Warnings for the Righteous

 WARNINGS FOR THE RIGHTEOUS

Hebrews 3:12-14; Exodus 32:30-33; 1 Samuel 12:14,15; 1 Chronicles 28:9; Ezekiel 3:20; 18:24; 33:18; John 15:2,6; Romans 8: 9-13; 11:20-22; 2 Peter 2:20-22; Hebrews 12:15-17; 1 Corinthians 10:1-12

 There is nothing like eternal or unconditional security. There exists the possibility of departing from the faith once delivered to the saints. There is nothing like being saved forever. You can fall from grace to grass if you are not careful. Warnings abound in the scriptures of such possibility. There are people who are only careful when they feel that members of the church may discover what they are doing wrong and report them to church leadership. Such people are afraid of only human and church discipline. But if there is no possibility of any member of the church knowing what they intend to do, they go ahead and engage themselves in all kinds of evil deeds. If they know that there will be no way of detecting what they are about to do, if nobody can hold them to it and discipline them, they feel disposed to doing evil. They forget that God’s eyes are watching them. The church may not see you and discipline you.  But God sees you and will take your name out of the book of life if you go into sin. His favor will continue to abide with you only if you are living right as a born again Christian, only if your life is glorifying to His name. If, on the other hand, you rebel against the commandments of the Lord, there will be judgment upon you from the God of heaven. When a righteous man takes things for granted and goes back into sin because he is no more watchful, careful and prayerful, judgment is sure to follow. If you die in sin, secret or open, you cannot get to heaven.  The righteousness of the righteous will not be remembered on the day he goes into sin!