Are we secure after God finishes the transaction of our salvation?
Yes. When God has finished the transaction of salvation, the believer is secure. Salvation is God's act: He places a person in Christ and resurrects them from darkness into life. God Himself declares it; no denomination can say it, and there is now no condemnation for those in Christ.
Les teaches that when God has finished the transaction of our salvation, then yes, we are secure. The believer has been crucified with Christ, and you cannot take yourself off that cross or put yourself on it. That crucifixion was the kind of death no one could do but themselves, and it took the work of someone else to nail Christ to the cross. In the same way, coming into salvation is an act of God that places us in the person of Christ and resurrects us from darkness into life. Consequently, God Himself is the one who says it, not the individual and not any denomination. God says there is now therefore no condemnation, and that applies to those who are in Christ. Les then asks what it means to be in Christ, suggesting Ephesians chapter 5 for explanation, and describes Ephesians as a deeper or higher level of Christian experience where Paul brings out things not even brought out in Romans, Galatians, and the Corinthians.
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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When are believers secure in their salvation?
When God has finished the transaction of our salvation, we are secure.