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“If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. (Romans 10:9-10)”

Here, it appears the word “saved” refers to being born again. There is a theology called “once saved always saved.” It’s also known as “eternal security.” I don’t know of any Scripture that says you can be unborn once you are born. We all know it’s possible to sin after we’re born again, although, some teach that you never were born again is you ever sinned after you were born again. The human mind can rationalize anything.

None of that applies to me. I’m not trying to find the place where I can maximize my sin and still not go to hell. I know it’s possible to be born again and remain a baby in Christ with a raging and controlling sinful nature and an inability to break free. It all depends on whether you allow yourself to be led by the Holy Spirit or you allow your fallen nature to lead you.

“Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to Him as an instrument of righteousness. (Romans 6:13)”

The secret is in yielding to the Holy Spirit. You want to flow with the Anointing of the Holy Spirit. God is calling you to higher heights and deeper depths in Him. He wants you to come into the Holy of Holies and stay there. He never wants you to leave. Take hold of Him and don’t let go.

Ask God to answer these questions.

1. What does it mean for you to declare “Jesus is Lord”?
2. What does it mean for you to believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead?
3. Can you sin after you are born again? (Note: you are not your fleshly nature or your carnal mind. You are your ministry, which is Christ in you. How much sin can Christ do? How much righteousness can your fallen fleshly nature do?)
4. What does it mean for you to be born again?
5. How can you stop being controlled by sin?

Bonus questions:

1. How does believing and speaking work together in your Christian walk?
2. What does “being saved” mean, and is that the same as “born again?”
3. What biblical evidence supports or challenges the idea that once you are born again you can become un-born again?
4. What does it mean to remain a baby in Christ?
5. What will it be like to stay in the Holy of Holies?
6. What does it mean to flow with the Anointing of the Holy Spirit?

God designed your mind to flow in His Spirit. It won’t work properly without His presence. Learn to stand in God’s presence and hear His voice. Then teach others to do the same.

1. Pray for the Lord to protect you and keep you in His presence and His presence only.
2. Direct your mind toward the Lord only.
3. Ask God what He want’s to talk about.
4. You can ask God any questions. In all of this, be led by the Holy Spirit. God promises that He will answer you if you ask Him.
5. Do not edit or change what God says even if you don’t understand it.
6. Reject the lies and receive the truth.
7. Take notes.
8. Transfer your notes to your journal without editing what God said to you.

Keep in mind that God doesn’t want you to ever disconnect from Him. He wants to flow through you constantly in knowledge, wisdom, and love.