DAILY FRESH OIL PREVENTS SAINTS FALLING AWAY.

St. Paul said:
“…though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.”…
“…seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.”
(2 Corinthians 4.16; Colossians 3:9-10)
God’s irrevocable Word assures the saint that his own crucifixion with Christ, burial of the old-man in Christ’s tomb, and resurrection into newness of life is a completed transaction. For the truly regenerate believer this is as regular as the sun rising each morning in the east. When the saint is distracted or overcome the daily secret renewal of oil to the burning flame is the very reason he will rise up again.
The just man falls seven times and rises up again. The stumbling saint will persevere and confess his transgression and be restored by the merciful Advocate to again walk in the light. The fresh oil was the very reason for his perseverance in the faith. However, the God-fearing goat, yet to be born of the Spirit, may not want to persevere after he is cast down. This is a day of the falling away prophesied by Paul, but only the wicked fall away, the just man only stumbles and repents because he will persevere. He will rise up again, no matter how many times he slips and falls.
1. For a just man falls seven times, and rises up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
2. Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Till seven times? Jesus said unto him, I say not to you, until seven times: but, until seventy times seven.
3. And if he trespass against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to you, saying, I repent; you shall forgive him.
SCRIPTURES:
1) Proverbs 24:16
2) Matthew 18:21-22
3) Luke 17:4.
SCRIPTURAL IMPOSSIBILITY OF SAINTS FALLING AWAY.
Scripture gives the reasons for such impossibility. They teach the reader why saints always persevere, and don’t fall away. They teach the difference between the pseudo saints and the real saints, “kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.” 1 Peter 1:5
1) …For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away…
2) …but, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak…
3) …for if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins…
4) …but call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions…
5) …but we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.…
6) …for if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein…
7) …it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, ‘the dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire’.
(LEGEND to the above verses from Hebrews 6, Hebrews 10; and 2nd Peter):
i. Hebrews 6:4-6a
ii. Hebrews 6:9;
iii. Hebrews 10:26;
iv. Hebrews 10:32;
v. Hebrews 10:39;
vi. 2 Peter 2:20a;
vii. 2 Peter 2:22.
SPECIAL NOTE to the reader: it was Stephanus (Robert Etienne, 15th C French scholar/publisher) who,after Gutenberg’s printing invention in 1439 publication of the first European book (the Bible), first versified the Bible, previously only in chapters).
This caused some adjustment of capitalization and punctuation to accommodate the changes, and more so, where each verse was made a paragraph for easy reading, in some editions. Stephanus was also responsible later for the ‘Received Greek Text,’ the basis of English speaking Puritan reformers publishing the first English language Bibles in England, France, Germany, and Geneva.
This is not withstanding Luther’s very important and highly influential German language New Testament published after 1517 and its affect upon Tyndale, Coverdale, Calvin and the Geneva gathering of Puritan exiled scholars, including Stephanus himself trying to escape the clutches of the Holy Roman Emperor and his powerful pope at a time of inquisition and martyrdom as the Counter Reformation gathered strength under the Jesuits.