Where In The Bible Will I Find:

That You Cannot Fall From Grace?

The terminology has changed but the doctrine is still the same. It used to be that some people, argued, "Once Saved, Always Saved!" But this was changed to the "Impossibility of Apostasy." However, it now travels under the term, "The Security of the Believer." Yet in all these, the doctrine has not changed! It is still a doctrine that if one believes the Word of God, there is nothing he can do that would cause him to be Lost!

This has allowed the devil to foster the idea that one can commit any sin with impunity; and that there is no danger of him falling away. But before this damnable doctrine appeared on the scene, the Word of God had given ample protection against it. Paul referred to the Israelites, who came out of Egypt as the "people of God." Yet he pointed out:  "But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness…these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted" (I Cor. 10:5-6). He then related how twenty three thousand of them fell in one day because of fornication, and warns us that all "…these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall" (I Cor. 10:11-12).

It would have been foolish for this to be written if it were impossible to fall. The Israelites, as children of God, not only could fall, they did. And now Christians are warned lest they also fall, "Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God" (Heb. 3:12). Then, "Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it?" (Heb. 4:1).

Why these warnings if it be impossible to fall? But it is very possible that we could fall in the same way that Israel did and lose our inheritance. And so Paul speaks again: "Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace" (Gal. 5:4). Paul is saying that not only can you fall but that "YE ARE FALLEN FROM GRACE."

It has been argued by some that these were not in grace to start with. But just how could one fall from grace if he was not IN grace before he fell? How could one FALL from a roof unless he was ON the roof before he fell? 'There are over two thousand warnings in the Bible concerning the possibility of a child of God sinning and being lost. This warning of Paul is for every child of God: "TAKE HEED LEST HE FALL."