Once Saved Not Always Saved

I will prove from the scriptures that this { once saved always saved idea is from Satan himself. And then I will untwist  the scriptures that these misguided preachers twist to suit their doctrine of heresy. They say that there is nothing you can do that will make you loose your salvation, that when you got saved all your past, present, and future sins are all covered. This is against the word of God, and a stench in  God’s nostrils. First we look at the strongest of the scriptures that proves my point. In { Ezekiel 18: verse 24 and verse 26 it says But if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits sin and does the same detestable things the wicked man does, will he live? None of the righteous things he has done will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness he is guilty of and because of the sins he has committed, he will die. verse 26 If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits sin, he will die for it, because of the sin he has committed he will die.  And in the Amplified Bible it says die in your sins which would be more accurate because any time the Bible  says die in your sins, it means you go to hell. Some will say that is the old testament, that It doesn’t apply to today. Look at the Gospel of {Luke 9:62} in the Amplified Bible Jesus said to him no one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back to the things behind is fit for the kingdom of God.  notice that Jesus said the same thing that Ezekiel said only said a little different way. Are you starting to get the picture now.  Lets move on. This scripture is talking about a saved person. I will explain after the Scripture. 2 peter 2:20-21 NIV Bible, If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.   After you come to a full knowledge of Christ and  escape the pollutions of the world Through the gospel you are a saved person. But if you turn your back on the Word of God and fall back into sin and do not repent it is worse for you in the end than it was for you in the beginning when you were lost because you now have no excuse. You knew God and knowing God you still turned your back on him.  Now we will look at Hebrews 10:26-32 This scripture is also talking about a saved person. If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that {sanctified} him, and who has insulted the Spirit of Grace? Any one who has been sanctified has been purified, and set apart for the plans and purposes of God. That means the person has been saved. If the saved person turns back to sin, he disgraces himself and God and insulted the Holy Spirit. If a once saved person does not repent and continues in their sin God will Put into effect Revelation 2:5  Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lamp stand from its place. In this particular scripture the lamp stand represents the Holy Spirit. Jesus says that if you do not repent he will take your Holy Spirit away from you, and you will walk in darkness, without the light. God will not tolerate sin. Without Holiness no one sees the Lord. {Hebrews 12:14} {Matthew 7:21} Not everyone who says to me,  Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles? Then I will tell them plainly, I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers! Do backsliders do the will of the Father in Heaven? No they do not. Revelation 21:27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life. Are backsliders impure do backsliders do shameful and deceitful things? Yes they do. In Matthew 10:22 says he who stands firm to the end will be saved. do backsliders stand firm in the faith? No they do not. Matthew 13:41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them   into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.  A true Christian does not do evil. A true Christian may sin unknowingly,  but they do not practice evil. Backsliders do all sorts of evil. They do not respond to the pricking of the Holy Spirit, they ignore the still small voice that says don’t do that, for the penalty of sin is death. Stop, what will Jesus think. The Backslider doesn’t care about what Jesus thinks. They just want their sin. They chose sin over the love of God. {John 10:28:29}I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I believe this scripture. No one can snatch you out of God’s hand  but you can walk out of his hand. If you stay in his hand and follow him no one will be able to snatch you out of his hand but if you go back to sinning, you chose to walk out of his hand, out of his will, out of his presence, and out of his protection . You sure can loose your salvation by persisting in sin and not repenting. You can’t work your way into Heaven, rather  good works prove that you are saved. Your good works are generated by the Holy Spirit, proving the presence of God in your heart.  Lets look at 1 John 3:9-10 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in him, he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are. Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God, so is anyone who does not love his brother.1 Corinthians 10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too. You cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons. you can’t have your cake and eat it to, you can’t live like the devil and still go to Heaven.  Look at what  Isaiah 7:9 says If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.  Backsliders are very much into the world, they are a friend of the world. Lets look at James 4:4 for a moment. You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God. Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.  And 1 John 2:15          Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the father is not in him.  Titus 1:16 They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. and 2 Timothy 2:19 everyone who confesses the name of the lord {must} turn away from wickedness.   1 John 5:4 For everyone born of God overcomes the world.  Hebrews 10:39 But our way is not that of those who draw back to eternal misery {Perdition} and are utterly destroyed. Perdition is hell, as in the son of Perdition. Matthew 7:13-14 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to eternal life, and only a few find it. Listen to what Jude  verse 4 has to say about these eternal security preachers. For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are godless men, who change the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord. and in Colossians 2:8 Paul also talks about them. See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. 1 Timothy 4:1-2 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teaching comes through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.  2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. Romans 16:17-18 I urge you  brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them. For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own {appetites}. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of {naïve people}.  These eternal security teachings is very appealing to the backslider because it allows for sin to reign in their lives. God will not tolerate sin. This teaching also says it is OK for you to go on sinning because you are saved forever. This teaching removes the responsibly of living a Holy life. Since when did God excuse sin. Since when did God say that sin was OK. God is a Holy God, so Holy that he cannot look upon sin. {Habakkuk 1:13.} any body who Loves sin will also love eternal security preachers, and hate the other kind that teach that you have to live Holy as the Bible really teaches. Look at what Jesus said in John 15:18  If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is , you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. the sinful world will hate the teaching of Jesus because Jesus taught perfection.  Jesus’ words - Matthew 5:48 Be perfect therefore as your heavenly Father is perfect.  Luke 6:46 Why do you call me Lord, Lord and do not do what I say. John 14:15 If you love me you will obey what I command. Backsliders hate this verse! John 14:21 Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. by this verse we know who loves Jesus and who doesn’t, who belongs to him and who doesn’t. this next verse is equally distasteful to backsliders.  John 15:6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers, such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.  backsliders do not remain with him, they choose sin over him and that is a hell sentence. It is possible to live a Holy life because Jesus’ power to conquer sin is there for the asking, but some people do not want his power, they want sin instead. Look at what Jesus says in John 14:23 If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him and we will come to him. He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. Do backsliders obey his teaching, no, they do not. Luke 13:24 Make every effort to enter through the narrow door because many I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, Sir, open the door for us. But he will answer, I don’t know you or where you come from. Then you will say we ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets. But he will reply, I don’t know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers! There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out. in Revelation all the letters to the Churches that Jesus gave all said to him who overcomes why would he ask you to be an over comer if you couldn’t, wouldn’t that be mean of God to tell you to do something you could not do. Be open minded, God never tried to confuse us. I  Could go on and on but I think by now you get the picture. With this much light shed on this subject, you would have to read this letter with your eyes closed to still believe in { once saved always saved.} It is not true and it never will be true no matter how much sinful people try to twist the scriptures so they can sin and get away with it.  I pray that this letter will change your mind because remember if you disagree with this letter you disagree with the word of God. God be with you.                                                                                                          

Lee Martone        8-26-06