I have read this book by one on Facebook whose name is Dustin Layton who you can follow who seems I thought may have knowledge for he really shares a lot to seem insightful but I didn’t agree with some of his views but wanted to learn why he thinks others are not saved . He believes once saved always saved and that most Christian’s are not saved already. I wanted to know what he means by once saved always saved for I don’t agree that it means you can live in sin. I don’t think he means that but that if you are saved you would always return to accept Jesus as he says with receiving jesus as stranger below
The below is part from his book
I would like to ask 3 simple questions for all to think about Biblically... 1). Did Jesus die for us because we ourselves cannot meet the standard of perfection God accepts? or... must we become totally perfect in all things in order for God to accept us? 2). The Bible says we are all guilty of breaking God's law and that just one sin is enough to keep us out of heaven so how on earth will we get into heaven since we are all guilty? 3). How do you truly know when you have enough good works, have stopped enough sins, and have enough obedience to truly be saved? It can only be the law or grace. The two cannot mix at all. No one would say that God raised Jesus as a gift. No- Jesus deserved to be raised according to the law because He was perfect
The burden of sin was bore upon the cross by the Lord Jesus Christ. Anyone who places the burden of sin upon a sinner to be saved is propagating a false gospel of self-righteousness. Jesus paid it all...
Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through repentance and faith. God will not save anyone who is trying to be saved of themselves, He will only save those who know they need a savior and are trusting Him to be saved. The only requirement to be saved is to admit that you are a guilty sinner in God's sight (Romans 3:19-26) and to turn to Jesus Christ in faith trusting in His death burrial and Ressurection (Romans 10:9-13). You must come as an ungodly sinner to be saved. No one has ever been saved except the UNGODLY (Romans 4:5-8). God doesn't save the self-righteous, who are going about to establish their own righteousness (Matthew 7:21-23). We can only be saved by God's righteousness, which is through faith in Christ. Philippians 3:9 says, “And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.”
Your flesh wants to remain in sin, and if your spirit is in agreement with your flesh, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. You must be at war with your flesh to enter heaven, for the flesh will be thrown into hell regardless of it's end, but the spirit has a choice to await it's separation from the body. The only way you can marry Jesus is if the flesh dies, but the flesh is immortal, so now the only option left is for you to die so you can escape the marriage of your flesh. Once you're dead to yourself, the tether has been cut from your original marriage. Now in spirit you can marry the better man, Jesus Christ. Your flesh will make requests, but you're no longer under the obligation of that ex husband; he has no authority over you anymore.
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Hebrews 10:1-6 KJV By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; Hebrews 10:10-12 KJV This is the only way to enter the kingdom of heaven because we have to admit we sin everyday or else we're lying, and worse we call God a liar. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Even if you read the Bible a thousand times, you can still end up in hell. Just because you read it doesn't mean you've learned the most important thing in it. Those born of Adam bear their own crosses. Those born of God bear His cross. Your own cross won't save you, it's the heaviest weight to bear, but the cross of Jesus has already been dragged, lifted, and stained in blood. Do you plan to save yourself with your own blood; or do you want to receive the gift of Jesus has already been provided to you?
Jesus knocks on the door of every persons heart, those who answer are still not saved. "What do you mean, Dustin!?"
Answering the door means nothing. You have to invite Him in before you become saved. Here's the misconception about salvation that a lot of you have trouble with.
1. If you ignore the knock, you're an unbeliever.
2. If you answer the door, but don't let Him in, you're what the world says WAS saved but abandoned the faith. This is false, you never let Him in so you were never saved to begin with. I don't care what heartfelt moment you shared with someone at the foot of your front door, if you never let them in, they're a stranger to you.
3. If you answer the door and invite Him in, you have invited Him in to eat with you. This was a common gesture of hospitality in previous generations. It was a way of saying you're fully comfortable with receiving a visitors company in your home. Back in those times once they ate with you, you would then offer to let them stay the night; and they could stay with you anywhere from weeks to months. That was normal in the times of Bible stories. OSAS is a way of saying you love Jesus to the point of receiving His company for as long as possible, and even if He decided to leave your home, He is no longer a stranger to you.
