No one can go back from being Raptured or saved. Either they are His or not. The way to resist sin is to get saved for starters. Then we abide in the vine.
Tha abiding in the vine is about discipleship in bearing fruit so our joy may be full. Not ever saved beloever will be found abding in Him when he comes. Do note verse 6.
John 15:1I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. 8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
You cannot be cast forth as a branch and withered to be cast into the fire unless you were of the vine. A disciple that stopped abiding in Him & His words ceases to bear fruit and reaps corruption for why he would be cast forth from the vine.
It is not a works based salvation because those left behind to die in the coming great tribulation are still saved.
It is not some works trip of being sinless that saves us. Or keeps us saved.
The servants that commit evil and don't really think that the God they supposedly work for will really do as He says are only servants in name. They are not His.
It is not a works based salvation because those left behind to die in the coming great tribulation are still saved, but like the rodigal son that gave up his first inheritance for wild living, although he can never get it back, he is still son.
No. Those cast off are not saved. Even if they are called servants, and appear to men to be servants.
Verse 46 signify that the ones cut off were believers when left behind to be with unbelievers. Verses 47-48 has stripes given to His servants for the knowledge he has for not being ready and the lesser stripes for the lack of knowledge for not being ready but they are getting stripes.
Luke 12:40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not. 41 Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all? 42 And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season? 43 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. 44 Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.
45 But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
46 The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware,
and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
47 And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
49 I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
Of course we should pray. If we pray to be saved for example we do escape! That is the only way to escape. If someone's works are burned, they themselves are still saved, though it be as through fire. It is God that has to keep us from evil.
That is not what Jesus was warning about here; He is warning believers that they can be ensnared by the cares of this life that they would not want to leave and so that is why we are to pray for His help that does not happen so we can be willing to escape, let alone not be found in iniquity either.
Luke 21:33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. 34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
