World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1911-12-28
Can A Man Fall From
GraCe?:

us ICSlo ulJOll "LldU We tCI III
g,oce to be. We intend 10 ans
wer this question Bibicaliy, as
we understand it. Paul says.
For testify again to every man that Is cir
cumciseI, THAI he is IL debtor to do the whole
Inv. = ~. A
Chrisiis become of no ,ilert unto You, who-
>o"vrr' you ar justified hy the law; yr u.c
fallen tom grace. Gal. D. 81.
Toe very idea that Paul pre-
sents in this Scripture is. that a
man can tall from grace for it is
an impoSSabiIity for a man to fall
unless he has something TO fall
from. Some say you cannot fall
from grace: But Paul's language
is t lat they can fall. For Paul
says again.
Wherefore let him that thniseth he standelh
take heed lest he tall. Cor. lOl!,
Here Paul in>tructS us to be
awar unless wa lall And this
gves US to understand that we
can fall And Paul said again c n.
corning himself, Please read.
But keep under my body. md bring it into
sl:iectinn: les that by ny means, when I have
preac!.ed to others. myself should lie Il cast
away. lCor. 81.
According to this Paul could
have preached all his life and
then he cast a way. Just like
Judas, Phase read.
For he was numbered With ns, and had obtain
ed pa,l %. this ministry.
Now ,l'lS man purchased Il tleld with the re-
ward OF iniqni'y and falling hcadlong he burst
asnMder in the midst, and all hi, bowels gushrd
out Acts l--l'ls.
Here is a man spoken of that
had obtained apart of the minis,
try, and he fell. so there is a
great chance of a man to fall af-
ter he has received a portion OF
grace and has been once iniigh
tened. And after they have heen
enlightened God says this.
Aud this will we do. il God permit.
| For it ia mpossihr for those who We're once
| cnli 9htrncd. aud have TASTED of the hravrn|,
gift. nnl were made purtakcrs of the Hol,
! Ghost 1'sF''
! And have tasted the good word of Cod ant
t, pow ~ of the world to come.
| If they shall fall away. To renew them agar
] unto rrrent"nrc. srcng they cruelty 70 then
selves n" SON Of God oftcsh: and. put him t'
IN open shame. Heb. G-s&toG. +
! So without controversy n man
can fall FROM GRACE, and when nc
does Peter places him wherp,ho
belongs. in this language. I,
Forit nftcr they have escaped t e phlu'i"ns" 4"
Che world through th" knowledge Sof tic, lor'
and saviour Jesus Christ. they arc apan cntan'
led therein. md overcome. the later end u
worse with them than tie beginning. = -
For it had been hetter for them mt 70 haFt
known the EGy. of rieh' eousncss. Dian, nftr
tlcy have known it. to turn from the holy. co'lt
mautmcnt delivered unto them . ''
=: But tits happened unto them according t
the true proverb. TIE dog ,s turnpdto his owl
vn,nit again. and. The SOW that was washed Il
her wallowing in the mire, speters- :v,oa 3
/! Here is the plain facts. Of i;
man who has once been +purgee
from bis sins and then return,
',a,sain to; the weak and beggar1l
elements of the world.
So we see that it is an evjden
fact that a man can. and man!
}, will fall from grace. And tt
teach otherwise is not a whole
some doctrine. Now we believ'
that when q man is truly con
verted unto the Lord, that h
. aught to live above sin, not tha
, he cannot sin, but that he augh
to hive above sin in this manner
he viii! not fall fran g:acc.