I have been reading about Daniel’s tribulations the past week. Although it is meant to build up our faith, I must say It is hard to keep up your victory while reading the book of Daniel. I am one to believe that every word in the bible is important, even the Old Testament writings. True, Jesus came to save us from all the struggles of sacrificial offerings that the New Testament is about, but He didn’t throw away the old Testament documents. I think of it as being a little like a section of land one might buy. They bought the land, but not the owner. Anything that previous land owner did with the place is in the past, but the new owner is free to do whatever they chose after the sale is final. They hold a deed, that gives them whatever the previous owner signed over to them. That could mean the seller held onto some aspects of the land, but the land its self is no longer theirs.
Jesus bought us with the price of His life, but He left us here on earth to toil His land and prosper as we grow. This was the part the Heavenly Father held onto. A New Testament Christian, but an Old Testament hold-over. Some might ask this question. Are we saved by Jesus Blood or just partially saved? We are saved if we accept Jesus as our savior, but He still is ownership of us. A servant must obey and follow the way the word of God teaches us. God thought it necessary to leave the Old Testament ways of His servants for the New Testament servants to be more thankful for the blood of His son, Jesus Christ. We are saved, but not blessed unless we follow Jesus’ teachings in the New Testament, but Jesus tells us that he didn’t come to destroy the law, or the prophets: “I am not come to destroy but to fulfill.” Matthew 5:17. Are we saved if we believe in Jesus and repent? John 3:16. “For God so loved the world, that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Can we be, “unsaved” after we’ve been saved? Matthew, 5: 18. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one title shall in no way pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. (“Old Testament law.”) Matthew 5:19. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, HE SHALL BE CALLED THE LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN; BUT WHOSOEVER SHALL DO AND TEACH THEM, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. It sounds to me like all saved will be going to heaven, but will be judged according to their repented life. I see nothing that would revoke ones salvation. I certainly do not wish to be called, “the least, but contrary to some belief, a sinner, all humans, has been forgiven if they believe in God and repent. “Let us all work for a better place in God’s Kingdom.”
God Bless
Myrtle Jean Sharp
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