Hello Joh146,
Regarding this issue, what do you make of the following:
"Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of[SUP]
g[/SUP] your evil behavior.
22But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation—
if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel.
What happens if a believer doesn't do what is underlined? And what do you think of the following:
"Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of his household, to give the others their food at the proper time?
46Blessed is that servant whose master returns and finds him doing his job.
47Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.
48But suppose
that servant is wicked and says in his heart, ‘
My master will be away a long time.’
49And he begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.
50The master of that servant will come on a day he does not anticipate and at an hour he does not expect.
51Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
In the example above, the reference is to "servant" who calls the Lord "Master," (I point this out to be proactive for those who would say that the servant in Scripture was not a believer). Then that servant being wicked turns back to the sinful nature represented by his beating his fellow servants and eating and drinking with drunkards (partying). The result being, the Master of the servant returning at a time when he least expects it and finds him doing so, will assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Does this sound like OSAS? Every promise to a believer should followed by, "if you continue in faith." Go and read the promises found in the letters to the seven churches and everywhere that it states "He who overcomes" reverse the promise for he who
doesn't overcome.
And what do you think about the following:
"Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to.
33Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?’
34In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.
“This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.”
So, according to the scripture above, if a believer does not forgive his brother or sister from his heart, then the result will be the same as in Jesus' example above.
