No — a genuine believer cannot remove themselves from God's protection.
Scripture declares that nothing in all creation can separate believers from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus. Les Feldick directly addresses the objection that a believer could cast himself out by sin, teaching that no one can supersede God's sovereign power and that believers are under the blood protection.
Romans 8:38-39 — Paul explicitly declares that no created thing can separate believers from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:35 — Paul asks who can separate us from the love of Christ in the face of every kind of hardship.
Romans 8:33-34 — Paul shows that no charge can be laid against God's elect because God justifies and Christ intercedes.
Romans 8:33-34 asks, 'Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.' The Scripture then raises the question in Romans 8:35: 'Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?' The answer is given with absolute certainty in Romans 8:38-39: 'For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.' The Bible's own testimony is that nothing — not even the believer himself — can break the bond of God's love in Christ.
Les Feldick teaches that a genuinely saved believer cannot remove themselves from God's protection. When a man suggested that he could cast himself out by committing a horrible sin, Les responded that you cannot touch yourself in your position in the body of Christ any more than someone else can. He emphasized that believers are 'totally under the control and the power of the sovereign God' and that nobody can supersede His power. Les pictures this security as being 'under the blood' — just as Israel was safe in Egypt, no power on earth or in heaven can take believers from under that blood protection. He also stresses that this security is not license, and that it applies only to those who are genuinely saved. If God hasn't begun a disciplining process in someone's life, Les doubts whether that person was ever truly a child of God.
Les directly answers this objection with a firm 'no.' He recounts a man who said God would never cast him out, but he could cast himself out by committing some horrible sin. Les responded, 'you can't touch yourself so far as being in that position in the body of Christ any more than someone else can.' Because believers are under the sovereign God's control, no one — including the believer — can undo what God has done.
No. Les immediately qualifies his teaching on eternal security: 'that's not license.' He says he always has to follow that statement, showing that a believer's safety in Christ is never a cover for careless or sinful living. Grace is not permission to sin.
Les teaches that once a person is genuinely born again, they can never be cast out of God's family. However, if someone lives in an undisciplined way, God will discipline them as a parent disciplines a child. If there is no evidence of God's disciplining work in someone's life, Les says he doubts whether that person was ever a child of God — no matter what they profess.
Romans 8:33-34 asks who can lay any charge against God's elect. The answer is that God justifies, Christ died, rose again, and intercedes for believers. Because the protection of God's people rests on what God alone has done, nothing can overturn it.
Security Is Not License
Les emphasizes that a believer's security is not permission to live carelessly — 'that's not license.'
You Cannot Cast Yourself Out
Les directly answers the man who thought he could cast himself out by horrible sin, saying you cannot remove yourself from the body of Christ and cannot supersede God's sovereign power.
Under Blood Protection
Les teaches that believers are under the blood protection, just as Israel was safe in Egypt, and no earthly or heavenly power can take them from under it.
No One Can Take You from His Hand
Les says no one can take believers out of God's hand, and God would not elect someone who would later reject Him.
Children of God by God's Acts
Les teaches that salvation makes a person a bonafide child of God by God's own acts, and no one can change that — eternal security applies to the genuinely saved.
God Disciplines His Children
Les explains that a genuine child of God can never be cast out, and if someone lacks God's discipline, he doubts they were ever truly saved.
Nothing in Creation Can Separate
Les makes clear that no created thing — demonic or angelic, present or future — can separate a believer from the love of God in Christ Jesus.
All of It Is What God Has Done
Les teaches that because salvation is entirely what God has done, no one can touch God's elect or the salvation God has secured.
Romans 8:33-34: Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Paul declares that God's elect are protected from every accusation because God justifies and Christ intercedes.
Romans 8:35: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Paul poses the question that this page answers: what could possibly separate us from the love of Christ?
Romans 8:38-39: For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
This is the direct scriptural answer: nothing in all creation can separate a believer from God's love.
No. Les Feldick says a person cannot cast himself out of the body of Christ by committing a horrible sin. Believers are under the sovereign power of God, and nobody — including the believer — can supersede His power.
No. Les explicitly states 'that's not license' when teaching about eternal security. God's protection does not give believers permission to live carelessly or sinfully.
Les is careful to say that eternal security is only for those who have genuinely been saved. If God hasn't begun a disciplining process in someone's life, Les doubts whether they were ever truly a child of God.
Les uses the phrase 'under the blood' to describe the believer's safety in Christ. Just as the Israelites were safe in Egypt, believers are safe under the blood protection, and no power on earth or in heaven can take them from under it.
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