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<em>Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you. Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels. (Rev 3:3-5-NIV)</em>

To whom is Jesus speaking? To the angel of the church in Sardis, not to the unsaved in Sardis. The reason I repeat such obvious facts is that Christian teachers insist that the warnings of Jesus and His Apostles do not apply to Christians. Believe it or not, this is how they get around the Bible so they can prove their "stand in grace" error.

<p>What is Jesus saying? He is saying only a minority of the believers in Sardis will walk with Him in the white robes of the royal priesthood. This means the majority of believers in Sardis will not be raised in the first resurrection, the resurrection of the priesthood, but must wait until the thousand-year Kingdom Age has been concluded.</p>
<p>So much for the unscriptural "four steps of salvation and you're in the rapture" error.</p>
<p>The implication of the Lord's statements is that those who do not gain victory over worldliness, lust, and self-will are in danger of having their name blotted from the Book of Life. Now we are referring to the Lake of Fire.</p>
<p>The teaching today is that no one who professes belief in Jesus Christ need be concerned about the Lake of Fire. This is not what the Bible teaches!</p>
<p>The Lake of Fire has authority over eight specific areas of behaviour. As long as we practice those the Lake of Fire has a claim on us, grace or no grace.</p>
<p>Otherwise why did the Lord say "I will never blot out from the Book of Life the name of him who overcomes," leaving the distinct impression that if we do not overcome we stand in danger of the Lake of Fire? Isn't Jesus smart enough to know this is the impression He is leaving?</p>
<p>Do you know what will happen to the individual who takes away from the Book of Revelation? Or is that curse also abrogated by grace?</p>
<p>The teaching today that we are an overcomer by merely taking the four steps of salvation is unscriptural. If this were true, if every professing Christian is automatically an overcomer, then what in the world are the second and third chapters of the Book of Revelation talking about?</p>
<p>Are you willing to live with such enormous inconsistencies? I'm not! I don't know about you but my salvation is much too important to me to leave in the hands of those who argue in circles, saying at one moment the Bible is the fully inspired Word of God and then attempting to prove it doesn't mean what it states.</p>

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