1 Corinthians 15:1-4
"15 Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand,
2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you [b]as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4 and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,"
If you do not hold fast to Christ you were never born again, you were players in a stage production designed to elevate self.
Those who have believed in vein are those who pretended to believe but were using God to feel safe, accepted by men and even blessed. Their heart was all about themselves!
Who are these people who believed in vain? I cannot always tell but each one who reads this need to ask God for themselves if they are one of these who were not sincere, were not broken over their sinfulness and had no desire to follow Christ.
If you still feel special and superior to others you have not been born again. Those who know they needed a Savior and were broken over their sinfulness could never treat others as lesser than they since they know they were as sinful as anyone else they might judge.
1 Corinthians 15:8-10
"8 and last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared to me also.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, [b]and not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me."
We should all be able to say right out loud without equivocation when looking at an unborn sinner: "except for the grace of God there go I." This mentality produces a burden for the lost a desire to help them learn truth and a sadness at those who refuse.
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