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Jesus, The Source of Grace

Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not
for ours only but also for the whole world”
(1 John 1:9; 2:1-2).

Thereafter the believer, like Peter, must prove his or her
sincerity of devotion to the Lord by desisting from
whatever sinful habits or propensities that led to the sin in
the first place. There is a dangerous teaching some
impostors are perpetrating which give false hope to sinning
Christians, assuring them, howbeit with no sound basis of
scriptures, that once saved, forever saved no matter what
you do afterwards. They claim that once one had confessed
Christ and confessed to be born again, no matter what sins
the person commits, God will not mind! I see no such
teaching in the Bible. Believers who fall into sin, like Peter
was, should repent like Peter did, else they would perish
like Judas Iscariot perished when he failed to repent.

d. JUDAS
Now, here is one professing Christian who failed to repent
after he sinned. You wish Judas Iscariot repented like Peter
did; because, if you ask me, his sin of betraying the Lord for
thirty pieces of silver was not much grievous than Peter’s
sin of denying the Lord thrice. The difference between the
two was that whereas Peter repented, Judas did not. Had
Judas repented like Peter did, he most likely would have
been in heaven, the New Jerusalem, where the other
disciples assuredly are now. Judas regretted his action, had
a remorse, but did not repent. What calamity!

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