The True Nature of God by Andrew Wommack

Author:Andrew Wommack
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fundamentalism, Religion, Biblical Studies, General
ISBN: 9781577780366
Publisher: Albury Publishing
Published: 1997-11-30T22:00:00+00:00

you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the

living God.

But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end.

Hebrews 3:12-14

Sin is deceitful and will harden a person's heart toward God and other people. And the Word of God tells us it is possible for a person to harden their heart through sin to the point they no longer care about Jesus and salvation. Just as God did not make a person get saved, God does not make a person stay saved. It is not possible to "lose" your salvation, but you could give it up if you became deceived and hardened enough!

For example, let's discuss the sin of not going to church. The reason you go to church is not because God is keeping attendance and will only bless you if you go to church. You go to church to be around people who are going to build you up. If you are sitting home watching TV, you aren't going to hear the kinds of things I'm teaching, and your heart is going to slowly become hardened to the things of God.

When your heart, through the deceitfulness of sin, becomes hardened, you become dull and insensitive to the leading of God. You start straying further and further away from Him and His protection. Obeying His Word and the leading of the Holy Spirit would no longer be important.

Any particular kind of sin or combination of sins can harden your heart. If a person continues to practice sin, they will be lured deeper and deeper into that sin, and their desire to seek and know God will become less and less. Also, the pleasure that sin offers will get a stronger grip on the person, making it harder to give up.

In an extreme case, a person could get so deceived by sin that they finally reject all conviction of the Holy Spirit and tell Jesus to get out of their life. That is a very serious — but possible — result of a believer who willfully lives in sin.

Ultimately it is possible for believers to harden themselves to such a degree that their conscience is seared. They no longer perceive what they are doing in a proper light. They can even think their sin is all right. They're entrapped in sin, and Satan begins to tempt them to renounce their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Their sin won't send them to hell, but their sin will put them in a place where they are so far removed from fellowship with God that they will be more responsive to Satan than they are to God. When this occurs, it's possible they could say, "I renounce all this salvation stuff. Jesus, get out of my life! Stop bothering me!" Because they reject the salvation through Jesus Christ, they go to hell.

It is not

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