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Was people of the Old Testament saved?

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Adullam said:
No one is saved in the completed sense until the end. A person does not receive a victor's crown BEFORE the race is over.

Sakvation is a process. We are being saved through faith and faithfulness. If one holds back, or continues in lawlessness then that one is disqualified.

The Christian life is not the easy done deal affair that is being sold to the multitudes. No, it is the hardest thing that anyone can ever undertake. If one runs lawfully, the flesh life does not survive the race. If people knew this, almost no one would run. But to not run, is to lose already.
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It's actually very simple. But if you'd like to make it more complicated and too hard for anyone to comprehend, you're doing a good job.
 
This is the message from Paul.
1 Corinthians 9:24  ¶Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
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 incorruptible.
26  I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
27  But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. (the possibility of being a castaway was real).
Obviously, we have to live with confidence though.
 
This article on sheol and hades is an interesting piece of exegesis. I have taken studies like this when I was in Bible College. Unfortunately, it isn't necessarily Bible. I really would prefer to see some other scripture that gives definitive comment on it or close enough to it. I do believe Christ explained the full truth of the gospel to the saints of the past after his resurrection... many of the bodies of the saints even arose after his death. He also did the same thing with the apostles and living believers.
Matthew 27:50  ¶Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
51  And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
52  And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
53  And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
P.S. For those of you that listen to radio I think David Hockings is one of the better scholars today.
He also happens to be a Messianic Jew (which I am not). However he may be a little too pro Jewish for some of you.
 
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