Will God ever disown someone he has adopted into his family? No way. In Romans 8:33-34, Paul says "It is God who justifies" and then asks "Who is to condemn?" and the answer is no one. God won't ever condemn someone he has justified. Praise God! And those he justifies, they will be "sustained to the end" (1 Cor 1:8).
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1 Corinthians 1: 8 "who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ" 🙏
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No one is saying that there's not grace to work through our sins or that we have to be perfectly "good" to go to heaven. God will not reject us because we stumble or struggle to obey. The question is what happens when the adopted child who was given the right to be called a son no longer wants anything to do with you and rejects the parents. Will the parents force the child to remain with them or will they give the child over to their own freewill choice? Hebrews says that those who reject the discipline of God are "illegitimate children". God is faithful to preserve us but this doesn't mean we don't have a responsibility to remain in his love. Thus if we fall away it doesn't mean God was unfaithful, it means God gave us the freedom to walk away from his faithfulness
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I needed to see this today, thank you. It is so easy for me to forget that Jesus is always in my corner even when I’ve done wrong. He will never throw me away like used trash. I beat myself up all the time telling myself that I’m not worth saving but that’s just Satan and his demons trying to come between my relationship with God. I need to stand firm and remember that the creator of life itself is my shield.
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It always blows my mind when i hear people reversing their adoption and giving kid back to state. I could never
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Amen! This need to be heard more than ever because God’s promises are true! Many false teachers are preaching a gospel of works.
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Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, Philippians 2:12
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Acts 16:4 4 As they traveled from town to town, they delivered the DECISIONS REACHED by the APOSTLES and elders in Jerusalem for the people to OBEY. 5 So the CHURCHES were STRENGTHENED in the FAITH and grew daily in numbers."
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Romans 8:29 King James Version 29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
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“For if we sin wilfully after having the knowledge of the truth, there is now left no sacrifice for sins,” Hebrews 10:26
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I detect a false dichotomy. It wouldn’t make sense if I said that I tell the truth because I’m honest, not in order to stay honest. Lying is incompatible with being honest. I would cease to be honest if I lied. Similarly, rejecting the gift of God’s grace through sin is incompatible with keeping it. Nor is something that cannot be rejected properly called a “gift” anyway. Nor does it follow that grace given only by divine initiative cannot be forfeited by me. I didn’t birth myself. I didn’t work to be alive. I can, however, choose to forfeit my life. Even the family analogy doesn’t follow. I may always in some sense be a part of my family, but if I reject it I will live in loneliness. Of course, I can always repent and come back, but that’s an analogy that points to a different soteriology than the one Ryan is promoting. Ryan’s soteriology seems to eliminate real human agency and responsibility contrary to the plain appeal of sacred scripture to our need to choose God.
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Obedience is crucial For if we sin deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, - Hebrews 10:26 For it is impossible* to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they then commit apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and hold him up to contempt. - Hebrews 6:4-6 Then his lord summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me; and should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?’ And in anger his lord delivered him to the jailers,* till he should pay all his debt. So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.” - Matthew 18:32-35 Should we be forgiven but fail to forgive, we can lose that. Please work out your salvation with fear and trembling. Do not think yourself unable to fall away, for some will fall from grace I'm not saying we are saved by obedience, only that through disobedience and deliberate sin, we can separate ourselves from God
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Just like an adopted child is still part of the family even if they slip up, so with Christ he keeps us as his children even if we stumble into sin.
We obey because we belong, not to keep belonging.
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