How to Secure Salvation

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How to Secure Salvation

• (James 121)

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Previous Lessons

• Today represents our fifth lesson in this series
  of lessons taken from the book of James.
• In our series we are focusing on How To
  Christianity.
• In our first four lessons we have discovered
• How to Survive Trying Times (12-4)
• How to Obtain Wisdom (15-8)
• How to Survive Temptation (112-18)
• How to Address Our Anger (119,20)

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How to Secure Salvation

• The Right Aspiration
• The Right Attitude
• The Right Action

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The Right Aspiration

• Without question, we must have the right desire
  if we are going to secure our salvation.
• The key thought concerning this matter is the
  phrase lay aside. In essence, we must first
  have the desire to do away with or put away
  certain things if we are going to secure
  salvation.

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The Right Aspiration

• What are we to lay aside?
• All filthiness (that which defiles or stains the
  soul)
• All overflow of wickedness (an abundance or
  exceeding measure of evil)
• Why is this necessary? It is necessary to lay
  aside these things in order to secure our
  salvation because without doing so we would never
  be in a position to receive Gods word! (Luke
  85-8,11-15)

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The Right Attitude

• Beyond the need for possessing the right
  aspiration, we also need to develop the right
  attitude if we are going to secure our salvation.
• The key thought in our text concerning the right
  attitude is found in the word meekness. James
  is telling us that salvation is secured not by
  the proud but by the gentle and humble of heart!

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The Right Attitude

• What, though, does it mean to approach or embrace
  the word of God with meekness? It means we are to
  appreciate
• The Purity of the Word (Ps. 126 Prov. 305)
• The Perfection of the Word (Psalm 197,8)
• The Peace of the Word (Psalm 858)
• The Power of the Word (Matt. 724 Heb. 412)
• The Permanence of the Word (Isaiah 408 Mark
  1331)

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The Right Action

• Beyond just possessing the right aspiration and
  attitude, we must also possess the right action
  if we are going to secure our souls salvation.
• The key principle is that we receive the word
  implanted. This concept harkens back to the
  parable of the sower we discussed earlier. Truly,
  a prepared heart is in a position to receive the
  word of God.

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The Right Action

• The word receive used here means an eager and
  deliberate reception of what is offered. Implied
  in the idea of receiving Gods word is acting
  upon it!
• When we receive Gods word, it produces faith
  (Romans 1017) and that faith causes us to obey
  (Hebrews 59).
• When we receive Gods word by means of obeying
  it, it is then that we secure our salvation.
  (Romans 59,10 Hebrews 725).

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Putting It All Together

• In order to secure salvation, we must possess
• The Right Aspiration (Put away sin)
• The Right Attitude (Meekness)
• The Right Action (Obedience)