Be the one who endures and overcomes

There are only two types of humans on earth:

^{Type 1}“the one who endures to the end” in Christ and goes to Heaven

and

^{Type 2} those who do not… and go to Hell

^{Type 1}The one who endures to the end.
You really really want to be this type, the one who sincerely and truthfully accepts Christ, the one who endures all the way.

Matthew 10:22
And you will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.
Matthew 24:13
But the one who endures to the end is the one who will be saved.
Revelation 21:7-8
The one who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son.
Revelation 20: verse 4 The Great Tribulation saints:
⁴And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of ^[b]their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their foreheads and on their hands; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

^{Type 2}Those who do not.

Revelation 21:8
⁸But for the cowardly, and ^[d]unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and sexually immoral persons, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and ^[e]brimstone, which is the second death.”
Revelation 20: verse 5
⁵The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection
Revelation 20: verse 15
¹⁵And if ^[k]anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

“Hell is a hot damn!”

Now you may ask: How can those who do NOT endure to the end, lose their salvation? Good question. The answer is quite simple.

No one can lose their salvation.
If in the end Jesus says “Depart from Me…” – it was because He never knew them. They were never saved in the first place. He knows your heart when you come to Him falsely. Your heart is bare open.

We are all born under His righteous condemnation. It is up to us to move out of that! Accept Christ and we are freed from His condemnation.

1 John 2:19
They went out from us [seeming at first to be Christians], but they were not really of us [because they were not truly born again and spiritually transformed]; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out [teaching false doctrine], so that it would be clearly shown that none of them are of us.

God cannot make a mistake. Save you then unsave you?! Not a chance. What God has done – cannot be undone. “Never, ever by any means….”

John 10:28
And I give them eternal life, and they will never, ever [by any means] perish; and no one will ever snatch them out of My hand.’

See: Now I belong to Jesus | Christ secured our eternal home

Those who are not saved
If your heart is not sincere and truthful, your words are a charade when you come to God. God will not be mocked. He cannot be deceived. You may look the part… but there is something drastically wrong. The Scripture is plain:

* James 2:14-26 “Faith without works is dead.”

- Does your life validate your faith with it’s actions?

* Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.” Also: Matthew 7:26

- Are you doing God’s will, or your own will – living for Jesus, or living wantonly?

* One thing you lack…”

- What is it in you, that “one thing” that you are keeping, which separates you from God?

* Verses 19-21 of Romans 1:18-32 “²¹For even though they knew God [as the Creator], they did not honor Him as God or give thanks [for His wondrous creation]. On the contrary, they became worthless in their thinking [godless, with pointless reasonings, and silly speculations], and their foolish heart was darkened.”

- Is your thinking “worthless” and your heart dark?

* Following the Jesus who was not God

- Are you following a mere man who died for you as a mere man (like apostate Bethel and all such NAR type churches teach)? Then you are following another gospel, you… are still a mere man, not born again into newness of life at all. So, so sad a way to go to Hell.

Jesus’ greetings at The Gate

The truly saved (like the thief on the cross) cannot lose the eternal salvation that God gave them. God saves forever. Never again will His own be put back under His condemnation. Jesus said,

John 17:9
“…for those You have given Me… they belong to You”

Also see: John 17:7; John 17:9; John 17:11; John 17:24

for if they had been of us,
they would have remained with us
– 1 John 2:19

The problem is not one of God taking away your salvation, nor of you “losing it“. The issue is your heart: have you surrendered all of your heart to Jesus? Like Agrippa, who said to Paul, “Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian“, many have come to the brink of the decision to accept Christ… and then turned back.

Jesus’ parable of the seeds sown – Matthew 13
The seeds sown did not all produce a fruit unto salvation, so to speak. Some fell by the wayside, birds ate them, some had no soil, no roots, and they burned in the sun, and thorns choked others. Jesus said (v14) “In them the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says”:

‘You will hear and keep on hearing, but never understand;
And you will look and keep on looking, but never comprehend;
¹⁵
For this nation’s heart has grown hard,
And with their ears they hardly hear,
And they have [tightly] closed their eyes,
Otherwise they would see with their eyes,
And hear with their ears,
And understand with their heart, and turn [to Me]
And I would heal them [spiritually].’