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Let the Bible speak
The first lie is that you are saved by
only believing. Jesus said you must be born again of water and
Spirit, St. John 3:5. He also said, he that believeth and is
baptized shall be saved, Mark 16:16. Peter, having the keys to the
kingdom, told the multitude on the Day of Pentecost how to be saved.
REPENT and be BAPTIZED every one of you THE NAME OF JESUS
CHRIST for the remission of sins and ye shall receive the GIFT OF THE
HOLY GHOST, Acts 2:38. How could you possibly be saved without your
sins remitted. Paul had his washed away by baptism, Acts 22:16.
The second lie, now that you believe and
are saved, you can never be lost. The BIBLE SPEAKS LOUD AND CLEAR
AGAINST THAT.
Heb. 6:4-6 It is impossible for those who were once enlightened and
have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy
Ghost, and have tasted of the good Word of God, and the powers of the
world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto
repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and
put Him to an open shame."
After enjoying all the earmarks of salvation that Paul listed and
then willfully go back and continue in sin, your heart will be hardened
to the point where it is impossible to repent. Without repentance, you
are hopelessly lost. When their "only believe"
converts reach this state they tell them they were never saved in the
first place. Having lied to them from the beginning, they now add
insult to injury.
Paul continues--Heb.
10:26-29 - If we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of
the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins -- only judgment
and fiery indignation. Paul said we, including himself and the church.
1 Cor. 9:27 - Paul said unless he was able to keep his body under
subjection he would be a castaway. Will there be castaways in heaven?
Paul Again - Rom.
11:21-22 - "If God spared not the natural branches (Israel), take heed
lest He spare not thee, (Church). Behold, therefore, the goodness and
severity of God; on them which fell severity; but toward thee goodness,
if thou continue in His goodness, otherwise thou (saved) also shall be
cut off."
Peter Agrees - 2 Peter
2:20-22 - "If they escape the pollutions of the world through the
knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ and are again entangled therein, and
overcome, the latter end is worse than the beginning," BOTH AGREE - NO
ETERNAL SECURITY.
Jesus Said - Luke 9:62
- "No man having put his hand to the plough and looking back is fit for
the Kingdom of God." REMEMBER LOT'S WIFE.
Jesus Warns Us - Again
- St. John 15:5-6 - "I am the vine, ye are the branches, he that abideth
in me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit for without me ye
can do nothing. If a man abideth not in me, he is cast forth as a
branch and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire
and they are burned."
Dynamic Truth By Paul
- 1 Cor. 10:8-12 "Neither let us (Church) commit fornication, as some of
them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. Neither
let us tempt Christ as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by
the serpents."
"Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and were destroyed by
the destroyer. All of these things happened unto them as ensamples; and
they were written for our admonition, unto whom the ends of the world
are come. Wherefore, let him that thinketh he stands take heed lest he
fall."
It's very difficult to find
ETERNAL SECURITY in the Bible.
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