Thankful for completed work Jesus did on the cross! And the victory he gives!
24 “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. NIV24 “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. NKJV
24 `Verily, verily, I say to you -- He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life. Young's Literal Translation
Wouldn't GOD know how we are to be saved and when it happens? Why would men like John Piper and John MacArthur ignore the clear teaching of Jesus?
I wonder, do they actually believe there are conditionals Jesus left out to trick people to believe and follow Him, before they could learn the conditions He did not give them then? Does God have a list of works we must do and He checks them off as we do them, to reach a point when He says, 'Okay, you pass. Enter into my rest.'? Are they subverted by the mythos of Peter standing at The Pearly Gates checking a book to see if we have done enough to earn or merit the Gift of God?