Men have not seen God as the angels had, then what makes us think we do not have the ability to rebel against God and fall away when the angels had seen God and rebelled? Are men that arrogant? I do not think all of the third of the angels went willing but since they were under Lucifer's authority, many were deceived into rebellion. This is why it is so important that one finds a good church for you fall under that authority. But most importantly, you must continue to keep a constant relationship with the Lord feeding and drinking from Him every day. You must put in the effort to study, read, pray, and worship daily. Otherwise, you will begin to drift and fall away back into the world.
Exodus 32:7-10 The Lord said to Moses, Go down, for your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves;8They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, These are your gods, O Israel, that brought you up out of the land of Egypt!9And the Lord said to Moses, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people;10Now therefore let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and that I may destroy them; but I will make of you a great nation.
Exodus 32:33 But the Lord said to Moses, Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him [not you] out of My book.
Exodus 15:26 Saying, If you will diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord your God and will do what is right in His sight, and will listen to and obey His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon you which I brought upon the Egyptians, for I am the Lord Who heals you.
Numbers 32:15 For if you turn from following Him, He will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people.
Numbers 14:8-13 (Amplified Bible)8If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.9Only do not rebel against the Lord, neither fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their defense and the shadow [of protection] is removed from over them, but the Lord is with us. Fear them not.10But all the congregation said to stone [Joshua and Caleb] with stones. But the glory of the Lord appeared at the Tent of Meeting before all the Israelites.11And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people provoke (spurn, despise) Me? And how long will it be before they believe Me [trusting in, relying on, clinging to Me], for all the signs which I have performed among them?12I will smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and will make of you [Moses] a nation greater and mightier than they. 13But Moses said to the Lord, Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for You brought up this people in Your might from among them.
Deuteronomy 9:14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.
Deuteronomy 29:20 The Lord will not pardon him, but then the anger of the Lord and His jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall settle on him; the Lord will blot out his very name from under the heavens.
Joshua 24:19-20 And Joshua said to the people, You cannot serve the Lord, for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.20 If you forsake the Lord and [a]serve strange gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good.
Psalm 69:28 (Amplified Bible)28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living and the book of life and not be enrolled among the [uncompromisingly] righteous (those upright and in right standing with God
Revelation 3:5 (Amplified Bible)5 Thus shall he who conquers (is victorious) be clad in white garments, and I will not erase or blot out his name from the Book of Life; I will acknowledge him [as Mine] and I will confess his name openly before My Father and before His angels.
Luke 3:9 Even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees, so that every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.
Acts 1:25 To take the place in this ministry and receive the position of an apostle, from which Judas fell away and went astray to go [where he belonged] to his own [proper] place.
Hebrews 3:7-11 (Amplified Bible)Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you will hear His voice,8Do not harden your hearts, as [happened] in the rebellion [of Israel] and their provocation and [a]embitterment [of Me] in the day of testing in the wilderness,9Where your fathers tried [My patience] and tested [My forbearance] and [b]found I stood their test, and they saw My works for forty years. 10And so I was provoked (displeased and sorely grieved) with that generation, and said, They always err and are led astray in their hearts, and they have not perceived or recognized My ways and become progressively better and more experimentally and intimately acquainted with them.11Accordingly, I swore in My wrath and indignation, They shall not enter into My rest
Romans 8:12-13 So then, brethren, we are debtors, but not to the flesh [we are not obligated to our carnal nature], to live [a life ruled by the standards set up by the dictates] of the flesh.13For if you live according to [the dictates of] the flesh, you will surely die. But if through the power of the [Holy] Spirit you are [habitually] putting to death (making extinct, deadening) the [evil] deeds prompted by the body, you shall [really and genuinely] live forever
1 Corinthians 15:1-2 AND NOW let me remind you [since it seems to have escaped you], brethren, of the Gospel (the glad tidings of salvation) which I proclaimed to you, which you welcomed and accepted and upon which your faith rests, 2And by which you are saved, if you hold fast and keep firmly what I preached to you, unless you believed at first without effect and all for nothing.
Galatians 5:4 (Amplified Bible)4If you seek to be justified and declared righteous and to be given a right standing with God through the Law, you are brought to nothing and so separated (severed) from Christ. You have fallen away from grace (from God's gracious favor and unmerited blessing).
Colossians 1:21-23 (Amplified Bible)21And although you at one time were estranged and alienated from Him and were of hostile attitude of mind in your wicked activities,22Yet now has [Christ, the Messiah] reconciled [you to God] in the body of His flesh through death, in order to present you holy and faultless and irreproachable in His [the Father's] presence.23[And this He will do] provided that you continue to [a]stay with and in the faith [in Christ], well-grounded and settled and steadfast, not shifting or moving away from the hope [which rests on and is inspired by] the glad tidings (the Gospel), which you heard and which has been preached [b][as being designed for and offered without restrictions] to every person under heaven, and of which [Gospel] I, Paul, became a minister
Matthew 24:13 But he who endures to the end will be saved.
Luke 14:27 Whoever does not persevere and carry his own cross and come after (follow) Me cannot be My disciple.
Luke 13:23-24 And someone asked Him, Lord, will only a few be saved (rescued, delivered from the penalties of the last judgment, and made partakers of the salvation by Christ)? And He said to them,24 Strive to enter by the narrow door [force yourselves through it], for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.
There are many more verses in the bible I can utilize. Those who believe in the "once saved always saved" as I had previously can come up with their own verses. But I hope they see the wisdom that those verses are true conditional to one staying in obedience and in Faith. That belief has NO POWER.
I ask the brethren, seek God on this matter if you had been taught the "once saved always saved" teaching. Return to the BIBLICAL FEAR OF THE LORD so that Wisdom may be poured down on you. If we Love Him, we will obey His commandments for that is the definition of Loving God. Anyone can say they Love God or anyone else for that matter. But it is those who follow His commands, living in Holiness, separated from the world that will be His Bride. The race must be finished and we must endure to the end.
John 14:21 (Amplified Bible) The person who has My commands and keeps them is the one who [really] loves Me; and whoever [really] loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I [too] will love him and will show (reveal, manifest) Myself to him. [I will let Myself be clearly seen by him and make Myself real to him.].
If you had drifted away, repent and Return to you First Love. He is coming back!!!!
God Bless you all
Fire of God!
Steve Yong Kim
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