Subject: Are you onced saved always saved? |
Bible Note: George -- When my son and daughter were quite young, my wife and I gave to each of them a gleaming new bicycle at Christmastime. Our instructions included the specific boundaries within our neighborhood where they were permitted to ride their bikes. One day we discovered that they had disobyed us and ridden far outside those boundaries. We punished them by grounding them for a time, which included the temporary revocation of their privilege to ride their bikes. But we did not take back our gift of those bikes and we never disowned them as our son and daughter. They were born into our family and a son and a daughter they will ever be. In like manner, the prodigal son of Scripture was as much a son of his father during his time of riotous living as he was before he left home -- and after he came to himself and returned to his father. The essential relationship of sonship never changed, only the personal intimacy (fellowship) with his father changed. The God I worship is not a capricous daddy who would take away my bicycle because I happened to slip up and get out of bounds once in a while. He would chastise me to be sure, but He would never take my bicyle from me. Not ever. Would yours? --Hank |