Correct. If they respond to church discipline and repent.
Pretty sure that repentance is what sanctification (or living a sanctified life is about.) When you commit your soul to God's care through the gospel (become His bride) does He take responsibility for your salvation? Does a good father discipline his son in order to correct him?
Does the book of Hosea only apply to the Jews or was God teaching us important lessons regarding His bride?
I believe your sincerity and your profession of faith. It's clear to me that your heart is in the right place, but you need to be cautious in those things you reject outright. I don't believe for a second that you can loose your salvation after being delivered from the kingdom of darkness, but every testimony is tested, every son is disciplined, and our trials are always based upon our beliefs, our attitudes, and our misconceptions. As a child in the RCC I believed that I would be rewarded for doing good, but when I did good things sacrificially, something evil always happened to me afterwards, (and my mind formulated a saying, "no good deed goes unpunished " and there seemed to be a hint of truth to the Billy Joel song "only the good die young.") To my carnal mind this was very confusing and lead me to doubts. It wasn't until I received the gospel that I was able to understand what Jesus meant when He said,
"So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do.’ ”
Back before I received the gospel, while I was investigating all things claiming to be "spiritual" I dabbled with Tarot and nearly every time I read the cards for myself, my card came up as "the fool". Without explaining the significance of the card or giving Tarot any kind of validation, let me say that one of the most encouraging verses in scripture for me was from Isaiah:
A highway shall be there, and a road, And it shall be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, But it shall be for others. Whoever walks the road, although a fool, Shall not go astray. Isaiah 35:8
Since the bible says,
"The fool has said in his heart,
“There is no God.” They are corrupt, They have done abominable works, There is none who does good. Psalm 14:1, it would seem that God alone is both the author and finisher of our salvation and that our participation in the process is mainly just breathing.
I know for a certainty that if any part of my salvation relied on my contribution, I would fail, oh wretched man that I am, but "
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit." Psalm 32:2
As an addendum, I'm glad that verse says "in whose spirit" rather than "in whose mind" because I'm no stranger to so called "white lies" and falsehoods to protect relationships, but the verse applies to all whose spirit has been made alive in Christ (and we had nothing to do with that beyond apprehending the truth through the ministry of the Holy Spirit.) I don't always like what the Lord does in my life, some things seem unfair from my perspective, but I love Him fiercely for all that He has done to protect and preserve me through all the foolishness I've been involved in despite my sin and self will. The long suffering of God is salvation.
14 Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless; 15 and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, 16 as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures. 2 Peter 3:14-16
You see, people have been struggling with understanding these things for 2000 years, even Peter, the Apostle to the Jews, and yet, 2000 years later we're still arguing over liberty and licentiousness, and attributing God's election to our own choices. I stand, positionally, with Martin Luther on these things when he wrote the Bondage of the will. While I don't consider him authoritative (and he clearly held to some carnal thoughts), he was a far better scholar than I ever wanted to be, and made arguments entirely supported by scripture. If God works to will and to do in us, how does our will overcome omnipotence? Just saying...
