And what if you were born poor, hungry, abused, and had nothing to enjoy? Would he still be your God and Savior? Would you consider yourself saved?
Would you still say "all I have is from God?" Would you still thank Him for knowing Him? Would you accept your miserable state as His will?
The whole concept of having been saved is a contentious, yet feel-good, perversion of +Pauline teaching the Protestants and Baptists latch on to.
Such "done deal" religion does nothing for the spirit, to lead you to die unto yourself and diminish our overblown yet fallen ego. To the contrary, it leads to spiritual pride, which is as contrary to Christ's teaching as it could get. It's a man-made religion and it puts man and his pride, his ego, his "feel-goodnees" in the front row; it's all about man, not God.
And, FK, what makes you a servant of God? How are you "serving" God? By works?
yikes
Jesus was a servant and I want to be like Him. I am God's servant when I love Him. I love Him when I obey Him:
John 14:15 : "If you love me, you will obey what I command.
1 John 5:2-3 : 2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3 This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, ...
Some part of obedience is in what we call works, but not all of it.