201 - Only IF You Continue To Abide

Overview - Only IF You Continue To Abide. 1 John 2:24-29. In our sermon today we focus on John’s command to Christians in vs 24: Therefore, let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. He just told them to abide or stay in in what they had heard (from the disciples) from the beginning of knowing them. And in vs 26 he tells us that he gives them this command in light of what he says in his previous section, where he warns them that many antichrist’s had come teaching antichrist teachings, or teachings against Jesus Christ. Why would John give this command if once a person was saved they would always be saved no matter what they started to believe, or how they started to live? I believe that it is because a person is only going to go to Heaven IF they continue to abide IN Jesus THEEE Christ, His teachings, and His ways until they die, and I believe that John tells us the same thing here. I also believe that Jesus Himself warns us of the not continuing in Him until we die, so I go over numerous teachings from the Lord Jesus in the Gospel’s of Matthew and John. Does it matter if we continue to abide in Christ and His teachings after we are saved? Can a person come to be saved and be Heaven bound, but lose their way, their salvation, and their entrance into Heaven? Are you abiding IN Jesus THEEE Christ, and in His teachings? Take a listen and hear what Jesus, John, and I have to say on this matter, and leave me a comment. May God richly bless you as you seek Him.