Does God take Christians home earlier?
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Is a person who claims to be a Christian and turns to a life of sin really a Christian? Was that person ever really a Christian? I doubt it. The Bible states that those who are morally reprehensible will not inherit eternal life.
I would put your question in the "What if..." category. I don't put much thought into those as I have real concerns to occupy my mind.
I would put your question in the "What if..." category. I don't put much thought into those as I have real concerns to occupy my mind.
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The opposite is actually true. You will lose your REWARD.
Our Father will discipline us to draw us out of sin, but I believe there may come a point where He will give you over to satan for the destruction of your flesh. This doesn't mean you have lost Salvation however.
We tend to view Salvation and arrival in Heaven as the ONLY thing that matters. And certainly it GREATLY matters.
However, Eternity is a loooong time. What is going to be your position in Heaven? Who is going to least in the Kingdom? What eternal rewards will you have forfeited? These things will take on an INCREDIBLE importance at the judgement Seat of Christ.
So 2 possibilities. The person wasn't ever a Christian to begin with, or if he was, he will lose position and reward, and some believe even inheritance in the Kingdom.
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There is the example of Ananias and Sapphira to consider .. Acts 5:1-11.
If believers become useless (or worse) to God, such that they are no longer able to serve Him because their witness has become so excessively compromised (especially at a critical junction in the life of the church), then it seems to me that God may act to correct the problem. Assuming that Ananias and Sapphira were believers, it seems to me that this may have been the case with them, that their deaths became a better witness (in the church/to the world) than their lives had been (or could ever be again anyway, after lying to the Holy Spirit).
~Deut
If believers become useless (or worse) to God, such that they are no longer able to serve Him because their witness has become so excessively compromised (especially at a critical junction in the life of the church), then it seems to me that God may act to correct the problem. Assuming that Ananias and Sapphira were believers, it seems to me that this may have been the case with them, that their deaths became a better witness (in the church/to the world) than their lives had been (or could ever be again anyway, after lying to the Holy Spirit).
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I know a lot of believers, preachers and pastors in like 10 states and 5 or 6 countries.....and I have never heard of one person peddling that they are turning to a life of sin so God will kill them and take them home earlier.....the originator of this thread has moved into the realm of absurd and is obviously posting contrary threads with no honest interest in the truth......!
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Does God take Christians home earlier? Yes
Isaiah 57:1-2
“1 The righteous perish and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. (The word translated “perish” does not imply violence, but the context implies a premature death. The righteous disappear — are taken from the Earth before their natural time.
The Text is so structured that, in effect, the Holy Spirit is saying that inasmuch as these “righteous” were not appreciated, but rather hated for their Godly walk, and as such were a rebuke to ungodly but religious Israel, the Lord prematurely took them away in death.
“No man lays it to heart,” refers to the fact that no one asked what it means — no one is disturbed, no one grieves.
“And merciful men are taken away,” implies that “mercy” was found only in these few “righteous.” When these were taken, very little “mercy” was left in the religious heart of spiritually demented Israel!
“None considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come,” refers to the fact that God may permit the premature death of His servants as an escape from calamities worse than death [I Ki. 14:13; II Ki. 22:20].)
2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness. (The pronoun “he” refers to the “righteous man” of Verse 1, while the pronoun “they” refers to the same. “He shall enter into peace,” refers to “a state of peace.” “Walking in his uprightness,” has to do with walking according to the Word of God, and not according to public opinion, or the false paths of these religious hypocrites.)”
JSM
Isaiah 57:1-2
“1 The righteous perish and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. (The word translated “perish” does not imply violence, but the context implies a premature death. The righteous disappear — are taken from the Earth before their natural time.
The Text is so structured that, in effect, the Holy Spirit is saying that inasmuch as these “righteous” were not appreciated, but rather hated for their Godly walk, and as such were a rebuke to ungodly but religious Israel, the Lord prematurely took them away in death.
“No man lays it to heart,” refers to the fact that no one asked what it means — no one is disturbed, no one grieves.
“And merciful men are taken away,” implies that “mercy” was found only in these few “righteous.” When these were taken, very little “mercy” was left in the religious heart of spiritually demented Israel!
“None considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come,” refers to the fact that God may permit the premature death of His servants as an escape from calamities worse than death [I Ki. 14:13; II Ki. 22:20].)
2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness. (The pronoun “he” refers to the “righteous man” of Verse 1, while the pronoun “they” refers to the same. “He shall enter into peace,” refers to “a state of peace.” “Walking in his uprightness,” has to do with walking according to the Word of God, and not according to public opinion, or the false paths of these religious hypocrites.)”
JSM
Well that's one of the strangest theories i have ever heard... Weird.. And yes i doubt verymush the LORD would reward sin.. Apart from that no one can force God to do this or that.. So even trying to force Gods hand is putting the LORD to the Test...
I believe that if one is a true Christian God is more likely to keep you alive for longer then normal.. The crop is great but the workers are few.. Meaning there are a lot of unbelievers and people caught up in false cults out there and the number of well versed true Christians are few so God needs them here on earth sharing His will to the millions who do not know or are mislead..
Personally i would love to die today.. I have asked God more then a few times to take me from this world, but He wants me to stick around for a while longer.. Such is life, His will be done, and is done..
I believe that if one is a true Christian God is more likely to keep you alive for longer then normal.. The crop is great but the workers are few.. Meaning there are a lot of unbelievers and people caught up in false cults out there and the number of well versed true Christians are few so God needs them here on earth sharing His will to the millions who do not know or are mislead..
Personally i would love to die today.. I have asked God more then a few times to take me from this world, but He wants me to stick around for a while longer.. Such is life, His will be done, and is done..
Ya sure Eternal Security is not Biblical? Can you explain away each and every one of these Biblically based points?
101 BIBLE REASONS PROVING
ETERNAL SECURITY
1. The believer has everlasting or eternal life.
John 5:24: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
John 10:28: “And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.”
2. The believer is born of God.
John 1:12-13: “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”
3. Christ will raise every believer up at the last day.
John 6:44-47: “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets, and they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me. Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”
4. The believer has already passed from death unto life.
John 5:24: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
5. The believer is not the object of God’s wrath.
John 3:36: “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.”
6. Believer are God’s sheep.
John 10:2-4: “But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.”
7. The believer will not listen to nor follow a stranger, but will flee from him.
John 10:5: “And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.” (The stranger here is Satan and his false teachers.)
8. The believer is known of God.
John 10:14: “I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.”
9. The believer listens to the voice of the shepherd.
John 10:27: “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.”
10. The believer is in Christ’s hand and cannot be plucked out.
John 10:28: “And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.”
11. The believer is in the Father’s hand and cannot be plucked out.
John 10:29: “My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.”
12. The shepherd is charged with the responsibility of keeping the sheep.
John 10:11-14: “I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.”
13. The believer is not condemned.
John 3:18: “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
14. The believer shall never thirst.
John 4:14: “But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”
15. The believer will keep Christ’s commandments.
John 14:23: “Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.”
16. The believer is secure because of Christ’s prayer.
John 17:9-12: “I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee, Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.”
17. The believer shall never die.
John 11:26: “And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?”
18. The believer to be kept from the evil.
John 17:15: “I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.”
Jesus prays that the believer may be kept from the Devil. Was this prayer answered?
19. The believer to be with Christ in glory.
John 17:24: “Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.”
20. The believer shall never hunger.
John 6:35: “And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.”
21. The believer will in no wise be cast out (Not under any circumstance).
John 6:37: “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.”
22. Christ will not lose a single believer.
John 6:39: “And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.”
23. Christ will raise up the believer at the last day.
John 6:38-40: “For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
24. Whosoever eats the bread of life shall never die.
John 6:51: “I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
25. Because the Holy Spirit abides in the believer forever.
John 14:16-17: “And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.”
26. Because it is the Father’s will that Christ should lose nothing.
John 6:39: “And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.”
27. Because one cannot be unborn.
John 3:5: “Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”
28. The believer will follow Christ.
John 10:27: “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.” Following Christ, can one be lost? Have we any right to add to God’s Word by inserting if” to the passage?
29. The believers continue with God.
1 John 2:19: “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.”
30. Because it is the believer’s faith that overcomes the world.
1 John 5:4: “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.”
31. Because of the record that God hath given.
1 John 5:10-11: “He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.”
32. The believer is to be like Christ.
1 John 3:2: “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”
33. The believer is kept by the power of God.
1 Peter 1:5: “Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”
34. The man who believes shall be saved.
Acts 16:31: “And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.”
101 BIBLE REASONS PROVING
ETERNAL SECURITY
1. The believer has everlasting or eternal life.
John 5:24: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
John 10:28: “And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.”
2. The believer is born of God.
John 1:12-13: “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”
3. Christ will raise every believer up at the last day.
John 6:44-47: “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets, and they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me. Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”
4. The believer has already passed from death unto life.
John 5:24: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
5. The believer is not the object of God’s wrath.
John 3:36: “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.”
6. Believer are God’s sheep.
John 10:2-4: “But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.”
7. The believer will not listen to nor follow a stranger, but will flee from him.
John 10:5: “And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.” (The stranger here is Satan and his false teachers.)
8. The believer is known of God.
John 10:14: “I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.”
9. The believer listens to the voice of the shepherd.
John 10:27: “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.”
10. The believer is in Christ’s hand and cannot be plucked out.
John 10:28: “And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.”
11. The believer is in the Father’s hand and cannot be plucked out.
John 10:29: “My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.”
12. The shepherd is charged with the responsibility of keeping the sheep.
John 10:11-14: “I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.”
13. The believer is not condemned.
John 3:18: “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
14. The believer shall never thirst.
John 4:14: “But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”
15. The believer will keep Christ’s commandments.
John 14:23: “Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.”
16. The believer is secure because of Christ’s prayer.
John 17:9-12: “I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee, Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.”
17. The believer shall never die.
John 11:26: “And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?”
18. The believer to be kept from the evil.
John 17:15: “I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.”
Jesus prays that the believer may be kept from the Devil. Was this prayer answered?
19. The believer to be with Christ in glory.
John 17:24: “Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.”
20. The believer shall never hunger.
John 6:35: “And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.”
21. The believer will in no wise be cast out (Not under any circumstance).
John 6:37: “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.”
22. Christ will not lose a single believer.
John 6:39: “And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.”
23. Christ will raise up the believer at the last day.
John 6:38-40: “For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
24. Whosoever eats the bread of life shall never die.
John 6:51: “I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
25. Because the Holy Spirit abides in the believer forever.
John 14:16-17: “And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.”
26. Because it is the Father’s will that Christ should lose nothing.
John 6:39: “And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.”
27. Because one cannot be unborn.
John 3:5: “Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”
28. The believer will follow Christ.
John 10:27: “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.” Following Christ, can one be lost? Have we any right to add to God’s Word by inserting if” to the passage?
29. The believers continue with God.
1 John 2:19: “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.”
30. Because it is the believer’s faith that overcomes the world.
1 John 5:4: “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.”
31. Because of the record that God hath given.
1 John 5:10-11: “He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.”
32. The believer is to be like Christ.
1 John 3:2: “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”
33. The believer is kept by the power of God.
1 Peter 1:5: “Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”
34. The man who believes shall be saved.
Acts 16:31: “And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.”
35. The believer has been saved.
Ephesians 2:8-9: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.
36. The believer is hid by God in Christ.
Colossians 3:3: “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” Can the devil find that which God hides?
37. The believer shall not come into condemnation.
John 5:24: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
38. There is now therefore no condemnation for the believer.
Romans 8:1: “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”
39. The believer is sealed by the Holy Spirit.
Ephesians 1:13: “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.”
40. The believer is sealed for a definite time, the day of redemption, or the resurrection of the body.
Ephesians 4:30: “And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.”
41. The believer liveth and abideth forever.
1 Peter 1:23: “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.”
42. The believer is dead to sin.
Romans 6:2: “God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?”
43. The believer will appear with Christ in glory.
Colossians 3:4: “When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.”
44. The life of the believer is Christ’s life.
Colossians 3:4: “When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.”
45. Since Christ cannot die again, the believer is eternally secure.
Romans 6:9-10: “Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.”
46. The believer is saved through faith not by works.
Ephesians 2:8-9: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”
47. This faith a gift from God.
Romans 6:23: “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Ephesians 2:8-9: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”
48. The believer is not saved by what he does, but by what Christ has done for him.
Titus 3:5: “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.”
Romans 4:5: “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.”
49. Salvation is a gift, not a wage.
Romans 6:23: “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
50. The believer’s hope is a living hope.
1 Peter 1:3: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”
51. The believer’s hope will not fade away. Will not grow dim.
1 Peter 1:4-5: “To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”
52. The believer’s hope is reserved (set aside) in heaven for him.
1 Peter 1:4: “To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.”
53. The believer’s inheritance is incorruptible.
1 Peter 1:4: “To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.”
54. The believer’s inheritance cannot be defiled.
1 Peter 1:4: “To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away reserved in heaven for you.”
55. The believer is kept through faith.
1 Peter 1:4-5: (See reasons number 36 and 37): “to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”
56. The believer to be revealed in the last time.
1 Peter 1:5: “Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”
The believer is more than conqueror through Christ.
Romans 8:37: “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.”
57. The believer justified by faith, to be saved from wrath.
Romans 5:9: “Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.”
58. Nothing can separate the believer from Christ.
Romans 8:38-39: “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
59. Christ will complete salvation until the end.
Philippians 1:6: “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.”
60. The believer to be preserved spirit, soul, and body.
1 Thessalonians 5:23: “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
61. God cannot lie.
Titus 1:2: “In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began.”
62. Jesus is able to save unto the uttermost.
Hebrews 7:25: “Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.”
63. The believer is born of incorruptible seed.
1 Peter 1:23: “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.” Can the devil corrupt that which God says is incorruptible?
64. The believer is perfected forever.
Hebrews 10:14: “For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified.”
65. The believer believes unto the saving of his soul.
Hebrews 10:38-39: “Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.”
66. The believer made righteous through Christ’s obedience.
Romans 5:18-19: “Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.”
67. Because all things work together for good to the believer.
Romans 8:28: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
68. Because the believer is so helpless that he cannot place his sins upon Christ. God must do it for him. Therefore salvation is by grace.
Isaiah 53:6: “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
69. Because Christ did not come to help us, but to save us.
Luke 19:10: “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
70. Because God, not being a man, cannot lie.
Numbers 23:19: “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”
Ephesians 2:8-9: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.
36. The believer is hid by God in Christ.
Colossians 3:3: “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” Can the devil find that which God hides?
37. The believer shall not come into condemnation.
John 5:24: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
38. There is now therefore no condemnation for the believer.
Romans 8:1: “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”
39. The believer is sealed by the Holy Spirit.
Ephesians 1:13: “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.”
40. The believer is sealed for a definite time, the day of redemption, or the resurrection of the body.
Ephesians 4:30: “And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.”
41. The believer liveth and abideth forever.
1 Peter 1:23: “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.”
42. The believer is dead to sin.
Romans 6:2: “God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?”
43. The believer will appear with Christ in glory.
Colossians 3:4: “When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.”
44. The life of the believer is Christ’s life.
Colossians 3:4: “When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.”
45. Since Christ cannot die again, the believer is eternally secure.
Romans 6:9-10: “Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.”
46. The believer is saved through faith not by works.
Ephesians 2:8-9: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”
47. This faith a gift from God.
Romans 6:23: “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Ephesians 2:8-9: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”
48. The believer is not saved by what he does, but by what Christ has done for him.
Titus 3:5: “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.”
Romans 4:5: “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.”
49. Salvation is a gift, not a wage.
Romans 6:23: “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
50. The believer’s hope is a living hope.
1 Peter 1:3: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”
51. The believer’s hope will not fade away. Will not grow dim.
1 Peter 1:4-5: “To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”
52. The believer’s hope is reserved (set aside) in heaven for him.
1 Peter 1:4: “To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.”
53. The believer’s inheritance is incorruptible.
1 Peter 1:4: “To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.”
54. The believer’s inheritance cannot be defiled.
1 Peter 1:4: “To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away reserved in heaven for you.”
55. The believer is kept through faith.
1 Peter 1:4-5: (See reasons number 36 and 37): “to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”
56. The believer to be revealed in the last time.
1 Peter 1:5: “Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”
The believer is more than conqueror through Christ.
Romans 8:37: “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.”
57. The believer justified by faith, to be saved from wrath.
Romans 5:9: “Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.”
58. Nothing can separate the believer from Christ.
Romans 8:38-39: “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
59. Christ will complete salvation until the end.
Philippians 1:6: “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.”
60. The believer to be preserved spirit, soul, and body.
1 Thessalonians 5:23: “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
61. God cannot lie.
Titus 1:2: “In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began.”
62. Jesus is able to save unto the uttermost.
Hebrews 7:25: “Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.”
63. The believer is born of incorruptible seed.
1 Peter 1:23: “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.” Can the devil corrupt that which God says is incorruptible?
64. The believer is perfected forever.
Hebrews 10:14: “For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified.”
65. The believer believes unto the saving of his soul.
Hebrews 10:38-39: “Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.”
66. The believer made righteous through Christ’s obedience.
Romans 5:18-19: “Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.”
67. Because all things work together for good to the believer.
Romans 8:28: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
68. Because the believer is so helpless that he cannot place his sins upon Christ. God must do it for him. Therefore salvation is by grace.
Isaiah 53:6: “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
69. Because Christ did not come to help us, but to save us.
Luke 19:10: “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
70. Because God, not being a man, cannot lie.
Numbers 23:19: “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”
71. Because His mercy endureth forever.
Psalm 136: Twenty-six times in this Psalm it is written His mercy endureth forever.”
72. Because the believer has not yet borne the image of the heavenly.
1 Corinthians 15:49: “And as we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.”
73. Because the believer is preserved unto the heavenly kingdom.
2 Timothy 4:18: “And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory forever and ever.”
74. Because the believer is the object of God’s mercy, not His wrath.
Ephesians 2:4: “But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us.”
John 3:36: “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.”
1 Thessalonians 5:9-10: “For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.”
75. Because a sealed and witnessed transaction is final.
Ephesians 1:13: “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.” Sealed by the Spirit.
Hebrews 10:15: “Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us.”
76. Salvation is obtained, not attained.
Hebrews 9:12: “Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.”
77. Because the believer is a new creation. Created in Christ Jesus. Therefore eternal in righteousness.
Ephesians 4:24: “And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”
78. Because the Father reckons the sinner:
Romans 6:3-5: “Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.”
Ephesians 2:4-6: “But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved); And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.”
79. Because all believers will be changed at Christ’s coming.
1 Corinthians 15:51-52: “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
80. Because of the “MUST” of 1 Corinthians 15:53.
1 Corinthians 15:23: “For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.”
81. Because the power of God is not limited.
Matthew 28:18-19: “And Jesus came and spake to them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.”
1 Peter 1:5: “Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”
82. Because the saints are preserved forever.
Psalms 37:28: “For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved forever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.”
83. Because nothing can separate us from the love of Christ.
Romans 8:35: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”
The answer NO” is demanded by the passage to the question.
84. Because God will not forget the believer.
Isaiah 49:15: “Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet I will not forget thee.”
85. Because the new covenant in His blood, is an everlasting covenant.
Jeremiah 32:40: “And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.”
86. Because the believer has ceased from his own works.
Hebrews 4:10: “For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.” It is God that works in the believer.
87. Because we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Christ once for all.
Hebrews 10:10: “By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”
88. Because the believer has already been redeemed (Past tense).
2 Peter 1:18-19: “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.”
89. Because the believer’s salvation is begun and finished by Christ.
Hebrews 12:2: “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
90. Because salvation is by grace, and not by any mixture of grace and works.
Romans 11:6: “And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.”
91. Because Christ died. rose again, and intercedes for born again believers.
Romans 8:37: “Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.”
Hebrews 7:25: “Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.”
92. Because God predestined believers in His Truth according to His foreknowledge before the foundation of the world to be conformed to the image of his Son, and then, in time, He calls and justifies us, and finally He will glorify us.
Romans 8:29-30: “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.”
Ephesians 1:5, 7, 11, 13: "Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will ... In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace ... In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: ... In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation ..."
2 Corinthians 2:13: "... God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth."
93. Because salvation IS salvation.
Hebrews 5:9: "And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec."
Hebrews 7:25: "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them."
94. The believer cannot perish.
John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
95. Because God’s promise that through the offering of Christ He will put away the believer’s sins, and will remember them no more.
Hebrews 10:17: “And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.”
96. Because God is for us!
Romans 8:31: "What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?"
97. God chastens His children rather than exiling them to Hell.
1 Corinthians 11:31-32: "For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world."
98. God allows His children to suffer loss of rewards in Heaven rather than exiling them to Hell.
1 Corinthians 3:11-15: "For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire."
99. God allows His children to suffer shame at His coming rather than exiling them to Hell.
1 John 2:28: "And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming."
100. Because God is greater than our heart.
1 John 3:20: "For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things."
101. God is able to save and keep us.
2 Timothy 1:12: "... I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day."
Jude 1:24: "Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen."
Psalm 136: Twenty-six times in this Psalm it is written His mercy endureth forever.”
72. Because the believer has not yet borne the image of the heavenly.
1 Corinthians 15:49: “And as we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.”
73. Because the believer is preserved unto the heavenly kingdom.
2 Timothy 4:18: “And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory forever and ever.”
74. Because the believer is the object of God’s mercy, not His wrath.
Ephesians 2:4: “But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us.”
John 3:36: “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.”
1 Thessalonians 5:9-10: “For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.”
75. Because a sealed and witnessed transaction is final.
Ephesians 1:13: “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.” Sealed by the Spirit.
Hebrews 10:15: “Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us.”
76. Salvation is obtained, not attained.
Hebrews 9:12: “Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.”
77. Because the believer is a new creation. Created in Christ Jesus. Therefore eternal in righteousness.
Ephesians 4:24: “And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”
78. Because the Father reckons the sinner:
Romans 6:3-5: “Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.”
Ephesians 2:4-6: “But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved); And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.”
79. Because all believers will be changed at Christ’s coming.
1 Corinthians 15:51-52: “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
80. Because of the “MUST” of 1 Corinthians 15:53.
1 Corinthians 15:23: “For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.”
81. Because the power of God is not limited.
Matthew 28:18-19: “And Jesus came and spake to them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.”
1 Peter 1:5: “Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”
82. Because the saints are preserved forever.
Psalms 37:28: “For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved forever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.”
83. Because nothing can separate us from the love of Christ.
Romans 8:35: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”
The answer NO” is demanded by the passage to the question.
84. Because God will not forget the believer.
Isaiah 49:15: “Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet I will not forget thee.”
85. Because the new covenant in His blood, is an everlasting covenant.
Jeremiah 32:40: “And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.”
86. Because the believer has ceased from his own works.
Hebrews 4:10: “For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.” It is God that works in the believer.
87. Because we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Christ once for all.
Hebrews 10:10: “By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”
88. Because the believer has already been redeemed (Past tense).
2 Peter 1:18-19: “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.”
89. Because the believer’s salvation is begun and finished by Christ.
Hebrews 12:2: “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
90. Because salvation is by grace, and not by any mixture of grace and works.
Romans 11:6: “And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.”
91. Because Christ died. rose again, and intercedes for born again believers.
Romans 8:37: “Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.”
Hebrews 7:25: “Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.”
92. Because God predestined believers in His Truth according to His foreknowledge before the foundation of the world to be conformed to the image of his Son, and then, in time, He calls and justifies us, and finally He will glorify us.
Romans 8:29-30: “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.”
Ephesians 1:5, 7, 11, 13: "Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will ... In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace ... In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: ... In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation ..."
2 Corinthians 2:13: "... God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth."
93. Because salvation IS salvation.
Hebrews 5:9: "And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec."
Hebrews 7:25: "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them."
94. The believer cannot perish.
John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
95. Because God’s promise that through the offering of Christ He will put away the believer’s sins, and will remember them no more.
Hebrews 10:17: “And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.”
96. Because God is for us!
Romans 8:31: "What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?"
97. God chastens His children rather than exiling them to Hell.
1 Corinthians 11:31-32: "For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world."
98. God allows His children to suffer loss of rewards in Heaven rather than exiling them to Hell.
1 Corinthians 3:11-15: "For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire."
99. God allows His children to suffer shame at His coming rather than exiling them to Hell.
1 John 2:28: "And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming."
100. Because God is greater than our heart.
1 John 3:20: "For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things."
101. God is able to save and keep us.
2 Timothy 1:12: "... I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day."
Jude 1:24: "Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen."
There is a difference between a people who profess faith.
Those who profess faith and quite happily live a sinful lifestyle in order to abuse Gods grace and those who have a particular sinful pattern but hate it.
The first will not bother but the second will call out to God for help and not be a happy chappy.
If the first is not bothered then one could ask if they are saved.
Believers are given the Holy Spirit who will keep reminding us when we get it wrong.
I have only know a few people who have said along the lines off "Its ok God will forgive me, after all he knows I will sin"
It's an abhorrent attitude.
I then discuss Romans 5-6 and if they reject it I leave them to it.
Yet for someone like me who had a severe gambling problem and hated it.
I think it is different.
The reason for doing so needs to dealt with.
Praise God he did (took 30 years though)
But I am here because I kept pressing in and on.
I asked him to kill me.
Does that mean I believe that God will take believers home early?
Yes I do.
At the end of the day he knows us inside out and what is best.
He knows what we can cope with and what we can't.
We who are his children he will deal with us according to his prefect love.
Even if that's bringing us home early.
Those who profess faith and quite happily live a sinful lifestyle in order to abuse Gods grace and those who have a particular sinful pattern but hate it.
The first will not bother but the second will call out to God for help and not be a happy chappy.
If the first is not bothered then one could ask if they are saved.
Believers are given the Holy Spirit who will keep reminding us when we get it wrong.
I have only know a few people who have said along the lines off "Its ok God will forgive me, after all he knows I will sin"
It's an abhorrent attitude.
I then discuss Romans 5-6 and if they reject it I leave them to it.
Yet for someone like me who had a severe gambling problem and hated it.
I think it is different.
The reason for doing so needs to dealt with.
Praise God he did (took 30 years though)
But I am here because I kept pressing in and on.
I asked him to kill me.
Does that mean I believe that God will take believers home early?
Yes I do.
At the end of the day he knows us inside out and what is best.
He knows what we can cope with and what we can't.
We who are his children he will deal with us according to his prefect love.
Even if that's bringing us home early.