Can A Child of God Be Lost?

 1.    Looking back:

ü      Proverbs 14:14 – Backslider (to slide backwards in morals, or religious enthusiasm).

ü      Luke 9:62 – Looking back.

ü      Luke 17:29-32 – Remember Lot’s wife.

 2.    Their faith starts wavering:

ü      James 2:17-18,24 – (Faith without works is dead)

ü      Ephesians 2:8 – (By grace, saved through faith)

ü      Galatians 5:6 – (Faith which worketh by love)

ü      Matthew 6:30 – O ye of little faith.

ü      Matthew 8:26 – O ye of little faith.

ü      Matthew 14:31 – O ye of little faith.

ü      Matthew 16:8 – O ye of little faith.

ü      Luke 12:28 – O ye of little faith. 

3.    Faithless:

ü      Matthew 17:17, Mark 9:19, Luke 9:41

ü      John 20:27-29 – Thomas (Be not faithless says Jesus)

 4.    Falling:

ü      I Corinthians 10:12

ü      I Timothy 3:6 – Elder, not a novice lest he fall

ü      I Timothy 3:7 – Good report lest he fall.

ü      I Timothy 6:9-10 Love of money

ü      Hebrews 4:11, James 5:12

ü      II Peter 1:10-11 – Never fall 

5.    Consider the following:

ü      I’m tired of living like this – Galatians 6:8

ü      Do you grow weary in well doing? – Galatians 6:9

ü      Who is a weak Christian?

ü      II Thessalonians 3:6-7

ü      Hebrews 10:22-26 

6.    God is long-suffering:

ü      II Peter 3:9,15

ü      I Peter 3:20