Makes the word "sealed" and "guaranteed" pretty meaningless.
Maybe your understanding of the Book of Life is flawed? (rhetorical question)
my understanding is fine. But the problem is your understanding of the word sealed and guaranteed. For some reason you conclude if something is sealed, it can't possibly be unsealed, or if something is guaranteed, that it will most sure happen. You do error in this thinking. Consider this what i say
i right now am sealed with the seal of God, i have eternal life and it is Guaranteed to me. All this is True.
But what you don't understand, it is only true, RIGHT NOW. Just because it is TRUE right now, does not mean it is True tomorrow. Tomorrow satan may test me like he did JOB. will i react as JOB did, or will i turn away from God in a pity party saying "Lord, Why me?" will i turn away from God because, i contracted a horrible, painful disease, where i will suffer much pain for a very long time. will i turn from Him, or still embrace Him? i know what i think now, but you never truly know until it is actually happening to you. my point is RIGHT NOW, i am sealed, i Have eternal life guaranteed to me. This does not mean i, by myself, through my own self, throw it all away, because that is what i choose to do. Are you suggesting Once a person accepts Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord, they can never deny Him in the future?
Here is a True story. i knew this woman who was the Truest Christian i have ever seen in my life. Her house was decorated with Angels and pictures of Jesus, she fasted regularly, read the Bible all the time, Had a Bible study where 15 people would come to her house every week. And any time i seen her out and about, it was ALWAYS on the way to help someone, or volunteer at a shelter, or on a food drive. In all the time i have known her, i never seen her commit even one sin, She loved Jesus so much, she shined with His light. Like i said, i have never met another Christian that was like her. This woman was sealed, this woman was guaranteed, not because of the works that she did, but because how much she loved Jesus and loved others. If her and i would have been hit by an asteroid and died, she would have been Heaven bound for sure. i joined the Air Force and went away, but a couple of years later i seen her on the street, and jokingly asked her "Where are you going, who are you going to help today?" If i remember correctly i think she was on the way to a bar. i talked to her, and i immediately saw there was no light in her, depression, sadness, face drooped, light GONE. i told her i wanted to talk to her, she said whatever. When i came into her place, i was shocked, the walls were bare, pictures GONE, Angels all gone. i asked What Happened. Turns out she no longer believes there is a God. You see her Christian Grandmother, who led her to her Christianity, died a long and painful death. Oh she prayed and prayed for her healing, she fasted and prayed even more, asking God to do this one thing for her, She asked Him to take her life instead, but spare her Grandmother. HE did not spare or answer her prayers. She now believes there can't be a God, NO God would allow such a Godly person like her Grandmother to die in the way that she did. She turned from God, and no longer believes there can be a God.
So you see, just because you are Sealed, or have a guaranteed Salvation, DOES NOT mean you can't throw it all away. DOES NOT.
So if you want to deceive yourself and believe because you are sealed, that you will remain that way Guaranteed, then don't be surprised when you are tested to the max, because you believe that false teaching
i am sealed right now and that is the Truth of God. if i thought for a moment, that i could not throw that away, well then i could live however i wanted too, and still be sealed. Heck i can even stop believing in God and still be sealed according to what you are teaching. But that is not the Truth. i am running to win the prize. According to you, you already have it and can't lose it. If i endure to the end, and i die, or am killed, or am taken up with Christ. That is when i can no longer lose it, that is when i have received the prize. Not before then, NOT before Judgment Day. i have told you the Truth concerning this matter.
You have a choice, be one of the MANY and refuse it, or be one of the FEW and believe it.
Why would you strive for the prize, if you already have it?
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