Will you ever lose your first love for Jesus, fall away from the faith and become a backslider? Will you begin in the Spirit but end in the flesh? After fleeing "a polluted world by recognizing the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ," will you be "caught up and overcome in pollution once more"?
It is better "not to have recognized the road to holiness" than to fall
away from the faith. A fallen-away Christian is in a worse condition than that
of a non-Christian. Therefore, "be solicitous to make your call and election
permanent, brothers; surely those who do so will never be lost. On the contrary,
your entry into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will
be richly provided for. "Hold fast to faith, be firmly grounded and steadfast in
it, unshaken in the hope promised you by the gospel.
Even when the mass apostasy occurs and Christians in unprecedented numbers fall away from their love for the Lord by God's grace we will not be "among those who draw back and perish, but among those who have faith and live. Never stop loving Jesus. Never love Him less. Love Him fully forever.
One Bread, One Body
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