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NASB | John 10:28 and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 10:28 "And I give them eternal life, and they will never, ever [by any means] perish; and no one will ever snatch them out of My hand. |
Subject: once saved always saved |
Bible Note: Dear New Creature, You wrote: "Verse 24 speaks of God's ability to keep them from falling. I personally believe what is meant by "he is able to keep you from falling" is; those who remain surrendered and yielded unto Him, can rest assured that God's ability to keep them from falling will be the result. For those who refuse to yield themselves over to God, God's ability to keep them is still available, it's just that the individual that remains unyielded will not allow God's ability to keep them. We are not puupets. Just because we are saved does not mean we still can't make a choice to walk away from the faith and turn our back on God. That possibilty is not imagined but is real and is Scriptural as Jude and all of Scripture indicates." Jude 1:3 Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints 1:4 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Evidently, Jude was was concerned about certain persons whom he describes as "ungodly" (Not godly; not having regard for God; disobedient to God; wicked; impious; sinful), but to those to whom he is writing, he calls "beloved". Therefore, It is obvious to the unbiased reader of this epistle that, Jude is addressing the saints about men who have "crept in unnoticed". Jude says of these ungodly men that they are" those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation". The doctrine that these reprobates hold is: they" turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ."Jude did not say THAT these "ungodly" men perverted the grace of THEIR God or denied THEIR Master, He says "OUR God" and "our Master", speaking in the first person ot the God and the the Master of the "beloved". I hope you can see that my friend. Jude is quite plain and simple to understand. It only becomes complicated when we mistakenly impose our pre-concieved ideas into the text. Jude is not warning the saints about the possibility of losing their salvation. Rather, he is warning them about these ungodly men that have crept in among them. These false professors are the tares sown among the wheat. Matt 13:25 "But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away. Jude 1:5 Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. Verses 5-20 are a description of these creeping ones who steal in among the flock of God. Repeatedly he calls them "these men". Throughout this passage "these men" are describe as wicked evil doers: "gross immorality and went after strange flesh,"; "defile the flesh, and reject authority, and revile angelic majesties."; "these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed.etc. Jude 1:11 "Woe to them!" Jude 1:12 These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;" Notice "these men" hiding in your love feasts. Again I emphasize the unavoidable fact that Jude is writing to the "beloved" about "these men". Verse 20 begins with BUT!!! "Jude 1:20 But you, beloved..." After warning the saints and inforing them of the wickedness of "these men" and the certain punishment these men will face; he concludes the epistle by assuring and comforting the beloved saints, saying:Jude 1:24-25 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. John |