Love requires commitment, and commitment requires abandoning our exit strategies.
One of my favorite examples of removing any exit strategy comes from the prophet Elisha. The Old Testament book of 1 Kings chronicles Elisha�s extraordinary story. God called Elisha into a life of ministry, but Elisha wisely understood that embracing his calling would mean letting go of his current career. He had to make a choice between his love for God and his need for the familiarity and financial security of his home.
Elisha was a farmer from a family of farmers. His cattle and his farming equipment represented his family trade, his heritage, and his income. Elisha didn�t want the temptation of a comfortable exit strategy in his mind on the days when his new life in ministry might get uncomfortable. Elisha wanted to go all in with God.
To simultaneously celebrate his new calling and publicly display his commitment to God, Elisha threw himself a very unique going-away party. He slaughtered all his cattle and cooked their meat by burning all his farm equipment. He was symbolically and literally lighting fire to his exit strategy.
As he celebrated his new adventure with friends and family that night, they all knew he wouldn�t be coming home, because he�d made sure he�d have nothing to come home to. He had removed the temptation. He had eliminated the exit strategy. His love for God moved him to make a dramatic commitment.
God honored Elisha�s commitment. Elisha went on to become one of the most significant spiritual leaders in Israel�s history. His love, faith, and commitment to God continue to inspire people around the globe.
Love thrives where love is rooted in commitment. Make sure your loved ones know your love isn�t just a fickle feeling; it�s a promise for your shared future. Embrace a deeper sense of responsibility for and accountability to your loved ones, and you�ll be cultivating fertile soil where lasting love can take root.
So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him. And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee? And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.
"CAN A NT BELIEVER LOSE HIS SALVATION?? WHAT DOES GOD'S WORD SAY???
JESUS PROMISES: "I SHALL **LOSE NONE** OF ALL THE FATHER HAS GIVEN ME!!""
Romans 8:29 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.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, FOR THY SAKE WE ARE KILLED ALL THE DAY LONG; WE ARE ACCOUNTED AS SHEEP FOR THE SLAUGHTER.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
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.
Ephesians 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the ADOPTION OF CHILDREN by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
8 Wherein HE HATH ABOUNDED TOWARDS US IN ALL WISDOM AND PRUDENCE;
Ephesians 1:15 Wherefore I also, AFTER I HEARD OF YOUR FAITH IN THE LORD JESUS, and love unto all the saints,
16 Cease not to give thanks for you, MAKING MENTION OF YOU IN MY PRAYERS;
17 THAT THE GOD OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, the Father of glory, MAY GIVE UNTO YOU THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM AND REVELATION in the knowledge of him:
18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
Romans 4:7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is THE MAN TO WHOM THE LORD WILL NOT IMPUTE SIN.
Psalms 32:1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD IMPUTETH NOT INIQUITY, AND IN WHOSE SPIRIT IS NO GUILE.
John 6:36 But I said unto you, That YE ALSO HAVE SEEN ME, AND BELIEVE NOT.
37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
39 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.
40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
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.
45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. EVERY MAN THEREFORE THAT HATH HEARD, AND HATH LEARNED OF THE FATHER, COMETH UNTO ME.
46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save HE WHICH IS OF GOD, HE HATH SEEN THE FATHER.
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.
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.
John 17:9 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.
13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
14 I HAVE GIVEN THEM THY WORD; AND THE WORLD HATH HATED THEM, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15 I PRAY not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but THAT THOU SHOULDEST KEEP THEM FROM THE EVIL.
20 Neither PRAY I for these alone, but FOR THEM ALSO WHICH SHALL BELIEVE ON ME through their word;
John 17:24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
26 And I HAVE DECLARED UNTO THEM THY NAME, and will declare it: THAT THE LOVE WHEREWITH TNOU HAST LOVED ME MAY BE IN THEM, and I in them.
Hebrews 10:11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
14 FOR BY ONE OFFERING he hath PERFECTED for ever THEM THAT ARE SANCTIFIED.
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I WILL PUT MY LAWS INTO THEIR HEARTS, and IN THEIR MINDS WILL I WRITE THEM;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
Hebrews 10:22 Let us DRAW NEAR WITH a TRUE HEART in full assurance of faith, having our HEARTS SPRINKLED FROM AN EVIL CONSCIENCE, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us HOLD FAST the profession of our faith WITHOUT WAVERING; (for he is faithful that promised;)
24 And let us consider one another to PROVOKE UNTO LOVE AND TO GOOD WORKS:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but EXHORTING ONE ANOTHER: and SO MUCH THE MORE, as ye see the day approaching.
26 FOR IF WE SIN WILFULLY AFTER THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED THE KNOWLEDGE OF TRUTH, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much SORER PUNISHMENT, suppose ye, shall he be thought WORTHY, who hath TRODDEN UNDER FOOT THE SON OF GOD, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done DESPITE SPIRIT OF GRACE?
The predestined to be conformed to the image of His son, the Lamb, as sheep to the slaughter also. The adoption of children, the redemption, abounding wisdom and prudence to us, and it is prayed for us, that the God of Glory may give unto us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in knowing Him, (when Jesus prayed the spirit was not yet given, John 7:39) that we might know the hope of His calling.
We are blessed when the Lord imputes no sin to us, and when guile is not found in our Spirit.
But they saw Him and believed not. (blessed when we see not and believe John 20:29) No man can come to Christ, only those who have learned (in the Spirit) of the Father. Some of them believed not, and that is why He showed they cannot come to Him, and many went away again.(many be called but few are chosen, Matthew 20:16)
Jesus kept believers in His name, and perdition was lost only, ( there will be many more men of perditions..2 Peter 3:7) Christ gave us His word, and the world hated us right away. Christ declared the name of the Father to us, that His love may be in us, as the Fathers love and Spirit was in none yet.
Christ perfects those who are sanctified, so we keep all of His ways fully and always, without breaking them, written fully in our hearts and minds, so we can only approach to Christ by a true heart, without an evil conscience, without wavering, provoked and exhorted to good works and love, because if we sin wilfully after we hear the knowledge of truth, there is no more sacrifice and forgiveness of sins, sore punishment for treading under foot the Son of God, evilly rewarding the Spirit of Grace.
The parable is of the wayside, stony, thorns, and good ground. Matthew 13:4-8.
When we do not understand the word, the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in knowing Him not yet given, (Ephesians 1:17) then every word we hear of scripture does not go to our heart. We are a forgetful hearer and not a doer, (James 1:25)
Others endure for a while, but their foundation is not of stone, ( Luke 6:48) and without Gods love that endures all things, (1 Corinthians 13:7) they are offended by tribulation and persecution, (Peter 2:8 rock of offence, stumbling at the word being diobedient.Romans 9:33) and prefer the wide easy path to destruction many are on, (Matthew 7:13)
Others have cares of this life, which choke the word, and they bring no fruit to perfection, ( Luke 8:14. 2 Timothy 3:17. Revelation 3:2.
Others understand the word, do bring fruit to perfection, and see all the warnings the Lord has given and fear the Lord, unlike all the previous examples who all believe they cannot lose their salvation, it is an irony. Luke 13:25-30...
Matthew 13:19 When any one hereth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
"WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE LAW!!" GALATIANS 3:25
ADAM7777 teaches that those who fall away are previously PREDISTINED, CHOSEN, JUSTIFIED and GLORIFIED by the Father even though Jesus has promised that He would **LOSE NONE** of all the Father had given Him and raise them up on the Last Day.
ADAM7777 also teaches that NT believers are saved by *FAITH** **PLUS** GOOD WORKS **PLUS** keeping of all the laws of Moses.
BUT WHAT DOES GOD'S WORD SAY???
Hebrews 7:18,19: The former regulation is SET ASIDE because it was weak and useless; for the **LAW MADE NOTHING PERFECT**, and a **BETTER HOPE** is introduced, by which we draw near to God.! {Adam disagrees with these inspired words of God!}
Hebrews 8:8,9,13: "The time is coming." says the Lord, "when I will make a **NEW COVENANT** with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah".... By calling this Covenant "NEW", He has made the first one OBSOLETE; and what is OBSOLETE and aging will **SOON DISAPPEAR**" {In AD 96? when the last book of the New Covenant was given}{ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!}
NOTE: Hebrews was written about AD 65 and the last inspired book of the New Covenant or Revelation was inspired by God in AD 96 by which time all the other 26 books of the New Covenant were distributed among the churches.
Hebrews 8:6: But the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which He is Mediator is SUPERIOR TO THE OLD ONE, and it is founded on better promises. {Adam disagrees with these inspired words of God!}
Hebrews 10:11-18: Day after day every priest performs his religious duties again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this Priest had offered for all time **ONE SACRIFICE FOR SINS**, He sat down at the right hand of God... Because by **ONE SACRIFICE** He has made ***PERFECT FOREVER*** those who are being made holy. The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: "This is the covenant I will make with them after that time says the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds." The he adds" Their sins and lawless acts I will remember **NO MORE**." And when these have been forgiven , there is **NO LONGER ANY SACRIFICE FOR SIN**!! {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
Galatians 6:15: Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, what counts is a **NEW CREATION**!
John 6:37,39,44,63: Jesus says, "All that the Father gives ME **WILL** come to Me...And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose **NONE** of all He has given Me, but raise them up at the Last Day...No one can come to Me ***UNLESS*** the Father who sent Me **DRAWS** him, and I will raise him up at the Last Day!...No one can come to Me ***UNLESS*** the Father has **ENABLED** him!!" {ADAM 7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!}
Romans 8:29-33,35,38,39: For those God foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of His Son...And those He **PREDESTINED**, He also called; those He **CALLED**, He also justified; those He **JUSTIFIED** He also **GLORIFIED**. What shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His Son but gave Him up for us all--how will He not also give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those **WHOM GOD HAS CHOSEN**? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns... Who shall separate us from the **LOVE** of Christ?... For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels or demons, neither the present or the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the **LOVE** of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!! {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!}
Galatians 5:6: For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is **FAITH EXPRESSING ITSELF THROUGH LOVE**! {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!}
Colossians 2:16,17: Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you **EAT** or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a **SABBATH DAY**. These are a *SHADOW* of the things that were to come, the reality, however, is found in Christ!!! {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!}
Mark 7:18-23: Jesus says, "Don't you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him unclean? For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body!" By saying this Jesus declared **ALL FOODS CLEAN**!! He went on "What comes out of a man is what makes him unclean. For from within , out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man unclean!" {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God and tries to explain it away by saying it only has to do with unclean hands {???}which was mentioned earlier in Mark 7}
I Timothy 4:1-5: The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through **HYPOCRITICAL LIARS**, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them **TO ABSTAIN FROM CERTAIN FOODS**, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything God created is good, and **NOTHING IS TO BE REJECTED** if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer!! {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
I Corinthians 10:25: Eat **ANYTHING** sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, for, "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it!"
Galatians 2:14-16: Paul said, When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all, "You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs? We who are Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners' know that a man is NOT justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and **NOT BY OBSERVING THE LAW**, because **BY OBSERVING THE LAW NO ONE WILL BE JUSTIFIED**!" {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
Galatians 2:20,21: The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!" [ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
Galatians 3:10-13: "All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law." Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, "The righteous will live by faith." The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, "The man who does these things will live by them." Christ redeemed us from the **CURSE OF THE LAW** by becoming a curse for us! [ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
Ephesians 2:4-10: Because of His great **LOVE** for us, God,, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--it is **BY GRACE** you have been saved! And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages He might show the incomparable riches of His grace, expressed in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is **BY GRACE** you have been saved, through faith-- and this **NOT FROM YOURSELVES**, it is the **GIFT** of God--**NOT BY WORKS**, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do!! {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!}
Everyone agrees that "**FAITH** without **GOOD WORKS ** is dead!" as per James 2:17. However, the reason that God's born again from above saints do good works and make sacrifices is **NOT TO BE SAVED** but to bring **MUCH PRAISE** to our Father and Jesus Christ and to gain countless **ETERNAL REWARDS** for faithful and loving service.
And so those who are not predestined, chosen, justified and born again from above will fall away as shown by the parable of the good and bad seeds in Matthew 13:18-25!!
Galatians 3:23-25: "Before faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, *WE* ARE NO LONGER UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE LAW!!" {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!! since he believes we are still under the supervision of OT Law!}
Luke 16:16: Jesus says, "The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. {The Baptist}. Since that time, the good news of the Kingdom of God is being preached!!"
John 1:17: For the Law was given through Moses, and Grace and Truth came through Jesus Christ!"
I Corinthians 9:20,21: Paul said, "To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law though **I MYSELF AM NOT UNDER THE LAW**, so as to win those under the law. To those not having the law I became like one not having the law though I am not free from God's law but **AM UNDER CHRIST'S LAW!!" {ADAM disagrees with these inspired words f God!!}
Titus 3:4,5: But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, He saved us, **NOT BECAUSE OF RGHTEOUS THINGS WE HAD DONE**, but because of **HIS MERCY**!! {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired Words of God!!}
DO GOD'S BORN AGAIN FROM ABOVE SAINTS STILL SIN AFTER THEY ARE SAVED?? ADAM7777 CLAIMS THAT TRUE BELIEVERS LIKE PETER DO NOT SIN???
I John1:8-10; 2:1,2: If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar and His Word has no place in our lives!!....If anybody does sin, we have One who speaks to the Father in our defense--Jesus Christ, the Righteous One!!
Luke 10:2-4: Jesus said to His disciples, "When you pray, say: '*Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Give us each day our **DAILY** bread. **FORGIVE US OUR SINS**, for we forgive everyone who sins against us!!'"
ADAM7777 claims that true believers do not sin??, which contradicts God's Word numerous times since God's saints are commanded to be holy as God is holy and to walk as Jesus walked in I John 2:6 and to do God's will on earth as it is in heaven as per Matthew 5:10.
Take the Apostle Peter for example:
Matthew 16:21-23: Jesus began to explain to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and **TEACHERS OF THE LAW**{Like ADAM7777}, and that He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. "Never Lord!" he said, "This shall never happen to you!" Jesus turned and said to Peter, Get behind Me Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me, you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men!"
As Jesus was waiting to be tried [After being betrayed by Judas, the CHOSEN betrayer} Peter denied Jesus **THREE TIMES** as per Matthew 26:69-74!!
Matthew 26:74,75: Immediately a rooster crowed. Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken, "Before the rooster crows, you will **DISOWN ME THREE TIMES**!!"
Galatians 2:11-16: Paul said, "When **PETER** came to Antioch I opposed him to his face, because he was **CLEARLY IN THE WRONG**. Before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles, because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. The other Jews joined him in **HIS HYPOCRISY**. When I saw that they were **NOT ACTING IN LINE WITH THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL**, I said to Peter in front of them all, "You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs? We who are Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners' know that a man is **NOT** justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and **NOT BY OBSERVING THE LAW**, because BY OBSERVING THE LAW NO ONE WILL BE JUSTIFIED!!"
Mark 7:18-23: Jesus says, "Are you so dull. Don't you see that nothing that enters a man can make him *UNCLEAN*? For it doesn't into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body. In saying this Jesus declared **ALL FOODS CLEAN**!" He then said: "What comes out of a man that makes him unclean. For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from **INSIDE** and make a man **UNCLEAN!!"
Acts 10:9-16: Peter went up on the roof to pray. He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by the four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air. Then a Voice told him, "Get up, Peter, kill and **EAT**!" "Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean." The Voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that **GOD HAS MADE CLEAN**!"{As per Mark 7:19 above) This happened **THREE TIMES**!, and the sheet was taken back to heaven!
SO PETER AGAIN SINNED THREE TIMES!
I Timothy 4:1-5: The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through **HYPOCRITICAL LIARS**, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them **TO ABSTAIN FROM CERTAIN FOODS**, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything God created is good, and **NOTHING IS TO BE REJECTED** if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer!!
I Corinthians 10:25: Eat **ANYTHING** sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, for, "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it!"
HOWEVER PETER REPENTED IN Acts 15:1-11: Some men {Like ADAM7777} came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the brothers: "Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved." This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question the church sent them on their way, and as they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told how the Gentiles had been converted. This news made **ALL THE BROTHERS** very glad. When they came to Jerusalem, they were **WELCOMED BY THE CHURCH AND THE APOSTLES AND ELDERS**, to whom they reported everything God had done through them. Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees {Like ADAM7777} stood up and said, "The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses. The brother and elders met to consider this question. After much discussion, **PETER** got up and addressed them. "Brothers you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the Gospel and believe. God, who knows the heart showed that the accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as He did to us. He made no distinction between us and them, for He purified their hearts by **FAITH**. Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of the disciples a yoke that we nor our fathers have been able to bear? No! We believe it is through the **GRACE** of our Lord Jesus that we are saved as they are!"
And Peter wrote in I Peter 1:3-5,18,19: Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! IN HIS GREAT MERCY HE HAS GIVEN US NEW BIRTH** into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can **NEVER PERISH**, spoil or fade--**KEPT IN HEAVEN FOR YOU**, who **THROUGH FAITH** {A FREE GIFT OF GOD} are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time!!... For you know that it was not with perishable things that you were **REDEEEMED** from the empty way of life handed down to you by your forefathers, but with the **PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST**, a Lamb without blemish or defect!!
CAN A NT BELIEVER LOSE HIS SALVATION?? WHAT DOES GOD'S WORD SAY???
JESUS PROMISES: "I SHALL **LOSE NONE** OF ALL THE FATHER HAS GIVEN ME!!"
Romans 8;29-33,35,38,39: For those God foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of His Son...And those He **PREDESTINED** He also called; those He called , He also justified; those He **JUSTIFIED** He also **GLORIFIED**. What shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His Son but gave Him up for us all--how will He not also give us all things? Who will bring any charge against **THOSE WHOM GOD HAS CHOSEN**? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns... Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?... For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels or demons, neither the present or the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!! {ADAM7777 DISAGREES WITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS OF GOD!}
Ephesians 1:5-8: In love **HE PREDESTINED US TO BE ADOPTED AS HIS SONS** through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will--to the praise of His **GLORIOUS GRACE**, which He has freely given us in the One He loves. In Him we have **REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD**, the **FORGIVENESS OF SINS**, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding! {ADAM7777 DISAGREES WITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS OF GOD}
Romans 4:7,8: Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will **NEVER** count against him!" {ADAM7777 DIAGREES ITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS OF GOD}
John 6:37,39,44,65: Jesus says, "All that the Father gives Me **WILL** come to Me, and whoever comes to Me I will **NEVER** drive away...And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall **LOSE NONE** of all that He has given Me, but raise them up at the Last Day... No one can come to Me **UNLESS** the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise them up at the Last Day!... No one can come to Me **UNLESS** the Father has **ENABLED** them!!" {ADAM7777 DISAGREES WITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS OF GOD}
John 17:9,24: Jesus prayed to His Father, "I pray for them, I am not praying for the world, but for **THOSE YOU HAVE GIVEN ME**, for they are Yours.... Father, I want **THOSE YOU HAVE GIVEN ME** to be with Me where I am!!" {ADAM7777 DISAGREES WITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS OF GOD}
Hebrews 10:11-18: Day after day every priest performs his religious duties again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this Priest had offered for all time **ONE SACRIFICE FOR SINS**, He sat down at the right hand of God... Because by **ONE SACRIFICE** He has made ***PERFECT FOREVER*** those who are being made holy. The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: "This is the covenant I will make with them after that time says the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds." The he adds" Their sins and lawless acts I will remember **NO MORE**." And when these have been forgiven, there is **NO LONGER** any sacrifice for sin!! {ADAM7777 DISAGEES WITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS OF GOD}
