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Brother Ed

My personal note: this is why you can "lose your salvation" as it is called. If you enter into the covenantal kingdom and make your oath of baptism (which if you understand covenantal oaths, is saying "if I do not keep this covenant faithfully, may this death become mine") and then fall away (break covenant) you will recieve the eternal death which Christ suffered on the Cross in your stead. That is the sanction for covenant breakers.

Ok, define "fall away" please?

I don't believe scripture leads us to believe that once we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior that he will let us "fall away."

1 John 2:24-25, Romans 8:30-39, Hebrews 9:11-15, John 6:35-40, John 10:22-30.

They, whom God hath accepted in His Beloved, effectually called, and sanctified by His Spirit, can neither totally nor finally fall away from the state of grace, but shall certainly persevere therein to the end, and be eternally saved. The Westminster Confession of Faith.


Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. - Galatians 2:16