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No, I think God’s grace and mercy run deeper than that. God longs for us to repent of our sins and turn to Him.

I think the clearest teaching comes in Luke 16:19-31. In this section Jesus tells the story of a rich man and a poor man who both die and who both end up in different places. One is in a place of comfort. The other is in a place of torment. Although this reads like a parable, which is a story that represents a greater truth, I think this story is different. This is the only teaching story that Jesus told where he told us the name of one or any of the characters. As Lazarus is named in this story, I think Jesus is teaching that there is deep truth in this story.

You can be sure that you are saved because God is faithful to answer the prayers of his people. All over the Bible God assures us that he hears the cries of our heart. A prayer of salvation is one that would not be missed.

We Americans have this thing about experiencing a feeling whenever we do anything. It is just like God to make sure we don’t have that kind of experience, because God loves doing things that go against the culture.

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Yes.

It might be 1,000 years from the time we die until the time that we are in eternity. It will feel like we walked from one world into the next.

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There is much we can do to not take full advantage of our salvation. There is much we can do to embarrass God that we have salvation. There is plenty we can to ignore our salvation.

The only way we can lose our salvation is to walk away from it. We must give our salvation away. It cannot be taken from us.

We give it away by not taking the time to build a relationship with God. We give it away by living for our own glory and not for God’s glory. We trade it in for the stuff of this world.