”

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Acts 4:12 – APOSTLE PETER’S DECLARATION:

And there is salvation in and through no one else,

for there is no other name under heaven given among men by

and in which we must be saved (Amplified Bible)1974 Rvsd 12/06/2009 29



Acts 16:30,31 – A SINNER CONVERTS AND BELIEVES IN JESUS CHRIST:30 And he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” 31 So they said, “Believe in the Lord

Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household” (NKJV Bible)1974 Rvsd 12/06/2009 30



Romans 1:16 – THE APOSTLE PAUL SAYS:

For I am not ashamed of the Gospel (good news) of Christ, for

it is God's power working unto salvation [for deliverance from eternal death] to everyone who believes with a personal trust and a confident surrender and

firm reliance, to the Jew first and also to the Greek (Amplified Bible)

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Romans 8:1,35,36 – PAUL’S ASSURANCE:1 There is therefore now no condemnation

to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written: “ For Your sake we are killed all day long; We

are accounted as sheep for the slaughter…” (NKJV Bible)1974 Rvsd 12/06/2009 32



Romans 8:37-39 – PAUL’S ASSURANCE:37 Yet in all these things we are more

than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to

separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (NKJV

Bible)

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Romans 10:8-10 – PAUL’S INVITATION:8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your

heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): 9 that if you confess with

your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation

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2 Corinthians 5:17,2117 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation;

old things have passed away; behold, all things have

become new. 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in

Him (NKJV Bible)1974 Rvsd 12/06/2009 35



Ephesians 1:13

13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of

truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also,

having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit

of promise (NKJV Bible)1974 Rvsd 12/06/2009 36



Ephesians 2:8,9 – GOD’S FREE GIFT/GRACE:

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith,

and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest

anyone should boast (NKJV Bible)

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NOW, WE COME TO THE CHRISTIAN

REQUIREMENTS AS EVIDENCE OF OUR

SALVATION IN JESUS CHRIST…

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JUST AS ALL WHO JOIN THE U.S. MILITARY OR POLICE WILLINGLY SURRENDER TO IT’S LAWS AND CODES OF CONDUCT, AND MUST

WEAR THE UNIFORM, SO CHRISTIANS TOO MUST LIVE A

NEW AND TRANSFORMED LIVES IN OBEDIENCE TO GOD’S HOLY

SPIRIT. HOW?

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John 14:15 – Our LORD Jesus Christ says:

15 “If you love Me, keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will

give you another Helper, that He may abide with you

forever (NKJV Bible)1974 Rvsd 12/06/2009 40



John 14:21

21 “He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself

to him” (NKJV Bible)1974 Rvsd 12/06/2009 41



Matthew 7:16,17

16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather

grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit (NKJV Bible)1974 Rvsd 12/06/2009 42



Matthew 7:18-20

18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that

does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you

will know them (NKJV Bible)

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Matthew 7:21 – THE LORD’S WARNING:

21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall

enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does

the will of My Father in heaven” (NKJV Bible)

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John 15:1,2

1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2

Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit (NKJV Bible)

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John 15:4,5 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself,

unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 5

“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me,

and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing (NKJV

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John 15:6,7 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast

out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire,

and they are burned. 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be

My disciples (NKJV Bible)

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Romans 6:1-3 – TRUE CHRISTIANS DON’T MAKE A HABIT OF SIN

1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may

abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into

Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? (NKJV Bible)

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Romans 6:13 – DON’T ENCOURAGE SIN:

13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to

God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God (NKJV Bible)

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Romans 12:1,2 – RENEW YOUR LIFE:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by

the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your

reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be

transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will

of God (NKJV Bible)1974 Rvsd 12/06/2009 50



1 Peter 2:24

24 Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might

live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed

(NKJV Bible)

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1 John 1:6,7 – LET THE HOLY SPIRIT LEAD:

6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light as He is

in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of

Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin (NKJV Bible)

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1 John 2:3-6

3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4 He

who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoever

keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. 6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as

He walked (NKJV Bible)1974 Rvsd 12/06/2009 53



1 John 2:15,16 – WORLDINESS IS SIN:

15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all

that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the

world (NKJV Bible)

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Colossians 3:3,4 – DEAD TO THE WORLD:

3For [as far as this world is concerned] you have died, and your [new, real] life is hidden

with Christ in God. 4When Christ, Who is our life, appears, then

you also will appear with Him in [the splendor of His] glory

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Hebrews 9:12,15 – JESUS PAID WITH HIS LIFE:

12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the

Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. 15 And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new

covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the

eternal inheritance (NKJV Bible)1974 Rvsd 12/06/2009 56



1 Peter 1:3,4 – NEW-BORN IN CHRIST JESUS:

3 Praised (honored, blessed) be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the

Messiah)! By His boundless mercy we have been born again to an ever-living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ

from the dead, 4[Born anew] into an inheritance which is beyond the reach of

change and decay [imperishable], unsullied and unfading, reserved in

heaven for you (Amplified Bible)1974 Rvsd 12/06/2009 57



1 John 5:12,13 – BELIEVERS HAVE ETERNAL LIFE

12He who possesses the Son has that life; he who does not possess the Son of God does not have that life. 13I write this to you who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) the name of the

Son of God [in the peculiar services and blessings conferred by Him on men], so

that you may know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that you [already] have life, yes, eternal life (Amplified Bible)

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THE SINNER’S SALVATION PRAYER:

Pray in this manner: “My Dear Lord Jesus Christ, I know that I am a guilty, lost and helpless sinner,

and I am sorry for my sin. I repent of my sin and turn to You by faith right now. I thank You

for dying on the Cross for me and paying the price for all of my

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THE SINNER’S SALVATION PRAYER, CONT’D.:

“…I surrender my life to You right now as my Lord and Savior. I ask for the Holy

Spirit to take control of my life so I may obey You. Thank You LORD Jesus.

Amen”1974 Rvsd 12/06/2009 60



GOD’S WORD SAYS THAT ONCE HE SAVES YOU, YOUR

SALVATION CANNOT BE REVOKED BECAUSE YOU

BELIEVE IN, AND ARE UNITED WITH HIS SON JESUS CHRIST,

OUR SAVIOR AND REDEEMER. YOU MUST

BELIEVE IN GOD - HE LOVES YOU!

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CONGRATULATIONS, AND WELCOME!

BY BELIEVING IN AND GENUINELY CONFESSING

YOURS SINS TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, YOU ARE NOW A MEMBER OF GOD’S FAMILY IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD!

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THE NEXT STEP FOR YOU IS TO:

1. PURCHASE A NEW KING JAMES BIBLE (NKJV) AND START READING THE GOSPEL OF JOHN FROM CHAPTER 1 THROUGH 21

2. OR READ IT ONLINE FROM OUR WEBSITE

3. YOU MAY ALSO REQUEST A BIBLE FROM US

4. YOU MUST JOIN A CHRIST-BELIEVING CHURCH AND SUBMIT TO BAPTISM

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GOD’S Free ETERNAL

Salvation IS:

YES! As A True Believer, You Can Be Sure Of This!

Once Saved… Always Saved!


MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND GIVE YOU THE ETERNAL

SALVATION OF YOUR SOUL!AMEN

Your brethren in CHRIST!

First Century Gospel Church

www.FCGCHURCHES.org

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