THE "ONE AND DONE" THAT HONORS THE SON
If you want to live, you need to breathe more than one time.
If you want to live, you need to eat more than one time.
If you want to live, you need to drink more than one time.
If you want to advance, you need to take more than one step.
These things are true in the spiritual realm as well.
The Holy Spirit is our living breath, and we must be constantly receiving Him.
Jesus is our sustenance, and we must be constantly receiving Him.
Jesus is our path, and we must be constantly following Him.
(This is called, "living in the Spirit.")
ROMANS 8:10-14
(10) And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
(11) But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
(12) Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
(13) For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
(14) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
GALATIANS 5:22-25
(22) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
(23) Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
(24) And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
(25) If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Although Once Save, Always Saved is false, salvation is a "one and done" reality...
When Jesus is the only One we love, trust and obey.
When we are done (finished) with sin.
It does not take the fullness of the Holy Spirit to quit sinning. It takes being BORN OF THE SPIRIT and LIVING IN THE HOLY SPIRIT to stop sinning.
Born Of The Spirit
1 JOHN 2:29
(29) If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
1 JOHN 3:9
(9) Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
1 JOHN 5:4
(4) For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
Living In The Spirit
ROMANS 8:4-5
(4) That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
(5) For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
ROMANS 8:9-14
(9) But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
(10) And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
(11) But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
(12) Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
(13) For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
(14) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
GALATIANS 5:16
(16) This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
If we fail to live in the Spirit, God is gracious and He will renew and restore the repentant.
God provides salvation, but He does not do our believing and receiving for us.
God enables us to believe and receive, but He does not bypass or override the responsibilities He has given to us.
Salvation is the plan of God and we must abide by that plan or we will not be saved.
God is not a respecter of persons (choosing some to salvation and some to damnation). The offer of salvation is the same for every man, which is to believe, to repent, to confess, and to follow.
