Many believers assume that once a person has accepted salvation and his/her name is entered in the Book of Life - that'sit; that person can never be lost. That person's name can never be erased from the Register of the Living. No matter what that person thinks or does ever after, his salvation is assured; because his name is in the Lamb’s Book of Life! We wish that were the case; but alas it isn't, because the Scriptures provide proof that wilful disobedience can - like a parent's act of disinheriting a worthless son - result in a believer's name being, exceptionally, deleted from the Book of Life!
| Psalms 69: | 28: “Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.”
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| Exodus 32: | 31: “And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. 32: Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. 33: And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.” |
In other words, names can be blotted out from the Book of Life. In ancient days it was written of Israelites who failed in some vital matter
And so I end by reminding us all of these vital books. Books in which our name, our motives, our thoughts, our conversations and our deeds are recorded. Indeed these books, unlike other books, are updated on a daily basis. Names are being added - and alas names are being deleted. Thoughts, words and deeds are being recorded with absolute accuracy. No one can break in and alter those records. They are amongst the most important databases in the entire universe. And you and I are contributing to their content on a daily basis! May the Almighty help us all to live with these awesome facts in mind!
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