ONCE SHAVED ALWAYS SHAVED

There were once two old men, named Elmer and Don who were sitting around talking, when suddenly the conversation came to shaving:

Elmer: I’ve never had a decent shave in my life.

Don: Really? Well, you should come let my wife give you a shave; she gives the best shaves in the world.

So, the next day Elmer came over and Don’s wife gave him a shave. A month went by before Don and Elmer saw each other again. When Elmer saw Don, he ran up to him quickly.Elmer: You’ll never believe this Don. I mean you really won’t believe this.Don: What happened?

Elmer: Well, remember your wife gave me a shave, right? Well, I waited a few days and nothing grew back. I waited a week and still nothing. I waited another and another, until a month had gone by, and still nothing grew. I just don’t get it.

Don: Well Elmer, you see, my wife is a Baptist, and you know what they believe, once shaved always shaved.

Moral of the story: Isn’t it sad that people think just because they said the “Lord’s Prayer” one time a long time ago, it means they’re saved for the rest of their lives. So they can go around sinning and doing whatever they want to do because “Once saved, always saved”, right? WRONG!!!

Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace . . . Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
(Galatians 5:4, 19-21)

NO SIN WILL EVER ENTER HEAVEN!!!

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
(Romans 6)

ONCE WE’VE BEEN SAVED, WE SHOULD NEVER SIN AGAIN!!!

For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
(Hebrews 10:26)

IF WE WILLINGLY SIN AFTER ASKING GOD TO FORGIVE US, WE WILL NOT FIND FORGIVENESS!!!

But, there’s a simple solution.Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
(James 4:7)

ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS RESIST SIN AND SUBMIT OUR LIVES TO GOD!!!
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
(I John 1:9)

AND IF WE ASK FOR FORGIVENESS AND PROMISE NEVER TO SIN AGAIN, GOD WILL FORGIVE US AND FORGET OUR SINS!!!

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
(II Corinthians 5:17)

AND GOD WILL MAKE YOU A BRAND NEW CREATURE, WITHOUT SIN!!!

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
(Romans 12:1-2)
IF AND ONLY IF WE KEEP OURSELVES FREE FROM SIN AND SEPARATE FROM THE WORLD AND IT’S WAYS!!!

Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day: And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
(Deuteronomy 11:26-28)

THE CHOICE IS YOURS TO MAKE; WILL YOU BE BLESSED OR CURSED???