I have had a scripture battle today with those who think they can lose their salvation. I cannot understand why they do, with all the evidence in the word on this subject.
Why do people want the choice to walk away? I am blessed that God will never let me walk away, that Ephesians 1:13-14 has proven God's love to us so completely that I walk in joy that He has sealed me.
Knowing that I am sealed and the Holy Spirit is my guarantee as stated in Ephesians, does not make me feel freedom to sin as I please, just the opposite, I feel continually disgusted by sin and compelled to honor my Lord.
Ecc. 3:14 "I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him."
We cannot change or undo that which God did. When are we going to understand that Christ's work is supernatural and the natural man has no power over the supernatural, only Christ does.
Is it possible that those who think they can lose their salvation cannot understand the change God makes in us because they have not been changed?
Is it possible that many who claim to be born again, do not understand because they are continually working to save and change themselves in the flesh and have never submitted to Christ?
I was called a heretic and false teacher for bringing the wonderful truth of salvation by grace alone and the security of that.
It seems as though there is more and more of this false doctrine emerging and tenaciously attacking the truth.
Satan loves to make believers fearful of losing what he knows was a gift. The devil is the accuser of the brethren, and he is at the root of this movement to attack believers and their security in the Lord.
Pride is also at the root of the movement to cause believers to feel a need to be in charge of their own salvation, when Christ clearly said, we cannot save ourselves, nor can we keep ourselves.
The devil loves religion, religion promotes self effort. A relationship with Christ is a growing and developing bond with a Holy God that holds us in his hands.
The devil will twist the scriptures for those who depend on themselves for their wisdom rather than Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:14 "But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned."
