Can a Christian lost his or her salvation?

1. Can A Believer
Loss His/Her Salvation?
Hebrews 6 : 4 - 6
4For
it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of
the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5And have
tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6If they
shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to
themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

2. 1.
What is Salvation?
Romans 6 : 1 - 8
1What
shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2God forbid. How
shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3Know ye not, that so many of us as were
baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4Therefore we are buried with him by
baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father,
even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5For if we have been planted together in the
likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6Knowing this, that our
old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we
should not serve sin. 7For he that is dead is freed from sin. 8Now if we be dead with Christ, we
believe that we shall also live with him:

3. MAN AT
THE CREATION:
PERFECT
MAN FELL IN SIN,
HUMAN’S SPIRIT
DIES
THROUGH CHRIST’S CROSS,
HUMAN HAD BEEN
RESURECTED FROM DEATH
HUMAN’S
BODY
HUMAN’S
BODY
HUMAN’S
BODY
HUMAN’S
SOUL
HUMAN’S
SOUL
HUMAN’S
SPIRIT
OUT
HUMAN’S
SPIRIT
HUMAN’S
SOUL
GOD’S
SPIRIT
IN
• Genesis 1:27 stated that man was created perfectly.
• Romans 6:1-8 stated that because of sin, men are dead. Actually, it is human’s
spirit that dies. Human’s body and soul will also die when their life on earth
ended.
• Romans 6:1-8 then stated, that dead human’s spirit, had been replaced with
God’s Spirit. Hence those who received Christ, live with their own body and
soul, but their spirit is actually the Spirit of God, or Holy Spirit.

4. 2.
Living In Salvation
• For that reason, those who are saved
became unique, because they have God’s
Spirit inside of them.
• However, human are not yet perfect even
though they are saved, because their body
and soul are still bound to the tendency to
sin, even though the sin had been pardoned.
• Human still have free will, and can sin if
they want to. To be free from sin, human
have to consciously surrender themselves
to the direction and guidance of the Holy
Spirit who is inside of them. Holy Spirit will
not push His will on human to be holy.
• On the other side, when human’s soul are kept to be focused on God’s Words, then
it will be easier for human’s body, to follow God’s Word.

5. 2.a.
The Power of Repetition (Habit)
• Watch when someone learn to type. At first,
he will have to look at the keyboard. After a
while, he no longer have to.
• Watch a body work-out. When someone
had just started, work-out seems to be hard
to do. But after it became a habit, not
working out feels uncomfortable.
• Surrendering yourself to God’s Word and
the voice of the Holy Spirit, can be fathomed
in the same way: to make it a habit (Psalm 1:1-3). Just to make it a habit won’t
change us, but when we make it a habit, the Holy Spirit starts to work, and the
same thing: like not having to look at the keyboard, or feeling uncomfortable for
not doing it, starts to happen to us.
• When the Holy Spirit works, our habit is no longer just a habit, but became a
need, and finally became a lifestyle.

6. 2.b.
Your Choice Effects Your Brain
• There a part on human's brain,
related to high intellectuality,
knowing what's right and
what's wrong, emotion and
cognitive memory.
• Dependency on drugs or
narcotics, will damage this part
(called prefrontal cortex), so
gradually the functions
mentioned above will be damaged, and almost impossible to be repaired. It will
keep on deteriorating.
• Psalm 1:1-3 is the prescription to improve this part of the brain, so the longer it
is, with the help of the Holy Spirit, the functions would keeping on getting better.
• Just as an addict is almost impossible to be well, someone whose prefrontal
cortex's always nurtured with God's Word, praise, worship, ministry, gratitude
and peace, will be quite impossible to suddenly do a bad or a mean thing.

7. 2.c.
A Conscious Choice Made Easy
• To help you picture it, take a look
at the mixing between water and
salt, or what is commonly known
by homogenous mixture.
• When water is mixed to the point
of saturation, then the water
molecules and the salt molecules
merge into salty water. When you taste it, only with our senses, we will not be
able to tell it apart, water or salt.
• Just as the saturation of salt and water, we can be saturated by the Holy Spirit so
whatever choice made by the Holy Spirit, becomes our choice. Whatever the Holy
Spirit rejects, we also rejects.
• The word "filled" by the Holy Spirit is πλήθω (plḗthō - OT) and
(ravah - NT),
both means being filled to the point of saturation.
• This is why, if we are indeed being filled with the Holy Spirit, then living in
holiness would no longer be a struggle.

8. 3.
The Unpardonable Sin
• If we try to torch water, the water will not
ignite.
• However, if we boil the water, at a certain
point, the water will be no more because
it evaporates.
• Does sin, like a torched fire, can make
water evaporates instantly? The Bible
never stated that there is such a sin.
However, if someone keep on sinning, at a certain point, the salvation can be lost.
• This is what happened to Saul in 1 Samuel 28:6. If we read Saul's story, even
though he had been rejecting God for quite some time, God still helped him. But
eventually, God withdrew from him.
• Just like Saul, if we keep on rejecting God, at a certain point God will honour our
free will and the Holy Spirit will stop trying to be close to us. This is the
unpardonable sin. Not because God refuse to forgive, but because we refuse to
repent.

9. 4.
The Paradox of Chicken and Egg
• There is someone who said that, if
someone had repented, how can he reject
God. On the contrary, if someone rejected
God, how would it be possible to say that
he had repented before. This argument is
the argument of which one is first:
chicken or egg.
• The answer is actually very simple:
It is possible that someone seems to have repented, but actually just an emotional
outburst, not a genuine repentance. Later, he will return to his sinning life like
before. Galatians 6:7-8 stated: 7Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man
soweth, that shall he also reap. 8For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap
corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

10. 5.
The First To Cast A Stone
• John 8:1-9 2And early in the morning he came again
into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and
he sat down, and taught them. 3And the scribes and
Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in
adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
4They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in
adultery, in the very act. 5Now Moses in the law
commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what
sayest thou? 6This they said, tempting him, that they
might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as
though he heard them not. 7So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said
unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. 8And again he
stooped down, and wrote on the ground. 9And they which heard it, being convicted by their
own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus
was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

11. 5. The First to Cast a Stone - continued
• The unpardonable sin, is indeed a Bible principle. However,
it is important to remember, that judging a sin, is God's
prerogative. Not one man on earth has the right to judge,
including to judge about someone’s repentance.
• When we met someone who we knew for a fact had came to the front on a
"challenge to repent" at the church, but also saw as a fact to sin, that didn't give
us the right to talk about that person, or to do something based on that fact.
• When someone became a member of a church, then you found any fact of sin on
the person’s life, it can be reported to one person only: the Pastor of the church,
only once, and never again.
• The position of elders of the church, or deacons, does not give the right to
someone to have any say, much less to decide on things related to someone’s
repentance. Only the Pastor, as the set man of the house (church) has the
authority to even ask God about it.

12. Kesimpulan
• So, does someone who had genuinely repented loose his salvation? The answer is
NO, because 1 Corinthians 6:19 stated : What? know ye not that your body is the temple
of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
• However, whether someone does or does not loose his salvation, there is no one
on earth has the right to judge. If there is any discussion with or action taken to
the person, only the Pastor has the authority - with the understanding that the
model of relationship that God gave to men, is always the Father-son model.
• However, if someone is still has the desire to return to the Lord, however difficult
or however long it would take, the truth is he has not loose his salvation.

13. 1 Corinthians 14:26
How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you
hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation,
hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.