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SALVATION'S SECOND HALF

ETERNAL SALVATION – THE ATONEMENT
   1. Received on the way
    2. Accomplished by the atonement goat
    3. Reconciles us permanently
    4. Free gift not earned
    5. Received when we are given to Christ by the Father
    6. Washes away our sin

            God demanded Moses to set up the sacrifices and the feasts according to a pattern because they were a replica of what would be done in the heavenly sanctuary and tabernacle.  It can be seen in Heb 9:23 that there was more than one sacrifice.  Hebrews doesn’t speak of the blood of the lamb, but the blood of the goat.  Jesus was our scapegoat and it was the blood of the goat that was sprinkled on the people to remove their sin. One must realize, however, the blood of the atonement doesn't come until the sixth feast of the law.  The Lamb got us in, but the goat keeps us in if one adheres to the feasts between the lamb and the goat.

ETERNAL SALVATION
    Common salvation can't be lost, it just isn't eternal.  Eternal salvation can't be lost because it is eternal.  It all comes down to receiving eternal salvation or not after one has received common salvation.

 ACCORDING TO HEBREWS
    Heb 5:9 And being made perfect, Jesus became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him
    Author, in this verse, means the causer.  This paragraph says that Jesus was made perfect through learning what it was to obey at a cost.  This was something new to Him.  Once he had experienced this, he was more able to understand why there was disobedience and how to overcome it in others.  After he was perfected, he became the causer of eternal salvation; but only to those who obey him.  Eternal salvation is a gift not caused; it is the strength to obey that is caused whereby one can receive eternal salvation.  If one was willing to seek and follow, they could gain the strength to do the same as he did.  Heb 5:9 is the only verse in the Bible that mentions eternal salvation.

JESUS THE EXAMPLE
    Heb 5:8 Though Jesus were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered
    Jesus didn't learn to obey, He always had.  He learned obedience, which results from having a choice; and a choice is manifested when there is something to gain through disobedience.
    Phil 2:4-5 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus
    Phil 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross
    Phil 2:12-14 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
    God works in one to have a will to obey him as Jesus did, even unto death.  It is the will to do that changes the doing from religion to an act of the heart.
    Phil 2:16 that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

ACCORDING TO JUDE
    Jude 20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, ²¹ Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
    Jude has warned that common salvation is only the start because one can fall away if they don't earnestly contend for the faith.  He tells them to keep themselves in the love of God.   I use Jude here because it is the only place that speaks of the common salvation and separates it from eternal through warnings to keep in the love of God or lose what one has.  It even gives examples of some who have received common but not eternal.
    Jn 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love

RECEIVED ON "THE WAY"
    Mt 7:13-14 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:  ¹⁴ Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. 
    These two verses reveal that destruction and life are both at the end of a way, not at the beginning, because the way leads there.  They also reveal that destruction doesn't have to be found but life does.  Even so, one cannot find life without following the way that leads there.
    Mt 7:7-8 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened
    Now we see that one must seek to find.  Believing in something does not result in finding it, seeking does.