Picture a cup about to overflow with water, but right before the water starts to overflow someone throws all the water out. They fall away! Hebrews It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age and who have fallen away, to be brought back to repentance.
To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace. Does 2 Peter teach that believers can lose their salvation? Hell is going to be more severe for people who knew the most. It is going to be more severe for people who heard the Word of God and the gospel time and time again, but never truly repented. This verse shows that they returned to their old ways and were never truly saved in the first place.
They were unregenerate pretenders. In the next verse there is a reference to dogs. Dogs are going to hell. They are just like dogs who return back to their vomit. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. Now here comes the question can a Christian backslide?
The answer is yes, but a true believer will not remain that way because God is working in them. If they are truly His God will discipline them out of love. They will come to repentance. Did they lose their salvation? Can a Christian struggle with sin?
The answer is yes, but there is a difference between struggling with sin and diving head first into it. We all struggle with sinful thoughts, desires, and habits.
That is why we must continually confess and forsake our sins. There is growth in the life of a believer. A believer wants to be more and desires to obey. There will be a growing in holiness. We are going to grow in repentance. We are going to bear fruit. Examine yourself! Philippians being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. Bonus: He will keep you firm to the end. We are covered by the blood of Jesus Christ forever. God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. This brought me comfort. I keep struggling with doubting my salvation every now and then.
Thank you for stopping by and being open about your struggles. Hebrews - For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, Read More John - And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption. You have made known to me the paths of life; you will make me full of gladness with your presence. For whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us. For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless, you shall be as my mouth. They shall turn to you, but you shall not turn to them. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard ; And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet. What the wicked dreads will come upon him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted. When the tempest passes, the wicked is no more, but the righteous is established forever. Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land, and I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.
Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation, and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain. If anyone has an ear, let him hear: If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if anyone is to be slain with the sword, with the sword must he be slain.
Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints. Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek. About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day. As I remember your tears, I long to see you, that I may be filled with joy. I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.
Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love. I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold toward you when I am away! For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.
We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did. We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents, Believe in God; believe also in me.
In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. This son, not a foreigner or someone outside the family, rebelliously left his father's house and brought upon himself a condition of being spiritually dead. While this metaphor was spoken about God's son Israel in the big picture, it is also warning to individuals.
The Israelites forfeited the Promised Land: God made a promise to Israel, His "chosen son," of bringing them into the Promised Land, but all of His promises to them were conditional upon their faithfulness and obedience.
Their stubborn unbelief and rebellion kept a whole generation out of the Promised Land—their ordained inheritance. As we look ahead to our "Promised Land" of eternal life, the implications seem clear. Judas sold Jesus: Judas was one of Jesus' chosen twelve. He was completely one of the family members in the inner circle of trust. How could Judas not have believed in Jesus at least at one time?
He saw all the miracles with his own eyes. Yet Judas sold Jesus for thirty pieces of silver and sealed his fate. The banished servant: "Who is a faithful, sensible servant, to whom the master can give the responsibility of managing his household and feeding his family? If the master returns and finds that the servant has done a good job, there will be a reward. I assure you, the master will put that servant in charge of all he owns.
But if the servant is evil and thinks, 'My master won't be back for a while,' and begins oppressing the other servants, partying, and getting drunk - well, the master will return unannounced and unexpected. He will tear the servant apart and banish him with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth… Matthew Warnings: Solemn warnings about falling away pepper the Bible throughout, beginning in the law Genesis through Deuteronomy , then the prophets Isaiah through Malachi and finally the New Testament.
If it was not an option to walk away from God, why would the Bible need to post warnings? Warnings indicate there is something to be warned about. Be diligent so that you will receive your full reward. For if you wander beyond the teaching of Christ, you will not have fellowship with God 2 John So here's the bottom line.
If you have truly put your belief in Christ for the forgiveness of your sins in order to receive the free gift of eternal life, you now have a deliberate responsibility, Biblically speaking.
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