Nope that would be payment . He paid the price..
This topic is a fence for me... seems i hope back and forth ....
Some folks say things like .. Who was he speaking to ( He could be Jesus Peter or Paul) I believe the Scriptures were written to the reader... I do not divide us into groups... Scripture is applicable to all peoples and time.. IMO.
Jesus said :
Joh 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Joh 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all;
and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
Can we jump out of His hand ? Leaving on our own is not being 'plucked'
Php_2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence,
work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Rom_9:11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand,
not of works, but of him that calleth;)
Rom_10:10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and
with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Jud_1:24 Now unto
him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
I do know this... Growing up in Pentecostal/dispenstaional family we were taught we need be saved over and over... like repenting unto salvation on Sunday night for what ya did Saturday night.
Putting aside some of that teaching , asking God to open the Scriptures i now KNOW i am, and others, more saved then i grew up believing.. His Grace and His Mercy seem to have no limits.. yet
Can man neglect a His Salvation?
Heb 2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
What if we turn our backs on faith?..
1Pe_1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
After pushing 20 years of reading this battle on line .. I am still on that fence... one of the main reasons is the classic line ..
Well he was never really saved then
I knew a man a real servant of God .. On his death bed he was praying for salvation.. earnestly praying having had so many years , a life time, of needed to be re-saved.. it was sad to know/understand his doubt.. His doubt was not in the Lord but in failed humanness ... Mom & Dad holding his hand telling Jesus paid the price ..Your salvation is in Him ETC Johnny was so scared.. This kind of story should not be the end of a Christians time on earth..
Good works we do because we are saved..