This is his favorite phrase to say he says there's no such thing as a backslider, you know, he says only false converts
Oh
Well, let me start off by saying that the term backslider and the varying forms of it is found in the Bible
Okay, in fact, it's found at least 17 times in the Bible
So it's a it's a it's a biblical concept. It is a biblical teaching you say well, why?
Why are you going out of your way to even mention that obviously it's in the Bible
Well simple for the fact that there is someone out there by the name of Ray Comfort
Who teaches there is no such thing as a backslider, you know, he think he has all kinds of popular sermons that are called
Hell's best-kept secret and all these other foolish sermons and heresies
It says there is no such thing as a backslider
Which is very parallel to what Paul washer would say that there's no such thing as a carnal Christian
And I find it interesting to these Calvinists like to say there is no such thing of things that are actually found in the Bible
Like a carnal Christian in the backslider, right?
But the reason he has to say that is because he believes in what's called perseverance of the Saints
What does that mean?
Well perseverance of the Saints is a doctrine the Calvinists teach that say that if you are truly saved
You will persevere until the end. In other words, you'll remain in church. You'll keep reading your Bible. You'll live a holy life
You'll do that which is right on the side of the Lord and you'll persevere up until the end
Okay, and it's and they basically say this if you don't you won't really saved in the first place
You see if you ask a Calvinist, can you lose your salvation? They'll tell you no, you can't lose your salvation
However, if you don't persevere until the end you were never really saved to begin with. Well, that's a false. That's false doctrine
Okay, and so he says there's no this is his favorite phrase to say he says there's no such thing as a backslider
You know, he says only false converts
now go to 2nd Peter chapter 2 because I believe 2nd Peter chapter 2 is one of the greatest examples of someone who
Backslid and the Bible I mean God on purpose
Put a phrase before his name to let you know. Hey, he's a saved man
I'm referring to the man named lot. Okay
Now who is lot lot is Abraham's nephew in the book of Genesis now if you don't know anything about law
Let me just give you a brief overview of who he is and what he did
He's lost nephew and he's a man who the Bible says pitched his tent towards Sodom which eventually led him to live in Sodom
You said what is Sodom? It's a city of homos is what it is. Okay
Reprobates and sodomites. That's where the term sodomite comes from
So this guy's so backslidden that he actually decides to live in San Francisco in the midst of it
And he's living there among them, but he's the same thing
He's I don't think he was saved, you know, if you say if you wouldn't do those things
Well, look, let's look what the Bible says 2nd Peter chapter 2 verse 6
It says in turn in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow
Making them in samples into those that after should live ungodly and delivered just lot
Now that doesn't mean he just delivered lot
Okay, cuz his daughters got delivered to and his wife was delivered until she decided to turn back and was turned into a pillar of salt
What is the same just lot means he saved he was justified and
Delivered just lot vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked for that righteous man
The Bible says dwelling among them in seeing and hearing vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful
Deeds, so no one can look at at lot and say oh, yeah. He was a righteous Christian
No, but you know what? He was a righteous man in the sense that he was saved
You know why he wasn't living righteously because he was living with a bunch of faggots
And the Bible says there in seeing and hearing their unlawful deeds. He vexed his righteous soul
You know why cuz a safe person that stuff is gonna bother them
Okay, why you know it's gonna bet your righteous soul, you know that it's wrong, you know that it's filthy
You know that it's not of God and it's gonna bother you. Okay, but here it says the I mean God
Specifically refers to him as just lot and just in case you don't understand what just lot means
He reiterates in verse 8 that righteous man. Well, we know based upon his life that he wasn't living righteously
So that's not what it's referring to. It's referring to the fact that he was righteous in Christ
It was a saved man