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Can a Christian Lose their Salvation?

22.4 Let’s Practice this Lesson. . .

1. Why do people think salvation is earned by Good works when the Bible is clear it is by faith alone?

2. What does repentance mean for the unbeliever as opposed to the believer?

3. What does accepting the Lord Jesus mean if one understands the culture of the New Testament?

4. If Matthew 7 is about identifying a false prophet why do some people wrongly make it about
identifying a false believer?

5. Why does Jesus tell us not to spend time trying to figure out if a person is saved by their works?

6. Please define what saving faith is:

7. Can the Justified believer be unjustified?

22.5 Let’s Personalize this Lesson. . .

Activity: Read Matthew 13:24-30 and make a list of how it should inform your ministry. What
does it keep you from doing and what does it tell you to keep doing as a steward of God’s
field? Then read James 2:12-13 and Matthew 7:2 and ask how we as believers are to treat
one another if we want to receive a merciful evaluation from the Lord. What would you
change about your own way of viewing others in light of these passages? How would your
view of ministry and counseling those struggling in sin change? When you have done that ask God’s
forgiveness for where you were wrong, set standards for how to minister in the future, and plan to

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