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As I listened to this video, it made me wonder what conclusion you would come to, applying investigative principles to the thought, that this redemption, justification, reconciliation and regeneration are all part of the gift of God, and an inheritance, a;; of which was given to us as an inheritance in Christ, without any participation on our part? Typically, we have been taught that we must receive the gift for it to be efficacious. Personally I believe that Father, Son and Spirit are familial rather than judicial, which makes a big difference in how we interpret judgement, mercy, chastisement and justice. Scripture says that God is love. A noun is used in this description, which would indicate that love (agape) is the essence of God rather than an attribute, which also makes a big difference in how we perceive who God is and what He is like. I understand that there is a difference between objective truth and subjective experience of that truth. I was suggested in Romans that the condemnation that came to all through one man, was overcome and justification came to that same all through one Man. Also verses like: as in Adam all die, so in Christ, all are made alive. And if one died for all, then all died. And ultimately every tongue will gladly and willingly confess Jesus Christ as Lord. Based on these verses and others that show that it is the will of God that all be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth, and this God is sovereign, omnipotent and omniscient, what would the evidence of scripture and the life of Jesus Christ Himself in His life, ministry, death, resurrection and ascension lead one to believe. Again, assuming that God actually is love and that love is described in 1 Corinthians 13. Also assuming that according to scripture, God’s will is accomplished and His word does not return void. I think it is pretty clear (to some degree) where I have landed in my thinking and I am not trying to be contentious, but knowing your background in investigation, my question is, do I have a case here? I know how we phrase things and the questions we ask often make a difference in the answer or response we get and I can say that is querying ChatGpt, it seems to think I have a reasonable and valid case. What conclusion or theory would your method of processing evidence lead you to in what I have presented? Thank you.

Wow. Well. I can't believe I'm saying this to leaders in the Christian Faith who I - on any ordinary day - generally agree with. But here goes.. You are wrong about not being able to lose your salvation. I think all Bible studies hit on this topic - and I can only hope they hang on every word as they study whether this is true or not - and really internalize the importance of your salvation not being a guarantee. Because I cannot tell you how many people think they can go out and sin - and then sin some more.. ask for forgiveness.. then sin some more.. because they think their salvation is "in the hole" and they're "good to go". Unfortunately - that's not how this works. God is clear that we must stop sinning. Not MAYBE stop sinning. Not sin and sin and sin - ask for forgiveness - then go sin some more. I'm pretty sure HE meant it when Jesus said "Go and sin no more" (John 8:11). Whether you believe you can or cannot lose your salvation - you should live every day like you CAN lose it!! Stop giving excuses for sinning - the commandment wasn't flexible! Stop giving yourself latitude to keep sinning because - after all - you'll go through the pearly gates just fine... because the truth is - you will not. The gate is narrow.. Matthew 7: 12In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets. 13Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it. 15Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20So then, by their fruit you will recognize them. 21Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ 23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’ 24Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because its foundation was on the rock. 26But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell-and great was its collapse!”

This is a heresy unheard of in the apostolic churches. It makes you ignore mountains of scripture. Trent horn bs james white on eternal security. Amazing debate that trent won easily.

It's unnecessary to add 'free'. If it's not free, it's not a gift.

How does he influence more people than Moses if only Christian’s believe in him, but Christian’s and Jews and Muslims believe in Moses?

Signed, Sealed, Delivered we’re in Christ. Ephesians 1:13🕊️ “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,”

Titus 3:5-7 “He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.” “This is the Spirit He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.”

Romans 5:1 (AMP) “Therefore, since we have been justified [that is, acquitted of sin, declared blameless before God] by faith, [let us grasp the fact that] we have peace with God [and the joy of reconciliation with Him] through our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed).”

Frank is wrong about losing your salvation. His error in John is assuming that you lock in your salvation when you are alive. This is false. Salvation is contingent on belief. You have to "finish the race". You are saved as long as you trust in Jesus for your salvation. You still have the freewill to later reject Him and if you do and die in your sin, you are lost. Salvation is conditional. What is the condition? Trust in Jesus as your savior. If this were not the case and you could pray a prayer once, believe it at the moment you prayed and your obligations are ended and scripture is unnecessary. You just need one verse and you are good. Of course this is nonsense. If you could not lose your salvation, there wouldn't be scriptures detailing how names are blotted out from the book of life.

Dear J.Warner Wallace, I am a former Mormon. I know our Mormon families don't want to hear about the truth. They are offended by real conversations. We love and respect them, but in our silence they are perishing.😣😭❤️‍🔥🙏✝️ Please Sir, l ask you to write, and finish your book. It is better to offend them , than to allow them to perish. 💔 📯🛐🕛

There's no need to say a free gift. A gift is free by definition. Just sayin'... Mormons have a bigger problem than a works-based salvation. They have the wrong Jesus. We are also not "sinners saved by grace." We are children of God.

Or we can just believe what the Bible says: Rev. 3:5 He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments. I will not blot his name out of the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. This shows that one's name can be blotted out of the Book of Life. You cannot lose your salvation, but you can reject it.

Something that blew my mind. Before Jesus, no one claimed to be the Messiah. After Jesus, many claimed to be the Messiah, quite a few claiming TO BE Jesus himself. Interesting shift in our nature in history... starting with Jesus.

Impossíble to lose salvation sealed and batized into the body of Crist in the moment we believe in Jesus and trust in his perfect blood shed on the cross to forgive our sins past presente and future

Yes a man who taught us about our true Creator for three years, got crucified by those who were supposed to teach us then manage to change the world, time and eternity. Must be much more than just a MAN...

Some call it The Gift that keeps on Giving.

Brilliant.

Thank yOuuuu. I needed to hear this so badly. As a pastor this is major and this video has been an answer to prayer in my struggles

Respectfully I disagree and its due to this perspective: God chose Abraham (The Hebrew people) because the people in the region were all practicing ritual human sacrifice for the forgiveness of sin to false gods. God chooses Abraham and gives to him to make animal sacrifices for the atonement of sins. God gives the law to Moses and the Israelites and they are to use ritual animal and vegetable sacrifices for the atonement of sin........... Then Jesus comes and dies for us on the Cross as a sacrifice - God sacrificing himself for us for the remission/atonement of our sin - and the curtain in the temple is torn signifying that the sacrifice is over, that is the sacrifice of cattle, sheeps, lambs, birds and grains for the atonement of sin........... This is the free gift that Jesus gives us. It becomes a sign to the ancient world, who is still ritually sacrificing humans or their own children as common customs and practices throughout the whole world. They would even drink the blood and eat the flesh of the ritual victim that was sacrificed for the remission of sin to false gods. Along comes this new teaching that literally topples the pagan world and ritual human sacrifice. Just look at the stories from central America when the Spanish arrived and they had an industrial scale ritual human sacrifice system with rivers of blood flowing from their so-called temples. Over night it all collapses as Christendom is brought in. Jesus sacrifice is the free gift, and you must eat his flesh and drink his blood in the form of bread and wine - as a sacrament - to inherit eternal life. The free gift changes from man serving God and directly ritually sacrificing his personal property to God, to God doing that for him, in exchange for mans purpose which is to love one and other. Christs teaching was for us to love one and other and do good for one and other, to help the poor by feeding and clothing them, visiting the sick, and visiting the imprisoned. To help and serve one and other. It is a free gift in terms of "The Old Order" which is "The Old Covenant" which was weening the Hebrews off of the blood sacrifice of humans. There are places in the Old Testament where some fell back onto human sacrifice and sacrificed their own children. But in terms of the gift of salvation being a free gift, and it is in respect to the Old Covenant, but the gift is also conditional. I (Jesus) will let you into heaven if you treat your fellow human being good and even serve others, and I'll waive all your sins in exchange for the good you do for others. Plus there is the great commission, which is to spread the Word of God and the Gospels. Mathew 25 The Parable of the Talents. This parable is explaining how Christians are supposed to spreading the gospel and encouraging others to accept Jesus. But the Christian who is lazy is called wicked by Jesus "You wicked and lazy servant" you did nothing with what I (Jesus) gave you, and that servant is cast out into the darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Jesus REPEATEDLY warns that we have WORKS to do. If we don't do the works and shut our mouths and do not spread the Gospels, then we might not be allowed to enter life. Faith without works is dead. Protestantism is basically wrong when it teaches that you do not need to do any works. Faith is a work: __________________________________________ John 6:28 Then they asked him, “What must we do if we are to carry out the works of God?” 29 Jesus replied, “This is the work of God: to believe in the one whom he has sent. _________________________________________ If Jesus is saying that believing in him is a work, then the whole principle of Protestant belief is that you do not have to do any works for salvation. The act of believing in Jesus is a work in order to obtain that salvation Jesus offers, then comes Baptism, then comes confession, then comes Holy Communion, then comes spreading the Gospel. These are all steps or stages or Holy Sacraments of faith. I was a Protestant for decades, but switched to Catholicism because there's just too many contradictions in Protestantism, and Catholicism is far more in line with the Bible. Plus Catholicism is more Jewish especially seeing how they have statues of all the key Jews to the story: Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the Angel. But the best way to see the truth is if we had a cheat code. I went to college later in life and at some exams you could make a cheat sheet with mathematics formulas, and they would even allow us internet access to research an answer. Is there a cheat sheet in the Gospels? Yes there is! So lets skip to the test, and see the answers to the test and the whole exam: _________________________________________ Mathew 25:31 “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the [c]holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. 33 And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; 36 I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’ ______________________________________ Its all a works based judgement and reward. Jesus isn't judging and rewarding based on how strong or how weak the faith was of each person who is given life, Jesus is judging everyone on what they did towards others, and the good deeds, help and kindness they gave to others. The book of Romans or any other letters do not abrogate the Gospel teachings of Christ, but rather they compliment tehm. The problem in Protestantism is they weaponize the letters AGAINST Jesus Word and Testimony and try to erase and nullify Jesus word using the letters. Whats the definition of "Work": Physical or mental effort or activity directed toward the production or accomplishment of something.

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Romans 4:2-5 (ESV): 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” 4 Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. 5 And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness -anyone who reads James, Abraham is justified by works before men, not before God. “You show me your faith without your work and I will show you my faith by my works”, James says. Not before God but before men or James would contradict Paul. If Jesus Christ fulfilled 99% of the law but you say I did 1% then you aren’t saved. Galatians 5:4-6 (ESV): 4 You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. 5 For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love. Now I think this is where people get confused “love has no law” but love is given to us by the spirit and by the law of the spirit we seek to live by it. This is why we are saved by Grace because with our flesh we serve the law of the flesh. If you think you earn salvation by works before God, he will say “leave me” because your works were not done for God as a gift for God but you worked to earn your wage and that is unrighteous before God.

Being saved is the subject of that passage from Ephesians, not faith + grace. Salvation is the free gift from God, through faith, by grace. Gotta be careful with that language or it starts to sound like Calvinism.

Check the whole chapter 7 of Romans. The personal struggle of PauL.

Jesus is the way the truth and the life Aamen 🙏✝️ praise the lord Hallelujah 🙏🙌

Great video, very informative and interesting.

I like your point about how if salvation includes faith and works then that means it includes works which misses the whole point.

Thank you. My perspective. The longer one is a believer. They come to understand that they deserve no grace at all. I for one am grateful.

This is great, but unfortunately a disproportionate focus on one aspect while disregarding another important aspect can mislead people. For example, based on such messages someone may say his sin has zero effect on salvation, salvation is free for everyone, and his faith doesn't matter, so therefore he believes he's ok to party hard and do all kinds of sin, assuming there is zero consequence, and that he doesn't need to turn from the world, but follows the pleasures of the world. But if someone reads the Bible you will see that is not the case. Read it completely and not cherry pick. There are many more verses emphasizing obedience, than those presented here. Following what Jesus says is a sign that you are actually following Jesus. If you are not following then maybe you're not a follower, not a Christian, and probably shouldn't count on being saved. This should be common sense, but the enemy is clever and is distorting people's beliefs into assuming they have a free get out of hell card for doing nothing whatsoever. Salvation is a free gift, but that doesn't mean its unconditional. And by unconditional that doesn't mean you earn it either- lots of people conflate these things, sometimes dishonestly. The Bible gives the condition repeatedly that salvation is for those who take an action. Any idea what that action is? Even John 3:16 has an action. Acts 2:38 has action too. Parables all talk about those who took action (such as choosing to believe) and those who didn't and the consequences thereof. Matthew 7:13 says most won't enter. That means even though the free gift is for all, most will not receive it. Really, man's opinion doesn't matter, but only what God's Word says- so please read that and take it seriously and not get caught up in man's flawed opinions.

Thank God that he made salvation to be a gift. I could never earn it and would be so incredibly lost if left to my own devices. I’m amazed every time I consider what the Lord has done for me (us).

1 Timothy 4

Psalms 104 : 14-15 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle And herb for the service of man. Etc What does yours say. The word for cannabis in the old testament. Is kaneh or quaneh

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have a pint, get some Dutch courage. Nah just joking lol it is horrible being introverted, though

Why is the thumbnail for this broadcast an angel that appears to be female? I'm not aware of any female angels ever mentioned in Scripture

Yes, we do not have to 'hope' we are saved, we can know! No, faith is not a gift! Salvation is the gift, received by faith. Otherwise, every unbeliever has to just wait for 'it' to happen, if they are lucky enough to be selected. That wouldn't be good news!

If it were not a gift then the thief on the cross next to Jesus would not have heard Jesus say to him, "today you will be with me in paradise." You can't buy a free gift.

Ouch and Amen! Heavenly Father in Jesus Christ name please give the elder new found strength

I'm dabbled in many martial arts. I also studied Krav Maga, which comes from Israel. All true Christians support Israel.

This is such an encouragement to me. My 33 year old son died last dec unexpectly. He was baptized, went to church but was not perfect. I had some fears until I read various passages that says we are saved by Christ alone. Its not by works but by faith in Christ alone. He is with Christ which is far better.

Sinning and not sinning has no affect on your salvation.

If your faith is a free gift from God despite not deserving it that’s grace and God gets the glory. If your faith is because of something you did then man gets the glory. Our purpose is to glorify God not ourselves. Believing that works are necessary for salvation is evidence of unbelief or weak faith.

No one is saved until after death. 20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. 21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. 23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live? 24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die Ezek 18:20-24 (KJV). 9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. 11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences. 2 Cor 5:9-11 (KJV) Amen

John 6 28-29 Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?” Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” Our part is to believe that God saves us. God does the work!

Although I agree with the main point, that we are saved through faith alone apart from works, Ephesians 2:8 does not say that faith is a "gift of God" and "not of yourselves". Those two properties are applied to the whole *plan* of salvation "by grace are ye saved through faith". In the Greek, the pronoun "that" ("and *that* not of yourselves..."), has the neuter gender, but "faith" has the feminine gender. So, grammatically, "that" cannot be referring to the faith. It actually can't be referring to the other key words ("grace" and "saved"), either. So the only thing that makes sense is the phrase as a whole. I.e., the "gift", is that, by God's grace, you can be saved and the only condition is that you believe. That is certainly not what we deserve, thus it is a gift. The reason we can't boast in having faith is is not because it was "given" to us, but because it is not meritorious. Faith doesn't *earn* or *merit* one's salvation. It is simply the condition that God has set for whom it is He will save (John 1:12, John 3:16,18). I've heard some, acknowledging the grammatical point, then try to argue that since "by grace are ye saved through faith" is a gift, and "faith" is part of that, that therefore "faith" is also a gift. But that doesn't work either. That is a classic fallacy of division. It's like saying: (a) the car is mostly red, (b) the tire is part of the car, therefore (c) the tire is mostly red.

As far as Jesus never referring to other religions, I basically agree; yet technically disagree because of this scripture: "All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them." John 10:8 Thank you🙏