A believer can be saved and not be His disciple. They run the risk of being left behind at the pre trib rapture event to be received later on as vessel unto dishonor in His House after the great tribulation.
I would suggest being careful with words like disciple. The god of this world is a copy cat turning the meaning upside down . A disciple is simply a student of the teacher. Husbands obey your wives. XLOL…. if you grin your in
The disciples who were saved understood what it meant for the works of the flesh.... they profit for zero nothing nada…. it is rather the spirit of the word that gives spirit life.
The other disciples who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, fell away in unbelief (no faith) and no longer walked with Christ
Many therefore of
his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them,
Doth this offend you?What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the
flesh profiteth nothing: the
words that I speak unto you, they are
spirit, and they are
life.But there are some of you that
believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.And he said, Therefore said I unto you,
that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.From that
time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to
whom shall we go?
thou hast the
words of
eternal life.And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. Joh 6:60
A person can do all the wonderful works they can produce and still hope to be found with a righteousness of their own self. Christian will not be classified as those in whom Christ called workers of iniquity doing despite to the Spirit of grace, the Spirit of life .His word is Spirit and is eternal life.
My comments in
(purple) to help keep tract of whose faith and where it comes from and who it is imputed to and from . The unconverted Jew who also required a sign before they could belive( themselves) they kept getting it upside down
Phi 3:9 And be found
in him, “not having”
mine own righteousness, which is of the law
(that kills) , but that which is through the faith
of Christ(from Him), the righteousness which is
of God (from Him), by faith....
(God's faith)
“not having” mine own righteousness