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Are we saved when we accept the Messiah?


A hostile Christian (of the Nimrod-Tammuz persuasion) recently wrote to the Messianic BRI and, among other things, impertinently asked me: "When, were you saved?"

I put the same question back to him. He referred to his conversion experience which, he said, occurred at a particular place, and time of the day, and he even gave me the anniversary of that special date in his life and the specific circumstances surrounding it. Not too many folk can do that. He was also adamant that he alone "chose Christ." I know that Billy Graham could give the time and place when he first accepted God's Son as his Saviour. His wife, on the other hand, never ever had a specific time and place that she could recall...she "always" believed in the Lord even as a little child. In fact, it seemed there never was a time when she did not believe.

Everybody’s experience of the Lord is different.

I am told forthrightly by my Bible that God "has saved us [speaking of Christians] and called us [Christians] with a holy calling [please note the order here, first we are saved then we are called to worship the One who has already saved us] not according to our works [and that includes our decision-making ability to choose the Lord], but according to His own purpose and Grace, which was given us in the Messiah Yeshua" -- given when? -- "BEFORE THE UNIVERSE BEGAN" (2 Tim 1.9).

Blessed assurance! How GLAD am I that my assent to Mashiach's will in His Grace, His calling, and His election, was a mere response to my already-saved position -- my acceptance of His sacrificial death on my behalf (as important as I would like to believe it is) was really an afterthought on my part; it was a mere response to the Gospel of my (already-attained) salvation ...an already accomplished fact.

There are some Christians who do not like the way I pen my literature or the way I emphatically and enthusiastically express my Jewish view of the Gospel of salvation. They do not like my stylistic emphasis on God’s salvific Grace, nor yet my readiness to eagerly applaud God’s Salvific Sovereignty. Like kids in a schoolyard boasting about their fathers I can confidently say, to those who hate Jewish thoughtform and who despise the Gospel of God’s Grace: "My God is bigger than your god! My God is not the Local Village Idiot, like yours. My God is not the Fast Fading Smile of some Cosmic Cheshire Cat, like yours. My God is logical and consistent and...dare I say, endlessly affectionate, doting and loving?"

Most people make God in their own image, or after the image of their own earthly father, and such a creation of the human mind naturally carries with it terrible flaws, obscene character deficiencies and blatant inconsistencies.

  • It was Blaise Pascal who asserted that "we like to be deceived."

Really, isn’t it high time to repent and give glory to the One who endlessly loves us with a kenotic Sacrificial Love, and who is soon to return in the Person of His Son to ask an account of those who supposedly believe in Him and love Him? After all, He loved us so much He would not permit the thought that we could save ourselves by our own works and capabilities. He loved us so much that He saved us before our human birth -- way back in eternity -- even long prior to the Big Bang, before Space-Time began.

That, my spiritual brethren, IS unconditional love.


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    • What are the correct Jewish Festival dates for 2018?
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    • Origin of the Name Christian
    • Advantages When You Financially Support the IMCF
    • Call to Bless Israel
    • DaVinci Code
    • Should Christians Revere the Cross?
    • American Power & Jewish Influence
    • The Authentic Grace of God, or Who Actually Believed the Holy Spirit?
    • The Tithing Paper
    • But What About Our Pets?
    • Jewish Messianic Expectation Revealed in the Intertestamental Period
    • Baptised Paganism
    • Are There Contradictions in the Bible?
    • Ancient Records Reconsidered
    • Satan in the Sanctuary: The Coming Occupation of the Third Temple
    • Did Yeshua Observe the Correct Passover in the Year of His Crucifixion?
    • Can a Woman be an Apostle?
    • On the First Day of the Week
    • Gentile Ministries: Scholarship, a Lost Cause?
    • Fire at the Dais of Messiah
    • The Forgiveness of Yeshua and the Fear of Death
    • Two Gods in Conflict, or One God Supreme?
    • So - You Think You're Mortal!
    • The Blood of the Mashiach - God's Universal Love
    • The Mysterious "Lamb's Book of Life"
    • The Satisfaction of the Justice of God
    • Whatever Did Yeshua Mean When He Said: 'Let The Dead Bury Their Dead"?
    • Give 'Babe' a Miss!
    • Has the Easter Bunny Laid An Egg On Our Sacred Christian Customs?
    • TIMES UP - Living in the Shadow of the Second Coming
    • Twas GRACE that nobody wants to know about!
    • The Hidden Truth of the Menorah Revealed as May 5, 2000 Looms on the Horizon!
    • Did Our Lord Yeshu Wear Earrings?
    • Shabbat Lectures on the Torah: SELF ESTEEM
    • Did the Prophet Jeremiah Go To Ireland?
    • The Bitter Fruit of [the] Vine
    • "Saving Faith" - Just What is it?
    • Iran in Prophecy
    • Do You Qualify The Statements Of Yeshua? - Or, The Trouble With Ellen!
    • What Was the Secret of the Temple Cherubim?
    • A Christmas Message to an Apostate Church
    • Final Protestant Argument Against Seventh-day Sabbath Observance Collapses Under New Research
    • IF "Christ is the ANSWER," What Are the Questions?
    • Whatever Did Yeshua Mean When He Termed Herod a "Fox"?
    • What is the One teaching that makes Messianic Christianity Unique?
    • The Blessing of God
    • So Long Gentile Jesus
    • Star of Bethlehem
    • What was Paul's view of the Torah in relation to Gentile believers?
    • Who Killed the Messiah?
    • Are we saved when we accept the Messiah?
    • If we are not saved by keeping the Torah, what's the point of observing it?
    • In as few words as possible, can you describe your view of salvation?
    • What distinguishes BRI from other sabbatarian organisations?
    • What was Paul's attitude toward the Torah?
    • So basically you're saying that the Bible teaches that human personality survives its bodily death?
    • We understand you believe in the soul's immortality. Is this correct?
    • You referred to reincarnation. Doesn't this brand BRI as New Age?
    • Are the "gifts of the Spirit" still around today?
    • You slam the image of Jesus to the "max." Why?
    • What is the Focus of BRI's Theology??
    • What About the Pentecostal "Second Blessing"?
    • Why do you differentiate between Christians and "disciples" as you seem to do in all your lectures?
    • Is the Messianic Community the body of Messiah? Is it also "the bride of Christ"?
    • What is your view on Enoch and Elijah? Did they escape death?
    • What Hebrew word is often associated with door to door representatives and used-car salesmen?
    • Can Angels be Female?
    • The Extinction of the Lion
    • The Rapture Doctrine [1]
    • Rapture Doctrine [11] A Case Against the Rapture
    • Rapture Doctrine [lll] Do We "Knock Knoch"? Or, Do We Seek the Approbation of Men?
    • Rapture Doctrine [IV]: Origin of the Secret Rapture Doctrine
    • The Two Hands of God
    • Does Satan Lurk in Ezekiel 28?
    • The Wailing Wall: Source of Jewish Idolatry
  • Messianic Believers Youtube
  • Audio Page
    • WEEKLY PARSHAH
    • Does BRI teach the coming of a New World Order?
  • Contact Us