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Comments From Others on: 7) DO WE EVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT RETURNING TO A STATE OF NOT BEING SAVED? |
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No because Jesus died once for our sins and he can't die again.
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We
Do Have To Worry About Returning To A State Of Not Being Saved. You can
find no comfort in Hebrews 9:28 by the fact that Jesus died once for our
sins and he can’t die again. This verse has nothing to do with our not
being able to fall from grace. This is the teaching of the verse: Christ
lived a representative life on our behalf. He died to bear the sins of
many, so was offered; and has been judged for others as well (see Hebrews
9:24) But the point remains the same as with all men. We can only live
once, die once, and be judged once for the life that we live. But Christ
has already lived, died, and been judged therefore he can’t repeat his
fleshly life or death, or offering. The verse has nothing to do
with our not being able to fall from grace. Christ’s two missions were
to bear sins (Hebrews 9:28 Isaiah 53 1-12 I Peter 2:24 and
eternally save those who are eagerly waiting for him (2 Timothy
4:6-8) On
the contrary what we need to show that we can fall from Grace is passages
that clearly demonstrate that the inspired writers were referring to
Christians (children of God) This will destroy the false notion : “If
They Are Lost, They Weren’t Really Saved To Begin With “
Hebrews 3:12 “In Departing From The Living God” One cannot
depart from a place he has never been.
As a country boy once said, “You Can’t No More Depart From
Where You Ain’t Never Been Than You Can Come Back From Someplace You
Ain’t Never Gone.”
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| Isaiah 53 1-12
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and
when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of
our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
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He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the
slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the
land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. 9 And he made his grave with
the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit
in his mouth. 10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt
make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of
the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied:
by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
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Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong;
because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and
he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
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| Acts 8:13-24
Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued
with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.
14 Now when the
apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto
them Peter and John: 15 Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might
receive the Holy Ghost: 16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in
the name of the Lord Jesus.) 17 Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy
Ghost. 18 And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Ghost was
given, he offered them money, 19 Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands,
he may receive the Holy Ghost. 20 But Peter said unto him,
Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
21 Thou hast neither part nor
lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God. 22 Repent therefore of this thy
wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
23 For I
perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
24 Then answered Simon,
and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon
me.
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| Galatians
4:1
Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; |
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| Galatians
5:1-4
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
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| 2 Timothy
4:6-8 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me
at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
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| Hebrews 3:12
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. |
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| Hebrews 4:4-6
For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest
the seventh day from all his works. 5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
6 Seeing
therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached
entered not in because of unbelief:
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| Hebrews
9:24
For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the
figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: |
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| Hebrews 9:28
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation
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| Hebrews 10:26-27
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth,
there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery
indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. |
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| I Peter 2:24
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. |
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| 2 Peter 2:20-22 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. | |
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