Can you jump out of God’s’ hand and forfeit your salvation? What does bible say? Well let’s see…
John 10:28-30
28 I give them ETERNAL life,
and they shall NEVER perish;
no one will snatch them out of my hand.
29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all ;
no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
John 10:28 it says I give them ETERNAL life. Now eternal life means ETERNAL life. And does it mean a possibility for eternal life. It doesn’t mean an opportunity to potentially might have eternal life. The Lord says I give them ETERNAL life and eternal means eternal. It doesn’t mean eternal and then they’re going to die because that wouldn’t be ETERNAL.
So it says here and they shall NEVER PERISH. OK so just in case people didn’t understand what eternal means. Then he follows up and says well let me just follow up and just make sure they know it means they’re never going to perish now. NEVER MEANS NEVER. Eternal means FOREVER. There is no such other thing other than eternal. And if you die then it wouldn’t have been eternal in the first place because then you die. So eternal means immortal and immortal wouldn’t mean immortal if you died you then you’d be mortal.So they shall NEVER PERISH and NO ONE can snatch them out of my hand now.
So the the loss of salvation proponents will tell you that you can jump out of his hand and you can run away and you have free choice. And he gives you a free will. And so in other words what they’re doing is they’re putting the responsibility of your salvation on your good works or ability to stay in his hand rather than what on what Christ has done. Therefore you’re no longer justified by faith in what he’s done, you’re now justified before God and have faith based on what you’ve done and it shifts your focus and faith so that you are now trusting in what you’ve done, and your own ability to stay in God. Let’s move on.
John 15:9
“All that the Father gives Me will come to Me,
and the one who comes to Me
I will certainly not cast out” (Jn. 6:37)
All the Father gives me will come to me. IT DOESN’T SAY WILL RUN FROM ME. It doesn’t say ONLY SOME, it says ALL, ALL, ALL the Father gives to me. ALL OF THEM NOT, ALMOST ALL OF THEM.
It’s all of them will come to me. It doesn’t say all but a few will come to me. It says all, AND ALL MEANS ALL. And the owner and the one who comes to me I WILL CERTAINLY NOT CAST OUT. And then he says even if they do come to me I’m NOT GOING TO CAST THEM OUT. I’m not going to cast them out and they’re ALL COME TO ME. That sounds like a pretty done deal to me!
John 10:27
My sheep listen to my voice;
I know them, and they follow me.
My sheep LISTEN to my voice and I KNOW THEM and THEY FOLLOW ME. What a powerful promise! So the loss of salvation proponents say they don’t listen to your voice and they don’t know you, which is counter scripture and does not line up with what Jesus says about his sheep! I know them and they will follow me. It says My sheep LISTEN to my voice. It doesn’t say my sheep don’t listen to my voice and some of them do but a few don’t. It doesn’t say that some of them know me. It says and they FOLLOW me it doesn’t say that some of them do but the rest run from me. That’s not Bible that is twisting the Scriptures based on a doctrine that’s based on fear that many have been indoctrinated with and washed with. That is not the gospel and is not the good news, only radioactive damaging fears.
1 John 2:25
And this is the promise
that He Himself made to us:
eternal life.
26 I have written these things to you
about those who are trying to deceive you.…
This is the promise that he himself made to us: ETERNAL LIFE. Eternal means eternal. Eternal doesn’t mean you’re given eternal life then you die because that’s not eternal. It’s pretty self-explanatory. It’s actually very simple. Why does the Holy Spirit through John emphasize this? He says, “This is the promise that he made to us.” It’s a PROMISE! If you have the Son, if you believe in and receive the Son who is the image of the invisible God, and if you have a covenant with God through Jesus Christ, and if you place your trust in him and what he’s done and not depend on your own good works and think you can come before God like a religious pharisee, IF you BELIEVE THIS PROMISE, he gives you ETERNAL LIFE as a promise and that promise only comes by faith, lest any man should boast!
Now you can believe that or not believe that. If you don’t believe that you will end up in fear and literally fear begets fear and fear is an open door, and fear never pleases God. But why did John write us this? Let’s look at vs. 26, the very next verse, John writes, “I’ve written these things to you ABOUT THOSE WHO ARE TRYING TO DECEIVE YOU.” If you are under a fear based gospel preacher or teacher or even in your own heart you’re reading the Bible and everything is “fear” about loss of salvation, then I submit to you today that you have a fearful heart and have not been rooted and grounded in the promises of God and what He’s truly given you and what he’s truly promised to you. He’s promised you ETERNAL LIFE BECAUSE HE LOVES YOU. And once He SEALS you as his son you are a child of God and you will grow and grow and grow and YOU SHALL BE SAVED AND YOU SHALL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE AND YOU SHALL NOT DIE. You shall NEVER perish. Now this is the good news!!! Say goodbye to those radioactive damaging fears!
Jeremiah 23:4
“I will also raise up shepherds over them
and they will tend them;
and they will not be afraid any longer,
nor be terrified,
nor will any be missing,“
declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 23:4 says I will also raise up shepherds over them. God is raising up shepherds in these last days who will not allow the children to be deceived and who will preach the good news. But will impart a faith that works by love, that is the love of the Father and the grace that flows through and because of that Love. He will SET FREE those who are in fear. This scripture says, “and they will tend them and they WILL NOT BE AFRAID ANY LONGER,” and those children who are sitting under the true shepherds, the good shepherds, the ones who are teaching the truth about the promises of God and what God has done, He says, “they will not be afraid any longer NOR BE TERRIFIED”, it says “NOR WILL ANY BE MISSING.” There it is right there! It says “NONE” will be missing. How many? NONE!!! It doesn’t say that some will be missing.
It doesn’t say that a few might be missing now. It’s time we stop preaching fear, and start preaching faith about what God said about his children!!! I think we are going radioactive now!!!
If you will believe the good news, that Christ is ABLE TO SAVE YOU and not buy into the fear and the doubt and the worry through “hypothetical” ideas and thoughts that threaten that you might forfeit your salvation YOU WILL NOT GO MISSING! And if you will believe what God has given you freely, because you are a child of God YOU WILL NOT GO MISSING! And if you are a minister of the gospel and you teach these promises as a shepherd then NONE OF YOUR FLOCK WILL BE MISSING! None means none!
John 6:39
And this is the
will of Him who sent Me,
that I shall
lose “none” of “all”
those He has given Me,
but raise them up at the last day.
Now this is Jesus speaking. He says that I SHALL LOSE NONE. Does it saying he’s going to lose a few? Does it say that some are going to run from him and get away from him and are going to jump out of his hand? Does it say that. NO IT DOES NOT SAY THAT, it says he shall lose NONE of how many? ALL ALL ALL. It doesn’t say some are going to get away, or some are going to fall away.
If you, as a child of God are told, “that in the last days many shall fall, and many shall be offended,” believe and know for certain that that scripture in Timothy 4:1 or Matthew 24:10, DOES NOT APPLY TO THOSE WHO ARE BORN OF GOD . EVERYONE BORN OF GOD OVERCOMES THE WORLD (1 John 5:4). And if you’re a child of God, and you are born of God, then you are sealed with the Holy Spirit, and have eternal life and no one’s ever going to snatch you out of the hand of the Father nor the Son and nor will you jump!
Still not confident? Is it because you know the strength of your flesh? Well the real question is, “Do you have more faith in your flesh’s ability to overcome God, or more faith in God’s ability to cleanse your flesh and help you?” Most, are obviously putting their trust in their flesh. And the reason why we are afraid is because we’re trusting in our flesh and not trusting in Christ and resting in what He said and promised for our lives and what He’s going to do. It is Him, who says “those he’s given me I will raise them up on the last day.” Trust and have confidence in Christ, when he says HE WILL RAISE YOU UP! Believe in what he promised. You WILL BE prepared and you WILL BE ready. And this is the Gospel and this is the good news and this is God’s promise to us. Let’s go on now, and remove some more radioactive fears!
Matthew 18:12-13
“What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep,
and one of them wanders away,
will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills
and go to look for the one that wandered off?
So what do you think? Even if you ran from God and even if you fell or stumbled, Jesus is so faithful he says HE WILL CHASE AFTER YOU. You might say, “Yeah well I can still jump out of his hand and run.” Yes, but he can also grab you and chase you and bring you back. Where will you place your faith? In Him, or in you? My chips are all in, and my money’s on Him!
Did you know that deliverance, in the greek, literally can mean, “to be dragged away?” Let me tell you some of my testimony. My deliverance was I went to jail in 2005 and Lee County and police officers had to chase me down and practically tase me and they had to put handcuffs on me and they literally had to drag me into a police car. GOD WILL DELIVER YOU! Then later, about a month later, I gave my life to the Lord in Florida in Lee County jail. The cop was even ministering to me in the police car. All I’m saying is that many say, “Well God won’t override your will.” HOWEVER GOD WILL influence you, empower you, inspire you, convict you, and fill you with love! Talk about a motivator! Love is an amazing motivator! But HE DEFINITELY WILL CHASE YOU DOWN. HE WILL GO AFTER YOU.
JESUS WENT AFTER THE ONE and that is the heart of the father that HE LOSE NONE. And if you are his you can REST ASSURE YOU WILL NOT BE LOST. He will not lose you and even if you were to be pulled out and seduced out by the sin in your body and you were to be lured out of the fold, I CAN GUARANTEE CHRIST WILL COME AFTER YOU. He will never leave you nor forsake you, HE LOVES YOU. You are his child and he is not going to let you go! Radioactive Fears must Go!!! Time for freedom!
Jeremiah 32:40
I will make an everlasting covenant with them:
I will never stop doing good to them,
and I will inspire them,
and put in them a desire to worship me so
that they will never turn away from me.
Jeremiah spoke of and prophesied the coming of the New Covenant through Jesus Christ. It’s EVERLASTING and its ETERNAL. I’ll make an eternal covenant which means I will never give up on their covenant. He says I will NEVER STOP doing good to them! The father will never stop doing good to you. You ought to get up and shout and scream!!! That means is he about to CHANGE YOU and wash and cleanse you and renew you. He’s not going to give up on you. He’ll never stop doing good to you! I didn’t’ say it, HE DID. In other words you ARE HIS. That means he’s NOT GOING TO REJECT YOU. That means he’s not going to push you away and make you unborn somehow which is not even a Bible! But instead says he will inspire you!
So proponents of Loss of Salvation will say, “He won’t make you do anything, in fact you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.” That’s what they say, but God says, “He will INSPIRE YOU and he will MOTIVATE YOU and he will STIR YOU and he will CUT YOU TO A HEART AND HE WILL HUMBLE YOU. And HE’S ABLE. He’s bigger than you. The problem is as “they” think he’s not bigger than themselves which means that “they” are bigger than God. This is the definition of idolatry. There’s an idol in their life and “they” are that idol! But the truth is, you are not bigger than Christ. There’s a million different ways that he can bring you to your knees!
It’s time we put our trust in God and put him back on the throne. We must know that he’s a good God and an awesome God. And even if we fall, which we likely won’t because we are standing in faith and not fear, then HE’LL CHASE YOU DOWN AND HE’LL GET YOU BACK.
This amazing promise says, “I will PUT IT IN THEM A DESIRE TO WORSHIP.” The real question is you can fall away and jump out of God’s hand? Even if you did, He’ll come after you and keep chasing you and he’ll never stop doing good to you. I didn’t say that THE BIBLE SAID IT, and HE ADDS, “they will never turn away from me.” NEVER TURN AWAY FOR ME. There is is, “NEVER A TURN AWAY FROM ME.”
So say with me, “I WILL NEVER TURN AWAY FROM THE LORD.” If you were in fear, it may sound kind of strange if you say it. You might even be saying now, “Well, Pastor Craig, you can never say never.” Well, I’ll say it again, “I’m never going to turn away from Christ!” Well how can you say never, Pastor Craig? Are you putting your trust in you? No I’m putting my trust in what Christ HAS SAID. I can never turn away from him because He said I can never turn away, and I WILL PROPHESY WHAT HE SAID, RATHER THAN MY OWN LOGIC, OR CLEVER IDEAS based on human effort or fear.
So in conclusion, say with me, “I will never leave or forsake the Lord.” Say it again, “I will never leave or forsake the Lord.” Say it, one more time, “I will never leave or forsake the Lord.” Amen, and amen! You have officially removed the radioactive fears that attempt to convince you that you will and can jump from His hand! Congratulations!!!
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