Dropping The Ball

"For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame." 
(Hebrews 6:4-6) 

If a football player catches the football, and then drops it, the question comes, did he really have it? They call the play, "an incomplete pass" 

The Hebrew writer here is speaking about those Christians who on the outside, showed true marks of being faithful Christians, but then (in the Greek) became those who "fell beside the wayside" My question is, if you received Christ as Savior and Lord, but then you let go of Him, did you really have Him at all?

The most terrifying words from our Lord is when He tells the church at Laodicia, how He feels about lukewarm Christians. "So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of My mouth." (Rev.3:16) It is evident by His words, that He did not want those who were lukewarm. When we embrace the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior, and Lord of our lives, it is to be a life-long commitment.
When we catch the ball, we hold on to it, and keep it secure, as we run to life's end-zone, and to eternity. GP

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