“And now, little children, abide in Him; that, when He shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.” 1 John 2:28
If we had to rely on our own ability to be good enough, there would be absolutely no confidence in us whatsoever when Jesus returns. It would be like a High School Monday after a Friday test. You may not know what that means, but I sure do! So how can we be so confident when our eternity is at stake? We are able to stand confident before our Father, because we abide as one with Jesus. He is our Lord and Savior. He ever lives to intercede for us so that we may be saved to the uttermost and He gives us the confidence.
"But the anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him." 1 John 2:27
Let me ask you this, can God be fooled? Can we fake God out, or lie to Him? There are a lot of people who believe that we can stop abiding in Him once that we have been truly saved. How? Did we fool God to start with? He knows the beginning and the end and He knows our hearts. So if we could all of a sudden stop being in Him, then there had to be wickedness in our hearts all along. God declares that our inheritance is incorruptible, and that it never fades away, and that we are kept by His very power.
"To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled and that fadeth not away, reserved in Heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time." 1 Peter 1:4-5
I believe there are many who falsely confess salvation who seem to be falling away, but for those of us who have actually and truly been chosen and empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as our Lord, there is no way for us to fall away. For us to fall away would mean that we were keeping ourselves with our own power and not our Father's! If we had to keep ourselves from leaving God, we would all leave God, but we don’t keep ourselves, our Father keeps us and our inheritance in Him is incorruptible and never fades away! This is why we can be confident and know that we shall never be ashamed is because of the Truth that we will always be one with Jesus!
If we had to rely on our own ability to be good enough, there would be absolutely no confidence in us whatsoever when Jesus returns. It would be like a High School Monday after a Friday test. You may not know what that means, but I sure do! So how can we be so confident when our eternity is at stake? We are able to stand confident before our Father, because we abide as one with Jesus. He is our Lord and Savior. He ever lives to intercede for us so that we may be saved to the uttermost and He gives us the confidence.
"But the anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him." 1 John 2:27
Let me ask you this, can God be fooled? Can we fake God out, or lie to Him? There are a lot of people who believe that we can stop abiding in Him once that we have been truly saved. How? Did we fool God to start with? He knows the beginning and the end and He knows our hearts. So if we could all of a sudden stop being in Him, then there had to be wickedness in our hearts all along. God declares that our inheritance is incorruptible, and that it never fades away, and that we are kept by His very power.
"To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled and that fadeth not away, reserved in Heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time." 1 Peter 1:4-5
I believe there are many who falsely confess salvation who seem to be falling away, but for those of us who have actually and truly been chosen and empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as our Lord, there is no way for us to fall away. For us to fall away would mean that we were keeping ourselves with our own power and not our Father's! If we had to keep ourselves from leaving God, we would all leave God, but we don’t keep ourselves, our Father keeps us and our inheritance in Him is incorruptible and never fades away! This is why we can be confident and know that we shall never be ashamed is because of the Truth that we will always be one with Jesus!
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