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Originally Posted by ManOfWord
Real simple, justification didn't take place. True surrender didn't happen. It is an exercise of the will to get water baptized...Spirit baptism is different. You can't just "will" to be Spirit filled.
Going on to live the life is proof of surrender to the King. Anything less and it didn't happen or there is a misunderstanding.
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There are two different factors
How does one know if the faith is genuine in the beginning of an unbeliever/soul if all that is required is a sinners prayer
Secondly some may have received the faith but have aborted that faith and returned to the world.
Mar 4:3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:
Mar 4:4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
These never received the faith
Mar 4:5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:
Mar 4:6 But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
Mar 4:7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
These had faith but forsook the faith. Did these have saving faith?
Mar 4:8 And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.
Mar 4:9 And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
They all heard the Word but some believed and continued in the faith while others let circumstances kill their faith.
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