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johnp. said:
Heb 13:5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."
PS 139:5 You hem me in--behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.
PS 139:6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
PS 139:7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
PS 139:8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
PS 139:9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
PS 139:10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
PS 139:11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,"
PS 139:12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
PS 139:13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
john.
Great verses and I agree with everyone of them, but you cannot choose to accept those scripture deny the rest for your own self assurrance, you must believe every word that comes from the mouth of God. That has always kept me safe from false teaching to not denying one scripture. the five-point calvinist who have been enfluenced by hyper-calvinist will never get me traped in thier snare, because I have never turned away from what God has convinced me of in my youth that God loved the world that He sent His Son. I am not saying i dissagree with calvinism before the five-point, but they still had so much more to learn and they still do.
Jesus will never leave us or forsake us, but we can walk away from Him who is our life.
Matthew 10:33
But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.
Luke 12:9
But he who disowns me before men will be disowned before the angels of God.
2 Timothy 2:12
if we endure, we will also reign with him. If we disown him, he will also disown 13
if we are faithless, he will remain faithful, for he cannot disown himself.
Matthew 10:22
All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.
Matthew 24:13
but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.
Mark 13:13
All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.
Luke 21:19
By standing firm you will gain life.
Hebrews 312See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness. 14We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first.
Romans 11:
17If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, 18do not boast over those branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. 19You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in." 20Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. 21For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.
22Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.
1 John 2:19
They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.
You will sink in the water looking at yourself , keep your eyes and focus on Jesus, because He is the one that keeps you afloat.
See Peter was looking at Jesus to keep him afloat. When Peter took his eyes off of Him he sank. It is God who keeps us afloat and He keeps us afloat because we keep our eyes on Him.
This scripture will show you what I am saying better
Numbers 21:
The Bronze Snake
4 They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, [Hebrew Yam Suph ; that is, Sea of Reeds] to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way; 5 they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the desert? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!"
6 Then the LORD sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. 7 The people came to Moses and said, "We sinned when we spoke against the LORD and against you. Pray that the LORD will take the snakes away from us." So Moses prayed for the people.
8 The LORD said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live." 9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, he lived.