Once Saved, Always Saved?
Please don’t believe such teaching, lest a heavy price you pay,
For ‘once saved, always saved’, God’s Holy Word does not say.
It’s simply Satan’s attempt to each Christian lull and fool,
And it has proved successful even though untrue and cruel.
The book of Hebrews tells us that continual willful sin
Makes null and void Christ’s sacrifice, as rebellion’s still within.
Once we know what we should do, we shouldn’t from such depart,
For departure will reveal, love for God’s not in the heart.
God sent the Holy Spirit to help Christians overcome
Any wrong within their lives, yes, ‘any wrong’, not just some.
God may wink at ignorance, but not deliberate sin,
For such rejects His counsel which our lives should underpin.
The apostle Paul said, “I die daily”, and so should we,
For God wants the Christian’s life liberated from iniquity.
You see, it’s our selfish nature that’s behind the wrong we do,
Hence God wants self subdued, as all who love Him, wrong don’t pursue.
Why should the willful sinner who knowingly chooses wrong
Be found amongst the worthy who sing the over-comers song?
Why should God reward sinners who take license with His grace,
By allowing them to share the saints rightful Heavenly place?
Those who once were Christians, but then to the world returned,
The apostle Peter tells us, their fate too late is learned.
Whether they rejected the Lord, or simply from Him drifted,
Such, at Christ’s second coming, to Heaven will not be lifted.
The prophet Ezekiel says, any good such folk have done
Won’t account for anything, and that Christ such folk will shun.
Only those who do God’s will, and continue so to do,
Are covered by His gift of grace, and Heaven are entitled to.
However, when one repents, and returns unto the Lord.
He’s faithful to forgive them, and reinstates their reward.
But why put at great risk though, God’s offer of salvation,
By deliberate willful sin that incurs His condemnation.
Any day our life could end, suddenly and unexpectedly,
And caught out by our folly anyone of us could be.
Hence why the Bible warns us, don’t treat salvation lightly,
But instead, seek out God’s help, to daily live more rightly.
The Scriptures clearly warn us that although God’s grace is free,
It doesn’t mean that Christians can continue sinning willfully.
Though God’s gift of grace is free, it’s not for covering sin,
But just repentant sinners no more wanting sin within.
Can Christians void God’s grace? Yes. Scripture says so, emphatically,
As Christ, we’re told, will one day say to some, “Depart from Me”.
’Though they may have prophesied, cast out devils in His name,
Or done many wondrous works, He’ll destroy them just the same.
You see, grace isn’t where it ends; no, grace is the beginning,
For God hates “lawlessness”, and says, don’t willfully keep sinning.
Thus, each Christian has a duty to uphold God’s Holy Law,
Not break it, by willfully sinning, like we used to do before.
By Lance Landall
The erroneous belief, ‘once saved, always saved’, would mean that we effectively wouldn’t have freedom of choice.
For example:
If after having accepted Christ, we later decided that we no longer
wanted to believe in Him, or follow Him, we would still be saved
whether we liked it or not [and regardless of what heinous sins we might have committed]. There goes our God-given right to accept or reject, because we wouldn’t be allowed to change our mind, or be lost.
