I have a hard time believing that God will revoke a person’s calling. I backslid quite a bit in some pretty bad ways when I first came to Christ. So I don’t know, perhaps a person would have to be downright evil in order for Him to turn them over to a depraved mind like the people Paul mentioned in Romans 1:28. It’s hard to say for sure.
2 Peter 1:10-11 (WEB)
10 Therefore,
brothers and sisters, be
more diligent to make your calling and election sure.
For if you do these things, you will
never stumble. 11 For
thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:21 (WEB) 21
Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
1 Timothy 4:1 (WEB) 1 But the Spirit says expressly that in later times
some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons
1 Timothy 4:16 (WEB)
16
Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching.
Continue in these things, for in doing this you will
save both yourself and those who hear you.
1 Timothy 6:10-12 (WEB)
10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.
Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
11 But you, man of God, flee these things, and
follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness. 12
Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
1 Timothy 6:18-19 (WEB)
18 that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share; 19 laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come,
that they may lay hold of eternal life.
1 Timothy 6:20-21 (WEB) 20 Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge, 21
which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith.
James 1:12-16 (WEB)
12 Blessed is a person
who endures temptation, for
when he has been approved, he will receive the
crown of life, which the
Lord promised to those who love him.
Hebrews 4:1 (WEB)
Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.
Hebrews 4:11 (WEB)
11
Let us therefore
give diligence to enter into that rest,
lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
Hebrews 3:13-15 (WEB)
13 but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14
For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end, 15 while it is said,
“
Today if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.” [Psalm 95:7-8]
Hebrews 10:35-38 (WEB)
35 Therefore do not throw away your boldness, which has a great reward. 36
For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise
Luke 21:19 (WEB) 19 “By your endurance you will win your lives.
Romans 8:16 (WEB) 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God; 17 and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ,
if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
Galatians 6:9 (WEB) 9
Let us not be weary in doing good, for
we will reap in due season,
if we do not give up.
Ephesians 4:5-7 (WEB)
5 Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater,
has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God. 6
Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. 7
Therefore do not be partakers with them.
Revelation 2:10-11 (WEB) 10
Be faithful to death, and
I will give you the crown of life. 11 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.
He who overcomes will
not be harmed by the second death.
Revelation 3:4-5 (WEB) 4 Nevertheless you have
a few names in Sardis that did not defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy. 5
He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Revelation 3:11-12 (WEB)
11 I am coming quickly!
Hold firmly that which you have, so that
no one takes your crown.
Revelation 3:21 (WEB)
21
He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne,
as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Revelation 21:7 (WEB)
7
He who overcomes, I will give him these things.
I will be his God, and he will be my son.
Notice the believer is responsible for His faith - from beginning to end - to be saved eternally.
Romans 1:16-17 (WEB) 16 For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God
for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek. 17 For in it is revealed God’s righteousness
from faith to faith. As it is written, “
But the righteous shall live by faith.” []Habakkuk 2:4]
By a continuous faith in Lord Jesus, we are drinking of His Spirit. As we drink of the Spirit, we are given Spiritual life in the Spirit who indwells the believer. To these only does God grant eternal life.
John 7:37-39 (WEB)
37 Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty
, let him come to me and drink! 38
He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from
within him will flow rivers of living water.” 39 But
he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive.
John 4:13-14 (WEB)
13 Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but
whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him
will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
Therefore, to remain or abide in Christ, or to continue to receive the life of the Spirit, we must be careful to remain faithful to Lord Jesus or we will be cut off.
John 15:1-4 (WEB) “I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. 2
Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4
Remain in me, and I in you.
Romans 11:19-22 (WEB)
19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.” 20 True;
by their unbelief they were broken off, and
you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited,
but fear; 21 for if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. 22 See then the
goodness and
severity of God. Toward
those who fell, severity; but
toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness;
otherwise you also will be cut off.
Blessings
