Three Generations

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Here is an interesting juxtaposition from an unknown source that I wanted to share.

Three successive generations in the Bible:

Saul was chosen by the people.

David was chosen by God.

Absalom was chosen by himself. 

Saul had a jealous heart.

David had a heart after God.

Absalom had a heart to usurp authority.

Saul wanted praise of men. 

David wanted to praise God.

Absalom wanted to praise himself. 

Saul was insecure.

David was confident in God.

Absalom was defiant to authority.

Saul wanted to maintain his position. 

David surrendered his position knowing God would restore it if He desired.

Absalom stole his position through manipulation. 

Saul died by suicide.

David died in honor. 

Absalom died fleeing in rebellion.

Saul left no legacy. 

David provided the legacy of Jesus.

Absolom left a legacy of dishonor.

In this world full of Sauls and Absalom's, I am choosing to be a David.

William James Roop

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Brother Roop teaches the Bible

Whosoever...

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Whosoever.....

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Mark 11:24 is the verse that brought me off the bed of sickness. It is the verse I’ve used as an individual in prayer more than any other verse in the Bible. I’ve preached and taught on this verse more than any other text in the Bible.

Mark 11:24 was such a great blessing to me as I lay sick in bed. I had been given up to die by medical science. In those dark days on the bed of sickness, five doctors came and went, shaking their heads, saying that I had to die. They said I didn’t have even one chance to live, not even one chance in a million.

Then the preacher came and said I should be patient because in a few days it would all be over. It may seem funny, but I can’t tell it without tears coming to my eyes. It was between 2:00 and 3:00 in the afternoon on a hot August day in Texas. The sun was shining brightly and there was hardly a cloud in the sky. But when that preacher left my room, telling me it would all be over in a few days, that room was dark. It was as though someone had pulled the blinds and had just put out the sunlight. 

It was so dark. The preacher said I had to die.But thank God for this Word that fell from the lips of the Master as He walked the old dusty roads of Judaea long ago. Thank God, Jesus was talking to me when He said those words in Mark 11:24!

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I wrote in the margin of my Bible that this verse is for me. The word, “whosoever” in Mark 11:23 applied to me. So beside the words, “. . . WHOSOEVER shall say unto this mountain . . .” I wrote: “This means me.”

Mark 11:24 says, “Therefore I say unto you . . .” and I put my name where it says “you.” Jesus said, “Therefore I say unto Kenneth Hagin.” I just took God at His Word! He said it, and I believed it. And you can put your name in that verse too.

My heart leapt within me when I read this verse of Scripture and something on the inside of me was overjoyed and thrilled with these words from the lips of Jesus. It seemed that someone had turned on a light inside of me. On the inside of me something lit up.

Jesus is talking in this verse about what you desire. He’s telling you how to get the desires of your heart. He’s discussing the subject of prayer. He’s talking about how you through prayer can receive the desires of your heart.

This is the verse of Scripture that brought healing and strength to my body and to my poor deformed heart. This verse has enabled me, through these more than fifty years, to go almost constantly day and night without sickness, disease, or pain.

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For the first thirty years of my ministry, I never really stopped to take a vacation. I would hold two to four services almost every day. Minister friends told me they didn’t see how I held up under it. They said it surprised them that I didn’t wear out.

 But I live by what I preach. It’s not a chore and it’s not a job to teach the Word of God. It’s a thrill to do it. The Word works!

Jesus is talking about how you as an individual can receive the desires of your heart. Many times, people read something else into Mark 11:24. They think God might answer their prayer if it’s His will. Well, it must have been His will to answer their prayers or Jesus never would have said to ask! 

If it wasn’t God’s will that you have the desires of your heart, then Jesus  lied about it by saying believers were to ask. I would much rather believe that someone else lied about this verse, than to believe that Jesus lied.

For about a month after that preacher left my room as I lay on the bed of sickness, I never even looked at the Bible. I didn’t even ask to have the Bible brought to me because I thought I was going to die at any minute. I thought, Surely if the preacher knew of any help for me, he would have told me. But he just told me that in a few more days it would all be over.

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In October, following that day in August when the preacher came to see me, I asked Momma to bring the Bible to my bed. I opened it to this verse in Mark 11:24 and I read it again. Then I told the Lord that the doctors said I had to die; in fact, five of them had said I had to die.

The last doctor spent forty-five minutes talking to me one day explaining my condition to me. He told me nothing could be done for me. He did say that unless a Higher Power intervened, I would die. He told me to stay ready to go. When the preacher came, he wasn’t even as kind as the doctor was about my condition! He didn’t even ask me whether I was ready to go or not. He just said that in a few more days it would all be over.

So I told the Lord what the preacher had said. Then I pointed out to Jesus that when He was on the earth He had said, “ . . Wha.t things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them” (Mark 11:24).

I told Jesus that the desire of my heart — the one main consuming desire of my heart — was to have a well body. I told Jesus that I was going to take Him at His Word. I told Him that if I didn’t get off that bed, it would be because He told a lie in His Word. I said that if His Word didn’t work, then I was going to have my folks throw my Bible in the trash can.

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But I knew that His Word wasn’t a lie, and I also told Him this. I knew it was the truth. I told Him that I was going to get off that bed. I didn’t get off the bed that day, but you can see I made it!

Don’t try to put some kind of an interpretation on the Word of God. Just take it for what it says. In Mark 11:24, Jesus is talking about your desires. I can’t make this scripture work for someone else. I can help the other fellow with my faith sometimes, and get the blessing of God to work for him to some extent, but there is a part that he has to play in answered prayer.

I can’t always make God’s Word work for the other fellow; it depends on what He does with the promises in God’s Word himself. But I can make God’s Word work for me, and you can make it work for you too. Jesus is talking about what things soever you desire. He’s talking about your praying. This verse does apply to the other fellow, but he has to appropriate it himself. You can’t do it for him.

- Kenneth E Hagin ( Bible Prayers Study Course)

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The Gift of Other Tongues

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Here is a short example of the spiritual gift of other tongues.

THE GIFT OF OTHER TONGUES 

One day I stood at the railway station in Logansport, Indiana, waiting for my train and observing a group of Italian men, apparently laborers, sitting on a bench. They were going somewhere to work.  As I walked up and down the platform, I said, "Oh, God, how much I would like to be able to talk to these men about the living Christ and His power to save! "

The Spirit said, "You can."

I stepped over to them; and as I preached, I observed myself beginning to speak in some foreign language!  I addressed one of the group, and he instantly answered me in Italian. I asked where he was from, and he replied, "Naples."

For fifteen minutes God let me tell the truths of Christ and the power of God to that group of laborers in Italian, a language of which I had no knowledge.  That was a little flash, a gleam but one day, bless God, there will come from Heaven a shower that will so anoint the souls of men that they will speak in every language man speaks by the power of God.  And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come Matthew 24 14.

- John G Lake ( Adventures in God )

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Holiness Does Not Save Us

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Holiness does not save us.

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Those of us who teach the doctrine of separation we do NOT believe separation saves us. Only faith in the the shed blood of Christ in obeying the gospel saves. However God demands His people be separate from this ungodly world or culture. We see God teaching us this in Genesis 1, He separates the light from darkness. 

All through the law that is our school master it teaches those chosen people were to be a separate people in everything they did. Their lives were ordered. The Message of Grace does not teach us that we are free to lose our separation. In fact Paul the Apostle of Grace declared ‘Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate.’ 2 Corinthians 6:17.

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You can be separated and NOT saved, but you can’t be saved and not separated. 

Grace teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live godly in this present world. 

Since we are the Chosen destined for the glories of the world to come to reign with Him, we are to learn to reign our lives through the power of the Spirit and cleansed by the preached word. 

Living a saved life is the best life. I haven’t missed a thing worth having living for Him. I am humbled He would have me! Bought me by His Own Blood, forgave my sins, in fact remitted them the filled me with His own life. Gave me hope, peace, joy, then eternal life in Him. 

And Heaven to come with a new immortal Body. Separated Unto Him. 

 Steve Epley

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Charles Fox Parham

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Here is a short introduction to Charles Fox Parham.

THE FATHER OF PENTECOST.

Charles Fox Parham commands a degree of respect. He is best known as “The father of modern Pentecostalism,” having been the main initiator of the movement and its first real influencer. It was his student a black Holiness preacher, William Seymour, who was the catalyst for the famous 1906 Azusa Street Revival.

Charles Fox Parham gave his life to restore the revolutionary truths of healing and the baptism of the Holy Spirit to the church. The first forty years of the twentieth century were powerfully visited by this man’s Pentecostal message that changed the lives of thousands around the world.

The miracles that occurred in Charles Parham’s ministry are too numerous to record. Multiplied thousands found salvation, healing, deliverance, and the baptism of the Holy Spirit. When he proclaimed to the world in 1901 that “speaking in tongues was the evidence of the baptism of the Holy Spirit,” the Pentecostal truths of the early church were wonderfully restored. But the evangelist paid a price for it. The relentless backlash of persecution and slander Parham endured throughout his life would have destroyed others of lesser character. But for Parham, it only served to strengthen his hardened determination and purposeful faith.

 “At Christ’s Second Coming the Church will be found with the same power that the Apostles and the early Church possessed. The power of Pentecost is manifest in us. The Christian religion must be demonstrated. The world wants to be shown. Then let God’s power be manifest through us.”

- Charles Fox Parham 

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God Is Our Provider

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God is our provider!

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George Mueller, who ran an orphanage in nineteenth- century Bristol, England, was a man of vision. He made it a policy never to reveal his financial needs to anyone. Even when people asked, he would tell only the Lord what the needs were. He saw God as his ultimate provider, and he believed that if God was in the ministry, He would lay it on people's hearts to participate. 

One man, visiting the orphanage, said to Mueller, "Of course you cannot carry on these institutions without a good stock of funds."

Mueller acknowledged that that was the case.

"Have you a good stock?" the man asked.

Mueller, knowing that he was penniless, only answered quietly, "Our funds are deposited in a bank which cannot break."

The man responded by saying he wanted to make an investment in that bank, and he gave Mueller a sizable gift!

Many times when Mueller had no money, no food, and no knowledge of where the orphans' next meal would come from, he would nevertheless gather them around the table at mealtime and thank the Lord for His gracious provision. On more than one occasion, while they were yet praying, an unexpected donor would show up with food enough for everyone.

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I've seen this happen in my ministry, too. As a young preacher, sensing the call of God to preach the gospel to the world, I left San Francisco on a ship with only twelve dollars in my pocket. That was all I had, except for enough faith to believe that the God who had called me could also provide my needs along the way. He did, and I learned that God's provision is one thing that is a certainty. The eyes of faith lay hold of what God has promised to do, not what the natural eyes see happening.

The apostle Paul, writing about the faith of Abraham, said he trusted a God who "calls those things which do not exist as though they did" (Rom. 4:17). What would we normally say about someone who calls things that are not as though they were? We would say he is a liar. But not so with God. He can call the things that are not as though they are because He knows the end from the beginning (see Isa. 46:10). That means He knows how things will turn out from the time they start. He looks into the future and sees the culmination of all He's going to do. The future is so certain with Him that He counts it as an accomplished fact and declares it to be so.

- Dr Lester Sumrall ( The Making Of The Champions )

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The Lollards

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Here is an article by an unknown author. Enjoy.

The Lollards

The Morning Star of the Reformation, John Wycliffe (1320-1384) had died but his ideas did not. As a group called the Lollards kept his doctrines alive. Wycliffe died peacefully in 1384, but the Roman church at that time condemned him posthumously. In 1428, forty-four years after Wycliffe was dead, they dug up his body and had it burned; his ashes were thrown into the River Swift. As one historian said, his ashes spread down the river into the sea and touched the banks of countries all over the world, and everywhere his ashes touched so did his teachings.

In England, the Lollards (meaning “mumblers”) continued Wycliffe's teachings. Historian Phillip Schaff said the Lollards were so prevalent in England by the end of the 14th century that “of every two men found on the roads, one was sure to be a Lollard.” After severe persecution, many Lollards moved out of England, as a result, their ideas spread all over Europe. Jon Hus, for example, was influenced by Wycliffe’s teachings all the way across Europe in Czechoslovakia.

Here is an interesting summary of the teachings of the Lollards, called the Twelve Conclusions, as presented to the English Parliament of 1395. You can clearly see the seeds of the Reformation here, 120 years before Luther.

(excerpt from gotquestions.org):

1) The Church of England has become subservient to the Church at Rome.

2) The ordination ceremonies for bishops and priests have no biblical support.

3) Celibacy of the clergy has encouraged sodomy among the clergy.

4) The doctrine of transubstantiation leads to the idolatrous worship of the wafer.

5) Exorcisms and consecrations practiced by the priests are more in line with witchcraft than Christianity.

6) Men who hold powerful church offices should not simultaneously hold powerful secular offices.

7) The practice of praying for the dead should be rejected, and accepting money to say prayers for the dead corrupts the church.

8 ) Making pilgrimages and venerating relics are ineffective for spiritual growth and can lead to idolatry.

9) Confession of sin to a priest should be stopped because only God can forgive sins, and, if priests had the power to do it, they should forgive everyone regardless of whether or not they had confessed.

10) Christians should not participate in warfare, especially warfare that purports to have a spiritual basis (such as the Crusades).

11) Vows of celibacy among women have led to all kinds of sexual sin among those women.

12) Christians are spending too much time producing things, not being content with what they have.

Lollards also believed that the primary duty of priests should be to preach and that every person should have access to the Bible in his/her own language.

William James Roop

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I Will Deliver Him

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I WILL DELIVER HIM.

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The story is told about a black woman who was in trouble many years ago in the days of slavery. Her 16-year-old daughter was about to be sold on the auction block.

The mother bowed her head and prayed, "Dear Lord God, if You were in trouble as I am in trouble, and I could help You as easy as You could help me, I would do it!"

This story is a historical fact; a U.S. Senator was present.

The senator's 15-year-old son was with him, and when the boy saw them pulling this girl away from her mother, and he saw their tears, he ran to his father and said, "Daddy, loan me $10!"

The senator gave him the $10, and the boy ran to the auction block.

Before anybody else could start bidding, he said, "I will bid $10." (Ordinarily, $200 would have been a low opening bid, but everybody was so thrilled at what he was doing that nobody else would bid.)

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The boy bought the girl for $10. Taking the bill of sale, he marched right over and handed the girl back to her momma.  God heard and answered that prayer. She had said, "If I could help You as easy as You could help me, I would do it."  I've told about that dear old black woman's prayer more than once, and I have followed her example and have gotten results.

I just say, "Lord, if You were in trouble like I'm in trouble, and I could help You as easy as You could help me, I would do it." And He does—He does! Because He says in His Word, "I will do it. I'll be with him in trouble. I will deliver the man who sets his love upon me."  Psalm 91:14.

This God who is more than enough says, "I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him."

- Kenneth E Hagin ( El SHADDAI ) 

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The Grantham Miracle

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I WENT TO THAT VILLAGE UNNOTICED BUT…

I had many telegrams to go to a place near Grantham, to a young man who was very dangerously ill. After I arrived at Grantham I had nine miles to go by bicycle. When I came to that farm house that afternoon a woman at the door asked, “Are you Wigglesworth?” I replied, “Yes.” She said, “I am sorry to say that you are too late. My son is beyond anything being done for him now.” I answered, “God has never sent me anywhere too late.”

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I asked if I could see the young man. He lay in his bed with his face toward the wall and whispered that if he was turned over he would die, for his heart was so weak. “Well,” I said, “I’ll pray for the Lord to strengthen you.” In most of my work in those early days I used to pray much and fast. I knew that this case was beyond all human hopes, and so I lay awake most of the night praying. I got up very early the next morning and went out to an adjoining field to pray, for I was very much burdened about this case. There in that field God gave me a revelation that this had to be something new in my life.

I went into the house and asked them to put their son’s clothes to air because the Lord would raise him up. In that part of England the climate is very damp, so I knew it would be necessary for them to put his clothes before a fire before he could wear them. But they did not believe and so did not do anything about his clothes.

That was Sunday morning and I knew that there was a service at the Primitive Methodist Chapel. I went to the service and was invited to take charge. Through the word of the Lord, faith was planted in the hearts of all those people, and then something happened! They all knew that young man by name, and they all said, “Matthew will be raised up!” 

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That led me to see that faith could be created in others just as it had been created in me, and I went back to that house and said, “Have you put his clothes to air?” I think they were a little ashamed that they had done nothing, so they got out his clothes and put them before the fire.

 Then I went into the room and told the young man the vision I had, and said that something would happen different from anything that I had experienced before. I said, “When I place my hands on you the glory of the Lord will fill the place till I shall not be able to stand. I shall be helpless on the floor.” I went out and got his clothes, and said to one of the household, “All I want you to do is put his stockings on him.”

Why I had asked them to put his stockings on is a mystery. His legs were like those of a skeleton and I saw his helplessness, and knew that a miracle would have to be performed. After this member of the household had put the stockings on the young man I said, “Now you can leave the room.”

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They shut the door. I think it is a very important thing to have the door shut, when you have a case like this to deal with, for then you know that you are just shut in with God. I prayed for the vision to be made good, and instantly, the moment I touched the young man, the power of God filled the room and was so powerful that I fell to the floor. My nose and my mouth were touching the floor and I lay there in the glory for a quarter of an hour. All that while Matthew in the bed was shouting, “Lord, this is for thy glory! This is for Thy glory!” the bed simply shook, as did everything in the room, by the power of God. 

Matthew’s strength, his life, and his heart (which was considered the weakest thing about him) were all renewed. I was still on the floor in the glory when he arose from his bed and began to dress. After he was dressed he began to walk up and down the room shouting, “I’m raised up for Thy glory! I’m raised up for Thy glory!” Opening the door he shouted, “Dad, God has healed me. I’m healed!” The same glory filled the kitchen; the father and mother fell down; and the daughter who had been brought from the asylum and whose mind was still affected was made perfectly whole that day.

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That whole village was moved and a revival began that day. I went into that village unnoticed and unknown, but when I left all the village turned out and shouted, “Please come back, please come back, and stop with us longer next time.”

- Smith Wigglesworth ( 📕 Apostle of Faith )

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Passing It On

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PASSING IT ON 

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Evan John Roberts was born June 8, 1878, into the staunch Calvinist-Methodist home of Henry and Hannah Roberts. I believe a “revivalist spirit” was built immediately within him. 

Evan’s parents had a strong influence in cultivating that spirit and nature within him. His nature was one of excellence and sensitivity. The family was known for their love of God’s Word and hard work. Each family member, no matter how young, had his own well-worn Bible.

I want to make a point here: Parents, allow your children to be involved with the move of God. I can’t stress how vitally important it is to teach and train your children in the things of God. They need to know how to pray, how to study the Word of God, and how to sit under the anointing. Teach them to worship God with you, and show them how to do it.

 

 Revival fires die because parents stick their children in the nursery instead of setting them in the move of God. The nursery is a blessing for taking care of infants and toddlers. But there comes a time when they are able to understand proper behavior and can be included in the revival service.

How can revival continue without passing it on? 

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Many past revivals and some revivalists didn’t take their next generation into account. As a result, God had to search for another generation to rekindle the fire that should have never gone out. Revivals don’t have to end. Revivals are meant to continue. The fire of God must be passed on with each new generation. Children are pliable and sensitive, wanting to learn. They are like little sponges eager to draw in everything you share with them. So, be their teachers. If you have children, that godly responsibility of passing the fire of God onto them rests in your hands. And it is evident the family of Evan Roberts took that responsibility seriously.

Evan’s strong character was the result of his family’s training. While Evan was still very young, his father was injured in a mining accident. His father took Evan out of school to help him in the coal mines. Evan never complained.

- God’s Generals ( Evan Roberts ) 

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Once Saved, Always Saved?

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John Wesley on “Once Saved always Saved?”

“Calvinists, who deny that salvation can ever be lost, reason on the subject in a marvelous way...

They tell us, that somehow....

No virgin’s lamp can go out...(Matthew 25:8)

No promising harvest can be choked with thorns...(Matthew 13:7)

No branch in Christ can ever be cut off for unfruitfulness...(John 15:6)

No pardon can ever be forfeited...
(Matthew 18:32)

They say that no name can be blotted out of God’s book!
(Revelation 3:5; Exodus 32:33)

They insist that no salt can ever lose its savour...
(Matthew 5:13)

That nobody can ever...
“receive the grace of God in vain”... (2 Corinthians 6:1)

“bury his talents”...(Matthew 25:18)

“neglect such great salvation”... (Hebrews 2:3)

trifle away “a day of grace”... (James 5:5)

“look back” after putting his hand to the gospel plow...( and become unfit for the kingdom of God)
(Luke 9:62)

Nobody can “grieve the Spirit” till He is “quenched,”...
(Ephesians 4:30; 1 Thessalonians 5:19) and strives no more, (Romans 11:21,22)

nor “deny the Lord that BOUGHT them”...
(2 Peter 2:1)

nor “bring upon themselves swift destruction.”.. (2 Peter 2:1)

Nobody, or body of believers, can ever get so lukewarm that Jesus will spew them out of His mouth... (Revelation 3:16)

They use reams of paper to argue that if one ever got lost he was never found. (John 17:12)

that if one falls, he never stood. (Romans 11:16-22 and Hebrews 6:4-6)

if one was ever “cast forth,” he was never in, and “if one ever withered,” he was never attached to the vine and once green. (John 15:1-6)

and that “if any man draws back,” it proves that he never had anything to draw back from. (Hebrews 10:38,39)

that if one ever “falls away into spiritual darkness,” he was never enlightened. (Hebrews 6:4-6)

that if you “get entangled again in the pollutions of the world,” it shows that you had never escaped. (2 Peter 2:20)

that if you “put salvation away” you never had it to put away, (Hebrews 10:35; Psalms 51:11)

and if you make shipwreck of faith, there was no ship of faith there!! (1 Timothy 1:19)|

In short they say: If you get it, you can’t lose it; and if you lose it you never had it.

May God SAVE US...
from accepting a doctrine, that must be defended by such fallacious reasoning!”
~ John Wesley

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