There is an interesting teaching that I found that many (not all) of those that believe you can lose your salvation teach. Many believe that if you have been divorced and married another then you are committing "continual adultery" as they put it as remarriage is a continual sin to them. They focus on Jesus words when He said that if you be married to another then such a person "commits" adultery. The word "commits" they claim is in the present tense and must therefore mean that it is an on-going sin until you divorce that spouse that was married before since the spouse is still alive. I do have to question their intelligence at times since the present tense does not mean "continual" unless you have qualifying words or the context makes that clear. Here is an example, If I were to say, "Whoever kills another man commits murder" then who in their right mind would say that the word "commits" is in the present tense so it really means that the person is killing more than once? It is clear that a single act is being committed even though I used the present tense word "commits."
Do you see what makes this belief so interesting to me that believes in eternal security? Here they are teaching that God will never permit a man and a woman from divorcing. God will never separate the two sinful human beings that He has joined together. God has the the married couple bound as long as they live and no exceptions. This has no exception clauses to those that believe you can lose your salvation between a sinful man and a woman. I find that interesting since God Himself will divorce us from Himself over one little sin but will expect a man and a woman to be bound together as long as they live. So the bride of man can never be put asunder but the bride of Christ can????????? What nonsense do they teach?? How can God expect us sinful human beings to stay married when He cannot even do it Himself according to their teaching?
If God views us as always married then how can not view us as always a part of Him as well? This is where those that believe you can lose your salvation will start coming up with their own take on what they believe what happens. I have heard so much non-sense from them about how we can become unsealed by the Holy Spirit (nowhere stated) and how we can throw away a free gift of salvation (nowhere stated) and so on. I have found so much careless handling of Scripture from those that believe you can lose your salvation that it is enough to make you sick when you consider it. I have read books by Dan Corner, Robert Shank and others to know that they seek to twist areas of Scripture so that it fits their heresy.
If you ever meet a person that believes you can lose your salvation as well as this teaching that you can never be officially divorced then you should know this to be prepared. Ask such a person as to why God would take eternal life from you and if he replies that God punishes the disobedient then be sure to tell that person sarcastically, "Oh Good! I was looking for a reason to divorce my spouse due to his/her disobedience and sinfulness and now I have my reason!!" They will have a hard time replying because how can God expect us that is anything but perfect to do something that He Himself can't even do and who is perfect? They have a god that says, "Do as I say and not as I do." It is like some Calvinists out there that teach that we are to love our enemies even though they believe that God hates them. How can God expect us to do something that He Himself doesn't even have the ability to do?? Jesus did tell us to follow his example. Does it really seem compatible to not believe in divorce and remarriage when you believe in a God that can so easily divorce us? Doesn't it make more sense to believe in a God that doesn't not believe in divorce as He will never be divorced from us?
Friday, June 13, 2008
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Is free grace a license to sin???
Let's assume that you have a lady next door to you that simply do not like. You seem to get some enjoyment when you do something that gets under her skin. However, you are careful not to overdo it, because her husband is very big and full of muscles and is very protective of her. However, one day that man dies and then what? You probably would feel free to deliver that lady an onslaught of insults and anything else that you can think of that will annoy her to no end simply because the threat is out of the way. The fear of her big husband is no longer an issue. I can see this as a big possibility of someone feeling free to let her have it good with insults and so on.
Let's assume again that you have a lady next door that you simply cannot stand to have around. You take pleasure when you can do anything to her that gets her angry and so on. You are still careful as to how far you go because of her very large and well built husband that she lives with. However, one night your house catches fire and nobody was even aware of it in your household. That big husband from next door sees the fire and runs over breaking down the door and saving your whole family from death but he himself died in the fire. Would you now attack that annoying next door neighbor who just lost her husband that died saving you and your family? Would you consider that the threat is out of the way so now would be a perfect time to unleash some nasty comments as her husbands charred body lays there on the ground as she sobs? Would you wait until tomorrow or the next week to deliver the insults?? I see attacking her as unimaginable and I think you do too.
Those that believe you can lose your salvation will picture us that believe in eternal security as given in the first paragraph I gave. They simply think that if the threat (law) is out of the way then we would just sin it up. This is why I do not believe that most of those that accuses free grace of teaching a license to sin has ever been saved, because they clearly are blind as to the true effects of grace apart from law. In their mind, to remove the threat (law) is opening a door to a life of wanton sin. Basically, the husband now is dead so let's bash that next door neighbor as we are so free to do.
To those of us that have truly believed the free grace gospel have come to realize that the threat (law) no longer has any power over us and that we have died to it. We realize that Jesus died in our place to save us from sin. How can we sin against such love? How can we insult our Savior that has done so much to redeem us? To see His torn up body on the cross drenched in blood and stand there watching His head drop in death for us as a opportunity to engage in the very sins He died for is unimaginable. This is why we do not believe that the free grace movement promotes the "license to sin" garbage that you so often hear of. It is only through the free grace teaching that one serves from a heart that is free and loves. If a person can say that removing the law will promote carelessness does not know the love of God on our behalf because love begets love. The teachings of those that believe you can lose your salvation will produce self-righteousness that God will reject simply because they do it to stay saved as they claim and do not want to end up in hell. Their obedience is forced and ours is willing and out of love.
Remember, the Apostle Paul was accused in Romans 6:1 by what he just got through expounding on, "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?" Make it known that NO person(s) will ever be accused of such a statement that believes that they can lose their salvation. However, those that believe in free grace are attacked all the time and this is one statement that we hear so often. They hear our message and assume that what we teach will promote a license to sin just as Paul anticipated his accusers of the same question. I agree with the apostle Paul's response to such a thoughtless statement "GOD FORBID!!!!"
Let's assume again that you have a lady next door that you simply cannot stand to have around. You take pleasure when you can do anything to her that gets her angry and so on. You are still careful as to how far you go because of her very large and well built husband that she lives with. However, one night your house catches fire and nobody was even aware of it in your household. That big husband from next door sees the fire and runs over breaking down the door and saving your whole family from death but he himself died in the fire. Would you now attack that annoying next door neighbor who just lost her husband that died saving you and your family? Would you consider that the threat is out of the way so now would be a perfect time to unleash some nasty comments as her husbands charred body lays there on the ground as she sobs? Would you wait until tomorrow or the next week to deliver the insults?? I see attacking her as unimaginable and I think you do too.
Those that believe you can lose your salvation will picture us that believe in eternal security as given in the first paragraph I gave. They simply think that if the threat (law) is out of the way then we would just sin it up. This is why I do not believe that most of those that accuses free grace of teaching a license to sin has ever been saved, because they clearly are blind as to the true effects of grace apart from law. In their mind, to remove the threat (law) is opening a door to a life of wanton sin. Basically, the husband now is dead so let's bash that next door neighbor as we are so free to do.
To those of us that have truly believed the free grace gospel have come to realize that the threat (law) no longer has any power over us and that we have died to it. We realize that Jesus died in our place to save us from sin. How can we sin against such love? How can we insult our Savior that has done so much to redeem us? To see His torn up body on the cross drenched in blood and stand there watching His head drop in death for us as a opportunity to engage in the very sins He died for is unimaginable. This is why we do not believe that the free grace movement promotes the "license to sin" garbage that you so often hear of. It is only through the free grace teaching that one serves from a heart that is free and loves. If a person can say that removing the law will promote carelessness does not know the love of God on our behalf because love begets love. The teachings of those that believe you can lose your salvation will produce self-righteousness that God will reject simply because they do it to stay saved as they claim and do not want to end up in hell. Their obedience is forced and ours is willing and out of love.
Remember, the Apostle Paul was accused in Romans 6:1 by what he just got through expounding on, "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?" Make it known that NO person(s) will ever be accused of such a statement that believes that they can lose their salvation. However, those that believe in free grace are attacked all the time and this is one statement that we hear so often. They hear our message and assume that what we teach will promote a license to sin just as Paul anticipated his accusers of the same question. I agree with the apostle Paul's response to such a thoughtless statement "GOD FORBID!!!!"
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