01/05/21 GOD IS SAVIOR OF ALL

01/05/21 GOD IS SAVIOR OF ALL

FYI, every one of my 4 children and 11 grandchildren have heard and given witness to the message of God's saving grace by age 12.

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This should not be considered abnormal since God wants everyone to come to Him* with child like faith and be saved**. I personally was saved and called to preach when I was three years old and I understand that God saves children.

But it is also possible for child converts to deny Christ as they get older***. The Bible says that some believe for a while then fall away****, fall from grace****. Sadly I have had loved ones fail of the grace of God****, fall away**** from the grace and faith that saved them.
We are given the opportunity to believe and be saved and we are given the opportunity to continue in the faith, to walk in the light, but if we don't, then we are not saved, we are not cleansed from our sins.

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God Would Have All People To Be Saved
1 Timothy 2:3-6
3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

God Does Not Want Anyone To Perish
2 Peter 3:9
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Christ Is The Propitiation (Satisfaction, Atonement) For The Whole World
1 John 2:1-2
1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

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Christ Is Savior Of Infants And Children Through Faith
Luke 18:15-17
15 And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
16 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
17 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.

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The Reconciled Must Continue In Faith
Colossians 1:21-23
21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

We Must Continue In The Doctrine And Christian Christian Practice
1 Timothy 4:16
16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

We Must Continue In Godly Living And Sound Doctrine
2 Timothy 3:13-15
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

We Are Admonished to Cleave (hold to, continue in) the Lord
Acts 11:23
23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.

We Are Admonished to Continue in Grace
Acts 13:43
43 Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

We Are Admonished to Continue in Faith
Acts 14:22
22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

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They Heard, Received The Word, Believed For A While, Fell Away
Luke 8:13
13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

People Who Turn From Faith In Christ Fall From Grace
Galatians 5:4
4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

Christian Diligence Essential To Not Fail Living In Grace
Hebrews 12:15
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

Those Who Are Enlightened, Tasted The Heavenly Gift, Partakers Of The Holy Spirit, Tasted The Good Word Of God And Powers Of The World To Come, Can Fall Away And Never Return to Christ
Hebrews 6:6
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.