Referring to Ezekiel 33:8 and Acts 20:26.
In both these scriptures, it refers to the blood of men, this demonstrates the Lord is speaking about the physical, earthly, life of a person, not his eternal life.
I believe God is a righteous all-knowing God. I believe that he dearly loves his bride. My question is: We have chances every day to testify for Jesus and many times God urges us to speak to certain people. What happens when we are disobedient. Would certain souls go to hell due to our disobedience? In the sense that they will never hear the gospel again? Will there be even one soul that God earmarked to be saved that will go to hell due to our disobedience?
Absolutely not. We are not responsible for the eternal state of other men.
If the answer is "No" to the latter, then why the great commission? He will then inevitably ensure that all that He called out will be saved. To be clear, this is a true question wit no malicious intent.
You have fallen into a common trap amongst most Christians, that "salvation" in the Great Commission is about bringing eternal life to people.
In God's world, "salvation" is about getting God's own children, those already born again, into a life of victory and freedom from spiritual bondage.
This use of the word can be seen throughout the Old Testament, where the word translated as "salvation" always referred to deliverance from Philistine, Famine, or plague etc. Nowhere do we see "salvation" referring to "Heaven when we die".
The 3 years ministry of Jesus was to an Old Testament people, undertaken during the Old Testament period! His listeners and disciples were not New Testament people, nor did the New Testament start at Matthew1v1!
(Take note that the New Covenant was not announced till
Matt26v28For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.)
His listeners understood Jesus's words to mean the same as when they heard them read from the Law and the Prophets in their synagogues. And Jesus spoke those words intending them to carry that very same meaning.
It is a great shame that theologians have twisted the meaning of those words to represent what happens when we die.
Most churches teach that we cannot be saved till we confess the sinner's prayer, centred around the death and resurrection of Jesus as found in Romans10v9/10. But if you look at Paul's letter to the Romans, you will see that those verses are addressed entirely to the saints, the already born again children of God.
The idea that unbelievers get born again by confessing the death and resurrection of Jesus is an utter impossibility, an oxymoron, as we shall see from Paul himself.-
1Cor1v18a For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing,
Paul makes it crystal clear that an unbeliever (those who are perishing) cannot comprehend the cross because it is foolishness to his unregenerate mind. This tells us that the only ones who can comprehend the message of the cross are those whose hearts are already renewed by God.
Therefore we cannot get people born again by preaching the cross!
Sadly, because we are taught that the cross is about getting people saved, Christians completely ignore the true message of the cross which Paul states in the second half of the verse.
18b.......but to us who are being saved it (the cross) is the power of God.
The purpose of the cross is about bringing God's children from underneath Satan's dominion, to a life of overruling that dominion.
The Life of a Christian should be a spiritual reflection of the victory God wrought for Israel in the OT. For most, their faith makes little difference till they die.
As for how we get born again, read what Paul describes in Romans1
