The Bible says that when one person accepts Jesus as his
Healer, Savior and Lord, the angels in heaven rejoice. If you prayed to receive
Jesus and believe it in your heart, remember this day. Because today, according
to the Bible, your name is written in heaven. And if you commit sin, you will
still be saved. The question is about the security of salvation. Is salvation
lost when you commit a sin? Now, in fairness to scholarship, let me tell you
that the Christian community has two ideas about this. Several Bible scholars
and theologians say yes, but there are also those who say no, it is not lost.
I think that we have to look at the two types on holiness,
the legal and the actual holiness. When I accepted Jesus as my Savior and Lord
I don’t become actually holy; I become legally holy. Meaning, what He did for
me make me holy, what He did for me I cannot undo. I am given a legal status
called clean. The Bible calls me clean. I’m now called a child of God. So, if I
accept Jesus as my Savior and Lord,and then commit a sin while I’m alive, I
have to pay for that sin here on earth. But I will not have to pay for that in
the next life because that’s what Jesus paid for.
Ang tanong, na-save ba kayo dahil wala kayong kasalanan?
Hindi! Sinlessness does not give you salvation. It is your faith in Christ that
gives you salvation. Kung minsan nagkakasala ka nga pero hindi naman ibig
sabihin nawala yung faith mo. Nagiging guilty ka nga eh! That means may faith
ka pa and it is faith that gives you salvation. Our salvation is earned by what
Christ did, not by what we do. What we do is irrelevant to salvation. It is
only what Christ did that is relevant.
So, pwede na pala akong magkasala kasi hindi naman mawawala
ang salvation ko? Yes, pwede. Pero matutulad kayo kay David na nawala ang joy
of salvation.. Kaya, sabi niya, Return to me the joy of my salvation. Hinid
niya sinabing Return to me my salvation. Alam niyang hindi nawala yung
salvation, pero nawala yung joy. Predeng mawala ang blessing, mawala ang
prosperity, mawala ang peace. Naaksidente ka, naputol ang dalawang kamay mo,
naputol ang dalwang paa, nakapatong ka na lang diyan na parang lumpiang macao,
buhay ka pa. Ang kaluluwa mo pag namatay ka, saved. Pero look at your life,
parang impiyerno. So maraming mga Kristiyano, bagamat hindi pupunta sa
impiyerno, parang nasa impiyerno ngayon. Kasi hindi sila nabubuhay sa
kabanalan.
Kaya techinically, wala tayong kasalanan pagdating natin sa Diyos.
Pagharap mo sa Ama, wala Siyang makikita kundi kabanalan, perfection. Charged
to Christ na lahat ng kasalanan mo! Kaya nga sabi ni John in John 1:29, Behold,
the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world! Kinuha nan i Kristo
lahat at inilagay sa katawan Nya.
While we are told that we should live a holy life, if we
sin, 1 John 1:9 says, we should confess to Lord; because we have an advocate
with the Father. That is why I react to that question—if a person accepts Jesus
as Savior and Lord, will he not commit sin? It is different to commit sin nd it
is different to live in sin. This is the actual difference between those who
are in the Lord and those who are not. You commit sin like a sheep. Sheep are
very particular about their cleanliness. Because they are walking on the
ground, they get dirty. What they do is to scrub themselves against rocks,
trees or naything o get the mud off their bodies. A pig behaves differently. A
pig, in the morning, will look for a mud hole and stay there. You try to pull
the pig out and the pig will squeal and stay there. So, if one accepts Jesus as
Savior and Lord, he will still commit sin because he is still in the human
frame. But he will not intentionally, continuously and stubbornly live in sin
like those who are not in the Lord.
