Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
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
William James Roop, M.A.B.S.
