Perseverance of the Saints

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Perseverance of the Saints
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Perseverance of the Saints

• Which might perhaps be more accurately described
  as perseverance of Gods Spirit, is the
  affirmation that once God has chosen, regenerated
  and adopted a sinner into his family, there is no
  power strong enough to extract that saint from
  his care.
• (Presbyterians, Their History and Beliefs, Walter
  Lingle, p.36)

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Perseverance of the Saints

• All the sins he may commit from idolatry to
  murder will not make his soul in any more danger.
  The way a man lives has nothing whatever to do
  with the salvation of his soul.
• (Sam Morris, minister for First Baptist Church)

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Perseverance of the Saints

• John 1027-30
• 27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and
  they follow Me. 28 And I give them eternal life,
  and they shall never perish neither shall anyone
  snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father, who
  has given them to Me, is greater than all and no
  one is able to snatch them out of My Father's
  hand.

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Can Someone Who Has Faith Stop Believing?

• 1 Timothy 41
• Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter
  times some will depart from the faith, giving
  heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of
  demons,

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Can Someone Who Has Faith Stop Believing?

• 2 Timothy 218
• who have strayed concerning the truth, saying
  that the resurrection is already past and they
  overthrow the faith of some.

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Can Someone Who Has Faith Stop Believing?

• Hebrews 312
• Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an
  evil heart of unbelief in departing from the
  living God

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Can Someone Who Has Faith So Sin As To Fall From
Grace?

• Luke 813
• But the ones on the rock are those who, when they
  hear, receive the word with joy and these have
  no root, who believe for a while and in time of
  temptation fall away.

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Can Someone Who Has Faith So Sin As To Fall From
Grace?

• Galatians 54
• You have become estranged from Christ, you who
  attempt to be justified by law you have fallen
  from grace.

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Can Someone Who Has Faith So Sin As To Fall From
Grace?

• Hebrews 64-6
• 4 For it is impossible for those who were once
  enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift,
  and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5
  and have tasted the good word of God and the
  powers of the age to come, 6 if they fall away,
  to renew them again to repentance, since they
  crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and
  put Him to an open shame.

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Can Someone Who Has Faith So Sin As To Be
Condemned To Hell?

• 2 Peter 220-21
• 20 For if, after they have escaped the pollutions
  of the world through the knowledge of the Lord
  and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled
  in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for
  them than the beginning.

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Can Someone Who Has Faith So Sin As To Be
Condemned To Hell?

• 2 Peter 220-21
• 21 For it would have been better for them not to
  have known the way of righteousness, than having
  known it, to turn from the holy commandment
  delivered to them.

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Can Someone Who Has Faith So Sin As To Be
Condemned To Hell?

• James 519-20
• Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the
  truth, and someone turns him back, 20 let him
  know that he who turns a sinner from the error of
  his way will save a soul from death and cover a
  multitude of sins.

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Can Someone Who Has Faith So Sin As To Be
Condemned To Hell?

• Ezekiel 1824
• 24 "But when a righteous man turns away from his
  righteousness and commits iniquity, and does
  according to all the abominations that the wicked
  man does, shall he live? All the righteousness
  which he has done shall not be remembered
  because of the unfaithfulness of which he is
  guilty and the sin which he has committed,
  because of them he shall die.