FreeGrace2 said:
Right! And, can be a disciple and not be saved. John 6
Being a disciple is mentioned 255 times in the book of Acts and the gospels.
OK.
Being saved is mentioned 30 times in the four gospels and Acts. If you include the entire NT it is only mentioned 57 times.
I guess you have a point here?
It is very clear that the Lord for every time He mentioned saved referred to the disciples 8x.
Is this your point?
This is what I hate about this discussion, I have been told by one poster that being saved (meaning justified by faith) is the only thing that matters. That is not what I hear from the Lord.
That poster has it wrong. Being saved/justified is the FIRST thing that matters. Not the only thing.
After justification, the believer is commanded to be filled with the Holy Spirit, something that very few believers even understand, because way too few pastors even teach how. Maybe they don't know themselves.
Believers who understand the spiritual life and growth, will earn eternal reward, while those who spend their life doing good works from their own will power (the flesh) will find all of them burned up at the judgment. 1 Cor 3:12-15, 2 Cor 5:10.
Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
We are running in a race. Justified by faith is the start. The idea that you would focus exclusively on the start and ignore the entire race, my feeling is, find another coach. It isn't a sprint, it is a marathon.
Salvation is guanteed at the beginning. Jesus said so in plain words. Once saved, the focus is how we end. Will we be rewarded and Jesus saying "well done, thou good and faithful servant" or something else, like, "you stupid idiot. I gave you everything you needed to bring me glory and honor, and you ignored it."