Is doing the will of God another way to get saved?

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. So as I expected when talking to this gentleman, yes, he confused those three different things that we talked about in the last podcast about what salvation is.

Most people, you'll find this consistently, that confuse the issue of salvation, that talk about whether you can lose your salvation, whether they talk about multiple ways of salvation, will often confuse regeneration and sanctification.

One, regeneration or justification is a past event for the Christian. Sanctification is an ongoing event.

Glorification is a future event. All are referred to as salvation, and that's what confuses some people, and that confused this gentleman.

He argued there's multiple ways of salvation. Here was the first contradiction, he said, was in 1

John 2 .17, which says, And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

And he was trying to argue that this is another way of doing salvation, that if you do the will of God, you will abide forever.

So doing the will of God was another way of salvation in his mind. However, when we look at this text and we look at 1

John, who is 1 John speaking to? He is speaking to believers. That's right, believers.

Therefore, he is not going to instruct people that are already saved on how to get saved.

This is the sanctification process, not the regeneration process, and there he got confusion.

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