Monday, 5 March 2012

Nothing is going to harm us




Her heads judge for a bribe, Her priests teach for pay, And her prophets divine for money. Yet they lean on the LORD, and say, “Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.” – Micah 3v11

What utter hypocrisy on the part of the priests. These guys were so sure of themselves that they thought because they were God’s men nothing could happen to them. They were dishonest and corrupt and led by money and yet they said ‘We are on God’s side, nothing can happen to us!’

I firmly believe in the doctrine of eternal security. I firmly believe that once a person puts their faith in Jesus Christ that they are His forever and nothing can ever remove them from Christ’s family. I believe their eternity is from that moment on secure in Him.

However, that doesn’t mean, as those who disagree would say, that once you are saved you can just do whatever you want. Eternal security does not lesson the importance of holy living. Those of us who are saved have liberty in Christ, but that does not mean that we have licence to sin.

I hope none of us ever gets the idea that our sin is no big deal because our salvation is secure. The problem is that these guys were not secure. They mocked God with their sin and destruction soon followed. Their false profession brought about their doom.

Professing Christians who are comfortable with their sin because they are trusting in the fact that they cannot lose their salvation had better be sure they had it in the first place. 

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