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ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED
(Second Part)
BY
ADOLFO RICARDO YBARRA
(This work uses the King James Version and
relies on the Textus Receptus Greek text)
(English is not the author’s native tongue,
so there may be some non English expressions. It is available also the Spanish
version of this text)
Copyright 2005 A.R.Y. and J.J.Y.
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THE OSAS COMPLETE PICTURE:
OBAB, OJAJ, OSAS 2, OIAI, OVAV, OPAP
There are more than
OSAS:
It is now opportune to show a complete picture of all the
things pertinent to Once Saved Always Saved (OSAS).
There are various "ONCE ... ALWAYS ..." related
one another, OBAB (Once Believer Always Believer), OJAJ (Once Justified Always
Justified), OSAS 2 (Once Son Always Son), OIAI (Once Indwelled Always
Indwelled), OVAV (Once Vivified Always Vivified), OPAP (Once Predestinated
Always Predestinated). We shall see each of them and the relationship between
them too, because all of them are vitally related. Yea, there are more than
OSAS. We shall construct our picture gradually adding a new element while
advancing in its building. Finally we hope to have all the elements put
together and related one another.
OBAB (Once Believer
Always Believer):
We shall start our building at OBAB (Once Believer Always
Believer):
1 Peter 1:7
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be
tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the
appearing of Jesus Christ:
The first thing we need to say about OBAB is that it
comprise only one un-perishable faith, the true faith of the believer from the
beginning to the end of his life (or to the glorification of the believers
alive at the return of the Lord). There is not such thing as initial faith and
the posterior faith, as if there were two faiths, it is better to speak of a
initial phase of the faith and of the continuing phase of the same faith. There
is an obvious relationship of mutual implication in the existence of the OB and
the AB of OBAB, because the OB is the first part constituent of the AB, then
the AB follows all of the OB in time, and all of the AB is preceded in time by
the OB. The past existence of the OB
implies the present existence of the AB, and the present existence of
the AB implies the past existence of the OB. We cannot speak of someone having
the AB and having not had the OB. Also we cannot speak of someone having had OB
and not having AB. There is only one possibility for a person to have OB and
AB, or to have neither OB nor AB. Because of it keep in mind that when we read
passages focusing upon the Initial Phase of the Faith it is supposed the
existence of the Continuing Phase of the same Faith.
Secondly, we need to distinguish from the two parts of OBAB
which part is effectual for our eternal salvation:
1) OB (Once Believer) indicating the
Initial Phase of the Faith of the believer, that
true one faith as reached at determined time in the life of a person for
eternal and definitive salvation, so as salvation depends solely on that
Initial Phase of the Faith, salvation does not depend on future conditions
fulfilled by the believer during his life, so it is unconditional salvation;
there was only one past condition for salvation, the Initial Phase of the
Faith. So his Initial Phase of the Faith have saved the true believer
definitively from eternal damnation, and he is not being saved nor maintained
saved from damnation by the continuing phase of his faith.
The Word of God teaches clearly
not only that our final salvation is secured by initial salvation, but also
that our definitive salvation does not depend on present salvation:
Ephesians 2:8-10
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it
is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any
man should boast.
10 For we are his
workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before
ordained that we should walk in them.
The word “saved” is in the Greek not a
simple past participle as in English; in the Greek that is a Perfect Tense
Participle; and that signifies that the saved is now definitively saved by a
past completed act of initial faith (eternally decisive initial salvation).
2) AB (Always Believer) indicating the
Continuing Phase of the Faith, during all the life of the true believer, phase of the faith not dependent
on any condition to be fulfilled by the believer in all his life. This phase of
the faith is not for the eternal salvation but to keep from sin and edify the
believer up to reach his assured final salvation sanctified and edified and
much more. Again, the Initial Phase of his Faith have saved the true believer
definitively from eternal damnation, and he is not being saved nor maintained
saved from damnation by his Continuing Phase of the Faith during his life. By
the present faith the saved is receiving
salvation (present salvation) not as an unconcluded process of eternal
salvation, but as the result of a definitive and
completely concluded decisive past act (eternally decisive initial salvation).
According to Dan Corner the believer is now receiving salvation as a part of a
process of eternal salvation still not concluded (and even a process that may
not be concluded at last!); but that is contradictory with the Perfect Tense
Participle of Ephesians 2:8. We believe, according to Ephesians 2:8, that we
the true believers are receiving salvation constantly (present salvation), and
at last we shall be saved from the physical death; but we believe we are
receiving it not because our process of salvation is unconcluded, but, as the
Perfect Tense implies, because the results of a past act of definitive
salvation are now being poured upon us the saved.
OBAB-OJAJ Relationship:
Now, because of OBAB we are touching OJAJ (Once Justified
Always Justified):
It is the beginning of the faith that justifies the
believer, and the continuing of the faith is sustained by the effected
justification:
Romans 1:17
For therein is the
righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The
just shall live by faith.
Let us analyze this verse:
Romans 1:17
For therein is the
righteousness of God revealed from faith {It
is the Initial Phase of the Faith or the OB, the commencing of the faith, and
is presented as the cause of the justification} to
faith {it is the Continuing
Phase of the Faith or the AB, and it is presented as a result of the
justification o of the initial faith that caused the justification}: as it is
written, The just shall live by faith.
It is said first in the verse that the righteousness of God
is revealed from faith; that is to say, that the beginning of the
faith is the cause of the justification. And as the justification
depends solely on that Initial Phase of the Faith, the justification does not
depend on future conditions to be fulfilled by the believer in his life,
so it is unconditional justification; there was only one past condition for
justification, the Initial Phase of the Faith. So the Initial Phase of his
Faith had justified the true believer definitively from all sin, and he is not
being justified nor maintained justified from sin by the Continuing Phase of
his Faith. Even more, the Continuing Phase of his Faith is maintained by the
definitive justification, because it is said secondly in the verse that the
righteousness of God is revealed “to faith”. We can represent all
of it putting a “----->” to indicate a cause and his effect; then so we
shall have “cause -----> effect”; the “------I” symbol is to show you the
base of a thing and the based thing; so we shall have “base ------I based
thing”. A little circle or point will represent the punctual action of a
“Once”, and a continuous line will represent the continuous state of an
“Always”. Here is a good graphic for you:
Figure 1: OBAB-OJAJ Relationship:
You can observe the arrow going
from AJ to AB and not conversely, that is to say, that the Continuing Faith of
the believer is sustained for the Definitive Justification, and not conversely.
The Once
Justified, or definitive Justification is the base for the Always Justified, or
the permanently God’s maintained justification: can you see the use of the
“-----I“? We have “definitive justification ------I permanent justification”;
so we have the permanent justification permanently only because it is the
result of the definitive God’s act of justification.
By its relationship with
justification, we can call the Commencing Faith, Pre-Justification
Phase of the Faith, in the sense it antecedes
justification; and in the sense it causes definitive justification we can call
it also For-Justification Phase of the Faith.
Then we have that the Continuing Faith, because it follows the definitive
justification, can be called Post-Justification Phase of the
Faith; and in the sense it is sustained by the concluded
and permanent justification, it can be called also From-Justification
Phase of the Faith.
The
glorious definitive and permanent justification from all sin:
An Arminian, Jeff Paton, said:
Many will try to explain {a false argument sustaining that the necessary continuous
cleansing of the believer must replace the true concept of imputed
righteousness} this away with the fictional doctrine of the
imputed righteousness of Christ. They claim, without any Biblical warrant
whatsoever, that the blood of Christ covers their sin so God cannot see their
filthiness.
(eternalsecurity.us\charles_stanley.htm by Jeff Paton)
Despite Jeff Paton I shall explain
the security of salvation with the glorious biblical Paul’s doctrine of the
imputed righteousness of Christ:
Romans
5:19
For
as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one {Jesus} shall many be made righteous
{so imputed righteousness
is not fictitious, the only fictitious thing is the Jeff Paton’s concept of
absence of imputed righteousness}.
And I shall rejoice in that the
precious blood of Jesus Christ has justified me from all sin. Away from me to rely
in works alike Jeff Paton but only in the perfect work of my perfect Lord and
God. And Jeff Patton for sure has not appreciation for the sacrificial work of
the Lord, here are his words:
Nowhere does the Scripture say that Jesus paid for sin, or that
he was punished! By this statement, I have probably shocked most of my
readers! Stanley’s theory of eternal security demands that sins
are "paid for." This ensures the end result, the salvation of the one
who’s sin debt has been paid. This theory is nothing more than a
mere assumption. There is not a singular statement in all of Scripture that
unambiguously states this, so why would anyone dogmatically claim it as
Scripture fact unless their doctrinal idol were threatened?
eternalsecurity.us/charles_stanley.htm
Here you have some verses to solve
the problem of Jeff Patton:
Isaiah
53:5
But
he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our
iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
{You
see it, “the chastisement” was upon him, it was not very correct the Jeff’s sayings, “Nowhere
does the Scripture say that … he was punished”; perhaps Jeff need to re-read his Bible, but perhaps first he need
to quit from his face that little Arminian curtain.}
Matthew
20:28
Even
as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Mark
10:45
For
even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to
give his life a ransom for many.
1 Timothy
2:6
Who
gave himself
a ransom for all,
to be testified in due time.
{A
ransom is what is given in exchange for another as the price of his redemption,
the Lord himself, as delivered to dead, was the infinite price for our eternal
salvation; all the Arminians will account before God for his typical phrase
“cheap grace”}
Romans
4:25
Who
was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
1
Peter 3:18
For
Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh,
but quickened by the Spirit
Isaiah
53:10
Yet
it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt
make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the
pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. {thou…: or, his soul shall make
an offering}
1
Peter 2:24
Who
his own self bare our sins in his own body on the
tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live
unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. {on: or, to}
Romans
6:23
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our
Lord. [Let’s think about it, why did the Lord
die? He suffered the wages of sin! More precisely He suffered the wages of our
sin!, as it is written “But he was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.” (Isaiah 53:5)}
The justification is the act of
God by which He, by the commencing faith of the believer and not by works,
imputes or attributes definitively to the believer the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
It is a definitive act of God because is not dependent on the continuing faith,
and then it should have expression in the Bible trough a perfect tense. Where
is in the Bible that perfect tense for the justification? Here it is:
Romans
6:7
For
he that is dead is freed {Greek: Justified, Perfect Tense}
from sin.
Paul is saying here that we are definitively justified from
sin as if we are dead to sin. And as it is a terminated justification from
sin (Greek: from
the sin),
not from the past sins, or from certain classes of sin, but from the
sin, the
corpus of all sin, past sins, present sins, and future sins, and of all kinds
of sins, then there is not necessity of a future new act of justification for a
certain future sin in the life of the believer; so, that the act of
justification is to justify from all sin, does agree with the fact that the act
of justification is a Perfect Tense act, a terminated and definitive one. There
were and there are some Arminians trying to twist Romans 3:25 and,
contradicting Romans 6:7, saying that we are justified only from past sins; but
the Greek text is against them absolutely:
Romans 3:25
Whom God hath set forth
to be a propitiation through faith {Initial Faith, as have been
demonstrated} in his blood, to declare his righteousness for
{this “for” is a bad translation, the
Greek text of the Textus Receptus uses the preposition “dia”, indicating
“through”, then the correct translation of the following is “passing over” of
past sins}
the remission {passing
over} of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Here is a best translation similar to the correct
translation of the Spanish Version Reina-Valera 1909
Romans 3:25
Whom God hath set forth
to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness,
through the passing over of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; {the
idea is that God, at the Old Testament times, through His forbearance, did not
deliver his final chastisement over the men till they have the opportunity to
be justified by the faith at this time}
Moreover, the above idea contained in our better translation
is in accordance with the following verse stating that the “passing over” that
was talked about was a thing PREVIOUS to the arrived time for the justification
by faith:
Romans 3:25-26
25 Whom God hath set
forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his
righteousness, through the passing over of sins
that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I
say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just,
and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
And if there is an Arminian saying that being definitively
justified from the sin (which is taught by Romans 6:7 and context) is a license
to sin, then let me say to him that Paul the Apostle says that it is THE BASIS
TO NOT TO SIN. Let us read the passage:
Romans
6:1-18
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in
sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to
sin, live any longer therein?
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were
baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism
into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the
Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the
likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified
with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should
not serve sin.
7 For he that is dead is freed {Greek: JUSTIFIED, PERFECT TENSE} from
sin.
8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe
that we shall also live with him:
9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the
dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once:
but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be
dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal
body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments
of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are
alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you:
for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not
under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield
yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of
sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants
of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was
delivered you.
18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the
servants of righteousness.
Now let me comment this passage:
Romans
6:1-18
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in
sin, that grace may abound? {It is the false conclusion the
Arminians usually raise against the preaching of the gospel being unaware they
are fighting against Paul the Apostle}
2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to
sin, live any longer therein? {It is the true conclusion the
Apostle of the true gospel raises against the Arminians. The true believers are
dead to sin, that is they are declared definitively righteous by God,
definitively justified from the sin (v. 7). That is contrary to the conditional
salvation or conditional security of Arminians}
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were
baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism
into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the
Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life {It is the
perfect association of the true believers with Jesus Christ, buried and raised.
And it will be seen the fact that Jesus, alike His believers, was UNCONDITIONALLY
buried and raised, it will be
remarkably pointed out by Paul at vs. 5, 8, 9, 10, 11}
5 For if we have been planted together in the
likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: {That
is to say, that we are like Christ, eternally unconditionally secure, eternally
resurrected to a new life, nevermore to dead, vs. 8, 9, 10, 11}
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified
with him {Aorist
Tense, a past fact} that the body of sin might be
destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin {a
conclusion the Arminians do not like to recongnize for a definitive
justification}.
7 For he that is dead is freed {Greek: JUSTIFIED, PERFECT TENSE,
that is to say, a unique act of justification and of permanent validity,
coincident with the fact we are alike Christ unconditionally buried and raised
to a new life, vs. 5, 8, 9, 10, 11} from sin.
8 Now if we be dead with Christ {being
definitively justified from sin, v. 7}, we believe that we
shall also live with him {then we the justified are living
definitively as He is living definitively}:
9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the
dead dieth no more {we shall also live with him, v. 5, and will dead no
more alike Christ dieth no more}; death hath no more dominion over him {then
not more dominion over us the definitively justified and, alike Christ,
definitively resurrected to a new life}.
10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once:
but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God {there is
not conditional security for Jesus Christ}.
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be
dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord {that
is to say, alike for Jesus there is not an Arminian conditional security for
us, only a Pauline perfect unconditional security likewise Jesus Christ}.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal
body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. {We the
OJAJ (Once Justified Always Justified) then have the possibility of making the sin
does not reign in our bodies, that is not a license to sin; it is a license to
overcome sin!}
13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments
of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are
alive from the dead {definitively and unconditionally
alive from the dead as it was said}, and your members as
instruments of righteousness unto God.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you:
for ye are not under the law, but under grace {Glory to
God!! It is our license to not to sin!!}
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not
under the law, but under grace {It is the false conclusion
the Arminians usually raise against the security or our grace being unaware
they are fighting against Paul the Apostle}? God forbid.
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield
yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of
sin unto death {here are those yet not obeying the gospel and yet
not justified from sin, v. 17}, or of obedience {obedience
to the doctrine of the gospel, v. 17} unto
righteousness?
17 But God be thanked, that ye were the
servants of sin {we were it before obey the gospel but now having
obeyed and so having been definitively justified from sin, v. 7, nevermore we
shall be servants of sin, v. 6}, but ye have obeyed {Aorist
Tense, a past act, when we believeed the gospel and so having been definitively
justified from sin, v. 7} from the heart that form of doctrine {the
gospel itself} which was delivered you {Aorist
Tense, a past act}.
18 Being then made free {Aorist
Tense, a past act, and by v. 7 a definitive act} from sin,
ye became the servants {Aorist Tense, a past act and as a
consequence of definitive justification (v. 7), a definitive act} of righteousness .
OJAJ (Once Justified Always Justified) is not a license to
sin, it is the only real way to overcome the sin and you Arminians,
rejecting the perfect justification from God, are servants of sin! You
Arminians, blaspheming the true gospel that Paul has preached us, are those men
spoken from at Romans 3:8!
Romans 3:8
And not rather, (as we be
slanderously reported, and as some affirm that
we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is
just.
Let us continue, we have showed that the justification is
terminated and definitive by:
-Showing that justification is dependent on commencing
faith, and showing that continuing faith is dependent on justification; then
justification is not dependent on the future faith of the believer; then
justification is a terminated and definitive act of God at the commencing faith
of the believer. (Arminians, stop of saying that the loss of faith causes the
loss of justification).
-Showing that justification is likewise the dead and
resurrection of Christ, so unique and definitive and terminated, and then unconditional.
(The Arminians will make well stopping of saying that the true believers are
conditionally secure, “The Believer's Conditional Security” is a false gospel).
-Showing the use of perfect tense for the justification, and
that it is then an act concluded terminated in the past, which result of the
justified believer is a permanent result, which is a definitive result because
justification never is repetitive in the Bible. (Arminians, stop of blabbing
about “maintain the salvation”).
-Showing that justification is from all sin, and then there
are neither future sin requiring a new justification, nor future sin without
having been justified from. (Arminians. Stop of blabbing about sins from which
we are not justified from the beginning causing the loss of salvation).
Now, having demonstrated plenty of proof the definitiveness
of the justification at the beginning of the faith, and having checked the
occurrence of the Perfect Tense for justification, we can proceed to show various
passages speaking of the justification by faith and interpret them correctly:
Romans 3:22
Even the righteousness of
God which is by faith {it is the faith alone which in its commencing brings upon definitive
justification or definitive imputation or attribution of the righteousness of
God to the believer} of Jesus Christ unto all and upon
all them that believe {It is the commencing of the faith
in present tense as focused at the same moment of its being exercised and
entering in his phase of continuing faith} , but is:
for there is no difference:
Romans 3:26
To declare, I say, at
this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the
justifier
{Present Tense: God having justified definitively (as has
been showed) maintains continuously his justification and it never can become
null, Once Justified Always Justified} of him
which believeth in Jesus {Greek: “him which is
of the faith of Jesus”}.
Romans 3:28
Therefore we conclude
that a man is justified {Present Tense, the continuous
maintenance of the definitive justification by God} by faith
{here we need to understand it as the only faith from
beginning to end, but remembering that it is the commencing of that faith which
brought upon definitive justification} without
the deeds of the law.
Romans 4:5
But to him that worketh
not, but believeth {It is the Initial Faith in present tense as focused
at the same moment of its being exercised and entering in his phase of
Following Faith} on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith
is counted for righteousness.
Romans 5:1
Therefore being justified {Aorist
Tense, the past act of definitive justification} by faith {as
that justification is an act accomplished in the past, then is was accomplished
at the beginning of the faith}, we have peace with God through our Lord
Jesus Christ:
The OJAJ-OSAS 2 Relationship:
Well, now is the moment to make an halt in our building, a
little stop in our interesting travel. We have started from OBAB (Once Believer
Always Believer), and then we passed to OJAJ (Once Justified Always Justified),
and pointed out the relationship between OBAB and OJAJ, putting it in an
interesting graphic. Now we can continue our travel passing to OSAS 2 (Once Son
Always Son) pointing out the relationship between OSAS 2 and OJAJ. The
relationship is as follow, Once Justified the believer is made a son of God and
then an heir. Here are our verses for it:
Titus 3:7
That being justified {Aorist Tense, the past fact of
the definitive justification as we have demonstrated} by
his grace, we should be made heirs according
to the hope of eternal life {the final
salvation secured by the eternally decisive initial salvation}.
And the heirs are such because they are sons:
Romans 8:17
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be
that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
The “if so be that we suffer with
him, that we may be also glorified together” is not a condition to
fulfill in addition to be sons of God to be glorified; because
the Greek “ei” commencing the “if so be that we suffer
with him, that we may be also glorified together” is united to the Greek “per” meaning
“actually” or “in fact”; and the resulting compound word “eiper” can be
translated “inasmuch as”. Then a better translation is:
Romans 8:17
And if
children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; because really we suffer
with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Then we have that the fact of to be “heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ” is presented as
coexistent with the assured fact that we the true
believers “suffer with him, that we may be also
glorified together”. As it is also said that our suffering is a past
given gift and not a future condition to fulfill:
Philippians 1:29
For unto you it is given {Aorist Tense, Indicative Mood,
so a past concluded act} in the behalf
of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake {Not
only was given to us the true believers the un-perishable faith; but, with that
un-perishable faith, to suffer for his sake; so, as it is with the
un-perishable faith, it is a faithful endurance in the suffering for Christ}
It is remarkable that the sonship was first presented also
as an actual and concluded fact for all
the true believers, and secondly was presented that it is an assured fact that
the sons of God will suffer for His sake, and then thirdly is presented that it
is an assured fact that the sons of God will be glorified:
Romans 8:15-19
15 For ye have not received the spirit of
bondage again to fear {The son of God must not fear as
Dan Corner does; fearing constantly to lose his salvation by a failure to fulfill
a condition}; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we
cry, Abba, Father.
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our
spirit, that we are the children of God {It is
declared the fact that we the true believers are children of God, and that it
is not a unknowable fact, but a fact testified to us by the Spirit in us the
children of God}:
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God,
and joint-heirs with Christ {a fact not dependent on future
conditions but on the concluded and permanent fact of to be sons of God}; if so be {Greek: “eiper”, introducing an
actual fact also and not a future condition that should be fulfilled} that
we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together {the
actual fact introduced by the “eiper”}.
18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this
present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be
revealed {an
assured future to be accomplished; not a non assured fact à la Dan Corner} in us.
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature
waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God {not of
“some” sons of God, as some Arminians would like it; but of “the” sons of God}.
That is to say, that the definitive and permanent
justification is the cause of the sonship. And as the sonship depends on that
definitive and permanent justification, then the sonship does not depend on
future conditions to be fulfilled by the believer during his life, so it is
unconditional sonship; there is only one unalterable condition for the sonship,
the definitive and permanent justification. So his definitive and permanent
justification makes the true believer definitively and permanently a son of
God, and he is not being made son nor maintained son by nothing in the future.
We can represent all of it putting again a “----->” to indicate a cause and
his effect; then so “cause -----> effect”; the “------I” symbol is to show
you the base of a thing and the based thing; so “base ------I based thing”. You
can see all of it again in a graphic manner:
Figure 2: OJAJ-OSAS 2 Relationship:
That is to say, that a son of God
is forever and unconditionally son of God because his definitive and permanent
justification according to Titus 3:7 and all the things we have seen.
But what have to say the Arminians about it?
Also, angels and Adam are called "son(s) of
God" (Job 1:6; Lk. 3:38, KJV), yet some angels and Adam lost their eternal
life, and we can too as sons of God.
(www.evangelicaloutreach.org/faq.htm,
an axcerpt from Chapter 16 of the book, The Believer' Conditional Security by
Dan Corner)
Perhaps Dan is hiding us something he does not like we to
know, he is saying that we are sons of God alike Adam before the fall by which
he became son of the devil; even as angels from which many became demons after
their fall; but what is he hiding of us? What is this tricky Dan robbing from
us? Let us think about it very much carefully, are the true believers in Christ
like angels with the possibility of being demons? Are they like Adam with the
possibility of becoming sons of the devil. Where is here the trap? Dan will not
fool us! We shall discover his trap!
Perhaps if we ask questions we shall can discover it: let us rack our
brains. I get it! What did have the believers in Christ that neither Adam
before his fall nor angels before his fall did had? Answer: Justification from the sin in the precious blood of Jesus Christ.
That we have showed, a son of God believer in Christ is forever and
unconditionally son of God because his definitive and permanent justification.
As we have presented OBAB (Once Believer Always Believer),
before to continue ahead, it is convenient to show now the relationship between
OBAB and OSAS 2 (Once Son Always Son):
Do not hope Dan Corner will explain correctly Romans 8:17:
he, strikingly and trickyly, will erase the footprints, so you cannot find the
truth. Here is the Dan Corner “explanation” of Romans 8:17:
In a general way, we are "heirs of God and
co-heirs with Christ" (Rom. 8:17). Because we have decided to
"take up our cross, deny ourselves and follow Jesus" (Lk. 9:23), we
get as our inheritance everything, including God himself! God will be
OUR God and we will be HIS sons forever (Rev. 21:7).
(www.evangelicaloutreach.org/overcome.htm,
The Overcomer's Inheritance, Dan Corner)
Paul said us that we are “heirs;
heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ” because “we are the children of God” (v.16); Paul said clearly
“And if children,
then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with
Christ”; but
Dan Corner is not content with that and plays his accustomed game of quit from
the Word and add to the Word; in his “explanation” of Romans 8:17 he robs from us
the Paul’s declared cause of the being an heir; and puts in its place a
declaration of the Lord referred to be his disciples (Lk. 9:23); you can see
here the tricky Dan’s custom of erasing the footprints; so you may be blinded
about the true cause of being an heir (to be a son of God, as Paul clearly
says); and so blinded, Dan may mislead you to his fake conditional security of
the believer. And what about being son of God (the Dan’s ignored cause of being
an heir)? Dan pushes it to the future, mixing it with the inheritance by saying
“we will be HIS sons forever”; have you noted the “will
be”? Dan
does not like to consider here our present (Ro. 8:15-19) definitive
sonship but have pushed it to the future: how? Quoting (Rev. 21:7):
Revelation 21:7
He that overcometh shall
inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
Obviously he that is now definitively a son of God and then
an heir, according to Paul the Apostle, “shall inherit
all things” and He “will be his God”,
and he shall be His son, obviously he shall be the son of God also in the future kingdom.
But Dan has robbed from us the first part of the issue and has put only the
last part as if it does not depend on the first part. For Dan, the first part
is the first victory at initial salvation, which, for Dan, does not secure
final victory:
At the point of initial salvation, we are shown to be overcomers:
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He
who is in you is greater than he who is in the world (1 Jn. 4:4, NKJV).
See also 1 Jn. 2:13,14; 5:4,5.
Yet in a different sense, the Lord referred to final
salvation when he addressed those already saved. He stated that we must be
faithful to the point of death to overcome and not be hurt by the second death
(www.evangelicaloutreach.org\initial2.htm, Chapter 5 of the book, The Believer's Conditional Security by Dan
Corner)
Also the Arminian Jeff Patton uphold it:
We are also
told that only " He that overcometh shall inherit all things;
and I will be his God, and he shall be my son." Rev.
21:7. Notice that the status of final and complete son-ship and adoption is not
finalized until the future. Also note the implications of this verse! The one who
does not overcome does not receive all things, and are not adopted as
sons!
(eternalsecurity.us\charles_stanley.htm by Jeff Paton)
What a tricky men are these Dan and Jeff! But I shall show
now a thing that will not like those Dan and Jeff; I shall show you who are the
overcomers of Revelation 21:7; this will not like the Armininians, but the
overcomers of Revelation 21:7 are those being now the sons of God and then
true believers:
1 John 5:4
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is
the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
Again we have the same thing previously showed by the Lord
by his narrow way analogy and by another things previously showed, that the
final salvation is secured by initial salvation, here the final overcoming is
secured by the initial overcoming of having become sons of God. The Scripture
cannot be broken.
So, to be one that overcome is not a condition to fulfill in
the future; but it is a thing that is assured for “whatsoever is born of God” (1 John 5:4); so we have
also that if we are children of God then we are those that overcome, not only
heirs. Now a little of Greek, John says
us that the son of God “overcometh the world”,
a Present Tense, indicating continuous overcoming making the believer one that
always overcome (1 John 5:5); and that continuous overcoming does not depend on
a future condition to be fulfilled but upon a definitively reached fact, to be
sons of God; because the “born” of 1 John 5:4 is a
Perfect Tense; then indicating to be son of God is not a continuous process; but a
definitively reached state. Then we have assured the overcoming not by a future
condition to be fulfilled; but by a definitively reached state, to be sons of
God:
1 John 5:4-5
4 For whatsoever is born {Perfect Tense, a past
definitively reached state} of God overcometh
{Present Tense, then not only a victory at our initial or final salvation as
Dan Corner will like it, but a continuous victory} the
world: and this is the victory that overcometh {Aorist
Tense, Participle Mood, to emphasize the security of that previous continuous
victory}
the world, even our faith.
5 Who is he that overcometh {Greek: “o nikoon”, exactly alike Revelation 21:7} the world, but he that believeth {“the believer” according to the Participle in Present Tense } that Jesus is the Son of God?
Now, what is the victory itself? It is the faith of the
sons of God, “and this
is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith”. Then, our faith, or victory, is not based upon future conditions
to be fulfilled; but upon a definitively reached state, to be sons of God. Let
me repeat it, the overcoming, or the faith of the sons of God, is presented at
1 John 5:4 as dependent on a definitively reached state, being sons of God:
1 John 5:4
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
And the born of God became such by the commencing of the
faith:
John 1:12-13
12 But as many as received, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that
believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor
of the will of man, but of God.
Let me show the tenses and moods to see how it does not
contradict 1 John 5:4 (showing that being born of God is not a process, but a
definitive reached state):
John 1:12-13
12 But as many as received {Aorist Tense, Indicative Mode,
that is to say, that we received Christ, not that we are receiving Him as a
process}, to them gave he power {Aorist
Tense, Indicative Mode, that is to say, that He gave us the power to be sons of
God, no that He is giving us the power as a process} to
become the sons of God, even to them that believe {Present
Tense, indicating the continuity of his commencing faith, Once Believer Always
Believers, but the Aorist Tenses for the precedent things indicate those things
are reached at and by the commencing of the faith, and not by the continuing of
the faith as a continuous process} on his name:
13 Which were born {Aorist Tense, Indicative Mode,
that is to say, that were born, no that we are being born as a process}, not of
blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Dan makes an attempt to twist it quoting the following verse:
Galatians 3:26
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith
in Christ Jesus.
That verse is saying to us that by faith in Christ Jesus we
the believers are all the children of God; the Arminians like Dan Corner would
like it saying that we are sons of God while we are maintaining ourselves
believing:
We are sons of
God through faith in Christ Jesus (Gal. 3:26), yet it is possible to stop
believing (Lk. 8:13), have our faith destroyed (2 Tim. 2:18) and for our faith
to become shipwrecked (1 Tim. 1:19,20).
(www.evangelicaloutreach.org/faq.htm,
an axcerpt from Chapter 16 of the book, The Believer' Conditional Security by
Dan Corner)
This verses Dan cites here, (Lk. 8:13), (2 Tim. 2:18) and (1 Tim. 1:19,20), have been treated and found
not sustaining the Dan’s claims; which are bad interpretations and a rejecting
of clear Scripture such as 1 Peter 1:7 teaching that the faith of the true
believer is un-perishable; as it has been seen at the first part of this essay
at THE TRUTH ABOUT DAN CORNER’S MISUSED
VERSES. And clearly, according to 1 Peter 1:3,
the un-perishable faith is proper of a born again:
1 Peter 1:3
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath
begotten us again {The recipient
of the following words speaking of un-perishable faith (1 Peter 1:7) are the
born again, so it is fatuous to say that a born again can lose his faith as Dan
Corner said “We are sons of
God through faith in Christ Jesus (Gal. 3:26), yet it is possible to stop
believing”} unto a lively hope by the resurrection of
Jesus Christ from the dead
Moreover, if we wish to interpret rightly the Bible, we need
to remember that being the sons of God
is not a continuous process, but a definitive reached state; then if we are now
the sons of God (Present Tense), we are such by the commencing of our present
faith, and not by the exercising or our present faith. The Arminians are very
ready to ignore the verses with the Aorist Tense and Perfect Tense for being
born of God not supporting his false doctrine. Moreover, 1 John 5:4 says that
our faith, or victory, is secured by our condition of sons of God, and not
conversely as Dan Corner would like it.
You see it, the Aorist Tenses of John 1:12-13 only are an
indication of the full fact as it was presented by the Perfect Tense for “born”
in 1 John 5:4. The Arminians like to ignore it and they do an absurd reasoning;
they say that as the believers in Christ believe continually, then they are
sons of God by the continuous faith an not as a concluded fact; but they are
very slapdash; the words from the Word clearly say by the Aorist Tenses and the
Perfect Tense that the sonship is produced
as a definitively reached state; then, dear Arminians, we cannot at the
present or at the future reach a thing which has been reached completely at the
past; then, dear Arminians, if you are honest, you need to suppose that, if
this is a completely and definitively past reached fact, then it was reached by
the commencing of the faith, and it is not mantained by the continuing of the
faith.
Then we have that we were born of God by the commencing
faith, and our condition of sons of God is the support of the continuing Faith:
Figure 3: OBAB-OSAS 2 Relationship:
At the graphic we can observe that
the commencing faith is the cause for being born of God, and the condition of
being
born of God is not sustained by the continuing faith: but conversely. The Bible
does not say that we are maintained sons of God by our continuing faith; the
Bible calls the faith “the victory” and
presents this victory (or faith) as caused by
the sonship:
1 John 5:4
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world,
even our faith.
Before to pass to the OBAB-OJAJ-OSAS
2 Relationship, we shall show another resounding, overwhelming, and conclusive
proof that all the sons of God will be glorified at the end (final salvation
assured for all the sons of God):
Romans 8:28-30
28 And we know that all things work together
for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his
purpose.
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.
30 Moreover whom he did
predestinate, them he also
called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Resounding, overwhelming, and conclusive proof
that cannot be broken; only let us follow the “whom” and “them” and we shall see the glorious truth that Dan Corner would
like to deny and we shall met at the end that the same whom God justified (who are the brothers of Jesus, v. 27, so
they are the sons of God), them He also
glorified. I reject as aberrant the Dan Corner ‘s teaching implying the final “them” does not correspond to the final “whom”; I am not crazy, still I can understand the clear meaning
of the words! I can see beyond doubt God will glorify all the
justified; the same whom God
justified, them glorified. And if all
the justified ones will be glorified without failing, then no one justified
will lose his salvation, all them will be saved. Amen. Glory to God!!!
Moreover, all the elects
are presented here as justified and finally glorified, and, coincidently with
Romans, the elects are presented as born again in 1 Peter, and are presented as
having an un-perishable faith:
1 Peter 1:1-9
1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the
strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
2 Elect according to
the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto
obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and
peace, be multiplied {The recipient of the
following words speaking of un-perishable faith (1 Peter 1:7) are the elects,
so it is fatuous to say that an elect can lose his faith}.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again {The recipient
of the following words speaking of un-perishable faith (1 Peter 1:7) are the
born again, so it is fatuous to say that a born again can lose his faith} unto a lively hope by the resurrection of
Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and
undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
Here is an Arminian supposedly refuting to
Charles Stanley; and also attempting vainly to twist the meaning of the
definitive adoption:
{Charles Stanley:}
If
our salvation can be lost, our adoption into the family of God is not
permanent. We can be unadopted, so to speak. Such a process, however, is never
described or even alluded to in the New Testament.
{“Refutation” to Stanley by the Arminian:}
Mr. Stanley is also mistaken in the fact that he talks as if
the believers adoption is a finished transaction in actuality and in the mind of
God. In Romans 8:23 we are told that our adoption is not finalized until we
receive our glorification. " Not
only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan
inwardly as we wait eagerly for our
adoption as sons, the
redemption of our bodies." (NIV). Stanley fails to notice that the
Scriptures say that our adoption is not final until the redemption of our
bodies.
(eternalsecurity.us\charles_stanley.htm by Jeff Paton)
There is an half truth and a consequent false
conclusion in that Arminian´s “refutation”. This Arminian, Jeff Paton, follows
the same obscure method to twist the truth, that is, to conceal a truth and to
invent a thing not existing in the Bible. First he conceals the truth about the
present phase of adoption
saying “Stanley
is also mistaken in the fact that he talks as if the believers adoption is a
finished transaction”;
even if the believers adoption is a not finished transaction, that does not
mean that a definitive and decisive part of the transaction has been not finished;
in fact the Holy Spirit is now witnessing
to our spirit as a Spirit of adoption that we are now sons of God;
and we can know that the remaining for the adoption status is not the sonship
(which, as showed, is a present possession testified to us by the Spirit), but
a future redemption of our bodies:
Romans 8:23
And not only they, but
ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves,
waiting for the adoption, to wit, the
redemption of our body.
Our sonship is not liable for a future
completion, because we are now sons of God as a definitively reached state (as
it was demonstrated by the use of the perfect tense at 1 John 5:4); then, at
the final day of the redemption of our body, our sonship only will be
manifested, not obtained, as it is written:
Romans 8:19
For the earnest
expectation of the creature waiteth for the
manifestation of the sons of God.
1 John 3:2
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear
what we shall be: but we know that, when
he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as
he is.
So, Charles Stanley was right when saying, “If our salvation can be lost, our adoption into the family of God is
not permanent. We can be unadopted, so to speak. Such a process, however, is
never described or even alluded to in the New Testament.” Yea Charles, such a process
is never described or even alluded to in the New Testament; and moreover, we
can add that our adoption in the family of God is positively testified by the
Scripture as permanent, the sonship never ends, Once Son Always Son, that we
have demonstrated above and I shall not demonstrate it here again. So Jeff
Paton is wrong also when saying:
"There is
no scriptural support for the notion that the adoption process can’t be reversed."
(eternalsecurity.us\charles_stanley.htm
by Jeff Paton)
So, the redemption of our body is an assured thing anywhere.
The same whom God
justified, them glorified. Amen.
And, ¿how it is that no one Arminian did notice that Paul
did say, at Romans 8:23, “the redemption of
our body” an not “the redemption of our soul”?
The OBAB-OJAJ-OSAS 2
Relationship:
Now we can unite all the three things, OBAB, OJAJ, OSAS 2,
into one picture:
Figure 4: OBAB-OJAJ-OSAS 2 Relationship:
You can question yourself, why the arrow from Always
Justified does not more go to Always Believer? The answer is that now we have
an intermediate cause between AJ and AB, it is the Always Son. The AJ is still
the cause of AB, but we now know that is by sustaining the Always Son, which in
turn is the cause of AB; so Always Justified is the cause of Always Believer
through Always Son.
OIAI
(Once Indwelled Always Indwelled):
Galatians 4:6
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into
your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
We know that Once Son Always Son; now, according
to Galatians 4:6, once son then indwelled by the Holy Spirit; that is, “because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into
your hearts”.
How we can know that the Spirit indwells the son of God forever? Because we
have demonstrated that Once Son Always Son; and if always son, then always
indwelled; because the Holy Spirit has been given to the sons to testify their
sonship; and as they are always son, then the Holy Spirit is always indwelling
the sons to testify them their sonship. As it is written also:
Romans 8:15-16
15 For ye have not
received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye
have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
16 The Spirit itself
beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Then, as always sons (a demonstrated thing),
also always indwelled by the Holy Spirit.
The
OSAS_2-OIAI Relationship:
As was showed above, in the previous section, it
isbecause of the sonship that the Holy Spirit was given to the heart of the
believer to witness of that sonship; so we have the OSAS 2-OIAI relationship,
that is, OSAS 2 is the cause for OIAI:
Figure 5: OSAS 2-OIAI Relationship:
The OIAI-OBAB Relationship:
Ephesians 1:13
In whom ye also trusted,
after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom
also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with
that holy Spirit of promise,
Galatians 3:14
That the blessing of
Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
The “after that ye believed, ye
were sealed with that holy Spirit” clearly is pointing us to the
commencing of our faith as the cause of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, here
presented as a sealing, obviously the indwelling is implied in the sealing,
because it is mentioned that the sealing is the accomplishment of the promise
of the giving of the Spirit to the believers (Galatians 3:14). But considering
the intermediate causes, the OB (Once Believer) causes the OJ (Once Justified),
the OJ causes the OS (Once Son), the OS
causes the OI (Once Indwelled), and by all this we can trace a combined graphic
of all these things.
As for the continuing of the faith, it is
supported by the continuous indwelling of the Holy Spirit, as it is written:
Romans 8:15-16
15 For ye have not
received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye
have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba,
Father.
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the
children of God
Our present phase of continuing faith is
sustained by the inner bearing of witness with our spirit that the
Holy Spirit renders for ever (for ever because
was demonstrated, Once Son Always Son, then Once Indwelled Always
Indwelled). This permanent and glorious testimony of the Spirit and of our
spirit is obviously an inner indestructible fountain of our continuing faith.
An overwhelming independent proof about Once
Indwelled Always Indwelled will be obtained, by the way, a short distance ahead
from the following sections “OVAV (Once Vivified Always Vivified)” and “The
OIAI-OVAV Relationship”.
The OBAB-OJAJ-OSAS
2-OIAI Relationship:
Considering
the intermediate causes the AJ (Always Justified) is the basis for the
AS (Always Son), and the AS is the cause for the AI (Always Indwelled), and the
AI is the cause of the AB (Always Believer), and it agrees with the
demonstrated dependence of AB on AJ and AS. Now we can see the graphic of all
the relationships between all the elements seen till now:
Figure 6: The OBAB-OJAJ-OSAS 2-OIAI Relationship):
Well, our complete picture is nearly ready.
OVAV (Once Vivified
Always Vivified):
John 4:14
But whosoever drinketh of
the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall
give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life
The Lord clearly teaches the wonderful truth
that the eternal life is for ever once someone had drunk the water of life.
First the water of life was outside the future believer, he did not have
eternal life; but once he drank from the water of life, the life is perpetuated
within him as a fountain within him springing up into everlasting life making
the believer to drink perpetually involuntarily from the springing water from
within, which make the believer to be irrigated from within without the
necessity of to drink again from outside, first he drank from the outside to
eternal life, then he drink from within because he is always made to drink
interiorly from the eternal interior fountain.
John 4:14
But whosoever drinketh {Aorist Tense,
showing the act of drinking as a punctual act, and according to the context it
is a past, a previous punctual act before the interior formation of the eternal
fountain within the believer} of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst {Aorist Tense, indicating the thirst never will rise again; not
the thirst may be present and then be appeased when it rises; the thirst will
never rise again}; but the water that I shall give him shall be in
him a well of water springing up into everlasting life {This is the reason that the thirst never will rise again, the
interior fountain irrigate and “make drink” the believer without the voluntary
drinking from a thirst declared never returning. The believer has not only the
water, but also the well of water springing up into everlasting life}
All of this means Once Vivified Always Vivified.
Now let us remember the Dan Corner’s dark and diabolical realm blabbing about
strange stopping fountains and former true believers suffering thirst eternally
in the hell. I hate his false gospel; I hate the nauseous and sulfurous fake
conditional salvation of that servant of the Devil. I love the Lord, I love his
fountain forever within me and I love I shall never thirst. The Lord love me
and has given me that fountain and if there are some devil’s servants hating me
and desiring I cannot have that fountain and to make me believe I have not that
fountain, all they will be anathema; his love is fake and they do not love the
souls nor the true believers. Glory to the Lord! I love Him and his words:
John 4:14
But whosoever drinketh of
the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall
give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life
The OIAI-OVAV
Relationship:
The “well of water springing up into
everlasting life” is no other than the Holy Spirit forever within the
believer:
John 7:38-39
38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture
hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they
that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given;
because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
Dan will attempt to cheat us saying that “He that
believeth” is in Present Tense, then he will say that to believe constantly
is a condition to receive the flow of the river. But he cannot cheats us
anymore, by John 4:14 we know that the
eternal flow of the water is assured by the first drinking and not by a
continuous drinking during all the life; the first drinking assures the
fountain, and the fountain assures our eternal drinking. Obviously now, the
believer, “He that believeth” (in Present Tense), is a people having got the
first drink, now he remains a believer for ever (1 Peter 1:7) because the Lord
has said “but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water
springing up into everlasting life” and he drinks constantly because the
fountain within him make him to drink, and he will never thirst. But the
present tense is here a focusing of the moment the believer is entering in the
continuous faith, because the commencing faith can be depicted by a present
tense also, because it continues. How we can know that?, because the Lord said at John 4:14 that it is the first drink which brings the
eternal fountain.
By the way, clearly, because the water flowing
forever within the believer is the Holy Spirit, we have now an independent
proof for Once Indwelled Always Indwelled.
And because we have this water that springs up
into everlasting life, we have the relationship between Once Indwelled Always
Indwelled and Once Vivified Always Vivified, the eternal indwelling of the Holy
Spirit is the cause for the eternal life, He, the Holy Spirit, is the fountain
of eternal life within the believer:
Figure 7: The OIAI-OVAV Relationship:
The OBAB-OVAV
Relationship:
We know that the beginning of the faith produces
definitive justification from all sin in the blood of Jesus Christ, and that
the definitive justification sustains a definitive sonship, and the definitive
sonship makes possible a permanent indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and the
permanent indwelling of the Holy Spirit is the permanent fountain for eternal
life; so the relationship between OBAB (Once Believer Always Believer) and OVAV
(Once Vivified Always Vivified), making abstraction from the intermediate
causes between them, is that the beginning of the faith produces definitive
eternal life, that is to say, not dependent on future conditions to be
fulfilled by the believer, then, the continuing of the faith is necessarily
dependent on eternal life:
Figure 8: The OBAB-OVAV Relationship:
Now it is convenient to see where the Bible
reveals the beginning of the faith as the cause of a definitive eternal life:
John 4:14
But whosoever drinketh {Aorist Tense} of the water
that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him
shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life
This verse was treated completely in the
sections immediately above, the water of eternal life springs forever by the
first drink (the commencing of the faith).
John 5:24
Verily, verily, I say
unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath
everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed {Perfect Tense} from death
unto life.
This verse reveals us the eternal life not as a continuous unconcluded process or liable
for to be unconcluded forever (as the Dan Corners would like it), our Lord
reveals us that the eternal life is given once for all; He uses the Perfect
Tense for the “is passed” from death unto life. That is to say, that the
believer has eternal life once for all, he has passed definitively from death
to life, and now he has eternal life not as a process which is still
unconcluded, but as the receiving of a result from a past definitive concluded
fact.
The Arminians pretend to minimize it and they
attempt to cheat us saying that the “He that heareth my word, and believeth on
him that sent me” uses a Present Tense for “heareth” and “believeth”, then they
will say that to believe constantly is a condition to receive continuously
eternal life; but again the Arminians are incapable of conciliate the Scripture
and are making their nauseous and diabolical footprints erasing. The present
tense is here a focusing of the moment the believer is entering in the
continuous faith, because the commencing faith can be depicted by a present
tense also, because it continues. How we can know that?, because the Lord says
us that the eternal life was granted once for all, using the Perfect Tense for
“is
passed” from death to life, then that was at the beginning of the faith,
not by the continuing of it.
John 6:51
I am the living bread
which came down from heaven: if any man eat {Aorist Tense} of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the
bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the
world.
The eating of the commencing of the faith here
is revealed as sufficient for eternal life; it is used the Aorist Tense for “eat”.
John 6:53
Then Jesus said unto
them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat {Aorist Tense} the flesh of the Son of man, and drink {Aorist Tense} his blood, ye
have no life in you.
The eating and drinking of the commencing of the
faith here is revealed as sufficient for eternal life; it is used the Aorist
Tense for “eat” and “drink”.
By the way, for the dear Catholics believing
that Jesus is speaking from to eat and drink real flesh and blood of Jesus,
here is the needed clarification from the Lord:
John 6:63
It is the spirit that
quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they
are spirit, and they are life.
Another verse:
Acts 13:48
And
when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the
Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
Here, the true believers are
presented as such by his initial true
faith ("believed" is in Greek in Aorist Tense), they are
presented as ordained to eternal life immutably
by God, because it is used for
"ordained" a Perfect Tense, Voice Passive, then indicating that the
God’s act of ordaining them was a past one and a past concluded one and a past
concluded with the effect of the act assured by the concluded past fact not by
a future thing.
Well, we have seen verses where the Bible
reveals the beginning of the faith as the cause of the definitive eternal life;
now we can cite the verses where it is used the Present Tense for “to believe”.
The Arminians will attempt to cheat us saying that the Present Tense indicates
that to believe constantly is a condition to receive continuously eternal life.
But the present tenses are here a focusing of the moment the believer is
entering in the continuous faith, because the commencing faith can be depicted
by a present tense also, because it continues. How we can know that? Because we
have seen before the verses where the Bible reveals the beginning of the faith
as the cause of the definitive eternal life.
John 3:15
That whosoever believeth
in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
John 3:16
For God so loved the
world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 3:36
He that believeth on the
Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see
life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
John 6:35
And Jesus said unto them,
I am the bread of life : he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that
believeth on me shall never thirst.
John 6:40
And this is the will of
him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may
have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:47
Verily, verily, I say
unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
John 6:54
Whoso eateth my flesh,
and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last
day.
John 11:25
Jesus said unto her, I am
the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live:
John 20:31
But these are written,
that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that
believing ye might have life through
his name.
1 Timothy 1:16
Howbeit for this cause I obtained
mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a
pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
The following verse says that a believer can
know he has eternal life and so to believe even more on the name of the Son of
God:
1 John 5:13
These things have I
written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know
that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of
God.
So we remember our graphic, the beginning of the
faith will produce eternal life, and the eternal life will produce the
continuing faith:
Figure 8: The OBAB-OVAV Relationship:
The OJAJ-OVAV
Relationship:
Romans 5:18-21;
6:1-2
18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment
came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of
one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were
made sinners, so by
the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so
might grace reign through righteousness
unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in
sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid. How shall we,
that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Here,
“by the righteousness of one … justification of
life”, “righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord”,
the eternal life is presented as dependent on the Christ righteousness imputed
unto the believers (not on the righteousness of the good works of the
believer), so as by another demonstration OJAJ (Once Justified Always Justified) was showed, then it is demonstrated again OVAV
(Once Vivified Always Vivified), because the eternal life is dependent on
justification. Justification is the basis of eternal life, and was demonstrated
that the INITIAL JUSTIFICATION is the FINAL and DEFINITIVE JUSTIFICATION; and
if God is justifying it is only the remaining permanent RESULT of the
definitive initial act perfectly consummated. So we have our graphic for the
OJAJ-OVAV relationship:
Figure 9: The OJAJ-OVAV Relationship:
Paul shows us that the sin is still making his
deadly work in the justified believer, but this deadly work is now insufficient
to stop the grace of God, and “where sin abounded,
grace did much more abound”. But Dan Corner speaks as if the
spirit of the believer can die and the sin can extinguish the grace and make
invalid the righteousness of Jesus, which was imputed to the believer:
Eternal
security teachers declare we are justified by faith (Rom. 5:1), but they stop
there! They never proclaim the additional truth that a true believer can cease
believing and fall away (or die spiritually)
(www.evangelicaloutreach.org\anothergospel.htm,
ETERNAL SECURITY IS ANOTHER GOSPEL, Dan Corner)
Again we need to remember that the Dan Corner’s
“additional truth that a true believer can cease
believing” is a negation of 1 Peter 1:7; and we are not interested in
“additional truth” that contradicts clear Scripture! Obviously as a believer
cannot lose his faith and has a fountain making him never thirst, he is not
someone who can die spiritually. Paul puts the things in their proper places
and puts order where Dan Corner has made disorder: To die spiritually from sin
is the daily experience of the unbeliever, who is under the law; and the
believers nevermore experience the death from sin because they are forever
vivified by the righteousness of Jesus Christ who has accomplished the demands
of the law for them:
Romans 7:5-6
5 For when
we were in the flesh {when we were
unbelievers, and had not the Spirit of God (because the believers are not in
the flesh having the Spirit: Romans 8:9)}, the motions of sins,
which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death {to get death from sin
was an experience proper of unbelievers}.
6 But now {being us believers and having the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:9)} we are delivered from the law {then
the mechanism of the motions of sins, which were by the law, and worked in our
members to bring forth fruit unto death, is a dead mechanism for the believer;
that is to say, that the believer cannot die spiritually nevermore}, that being
dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit {we the justified in Jesus serve by our newness of spirit, which
cannot die from sin any more according to that Paul have said above in the
verse}, and not in the oldness of the letter {as
when unbelievers and experiencing spiritual death from sin}.
And always we need to remember it: if our spirit
cannot die spiritually anymore, as was stated above by Paul, it is not because
our proper righteousness, but because the righteousness of Jesus Christ has
been definitively and completely imputed to us who believed in Him:
Romans 5:18-19
18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment
came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of
one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
19 For as
by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
So Dan Corner, maintaining that a believer can die
spiritually because of sin, is equating a believer to an unbeliever under the
law. As we have seen, according to Paul the Apostle, a true
Christian (a justified person by the righteousness of Jesus Christ) cannot die
spiritually because of sin; then it is not strange to get Dan Corner (although
he would not admit this) appealing to the law to make the believers to die
spiritually, because for Dan a sin (a transgression of the law) can bring
spiritual death to a believer; and that is clearly the mechanism in an
unbeliever as opposite to the believers, who are not under the law and under
the death the sin produces by the law, according to Paul. Then, Dan is putting
himself under the law and implies, with his blabbing about believers dying
spiritually, that the believers are under the law; what is the name such a
person deserves? Answer: A vile advocate of
salvation by the works of the law. And that is your
sentence, oh Arminian!
Now here is a quoting (“A true Christian (or righteous person) can die
spiritually because of sin (Ezek. 33:18…”
(www.evangelicaloutreach.org\imputed.htm, Imputed Righteousness))
Dan Corner presents a verse to say that believers can die spiritually (so
contradicting Paul):
Ezequiel
33:18-19
18 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity,
he shall even die thereby.
19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness,
and do that which is lawful and right, he
shall live thereby.
Even a child can note
that it is a passage speaking of the righteousness which is by the works of the
law, we can see a righteous according to the law turning from his
righteousness, it is the case of someone considered righteous by his
proper righteousness, but committing iniquity he shall die, as Paul the speaks
of the unjustified at Romans 7:5:
Romans 7:5
5 For when
we were in the flesh {when we were
unbelievers, and had not the Spirit of God (because the believers are not in
the flesh having the Spirit: Romans 8:9)}, the motions of sins, which
were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death {to get death from sin
was an experience proper of unbelievers}.
As for the “the
wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby”, a child can note it is the same things as the righteousness
which is of the law:
Romans 10:5
For Moses describeth the
righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
Leviticus 18:5
Ye shall therefore keep
my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he
shall live in them: I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 20:11
And I gave them my
statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
Ezekiel 20:13
But the house of Israel
rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they
despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall
even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I
said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Ezekiel 20:21
Notwithstanding the
children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my
judgments to do them, which if a man do, he
shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would
pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the
wilderness.
Luke 10:28
And he said unto him,
Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt
live {Jesus, alike in the Old Testament,
proving that a man cannot be saved by by the law, the conclusion was that the
men did not keep all the law}.
Galatians 3:12
And the law is not of
faith: but, The man that doeth them shall
live in them.
Oh, Arminians, vile false teachers of salvation
by the works of the law, how you can avoid your righteous damnation now that
the gospel of the grace is present and in full force and explicated before your
eyes by the Apostles? You, considering yourselves evangelist but showing your
true nature of self-righteous!
Now, here is another quoting (“A true Christian (or righteous person) can die
spiritually because of sin … Rom. 8:13”
(www.evangelicaloutreach.org\imputed.htm, Imputed Righteousness))
Dan Corner presents Romans 8:13 to say that believers can die
spiritually (so contradicting Paul); Corner says that a believer can live
after the flesh an die, but he is ignoring the context where it is said for
unbelievers and he is ignoring the context which says that a believer and son
of God, by definition, is not living after the flesh:
Romans 8:13
For if ye live after the
flesh, ye shall die {the case of the
unbelievers under de law, who are defined as being in the flesh (Romans 7:5),
while the believers are defined as not being in the flesh (Romans 8:9) having
the Spirit}: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the
body, ye shall live {the case of the
believers who are defined as not being in the flesh (Romans 8:9) having the
Spirit, and who are defined as being led by the Spirit by being sons of God,
this is said in the following verse (Romans 8:14) in clear opposition to the
unbeliever case who is living after the flesh in the previous verse (Romans
8:13)}.
The case is clear, at one hand we have the
unbelievers, who are not sons of God, who have not the Spirit of God, presented
as in the flesh and as living after the flesh; and at the other hand we have
the believers, who are sons of God, who have the Spirit of God, presented as
not in the flesh and as led by the Spirit. Yea, then a true believer by
definition is not living after the flesh and is never to die, because to die is
for all after the flesh (by definition unbelievers); then there is no more
damnation to the believers who, by definition, are not after the flesh, and
they cannot die spiritually anymore because they are free from the mechanism of
sin producing death:
Romans 8:1-2
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh {who
we have showed are the sons of God and believers}, but after the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ
Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin
and death.
Yea, “free
from the law of sin and death”, then they cannot die spiritually because of
sin, because the mechanism of sin producing death is not more effective upon
the son of God:
Romans 7:5-6
5 For when
we were in the flesh {when we were
unbelievers, and had not the Spirit of God (because the believers are not in
the flesh having the Spirit: Romans 8:9)}, the motions of sins,
which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death {to get death from sin
was an experience proper of unbelievers}.
6 But now {being us believers and having the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:9)} we are delivered from the law {then
the mechanism of the motions of sins, which were by the law, and worked in our
members to bring forth fruit unto death, is a dead mechanism for the believer;
that is to say, that the believer nevermore can die spiritually}, that being
dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit {we the justified in Jesus serve by our newness of spirit, which
cannot die from sin any more according to that Paul have said above in the
verse}, and not in the oldness of the letter {as
when unbelievers and experiencing spiritual death from sin}.
And because the sons of God are not in the
flesh, are led by the Spirit and then they are not living after the flesh, then
it is impossible to say that a believer may became he that soweth to his flesh
(as Dan says “If a saved person sows to please his sinful nature
he'll die spiritually … Gal. 6:8,9)”
(www.evangelicaloutreach.org\index.html)); it is grossly
contradictory with the Bible and is fatuous to say that a believer, by
definition, is not in the flesh and is not living after the flesh, and then to
say that a believer may be sowing to his flesh; then when Paul speaks at
Galatians 6:8 of “he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap
corruption”, clearly that man is someone in the flesh, not led by the
Spirit, and living after the flesh, that is to say, that man is an unbeliever,
has not the Spirit, and is not a son of God:
Galatians 6:7-9
7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for
whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
8 For he
that soweth to his flesh {someone in the flesh,
an unbeliever having not the Spirit of God (because the believers are not in
the flesh having the Spirit: Romans 8:9); someone living after the flesh, an
unbeliever (because the believers are defined also as being led by the Spirit
by being sons of God, this is said in Romans 8:14 in clear opposition to the
unbeliever case who is living after the flesh in the verse Romans 8:13} shall of the
flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the
Spirit {the case of the believers who are
defined as not being in the flesh (Romans 8:9) having the Spirit, and who are
defined as being led by the Spirit by being sons of God, this is said in the
verse Romans 8:14 in clear opposition to the unbeliever case who is living
after the flesh in the verse Romans 8:13} shall of the Spirit reap
life everlasting.
9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for
in due season we shall reap, if we faint not {a
true believer is not temporarily believer (1 Peter 1:7)}.
Galatians 5:24
And they that are Christ’s {the
heirs, then the sons of God obviously (Galatians 3:29), who are not in the
flesh having the Holy Spirit, because if any man have not the Spirit of Christ,
he is none of his (Romans 8:9)} have crucified the flesh
with the affections and lusts.
Obviously, being the believer definitively
justified from sin, not under the sin to death mechanism, then made son of God
for ever because his perfect justification in Jesus Christ, then eternally
indwelled by the Holy Spirit to receive for ever the river of life, he has secured
he will reap eternal life, as it is stated directly by Paul the Apostle that we
shall obtain the final fruit of eternal life, obviously referred to the
redemption of our body (Romans 8:23):
Romans 6:22
But now being made free
from sin {aorist
tense, a closed and terminated past act}, and become servants to
God {aorist
tense, a closed and terminated past act}, ye have {present tense, indicative mood,
present and continued possession} your fruit unto
holiness, and the end {final salvation} everlasting life
{the final fruit assured to be reaped by the son of God as
redemption of his body}.
We have here two closed and terminated past acts, being made
free from sin and become servants to God, and the results of those past completed
acts are therefore not dependent nor conditioned on another future thing;
because they are said only to depend on those past completed acts; those
results from those past acts are the fruits unto holiness and eternal life at
the end, which is FINAL SALVATION, the final fruit
assured to be reaped by the son of God as redemption of his body.
Dan speaks as if the saved are hoping eternal life for the
soul as a final salvation:
Paul
refers to an aspect of justification which is seldom mentioned:
So that,
having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of
eternal life (Titus 3:7, NIV).
In
contrast to this and other clear Scriptures, but yet in conformity with OSAS,
MacArthur wrote:
It is a
done deal, not a goal we work toward. Eternal life is a present possession, not
a future hope.
Dear
reader, which contrasting message will you believe?
(www.evangelicaloutreach.org\initial2.htm,
From Initial to Final Salvation, Continuing Chapter 5 of the book, The
Believer's Conditional Security, by Dan Corner)
Mac Arthur is wrong and Dan Corner is wrong. Let us see what
is the thing we really are hoping, we the saved are hoping not eternal life for
our spirit (we have a fountain springing up for eternal life and never will
thirst), we are hoping eternal life for our body only, salvation or redemption
for our body:
Romans 8:19-25
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature
waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20 For the creature was made subject to vanity,
not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
21 Because the creature itself also shall be
delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the
children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth
and travaileth in pain together until now.
23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which
have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is
seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do
we with patience wait for it.
Or in other words, we are saved but hoping to receive
glorified bodies, it is our hope, because our soul is saved forever. It is the
hope of the glorification of our bodies, which is coincident with the second
coming of Jesus Christ in glory (not a secret pretribulational rapture, which
is a false notion):
Colossians 1:27
To whom God would make
known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory
Titus 2:13
Looking for that blessed hope, and the {“the” is not in the Greek text, so the glorious appearing is the
blessed hope} glorious appearing of
the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ
Titus 3:7
That being justified by
his grace, we should be made heirs according to the
hope of eternal life {the heritage of the
sons of God, or adoption, is the redemption of the body according to Romans
8:19-25}.
Dan Corner uses also a parable, the parable of the prodigal
son, to sustain the heretic idea that a son of God is under the sin to death
mechanism:
If a saved
person sows to please his sinful nature he'll die spiritually … The prodigal is
a clear example of this (Lk. 15:24,32)..
(www.evangelicaloutreach.org\index.html)
But clearly, even against
the opinion of many OSAS teachers, the parable is about salvation of the lost
and not about the recuperation of saved persons, because the parable was said
to illustrate the salvation of many lost publicans and sinners who were being
received by the Lord; we shall highlight that facts to us:
Luke 15:1-32
1 Then drew near unto him all the publicans
and sinners for to hear him.
2 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured,
saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
3 And he spake this parable unto them, saying,
{that is the motive for the parables, lost
sinners were being saved and the Pharisees did not understand it}
4 What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if
he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and
go after that which is lost, until he find it?
5 And when he hath found it, he layeth it on
his shoulders, rejoicing.
6 And when he cometh home, he calleth together
his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found
my sheep which was lost.
7 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be
in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just
persons, which need no repentance.
8 Either what woman having ten pieces of
silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house,
and seek diligently till she find it?
9 And when she hath found it, she calleth her
friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found
the piece which I had lost.
10 Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in
the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
11 And he said, A certain man had two sons:
12 And the younger of them said to his father,
Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto
them his living.
13 And not many days after the younger son
gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there
wasted his substance with riotous living.
14 And when he had spent all, there arose a
mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen
of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
16 And he would fain have filled his belly with
the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
17 And when he came to himself, he said, How
many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish
with hunger!
18 I will arise and go to my father, and will
say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son:
make me as one of thy hired servants.
20 And he arose, and came to his father. But
when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and
ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
21 And the son said unto him, Father, I have
sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy
son.
22 But the father said to his servants, Bring
forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes
on his feet:
23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill
it; and let us eat, and be merry:
24 For this my son was dead, and is alive
again; he was lost, and is found. And they
began to be merry.
25 Now his elder son was in the field: and as
he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.
26 And he called one of the servants, and asked
what these things meant.
27 And he said unto him, Thy brother is come;
and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe
and sound.
28 And he was angry, and would not go in:
therefore came his father out, and intreated him.
29 And he answering said to his father, Lo, these
many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment:
and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
30 But as soon as this thy son was come, which
hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted
calf.
31 And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever
with me, and all that I have is thine.
32 It was meet that we should make merry, and
be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
As for James 1:14-16 (Dan Corner misuses it
saying “A true Christian (or
righteous person) can die spiritually because of sin … James 1:14-16”
(www.evangelicaloutreach.org\imputed.htm, Imputed Righteousness)), there are
no word indicating that a justified one can die spiritually, James is
explaining the mechanism sin-death; he does not affirm that mechanism can be
applied to the justified in Christ (that would be contradict Paul); so, in
using James 1:14-16 to say that a son of God can die spiritually by a sin, Dan
is adding to the Word of God and is concealing from the Word of God, concealing
the clear teaching of Paul that the mechanism sin to death is of no effect upon
the justified son of God.
But Dan Corner is not only incapable to
recognize the great difference between the justified one and the not justified
one of this time; he shows again his ignorance of the difference between the
still not fallen but unjustified Adam and the saved and justified from all sin
in Christ:
This
teaching {The teaching of OSAS supposedly}
led to Adam and Eve’s spiritual death. The essence of that sinister
doctrine is that a person who has eternal life cannot afterwards die
spiritually.
(www.evangelicaloutreach.org\sin.htm,
The Slavery, Bondage and Controlling Power of Sin, Dan Corner)
This evil Dan calls the teaching of Paul the Apostle
“sinister doctrine”, equating it whit the saying of the serpent, the problem of
this anti-Paul man is that he does not difference between a life not sustained
by the justification of all sins, and an eternal life sustained by the
justification of all sins. Dan will not fool us! We have now discovered his
trick! What have the believers in Christ that neither Adam before his fall nor
angels before his fall had? Answer: Justification
from the sin in the precious blood of Jesus Christ. That we have showed,
a son of God is forever and unconditionally son of God because of his
definitive and permanent justification. And that is the reason why Paul teached that the
mechanism sin to death has no effect upon the justified sons of God, because
they have Justification from the sin in the precious
blood of Jesus Christ.
Corner misuses Luke 8:13 also but that was
treated at the section “The Luke 8:13, Matthew 13: 20, 21, John 15:2 and Romans 11:19-23 case”.
The last verse misused to contradict Paul is
Hebrews 6:4-6 (“A true Christian (or
righteous person) can die spiritually because of sin ... Heb. 6:4-6” (www.evangelicaloutreach.org\imputed.htm,
Imputed Righteousness)). Before to
treat Hebrews 6:4-6, we shall see the Dan Corner´s covering up, which he has
made upon the book of Hebrews saying for example, “In other
words, after initial salvation we must endure to the "end" to
enter the kingdom of God and escape the lake of fire … Heb. 3:14 ….”
(www.evangelicaloutreach.org\index.html);
as usual, he is concealing of us the word of God, here Corner is concealing
from us that the writer of Hebrews is saying that the professing but unbeliever
does not endure to the end if they do not convert truly; that is an exhortation
to unbelievers as we can easily show. Here is the complete text with all the
parts that Dan Corner does not like that we know:
Hebrews
3: 1-19; 4: 1-11
1
Wherefore, holy brethren {professing Christians
Hebrews (even the non Christians Hebrews may be called brethren by the
Apostles: Acts 7: 2)}, partakers of the
heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; {Here Paul is referring to professing Christians, who can be true
believers or superficial believers, as will be disclosed subsequently}
2
Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all
his house.
3
For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who
hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
4
For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
5
And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony
of those things which were to be spoken after;
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 {the
superficial believers or professed Christians but unbelievers do not hold the
beginning of their confidence stedfast unto the end, as it is said in Mark 4:
16-17 and in 2 Peter 2:22, are not the house of the Lord; but if we hold the
beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end, then that is a proof that we
have the un-perishable faith and are obviously the house of the Lord; obviously
the true believer perseveres because he has an un-perishable faith (1 Peter
1.7) and not conversely; it would be a very fatuous thing to say that a believer has an
un-perishable faith because he persevered to the end; the cause of the
perseverance to the end is the un-perishable faith and not conversely! The
perseverance to the end is only a proof of the un-perishable faith, not the
cause; the un-perishable faith is the cause of the perseverance to the end}.
7
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice {It is an exhortation to the quick true conversion of the not
converted ones},
8
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the
wilderness:
9
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
10
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in
their heart; and they have not known my ways.
11
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest {the rest is here the salvation that the true Christian is now
entering as a result of the beginning of his faith, as it is evidenced from 4:
3; we have showed that the initial salvation at the beginning of the faith is
eternally decisive, giving eternal salvation, and the present salvation is
received as a result of the initial salvation, the final salvation is secured
also by initial salvation at the beginning of the faith}.
12
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in
departing from the living God {Here is the problem
of many: UNBELIEF, they are still unbelievers}.
13
But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be
hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14
For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the
beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end
{the superficial believers or professed
Christians but unbelievers do not hold the beginning of their confidence
stedfast unto the end, as it is said in Mark 4: 16-17 and in 2 Peter 2:22, are
not partakers of the Lord; but if we hold the beginning of our confidence
stedfast unto the end, then that is a proof that we have the un-perishable
faith and are obviously true partakers of the Lord; obviously the true believer
perseveres because he has an un-perishable faith (1 Peter 1:7) and not
conversely; it would be a very fatuous thing to say that a believer have an
un-perishable faith because he perseveres to the end; the cause of the
perseverance to the end is the un-perishable faith and not conversely! The
perseverance to the end is only a proof of the un-perishable faith, not the
cause; the un-perishable faith is the cause of the perseverance to the end};
15
While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as
in the provocation.
16
For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of
Egypt by Moses.
17
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned,
whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
18
And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? {Here is the true condition of the professed Christians but
unbelievers, they are "them that BELIEVED NOT", they are not true
believers, his profession and belief is only superficial. The "rest"
is here the salvation that the true Christian is now entering by the beginning
of his faith, as it is evidenced from 4: 3}
19
So we see that they could not enter in because
of unbelief {because
of UNBELIEF the unbelievers have not entered in the salvation, the rest of 4:
3}.
1
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest,
any of you should seem to come short of it {Again,
we see that Paul is dealing with unbelievers who are not entering in the rest
as a result of the beginning of a true faith 4: 3}.
2
For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with
faith in them that heard it {Again, here is
the key issue, they heard the gospel but without faith, then they were not true
believers, nor the true believers are who fall away, the professing unbelievers
are who do it. For example, Dan Corner says that he is a Christian, but he is
preaching salvation by works, first he comes out from Catholicism, but he is
preaching salvation by works, then the word preached did not profit him not
being mixed with faith in him that heard it; then he became hard to understand
the truth and falled away preaching salvation by works}.
3
For we which have believed do enter into rest {The true believers, having believed
(past time, at the beginning of faith) are entering in the rest, the rest is
here the sufficient salvation that the true Christian is entering now as a
result of the beginning of his faith (past time, then at the beginning of the
faith), surely it is a hard thing for Dan Corner to admit that the true
believers are entering now by their beginning faith and not by the resultant
continuous faith}, as he said, As I have
sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were
finished from the foundation of the world.
4
For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did
rest the seventh day from all his works.
5
And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
6
Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it
was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
7
Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a
time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8
For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of
another day {this is for the Seventh day Adventists}.
9
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
10
For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works,
as God did from his.
11
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest {by
the beginning of the true faith in CHRIST NOT BY THE WORKS, see 4: 3}, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief {UNBELIEF, that is the problem}.
At the book of Hebrews the exhortation to
professed Christians but unbelievers is the key issue, an that is the case of Hebrews
6:4-8; but we shall present the entire passage to show the parts that Dan
Corner, as usual, conceals from us; we shall highlight those parts:
Hebrews
6:4-8
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.
7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain
that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is
dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is
rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
Dan Corner had concealed from us the fact that
those men were without any fruit, and that therefore they were unbelievers. On
this issue there is abundant material at the section “The Luke 8:13, Matthew
13: 20, 21, John 15:2 and Romans
11:19-23 case”.
The last
attempt to contradict Paul is for Dan Corner to present his “examples”, in this
case he presents Solomon and Judas saying “A true Christian (or righteous person) can die spiritually because of
sin … and never again return to Jesus, just as the Apostle Judas Iscariot and
Solomon didn't return after they turned from the faith.” (www.evangelicaloutreach.org\imputed.htm,
Imputed Righteousness). But again Dan Corner is cheating
us; Judas never was saved, as was demonstrated at the section “The John 6:66
and Matthew 10:22 and 24:13 case”.
As for Solomon we have he was subjected to the law to show the futility of the
righteousness which is by the law:
1 Kings 6:11-13
11 And the word of the LORD came to Solomon,
saying,
12 Concerning this house which thou art in building,
if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my
judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David
thy father:
13 And I will dwell among the children of
Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
That is again the
righteousness which is of the law:
Romans 10:5
For Moses describeth the
righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
And not only Solomon failed, all the people of
Israel failed also, as it was recognized by Peter:
Acts 13:39
And by him all that
believe are justified from all things, from which ye
could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Acts 15:1-12
1 And certain men which came down from Judaea
taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be
circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
2 When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no
small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and
Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the
apostles and elders about this question.
3 And being brought on their way by the
church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of
the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.
4 And when they were come to Jerusalem, they
were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared
all things that God had done with them.
5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the
Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was
needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.
6 And the apostles and elders came together
for to consider of this matter.
7 And when there had been much disputing,
Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good
while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear
the word of the gospel, and believe.
8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them
witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
9 And put no difference between us and them,
purifying their hearts by faith.
10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a
yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able
to bear?
11 But we believe that through the grace of the
Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
12 Then all the multitude kept silence, and
gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had
wrought among the Gentiles by them.
So, the law is only an introduction to show to
the men their impotence to save themselves, but once they have seen their
impotence and believed in Jesus they are no more under the law, the law has
fulfilled his function:
Galatians 3:22-26
22 But the scripture hath concluded all under
sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that
believe.
23 But before faith came, we were kept under
the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring
us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after that faith is come, we are no
longer under a schoolmaster.
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith
in Christ Jesus.
Now, only we need to point out that the disciples had not in them the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Spirit was with them but outside them at this point in theirlives before the Spirit
descent in them at Pentecost:
John 14:16-17
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall
give you another Comforter, that he may abide with
you { Greek: between you} for ever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world
cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him;
for he dwelleth with you {Greek: at your side}, and shall be
in you {Greek:
in you}.
So, we can see by the exceptional case of Peter and
disciples, believers, how was approaching the time of the Holy Spirit
indwelling in them, a thing never seen before in
the Old Testament times; so the Arminians, when putting Old Testament examples
of “believers that lost the Spirit, or the faith, or the salvation”, are
showing their sad ignorance of the difference between a New Testament believer
and an Old Testament believer. For the New Testament believer only remains the
redemption of his body (Romans 8:23) which will be the completion of the
salvation of the soul, (the dead believers are hoping too the redemption of
their bodies as a final aspect of salvation for theirs saved souls),
and the future aspect (final salvation) means that the believer, in his future
glorification at the day of the Lord, will have been saved from the dead by the
redemption of his body, and his soul and spirit will be saved in that day in
the sense that they will enter into the glory in the glorified body and never
will go to the lake of fire; not in the sense that the soul and the spirit are
hoping a final salvation from the fire, because the spirits and souls of the
dead believers are in the presence of the Lord and not in hell, then they are
saved even before the day of the Lord; but because their eternal salvation is
completed with the redemption of the body it is said that they will be saved in
future tense;
but for the Old Testament believers it was remaining the redemption of their
souls and of their bodies; it is a great difference that the Corners of the
world ignore, as they ignore many things. We hope with faith the redemption of
our body, but the Old Testament believers hoped with faith the redemption of
their soul and body; and the souls of the dead believers of the Old Testament
were in a subterranean place contiguous to the hell (Luke 16:19-30), they were
well, but they were not still in heaven, and the paradise was below, because
the way to the holiest of all was still not open (Hebrews 9:8); only when the
Lord was dead and the precious blood of the New Covenant was spilt and He was
resurrected as our priest that way was open (Hebrews 10:16-20) and the believers
at the paradise were translated to the heaven (The paradise then below: Luke
23:43; the paradise now in the third heaven 2 Corinthians 12:2-4).
An Old Testament believer has not the Holy Spirit in him as we have now Him, his soul was saved in hope, but now our soul
was saved and it is because the remaining redemption of our body that we are
saved in hope (Romans 8:23-25). As the salvation of the soul of the Old
Testament believer was future, it is not strange to see some of those Old
Testament believers to lose the Holy Spirit assistance, the Holy Spirit who
then was not of them nor in them; we can see it clearly in the case of the King
Saul:
1 Samuel 11:6
And the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard
those tidings, and his anger was kindled greatly.
1 Samuel 16:14
But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit
from the LORD troubled him.
1 Samuel 19:23-24
23 And he {Saul} went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on, and
prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
24 And he stripped off his clothes also, and
prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and
all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?
Finally came the time for Saul to pay for his sins and to
die in battle, but to die by his own hand, in horrible and shameful end. But it
is interesting to see that even so Saul did not lose his future salvation of
his soul and body because the Bible says clearly that Saul and his sons went to
stay in the same place with Samuel the prophet; as the same Samuel the prophet
said:
1 Samuel 28:16-19
16 Then said
Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed
from thee, and is become thine enemy?
17 And the LORD hath done to him, as he spake
by me: for the LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to
thy neighbour, even to David:
18 Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the
LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done
this thing unto thee this day.
19 Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel
with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and
to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me: the LORD also shall
deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.
And at the fatidic day Saul, Jonathan and many
of his brothers, were to reunite with Samuel in the same place; Saul, a sad
life, a sad end, was to hope his future salvation with his sons in the company
of Samuel the prophet, who obviously was at the paradise then contiguous to
hell but not the hell itself. Many had attempted to evade the fact that the
person speaking to Saul was Samuel himself, but those attempts were in vain;
the Scripture plainly states, not at one time but repeatedly, that it was
Samuel himself he that spoke to Saul:
1 Samuel 28:12-20
12 And when
the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice {Surprise for the familiar spirit servant! Samuel himself came!
That was out of the control of the familiar spirit! Then the man requesting her
service was Saul!}: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast
thou deceived me? for thou art Saul.
13 And the king said unto her, Be not afraid:
for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of
the earth.
14 And he said unto her, What form is he of?
And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his
face to the ground, and bowed himself.
15 And Samuel said
to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I
am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is
departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams:
therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall
do.
16 Then said Samuel, Wherefore then
dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine
enemy?
17 And the LORD hath done to him, as he spake
by me: for the LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to
thy neighbour, even to David:
18 Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the
LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done
this thing unto thee this day.
19 Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel
with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy
sons be with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand
of the Philistines.
20 Then Saul fell straightway all along on the
earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of
Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all
the day, nor all the night.
Yea, he was Samuel himself! And there is the
blunt thing throwing down all the Dan Corner’s false doctrine of conditional
security, Samuel said that Saul and his sons
would be with him at the same place!
1 Samuel 28:19
Moreover the LORD will
also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me: the LORD
also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.
I am not afraid from the Dan Corner’s “examples”
(Solomon, David, etc.) from the Old Testament, I have a clear and pathetic one,
the worse desperate of all the cases, Saul, and the Lord reveals us that even
Saul himself did not lose his salvation, then, in the Old Testament, a future
hoped salvation.
It is time to finish by now the issue of Dan
Corner misused Scriptures and to come back to the issue of the OJAJ-OVAV
Relationship.
Romans 5:18-21;
6:1-2
18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment
came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of
one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were
made sinners, so by
the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so
might grace reign through righteousness
unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in
sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid. How shall we,
that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Here,
“by the righteousness of one … justification of
life”, “righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord”,
the eternal life is presented as dependent on the Christ righteousness imputed
upon the believers (not upon the righteousness of the good works of the
believer), so as by another demonstration OJAJ (Once Justified Always Justified) was showed, then it is demonstrated again OVAV
(Once Vivified Always Vivified), because the eternal life is dependent on
justification. Justification is the basis of eternal life, and was demonstrated
that the INITIAL JUSTIFICATION is the FINAL and DEFINITIVE JUSTIFICATION; and
if God is justifying it is only the remaining permanent RESULT of the
definitive initial act perfectly consummated. So we have our graphic for the
OJAJ-OVAV relationship:
Figure 9: The OJAJ-OVAV Relationship:
Now it is the time to put all the elements of OSAS seen
till now together and related one another.
The OSAS almost
complete picture:
Figure 10: The Once Saved Always Saved almost
complete picture:
Someone who has believed in Jesus is forever son
of God, is forever indwelled by the Holy Spirit of God, has eternal life forever,
and cannot cease of believe. And all those marvelous things have originated
only at one single glorious point, when God definitively justified the believer
in Christ from all sin in the precious blood of Him; that single point is
highlighted within the complete picture of the Once … Always … of the Once
Saved Always Saved person.
The picture is almost complete, remaining to be
included only the Once Predestinated Always Predestinated. Which we shall make
subsequently.
Copyright 2005 A.R.Y. y J.J.Y.
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