For myself...There is no need to teach OSAS
If you are saved and being saved...you will know.
What I believe we should all begin to preach is that the Kingdom is at hand through the person of Jesus the Christ, stating that He died for our sins and arose for our Justicication .....
Therefore we Should put our trust in Him.
And that one can enter now, the kingdom of God, and have life now looking to Him and trusting who He is.
For....if they have life now
Why teach OSAS for security ....when "life" in Christ is our security. HE saved us from the penalty of sin by giving us "Life" and being saved from actual committing of sins, as actual doing them, is through continued obedience to the commands of Christ.
This is why I believe 2 Cor 13:15 states:
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
But to teach osas... as the Gospel which I know many do.....it stops many from transforming into Christ's likeness through obedience...and to walk on the path of righteousness.
And the problem again is many may not have Even been born from above with New Life.
Because they were taught to believe something Jesus did to secure them so they can have heaven when they die...Instead of teaching them to trust the one in whom forgiveness of sins comes from.
Gal 2:16 is key: That one needs to believe Who He is, first......accepting Him as King...
And then choose to follow.
For the Law...even though because of the weakness of the flesh natural man could not keep it, It still governed their lives while on earth.
And the being under the New Covenant is to govern our lives on earth. It is a way of maintaining the Status one has been called for and thus enter into the blessings of Abraham; Being the righteousness of God in Christ. The light to life to those who are dead in sins.
In my opinion It can be said like this:
11Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
You can read the rest.........12 and 13 but here's 14.
14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
To be perfect in that sense to me means....dont just be a hearer or all talk but live the word we say we believe in....
Because that is eternal life how we know God and Jesus. [Living the Word]
"is not just unending life in heaven; it is interactive relationship with God and Jesus, now and forever (John 17:3)" Willard