It Is Impossible For A Saved Person To Fail

Whoever loves his brother [believer] abides (lives) in the Light, and in It or in him there is no occasion for stumbling or cause for error or sin. 1 John 2:10

Now you may be saying to yourself, there absolutely is an opportunity to fail, because it is all based on me loving others. But the glorious Truth for us can be found in John 17:26.

I have made Your Name known to them and revealed Your character and Your very Self, and I will continue to make [You] known, that the love which You have bestowed upon Me may be in them [felt in their hearts] and that I [Myself] may be in them.

Jesus lives so that you and I will love each other just as He loves us. Jesus is actually in us and His very love lives in us and because it is, there is never an occasion for us to stumble or sin. Jesus’ love that never leaves us or forsakes us covers all sin for us, 1 Peter 4:8.

Let’s just look at Jesus’ love for a minute to see how it acted. It groaned when people didn’t believe Him, Mark 8:12. It repeatedly asked how long that it had to be around people, Matthew 17:17. It made a whip and chased people away, John 2:15. It called a woman, who only wanted her daughter healed, a dog, Matthew 15:26. It asked to be removed from what our Father called it to do, Luke 22:42. It made more wine for a bunch of partying and probably drunk people, John 2. It told the Disciples to go and take a colt and not to tell anyone unless they were asked first, Mark 11:2-3. It slept while others were scared for their lives, Mark 4:38. 

I don’t know about you, but Jesus‘ love sounds like it did a bunch of things that we today would call wrong. I don’t know what church you go to, but if I called a mother of a sick child a dog, the people would definitely call me a sinner. But none of these things were sin for Jesus, because He constantly and permanently dwelt in our Father’s love, just as we do, and our Father’s love covers all sin. Jesus got mad at people, He was disappointed in them, He was frustrated with them, and He let them know it. He acted just as we do and yet with no sin and He now lives so that we to can never have any occasion to sin either. It is all His power and victory dwelling within us that gives us such a great gift and such great freedom. We walk by faith in the Truth that sets us free, not by the politically correct world that surrounds us.