Once saved always saved ... Joseph Prince .
I have no problem with "grace" but the absolutely ridiculous notion that he puts forth is as follows,
But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which
you were committed,You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. (Rom 6:17 & 18 ESV).
Here he states the following that ... once you were a slave of sin and no matter how many good works you did you could NEVER be saved
which is 100% true.
But then he falls out of the bus by saying the following ... Now that you are a slave of righteousness no matter how many bad works you
do you CANNOT be "unsaved".
Which is total rubbish.
Countless times, the apostles tell you that if you,
"remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way
will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins" Jam 5:20
"Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated
stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell,
a putting them in chains of darkness
b to be held for judgment;
They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done ...
They have left the straight way and wandered off ... If they have escaped the
corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end
than they were at the beginning.It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to
turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,”
g and, “A sow that is
washed returns to her wallowing in the mud.” (2 Pet 2:2 to 22 ESV)
"Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God?
Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers
nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Cor 6:9 & 10 ESV)
Why bother telling them not to be deceived if they could be, because if they were deceived they would reap the results of not inheriting the kingdom of God.
Jesus Himself said,
"
Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. "Many
will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?'
"And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME,
YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.' (Matt 7:21 - 23 ESV)
Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt,
afterward destroyed those who did not
believe. (Jude 1:7 ESV)
There are plenty of other Scriptures that say the same thing.
I must stress however, that if a Christian is struggling with a certain sin and keeps on praying and means it, then God will give them grace and
ultimately victory.
