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"You CAN lose your place in heaven" Please inform your readers about the verses in the Bible that say...You can not live your life being luke warm..that you must be hot or cold or God will spit you out of his mouth...(Revelation 3:15,16) Also, you cannot keep committing the same sin, over and over again you will also lose your place in heaven....Your readers need to know this is not a free ticket to sin, as you have told.... Thank you
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I first want to thank you for your comments. They were well presented. Let me try to submit a little input for your consideration.
In Revelation 3:15,16, where it talks about being lukewarm is a tremendous verse showing how God feels about those who are Christians but want to live like the unsaved. It DOES NOT say that He kicks them out or that they are no longer saved. It says that the way they are acting makes Him sick to His stomach and makes Him just want to throw up.
Look up the Greek word for 'spue'
[qowÕ, qayah /ko/] v. A primitive root; TWOT 2014; GK 7794 and 7796; Eight occurrences; AV translates as “vomit” five times, and “spue” three times.
Also, there is no where in scripture that says once you have been saved that you can lose it. NOWHERE! In fact it says just the opposite.
John 6:37, 39 37
37. "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. 39 And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing,† but should raise it up again at the last day."
John 10:28-30
28 "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and my Father are one."
But we also have to remember that God knows and will how us accountable for our actions. Look at:
Galatians 6:7
7 "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Also,
Hebrew 12:6-8
6 "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons."
Why is it some people feel God is able to create the universe, part the Red Sea, raise people from the dead.... and yet feel that He is not able to discipline His own children.
You are so right. You can't just believe and then live as you please. "...maybe what should be said is... ' you can TRY to live as you please.
Again, thanks for you comments. I hope this will help.
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