Once Saved Always Saved?

The belief that once you get Saved you will always be Saved is a false doctrine. This doctrine, doing the most damage to the Christian walk.

i will make an attempt in this Chapter to reveal to you Scriptures that teach contrary to the teaching of Once Saved Always Saved (OSAS)

It all started probably when i was 16 or 17 years old, and at that time, i believed all that men were teaching me, that Once Saved, you are always Saved, then i read this verse.

Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

One of the many questions i had prepared for when God came calling was about this verse. i asked Him “But what if your Saved?” and the Lord said unto me “What does my Word say?” i replied “It says that they which do such things won’t inherit the Kingdom of God” The Lord said unto me, “Do I lie?” i said “No, Lord” Then He said “Those who continue to do such things without ceasing from them, regardless what they say with their mouths, will not enter into My Kingdom” (That being answered, i proceeded to ask Him other questions i had concerning Scriptures)

Now here is the dilemma, i know many people who claim to be Saved, yet they continue to live in those evil things that are mentioned in I Cor 6:9 such as being a fornicator (sexual relations with others that is not their spouse) and adulterers (those who are married having sexual relations with others who they are not married to, or having sexual thoughts about others who is not their spouse (Mat 5:28).) So then either Once Saved Always Saved is True or what Scriptures says is True, BOTH cannot be True!!!

You can’t be both Saved (going to Heaven) and a fornicator (going to hell). For example:

Bob at the age of 25 accepts Christ as his Savior and Lord and gets Saved. All his sins are forgiven him, he is now a new man in Christ (II Cor 5:17) He believes Jesus is the Son of God, and that He died on the cross for his sins. Bob repents of his sins, crying at the alter. Now according to the teaching of today, this man is Saved. And according to Scriptures is Saved. Ten years later, still a Christian and still Saved, he decides to move in with a girl, which includes a sexual relationship with her, without getting married to her. He is doing this to make sure they are compatible together, and marriage would be an option later, providing everything works out alright living together first.

In Truth, Bob is now a fornicator, because he is having a sexual relationship with someone who he is not married to, not being married himself. So then he, according to Scriptures is a fornicator, yet he is also Saved (if it be so that a Saved person can’t lose it)

Now Scriptures teach a Saved person is going to Heaven, Scriptures also teach that a fornicator will NOT go to Heaven. How can Bob be both going to Heaven and not going to Heaven at the same time? Are you seeing the problem?

If Once you are Saved, you are always Saved, than it doesn’t matter what you do afterwards, you are still Saved – This is not Scriptural – but is a precept of man. A false doctrine.

Now those who are die-hard fans of the Once Saved Always Saved teaching, are quick to say “ Then Bob was never Saved to begin with” Which i can understand why they would think that, because if Once you are Truly Saved you will always be Saved and if at the end of your life you are found not Saved, then it stands to reason you were never truly Saved then, according to their thinking. But there is one problem with this line of thought, and i present to them a question, to which i rarely get a response. The question is “If Bob, were to have died after he accepted Christ (Saved) and was forgiven and redeemed at the time he accepted Jesus into his life, But before he became a fornicator, would he then go to Heaven?”

Now do you understand why they don’t answer? If they say “No, he is not Saved” How then is a person Saved? If they say “Yes” then they are forced to see that Bob WAS Saved indeed prior to being a fornicator, but only became unsaved when he chose to live in fornication and became a fornicator.

So then the only conclusion is – that Bob WAS SAVED when he accepted Christ and all his sins were forgiven unto him, the moment he asked Christ to forgive him of his sins and asked Him into his heart, but lost his Salvation when he chose his own self to walk away from God and to live in fornication, which is something that will prevent him from going to Heaven despite what he says with his mouth (i.e. “I’m Saved”, or “I’m a Christian”, or “I’m under Grace”, or “I’m under the Blood of Jesus”)

i know this is hard to swallow, that is because it is meat of the Word and not milk, and milk is what most Christians of today are still being fed, and not meat.

Again, assume for a moment that you are talking with an unsaved person, you speak to him about Jesus Christ and what He has done for him, that Jesus died on the cross, and was risen the third day back to life again, that Jesus is the Son of God and loves him, and that Jesus wants to forgive this man of his sins. This man breaks down to you, he repents of all his evil sins and he asks Jesus Christ (who he believes is the Son of God) to forgive him, this man after praying on his face for 20 minutes looks up to you and asks “Am I Saved now?” Tell me, how will you answer that man? What he has just done is indeed how to become Saved according to Scriptures, you tell him “Yes, Jesus Christ has forgiven you of your sins, you are a new man in Christ, you are Saved” What you have just told this man is TRUE and is in accordance with Scriptures, this man IS SAVED.

This man dies a week later, Is this man SAVED? Yes. Is this man going to Heaven? Yes. All would agree that a person who is Saved is going to Heaven, correct? Yes. Now let us assume this same man did not die a week later, but this happens

6 years later this same man loses his job and his wife is going to leave him and take his children with her, he goes and buys a gun and kills his wife and takes off, spending the rest of his life on the run, robbing stores and mugging people to survive.

Remember you told this man he was Saved, that he was forgiven, that he was going to Heaven, Did you lie to him? Is he going to Heaven? Or has he altogether turned from God and his Salvation which he had?

What then? He never was Truly Saved to begin with? But he was Saved, he repented of his sins, he accepted Jesus Christ is the Son of God, things that Saves a person. When he died a week later, did you not agree above that he was Saved? Yes you did, but now you are saying he wasn't truly saved, how does that make any sense whatsoever? If he died a week after being Saved then he is going to Heaven, but if he dies after killing his family then he was never Saved, really. Are you not seeing how ignorant that is? So he was (WAS) Saved, but he chose to walk away from his Salvation.

We have Scriptural evidence of people walking away from their Salvation. Look at Anias and his wife Sapphira in Acts 5, both of them were Saved, we know this because Acts 4:31 says they ALL were filled with the Holy Ghost, verse 32 says they ALL believed, which is the main ingredient for Salvation, and all of them sold their possessions and distributed fairly among all the others, except Anias and his wife, who after having the Holy Ghost, and selling their property like all the other Saved Christians had done, decided their own selves to keep back part of the money (greed) for themselves (Acts 5:2) Once they knowingly and willingly lied, they chose to give up their Salvation.

Hebrews 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

Hebrews 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

For it is written :

Revelations 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

And many other verses as well, that liars will not enter into Heaven, one who continues to lie is a liar, both Anias and his wife chose to lie, thereby becoming liars and by their own choice fell away from the Salvation that they had freely received, and both immediately died for their lying (NOTE: they were not given the opportunity to repent, they immediately died, which is a topic not discussed in this chapter)

Point being, just because people accept Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord does not mean they will remain in good standings to go to Heaven. While no man can cause you to lose your Salvation, that is most certainly TRUE, However YOU can choose to fall away from it.

Jesus Himself taught this as well in a parable of the seeds by the wayside. ALL of these people get Saved, they accept Christ as their Savior and Lord but because of one reason or another, they freely choose to walk away from it, consider:

Matthew 13: 20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, (Jesus) and anon with joy receiveth it; (they accept Him with joy) 21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

Notice how this person accepts Jesus with JOY, in Mark 4:16 account says with Gladness they accepted Jesus, they became Saved, yet for one reason or another they become offended, for example they accept Christ with Joy but when they are made fun of because they are a Christian they fall away, or they accept Christ with Joy but their friends get them back to living in sin, and they fall away from the Christian walk.

Luke 8:13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word (Jesus) with joy; and these have no root, WHICH FOR A WHILE BELIEVE, and in time of temptation (testing) fall away.

Notice what Scriptures are teaching, these BELIEVED for a while. If they were to have died during the time they BELIEVED, they would be Heaven bound, but they fall away, that is to say, no man caused them to be plucked out of the hands of God (John 10:28-29) they chose to fall away from Him, they willingly left His hands.

So then even Jesus teaches that Once a person is Saved (believes – Luke 8:13, accepts the Word with Joy – Mat 13:20, accepts the Word with gladness – Mark 4:16) does not mean they will remain in that condition, because they can choose to fall away (Luke 8:13, Heb 4:4)

Jesus in another parable, teaches again, that not all who claim to be Christians will enter into Heaven.

Matthew 25: 1 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. 41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: 42 For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: 43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. 44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, (Notice, these call Jesus Lord, according to I Cor 12:3 no person can call Jesus Lord except by the Holy Ghost, these called Jesus Lord, therefore must have believed He was the Lord, and by the Holy Ghost believed it, therefore these are professed Christians) when saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? 45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. 46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

So then the sheep and the goats, have accepted Jesus Christ and call Him “Lord” This reminds me of other verses:

Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from Me, ye that work iniquity (sin).

Matthew 20:16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen. (Many are called to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord, but in the end, on Judgment Day, only a few are chosen)

What else does Jesus Himself teach us?

Revelations 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

What is interesting about this verse (concerning the topic we are discussing in this Chapter), is Jesus says “AND I WILL NOT BLOT OUT HIS NAME OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE” why would Jesus say this if Once you are Saved and written in the Book of Life, you will always be written in the Book of Life?

Once you are Saved, your name is written in the Book of life (Phil 4:3, Rev 13:8, 17:8, 20:12-15, 21:27, 22:19) why would Jesus then make a reference to being able to blot someone’s name out of the Book of Life? i mean Once Saved (your written in the Book of Life) Always Saved (you’ll always be written in the Book of Life), yet Jesus just indicated that He can blot a persons name out of it.

Doesn’t that mean this persons name WAS once written in the Book of Life? That he WAS once Saved, therefore his name being written into the Book of Life? The mere FACT that there are verses which plainly teach a persons name can be blotted out of the Book of Life, meaning that it was once written in the Book of life, should PROVE to anyone with common sense that Once Saved Always Saved, can't possibly be TRUE.

Like i said before, you can’t believe Once Saved Always Saved and ALSO believe what Scriptures teach. One of them is wrong. Let us believe God and every man a liar (Rom 3:4) Man teaches Once you are Saved, you can’t ever lose it, yet Scriptures teach that a man who has his name written in the Book of Life (Saved) can be blotted out of it. Do we have other Scriptures which refer to a person being removed from the Book of Life, once they have had their name entered into it, by becoming Saved? Yes there are. Consider:

Revelations 22:19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

Let’s not miss the point here, a person who is written in the Book of Life – God can remove out of it. So says the Scriptures. If then Scriptures teaches that a person can be removed from the Book of Life then the belief Once Saved Always Saved is indeed a false doctrine and is not the Truth.

Scriptures are True, a person can get Saved, thereby having his name written in the Book of Life, but that person can choose to fall away from it, by their own decisions, they can discard it, or reject it, therefore being blotted out of it.

The following statement is indisputable “A persons name can be removed from the Book of Life AFTER his name is put into it” Scriptures plainly and clearly teaches that. So then Once Saved Always Saved can’t be Scriptural but is a doctrine of man, it is what man teaches and not what the Words of God teach. Man teaches this false doctrine, so they can have a false sense that they are going to go to Heaven, even if they choose to live in sins, because they are Saved. These will not try to walk a righteous path, the narrow and difficult path that leads to life, because they do not believe they have to be holy, they believe they can live however they want to live, and because they are Saved, they will always be Saved, no matter what they do. Even living in sin, they still believe they are Heaven Bound, because of this false teaching that they hold on to, else they would have to change their life to walk a much more difficult path. It is easier to believe Once Saved Always Saved, then to give up sinning for Jesus Christ.

Exodus 32:33 And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.

Now you should begin to understand why there are 120 verses which state to “Fear the Lord” and as Matthew 10:28 says, to fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Tell me, which is easier to believe, that a persons name once written in the Book of Life can NEVER be removed (Always Saved) or that a persons name once written in the Book of Life can be blotted out of it?

The easiest thing to believe is Once Saved Always Saved, this does not make it the Truth. Remember, narrow and difficult is the path that leads to life everlasting, it is not easy. Many think they are on the narrow path, but in Truth they have chosen the easy path and not the difficult path that only a few will find, let alone take.

So all those that believe Once Saved Always Saved, tell me if a SAVED person does not forgive another their trespasses, are they still SAVED? Yes or No answer.

Mat_6:15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Mar_11:26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

Again, i ask. Can a person who claims to be SAVED, yet does not forgive, still be SAVED? Scriptures plainly teaches if you do not forgive NEITHER will the Father in Heaven forgive YOU. Can a person be SAVED and not forgiven also? Really? So you claim to be Saved, and lets say something horrific happens to you by someone, and you do not forgive that person, are you forgiven or not? Scriptures teaches if you do not forgive others, than you will not be forgiven by the Father. Can't you open your eyes and see that Once Saved Always Saved is not Scriptural? Tell me, if a Saved person does not forgive others are they still SAVED? You do most certainly error if you said Yes.

What about a person who claims to be SAVED, and yet hates his/her brother? Are they still SAVED? Are you Saved? Do you hate someone?

1Jn_3:15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

So do you claim to be Saved, claimed that because you are SAVED, you have eternal life abiding in you, yet you hate someone? Scriptures teaches those who hate others do NOT have eternal life in them. So then can a SAVED person hate someone? i know many Christians who claim to be SAVED, yet they do hate someone. And it is because they hate that person, that eternal life does not dwell in them, EXACTLY like Scriptures plainly teaches, no matter how much they claim with their mouths they are SAVED. OSAS is a lie from the pits of hell.

When i was a kid, and come across the next few verses, i wandered why is the Word of God instructing me to endure to the end to be Saved, if Once i am Saved, i am Always Saved, why then must i endure?

Matthew 24:13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Mark 13:13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Matthew 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

Am i Saved right now? Are you? Or must we endure to the end of our life to be Saved according to what the Word of God teaches? Well the Once Saved Always Saved believers, will say that once you are Saved, you will Always be Saved and don’t have to endure to the end to be Saved, because you are already Saved and can’t lose that Salvation. But as we see in Scriptures, that belief is in error and contradicts Scriptures, which plainly teaches us he that endures to the END shall be Saved. Therefore a person who does NOT ENDURE to the end shall NOT be Saved, even if they claim that they are.

Let us for a moment agree with Scriptures that teaches once you get Saved, that it is possible to lose that condition by being removed or blotted out of the Book of Life. Then of a Truth i can understand why Scriptures stresses over and over again to endure to the end THEN you shall be Saved.

Who in Scriptures can we refer to, that endured unto the end? What about Job? In Job Chapter 1 we find Job a man who was perfect and upright, and feared God, and despised evil (vs. Job 1:1)

Conversation between Jesus and satan began in verse 7. Jesus said to satan what do you think of my servant Job? Satan more or less said, if you take all that he has from him, he will not serve you as he does now (paraphrasing). So satan takes all that Job has from him, leaving him with his life (barely). Through all this, even though he did not understand why it was happening to him, he endured it, he did not turn from God, and still remained a True Servant to the Lord, because he endured to the end.

Job 1:22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

So we see, even after Job lost everything that he loved, even his own health was taken from him, he did not turn away from God, he did not fall away from Him, he was not blotted out of the Book of Life, but remained in it, because he endured it to the end.

Those seeds that fell upon stony ground, did not endure, they only endured for a while (Mark 4:17) but if you endure to the end of your life, or until Christ returns, THEN you shall be Saved, THEN you shall have Eternal Salvation, one in which you can never lose and is in Truth Eternal.

Scriptures makes it clear that people can indeed Fall Away, because they did not endure, consider:

Hebrews 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, (Salvation) and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, (Baptized by the Holy Ghost) 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

So then we can fall away if we do not endure to the end. And Scriptures clearly teach the importance for one to endure, so they can be Saved.

James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

II Thessalonians 1:4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:

II Timothy 2:3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

II Timothy 2:12 If we suffer, (endure) we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: (can you deny Him after you are Saved? When satan tempts you to commit sin and Jesus tells you don't do it, if you obey satan how is that not denying Jesus?)

II Timothy 4:5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, (spread the Good News) make full proof of thy ministry.

Hebrews 12:7 If ye endure chastening, (punishments from God) God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

James 5:11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

I Peter 2:19 For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

Hebrews 6:15 And so, after he (Abraham) had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Hebrews 11:27 By faith he (Moses) forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

So we see all throughout Scriptures it stresses the importance of enduring to the end, because if you fail to endure, well according to Scriptures you won’t have Salvation. This generation would like to believe that it is me that teaches that, so they don't have to believe it, but i don't teach that. Scriptures plainly teaches that, they do not deny what i teach, they altogether deny what Scriptures teach.

Hebrews 5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

Yet even these, if they do not endure to the end, these also will fall away by their own choices. i tell you this as one who is given the authority to teach His Truths. Eternal Salvation is unto them that obey Jesus Christ. And what does Jesus Christ COMMAND Christians to do? Love One Another. Woe to those who claim to be Saved, and fail to Love One Another, there will be much weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Know you not that there is only one day that determines who is and who is not SAVED? That is Judgment Day. The Day of the Lord, when He comes to the Earth to set up His kingdom on Earth. The Rapture of the Saints takes place on that day. That is the ONLY day that determines who is Saved and who is not Saved. When Jesus returns to the Earth, those who are taken are on that day judged to be SAVED, those who are not taken on that day, or judged unsaved. ONLY THAT DAY determines who is and who is not Saved. That is why it is written to endure to the end, because it is only at the end that a person is judged either SAVED or not Saved. Does God judge me today to be Saved or not Saved? NO. God judges me on Judgment Day to be either Saved or not Saved.

What i have written in this Article should be enough Scriptural proof to convince even the die-hard fans of Once Saved Always Saved, to at least, make them question that belief and maybe cause them to do a thorough study of the Word concerning this matter. (with this generation though, i would be surprised if 1 out of a thousand actually do that). As i say continually “Do not believe what men tell you, or even what i tell you, always believe the Word of God and search them for the Truth”

Why would you trust any human on this planet, even one that is taught of God, to lead you to Heaven? Go to the Scriptures yourself and study them diligently and see if the Holy Ghost does not reveal to you, even as i have said, for what i teach, He has taught me, unless i clearly say otherwise such as when i say, “This is my opinion” or “This is not from the Lord”.

As a last thought to this article, in the event there are still those who believe that Once Saved Always Saved, lets assume for a moment that Once you are Saved, you will always be Saved and can’t lose it.

Tell me then, why would satan ever bother to tempt this person ever again? Think about it, if a person is Saved and can’t lose that Salvation, why would satan even tempt that person, when there is no way that person can lose his or her Salvation?

Do you think satan is an idiot? He is the God of this world (II Cor 4:4) and the father of lies (John 8:44). Do not underestimate the intelligence of our enemy, to do so is foolishness, not to mention what satan wants people to believe. We know how infinitely knowledgeable our Father in Heaven is, and yet satan believed he was smarter then Him. He wasn’t though, but by far he knows Scriptures better then we do, and he knows ALL of our weaknesses and he knows full well how to use those weaknesses against us. Which is why i asked the question, If a person gets Saved, why does satan continually attack that person, trying to tempt that person to commit sins and to continue in them, to live in them? Would he not be wasting his time on someone who can never fall, who he can never have because that person will always be Saved no matter what he does?

There would be absolutely no reason whatsoever to try to tempt a Saved person, if there is no possible chance they can lose their Salvation. But why do we see when a person gets Saved is when satan comes at that person all the more, while it appears that he leaves the unsaved alone? Again, there would be no reason for satan to try to get a Saved person, a Christian to fall - - - - UNLESS they can actually fall and satan can win that person back to his side of the battle.

Now lets assume that when a person does get Saved, that they can actually fall from Grace, lose their Salvation, this then give satan motive and incentive to attack those who become Christians. If Christians can lose their Savedness, then that would be satans #1 goal. Satan already has the unsaved, they are unsaved. But Christians he will lose if he does nothing about it. Therefore when a person accepts Jesus Christ and becomes Saved, this is when satan comes quickly (Mark 4:15), howbeit not satan himself, but his demons, to tempt that person to doubt his Salvation and to turn from the ways of righteousness back to the same sins that he was doing prior to being Saved, then other demons come to convince them to excuse their evil deeds, making them believe that they are still Saved even though they continue to live in sin.

Know you not that satans main goal is to get people trapped into repeated sin. If he can get a person to continually sin without ceasing from them, in the end, that soul belongs to him, because that soul did not endure to the end, but chose to continue to live in sin, making excuses for those sins, so as to not cease from them.

If a person accepts Christ and all their past sins are forgiven them :

Romans 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

This is when satan’s demons will come after that person, to get that person back into sinning, and to keep them sinning. As long as a person is walking in the light as Jesus is in the light, as long as they are abiding in His Word and in Him (I John 3:6) they do not belong to satan. So the Lord has told me.

But thanks be to God Almighty we have His Son Jesus Christ. Because no matter who is in a backslidden condition, can get back right with Jesus by truly repenting from the heart, that is to say they cease to ever do those things they are repenting of. A True repentant heart is one that repents and adds this statement to the end of their repenting “and I will never do it again”. So says the Lord of Heaven to me, concerning a True repentant heart. Forgiveness is only granted to those who truly repent from their heart, not to those who continue to do the very things they are repenting of, so says the Lord.

So no matter what condition you are in right now, you can, through Christ, get back into good standings with Him, and this is Good News. If you are a fornicator, repent and stop fornicating. If you are a liar, repent and stop lying to people. If you are thief, repent and stop stealing. If you are an adulterer, repent and stop committing adultery, which includes to stop looking at porn, for it is written to look upon a woman to lust after her is to commit adultery, so repent and stop looking at porn. If you repent of these things, knowing full well you are going to continue to do those things, how sorry are you? You repent in vain if you do that.

The key is to look for Jesus to help you, when you are being tempted.

I Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

This is Good News, satan can’t tempt you above that which you can handle, God will not allow him to. In other words satan can’t make you commit any sin, but you freely choose to obey satan when you knowingly and willingly commit sins. Also with every temptation that comes upon you, God allows a path out of it. Here is the key then, when you are tempted, look for that path out, look to Christ to give you Strength, read the Scriptures, go into prayer, call a fellow brother or sister to help you in your time of temptation, look for that out of that temptation. i will tell you the Truth, if you look for that path, you will find it, howbeit many don’t bother to look for that path out and commit the sin anyway, only to excuse their wicked deed afterwards (i.e. only human, or human nature, or we all sin, or such nonsense as that)

i pray that you are the few that will look for that path out EVERY time you are tempted to do something which you know full well is against our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Brother and Sisters, it is a great danger to even live one more day in a backslidden condition, for you know not when you hour is up. If your hour is up and you are still living in a backslidden condition, that is to say, your still living in sin, you will not inherit the Kingdom of God, as does Scriptures teach also.

Father God, i pray that the Holy Ghost will tough every person that reads this Chapter that they will search the Scriptures daily to see if these things in this Chapter be true, May they all walk even as your Son walks, that He is glorified through us. i pray to the Father, through the Holy Ghost, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

i have a challenge to all those who, after reading this Article, are still die-hard fans of Once Saved Always Saved. For them to show me any Scriptures at all that states you can’t lose your Salvation, Or show me any verses that teach Once you are Saved, you will always be Saved.

If you can’t show relevant Scriptures to back up that belief, then it is just that your belief and not what Scriptures teach. i also challenge you to explain these verses:

Hebrews 3:6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, IF we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the HOPE firm unto the end. (by saying IF, it is conditional, not guaranteed.)

Hebrews 3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. (a person must HAVE the living God first in order to depart from Him) 13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Psalms 51:11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. (God can take away the Holy Spirit from a person once they have the Holy Ghost? Scriptures teaches YES) 12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

I Thessalonians 5:8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the HOPE OF SALVATION.

HOPE OF SALVATION? If Salvation is sure, and once you have it, you will always have it, why hope for it then? Unless, it is not guaranteed, then you would hope that on Judgment Day you will be judged to be Saved. He that endures to the END, shall be SAVED, so says Scriptures. Do not believe man who teaches Once Saved Always Saved, they do error and know not the Truth, nor what Scriptures plainly teach. He that endure to the END shall be Saved.

In His Holy and Precious Name, Jesus Christ