Hmm, God only knows the heart of man. God is a better judge than me yet the scripture is very clear, when we are saved, we are saved for eternity. Since a saved is still in his flesh, he had something to worry. Flesh is against the Spirit and since we are still here in the earth, we have an adversary, the Devil tempting us to do it. But you need to know that temptation itself is not a sin. It is giving in that becomes sin. As for the question granting after 10 years he steal back is he steal saved? Again, the his standing with God is righteous not because what he had done but because of what Christ done. What God see's is not our self-righteousness but God's righteousness by faith so that man is still save. His bad deeds, however, looses him his rewards in heaven during the Judgement Day of Christ.
This judgement is not about losing or gaining of salvation but rather obtaining or losing of rewards...in the form of Crowns
James 1:12 - Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the
crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
2 Timothy 4:8 - Henceforth there is laid up for me a
crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
1 Peter 5:4 - And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a
crown of glory that fadeth not away.
1 Cor. 9:25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an i
ncorruptible.
1 Thess. 2:19 For what is our hope, or joy, or
crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
"when we are saved, we are saved for eternity"
If I was on the road across a desert, one long straight road, and its name was the eternity road,
stepping on the road would mean I am on the road to eternity, not that I had reached eternity.
Now with all the helps, aids, training, transformation and empowerment for me to travel down
this road, if I do nothing and stay were I am I am literally denying it all, because I am not using
the very gifts I have been given to enable me to travel down the road.
Now some will say the phrase we now have eternal life is we have arrived in eternity now.
But clearly we are on earth, and seem to act and behave in exactly the same ways as before.
And if some can gain this position and then go away and become literally the enemies of the
way, with all their beings, this arriving is not just being there as a one off visit.
So Jesus calls himself "the way". He talks about obeying His words, putting into practise His
teaching, following, obeying, loving, growing in Him, like a new born child growing up to maturity.
He uses the analogy His word is a seed that takes root and grows into a massive tree, that is so
huge you cannot imagine it.
So the kingdom is not passive but dynamic and about growth and change, transformation and the
reality of love and hope in peoples lives.
The law of Moses is even more worked through, though in Christ we have the relationship with God
that fulfils all the images. But for God to create the images they have real value and are important
for us to acknowledge and see their spiritual significance, except this whole subject is so vast it
is impossible to do more than just point at the depths of Gods work. Amen. God bless you