Does God disown believers when they fall from grace?

I am so glad the book of Galatians is in the Bible, because we can learn a lot from other people’s mistakes.

The Galatians lost their liberty in Christ by allowing themselves to be enslaved to the yoke of the law. For us it could be anything that we try to substitute for Christ. We don't stand in Christ by works, but by grace alone.

What happens when we fall from grace? To fall from grace is to stop trusting in grace and start trusting in your own performance or abilities to attempt to keep yourself secure in Christ. It’s choosing to walk after the flesh, instead of walking by faith.

This is what happened to the Galatians. Some false teachers came preaching a different gospel than Christ's, and the Galatians bought it hook, line, and sinker. They were no longer continuing in the grace of God. They were no longer continuing in the faith. But did this mean the Galatians were now unsaved, under condemnation, and hell-bound? No! Falling from grace does not mean falling out of the kingdom.

You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. (Galatians 5:4)

The Bible says the Galatians alienated themselves from Christ. They became estranged, separated, severed, and cut off. These are serious words with serious implications, but they do not imply condemnation.

Who cut them off? It wasn’t Christ.

Who did the separating? Not Jesus.

As always, Jesus remains the faithful and keeps us safe, while promising that no one, not even ourselves in a moment of stupidity, can snatch us out of his hands.

Paul never tells the Galatians, “You are losing your salvation.” Instead, he says, “You are indulging the flesh” (Gal. 5:13).

The Galatians were becoming carnal, in vicious arguments with each other. The danger was not that God would destroy them, but that “you will be destroyed by each other” (Gal. 5:15).

What are the dangers of falling from grace?

Remove grace from any community, and you will soon have quarrels, strife, bickering, manipulation, envy, hatred, and all the other works of the flesh that Paul lists in Galatians 5:19–21. But none of these things will send you to hell. We who drift can, with the aid of the Spirit, come back on course. Just like the Prodigal son. He sinned, but his father never disowned him!

If you have fallen from grace into dead works, the remedy is to remember your First Love (Jesus) and do what you did at first.

If believers were kicked out of the kingdom every time they sinned, heaven would be empty!!

"Greater is He (God) who is in you, than he (Satan) that is in the world!!" 1 John 4:4