Falling Away From Grace

Falling Away From Grace

Over the years, I have studied, researched and listened to the topic on whether a believer can walk out of his spiritual salvation.

I still don't have the answer. There are very convincing preachers who are fully convinced about 'Once saved, always saved' and 'Yes, you can lose your spiritual salvation.' 

But the Scriptures are not as plain as we would want it to be when it comes to this topic. Since God doesn't focus on that explicitly, it means that it is not of significant importance, in my personal opinion.

The focus in the Scriptures, however, is about going after Him and His Kingdom. When we focus on that, we won't be bothered about the topic on spiritual salvation. Those who keep harping on it usually is not focused on Him and His Kingdom ----- this is when they need to be worried about that topic.

"Take care, 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 from the living God." - Heb 3:12

This passage is obviously talking about believers (Jewish Christians in the context). The word 'fall away' in Greek is where you have the English word 'apostate'. See also 1 Tim 4:1 (depart from the faith).

Believers, therefore, can fall away from God or depart from the faith because of unbelief in their hearts. But this does not necessarily mean that they lose their spiritual salvation, since it is not explicitly written by the Spirit of God.

Falling away from grace, however, keeps us from experiencing the REST that God wants us to enjoy. Just as the Israelites, with unbelief, did not enter (and experience) His rest in the Promised Land, we can miss experiencing the Promises that He has given us through the Promised Spirit (Gal 3:14).

Unbelief leads to unrest (Heb 3:18-19). The opposite is true. 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭.

The factor which reveals if we are believing or not is whether we 'experience' rest or unrest. If you have unrest within, you are not believing. If you have rest within, you are believing.

Praying doesn't manifest the answer. Believing does (Mk 11:23-24).

This is why Phil 4:6-7 is important. God wants us to be free from unrest. Thanksgiving, before the answer is manifested, releases the peace of God that guards our hearts and minds so that we can 'enter' His rest.

Since resting = believing, when we have rest within, the answer will manifest.

I can't tell you how many times I encountered the difference between rest and unrest when it came to property deals in the past. When I had unrest within, the deals often fell apart. When I had rest within, even if the deal was pretty impossible, it still went through.

Majority of the surprised deals came through when I was MOST AT REST. In other words, when I simply believed (resulting in rest), the answer manifested.

This is how the Kingdom operates. By resting in Him. Because if we have unrest, we have unbelief that causes us to fall away from (experiencing) His grace and goodness.

P.S: As believers who are also property agents, our best gift to our clients is not diligence (which is important and needed), but to be at rest (believing).