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No Turning Back — Part 1
“In their hearts turned back again into Egypt”
(Acts 7:39).
This is a sad, and exceedingly unhappy, state for a child of God to be in. In the Bible Egypt is often a picture or type of the world. A Christian who turns back again into the world, and sets their heart on things here, will suffer a great loss. No, you won’t lose your salvation, thankfully that is safe in the hand of God and the Lord Jesus. Once saved, always saved! The Lord said of His own, “I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand. My Father, which gave them Me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of My Father’s hand” (John 10:28-29).
However, you will lose a sense of peace in your heart, a good conscience, and a happy life. Don’t turn back again into “Egypt.” “Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God” (James 4:4). Therefore, “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world” (1 John 2:15).
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