Proverbs 14:14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
Twenty-one examples of beings fallen from grace (continues): [10] Saul, who had a change of heart and received the Holy Spirit (1Sam. 10:9-13, 21-24), went into spiritualism (1Sam. 28:1-25; Lev. 19:31; 20:6). He lost the Holy Spirit (1Sam. 16:12-23), and died by suicide and was cursed by God (1Sam. 31:1-6; 1Chr. 10:13-14). [11] Many disciples of Jesus left Him and His grace and followed Him no more (John 6:66). They believed for a while (Luke 8:13) and drew back to perdition (Heb. 10:26-39). To receive Christ and confess Him for only a moment brings the new birth, so those who believed for a while had the grace to fall from (John 1:12; 1Jn. 5:1). [12] Ananias and Sapphira were saved and of one heart and one soul with all the Christians (Acts 4:32-5:1), until they agreed to lie to the Holy Ghost, at which time they were killed (Acts 5:1-11). “Great grace was upon them all,” including Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 4:33; 5:1). [13] The Galatians, who had begun in the Spirit and had received the Spirit (Jude 1:3-4), were soon removed from Christ and grace (Jude 1:5-6). [14] Demas, a preacher in the early congregation (Col. 4:14; Phm. 1:24), went back into sin, having loved this present world (2Tim. 4:10). If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. He is lost if he does not come back to God (1Jn. 2:15-17). [15] Hymenaeus and Alexander were one time in the faith but made a shipwreck of it and put away faith in the true God (1Tim. 1:19-20). [16] Many others coveted money and erred from the faith (1Tim. 6:10, 21).
To be continued…
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