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There are 3 things that are impossible for man;
1. lose salvation ~ why? Because man is not the author of salvation and has no power to impute God's salvation to himself, therefore he has no power to nullify his own salvation when it was imputed to him by grace when he first believed. It is also impossible to nullify salvation that was never imputed. Failing the grace of God for the believer in Heb 12:15, is when he fails to reach the goal and falls short of continuing in grace. He becomes attracted and pulled away by a stronghold and a root of bitterness springs up. Though he fail grace, he can not repudiate that grace and God will make him stand in that grace either here in this life or when he stands before God / Rom 5:2, 14:4, 1Pt 5:12. It is only the natural man that believes that salvation can be lost because he can not discern the things of God.
2. commit an unforgivable or unpardonable sin ~ why? Because blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is when a person attributes evil to the work or fruit of the Holy Spirit, and that is an act of evil and not sin and it is not even unbelief. Jesus Christ shed His blood for sin and not for evil. Man needs to be cleansed from sin but he needs to be delivered from evil. Sin and blashemy is possible and forgiven against the Son, but sin is never used against the Holy Spirit, only blasphemy is used and that is unforgivable because it is evil and not sin / Mt 12:31-36.
3. use grace as a license to sin (antinomianism) ~ why? Because God is the God of ALL grace and He does not give grace to man to live or continue in sin , but when man does sin, God will give man grace to be restored and stop living in sin. Grace teaches us to deny ungodliness and not to live in sin / Titus 2:11,12. The term 'God forbid' in Rom 6:2 is a participle that means, 'away with the thought' ~ God does not permit it nor does He permit it through His grace. The 'b' part of Rom 6:2 qualifies what God forbids.
Rom 5:19-21 'For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. 20 Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: 21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.'
Rom 6:1,2 'What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?'
* Isn't it also interesting that Rom 5:19 speaks of how through the obedience of Christ many are made righteous. It doesn't say through our obedience we are made righteous but through the obedience of Christ. We believe in His obedience to the Father and we are made righteous. Should I having been made righteous, think that I can maintain, what God has made me to be, through my own obedience? I think not!
1. lose salvation ~ why? Because man is not the author of salvation and has no power to impute God's salvation to himself, therefore he has no power to nullify his own salvation when it was imputed to him by grace when he first believed. It is also impossible to nullify salvation that was never imputed. Failing the grace of God for the believer in Heb 12:15, is when he fails to reach the goal and falls short of continuing in grace. He becomes attracted and pulled away by a stronghold and a root of bitterness springs up. Though he fail grace, he can not repudiate that grace and God will make him stand in that grace either here in this life or when he stands before God / Rom 5:2, 14:4, 1Pt 5:12. It is only the natural man that believes that salvation can be lost because he can not discern the things of God.
2. commit an unforgivable or unpardonable sin ~ why? Because blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is when a person attributes evil to the work or fruit of the Holy Spirit, and that is an act of evil and not sin and it is not even unbelief. Jesus Christ shed His blood for sin and not for evil. Man needs to be cleansed from sin but he needs to be delivered from evil. Sin and blashemy is possible and forgiven against the Son, but sin is never used against the Holy Spirit, only blasphemy is used and that is unforgivable because it is evil and not sin / Mt 12:31-36.
3. use grace as a license to sin (antinomianism) ~ why? Because God is the God of ALL grace and He does not give grace to man to live or continue in sin , but when man does sin, God will give man grace to be restored and stop living in sin. Grace teaches us to deny ungodliness and not to live in sin / Titus 2:11,12. The term 'God forbid' in Rom 6:2 is a participle that means, 'away with the thought' ~ God does not permit it nor does He permit it through His grace. The 'b' part of Rom 6:2 qualifies what God forbids.
Rom 5:19-21 'For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. 20 Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: 21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.'
Rom 6:1,2 'What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?'
* Isn't it also interesting that Rom 5:19 speaks of how through the obedience of Christ many are made righteous. It doesn't say through our obedience we are made righteous but through the obedience of Christ. We believe in His obedience to the Father and we are made righteous. Should I having been made righteous, think that I can maintain, what God has made me to be, through my own obedience? I think not!
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