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That's tough. We're in a very tough spot.
I think that what we're doing right now is a great benefit and
virtue because it's an end around between this whole
corrupt informational system, media system.
We claim to believe in a God who spoke the universe into
existence and literally raised himself from the dead, and yet
we're not going to believe that anything else exists in the
spirit realm, even though His word tells us that they do.
Their bodies weren't permitted to go to sleep like humans do.
And they weren't. Permitted to go to.
Heaven, so they. Wander the earth.
You know. I've seen the eyes turn black.
To unknown tongues being spoken. These giants would love way up
in the Highland, the young Braves.
The young men would hide up in the trees and wait for one of
these 12 footers to come walking down the path and they would
jump on them and kill them, drag them back to the village and the
village would feast on the body freedom.
Then people start to get weapons, they start to get
armor, they start to build cities, they start to fortify
their cities. Now God looks down and there's
violence everywhere. The.
Battle this war that we. Are at is not against each
other, it's against these principalities and these rulers
and these archons in the high. Places.
It's really worthwhile to read the Bible yourself.
Fear is one of the primary drivers of mind control because
we have to take every thought captive and resist fear.
You're going to have a testimony that is a justice case against
the Kingdom of. Darkness.
We left off talking about the parable of the sower in Matthew
chapter 13 as an explanation or an elaboration rather of when we
observe people that seem to walk away from their faith.
And again, to clarify, this is not going through a rough patch
in your faith or a season of sin, as we've all had those
issues. This is more of an about face
dramatically turning the other way and saying, God, I don't
want anything to do with you any longer.
And one of the questions that we left off with as we are titling
this series, Rethinking Eternal Security, is talking about that
third type of soil in that parable that falls amongst the
thorns, where it says that it didn't produce fruit because the
cares of the world and the riches of the world and the
deceitfulness of those things choked it out.
So you can think of that person as not walking by the spirit,
but walking by the soul and their faith withered.
So we kind of left off with what is that person saved?
I mean, it just says they didn't produce fruit.
And we don't want to think about workspace salvation.
So do we have to produce fruit? That's a tricky one.
I'm going to let you guys kind of wrestle with that on your
own. But as a reference, right out of
the book of Matthew in Chapter 7, Rod, we have another parable
that might answer that. Can you go through that?
Matthew 7 verse 16 through 20. By their fruit you will
recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thorn
Bush or figs from Thistle? Likewise, every good tree bears
good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
A good tree cannot bear good fruit, and a bad tree cannot
bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear
good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
So just looking at that one scripture, it does seem to
suggest that while we don't have to have a minimum amount of
fruit, that would be workspace salvation.
If the soil of our heart is has allowed the word of God to come
in and change us and the Holy Spirit is in US and changing us,
there will be a fruit as an evidence for that.
And I think this parable kind of bears that out and.
I'll just kinda just comment with this real quick.
So in Galatians, it runs side by side with what we're reading
right here in Matthew 7. And the flush is, is contrary to
the spirit. They're in conflict with each
other. But in Galatians it, it mentions
if you are led by the spirit that you're not under the law.
And the acts of the flesh are obvious.
It says, you know, there's sexual immorality, impurity,
debauchery, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, all these
different things are listed out. And it says that you will not
inherit the Kingdom of God if you're operating in these, but
the fruit of the Spirit is love and joy and peace and kindness,
goodness, faithfulness. And, and against those such
things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus
have crucified the flesh and its passions and desires, and
they're living by the Spirit. And I think that there's just
another good way that it, it fits together with this idea of
what kind of soil are you? And are you once saved, always
saved? And why do you have to work it
out with fear and trembling? Why are we working out our
salvation? And I just, as you zoom out, I
could go on and on, but I'll pass it back to you because it
just fits together and becomes more deeper and thorough as we
actually take the whole counsel of God's Word.
So kind of the thing that spurred this whole mini series
and the thing that I felt the Holy Spirit was showing me was
for all of the people that make a good argument from Scripture
on eternal security. And then those that perhaps
equally make a good argument that no, you, you have to
maintain your faith in order to be saved and you can possibly
fall away. Not like you lost your
salvation, like you lost your car keys, right?
Like you had a bad week of sinning and God, you know,
kicked you out of the house. Not like that, but like we were
explaining before about literally making that about face
away from God and saying enough, I'm I'm not believing in you
anymore. That sort of walking away and
what was kind of an epiphany and I'm hoping it's correct.
I'm hoping it's from God as I want you guys to kind of
evaluate this prayerfully and look at Scripture.
But I felt like God was showing me that both sides of that
equation are actually correct. They're both correct, but both
of them don't have the whole picture.
And all of the verses that seem to suggest one side versus the
other actually can work in harmony.
And so as we go through this series, we're going to try to
unpack that from our vantage point and kind of flesh out
these ideas and let you evaluate them with us.
So is there a difference between once saved, always saved and
eternal security? Those terms are thrown about,
conflated with one another, used interchangeably.
What might the difference be? Well, in my opinion, I think
that eternal security has to do with the faithfulness of God.
And once saved, always saved is more about the faithfulness of
the person. Now you could say the same thing
for both. You could say, well,
faithfulness is required for either and faithfulness of God
is required for either. And that's true.
But let's just make this distinction just for the sake of
understanding that all the verses that seem to point to
eternal security are saying are talking about how faithful God
is. And in a future mini episode,
we're going to unpack that and look at those verses.
Once saved, always saved is a little bit of a different slant.
You might say it is 95% truth with a little bit of demonic
error mixed in. If you'll permit that analogy,
what is the error? You could go on what people used
to call Christian Twitter or X and look at people's comments
who are rabid ideologues when it comes to once saved, always
saved. I've seen quotes going so far as
you can literally do that about face, shake your fist at God and
still end up in heaven and live like the devil for the rest of
your life and still end up in heaven.
That's the kind of once saved, always saved that I think is a
deception where if you had a genuine profession of faith and
you really meant it, that somehow you're locked in, you're
born again and you can't be unborn again.
I think eternal security, on the other hand, talks about this,
the robustness of salvation from God's side, his faithfulness.
And again, we're going to unpack that further in another episode,
but I'll throw it to Rod for any comments on that.
This is the meat, you know, It's really humbling to evaluate
ourselves. You know, the word says if any
man think he is, he is saved and strong, Let him evaluate himself
lest he fall. Kind of paraphrasing that in my
own way. But this is good for all of us
to really dig in and chew on some meat and to wrestle through
these deep concepts and to be encouraged knowing that you're
not alone. We can ask these questions
together and we can seek it out in the word of truth that is
settled in heaven, and we can rely on God's goodness and His
grace and mercy to allow that season to come to pass for all
the growth and the learning that is necessary for such deep
topics. It's an honor to be with you
again, Pete, for another mini. And as the series go on, I'm
encouraged and challenged in the best way.
Yeah, as always. So on the next mini episode,
we're going to look at the next section where we left off in
Matthew 7, taking a little bit of a detour of this topic of
eternal security. Not entirely a detour, but a
little bit of a sidebar with what many have termed the
scariest verses in the Bible. Not everyone who says Lord, Lord
will inherit the Kingdom. So with that we will leave off.
See you next time guys. God bless.
I came from the sun, straight from the Evans.
He really owed me. All in my life I was beating up.
All in my life I didn't handle. All in my life I was stuck in on
track. All in my life I didn't handle
rat. I didn't know why my life was so
wet. I didn't know why my life was a
rat. I didn't know why I couldn't get
up. I was so stuck.
And the monkey was stuck till I found out.
And I broke everything until I fell down.
And they took everything until I was hurting my heart and
restrained. Yeah, I was broken.
I had all this pain held on home.
It got harder than this hope. Then I would dip to the side in
this mode. I had no truth but to look to my
guy. He gave me stomach up, open my
eyes. He gave me earrings.
And he told me I'm blessed. He told me he just believe in
this time. I told him I can't change all of
my ways. He said I got you.
Just look at this. I looked at him and he showed me
his ways. Then he just told me how I am
this time. See he just told me I'm not in
this world. He told me I come from the
heavens above. I'm a new creature.
I come from the sun, from the one and only straight from the
heavens. You really owe me.
I came from the sun. I was really with him.
And heavenly places I'm sealing. Y'all can't even go that way.
Y'all don't even know that way. Y'all want to play like Patty
Kat but this ain't no game. But it's not right.
You wipe this on fake when you walk under me and I know you're
a snake. You think you can beat me but
you got nobody you want in a way.
I take out that chopper, I'll put on your chopper and I'll
prank on your face. I see you laughing.
You think that you got me but you got no way.
The evil you said for my life is OK because it's made for my
good. My God is created.
He created you so you really is cooked.
I said all these things because I know what is true and you know
you is cooked, but like I did Cage, you can never when I know
the things that's going to happen to you when you die.
You didn't live in your life because you know you can never
go and get saved. You know his crazy, his mercy
was took from you when you're my son in the plot.
Thought you could take on my God's spot now, but you can die
hot. You was really tweaking.
I come from the sun, from the one and only straight from the
heavens. You really owe me.
I came from the sun. I was really with him and
heavenly places I'm still living.