Once Saved Always Saved is a Lie

Once Saved Always Saved promises one-sided faithfulness to maintain a relationship. Who regards his/her spouse or marriage that way? Love goes two ways. Those who don't love that don't love God. The one-way love God has shown to us is in offering his Son to die for us while we were still sinners, his enemies (Romans 5:6-8). The purpose is to get us to respond to that love and be reconciled to Him. That is how we begin our relationship with Him. And because we love Him, we must practice his love language, which is obedience.

How to return God's love to begin with and be in a relationship with Him:
James 4:8
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Sinners who have their mind set on their sins they love don't love God and have not answered the call to repentance. They have not surrendered their lives to God. Such can't even be considered "once saved," so forget about "always saved," but they can believe lies and be deceived.

People who believe OSAS is true are asleep and likely cannot name one false prophet/minister/preacher in this day. They are following them and believing their lies.

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

Jesus said that. So, some say "If you don't keep my commandments, it doesn't matter... it's optional..."

In marriage, for instance, would you say faithfulness is optional to your spouse? Do you say that for yourself? God expects faithfulness from his servants. A new creature in Christ can't be selfish in his/her relationship with Jesus, or salvation isn't understood and there is no salvation or a new creature in Christ to actually speak of.

John 15:9-10
9 Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

Understand where love comes into one's faith. Then make sure you have that love for God because you shipwreck your faith if you turn to sin and think God has got you covered with an OSAS insurance policy.

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

Here are believers, people who called Jesus "Lord" but were doing their own thing. Jesus asked them:
Luke 6:46
"Why do you call me, 'Lord! Lord!' and do not do the things which I say?"

If Jesus would ask you that (because you are not loving Him as He expects it of you), would you be ready for an answer?

No true believer can ignore this:
Mark 12:30
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength: this is the first commandment.

And again, "If you love me, keep my commandments" (John 14:15).

See also:

Saved From What?

Can You Lose Your Salvation?

Eternal Security - Once Saved Always Saved - Heresy
 
"Am I Saved?" Why Do You Ask?

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.


See also: 

How Do You Love God with All Your Heart, Mind, Soul and Strength?

The Essence of Faith

Faith Implies Obedience

Bible Study on Sin

Freedom From Sin

Is Repentance Just a Change of Mind?

Suffer The Cross To Overcome Addictions

Love Out Of A Pure Heart (1 Timothy 1:5)

Total Dedication To God Versus The Sinless Perfection Straw Man Argument

Nobody Can Judge?

When it comes to judging, Jesus' teaching in Matthew 7:1-5 is about not judging hypocritically. For Jesus' teaching on not judging to be applicable in all cases, between all people and in all matters (like most believe), it would have to be that every one is an evil doer who should not speak against or "judge" what other evil doers are doing (because that would be hypocritical). Then it would be a case of total darkness. There is no way out of that because with such a belief that Jesus has absolutely forbidden all exercise of judgment, the plank can't come out of no one's eye and no one can love a brother or sister and remove the speck out of his or her eye either. Because light and truth are necessary to see the problems in the body and address them. And Jesus did come into the world, and He did say He is the light of the world and that those who follow Him will not walk in the darkness but will have the light of life (John 8:12).

John 7:24
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

Exercising righteous judgment is shedding light, and not everyone appreciates light. So Jesus also says:
John 3:19-21
19 And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

Some do walk in the light, without a plank in their eye and are able to exercise a righteous judgment. It does not mean "hating" on someone or pretending to be perfect. But thank you Jesus! He died to allow all those who follow Him to walk in the light and be alert and vigilant because the world is full of deceivers. 



See also:
Who am I to Judge?
https://yestothetruth.blogspot.com/2017/07/who-am-i-to-judge.html
 
The Myth of Casting Stones
https://yestothetruth.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-myth-of-casting-stones.html 

"Only God can judge me!"
https://www.facebook.com/yestothetruth/posts/1342248582520728




 

Call to Repentance

 

Charm, Beauty and Deceitfulness

Esther 1:10-12
10. On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king, 11. To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to show the people and the princes her beauty H3308: for she was fair H2896 to look on. 12. But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.


Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good H2896 for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.


Proverbs: 31. 30. 
Favour H2580 is deceitful, and beauty H3308 is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised. 


Genesis 6:1-2
1. And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2. That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair H2896; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

Proverbs 6:25
Lust not after her beauty H3308 in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.


H2580: favor, grace, charm → desirableness: a fruit and an effect of beauty (H3308)


H2896: good, fair, beautiful → desirable (as seen / perceived)


Favor / grace / charm (H2580), which is deceitful, is what causes to see/appreciate beauty (H3308), which is vain; that is, to find a certain object good / fair / beautiful (H2896), and therefore desirable as it is seen / perceived.


If acted upon, charm (H2580), as an enticing agent, triggers lust / desire, as an action that the beholder or party who considers a given object of desire is responsible for. That is the state of desiring something. The surrounding circumstances will determine if it is evil or not. Ex: "You lust, and have not: you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: you fight and war, yet you have not, because you ask not. 3. You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it upon your lusts (or desires for pleasures)." (James 4:2-3) It is essential to have one's senses exercised to discern both good and evil (Hebrews 5:14) and not follow after deceitful lusts (Ephesians 2:3; Mark 4:19; 1 Timothy 6:9-10).


The eye must be good (Matthew 6:22-23). Favor / grace / charm does not need to deceive, invariably, whether what is desired is a fruit, a woman, money, something intrinsically evil or whose coveting itself (or the love of it) is evil because it is forbidden or unlawful.
When wisdom is lacking (we can ask God for more wisdom - James 1:5), the hour of temptation can become fatal (leading to sin / iniquity, and then to death). One is deceived then indeed when he or she fails to properly discern between good and evil, or simply fails to choose good over evil, especially knowing to do good and not doing it (James 4:17). 


James 1:14-17
14  But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his **own lust/desire,** and enticed (by whatever is found to be charming / desirable). 15 Then the lust/desire, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is finished (accomplished), brings forth death. 16  ***Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.***


17  Every ***good gift*** and every ***perfect gift*** is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.


Matthew 7:11
If you then, being evil, know how to give **good gifts** to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give **good things** to those who ask him? 


1 Corinthians 12:31-13:3
12:31 But **covet (desire to have) earnestly the best gifts:** and yet I show you a more excellent way. → 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and do not have ***charity/love,*** I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and do not have ***charity,*** I am nothing. 3. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and do not have ***charity,*** it profits me nothing.


In Solomon's case, his eye ended up being full of darkness. And that did not end well for him. He turned away from his first love. That is not a pattern all must follow. 


1 Kings 11:4-6
4. For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. 5. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 6. And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father. 

Matthew 6:22-23
22  “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. 23  But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
 
Lust → sin → death is surely not the dangerous path that a saint will be on in the hour of temptation. If that's the case, then where is the Holy Spirit? A man who can resist the devil should do just that. Nothing less is expected of him. And there should be no reason for any woman to suppose that a man who simply notices her beauty in whatever context it may be has slipped on a slippery slope of lust, sin and death. That is ridiculous and surely the devil's plan to create confusion, distrust and fear. However men are wired, a man of God is rewired or hopefully he is in that process of rewiring by the renewing of his mind (Romans 12:1-2), so that the clichés that the world applies to men no longer describe him. He is alive and overcoming the world, not dead in trespasses and sins, and he keeps himself so that the wicked one touches him not (1 John 5:18). Both men and women will be judged according to their own doings. 


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1 John 5:18
We know that whosoever is born of God sins not; but he that is begotten of God keeps himself, and that wicked one touches him not. 


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2 Timothy 3:16-17
16. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17. That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.


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These exhortations are words for believers to HEAR and DO:


Galatians 5:24-25
24. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts. 25. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 


2 Timothy 1:7
For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 


Romans 8:1-4
1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.


James 1:22
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.


Romans: 8:8-14
8. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9. But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also give life to your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you. 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 mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live. 14. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.


Galatians: 6:7-8
7. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap. 8. For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.


Galatians: 5:16-23
16. This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust/desire of the flesh. 17. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that you cannot do the things that you would. 18. But if you be led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20. Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21. Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 22. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23. Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 


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Deuteronomy 6:6-9
6. And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart: 7. And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when ou rise up. 8. And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9. And you shall write them upon the posts of you house, and on your gates. 


Mark 12:30-31 
30  And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength: this is the first commandment. 31  And the second is like, namely this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. 


10/02/2015, 8:33 PM

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See also:
Walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:16)
https://www.facebook.com/yestothetruth/posts/1435997813145804