John 15:6: If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
The “burned” branches refer to professing Christians who, like Judas, are not genuinely saved and therefore are judged. Like a dead branch, a person without Christ is spiritually dead and therefore will be punished in eternal fire (cf. Matt. 25:46). Judas was with Jesus; he seemed like a “branch.” But he did not have God’s life in him; therefore he departed; his destiny was like that of a dead branch. 1
Your Word is Truth
Jesus provides absolute security for the believer and absolutely no security for the make believer. Security is found in an abiding relationship with Him. How do you know if your actually abiding or just pretending? What warning is being communicated by Jesus? Is the church communicating that same warning?
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us. – 1 John 2:19
You Alone are God
We are free to choose, but not free from the consequences of that choice. – TWEET IT
Your Will be Done
Lord, thank You for telling me about the eternal truth of rejecting You.
1. Walvoord, John F., & Zuck, R. B., Dallas Theological Seminary. (1985). The Bible Knowledge Commentary.
