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Bible Note: CONCERNING LOOSING ONE'S SALVATION - PART III In Acts 5:1-11 Ananias and Sapphira lies to the holy Spirit and they both are judged immediately. Comments: If christians freely may continue to live in sins, why did Ananias and Sapphira die? Who do you think killed them? Who allowed them to "be killed"? In Re 2:18-26 Jesus sais to the Church in Thyatira and a woman commiting sexual immorality that he has given her time (note) to repent, but that she has refused. Jesus warns the Church and the woman that he will make her sick and those who sin with her will have great tribulation, and furthermore that Jesus will kill (!) her children. Jesus never allows christians to continue in sin, and those who does will eventually reap what they sow if they don't repent. In Re 3:4 Jesus sais to the Church (note) in Sardes that there are only a few of them that has'nt spotted their clothes (which is a picture of their repentence from sin.) Compare with Re 7:14 "And I said to him, "Sir, you know." So he said to me, "These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. " Re 16:15 "Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame." Gal 3:1 "O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? 2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? 4 Have you suffered so many things in vain--if indeed it was in vain?" Comments: How could they have "suffered so many things in vain", if they never could loose their salvation? Paul was most certainly aware that they could. Rm 6:1: "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?" Comments: The plain answer to the question if we are allowed to continue in sin is: "Certainly not" In verse 15 Paul sais the same question again and explains what happens if we do: Rm 6:15 "What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! 16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? Comments: Plainly the scriptures declares that if you live in sin, although you call yourself a christian, you will no longer belong to Jesus, but you will belong to sin! You will be a slave to sin and not to righteousness. I am very sad to say, that those who don't repent from their sins will lose their fellowship with Jesus. This is what Jesus teaches and what his elected teachers taught in the whole gospel. Compare with John 8:31-36 where Jesus sais that we shall no longer be the slaves of sin and instead be delivered by Jesus and the truth, a deliverance and freedom which Jesus offers to all who receives in faith. In John 8:36 Jesus promises freedom to everyone who comes to him with their heart's belief in his name and who confesses their sin, a descision of repentence which I will describe. IN THE OLD COVENANT when someone had sinned they sometimes had to take a spotless lamb (or a substitute) and bring it to the priest. Then the priest would examine the lamb and if it as perfect, the person who had sinned would lay their hands on the lamb's head and confess the sin. Then the lamb would be killed and the person would be forgiven. This is also a picture of the new covenant in the blood of Jesus. When we sin 1 Jn 1:9 sais: "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." This practise is the result of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus, who is the true spotless lamb of God, and when we walk in the truth, which is turn away from those things we know belongs to darkness (sin) and confess our sins when we fall, then... "we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin." Note that this verse does'nt say that we never sin when we walk in the light, but the gospel surely teaches us to turn away from sin and confess it, in order to be cleansed. Jesus is able to help us all through prayer! Remember that despite the fact that you might be full of sins, the "priest" (God) is'nt considering your personal appearance or condition, but the perfect state of the lamb (Jesus) and the blood of his Son, and upon your confession you are forgiven and cleansed. (CONTINUED IN CONCERNING LOOSING ONE'S SALVATION - PART IV) |