Have you ever noticed that people that think you can lose salvation, never lose it themselves?

𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐎𝐒𝐀𝐒 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 “𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠” 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥. 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐦. 𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲. (((𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬))). 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐅𝐄𝐖 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐧. 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞. 𝗙𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁. (𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲)…. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐮𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐩 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤. 𝐈 𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐠𝐨 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 🢃🢃🢃

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𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟏𝟓:𝟏𝟔 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐘𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐞, ((((𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐈 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐍 𝐘𝐎𝐔)))), 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐠𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 ((𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍)))): 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐨𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞, 𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮.

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𝟐 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟐:𝟏𝟑 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐃, 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 ((((𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐍 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐕𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍)))) 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡:

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𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟖:𝟐𝟗 𝐊𝐉𝐕 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.

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𝐇𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝟕:𝟐𝟓 𝐊𝐉𝐕 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.

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𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐬 𝟏:𝟐 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐈𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐨𝐟 (((𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄))), 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐆𝐨𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 (((𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐋𝐈𝐄))), 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐧;

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𝟏 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟓:𝟏𝟑 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐈 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐄 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐆𝐎𝐃; 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐘𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐄 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐆𝐎𝐃.

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𝟐 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝟐:𝟏𝟗 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐥, (((𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐃 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐓𝐇 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐒)))). 𝐀𝐧𝐝, 𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 (((𝐃𝐄𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐓𝐘))).

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𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟏𝟎:𝟐𝟕-𝟐𝟗 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝟐𝟕 𝐌𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐩 (((𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐄𝐖 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐄 𝐒𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐒))) 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐞: 𝟐𝟖 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞; 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡 (((𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐃𝐎 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐃???))), 𝐧𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝. 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.

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𝐇𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝟏𝟎:𝟑𝟖-𝟑𝟗 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝟑𝟖 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 ((((𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐁𝐘 𝐅𝐀𝐈𝐓𝐇)))): 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐧 (((𝐃𝐑𝐀𝐖 𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊))), 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐦. 𝟑𝟗 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐞 ((((𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐍𝐎𝐓)))) 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐰𝐡𝐨 ((((𝐃𝐑𝐀𝐖 𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐎 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍)))); 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 (((𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋))).

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𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟏:𝟔 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐈 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 ((((𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐄)))) 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 ((((𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐆𝐎𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐋)))):

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𝐋𝐮𝐤𝐞 𝟖:𝟏𝟎 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝, 𝐔𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝: 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬; 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝….𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐬 𝟐𝟔:𝟕 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥: (((𝐒𝐎 𝐈𝐒 𝐀 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐇 𝐎𝐅 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐋𝐒)))…..𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐰 𝟏𝟑:𝟏𝟑-𝟏𝟒 𝐊𝐉𝐕 -𝟏𝟑 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐈 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬: 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭; 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐭, 𝐧𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝. 𝟏𝟒 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐚𝐬, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡, 𝐁𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝; 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞:…….

𝐋𝐮𝐤𝐞 𝟖:𝟏𝟏-𝟏𝟓 𝐊𝐉𝐕 – 𝟏𝟏 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝. 𝟏𝟐 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫; 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬, 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝. 𝟏𝟑 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡, 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫, 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐣𝐨𝐲; 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐭, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲. 𝟏𝟒 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡, 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐝, 𝐠𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨 𝐟𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝟏𝟓 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭, 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝, ((((((𝐊𝐄𝐄𝐏 𝐈𝐓)))))), 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞.

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𝟏 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏:𝟑-𝟓 𝐊𝐉𝐕 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, 𝟒 𝐓𝐨 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 ((((𝐅𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐓𝐇 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐘)))), 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮,

𝟓 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐞 (((𝐊𝐄𝐏𝐓))) 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞.

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𝐇𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝟏𝟐:𝟒-𝟖 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝟒 𝐘𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐲𝐞𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝, 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐧. 𝟓 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧, 𝐌𝐲 ((((𝐒𝐎𝐍)))), 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐞 (((𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆))) 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝, 𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐮𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐦: 𝟔 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐞 (((𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐓𝐇))), 𝐚𝐧𝐝 (((𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐓𝐇-𝐓𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐩; 𝐚 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐩 𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝; 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞.))) 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 ((((𝐒𝐎𝐍)))) 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐭𝐡. 𝟕 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐞 (((𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆))), 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 ((((𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐒)))); 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 ((((𝐒𝐎𝐍)))) 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 (((𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐓𝐇))) 𝐧𝐨𝐭? 𝟖 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐞 𝐛𝐞 ((((𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓))), 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 (𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐄 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬), 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐞 (((((𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒))))), 𝐚𝐧𝐝 ((((𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐒)))).

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𝐄𝐜𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝟑:𝟏𝟒 𝐊𝐉𝐕 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.

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𝟏 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟐:𝟏𝟗 𝐊𝐉𝐕 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))).

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𝐇𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝟏𝟎:𝟏𝟒 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 (((𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑))) 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 (((𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐃))).

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𝟏 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟔:𝟏𝟏 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 (((𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄))) 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮: 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐃, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐃, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐃 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐆𝐨𝐝.

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𝟏 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟏:𝟏𝟖 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬; 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 (((𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐃))) 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝.—((((𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐍 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 “𝐁𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐃.”))))

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𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟔:𝟐𝟕 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮: ((((𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐃)))).

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𝐄𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟒:𝟑𝟎 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝, 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐲 𝐲𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 (((𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐃))) 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.

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𝐄𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟏:𝟏𝟑 𝐊𝐉𝐕 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 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞,

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𝐏𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐦 𝟗𝟕:𝟏𝟎 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐘𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐃, 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥: 𝐡𝐞 (((𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐄𝐓𝐇))) 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬; 𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝.

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𝐏𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐦 𝟏𝟐𝟏:𝟕 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐃 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 (((𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐄))) 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥: 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 (((𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐄))) 𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥.

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𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟔:𝟑𝟗 𝐊𝐉𝐕 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.

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𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟏𝟕:𝟏𝟐 𝐊𝐉𝐕 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.

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𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝟏:𝟐𝟏-𝟐𝟐 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝟐𝟏 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐧𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 (((𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐒))). 𝟐𝟐 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐲𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲, 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬.

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𝟏 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟏:𝟖 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 (((𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐌 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐍𝐃))), 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭.

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𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟏:𝟔 𝐊𝐉𝐕 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:

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𝐉𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝟏:𝟐𝟒 𝐊𝐉𝐕 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,

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𝟐 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏:𝟒 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 (((𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐄𝐒))): 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐞 (((𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐑𝐒))) 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐭.

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John 17:9-12 KJV 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. 10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. 11 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. 12 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.

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𝐁𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 “𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞.” 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝; 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐬; 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 – 𝐩𝐥𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥, 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 “𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭.”

𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 (((𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐄 𝐒𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐒))), 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝. 𝐈𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐇𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐲! 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐢𝐦 𝐲𝐞𝐭? 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬? 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬. 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐲. 𝐃𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭’𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮!

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐬𝐚𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝, 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭, 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐝; 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝: 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄: 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬, 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐚 𝐠𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐭; 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦: 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬. (𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟐𝟎:𝟏𝟐-𝟏𝟑)–𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝

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𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟑:𝟑-𝟒 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝟑 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐟 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞? 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐮𝐧𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭? 𝟒 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐝: 𝐲𝐞𝐚, 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐫; 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧, 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐝.

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𝟐 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝟑:𝟓 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 (((𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐌))) 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐨𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐨𝐟…..𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐰 𝟏𝟓:𝟖 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 (((𝐃𝐑𝐀𝐖𝐄𝐓𝐇 𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇))) 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 (((𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐇 𝐌𝐄))) 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐬; 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐞…..𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐬 𝟏:𝟏𝟔 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 (((𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐅𝐄𝐒𝐒))) 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐆𝐨𝐝; 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐞.

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𝟏 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟐:𝟑-𝟒, 𝟔 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝟑 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐲 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐢𝐟 𝐰𝐞 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬. 𝟒 𝐇𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡, 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 (((𝐋𝐈𝐀𝐑))), 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐦. … 𝟔 𝐇𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐞𝐝.

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𝟏 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟓:𝟑 𝐊𝐉𝐕 – 𝟑 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬: 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 (((𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐔𝐒))).

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𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐑𝐄𝐅𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐃 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐲’𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝:

𝟏. 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 (𝟏 𝐓𝐢𝐦. 𝟒:𝟏)

𝟐. 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 (𝟏 𝐓𝐢𝐦. 𝟔:𝟏𝟎)

𝟑. 𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 (𝟏 𝐓𝐢𝐦. 𝟔:𝟐𝟏)

𝟒. 𝐀𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 (𝟏 𝐓𝐢𝐦. 𝟓:𝟏𝟐)

𝟓. 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐰𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 (𝟏 𝐓𝐢𝐦. 𝟏:𝟏𝟗)

𝟔. 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 (𝐆𝐚𝐥. 𝟓:𝟒)

𝟕. 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐥 (𝐆𝐚𝐥. 𝟏:𝟔)

𝟖. 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐧 (𝟐 𝐂𝐨𝐫. 𝟔:𝟏)

𝟗. 𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡, 𝐮𝐩𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 (𝟐 𝐓𝐢𝐦. 𝟐:𝟏𝟖)

𝟏𝟎. 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 (𝐇𝐞𝐛. 𝟐:𝟏)

𝟏𝟏. 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥, 𝐮𝐧𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭, 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐨𝐝 (𝐇𝐞𝐛. 𝟑:𝟏𝟐)

𝟏𝟐. 𝐁𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐢𝐧 (𝐇𝐞𝐛. 𝟑:𝟏𝟐-𝟏𝟒)

𝟏𝟑. 𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 (𝐇𝐞𝐛. 𝟒:𝟏)

𝟏𝟒. 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 (𝐇𝐞𝐛. 𝟒:𝟏𝟏)

𝟏𝟓. 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 (𝐇𝐞𝐛. 𝟔:𝟒-𝟔)

𝟏𝟔. 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐨 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐬 (𝐇𝐞𝐛. 𝟏𝟎:𝟐𝟔-𝟐𝟕)

𝟏𝟕. 𝐒𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 (𝐇𝐞𝐛. 𝟏𝟎:𝟑𝟖

𝟏𝟖. 𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐛𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝 (𝐇𝐞𝐛. 𝟏𝟐:𝟏𝟓)

𝟏𝟗. 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 (𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝟓:𝟏𝟗-𝟐𝟎)

𝟐𝟎. 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐲 (𝟐 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐:𝟏𝟓)

𝟐𝟏. 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 (𝟐 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐:𝟐𝟎-𝟐𝟏)

𝟐𝟐. 𝐁𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 (𝟐 𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟑:𝟏𝟕)

𝟐𝟑. 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 (𝟏 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟓:𝟏𝟔)

𝟐𝟒. 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 (𝟐 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟏:𝟗)

𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 (𝟐 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟓:𝟏𝟕 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭, 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲; 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝, 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰.) 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞. 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐞. 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲, 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 (((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.))) 𝐀𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫.

𝐖𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧! 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞! 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐞! 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦 𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐢𝐧, 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 “𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬” 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐠𝐨 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬; 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐬, (𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭) 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐬.

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐬! 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐀𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐨𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐨𝐟! 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬!

𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬, 𝐇𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥. 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 “𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭” 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭, 𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦. 𝐒𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 “𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭,” 𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭. 𝐈𝐟 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐧, 𝐰𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐡 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. (𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟖:𝟏-𝟐 𝐊𝐉𝐁 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭) 𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭. 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞! 𝐍𝐨 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞!”

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐉𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞. 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐉𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐬’ 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬, 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥.

𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟔:𝟔𝟒-𝟕𝟎 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝟔𝟒 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭. 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐦. 𝟔𝟓 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝, 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐈 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞, 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫. 𝟔𝟔 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐧𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐦. 𝟔𝟕 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞, 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐠𝐨 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲? 𝟔𝟖 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐃, 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐦 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐞 𝐠𝐨? 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞. 𝟔𝟗 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐨𝐝. 𝟕𝟎 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦, 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐈 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥?

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𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐝 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐝 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐟 𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭?

𝐎𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐮𝐬, 𝐮𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐮𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐮𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐦. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐠𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐩. 𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐟 𝐢𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐨 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐝𝐨. 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐲, 𝐠𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤. 𝐀 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐬. 𝐎𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐬, 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐝.

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐥. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐮𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐮𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬. 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐮𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠?

𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟏𝟎:𝟐𝟕-𝟑𝟎 𝐊𝐉𝐕

𝐌𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐞: 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞; 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡, 𝐧𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝. 𝐌𝐲 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐠𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐦𝐞, 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥; 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝. 𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞.

𝐈𝐟 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐧𝐨 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭. 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐲 𝐢𝐟 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝.

𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠. 𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐦, 𝐬𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭’𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫, 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐝𝐮𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝. 𝐈 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧. 𝐈’𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥; 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐠𝐨 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝; 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐠𝐨 𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞. 𝐈 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐠𝐨. 𝐌𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐣𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬. 𝐈 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲. 𝐈𝐟 𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦, 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝’𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲.

𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 (𝐤𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞). 𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞. 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐛𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐣𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭?

𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐝/𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫/𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬. 𝐇𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝’𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬’ 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲.

𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟏𝟎:𝟐𝟕-𝟑𝟎 𝐊𝐉𝐕

𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭. 𝐍𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 “𝐈𝐅𝐒” 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭. 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫, 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞.

𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟏𝟕:𝟏𝟐 𝐊𝐉𝐕

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.

𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟔:𝟔𝟒 𝐊𝐉𝐕

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭. 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐦.

𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟔:𝟕𝟎 𝐊𝐉𝐕

𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦, 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐈 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥?

𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡 “𝐈𝐅” 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐩. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨 “𝐈𝐅𝐒” 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞. 𝐈𝐟 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥, 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞. 𝐁𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭, 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬’ 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬. 𝐈𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞, 𝐧𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐨𝐝’𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐭𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭.

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧, 𝐢𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐝 𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐎𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐟 𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈’𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐝. 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞. 𝐈𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐮𝐤𝐞𝐝.

𝐀𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬, 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.

𝐀𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧, 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 “𝐈𝐅” 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐨𝐝’𝐬 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐈 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 “𝐈𝐅” 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬, 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡. 𝐈𝐟 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐞.~~𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝

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𝐏𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐦 𝟏𝟒𝟓:𝟐𝟎 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐃 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐄𝐓𝐇 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐦: 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲.

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Have you ever noticed that the people that think you can loose your salvation, never lose it themselves

I have watched more than a few of my fb friends who clearly have not understood the implications of the death, burial and resurrection of Christ and how the true Christian has been taken out from under “the law of sin and death” and been placed under a new law, “the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.”

They are like the wayward nation of Israel who have eyes but they cannot see, and ears but they cannot hear. They are in fact, rejectors of the Lord Jesus Christ, (despite what they profess) and what He has accomplished for them in shedding His own precious blood for their sins on the cross of Calvary.

They go about trying to establish their own righteousness, but not unlike those returning to Judaism who we read of in the epistle to the Hebrews, they have been enlightened by the gospel, but they have not partaken of its eternal benefits, thus they are still held under the slavery and bondage of the law of sin and death.

Have you fulfilled the law? Only One could in fact fulfil the law and He did! Jesus Christ died in our stead and He nailed the law to the Cross, and now all who shelter “in Christ” through repentance and faith, we read how the law is “fulfilled in us.”

Romans 8:4 – That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Romans 13:8-10;

“Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another HATH FULFILLED THE LAW. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet;

and IF there be any OTHER COMMANDMENT, it is BRIEFLY COMPREHENDED in this saying, namely,

THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF.

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: THEREFORE LOVE IS THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW.”

Galatians 6:14-15;

“But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. For IN CHRIST JESUS neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, BUT A NEW CREATURE.”

2 Corinthians 5:17 – Therefore IF any man be IN CHRIST, he is A NEW CREATURE: old things ARE passed away; behold, all things ARE become new.

John 3:6-7;

“That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Marvel not that I said unto thee, YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN.”

Galatians 2:16-21 KJV – 16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. 17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. 18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. 19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

Romans 2:6-16 KJV – 6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; 10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: 11 For there is no respect of persons with God. 12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; 13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. 14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: 15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.–Shared

2 Corinthians 5:17 – Therefore IF any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things ARE passed away; behold, all things ARE become new.

Gal. 6:7-8 – BE NOT DECEIVED; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to HIS FLESH shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to THE SPIRIT shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Rom. 1:16 – For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is THE POWER OF GOD UNTO SALVATION to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

There is power in the blood shed on the cross of Calvary to transform the lives of true believers. We are either living “in the flesh” where there is no victory over sin (Rom. 7:14-25), and thus we go on living in disrespect to God’s Holy Word, because of a lack of power, or “in the Spirit” (Rom. 8:1-2 KJB), where there is power to please and obey God.

What God does, He does well. He saves, He sanctifies, or sets apart for His holy purposes, and He preserves His own.

Peter wrote to those who were “saved by grace through faith.” Those who savingly believe the gospel become the elect of Christ, and Peter gives an apt description of them in 1 Peter 1:2;

“Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through SANCTIFICATION of the Spirit, unto OBEDIENCE and sprinkling of the BLOOD of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.”

If we are not sanctified and obedient, then we have not been washed in the blood and made fit for heaven. There can be no true grace, nor true peace. Notice we become elect THROUGH sanctification and obedience? Once we savingly believe the gospel, God sanctifies us and obedience naturally follows. So if these two critical aspects are not a real part of our lives, then we are not elect, or chosen of God. God chooses all who will obey the call of the gospel of “repentance to salvation.”

2 Cor. 7:10 – For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

What we are witnessing today in Christendom on a grand scale is this powerless “Christianity” where lives are not transformed. Those in this state are still “in Adam” and are still held in the bondage of their sins which Christ came to break. Until and unless we are taken out of Adam and placed positionally “into Christ” we are not saved and so our lives cannot change, as “the flesh profiteth nothing.”

A mental assent of the gospel, or just repeating a so called “sinners prayer” does not save, nor sanctify. There must be an understanding of the call of the gospel in order to be saved.

Unless we come under the conviction of our sins by the Holy Spirit upon hearing the gospel, and exercise a repentant faith, which begins in the heart as one looks away by faith to Calvary and sees Another bleeding and dying in their stead, there is no true saving faith, and therefore “no power of God unto salvation.”

Romans 6:16 – KNOW YE NOT, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?–Shared

2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ (((depart from iniquity))).✞✞✞

How The Eternal Security Of The Born Again Believers is 100% Biblical Sound Doctrine:

Please take a long hard look at the terms “Eternal” and “Everlasting”. Both mean forever, without end of existence or duration; endless; immortal. If you could lose it the definition is wrong.

John 10:27-29

27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

28 And I give unto them ETERNAL life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

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.

The “ANY” and “NO MAN” mentioned in the verses includes YOU. You can not pluck yourself out or drop yourself out of God’s hand either. Once saved, a new person or a new creature in Christ Jesus is in the hands of both God the Heavenly Father AND the only begotten Son (Jesus Christ). NOBODY is powerful enough to remove you from the hands of God the Son or God the Father, let alone both. You can not even walk out or jump out or drop out of THEIR

HANDS either. Satan wants you to think you will walk out or jump out or drop out of God’s hand.

Ephesians 1:13-14

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 that holy Spirit of promise,

14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the PURCHASED POSSESSION, unto the praise of his glory.

If you are (((truly saved))), then you are always a BORN AGAIN SPIRIT-FILLED BLOOD WASHED AND BLOOD BROUGHT CHILD OF GOD!!!! You are always a new creature IN CHRIST! You are always a new person IN CHRIST! YOU CAN NOT BECOME UNBORN AGAIN!!!

When a saved person has became His. That means you are no longer yours own, but His POSSESSION and you are SEALED with the Holy Spirit of promise for ALL ETERNITY. No one ever takes God’s possessions from Him.

Galatians 2:20

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ LIVETH IN ME: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Hebrews 13:5

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.

Jesus lives within the saved person FOREVER and will NEVER leave the saved person.

Ephesians 4:30

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are SEALED unto the day of redemption.

You are FOREVER sealed unto the day of redemption, that is the day you will be with the Lord forever.

Again, once saved person is SEALED by the Holy Spirit, for HOW LONG? To the day of redemption. That is the day we are with Christ eternally and for all eternity.

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.

Here the Bible clearly teaches that the saved person HAS (present tense) EVERLASTING LIFE (life with NO end) and IS PASSED from death unto LIFE.

1 John 5:13

These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may KNOW that ye have ETERNAL life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

Both “Eternal” and “Everlasting” mean FOREVER. But if you could lose it (*your salvation and free gift of eternal life*), it would not be ETERNAL (*for all eternity). You can KNOW you are truly saved by the blood of Jesus Christ and His finished work at the cross of calvary.

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.

The Bible says God saves you completely to the UTTERMOST (in the most extensive degree, fully).

Romans 8:38-39

38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

39 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.

The Bible teaches that NOTHING can ever separate us from God including ourselves.

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.

It is Jesus Christ who is the AUTHOR and FINISHER of our faith, not us. It is not up to us to keep our salvation, Jesus does ALL that.

1 John 5:11

And this is the record, that God HATH GIVEN to us ETERNAL LIFE, and THIS LIFE IS IN HIS SON.

As long as Jesus lives in us, we have eternal life once saved. Since Jesus will not die, we will not lose our salvation or our free gift of eternal life.

2 Timothy 1:12

For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for 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.

Jesus KEEPS us, He will not lose us. Again, we do not keep our salvation, He does.

2 Timothy 1:14

That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.

The Holy Spirit dwells in us from salvation on.

John 10:11

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

John 10:14

I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

The Good shepherd IS Jesus Christ. He does not lose any sheep. Jesus will not lose any saved person nor let us leave. The shepherd’s job is to keep the sheep safe from both themselves and outside dangers. When you are saved, you did not earn a free gift of eternal life and you CAN NOT ever lose a free gift of eternal life. When you are saved you will never lose your salvation or your free gift of eternal life.

Ephesians 2:8-9

8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

If you could lose your salvation, you would indeed have something to boast about. You could say “I KEPT IT” or “I EARN IT” or “I BREAK TO PASS MY OWN LIMIT”. But you can’t boast because He keeps us. Also if it was dependent on us to keep our salvation, it would be a WORKS salvation on the back end.

Isaiah 64:6

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Romans 3:10

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

We have NO righteousness without Jesus Christ, that is why if we could lose our salvation we would.

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.

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;

Salvation is completely by grace (getting what we do not deserve) and mercy (not getting what we do deserve, which is hell).

Jesus Himself died on the cross to pay for all our sins.

Galatians 1:4

Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:

1 John 2:2

And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

Please pay attention to what these verses say, the Bible does not say past sins, or only some sins, it says SINS, which means all. All our sins were future at the cross. God knows the end from the beginning. That means HE saved us knowing what we would do after we are saved. Even though He knows we will fail Him at times, He still saved us with HIS Blood Atonement. Why would He save someone just to let them lose their salvation. That would deny eternal/everlasting life.

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death; but the GIFT of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 11:29

For the GIFTS and calling of God are WITHOUT REPENTANCE.

Salvation (Eternal/Everlasting Life) is a free gift of God and God will not change His mind and He will not threaten to take it from you.

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:

John 6:44 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.

Ephesians 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

What Jesus Himself starts at the cross of Calvary, He finishes it ALL FOR ALL ETERNITY. He will not lose you no matter what.–Shared

Let us not forget this also.

Mathew 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen.

Mathew 7:13-14 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Luke 13:23-24 Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them, Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

While debating a friend who believes that a child of God can fall away into apostasy and loose the free gift of salvation, (a gift they never deserved nor earned in the first place), the Lord gave me a beautiful illustration of the biblical truth regarding the eternal security of the believer…

When we are saved by grace through faith in Christ (preceded by our repentance of sin), John 1:12 proclaims that God gave us the right to be called “children of God” – born by the Holy Spirit – not of the will of a husband but by the will of God. We are His adoped, beloved children whom He lavishes His love upon and places His Spirit within – marking us as His own and sealing us unto the day of redemption (Eph. 4:30). He makes us co-heirs with Christ and Hebrews 10:14 tells us that we are made perfect forever by His one sacrifice – that is perfect in God’s eternal eyes – even while we are His “Works In Progress”. Jesus said that no one can snatch us out of His hands – and no one can snatch us out of the Father’s hands…we are being held firmly by the strong hands of the Father and the Son. (John 10:28-29).

Now, as the imperfect human mother of two small sons there were times I had to cross a busy street or expressway with them. I’d tell them, “Hold my hand and don’t let go.” and they would reach up and take my hand. But in reality it was I who was holding their hand and I was not about to let go as we were crossing a busy street. I loved my little guys and would have laid down my life for them – and I was not so foolish to trust two and three year old children to hold my hand and not let go – not on your life!! These are MY kids and I am going to to get them safely to the other side of the street. Now THAT is a picture of our wise, amazing, merciful, compassionate, loving, heavenly Father. He knows we are dust! (Psalm 103:14). He knows that as long as we are in the flesh, in the world and subjected to the schemes and devices of the devil that if left to ourselves, we would never hold on to Him…He is first and foremost holding on to us!!! He will NEVER leave us nor forsake us. (Hebrews 13:5) He will finish the good work He began in us.(Philip. 1:6) He is the one who keeps us (Jude 1:24), and will get us safely “across the street” and into the Promised Land! Amen!

Those that walk away never truly received it, anyone who has truly received the new life mentioned in (2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.) knows that it is far better than the old one and will have no desire to return to that old life. New creatures have no desire to be anything like the old one. False converts fall away, true converts endure till the end. The false converts are mentioned in (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.) and also mentioned in the parable of the sower.–Shared

Pro 24:16 KJV – 16 For a just [man] falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

1Jo 2:1 KJV – 1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

True saints that are “SEALED” (few of them) do not lose salvation. 1. Depart from the faith (1 Tim. 4:1)

2. Wander away from the faith (1 Tim. 6:10)

3. Swerve from the faith (1 Tim. 6:21)

4. Abandon our faith (1 Tim. 5:12)

5. Make shipwreck of our faith (1 Tim. 1:19)

6. Fall from grace (Gal. 5:4)

7. Desert him who called you and turn to a different gospel (Gal. 1:6)

8. Receive the grace of God in vain (2 Cor. 6:1)

9. Swerve from the truth, upsetting the faith of some (2 Tim. 2:18)

10. Drift away from the truth (Heb. 2:1)

11. Have an evil, unbelieving heart, leading us to fall away from the living God (Heb. 3:12)

12. Be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin (Heb. 3:12-14)

13. Fail to reach the promise of entering into His rest (Heb. 4:1)

14. Fall by disobedience to enter His rest (Heb. 4:11)

15. Fall away and impossible to restore unto repentance (Heb. 6:4-6)

16. Deliberately go on sinning and no longer have a sacrifice for sins (Heb. 10:26-27)

17. Shrink back (Heb. 10:38)

18. Fail to obtain the grace of God (Heb. 12:15)

19. Wander from the truth (James 5:19-20)

20. Forsake the right way (2 Peter 2:15)

21. Become entangled and overcome AFTER having escaped them (2 Peter 2:20-21)

22. Be carried away with the error of lawless people and lose our stability (2 peter 3:17)

23. Commit a sin leading to death (1 John 5:16)

24. Stop abiding in the teaching of Christ (2 John 1:9)

ETERNAL SECURITY

The doctrine of eternal security is essential to the Gospel.

The following verses are often quoted by

those who believe that salvation can be lost.

“For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God

and put Him to open shame.”

(Hebrews 6:4-6)

Unlike other epistles that are directed to Christians, the Book of Hebrews was written to Hebrews to tell them that they were no longer Hebrews. Therefore, it was written to both Christians and non-Christians.

Some of the Hebrews were mixing Law and Grace by claiming Christ and still performing animal sacrifices. Notice carefully the shifting of the use of pronouns throughout the book, as the author addresses the believer, and then the unbeliever.

“I”, “we”, “us” refer to Christians,

“they”, “those”, “them”, etc. refer to the lost. Now, read Chapter 6 of Hebrews with that in mind.

Notice in verses 1 and 3 (us and we),

and then again in verse 9 (we, we).

Christians are being addressed.

“Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let US go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,” (Heb. 6:1)

“And this will WE do, if God permit.” (3)

“But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though WE thus speak.” (Heb. 6:9)

Sandwiched between, are those difficult verses 4, 5, and 6 that refer to “those”, “them”, “they”, and “them”.

The “lost” are being addressed.

It is referring to people (like today) who make a profession of faith, and still continue to live as before their profession, as Christ has no part in their lives. Their desires, feelings and attitudes had not changed, thus they were still “in the flesh” and still walking “after the flesh” (Romans 7).

They heard the Word and thus they had “been enlightened and tasted (but not swallowed, or trusted in) of the heavenly gift”;

They may have had a mental acknowledgment of the gospel – “made partakers of the Holy Spirit.” They may have witnessed the power of the miraculous happenings at Pentecost, or even come under conviction of the Holy Spirit which is absolutely necessary for salvation, but their heart was unchanged because they had not savingly believed.

The result – they have fallen away. From what?

It should be clear from verse 6, that whatever they lost, they could not get it back.

They had fallen away from the only way to salvation because they as were returning to their old religion of Judaism, of which the sacrificial system was only pointing to Christ, the better sacrifice, “once and for all.” They rejected the Substance because they preferred the shadow, and it is no different today with those who do sanctimoniously go back to Sabbath day keeping. They are cults without the true and living God who came in the form of a Man to save them from under the law of sin and bondage.–Shared

I am anything but a sin defender, but I will defend the CLEARLY written words of the Lord:The most dangerous place to be isn’t to be lost, the most dangerous place to be is to be lost but think you’re saved. It is hard for me to understand how someone who knows the bible can assume that a person living an ongoing life of rebellion and worldliness against God is a Christian merely because they claim to be. How many people have been led to believe they’re saved by misguided Pastors and evangelist who told them to repeat a prayer or by the deceitfulness of their own heart? Just because someone says,”I’m a Christian” doesn’t make it so. Repeating a prayer, baptism, and church attendance doesn’t equate salvation. If we’ve never been brought under the conviction of God, never cried out to God in repentance, never experience the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit, never been regenerated, don’t love the word or the Saints, don’t have a passion for Christ, not bearing fruit, see no growth, never put away sinful practices and we continue to live just as the worldly men and women who don’t profess faith in Christ it is very likely that we have not been born again! We must test and examines ourselves to see if we are in the faith.(2 Corinthians 13:5) ~ Signed a former false convert

This past year here on social media I have talked to at least 1,000 people that believe you can lose salvation once you are born again and at least 100 that believe you cannot and tons who are unsure at this point and are seeking God about it. Read this again carefully and then think broad and narrow road and that should help put things into perspective (1,000 vs 100). There are around 1,000 who believe that faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ is not sufficient to save and around 100 that do believe it and tons who are still seeking for revelation on it. I will say I am grateful to be counted amongst the few who know that their only hope of heaven is trusting in the person and finished work of Jesus Christ.–Shared

EASY BELIEVISM/TRUE SAVING FAITH

Easy believism seems to be flourishing in Christendom today. This term is in regards to those who believe they are saved because they prayed a so called “sinners prayer” and told that they saved, but there is no real conviction of sin and no true saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, which leads to no transformation of life!

Praying a prayer is easy, thus the term easy believism, as anybody can simply parrot off a mechanical prayer, but there is more to salvation than merely mouthing words. It is a lie to tell anybody that they are saved after this ritual.

I have seen this lie perpetrated scores of times in assemblies, but it is no wonder that lives are not changed in those caught up in this trap. Nowhere in Scripture do we read that salvation comes through reciting a prayer! Chic Tracts are especially deceptive as on the back page there is a prayer to recite with the idea that those who repeat it are then saved.

Those who come to true saving faith, God gives them a brand new heart, a new spirit, and a brand new nature (Ezek. 36:26; 2 Peter 1:4). They can never be the same again. God works in and through those who are born again of the Spirit. (John 3:3)

This is the outcome of true saving faith;

“For it is God which worketh in you BOTH to will and to do of his good pleasure.” (Phil. 2:13)

“Therefore IF any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things ARE passed away; behold, all things ARE become new.” (2 Cor. 5:17)

Unless there is an understanding of the call of the gospel to salvation, as the sword of the Word pierces the conscience and Holy Spirit conviction of sin follows, then the requirements of “repentance towards God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ” (Acts 20:21), cannot be obeyed. The heart must be affected; not merely the mind.

A mental assent of the gospel cannot save, nor change desires, feelings and attitudes! The heart must be touched with the call of the Gospel. Salvation begins in the heart and its outworking is then evidenced in the life!

“Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.” (Psa. 51:6)

There is no true faith without repentance and no true repentance without faith. These two actions are like two sides of the one coin. It is impossible to have one without the other. Repentance is not merely a change of mind as the easy believism people like to think. It is a change of mind, or a change of attitude towards God, which arises from a change of heart, which leads to a change of action.

Most who preach the Gospel today, preach a partial gospel, like “just believe”, but they do not understand what true belief entails, so they fail to explain what God requires for salvation. They water the Gospel down so much in order to not offend their listeners, thus there is no Holy Spirit conviction of sin, so that if it was poison they were dispensing, it would not be enough to kill anybody! The arrow of conviction must penetrate the heart and conscience first, before healing can take place in the soul!

I still remember when there was a new visiting preacher at a Gospel Meeting where we were attending, and one of the elders there whispered to him as he was about to get up on the platform, “keep it soft!” That is what they want, a soft gospel; one that tickles the ears and leaves unregenerate mankind exactly where they were when they came in!

One that is not enough to stir up and convict sinful, darkened hearts of their desperate plight and deep need of a Saviour; to be rescued from the bondage and terrible shackles of their sins. Where there is no Holy Spirit power in the message, there is no discomfort, no uneasiness, no conviction, just a nice message that helps unredeemed mankind stay comfortable in their lost condition and still on the broad road that leads to destruction.

Entertainment in churches by having worldly bands which promote the good feelings of the flesh, only helps to feed the flesh, but the Spirit of God retreats! God put the church in the world, but the Devil put the world in the church!

Christ stated to the self righteous Pharisees in Luke 13:5;

“I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.”

Repentance is not a noun! It is a verb, or a doing word! Liberal Christianity has no power to save poor lost souls from the terrible bondage of their sins. It has no power to whisper peace to the troubled soul. It is incapable of conviction of sin, righteousness and judgment, thus it leaves hardened impenitent hearts still firmly implanted within. In short, liberal Christianity cannot save!

“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9)–Shared

Paul said teaching about salvation is teaching about marriage. And teaching about marriage should be teaching about salvation.

We teach that as soon as you give your vows in marriage, you are one flesh until death.

But then we turn around and say you can be saved and lose your salvation over and over throughout your life and you just better hope you’re still saved at the moment of your death.

Jesus said you are one, made one flesh with your spouse and can never again be two. Paul literally used that exact analogy and said it applied to salvation also. But we are supposed to believe human vows make an unbreakable one-flesh union, but salvation and and becoming one with Christ is completely fungible? Isaac Steele

What is the meaning of the parable of the Good shepherd if the shepherd gives up on the sheep before he finds it or if he finds it and leaves it because it fights him catching it?

Or the verse that says he will never leave us or forsake us, usually gets the response that God won’t leave us but he won’t stop us from leaving him. But in that interpretation, the good shepherd never even goes out looking, he simply remains by the sheepfold calling for the sheep. He will accept the sheep back if it returns on its own, but he will never do as a shepherd would do. Namely, go out searching high and low till he finds it and forcibly catch it and bring it back. A good shepherd will actually break the legs of a sheep that repeatedly escapes so that he is forced to carry that sheep in his arms till it heals. Once it heals, it is so attached to the shepherd that it stays closer than any of the other sheep ever did.

Why did Jesus use these analogies if they don’t actually apply as a parallel. What is the meaning of Jude saying he is able to keep us from falling and present us faultless. Should that be understood that he is able but unwilling to keep us from falling?

John 10:27-30

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are one.

If one single sheep perished, that promise is made of none effect. Jesus made a false prophecy if one single sheep perishes or is plucked from the hand of God.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t subscribe to the easy believism, sin to your hearts content because you repeated a sinners prayer, got dunked and are therefore sealed forever.

The scriptural warnings about falling away fit perfectly into the image of a father with his child. I proposed to my wife on the top of a mountain. I’ve take my children up there a few times since. I warned them the entire time to be careful; don’t let go of my hand; don’t go near the edge. I even took them to the edge to see and understand the danger. They were young and pulled at my hands trying to enjoy themselves. But I would never let them go. My warnings didn’t indicate my willingness to purposely let injury come to them. There were times when strangers were on the mountain at the same time. Their children heard my warnings. I might have even warned them directly. If I could protect one of them, I would, but not at the risk or expense of my own child’s safety.

Assurance of salvation. Faith in the keeping power of Jesus (kept by the power of God, through faith unto salvation, born not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible). Faith in the scriptures those are quoted from are doctrines for which the reformers were literally burned at the stake. Now we are teaching to go back to that same uncertain limbo where our salvation is in jeopardy every moment?

I can harmonize the scriptures warning about falling away with the shepherd/sheep and father/child analogies God used and create no contradiction or difficulty with other scriptures. However, when I try the other side, any interpretation that allows one of God’s own sheep to permanently fall away renders the parable of the good shepherd meaningless and makes a lie out of Jesus promise that none of his sheep would ever perish or be plucked away.

John 10:27-30

Read that in context. None of the “IFS” are present. Later in his high priestly prayer, Jesus harkened back to this promise.

John 17:12

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.

The only one that looked like he had been lost was Judas but Jesus said that was because he was chosen for that express purpose. Long before it ever crossed Judas’ mind to betray Jesus, Jesus said he already knew he was a devil.

John 6:64

But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.

John 6:70

Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?

Jesus didn’t say his sheep hear his voice and never perish “IF” they can by their own will and power remain a sheep. There are no “IFS” in that passage. If sheep is a general category that people can move in and out of at will, it is completely meaningless as a promise. By that broadening of the text, all but one of Jesus’ sheep could perish and as long as he saved that one, the promise stands. If that is the meaning of the promise, nobody can take any comfort from that promise or any other regarding God’s ability to save to the uttermost.

And again, it renders the parable of the good shepherd meaningless. That parable must read that the shepherd either will not pursue any lost sheep but will simply remain at the fold calling. Or that he will pursue but never take effective action to bring any sheep back if he does find it. You show me that kind of shepherd and I’ll show you that’s a bad shepherd. It is not the meaning Jesus was trying to convey in that parable. It completely destroys that parable and makes the good shepherd sound more like the hirelings he rebuked.

As long as that passage exists, I cannot acquiesce to your interpretation.

Again, I can harmonize all of the “IF” passages with God’s nature as a good shepherd and loving father. But the moment I give the “IF” passages pre-eminence over the clear and unambiguous passages, I have to say Jesus was wrong to say none of his sheep perish. If even one perishes, that promise is a lie. Isaac Steele

𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐌, 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃

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“𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧”

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𝟐 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝟐:𝟏𝟓 𝐊𝐉𝐕 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

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𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟏𝟎:𝟐-𝟑 𝐊𝐉𝐕 – 2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

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𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟔:𝟏𝟒 𝐊𝐉𝐕 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

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𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. Several groups say that water baptism is required for salvation. They base this off of a few verses and a wrong interpretation of those verses. 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟐:𝟑𝟖 𝐊𝐉𝐕

We will look at this verse first.

𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟐:𝟑𝟖 𝐊𝐉𝐕

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟐:𝟒𝟏 𝐊𝐉𝐕

Then they that 𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

Peter’s audience “𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝”—and by necessary inference believed in their hearts and put their trust in Jesus— 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝. 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐨𝐝’𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭.

𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟐:𝟒𝟒 𝐊𝐉𝐕

And 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐝 were together, and had all things common;

Peter was speaking to Jews as the church was completely Jewish at this time. When someone is given a medal for bravery, it is not so that they can obtain bravery but because they already had it. Folks that use this verse say it is for salvation because the Holy Spirit came after water baptism.

We find in Acts chapter 8 that the Holy Spirit came with the laying on of hands (((𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐑))) to water baptism. Also, in chapter 10 of Acts, the Holy Spirit came as they received the word (((𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐑))) to water baptism. The argument then is void as Acts is a transitional book that gives a history of the early church. Early on it was all Jewish and later Gentiles were added.

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🢂𝐉𝐄𝐒𝐔𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐃 𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐎𝐍𝐄🢀

🢂𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟒:𝟐 𝐊𝐉𝐕

(Though Jesus himself 𝐁𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐃 𝐍𝐎𝐓, but his disciples,)

𝗜𝗳 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝗕𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗮𝗹𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗻’𝘁 𝗝𝗲𝘀𝘂𝘀 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝗯𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲? 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝗯𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲, 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲?

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🢂𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟏:𝟓 𝐊𝐉𝐕

𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬’ 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 🢂🢂 For John truly baptized with 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫; but ye shall be baptized with the 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐘 𝐆𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐓 not many days hence.

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🢂𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐰 𝟑:𝟏𝟏 𝐊𝐉𝐕

I indeed baptize you with 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is (((𝐌𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍 𝐈))), whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall (((𝐁𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐄))) you with the (((𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐘 𝐆𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐓, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐄:)))

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🢂𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝟏:𝟖 𝐊𝐉𝐕

I indeed have baptized you with 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 but he shall (((𝐁𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐄))) you with the 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐘 𝐆𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐓.

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🢂𝐋𝐮𝐤𝐞 𝟑:𝟏𝟔 𝐊𝐉𝐕

John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫; but one one (((𝗠𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗥 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍 𝐈))) cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall (((𝐁𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐄))) you with the (((𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐘 𝐆𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐄:)))

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🢂In 𝟏 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟏:𝟏𝟐-𝟏𝟔 𝐊𝐉𝐕

12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. 13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul? (((𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲. 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐧: 𝐖𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡? 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡? 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡? 𝐁𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡?)))14 (((𝐈 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐊 𝐆𝐎𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈 𝐁𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐃 𝐍𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐘𝐎𝐔))), but Crispus and Gaius; 15 Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name. 16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.

If water baptism is required for salvation, why would Paul (((𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍.𝐓))) thank God that he didn’t 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 baptize any of the Gentiles?

🢂Here’s why

𝟏 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟏:𝟏𝟕 𝐊𝐉𝐕

For Christ sent me (((𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐄))), but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

🢂𝟏 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟏:𝟏𝟖 𝐊𝐉𝐕 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

🢂Then in verse 𝟐𝟏 he further stated, “…𝐢𝐭 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞.”

Here we see that the (((𝐆𝐎𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐋))) does not include water baptism.

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐚 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝐢𝐟 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝?

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🢂𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟏:𝟏𝟔 𝐊𝐉𝐕

For I am not ashamed of the (((𝐆𝐎𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐋))) of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐭𝐡; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Here we see that the (((𝐆𝐎𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐋))) is the power of God unto salvation. 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥’𝐬 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝.

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𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟏:𝟐𝟗-𝟑𝟏 𝐊𝐉𝐕

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. 30 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐦 𝐈 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝, 𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐞: 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐞. 31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫.

𝐒𝐨, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐁𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫? 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐉𝐞𝐰𝐬, 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐌𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭.

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𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝟏𝟔:𝟏𝟓-𝟏𝟔 𝐊𝐉𝐕

15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗻𝗲𝗱.

𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝. 𝐔𝐧𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐧𝐞𝐝. 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗶𝗻 𝗝𝗲𝘀𝘂𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁.

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐬 𝟑𝟎:𝟔 𝐊𝐉𝐕 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

𝟏 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟒:𝟔 𝐊𝐉𝐕 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝟐 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐝𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐨𝐝’𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝. 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝟏𝟔:𝟏𝟔 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥, 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐨𝐝’𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝.

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Baptism is the N.T. parallel to circumcision just as the Lord’s supper is the parallel to the Passover (𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟐:𝟏𝟏-𝟏𝟐 𝐊𝐉𝐕). Since circumcision “is nothing” (𝟏 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟕:𝟏𝟗 𝐊𝐉𝐕) and did not save anyone, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦?

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𝟏 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟏𝟓:𝟏-𝟒 𝐊𝐉𝐕

1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the (((𝐆𝐎𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐋))) which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

Here we see that the (((𝐆𝐎𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐋))) is the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟑:𝟑-𝟓 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝟔 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝟓. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝟓 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭.

𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟑:𝟑-𝟔 𝐊𝐉𝐕

3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? (((𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐎 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑’𝐒 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐁, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐁𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐍?))) 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. 6 That which is born of the (((𝐅𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐇 𝐈𝐒 𝐅𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐇))); and that which is born of the (((𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐓 𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐓))).

Born of water is the physical or fleshly birth into physical life and the Spirit birth is one’s spiritual birth into life. It has nothing to do with water baptism. Verse 𝟔 clarifies verse 𝟓.

Can the word water as used in 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟑:𝟓 mean water baptism? Why didn’t Christ say what he meant to say? If he really meant baptism—when he said water—by the same reasoning, he evidently meant baptism in the next Chapter (𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟒:𝟕-𝟏𝟓). Read again the story of the Woman at the Well and substitute the word baptism for water everywhere it is found in the story exactly as you substitute the word baptism for water in 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟑:𝟓 and see what a story you make. 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫.

The same folks that see water as water baptism, (((𝐒𝐄𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐌 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐌 𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐃))). They confuse the (((𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐔𝐀𝐋))) with the (((𝐏𝐇𝐘𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋))).

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𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟑:𝟏𝟒-𝟏𝟖, 𝟑𝟔 𝐊𝐉𝐕

14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whosoever (((𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐓𝐇))) in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 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. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 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. 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.

Notice it is the (((𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑))) that is saved and the (((𝐔𝐍𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑))) is lost with (((𝐍𝐎 𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍))) of water baptism.

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Water baptism requires a human (((𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐓𝐎𝐑))). If water baptism was required for salvation, the baptizer holds the power of salvation instead of God.

𝟏 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝟐:𝟓 𝐊𝐉𝐕

For there is one God, and (((𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐓𝐎𝐑))) between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

𝐇𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝟗:𝟏𝟓-𝟏𝟔 𝐊𝐉𝐕

15 And for this cause (((𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐓𝐎𝐑))) of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.

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𝟏 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟑:𝟐𝟎-𝟐𝟏 𝐊𝐉𝐕

20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. 21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (((𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐔𝐓𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐘 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐓𝐇 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐇, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐆𝐨𝐝))), by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

Folks sometimes think the baptism that saves is water, it isn’t. If they would just (((𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍))) of the verse it tells you this. How do you wash away the filth of the flesh? With water. It is the (((𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐓 𝐁𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐌))) that happens at the instant of belief that (((𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐒))).

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𝟏 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟏𝟐:𝟏𝟑 𝐊𝐉𝐕

For by (((𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐓))) are we all (((𝐁𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐃))) into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

If water baptism was the way, then 𝟏 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟏𝟐:𝟏𝟑 𝐊𝐉𝐕 would say, “For by 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑 are we all baptized into one body…”

But it doesn’t say that. It says, “For by (((𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐓))) are we all (((𝐁𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐃))) into one body…”

This also matches 𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐬 𝟑:𝟓 𝐊𝐉𝐕

𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐬 𝟑:𝟓 𝐊𝐉𝐕

(((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;

The washing of regeneration is (((𝐍𝐎𝐓))) water but (((𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐓))).

Jesus implied in 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐰 𝟑:𝟏𝟑-𝟏𝟔 𝐊𝐉𝐕 that water baptism is a work of righteousness.

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𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟑:𝟐𝟕 𝐊𝐉𝐕

For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Again, this is (((𝐍𝐎𝐓))) water baptism but (((𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐓))) baptism (𝟏 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟏𝟐:𝟏𝟑 𝐊𝐉𝐕).

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𝟏 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟓:𝟏𝟏-𝟏𝟑 𝐊𝐉𝐕

11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. 13 These things have I written unto you that (((𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐄))) on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have (((𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄))), and that ye may (((𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐄))) on the name of the Son of God.

Carefully notice that John 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 mentions the word “baptism,” not even once. That speaks volumes! Water Baptism is for (((𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑))) salvation.

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𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟖:𝟏𝟒-𝟏𝟕 𝐊𝐉𝐕

14 Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: 15 Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: 16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) 17 Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.

The situation in Acts 8:14-17 is somewhat different from the ones in Acts 2 and Acts 10, however. The Samaritans received the laying on of hands and the Holy Spirit 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 water baptism. So, it is obvious from this story that it is possible to be regenerated and not to have received the Spirit’s empowering presence yet. Even today, it is certainly true that we receive certain aspects of the Holy Spirit’s work at the point of regeneration and some afterward. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦. 𝐂𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐥𝐲, 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐛𝐨𝐱 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧’𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞. There are some logical reasons why this situation occurred as it did. Apparently, the apostles were not present when the original conversions took place. This was a group of Samaritans, who were not fully Jewish and there was a lot of hostility that existed between the Samaritans and Jews. It would have been desirable in this early ministry to receive apostolic approval to prove that this new church was “kosher.” 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬.

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𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟖:𝟑𝟔-𝟑𝟖 𝐊𝐉𝐕

36 And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? 37 And Philip said, If thou (((𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐒𝐓))) with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. 38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.

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Water Baptism is a (((𝐏𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄))) of the Gospel by which we are saved. 𝗜𝗧 𝗜𝗦 𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗 𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡 𝗢𝗙 𝗜𝗡𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗 𝗖𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗡𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚.

𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐚𝐮𝐥 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟖:𝟏-𝟑 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐬’ 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐚𝐮𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟗:𝟏𝟎-𝟏𝟖 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐮𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐬 (((𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐑 𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐒))) 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭.

𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟖:𝟏-𝟑 𝐊𝐉𝐕

1 And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles. 2 And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him. 3 As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.

𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟗:𝟏𝟎-𝟏𝟖 𝐊𝐉𝐕

10 And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord. 11 And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth, 12 And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight. 13 Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem: 14 And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name. 15 But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: 16 For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake. 17 And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. 18 And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, (((𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗕𝗔𝗣𝗧𝗜𝗭𝗘𝗗))).

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𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟏𝟎:𝟒𝟑-𝟒𝟒, 𝟒𝟕-𝟒𝟖 𝐊𝐉𝐕

43 To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐬. 44 While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. 47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝘆 𝗚𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗲? 48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.

The Holy Spirit is given to believers (((𝐁𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄))) water baptism. 𝐇𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡. 𝐈𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭.

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𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟏𝟏:𝟏𝟏, 𝟏𝟒-𝟏𝟔,𝟏𝟖 𝐊𝐉𝐕

11 And, behold, immediately there were three men already come unto the house where I was, sent from Caesarea unto me. … 14 Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved. 15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning. 16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫; but ye shall be 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐆𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭. 18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞.

𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟏:𝟓 𝐊𝐉𝐕

𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬’ 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 🢂🢂 For John truly baptized with 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿; but ye shall be baptized with the 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐆𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭 not many days hence.

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𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟏𝟓:𝟏-𝟏𝟐 𝐊𝐉𝐕

Some men (falsely) taught that unless you are circumcised you cannot be saved. The apostles 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 have said, “𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦.” But instead, Peter said, “No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.” So, they told Gentile believers to abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, sexual immorality, blood, but “missed their chance” to say that baptism is required.

Water baptism is a sacrament, like the Lord’s Supper. Both are symbols of the reality of our salvation in Christ. Just as we do not literally eat Christ’s body in the Lord’s Supper, 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧.

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𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟏𝟓:𝟕-𝟏𝟏 𝐊𝐉𝐕

7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. 8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; 9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. 10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? 11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.

𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐠𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐭? 𝐈𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟐:𝟑𝟖 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟏𝟎, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠.

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𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟏𝟔:𝟑𝟎-𝟑𝟏, 𝟑𝟒 𝐊𝐉𝐕

30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 31 And they said, (((𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐄))) on the Lord Jesus Christ, and (((𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐔 𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐓 𝐁𝐄 𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐃))), and thy house. 34 And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, (((𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐆))) in God with all his house.

Here the answer is given to “what must I do to be saved?”. Notice it says (((𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐄))) on the Lord Jesus Christ, (((𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐄𝐋𝐒𝐄))).🢀 (((𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨)))

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𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟏𝟗:𝟏-𝟓 𝐊𝐉𝐕

1 And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, 2 He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. 3 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, 𝐔𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧’𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦. 4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. 5 When they heard this, (((𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘 𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐃 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐃 𝐉𝐄𝐒𝐔𝐒))).

𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧’𝐬 𝐁𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞-𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 (((𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐘 𝐆𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐄))).

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𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟐𝟐:𝟏𝟔 𝐊𝐉𝐕

And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, (((𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐃))).

This is often used to support baptismal requirements for salvation.

Three things are commanded here: 1. arise, 2. be baptized, 3. wash away thy sins, (((𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐃))).

𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦.

Folks just don’t read verse 13.

𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟐𝟐:𝟏𝟑 𝐊𝐉𝐕

Came unto me, and stood, and said unto me, 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐚𝐮𝐥, receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up upon him.

Here we see Saul is called (((𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑))). 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐆𝐨𝐝, 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥’𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 (𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟏:𝟏𝟐 𝐊𝐉𝐕). 𝐀𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫.

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𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐰 𝟐𝟎:𝟐𝟐-𝟐𝟑 𝐊𝐉𝐕

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐅𝐔𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦:

“But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able. And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐁𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐃 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈 𝐀𝐌 𝐁𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐃 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.”

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦. 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐀𝐋𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐁𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐃 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐎 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭’𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐆𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭.

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𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝟏𝟓:𝟑 𝐊𝐉𝐕

Now ye are (((𝐂𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐍))) through the (((𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃))) which I have spoken unto you.

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We, the Gentiles, are saved by grace through faith after hearing the gospel and believing it. When you put your trust in water baptism to save you, you are trusting in 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊𝐒 to save you. You are saying that what Jesus did on the cross was not enough, and 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐃𝐎 𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅. That is completely false according to the Word of truth. We cannot be saved by our own works.

Does 𝐄𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟐:𝟖 𝐊𝐉𝐕 say we’re saved by grace through faith… and water baptism? Or does it say we’re saved by grace through faith? That is completely false according to the Word of truth. We cannot be saved by our own works.

𝐄𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟐:𝟖-𝟗 𝐊𝐉𝐕

8 For by grace are ye 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡; 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬: it is the gift of God: 9 (((𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊𝐒))), lest any man should 𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐬𝐭.

If water baptism were necessary for salvation, 𝐄𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟐:𝟖 and many other verses should have been translated, ‘𝐲𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦.’…Water baptism is a distinct act of obedience apart from salvation.

𝐇𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝟏𝟏:𝟏 𝐊𝐉𝐕 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, (((𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐒𝐄𝐄𝐍))).

So, we are saved by grace through faith, and faith is things we cannot see. So, how could an expression of faith be,”𝐈’𝐦 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐈 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈’𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝. 𝐎𝐫, 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐈 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈’𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝.” …. Then it’s not of faith, it’s of works. It’s not faith whatsoever.

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𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐒 𝟒:𝟓 𝐊𝐉𝐕 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬… “But to him that (((𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊𝐄𝐓𝐇 𝐍𝐎𝐓))), but (((𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐓𝐇 𝐎𝐍 𝐇𝐈𝐌))) that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.”

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐞? 𝐀 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧’𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐬 (((𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐃))) 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬. 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐧. 𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 (((𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐄𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒))); 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬…(((𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐇𝐈𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊𝐄𝐓𝐇 𝐍𝐎𝐓))).

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𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟔:𝟑-𝟔 𝐊𝐉𝐕 – 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 “𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐨” Jesus Christ were 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 “𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐨” his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 “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. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin…….Three times Paul used the term “𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐨” here.

Is Paul’s teaching here in 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟔:𝟑-𝟔 𝐊𝐉𝐕 supporting 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦 like it is taught in most cases?

Nowhere in Paul’s writing does he identify we are 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 “𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐨” the Body of Christ by a 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐋 man placing us unto water.

𝐓𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥’𝐬 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 “𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐨” 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭.

Christian baptism symbolizes the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, but more, it also symbolizes that the believer has died and was buried and rose again with Christ to newness of life, because the masters in the life have changed.

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𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟐:𝟏𝟐 𝐊𝐉𝐕 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

This is referring to the new spiritual birth without which none can be saved from the binding power and the penalty of their sins. The baptism of the Holy Spirit of the believer into the body of Christ at conversion 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦.

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𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝟭𝟬:𝟵,𝟭𝟯 𝗞𝗝𝗩

𝟵 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗹𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗝𝗲𝘀𝘂𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗹𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝗺 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗱, 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗹𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗱. … 𝟭𝟯 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘂𝗽𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗱.

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𝐄𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟓:𝟐𝟔 𝐊𝐉𝐕

“That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the (((𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑))) by the (((𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃))),”

The (((𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑))) is a metaphor for the word and Spirit of God. 𝐈𝐭 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐬, 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐬, 𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐮𝐬, 𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐬.

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𝟏 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟔:𝟏𝟏 𝐊𝐉𝐕

And such were some of you: but ye are (((𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐃))), but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

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𝐏𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐦 𝟏𝟗:𝟏𝟐 𝐊𝐉𝐕

Who can understand his errors? (((𝐂𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐄))) thou me from secret faults.

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𝐏𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐌 𝟓𝟏:𝟐 𝐊𝐉𝐕

(((𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐇))) me throughly from mine iniquity, and (((𝐂𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐄))) from my sin.

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David asked the question in 𝐏𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐦 𝟏𝟏𝟗:𝟗 𝐊𝐉𝐕 🢂🢂 Wherewithal shall a young man (((𝐂𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐄)))🢀🢀 his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy (((𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃))).🢀🢀

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𝐉𝐎𝐇𝐍 𝟐𝟎:𝟑𝟏 𝐊𝐉𝐕, “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.”

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐎 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦! 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐄 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 ((𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬)); 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐞’𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐬.

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𝟏 𝐏𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝟏:𝟏𝟖 𝐊𝐉𝐕, “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.”

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐎 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦! 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲; 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦.

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𝟏 𝐏𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝟏:𝟐𝟑 𝐊𝐉𝐕 “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐎 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦! 𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝, 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝. 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧!

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𝐄𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟒:𝟑-𝟔 𝐊𝐉𝐕

3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; 5 One Lord, one faith, (((𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐌))), 6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

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𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝟏:𝟏𝟓 𝐊𝐉𝐕

And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐬.

𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟑:𝟏𝟗 𝐊𝐉𝐕

Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

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The doctrine of salvation, taught throughout all of the Scriptures and evidenced in all dispensations and ages, stresses that only repentant faith is necessary to be justified and to receive divine forgiveness.

𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝟏𝟓:𝟔 𝐊𝐉𝐕 And he (Abraham) believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

In 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟒:𝟗-𝟏𝟏 𝐊𝐉𝐕, Abraham was saved before the obedience of circumcision, which is the Old Testament correlation to New Testament baptism.

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡. 𝐓𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐀𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.

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🢂 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝗯𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗺. 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗱, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁 (𝗛𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝟵:𝟭𝟰-𝟭𝟳 𝐊𝐉𝐕). 𝗜𝗳 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝗯𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗼 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗻, 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝗯𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱?

🢂 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐭. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐟, 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭. 𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟐:𝟏𝟐: “𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐰.” 𝐖𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐲 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞? 𝐎𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞. 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐭 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞.

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𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐟 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐫 𝐰𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝. 𝐖𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧?

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𝐍𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫! 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧’𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦. 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮. 𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐬. 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐰𝐞𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫. You confuse “𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐝𝐨𝐦” which was exclusively preached to the nation of Israel in a prior dispensation with “𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝” by which alone we are saved.

Paul preached the gospel of grace to both Jews and Gentiles and the only baptism which saves us is when God baptizes those who obey the call of the gospel of “𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭” (𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟐𝟎:𝟐𝟏 𝐊𝐉𝐕), “into Christ.”

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧’𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦. 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭. 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭. “𝐘𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧” 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡, 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬.”

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𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟏:𝟓 𝐊𝐉𝐕 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, (((𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐃 𝐔𝐒 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐃))),

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The conclusion must be that indeed we are saved by the spiritual baptism of the Holy Spirit creating an inner change in the heart rather than water on the skin. The Bible makes a distinction between spiritual baptism and water baptism (𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐰 𝟑:𝟏𝟏 𝐊𝐉𝐕). But we would not put God in a box, and so this would not preclude the Holy Spirit working through water baptism as a means of God’s grace— as the Holy Spirit works before, during, and after one is saved. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝.~~Shared

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Adding more to the confusion….Many will put you in hell for this by saying….”𝐀 𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐉𝐄𝐒𝐔𝐒 𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐝. 𝐈𝐅 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐁𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐃 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑, 𝐒𝐎𝐍, 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐘 𝐆𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐓, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐁𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐈𝐍 𝐉𝐄𝐒𝐔𝐒 𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐃 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐖𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐆.”

1 Corinthians 14:33 KJV For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

Psalm 71:1 KJV In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust (((𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑))): let me never be put to confusion.

John 6:70

Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?

John 6:64

But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.

John 17:12

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.

ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED!

There is so much false doctrine being spread on fb. But the saddest thing of all is that when wrong teachings are corrected, those pursuing them cannot hear. Only God is able to circumcise ears to hear in conversion. A fb friend quoted this passage from 2 Peter 2:20-22;

“For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.”

She insisted on this untruth;

“Don’t be deceived! “once saved, always saved” is a lie straight from the pits of hell! Yes, you CAN lose your salvation!” (End quote)

My reply;

“You ignore this fact in this same chapter in verse 9, as you wrest the Scriptures;

“The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:”

The main thrust of this chapter is concerning the warning of false professors who had entered the local churches; those not those born again of the Spirit of God, because those God saves He places in Christ and gives them a new “divine nature” which has new desires, as we read in 2 Peter 1:4;

“Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”

The persons referred to in 2 Peter chapter 2, are deluded souls. They had a knowledge of the gospel but they had never been saved and transformed by the gospel. Those God saves can never be the same again as their masters have changed, as we read in 2 Cor. 5:17;

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

Peter is still speaking of the false teachers in those verses you quote above, or of those whom they had enticed. There are many today also in Christendom who are in this same position, who possess a knowledge of the truth, but not a saving knowledge, but they deny the power thereof, as Paul wrote in his second letter to Timothy.

“FOR if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world…”

The conjunction “for” connects the clause closely with what is immediately preceding, and suggests that Peter is explaining the term “servants of corruption” which he applies to the false teachers in verse 19;

“While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.”

False doctrines had already began to make serious inroads into the churches scattered throughout the world when Peter wrote his epistle. Paul’s later letters also give evidence of this apostasy in the churches, as the epistle of Jude also bears witness.

Peter had this in mind when he gave his final message to the saints, but he foresaw an even greater apostasy in days to come, and so he gave an inspired word of warning in order that the believers might not be deceived by the personality and persuasiveness of false teachers masquerading as servants of Christ.

The wording and the warning of these false teachers are very similar in Jude’s epistle. But the Holy Spirit Himself inspired both of these writers to portray conditions which the Church of God would have to face in the years to come.

Peter emphasises the spread of unscriptural doctrines, whereas Jude dwells more particularly upon the effects of these, turning the grace of God into lasciviousness; thus they give a twofold warning designed to save the elect of God from being misled.

This is the whole thrust of the chapter as Peter introduces the subject in 2 Peter 2:1-2;

“But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.”

How do they deny the Lord? By their very lives as they have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof. There is power in the blood of the cross to overcome. The same resurrection power that raised up Christ from among the dead. While the propagators of unholy and unscriptural theories profess to have just the message that men need, they actually have nothing that can give victory over sin or relief to a troubled conscience.

There is no such a thing as being saved by divine grace and being lost again. But there are plenty who profess salvation but do not possess the Saviour. That is a different matter. What God does, He does well. He saves, He keeps, and He sanctifies true believers, as we read in Jude 1.

Peter made the believers inheritance very clear; those who are kept by the power of God, in 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.”

Jennie Dip

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐖𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐃𝐎𝐂𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐔𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐄𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒

The doctrine of imputed righteousness can be traced back to John Calvin and Martin Luther. Imputed righteousness is a doctrine that teaches at the time of salvation (false converts), Jesus literally became sin by taking our sinful moral character, and in exchange, His righteousness is imputed or credited to us, and we are seen as sinless, as Jesus is sinless. This doctrine of imputed righteousness teaches that our righteousness and holy standing before God can never be changed by even the most evil, egregious sins that we may commit after salvation. They teach that grace makes us instantly righteous apart from our obedience. (Proverbs 24:24 KJV) We are going to examine if this teaching is in conflict with Scripture.

I have heard many professed Christians say, “When God looks at me, He doesn’t see my sin. He sees the righteousness of Christ instead.” False grace teachers believe the perfect life of Jesus is imputed to the believer so that God does not see the Christian’s sin: He only sees the perfect obedience and righteousness of Christ Jesus. They subscribe to the belief that when God looks on you, He only sees you through the blood of Jesus, and despite all your sin, He sees you with no flaw, spot or imperfection. You stand before Him in white robes of righteousness despite your actual state. This false doctrine obliterates our need to obey God after being born again and is intrinsically a doctrine of demons.

Imputed righteousness is the faulty foundation of the “Say a lil prayer and live like the devil” crowd. “Easy believism.” “Unconditional eternal security.” These teachers believe that once you have accepted Christ as your Savior (false converts), no matter how immorally you live, you are saved; after all, the very righteousness of Christ Jesus has been imputed to you. Ministers falsely interpret “impute” to mean “transferred” in their preaching. That is why we need an uncorrupted Bible open at all times. If this understanding of imputed righteousness were true, how can God discipline His children? Discipline us for what? He no longer sees our sin, He only sees the perfect obedience and righteousness of Christ.

According to this teaching, regardless of our actual moral state, God sees us as pure and holy.……. Let’s stop kidding ourselves. God’s eyes are not closed, and He doesn’t have a defect in His eyesight; He sees us exactly the way we are. If we’re living in obedience, He sees it. If we’re living selfish, unholy lives, we can be sure He sees that too.

There’s great comfort in believing this doctrine because it doesn’t require anything of us. It doesn’t require people to resist, deny themselves, count the cost, or repent of their sins, and it promotes a false sense of security that they can sin without consequence and still receive eternal life.

The problem lies in misunderstanding the concept of the doctrines of ‘Imputed Sin and Imputed Righteousness.” We must be concerned with the biblical usage, because that shows God’s meaning of the word. The New Testament word often translated ‘imputed’ is ‘logizomai’ and it’s translated as ‘think or thought, to be counted as, considered, reckoned, regarded, esteemed’ (Romans 2:26 KJV, “be counted’’) Please notice the word imputed does not mean ‘transfer.’

Let’s examine Romans 2:26 KJV: “Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted (logizomai) for circumcision?“…. If imputed means transferred, when God imputed an uncircumcised man as circumcised, it means that someone else’s circumcision was transferred to him. The obvious meaning is that they are simply considered circumcised, reckoned as circumcised, counted as or thought of as being circumcised.

Romans 4:19-25 KJV is speaking about the faith of Abraham: 19 “And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb: 20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; 21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. 22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. 23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; 24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; 25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.”

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐈𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐔𝐍𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐅 𝐈𝐍 𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐘

Those who do not believe the promise of eternal life and yet claim to be Christians, then by necessity believe that they are saved both by their “faith” plus their works. They obviously need their own works to keep them “saved.” This is a heresy and the very thing that Paul condemned the Galatians for.

These people are showing that they have never experienced the salvation of God at all, for if they had, they would understand or possess spiritual discernment which only God can give in salvation, and believe the promise that when God places believers “in Christ” He offers them everlasting life. To deny this fact is to call God a liar. Here are a few of a multitude of verses these unbelievers cannot understand, the first of which Christ Himself promised believers.

“And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are one.”

(John 10:28-30)

And John stated the same thing.

“These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. (1 John 5:13)

Paul also.

“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23)

“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.” (John 3:36)

How many more verses do we need? One should be enough to believe this promise of God. Unbelief in what God promises does not change God’s plan for true believers, but it does place those who refuse to accept God’s plan of salvation, which means salvation from sin as well as salvation from the penalty of sin, in very perilous positions.

Without faith it is impossible to please God, we read. The promise of eternal life is something very basic concerning salvation. These rejecters do not understand what the salvation of God means. They cannot rightly divide the Word of Truth either because they use OT verses to support a NT doctrine.

Those who refuse to believe in this truth of everlasting life claim that it gives Christians a license to sin. They clearly do not understand the cross and what Christ has accomplished in those who genuinely repent and believe the gospel. They presume that those who believe in eternal security intend to accept salvation, and then continue to live in sin.

This is inaccurate, because anyone who has been truly saved by grace through faith, which is a repentant faith, is made a new creature, and placed in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17). They have known the reality of the conviction of sin by the Holy Spirit (John 14:26; 1 Thessalonians 4:8), and they have turned from sin to Christ, and they now wish to live for Christ.

This is because their masters have changed, and they possess the Spirit of God which is the Spirit of truth, who changes their desires, their feelings and their attitude towards sin and God. We could never do this ourselves without the new birth (John 3:3), while still “in the flesh” or ruled by the carnal nature (Romans 7).

For the genuine Christian, they know and experience this reality as Paul wrote to the church at Philippi.

“For it is God which worketh in you BOTH to will and to do of his good pleasure.” (Phil. 2:13)

Someone who continues to willingly and blatantly live in sin, or tries to obey God and genuinely tries not to sin but continually fails, have not truly repented of their sins and accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour and Lord (1 John 2:19; 1 John 3:6; James 1:26). While this false heretical belief may be held by some who have clearly never experienced the new spiritual birth, it is not a part of the teachings of any genuine Christian church.

A person who feels their deep and dire need of a Saviour, because they know they have fallen short of the glory of God, and humbly repent of their sins and look by faith away to Calvary, they will be saved (Acts 16:31; John 6:37; John 14:6). That salvation is once and for all, eternal, and secure. Those who trust in Christ are saved once, and always saved. They cannot be unborn, once they are born again.

Do not believe the unbelievers who reject God’s many promises of “everlasting life” to true believers. They are heretics and must be rejected after “one or two admonitions” as God commands. This is because they do not have “ears to hear” and they are not interested in the truth.

How clear is this verse? Surely nothing could be clearer? That is unless there is spiritually blindness.

“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.” (John 3:16)

Every single passage of Scripture they copy and paste in order to try to disprove God’s promise of eternal life, they misuse, or wrest. They do not have a clue what they mean. God does not contradict Himself. The misunderstanding is with them. Then they attack, verbally abuse and vilify those who try to help them see the truth. The spirit in them is very clear to see. They are “false accusers of the brethren.” But as Paul said concerning the coppersmith who did him much harm, “The Lord reward him.”

Peter warns of these unbelievers who do not have the necessary discernment to understand aright the Scriptures, so they copy and paste other heretics’ human philosophy and human intellect and they wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction. They actually turn God’s Holy Word in lies, but they cannot see it as their spiritual understanding has never been opened up through circumcision of the ears and heart, by the Holy Spirit, tragically.

“As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.” (2 Peter 3:16)

So what is the promise of God regarding salvation from sin and sins penalty?

“And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.” (1 John 5:11)

Eternal life dwells in every genuine believer right from the very moment of exercising true saving faith in Jesus Christ and His atoning and sacrificial death on their behalf on the cross of Calvary.

Are you “in Christ” or out of Christ, without a Saviour? There is no promise of eternal life for those out of Christ. Those who are saved know of a surety that eternal life is the gift of God and it is their present possession.

“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Rom. 6:23)

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WASHED SANCTIFIED AND JUSTIFIED?

There seems to be a lack of understanding concerning the overall work of God in salvation which comprises of both justification and sanctification. The Scriptures teach that sanctification cannot be separated from justification. There is no salvation without sanctification, just as there is no salvation, if Christ is not also our Lord. No one can be justified who has not at the very moment of salvation also been sanctified.

“Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:” (Heb. 12:14)

Holiness comes from the work of sanctification God performs in the true believer which begins once a work of grace has been performed in the soul of the repentant sinner who has by faith claimed the salvation God, which He offers all sinners.

“For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,” (Heb. 2:11). This is with reference to the body of Christ with Christ as the Head.

Christ also spoke of this sanctification in Matthew 7:21-23;

21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

The apostle John warns us very clearly that a profession of faith will be proved by a life of obedience to the commandments of God, which refers to a life of sanctification. This is not mere empty words, but a reality of life, remembering that God’s commandments are not grievous, or hard to keep. This is only because the love of God is shed abroad in the hearts of the redeemed.

1 John 5:3-4;

3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

1 John 2:3-6;

3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

Paul teaches that only those who have forsaken their sin, or turned their back upon sin and their faces towards God and are walking in holiness of life, will inherit the kingdom of God (1 Cor. 6:9–11; Eph. 5:5–6; Gal. 5:19–21).

James also stated that a profession of faith without any accompanying works of sanctification is a “dead” or empty faith and therefore a non–saving faith (James 2:14–21).

Yes, sanctification and justification are inseparably linked through being in union with the risen Christ. When this union takes place the Christian becomes a servant of Christ and, as a result, a servant of righteousness.

Romans 6:20-22;

20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

Consequently, the true saving faith that unites a person to the Lord Jesus Christ will always manifest the reality of that union in not only initial sanctification, but in progressive sanctification. Scripture refers to this work as a work of the Spirit of God which can only be realised through the fruit given to the true believer, “the fruit of the Spirit” (Gal. 5:22-23).

2 Thessalonians 2:13;

“But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning CHOSEN YOU TO SALVATION THROUGH SANCTIFICATION OF THE SPIRIT AND BELIEF OF THE TRUTH:”

No sanctification = No Salvation. There is a positional sanctification which is always followed by a progressive sanctification. If what we profess does not line up with our walk, then we are fakes, and the truth is not in us. We are merely professors and not possessors of salvation. This is a vitally important subject because our Eternal destination hangs in the balance. We must not be deceived.

Hebrews 10:14;

“For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are SANCTIFIED.”

The flesh cannot sanctify itself. We must be “born again” of the Spirit of Christ (John 3).

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:

Philippians 2:13;

“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”

Galatians 5:24;

“And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

2 Corinthians 5:21;

“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”

1 Corinthians 6:11;

“And such were some of you: but ye are WASHED, but ye are SANCTIFIED, but ye are JUSTIFIED in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.” –Shared

1 Corinthians 11:27-32 (KJV) Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.

For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.

For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

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.