Amen, and to you and yours as well, in Christ Alone by Grace Alone!
Surely Sir, I'm your Huckleberry!
So then, you do not hold a view of, Plan of Redemption. This is correct? I will address your post in sections because there's too much to unpack, is this okay?
Now, to address your comments. Only past sins are forgiven us, not future sins??? This is conjecture Highlighter because Christ's death and bloody cross washes all of our sins away, past, present and future. He is the Paschal Lamb where all of our sins lay. He purchased God's people with his blood! He came to fulfill His Father's Promise to save his people from their sins!
Matthew 1:21
She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.” All of them!
Do you honestly believe that believers will lose their salvation if they forget or don't confess every single sin committed on a daily basis? I wish you luck with that, which is impossible! Trying to crucify Christ over and over is contradictory to Scripture. It's Christ who has secured the Redemption of God's elect on that Cross that day. The Good News of the Gospel is not a to do list on what one must do to be saved! It's an announcement of what God did in Christ for his people! Christ came to fulfill his Father's will, and what is his Father's will?
35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
36 But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.
37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. 38 For I have come down from heaven,
not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.
40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
Very powerful and wonderful good news for God's elect people! I want to focus specifically on the last few passages here. And this is the will of him who sen me, THAT I SHOULD LOSE NOTHING OF ALL THAT HE HAS GIVEN ME! This is the Promise and Will of God. Promised to Adam & Eve, Abraham, David. This is the Covenant of Redemption! God giving his word, that he will save his people form their sins! And have eternal life, and nobody will be able to snatch them out of his hand or his Father's hand!
This is why I become a convinced Classical Calvinist, and recanted on Arminianism, because Arminianism first of all, don't hold to Justification by Faith Alone; Imputation of Christ's righteousness. Which is the crux of the Gospel and upon where the Church stands or falls. And God's Promise, his word, his Oath, his Covenant of saving his people is fulfilled in Christ. As Christ's last word on the Cross, "It is Finished"! Christ left nothing undone, he finished it all for God's people whom he gave to the Son to redeem! This is where I can find joy, love, assurance, refuge, gratitude, and peace of conscience!
So, obviously I disagree with you premise in your comments above. But I'll finish with this, an excerpt from one of my favorite theologians.
"Liberalism is always in the imperative mood; where as Christianity is always in the triumphant indicative. Liberalism always appeals to the human will. Christianity announces first, a gracious act of God. What we need is not exhortation (directions or a list to save myself; works), but a Gospel! Knowledge of the facts on how God has saved me. Have you any good news? I know your exhortation will not help me, but if anything has been done to save me, will you not tell me the facts?"
---J. Gresham Machen
John 6:37-40 says,
37 "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day."
First, what does Jesus mean by,
“All that the Father giveth me come to me?”
Well, we have to understand that the Father elects those based on His future foreknowledge of our free will choice concerning Him (
1 Peter 1:2) (
Deuteronomy 30:19). Also, we also have to understand that not everyone is going to be saved; However, it is God's will that all people should be saved, though (
1 Timothy 2:4) (
2 Peter 3:9) (
Revelation 22:17). This is why we read in Scripture about how many are called, but few are chosen (
Matthew 20:16).
Same meanings since all are given the chance to have life through Jesus. But those who are His have come so willingly in faith, repenting and turning with a sincere heart; forever to the submission of God’s commandments and desires.
Verse 39 implies that it is possible for Jesus to lose some of the flock. If it were not so, He would have said so. But if what you say is true, then Jesus would have said,
"I WILL lose nothing."
However, that is not what Jesus said. Jesus says,
"I SHOULD lose nothing."
John 6:39 (KJV) says,
"And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me
I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day."
Second, eternal life here is not a guarantee. Jesus says in verse 40
"MAY have everlasting life".
John 6:40
"And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son,
and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day."
In other words, Jesus should lose none and all who are His should be raised, because they should all continue in the righteousness God gave them through the sacrifice of Jesus. It’s not that Jesus isn’t capable of keeping up with His sheep; it’s that He never keeps His sheep against their wills. How so?
Well, we see in Scripture that the Father gave all of the disciples to Jesus; However, Jesus kept them all except Judas, though.
John 17:12 says:
"While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled."
Now, allow me to rephrase this in modern-terminology:
While I was with the marbles in the world, I kept them. Those marbles that you gave me I kept, and none are lost, but the green marble.
And OSAS terminology:
While I was with the marbles in the world, I kept them. Those marbles that you gave me I kept, and none are lost, except for the green marble that you never gave me.
Do you see now how OSAS doesn't make any sense?
Old Source Link Used:
http://conditionalsalvation.com/
(Note: Website no longer active)
