Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Reprobation is simply when God is giving up on a soul, and no more draws him to Himself to confess and repent of sinning.
If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
Anyone willfully sinning without repentance unto death is a sin of reprobation, that not even the saints are to pray for, since God is not drawing them to repentance.
The context of John is that of antichrists, who not only continue sinning against God, but also teach it for salvation and justification of Jesus Christ.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
This is committed to sinning by changing the truth of God's righteous salvation into a lie, so that the soul cannot repent of sinning and so remains dead: No man repents of that which he does not believe necessary to do so.
Being a reprobate now however does not mean that God cannot or will not begin drawing the soul again to repent tomorrow: however while any man is believing a lie against God in the heart, he must first repent of the lie, before he can possibly repent of the sinning that the lie justifies.
God does not draw any sinner that accuses the Son of saving sinners to become ongoing sinners by grace.
However, by the example of Manasseh, who was cast away out of God's site to Babylon; we read God can have mercy to draw the reprobate to great humbleness of heart and repentance, and so be restored from captivity to Jerusalem once again.
We must always remember, that God is the God of souls now and today, not of yesterday, nor of tomorrow that may not come on earth.
While those believing the lie that we can be born of God and sinning at the same time, cannot be saved while holding to that delusion, It does not mean that God cannot draw them to repentance of turning His truth of holy and righteous salvation into the lie of sinning by grace.
And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
If the one making the lie that sinners are born of God, will repent of that lie against the cross of Jesus and His blood, then God can certainly draw them unto Himself, so that like any normal unhypocritical sinner, they may repent of sinning and know assuredly, like all saints in Christ Jesus, that the Lord is God of the righteous, not of grace-filled sinners.
No man while yet breathing on earth is without hope of becoming saved by Jesus Christ, even the reprobate God is giving up on at the time. He has mercy on all sinners to allow them another day to repent, though it is not promised.
The wisest and best thing of course is to go ahead and repent of sinning today:
Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
The strongly deluded simply have the added hurdle of needing repent of the damnable lie, that we can possibly be a born and justified son of God, while sinning for the devil at the same time.
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Reprobation is simply when God is giving up on a soul, and no more draws him to Himself to confess and repent of sinning.
If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
Anyone willfully sinning without repentance unto death is a sin of reprobation, that not even the saints are to pray for, since God is not drawing them to repentance.
The context of John is that of antichrists, who not only continue sinning against God, but also teach it for salvation and justification of Jesus Christ.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
This is committed to sinning by changing the truth of God's righteous salvation into a lie, so that the soul cannot repent of sinning and so remains dead: No man repents of that which he does not believe necessary to do so.
Being a reprobate now however does not mean that God cannot or will not begin drawing the soul again to repent tomorrow: however while any man is believing a lie against God in the heart, he must first repent of the lie, before he can possibly repent of the sinning that the lie justifies.
God does not draw any sinner that accuses the Son of saving sinners to become ongoing sinners by grace.
However, by the example of Manasseh, who was cast away out of God's site to Babylon; we read God can have mercy to draw the reprobate to great humbleness of heart and repentance, and so be restored from captivity to Jerusalem once again.
We must always remember, that God is the God of souls now and today, not of yesterday, nor of tomorrow that may not come on earth.
While those believing the lie that we can be born of God and sinning at the same time, cannot be saved while holding to that delusion, It does not mean that God cannot draw them to repentance of turning His truth of holy and righteous salvation into the lie of sinning by grace.
And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
If the one making the lie that sinners are born of God, will repent of that lie against the cross of Jesus and His blood, then God can certainly draw them unto Himself, so that like any normal unhypocritical sinner, they may repent of sinning and know assuredly, like all saints in Christ Jesus, that the Lord is God of the righteous, not of grace-filled sinners.
No man while yet breathing on earth is without hope of becoming saved by Jesus Christ, even the reprobate God is giving up on at the time. He has mercy on all sinners to allow them another day to repent, though it is not promised.
The wisest and best thing of course is to go ahead and repent of sinning today:
Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
The strongly deluded simply have the added hurdle of needing repent of the damnable lie, that we can possibly be a born and justified son of God, while sinning for the devil at the same time.
