This is what I've come to call cheap grace. A pastor I know calls it easy believism.
Everything is made easy today. All one has to do is believe --- of course Jesus never said this,
Jesus has said on numerous occasions on how one is saved simply by believing in Him.
That is why Jesus commanded His disciples to make disciples of other believes, because discipleship is separate from salvation as it involves teaching His commandments of what they are to look to Him for help & power to do in following Him.
The foundation laid by Jesus Christ can never be removed but the works thereon will be judged; anyone that has defiled the temple of God and has not repented before the Bridegroom comes, runs the risk of being left behind as a castaway.
The saved saints left behind are still His, but they shall become vessels unto dishonor in His House, and thus the least in the kingdom of God.
Easy believism for salvation is true;
Running that race also requires that same easy believism by trusting Jesus Christ as your Good Shepherd to help you to follow Him.
Of course, if you are using easy believism as used by mocking believers to live in sin, then that is hardly believing in Him for living that reconciled relationship with God thru Jesus Christ. The prodigal son have lost his first inheritance to wild living; he can never get it back as those who get left behind can never be a part of the firstfruits of the resurrection when once that door is shut because there is no second Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven to be had.
Like Esau that lost his first birthright for something temporary, a meal, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, but that is why God is wiping the tears from the eyes of those saints coming out of the great tribulation to get past that loss.
There are vessels unto honor in His House and there are vessels unto dishonor in His House. Those that depart from iniquity, even former believers as they are still saved if they depart from that iniquity of unbelief, they shall be received as vessels unto honor in His House. 2 Timothy 2:18-21 & 2 Timothy 2:10-13
If the whole point of excommunication is to give them that are unrepentant unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh so that the spirit may be saved in the day of Christ Jesus, then God will do the same when the Bridegroom comes to find many not abiding in Him as His disciples by His grace & by His help for trusting Him as their Good Shepherd to finish the race; thus they become disqualified to attend the Marriage Supper and thus reprobate when left behind at the rapture.
1 Corinthians 5:[SUP]4 [/SUP]In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
[SUP]5 [/SUP]To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.........[SUP]11 [/SUP]But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner;
with such an one no not to eat.[SUP]12 [/SUP]For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?[SUP] 13 [/SUP]But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
So in that day when God judges His House at the pre trib rapture event... Jesus will get His lost sheep left behind.
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Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.[SUP] 14 [/SUP]If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.[SUP]
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If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.[SUP] 1
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Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?[SUP] 17 [/SUP]If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
See what happens to a believer that does not prepare himself to repent of this spiritual fornication;
Revelation 2:[SUP]21 [/SUP]And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
[SUP]22 [/SUP]Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her
into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.[SUP]23 [/SUP]
And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.[SUP]24 [/SUP]But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira,
as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.
So God will judge each believer according to the works built on that foundation; but that foundation was laid without works but by faith in Jesus Christ; easy believism.
It was easy believism in Jesus Christ as our Saviour in how we were saved; and it takes easy believism in discipleship in running that race by faith in Jesus Christ as our Good Shepherd because the just can only live by faith; not by works. So what we sow towards will cunt; the works of the flesh or the fruits of the Spirit which are by putting our confidence in Him to finish His work in us which is also to His glory and our thanksgiving to God the Father in Jesus's name.
It has to be easy believism for that is all a child can do is trust the Lord at His word; not just for salvation, but for following Him too.