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 8/12/19 7:18 PM |
| Stevenr | | Missouri | |  |  |
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Case in point would be “For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica…” (II Timothy 4:10)
In this passage, written in AD 66, we see that Demas is being lamented as having Departed from Service. We do not know the exact circumstances of his departure, but the strong wording by Paul, as he considered it a forsaking, leads one to believe it wasn’t a pleasant departure. He was fruitful, but became unfruitful. “And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them…” (Matthew 13:7)
(And the explanation,)
“He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.” |
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| 8/10/19 8:36 PM |
| Stevenr | | Missouri | | | |
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I understand the point: everyone wants to fact-check someone else’s Salvation.
My point is simply that he may be saved. Saved people have flesh. Saved people can harden their hearts and turn to sin. Saved people can do anything that a lost person can do. Look at the example in 1 Corinthians—a young Man sexually engaged with his stepmother.
Was he saved? Yes, but he was still in the sin, and to top it off, the Church wasn’t even responding the correct way until admonished by Paul.
That’s the problem with most Christians nowadays—they are stuck in a Hebrews 5 mentality. Instead of going into sin and (when you confess and forsake it) moving back to God, they want to excuse it by saying, “Oh, I must not have really been saved! Oops. That’s why I committed X, Y, or Z.”
They want to blame the devil, when in reality they had the Holy Spirit of God right there telling them no and they ignored it—grieving and quenching the spirit—as they jogged off headfirst into sin.
I don’t know if this yahoo was saved or not—neither do you. But I wouldn’t just write it off like he wasn’t. I would take it as a tremendous warning for us to not allow the flesh that much leeway in our lives, lest we fall as well. |
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| 8/10/19 5:56 PM |
| Stevenr | | Missouri | | | |
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Once your name is in the book of life, it is there: the ONLY Scripture I can see that offers a change for that is
Revelation 22:19
And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.Is this yahoo LGBTQ? Maybe. Will that send him to hell? No. That sin (while disgusting) is not any different than if he had simply lied on his taxes.
James 2:10
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
It is obvious that he is now a horrible testimony to Christ, and as such we should:
1 Corinthians 5:5
To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Not turn again to the circular arguments about religions named after people. (Arminianism and Calvinism.) Stop talking about the yahoo; let him fall off the pages of history and we will see him in Heaven one day with a new name.
The least.
Matthew 5:19
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. Just saying. |
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