PS: The bottom line is that in my understanding the person who had no root and who received the word at first with joy but does not continue, was never truly saved in the first place.
Agree, with a bit of different perspective.
• Salvation - Given
Expressly;
Of, By, Through Christ Jesus.
• Salvation - Received
Expressly;
Of an individual's HEARTS Thought,
By an individuals True Hearts CONFESSION.
Condunrum-
WHO knows a man's True HEARTS Thought?
1) The individual
2) The Lord God
• Observing men, only truly know what they Observe.
• Observing a man going to an alter call, water baptism, is satisfactory for becoming a Church Member.
• That ^, and observing regular Church attendance, Person's involvement in Church activities, monetary donations, etc. gains individuals respect as a godly person.
Bottom line- men can be Fooled.
The Lord God is Never Fooled.
Shocking revelations to men-
• Congregates later claiming they never believed, quit the Church.
• Clerics, claiming they never believed.
• Disbelief, Affairs, out of wedlock children born, womanizing, drunkards, porno addicts, behind closed doors Family tyrants, Child sex, Homosexuality, Druggies, etc.
Those OF this World sums it up as Duel Lives & Secret Lives.
Jesus Sums it up as:
Clean on the Outside, Dead on the Inside.
Jesus' Lesson is He came to HEAL the INSIDE.
For an Individual to Become HEALED...
The individual Must Confess with his Hearts Thought...a Desire for The Lord TO Heal the individual...
Bottom line is: Regardless of the length an Individual will go to BE APPROVED by other men...
They have NO Intent to be Approved or Committed or Healed by the Lord God...
• It is IMO, it is a most egregious sinister act for ANY individual to USE the Lord God, as a Front Man name dropping source, to Fool the public, while pressing on in their behind the door Activities.
• Thus also ... I do not believe they Fooled The Lord God, and received His Gift of Salvation.
Glory to God,
Taken