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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Condition to Remain in the Book of Life

The condition for the name of someone who is saved to remain in the book of life is to overcome.

Revelation 3:5

He that overcomes, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name from the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

Reminders:

Luke 13:24

Make every effort to enter in through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

John 15:18-20

18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

Matthew 10:22

And you will be hated by all for my name's sake: but he who endures to the end will be saved.

Acts 14:22

... we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 9:24-27

24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. 25 And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. 26 Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. 27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.

Being born again does not mean you have overcome when all is said and done, because all is not yet said and done. You have trials you will go through for your faith to be tested and you'd better "put on Christ" and be overcoming in them. So, we must be overcomers today and continue to be overcomers until Jesus comes. That implies listening to all the exhortations made to believers in the Bible and doing all the things commanded to us for a victorious walk with the grace of God (Titus 2:11-14, Romans 6:14).

Friday, January 31, 2020

You Cannot Be Unborn

This is a response to Charles Stanley's answer about whether a person who was once saved and who is then living a life of sin can lose his/her salvation [video: "AskDr.Stanley; Can I Be Saved? Then Backslide And Lose My Salvation? (5Min dvd.wmv)"; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5HhFqUFFxU ].1 He argues that a person cannot be unborn to make his point that a person who was saved cannot be lost again (no longer be saved).

Argument: you cannot be "unborn" (again)

Anyone who is alive can die. If being saved means being brought to spiritual life (Ephesians 2:1-7; John 5:24; 1 John 3:14), then those who have experienced the new birth, which is the first resurrection, can die if they go back to sinning (Hebrews 6:4-6, Hebrew 10:26). That's because the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23).

These were written to people who were born again so they knew the consequences of not walking in the Spirit:

Galatians 5:19-21
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, impurity, licentiousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strife, jealousy, wrath, selfishness, divisions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of which I tell you beforehand, as I have also told you in time past, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Romans 8:12-13
12 Therefore, brethren,* we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.

*brothers and sisters IN CHRIST

1 Last access attempt result (7/06/2022):

Sunday, December 22, 2019

How Do We Know That We Love God?

John 14:15
If you love me, keep my commandments.

Luke 6:46
Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do the things which I say?

Matthew 7:21
Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

John 14:21
The one who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.

1 John 2:3-6
3 And by this we know that we know Him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that says, I know Him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoever keeps his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: by this we know that we are in Him. 6 He that says he abides in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked.

1 John 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdensome.

1 Corinthians 7:19
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

Galatians 5:6
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

1 Jonh 4:20-21
20 If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 This commandment we have from Him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

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