Not By Works

One act of belief/faith/trust in Christ Jesus for salvation is sufficient to save eternally.

You can be a believer in Jesus and question and have anxiety about salvation. I know the feeling of anxiety about salvation very well personally.

Any gift that can be taken away is not a gift but a loan.

Again what you push is contrary to Christ.

But I never lost my faith in Jesus. I was waiting for the sky to fall on my head and go to hell.

I was waiting for the sky to fall on my head and go to hell.

To have anxiety about your salvation is misplaced if you do indeed have faith in Christ.

Osas is a false comfort to the struggling Christian. They need to be exhorted to keep believing despite their struggle, not sit back casually because they supposedly can't lose their salvation.

...Especially since sin can deceive us and harden our hearts to unbelief:

12Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God. 13But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. " - Hebrews 3:12-13

Osas causes people to not be aware of the falling away from God in unbelief that can happen because of sin because it teaches you can't fall away from God. It's necessary to keep believing in order to keep the sharing in Christ you gained when you first believed:

"14 We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end." - Hebrews 3:14

I just go by what the Bible says.
If you go back to unbelief you will lose what your faith had been securing for you.

No, a loan HAS to be paid back.
A gift does not.

If a gift can be taken away it wasn't a gift in the first place. It was a bribe.

God's says unless we mortify the deeds of the body through the Spirit we will die.

What are deeds of the body?

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
(Rom 7:22-24 KJV)

Ah, the king's English. But what does that actually say to you? What are the deeds of the body?

Ah, the king's English.

Where the word of a king is, there is power (Ecclesiastes 8:4).

This post, I want to specifically talk to my OSAS Brothers and Sisters in CHRIST.

I want to Encourage you all, to remain strong in the OSAS Faith, that we have in common.

Now that we have ENTERED into the time of great Pestilences, NO there will be MORE to come. Pray for one another, and encourage one another, all the more.

We can now EXPECT a lot more people with False Doctrines, that will come and Try to Deceive us. It is in Prophecy, therefore IT WILL HAPPEN.

KNOW That Our LORD has Promised us HE will Call Us Out to GO to the Wedding of the LAMB SOON. No, I do not know when, but Keep Ready,

Matthew 24:6-7 (NKJV)
6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences {diseases that kill}, and earthquakes in various places.

1 Thessalonians 5:9 (NASB)
9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Revelation 3:10 (NASB)
10 'Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.


Matthew 25:1-13 (NASB)
1 "Then the kingdom of heaven will be comparable to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
2 "Five of them were foolish, and five were prudent.
3 "For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them,
4 but the prudent took oil in flasks along with their lamps.
5 "Now while the bridegroom was delaying, they all got drowsy and began to sleep.
6 "But at midnight there was a shout, 'Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.'
7 "Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps.
8 "The foolish said to the prudent, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.'
9 "But the prudent answered, 'No, there will not be enough for us and you too; go instead to the dealers and buy some for yourselves.'
10 "And while they were going away to make the purchase, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast; and the door was shut.
11 "Later the other virgins also came, saying, 'Lord, lord, open up for us.'
12 "But he answered, 'Truly I say to you, I do not know you.'
13 "Be on the alert then, for you do not know the day nor the hour.

1 Timothy 6:3-5 (NIV)
3 If anyone teaches false doctrines and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching,
4 he is conceited and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions
5 and constant friction between men of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.

Acts 20:29-30 (ESV)
29 I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;
30 and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.

2 Timothy 3:5 (HCSB)
5 holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people!

2 Timothy 3:7 (HCSB)
7 always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.

Hebrews 3:13-14 (HCSB)
13 But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today, so that none of you is hardened by sin’s deception.
14 For we have become companions of the Messiah if we hold firmly until the end the reality that we had at the start.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 (NASB)
11 Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.