Now THANK YOU, someone with an open mind. I do not mind if we disagree, but people the do not know ditty about wait we TEACH and BELIEVE, and then they insist that we teach that one you are saved you do not THINK it does not matter if you want to disobey, is a bunch of rotten eggs. I have been called all kinds of OFFENSIVE NAMES, and told that GOD's Curse is on me, simply because I believe in OSAS, and that PERSON has the ERRONEOUS MEANING FOR THAT TERM.
OBEDIENCE is every bit a part of OSAS beliefs in EVERY Church that I have been part of. HOWEVER, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH
SALVATION, it is PART OF LOVE, and Sanctification. We have been FALSELY ACCUSED of
that LIE ever sense I was Born Again the last week of 1977, and PROBABLY FOR DECADES BEFORE THAT.
The Biggest Mistake is that Armenians have made, is ASSUMING that SANCTIFICATION and SALVATION are the same thing. They are a lifetime of Miles apart.
Salvation of the Human Spirit happens the moment the HOLY SPIRIT comes in, and it is
a FREE GIFT of GOD. While
Sanctification is a RESULT OF OUR
LOVE FOR HIM, where we learn to Walk like Christ, and to LOVE GOD ENOUGH TO OBEY HIM. And that process will not be complete until we are at the RESURRECTION. THAT IS WHAT OSAS HAS BEEN in every Church I have been involved in, and WE MOVED A LOT WHEN WE WERE YOUNGER. Those that think they are OSAS and NEVER TRY TO OBEY HIM, are FALSE Brethren, and those are the ones that FALL AWAY, which means they NEVER WERE BORN AGAIN.
If you doubt that SALVATION is a Free Gift of GOD, and it happens the moment the Holy Spirit comes into our HEART, these verses should convince you:
Ephesians 2:8-9 (HCSB)
8 For you are
saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves;
it is God’s gift—
9 not from works, so that no one can boast.
2 Timothy 1:9 (HCSB)
9
He has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace,
which was given to us in Christ Jesus
before time began.
And the BIGGEST REASON I absolutely wholeheartedly believe in OSAS is this portion of Scripture, among others:
John 10:27-30 (HCSB)
27 My sheep hear My voice, I know them [equals Born Again], and they follow Me.
28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish—ever! No one will snatch them out of My hand {not even self}.
29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
30 The Father and I are one.”