Here are soem notes from and Ask The Pastor session Wednesday evening.
Can You Lose Your
Salvation?
The New Testament answer is simply yes.
In nearly
every book of the New Testament there is a warning regarding this.
Matt. 7.21 not everyone who says to me “Lord,
Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven but only he who does the will of my
Father who is in heaven”
Mark 9.42ff
NIV if
anyone causes one of these little onese who believe in me to sin, it would be
better for him to b e thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around
his neck…it is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and
be thrown in Hell.
Luke 12:8-9 ESV
.. “And I tell you, everyone who
acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the
angels of God, but the one who denies me before men will be denied before the
angels of God.
John 15.6.if
anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown into the fire
and burned….
Acts 8.18-23 Simon… believed (v13) baptized (v16)
repent or perish!
There are those who believe otherwise but it is not a biblically formed belief but one from a systematic theology. By that I mean that it does not spring from the scriptures themselves.
This is the result of forcing a system on the Scripture (Calvinism). This
doctrine at its most extreme has God in the position of assigning who will be
saved and damned by his own volition. It is a slander against the character of
God. Scripture isn’t a systematic theology book…
So How to Lose your
salvation….
Jn 15.6 Stop bearing fruit
Matt 12. 30-32 Blaspheme the Holy Spirit
Rev 3.5 Give up (He who overcomes will… be dressed
in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life…)
1 Tim 1.18-20 fail to fight the good fight, keep
faith, or have a good conscience. (Shipwreck yoru faith)
1 Cor 9.27
live an undisciplined life (I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I
have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize)
1 Cor 15.1,2 believe a false
gospel. (I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you
received and on which you have toaken your stand. By this gospel you are saved,
if you hold firmly to the word I preaced to you. Other wise, you have believed
in vain.
Gal 5.1-6
become entangled again in a yoke of slavery…. (You have fallen from
grace!)
Rom 2. 1-11, 13,16
Judge others hypocritically. (Because of your stubbornness and your
unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of
God’s wrath)
Heb 10.26 continue in sin rather than embracing
God’s Work in you
A Few New Testament
Examples of those who have lost their salvation
False teachers 2 Peter 2.20-22
Hymaneaus and Alexander 1 Tim 1.20
Unnamed “Lord, Lord” folks in Matthew
7
Simon Acts 8
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