See Christ our Ark in the story of Noah.

Believers, as the righteousness of God in Christ, having Christ as our righteousness and none of ours from the law, God sees us as righteous through and through. Now this doesn’t mean that we are perfect; we will fall and fail sometimes, but remember when Noah and his family were in the ark? No matter how many times they stumbled or fell as a result of the flood and winds raging outside, they always fell and got back up INSIDE the ark, never OUTSIDE. Not a single person was cast out of the ark and into the flood with the condemned for whatever reason; and after the flood subsided, all who put their trust in the Lord were saved.

Today, we are in Christ Jesus, the real Ark. Like Noah, we didn’t just decide to seek salvation in our Ark that is Christ. God drew us as He drew Noah. Christ says in John 6:44- “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.” We can sing “I have decided to follow Jesus” all we want but it definitely was not by our smarts or good sense that we are in Him:) Our Abba Father drew us. When we realize this, it becomes difficult for us to judge people who are yet to receive their invite to the Lord’s table. Instead, we pray to our Abba Father to touch their hearts too.

Like Noah and his family inside the ark, our Saviour will never cast us out of Himself when we fall, as it is written in John 6:37- “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.” Our Saviour will never cast us out to drown with the condemned world outside; no matter how many times we fall, there is no condemnation for us, as it is written in Romans 8:1- 

“Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”

Let’s take our blessed brains to church. Why would Christ bestow the gift of no condemnation to His people if they do not sin? The gift is for those who, of themselves, don’t have it all together. None of us do and none of us can. Christ holds it together for us. While the world around us is drowning from condemnation, by grace, we who are in Christ are saved from condemnation. See Romans 5:9- “And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, He will certainly save us from God’s condemnation.”

This is the Good News. We are made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ and not our own obedience to the law, which no one can accomplish. Because it is His righteousness and not ours, the way to “lose your salvation” is to claw your way out of the ark and jump into the flood aka stop believing that our Saviour Jesus Christ gave Himself to save you. Those who think they can "lose their salvation" when they sin were never in Him to begin with. 

But does this mean that we can continue to wallow in sin? Certainly not! Grace swallows up sin. Only through the abundance of grace and God’s gift of righteousness in Christ, not the law, do we live in triumph over sin. Romans 5:17 says 

“For the sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and His gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one Man, Jesus Christ.”

But many are still trying to get right with God by their own power; the very law that religious (yet beloved of God) people are trying to keep makes sin have dominion over them- Romans 6:14 says:

“For sin shall not have dominion over you for you are not under law but under grace.” Somehow, many in the church have this verse backwards, saying grace is a license to sin. No, friend. Grace is the gospel of Christ and the power of God to salvation. Paul had this to say in Romans 1:16-

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”” But the law is not of faith! The one who is trying to keep the law to get right with God has no faith.

Count yourself blessed and in good company if you have ever been falsely accused of saying that it is okay to sin because of grace: Paul too was falsely accused of saying this. See Romans 3:7-8: “And some people even slander us by claiming that we say, “The more we sin, the better it is!” Those who say such things deserve to be condemned.”