Can a Saved Person Be Lost? Falling From Grace

Galatians 5:4

"Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace."

The Scripture does say in Galatians 5:4, "Ye are fallen from grace" but read the whole verse and see that this refers to one who would be justified by the law. One who is counting on his own righteousness to save him.

Grace is a higher plan than the law, and these Galatians had begun to teach salvation by circumcision and the Law of Moses instead of staying with God's high Gospel of mercy which teaches that people are saved by faith. It has no reference to a saved person's becoming lost.

—abridged from Can a Saved Person Ever Be Lost? by John R. Rice. To read the full article, order the pamphlet here.

Who's Approval Matters?

I remember when I was a boy how my dear mother would draw me to herself and speak to me so solemnly of the importance of trusting the Lord Jesus Christ as my Saviour, and I would say to her; "Well, Mother, I would like to do it, but the boys will laugh at me."

Mother used to say, "Harry, remember. They may laugh you into Hell, but they can never laugh you out of it."

And oh how that used to go home to me, and it stayed with me all through the years. Yes, men may sneer and ridicule and not understand us as we come out for Christ, but after all, His is the only approval worth having.

—H.A. Ironside

The Remarkably High Cost of Christmas

While the time of year may be off, the reason of the season, Jesus, is very much true. 

He was born and laid in a manger. 

But what did it cost?

• It cost Mary and Joseph the comforts of home during a long period of exile in Egypt to protect Jesus.
• It cost the mothers, in and around Bethlehem, the massacre of their babies by the cruel order of Herod.
• It cost the wise men a long journey and expensive gifts and changed lives.
• It cost the early apostles and the early church persecution and sometimes death.
• It cost missionaries untold suffering and privation to spread the good news.
• It cost Christian martyrs–in all ages–their lives for Christ's sake.

More than all this, it cost God the Father His own Son–for He sent Him to the earth to save men.

• It cost Jesus a life of sacrifice and service, a death cruel and unmatched in history.

So let me ask, Is Christmas Too Costly? 

• It is, if all that it means is gift exchanges.
• It is if all it means is tinsel and millions spent in commercialization of Christmas.
• It is, if all that it means is a holiday.

It Isn't Too Costly

• If it means the hope of the world.
• If it means the forgiveness of sin.
• If it means peace among men.
• If it means joyous singing.

Wonderful Jesus!

by Dr. Robert Billings 
adapted for The Sword of the Lord blog, ©

"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."—Isaiah 9:6

Wonderful is a word that is greatly overused today. We talk about having a wonderful time, meeting a wonderful person, having a wonderful trip. That word gets almost threadbare.

But no place is it ever used more adequately and perhaps very inadequately as when it describes the Lord Jesus Christ: "His name shall be called Wonderful."

Wonderful in the Way He Fulfilled Prophecy
These words written about Jesus were spoken by Isaiah nearly eight hundred years before His birth; yet when Jesus was born, He literally fulfilled dozens and dozens of prophecies about His first coming.

Wonderful in His Birth
Jesus was the earthly Child of a Heavenly Father and the Heavenly Child of an earthly mother. If we could have arranged the birth of Jesus, I'm sure we would have done some things differently.

Jesus became what He was not: sin; that we might become what we are not or were not: saved, righteous people having o the righteousness of Christ. (II Cor. 5:21). The amazing thing to me is that He who was so rich became so poor, and yet we who are so poor often pretend to be so rich. As a Man, He was despised by men; as God, He was worshiped by angels.

Jesus Was Wonderful in His Life
He could talk to multitudes at a time, or He could talk to a man on a rooftop or a woman at the side of a well. He wrote no books, but the presses of this world continue to grind out libraries about Christ.

Jesus Was Wonderful in His Death
He was murdered by unjust men. Even nature revolted when Jesus died. The sun put sackcloth, as it were, across its face and refused to shine. The earth convulsed and belched up the dead that were in it.

Ignorance was there when Jesus died, for they knew not what they did. Insolence passed by and wagged its head. Irreverence was there as they taunted Jesus.

Though the crown that He wore and the cross that He bore were His own, they should have been mine.

Jesus Was Wonderful in His Resurrection
Pilate tried to make the grave sure and set the Roman seal upon the stone, yet up from the grave He arose.

Jesus is Wonderful in His Present Ministry
"Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them" (Matt. 18:20).

Jesus is Wonderful in His Power to Save
When a man or woman finds Jesus Christ, he who has been blind can see. All of us can say, "Wonderful Wonderful!" because "his name shall be called Wonderful."

From the Editor:
If you have seen your need as a sinner, can you also see what a wonderful Saviour Jesus is? Please, take a moment and click this link to read more about how you can be sure you're going to Heaven.


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