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81 " can never be eternally lost, even despite our many shortcomings in life. "

― Patrick Higgins , I Never Knew You

82 " I want you both to know the days of filling God’s ears only with temporal things are over for me. All I want from this point forward is to know God more and what He wants from me, not what I want from Him. "

― Patrick Higgins , I Never Knew You

83 " From now on, I’ll be sure to test the spirits and compare everything I hear to what the Word says. If it lines up, I’ll receive it gladly. If not, I’ll wholeheartedly reject it. "

― Patrick Higgins , I Never Knew You

84 " The Apostle Paul is another good example of this. In Romans seven, Paul confessed his desire to do what was good, but he couldn’t carry it out. He said he didn’t do the good he wanted to do, but the evil he didn’t want to do, this he kept on doing. “In his inner being, Paul delighted in God’s law; but he also saw another law at work in him, which waged war against the law of his mind and made him a prisoner of the law of sin that was at work within him.  “He went on to call himself a wretched man, and even asked, ‘Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?’ He answered his own question by proclaiming, ‘Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! "

― Patrick Higgins , I Never Knew You

85 " Is there anyone here who cannot relate to Paul’s words? It’s important to point out that Paul said this, not Saul, meaning those words were recorded after he was saved, not before! “The reason? Just like with Peter, it wasn’t Paul’s ‘sinful’ hold of Jesus that assured him of his salvation, it was Christ’s ‘sinless’ hold of him. “Now, this doesn’t give any of us a license to sin. Truth is, though we’re called to be holy and sinless, we still sin at times. Like I said, we’re not sinners because we sin, we sin because we’re sinners… "

― Patrick Higgins , I Never Knew You

86 " So I must reiterate, anyone having the eternal privilege of being known by God as one of His children, will not be lost even though we still sin against Him. "

― Patrick Higgins , I Never Knew You

87 " Delight yourself in the Lord,’ is the key to understanding the passage. “If we’ll only do that, God will give us the desires of our heart, because our desires will be in line with what He wants for us. In other words, instead of focusing on self-centered passions and desires, the things we want will be the very things God wants for us. I had it all backwards... “Jeremiah seventeen, nine, another verse I never heard you preach on, says the human heart is wickedly evil, which means our desires apart from God are worldly, temporal, and definitely not from above? "

― Patrick Higgins , I Never Knew You

88 " What would you do if you knew you had God’s eternal assurance, which means, like Peter, regardless of what decision you made, as a blood-bought Christian, you could still be forgiven? “Peter wasn’t even in prison, yet he denied his Lord, the very One he was blessed to walk with for three years! Yet, he was still forgiven.” A lone tear rode down Charmaine’s cheek. “Just like him, if you’re a true child of the Most High God, even if you renounced Christ to gain your freedom, it wouldn’t make you any less saved. Like Peter and Paul, it isn’t your ‘sinful’ hold on Christ that assures your salvation, it’s Christ’s ‘sinless’ hold of you. “This is why I believe those who don’t renounce Christ in prison, even knowing they could still be forgiven, are the true ‘highly blessed and favored’ ones. By not denying Jesus, that’s when He gets the glory. "

― Patrick Higgins , I Never Knew You