Backslider & idea of losing salvation

Where did the idea of a believer can be a backslider, or that believers can lose their salvation come from? 

We know false teachers teach the opposite of Scripture. But when something isnt from Scripture...if we look into it, it may have came from some problem in history in Christianity's past. In this case it was and was during widespread real persecution times.

This explains it interestingly @12:00 min mark. 

Today there is still such persecution in many countries outside the USA and the west. Though there is growing hostility towards and laws made in Europe that are moving in that direction. 

Peter and the Apostles recieved the Holy Spirit after the Ascension of the Lord. And were sealed by the indwelling Holy Spirit - they had salvation. No believer can deny Christ. The Apostles went on to bokdly proclaim truth even in times of persecution and when faced with their deaths.  

We cannot be flippant about this. God left us here to proclaim Christ, and we need to be about that business. 

As believers when put in a position to need to align with Christ or be true to the proclaimation we simply need to just think about how we can best respond in a situation so we are not denying Christ. 

"Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.” (Matthew 10:32-33).

This should cause you to fear God...and to open your mouth, to be faithful. So let the chips fall because God is in control. 

1 Corinthians 16:13

Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong

Matthew 10:39:

"Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. 

Dont cling to this life. 

God is in control so be faithful to Him. If he puts you in jail it is for a reason. And if you die then it was the way God chose to bring you home and is for his Glory, and will be used by him for His purposes. Your lifecis in him and with him so no matter where you are (in the flesh or freed from it) you are with the Lord. 

Romans 6:8: "Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him."

The problems with and dangers of denying Jesus before men. 

On backsliding, some might think people can be saved but live in the world in sin and still go to Heaven. But Scripture speaks of these people as false converts. They werent save to begin with. They arent persevering in the faith and they never had salvation to begin with. Today (I would say not just since 2005 but Spurgeon was dealing with these kinds of people back then [and well Jesus & the Apostles in Scripture]) there is a false gospel going on that brought false converts into biblically aligned churches, as well as false converts in false "churches" who embrace false everything (who are claiming to be part of Christiandom). Todays predominant false gospel [in protestantism] is a life enhancement gospel. Not the biblical gospel, which calls for repenting of sins and trusting in Jesus completed work (and in who he is).

 And many are sucked into the false because they trusted the "church" or "Christianity" and assume pastors and teachers wouldnt lie. But we know wolves are in the church (in the pulpit, in leadership and among the congregation]. This is why you need to read the Bible and know it, but also the essentials of salvation which Scripture teaches, so decievers cannot dupe you. 

Remember... He wont call you home until your work is done. 

"Be strong and brave and finish this work. Don't be afraid, because the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will help you until all the work is finished. He will not leave you."

— I Chronicles 28:20 

If you are saved, "pick up your cross and follow Christ daily", even unto death. 

Persevere to the end. 

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