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Amen! Been there, done that. Prior to my conversion several years ago while still attending the Roman Catholic church, I basically saw God as a tyrant who couldn't wait to punish me every time I messed up. That is an unhealthy fear! I also lived in fear and bondage to IN-security and I was miserable! Perfect love certainly does cast out fear (1 John 4:18) and now as a believer, my fear of the Lord revolves around reverence instead of an unhealthy fear. 
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It doesn't get any simpler and easy to understand than that.
Men have made it so complicated because they strain so hard to make the scriptures not really mean what they so plainly say.
Men have made it so complicated because they strain so hard to make the scriptures not really mean what they so plainly say.
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People who obsess over the "keep believing or lose your salvation" theory and relentlessly attack the OSAS doctrine seem to view salvation as "slippery grace" and make it sound like continuing to believe the gospel is a difficult burden of self effort and self preservation and seem to put little or no stock at all in God's preservation. (Psalm 37:28; Jude 1:1) Such people seem satisfied with believing that Christians all around them are losing their salvation, but that is not the case for them because they have worked so hard at preserving themselves. Now guess who gets ALL the credit for that?
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Amen God preserves our salvation because He imputes righ
Perfect giphy.....that is exactly right.
Amen and Amen... so happy to know that God preserves us. I give all glory and honour to Him.
Strange how they never quote this verse from Hebrews.
Hebrews 13:5-6, “Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.”
Perfect giphy.....that is exactly right.
People who obsess over the "keep believing or lose your salvation" theory and relentlessly attack the OSAS doctrine seem to view salvation as "slippery grace" and make it sound like continuing to believe the gospel is a difficult burden of self effort and self preservation and seem to put little or no stock at all in God's preservation. (Psalm 37:28; Jude 1:1) Such people seem satisfied with believing that Christians all around them are losing their salvation, but that is not the case for them because they have worked so hard at preserving themselves. Now guess who gets ALL the credit for that?
Strange how they never quote this verse from Hebrews.
Hebrews 13:5-6, “Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.”
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John 10:4
When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.
John 10:14
I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me,
John 10:16
I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd.
Our LORD Jesus knows who are His...
John 10:28
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.
We are His sheep , protected from the wolves , they try to so hard to put fear into us by their losable salvation , but our Lord and Savior says " NO , THEY ARE MINE , My Father gave them to Me \/.
...xox...
When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.
John 10:14
I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me,
John 10:16
I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd.
Our LORD Jesus knows who are His...
John 10:28
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.
We are His sheep , protected from the wolves , they try to so hard to put fear into us by their losable salvation , but our Lord and Savior says " NO , THEY ARE MINE , My Father gave them to Me \
/....xox...
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