Taking God for granted leads to sin & backsliding!
- Hebrews 2:1-3 ~ We
must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard,
so that we do not drift away. For since the message spoken through
angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its
just punishment, how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation?
This salvation,
which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who
heard him.
- If we do not hold on to the things we've heard, we
will end up going back into the world. Take heed to the things/Word of
God to avoid backsliding! Be prepared with the full armor of God We are
without excuse; God has given us everything we need to be able to stay
saved! Salvation is great & neglecting it is a choice, not an option
because God gives us the tools to succeed as a Christian. Sin &
failure in the Gospel is a choice we make but definitely not what God
desires for & demands from us. Take heed that you stand!
- Hebrews 3:7-19 ~ So, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today,
if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the
rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness, where your
ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw what I
did. That is why I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘Their hearts
are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.’ So I
declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”
See
to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving
heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another
daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be
hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. We have come to share in Christ, if
indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end. As has
just been said: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion.”
Who were they who heard and
rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? And with whom
was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose
bodies perished in the wilderness? And to whom did God swear that they
would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? So we see that
they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.
- Do
not harden your heart toward God because He will take His grace away
from you! When your heart becomes cold & evil, you begin to walk in
unbelief & will depart from God. If we don't hold on to God &
walk in His grace that saved us, we will lose our faith & eventually
our souls. When we continue to walk in disobedience & sin, we
grieve the spirit of God.
- 2 Peter 1:3-14 ~ His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life
through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and
goodness. Through these
he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through
them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the
corruption in the world caused by evil desires. For this very
reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to
goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to
self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to
godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you
possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will
keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of
our Lord Jesus Christ. But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and
blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.
Therefore, my brothers and sisters,
make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do
these things, you will never stumble, and you will receive a rich
welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. So I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are firmly established in the truth you now have. I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of this body, because I know that I will soon put it aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.
- God
has given us the gift of salvation which is an escape from sin. he has
given us the tools to succeed, to serve Him & to walk in His
promises. His knowledge & our trust, faith & obedience to His
word (which is the Truth) we have the victory! Don't allow things &
circumstances to take your eyes off of Jesus! Be diligent in the things
of God to ensure your salvation to the end; don't go back to what God
delivered you from!
- Be careful what you feed your spirit. You become what you eat & if you're not careful, you will backslide.
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