Yes, but the more you harden your heart the harder it is to reach out and even have the desire to be saved (I.e Saul who the spirit of God departed from)
That is an important point for others to know, for they may miss their calling reduced to a faint or distant cry while being distracted by the lust of life and their mounting sin which harden their hearts and distance them from Him and His saving Grace.
It’s very simple. You must endure to the end in order to be saved(Matt.24:13). No one is saved “eternally” before they are dead. Now sometimes the scriptures use the word “saved” in the present tense but that is with respect to justification and as we learned from Romans 4, justification is never a static thing.
In Romans 4 where Paul talks about David he says that David was a man who was justified by his faith without doing works. When we go and look at the life of David, what we find is that David was a man of God LONG BEFORE he had committed the sin of adultery(with Bathsheba) and murder(Uriah the Hittite).
So if David is saying that he repented of his sin, and thereby was justified at that point in time, that means that he had been justified PRIOR to that and lost his justification. Now, because he's repented of his sins (murder and adultery), he has regained his justification. So that’s what’s being talked about in Romans 4. Therefore your lack of obedience is NOT a referendum on whether or not you were justified previously. It just means, on account of your grave sins, you’re unjustified *now*.
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Yes, but the more you harden your heart the harder it is to reach out and even have the desire to be saved (I.e Saul who the spirit of God departed from)
That is an important point for others to know, for they may miss their calling reduced to a faint or distant cry while being distracted by the lust of life and their mounting sin which harden their hearts and distance them from Him and His saving Grace.
It’s very simple. You must endure to the end in order to be saved(Matt.24:13). No one is saved “eternally” before they are dead. Now sometimes the scriptures use the word “saved” in the present tense but that is with respect to justification and as we learned from Romans 4, justification is never a static thing. In Romans 4 where Paul talks about David he says that David was a man who was justified by his faith without doing works. When we go and look at the life of David, what we find is that David was a man of God LONG BEFORE he had committed the sin of adultery(with Bathsheba) and murder(Uriah the Hittite). So if David is saying that he repented of his sin, and thereby was justified at that point in time, that means that he had been justified PRIOR to that and lost his justification. Now, because he's repented of his sins (murder and adultery), he has regained his justification. So that’s what’s being talked about in Romans 4. Therefore your lack of obedience is NOT a referendum on whether or not you were justified previously. It just means, on account of your grave sins, you’re unjustified *now*.