Friday, January 14, 2005

Once Saved Always Saved?

There are numerous warnings to believers in God's Word, which are
talking about the possibility to fall away from the Faith. It is therefore very
dangerous and arrogant to believe that once your are saved, the Lord will
always keep your salvation regardless what you do.
It is true, and I have experienced it myself, that the Lord is His
great mercy will do a lot to prevent you from falling in perdition and turning
away from eternal life with Him. However, there will come a time that He will
give up on you if and when you keep persisting in not to follow Him any
longer.

At that time, the Bible states that there is then no longer a cure
for your condition. " If you have trampled under foot the Son of God, [Hebr.
10:29] and are "crucifying Jesus afresh,putting Him to an open shame"[Hebr.
6:6]. Verse 4 says, then it is impossible to be restored . Ofcourse nothing is
impossible to God, but He let us know that there is a time in which He let us go
into damnation and hell.

Throughout the New Testament there are many references to the fact
that we can backslide and fall away from the Faith . It is a very clever trick
from Satan to use God's Word about our security in Christ in order to make us
believe that it is unconditional and that we can not loose our salvation.


It may be that this wrong believe is caused by misunderstanding the
New Covenant. A Covenant involves two parties. the New Covenant which is
sealed by the blood of Jesus involves the Triune God and the believer. It is the
believer who can and does break the Covenant sometimes. God however is always
faithful.
The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom [Pslm111:10]] It sure
looks like that those people who believe in the false doctrine of " once saved
always saved " do not have sufficient fear of God. They seem to lack the most
common sense and wisdom. Hebrew10:31 warns us that it is a fearful thing to fall
into the Hands of the Living God. If you are a believer and in the hands of
God, are you sufficient fearful?

TAKE heed, LEST THY FALL! [1Cor.10:12]

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