Worship
Schedule For 1/13/08
Announce
– Maurice Powell
Sing
A.M. – Jerry
Gilley
Read
– Stephen Powell
Pray
– Oscar Parton
Table
– Larry Powell
Brian Witty
Doris Hibdon
Jerry
Lorance
Dismiss
– Johnny Powell
Sing
P.M. – Stephen Powell
Pray
P.M. – Jerry
Gilley
Wed.
Night Schedule For 1/9/08
Sing
– Larry Powell
Read
– Brian Witty
Prepare
Communion For January
Maurice Powell
Last
Lord's Day
Attendance
- 58
Contribution
- $1308.00
Visitation
Team Next Week
Jerry
Gilley, Oscar Parton
4th
Sunday Speakers For January
A.M.
– Stephen Powell
P.M.
– Brian Witty
Prayer
List
Sick
Jerry
Powell (continuing treatments), Odell & Doris Powell,
Brady Bogle
(rehab in HCA - McMinnville), Ova Bogle (better),
Charlene
Bogle (better), Marlene Bogle,
Wilma
Powell (knee replacement surgery, home, improving),
Diane
Wimberley (home, treatments), Carol Bennett (home recovering)
Shut-Ins
Ona Prater,
Josephine Ferrell, Jimmie
Johnston,
Everett Witty, Maggie
Wimberley, Lucille Parton
Deaths
Ben
Freeze, Lawrence Lane
Birthdays
and Anniversaries This Week
Sun., Jan.,6th – Joy
Gilley
Thur., Jan 10th – Nancy
Pelham
Sat.,
Jan 12th – Stephen Powell
Last
Week’s Test Your Bible Knowledge
Paul [I Cor. 15:8]
a. never saw Jesus
b. did see Jesus
c. saw Jesus in a dream
d. may or may not have seen Jesus; he does not tell
This
Week's Test
Your Bible Knowledge
“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow
we [I Cor. 15:32]
a. fast”
b. work”
c. die”
d. hunt”
Current
Events
School of Biblical Emphasis
Mt. Leo Church of Christ
(McMinnville)
Mon., Jan. 14th @ 7:00 P.M. in
the Education Bldg.
Once Saved Always Saved?
By Ron Boatwright
There are those who say that
"once you are saved you are always saved".
They say that it is impossible to fall from God’s grace
regardless of what you do. This
may sound good and comforting, but let’s see what the Bible says.
In 1 Corinthians 9:27 the apostle Paul says, "But I
buffet my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached
to others, I myself should be a castaway."
Paul said that it was possible for him to become a castaway.
If Paul became a castaway he would be lost.
In 1 Corinthians 10:12 Paul gives a
warning to the Christians at Corinth by saying, "Therefore let
him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall."
Why such a warning if it is impossible to fall?
So the very people, who think they cannot fall, are given a
warning to take heed lest they fall.
In Galatians 5:4 we read, "You
have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by
the law; you have fallen from grace."
Isn't it strange, that people who say they believe the Bible also
say that we cannot fall from grace, when the Bible so plainly says that
we can fall from grace. Who
are we to believe, God or man? Even
though many religious bodies say that you cannot fall from grace, the
Bible clearly says that people can fall from grace.
And without God’s grace we cannot be saved.
The doctrine of "once saved
always saved" and that you cannot fall from God’s grace and be
lost is a doctrine that originated with Satan.
Satan wants people to believe that they cannot fall from grace
and be lost. In Genesis
2:17 God told Adam and Eve not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil, and the day they ate of it they would surely die.
But in Genesis 3:4 Satan told Eve, "You will not surely
die". Satan only
added the word "not" to what God had said.
Just as Satan told a lie to Eve, Satan is still deceiving people
today by telling them they canNOT fall from grace and once they are saved, they are always saved.
He is trying to lull people into complacency.
This is one of the many ways that Satan deceives people so they
will be eternally lost. But
2 Peter 1:10 says, "be even more diligent to make your call and
election sure."
God's promises are conditional upon
our doing His will. Jesus
says in Matthew 7:21, "Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord,
shall enter the kingdom of Heaven, but he who does
the will of My Father in Heaven."
And also Hebrews 5:9 says concerning Jesus that "He
became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey
Him."
