Luke 12 42 And the Lord said, “Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom
his master will make ruler over his household, to give
them their portion of food [
h]in due season? 43 Blessed
is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. 44 Truly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all that he has. 45 But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk, 46 the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for
him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two and
appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. 47 And that servant who knew his master’s will, and did not prepare
himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many
stripes. 48 But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.
Another pearl of wisdom destroying OSAS.
The above passage clearly describes two sets of servants (servants of the Lord Jesus). In order to serve the Lord you had to have believed in the Lord Jesus. Yet we see the end for the servant who falls into unrepentant sin. He is appointed the same fate as the UNBELIEVER. And no unbeliever goes to heaven.
Isa 59:1 Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
Isa 59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Rom 11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
Rom 11:21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
Rom 11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
Heb 3:7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
Heb 3:8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Heb 3:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Heb 3:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
Heb 3:11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
Heb 3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Heb 3:13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
There is no difference between the Old Testament and the New Testament but it is a requirement to abstain from sin, which in the New there is no excuse for a Spirit led life will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh, and if it was a requirement in the Old Testament to abstain from sin how much more would it be in the New being able to have the Spirit.
2Ti 3:4 lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
2Ti 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
2Ti 3:6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
2Ti 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
But there are many that will oppose that teaching to abstain from sins to be saved, and some even saying they cannot abstain from sin despite the Holy Spirit that will help them to abstain from sin, but God says those type of people turn away from them, and they will fight against you, and it is strange that they cannot see that sins separate them from God whether they confess Christ or not, but the Bible says they are ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth for they will not let go of the flesh.
1Co 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
1Co 15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
1Co 9:26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
1Co 9:27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
castaway
adokimos
ad-ok'-ee-mos
From G1 (as a negative particle) and G1384; unapproved, that is, rejected; by implication worthless (literally or morally): - castaway, rejected, reprobate.
But Paul said some do not have the knowledge of God, and Paul said if he did not abstain from sins he would be a castaway, which is cut off.
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